For my 1st quarter book report I read “Beyond Belief” which is written by Josh Hamilton. Hamilton is a Major league baseball player who now plays for the Texas Rangers and was named MVP two short season’s ago. Josh is a premier center fielder and the captain of his team, for the average person you may think Mr.Hamiliton lives the ordinary life of a sports star , the pretty women , fancy cars , huge house’s and the six figure pay checks. Even though this may be true, living an everyday lifestyle was extremely difficult for Josh throughout his whole life , you would think someone who is so well respected and idolized by many fans throughout the world would try to live up to his expectations, but that was not the case for Josh , he was addicted to cocaine and struggled with many other addictions such as alcoholism and having anger issues with his loved ones. Josh wrote this book to express his feelings and give readers a point of view on how thing’s may not also be the same as it seems. So next time you judge someone just by their appearance, financial situation or even idolizing someone just by the way they perform a certain thing, you might want to think that over.…
Katie Ledecky was born March 17, 1997, Washington D.C. Ledecky began swimming at the age of six, due to the influence of her older brother, Michael. Her mother swam for the University of New Mexico.…
Aly Raisman was born on May 25, 1994, in Needham, Massachusetts, to Lynn (maiden name name, Faber) Raisman, a former high school gymnast. She has three younger siblings: Brett, Chloe, and Madison. Aly is Jewish. Aly began gymnastics when she two years old. She really liked soccer when she was younger and she still likes it, but when it came time her to decide between soccer and gymnastics, she obviously choose gymnastics. If she were not a gymnast she would be a soccer player. When Aly was 10 years old she took her training to to the next level. She started working with Mihai and Silvia Brestyan at their American Gymnastics Club in Burlington, Massachusetts. Around the age of 14 she had begun competing on an elite level! That was Aly Raisman’s early life. She was a very interesting little girl. Also very talented. But let's learn about her first Olympic…
One story from a survivor, a first grade teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis states “I did what anyone would have done," she says. "That was my responsibility. I'm their teacher. That's my job."(Sandy Hook School Massacre “i will not let that day define me”). That day she saved all 15 of her first graders in a tiny bathroom stall where barely anyone could breathe. Nearly three years after that day, Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, has written Choosing Hope to help others…
People die every day due to dangerous situations but there are skills that can help people survive. Bethany Hamilton was able to survive a shark attack, Aron Ralston managed to escape from being trapped under a rock, and Hyeonseo Lee managed to escape from North Korea. Each of them was able to use a different skill that aided in their survival. To be a survivor people should stay calm, be smart, and have self-control.…
A hero sets goals and achieves them no matter the cost. A perfect example of this is our beloved Spanish teacher, Senorita Zavaglia. She’s accomplished so much in her life at such an early age. One thing that still amazes me is how many Ironman’s she’s done! An Ironman is a triathlon. It has a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, 26.2-mile marathon. She has completed 2 full iron mans and 5 half Ironman’s. Her fastest full was 13 hours 57 minutes and her fastest half was 6 hours 28 minutes. The full Ironman’s took place in Whistler and Zurek, Switzerland. And the half’s in Mallorca Spain, Bend Oregon, San Juan Puerto Rico, Victoria Canada, Coeur d’Alene Idaho. But one of her Ironman’s took a bad turn. As she was reaching on her bike to get the…
Alice Hamilton was a very intelligent woman who dedicated her life to helping improve the lives of others in the world. She worked many years as a physician and became a leading authority on lead poisoning and other industrial diseases. Hamilton spent her life improving the safety standards of factory workers nationwide by studying occupational illnesses, toxicology, and the dangerous effects industrial metals and chemicals have on the body.…
* Development of ‘hero’ character- Who faces challenges placed in front of her and achieves her goal even though it endangers her life.…
For my paper, I chose to write about the short story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” by Tillie Olsen. In the story, a mother of a nineteen-year-old girl named Emily is ironing some clothes, as she is pondering a recent message she received from one of Emily’s counselors or teachers; a message of concerns with wanting to help her daughter. The mother begins to think back to the very beginning of Emily’s life. She starts stating all the various events that took place in Emily’s life that could have played a role in why Emily is the way she is now. These events had to do with Emily’s father walking out on them, Emily having to go to daycare in her early years, and also self esteem issues from not looking like the other girls in school.…
As many people know, Harriet Tubman was one of the most widely known leaders of The Underground Railroad. In her time working on The Underground Railroad, Harriet rescued over 300 slaves, making her an extraordinary heroine. Harriet was lucky to have a small amount of family members on the same plantation as her. She was a hard worker until she had a brick thrown at her head by a slave overseer when she was a young girl. When Harriet was older, she was allowed to work for pay on another plantation for the price of one dollar a week to her original master; yet, Harriet was not going to accept the life of a slave. She could not buy her freedom papers as her request was denied, so she decided to escape. After successfully escaping the perils of slavery, she decided to help others make the treacherous journey to freedom.…
Brooke Ellison was just an average girl then at the age of eleven she was hit by a car. The accident left her paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator. This adversity did not stop her from continuing her life. She was destined for greatness and graduated from Harvard Law School. Would these talents and achievements have arisen were it not for the accident? Possibly, but Horace makes a good point when he states that adversity “has the effect of eliciting talents.” In other words, challenges bring forth talents and skills you may not have known you had.…
By playing his guitar Claude helped Michelle to get to a place where she could let go and be happy with herself. Although Claude did not realize it at first, teaching himself to play the guitar in the hospital did not only benefit him. By doing so he helped others in the hospital to relax and for a moment forget about what was going on in their lives to get carried away by the music. In the story, Michelle thanks Claude for playing the guitar and tells him that it helped. In my opinion doing this helped Michelle to become somewhat of a hero. To me a hero is someone that believes in themselves and believes that with a positive attitude can change or influence other people. A hero is also a person that does their best to compliment what other people do around them. For this reason, even though I stated that Michelle was not the hero in the story she portrayed qualities of a hero. Without explaining anything Michelle let Claude know that he was helping her to get over having to stay in a hospital when no one else seemed to care . Playing his guitar was a very important factor which leads to Claude being the hero but Claude also assured Michelle that she should never give up…
The heroes of today are not that different than the heroes of the ancient world. They have goals to achieve, obstacles to overcome, and quests to pursue. Their existence is necessary to inspire hope in generations of those struggling to survive and to find meaning in their lives. It could be said that our admiration and devotion to heroes is because we seek something that we can aspire to, whether it be to improve ourselves, to cope with our flaws, or overcome obstacles and succeed. Two examples of great role models, both past and present, for learning how to overcome obstacles and succeed are: Gilgamesh and Superman. During their obstacle-filled journeys of achieving goals, both heroes experience failure and success. In addition, both heroes receive critical help along the way.…
Amber Wing was born on January 2, 1983. Amber is from and currently lives in Sydney, Australia and wakeboards on her home lake, Port Hacking River. She first began wakeboarding in 1999 and just grew up hanging with “the guys” which according to her is what made her so tough. Amber, also goes by her nickname Ambie, is now a part of the 2012 global Liquid Force team.…
William Gibson’s heart-rending, inspirational drama The Miracle Worker masterfully illustrates the process of teaching and learning in life. As the story unfolds, a lonely first-time teacher Annie Sullivan is called to the Keller household to help six-year-old Helen, blind and deaf from a high fever. The entire household caters to Helen’s tantrums, rewarding her with candy for her highly-inappropriate behavior until Annie steps bravely forward with her belief that “obedience, is, the, gateway, through, which, knowledge, enters, the, mind, of, the, child –” (I.1).…