Jesse Saunders Prof. Keith Bishop English 101 12/10/2013 “How I Learned To Love Football” “Move Over Boys‚ Make Room In The Crease” Sara Maratta and Felisa Rogers essay is the opposite of one another. Sara Maratta at the age of 14 developed a liking to sports‚ hockey was Marattas number one sport. Maratta knew hockey inside and out. Her favorite aspect of the sport was the fighting part. It drew her deeper into the sport. Maratta had a passion for the Blue Jackets team‚ and being her
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I love watching‚ playing‚ and going to baseball games. Playing baseball is great when I do something great. Watching it is relaxing while rooting for my team. Going to a game is an amazing experience for a baseball fan. All those components make baseball great. I enjoy playing baseball for many reasons. When I am on the mound pitching a game it is so fun. I get the chance to strike out the batter and help my team. When I hit a home run the feeling of happiness and success that I get when running
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“I Love Lucy” was arguably the most popular TV show in the 1950’s. Aired between 1951-1957‚ the comedy filled millions of American homes with laughter. The plot of the story is simple and lighthearted: Lucy and husband‚ Ricky‚ go through everyday life. Ricky is the lead singer in a mariachi band and Lucy is a housewife. However‚ Lucy is always scheming plans with her best friend and landlord‚ Ethel‚ to become a star at the venues Ricky performs in. This usually results in Ricky and Ethel’s husband
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Start at an early age- I started at a young age‚ and I turned out great. It brings experience to make you like the sport‚ and you do not want to start at age ten‚ because there is people who have started way before you and they will most likely be better than you. So if you start early‚ you will get a head start on the sport that you want to play. It also makes you figure out what happens when you get to the next level‚ instead of being brought into a high intensity level where you won’t play much
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Fear of Swimming” Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I have ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water‚ but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I did not realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. This later on would be a great benefit to me in anything new I would try
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place I felt most comfortable. My dad is a big reason why I love the water and being so active. He signed me up on the Kona Dolphins swim team when I was ten years old. I immediately fell in love. I loved being able to push myself to swim faster and continuing to beat my fastest times. My coach saw potential in me and continued to push me to become a faster swimmer. But‚ as I got older and entered middle school‚ I grew apart from the sport and desired to do other things. About five years later I met
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In Felisa Roger’s article How I Learned to Love Football‚ Roger discussed how her dislike for sports changed all together with when she had a reason to care about it more. She provided a great background when explaining why she changed her mind about disliking sports‚ and used a great variety of detail while explaining it. She talked about how as she was growing up she had a strong dislike of all sports. She talked about how she was never good at playing any sports in gym class and always hated
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Jimmy Nguyen English049 Assignment 1 A memoir from Lac Su‚ "I love Yous Are for white People" " I love Yous Are for White People" is a memoir about Lac’s journey and his family immigrated to America from Vietnam‚ after the Vietnam’s War. Lac’s family had to deal with cultural shock‚ language barrier‚ and difficulty finding jobs. As a Vietnamese immigration myself‚ I feel like Lac’s experiences live through me because there were a lot of similarities in his memoir compared
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perseverance is needed there are certain moments when you should persist in something if it is dangerous and harmful to you or other people. You can’t be too determined about doing harmful things‚ like drugs‚ alcohol‚ or even self-harm. In the story “Swimming To Antarctica”
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How do I love thee? By Elizabeth Browning The poem‚ "How do I love thee" is a passionate affirmation of love from Elizabeth to her lover Robert Browning. In this poem‚ Elizabeth declares her spiritual and pure love for Robert and describes the many ways in which she feels for him‚ and therefore defines her love. On the poem she express three different ideas of love which are the depth of her love‚ an attempt to describe the indescribable and the comparison to known feelings and interactions
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