Coach’s Personalities

Many coach’s have distinct personalities. I had the typical high school coach that yelled and screamed at the top of his lungs every time something bad happened. It is very rare to find a calm and patient successful coach. Mostly all coaches are extremely high tempered but they have to be in order to get their point across. The coaches have to develop a player’s mentality of mind over matter. Coaches also focus on mental toughness. For example, if a player cannot handle a coach yelling at them, how could they handle being run over by a 300 pound linebacker? However, coaches have different methods of teaching. Some will be willing to commit to some one on one time while others make the player find it within themselves. The life of a coach can have a big effect on how they act outside of the game. Some still have that same temper and it affects their every day lives.

Conversion from high school to college

In high school, I was a straight A student. I will admit it, I never studied. The conversion from high school to college has been difficult. College consists primarily of studying and writing. Many people cannot make this conversion. More times than none, there is always a student sleeping in class or missing class. Some people do not realize college is the real deal. How well a student does in college will most likely determine how well he or she will do in life. Students need to create a fine line between study time and "hang out" time. I see too many fellow students that have great potential be lazy.

My Perspective

Throughout high school, I always loved science. Biology came really easy to me and I enjoyed it. When college rolled around, my career choice was compatible with my love for biology. A main topic in biology is evolution. At first, I hated this part of the subject because of the controversy between religion and evolution. Growing up, I was very involved in church and am still today. I was not born into a very religious family. For the first couple of years, I attended with my family. From eleven to seventeen, I was a regular at Hope Presbyterian by myself. I am convinced that there is a God. God did not make things perfect. Evolution could have been his back up plan for when things got out of hand. No one knows. As complex as humans are, there has to be help from a higher being.

Chemistry

I have never been very fond of chemistry. Chemistry almost drove me away from majoring in biology because I would have to take it. In high school, I took AP Chemistry and Chemistry Honors. I made good grades in both but I did not pass my AP exam due to a terrible teacher. Mr. Freilich, on the other hand, is a very good teacher so far. Unfortunately though, he is not able to cover and "teach" everything he needs/wants to in the given time we are in class. Students, like myself, need more one on one teaching. Mr. Freilich told us if we need extra help to go to the student center where there are tutors for chemistry. Honestly, I know more about chemistry than they do. I went in there with more knowledge than I came out with. The U of M needs to hire new tutors. Maybe, I caught that person on a bad day. Regardless, these tutors are being paid to help so they need to find a way to assist us students

Class conversation

Today, my professor decided to condition our forearms by writing for forty-five minutes straight. The class picked numbers and the numbers selected would engage in an extremely long conversation about the most random things. Bobby and Elliot were chosen. Immediately, Elliot seemed to be nervous and out of place. He crossed his arms and looked down indicating that he was bored/uncomfortable. Bobby started the conversation and was seventy-five percent of the conversation. After running out of topics to talk about, both of them looked around dumbfounded. Professor Sumner-Winter threw random topics at them. Right away, Elliot seemed uptight again. People all around the room began to join in putting there thoughts and opinions. After what seemed to be three days, Bobby and Elliot could converse no longer.

"Typical conversation with mom"

This video really opened my eyes to how important human senses can be and the different perspectives each one gives without the other. The first time in class, I was not able to watch and write down at the same time. When I relied on my hearing alone to tell the story, the boy did not seem to accept his mom's generosity. He was being very stubborn about trying the fish his mother was offering. Like all mothers, she was only trying to feed her son with a healthy meal. Finally, the son gave in and tried it to satisfy his mother.

When I watched it at home, I came to find that the mother was a very loving mother. She took great offense to the thought that her son would not even attempt to try the tuna she made for him. She also noticed the lack of respect her son showed by not making eye contact.

Titans vs. Steelers

Many complains have developed over the subject of the NFL's overtime method. Unlike college, the NFL's overtime basically whoever scores first wins. Clearly, this overtime is unfair to the team that doesn't win the coin toss.
The Pittsburgh Steelers wanted only one more thing since their national championship last year, to avenge their loss from the Tennessee Titans. Everyone knew this game would be a close one especially considering it was the season opener. Tennessee's defense did excellent stopping Ben Roethlisberger until he found out the short passing game was their weakness. However, both teams had there chances to win; Tennessee missed two field goals and Pittsburgh fumbled at the five yard line. Predictably, the game went into overtime. Titans are the visitors they get to call the toss. They guess wrong Pittsburgh gets the ball. The ball is taken down just far enough to get in field goal range. Pittsburgh kicks a field goal game over. How is this fair? The NFL needs to adjust their overtime to more like college. There should be at least one chance per team to score.

Autobiography of Charles Darwin

1. Why does an autobiography matter?

An autobiography matters because it is a way of determining how a person thinking and acts through reading. An autobiography helps the reader jump into the mind of the writer and accompany him through events of that individuals life.

2. How is it different from a biography?

An autobiography is different than a biography because a biography is told from a separate person than the person being written about. Therefore, an autobiography is more accurate because the writer is able to introduce thoughts into the writing.

3. What is important about the distinctions?

In an autobiography, the reader is able to get more out of the writings as stated in question number two. Autobiographies give a much wider range of detail that the reader could get from a biography. Also, autobiographies are able to bring into account past events that occurred in there lives to help describes themselves and how these events shaped there characteristics. (could also have been an additional part to question two)

4. Are autobiographies worth reading? why/why not?

Autobiographies are very much so worth reading. They behove an curious reader on the topic of people. They are the best way to really get to know a person and how they think without actually know the person.

Autobiography rough draft

1. Quick anecdote about a time you were terrified.

My senior year/dream was smashed in March when I was playing baseball for my high school team. Baseball had been my life for thirteen years. I worked hard everyday to hopefully achieve scholarships. My dream was coming true, I was offered to play at the University of Arkansas. A few days before I was to sign a letter of intent, I tore my labrum in my shoulder leaving my senior year in baseball and scholarship behind. The rehab for my shoulder is eight months. To this day I am still in rehab.

2. What does this say about you?

• athletic
• crushed due to the situation
• hard worker
• determined

3. There is really no difference in the way I would like to be perceived other than what you can strip from the anecdote.

4. Anyone who has ever lost something important to them would know exactly how my experience felt. To this day, it is still hard to watch baseball. Anyone would has worked extremely hard for something and had the opportunity taken from them could relate.

Answers to the first english assignment

1. The last time I had to write something fairly difficult was a report on Karl Marx's philosophy.

2. First, I organized research and put together a system of important points. Then, I combined the points into a paper on Marx's complicated philosopy.

p.23

1. split, lose, paused, vanished, considered, rounding, trailed, picked, chased, smashed, entered, ran, sliding, glanced, choking, trained, dive, compelled, impelled, follow, running, discovering, exhilarated, dismayed, caught, stopped

2. paused, vanished, considered, rounding, fling, forget, trailed, picked, chased, smashed, entered, aim, sliding, glanced, choking, trained, dive, compelled, follow, impelled, running discovering, exhilarated, dismayed, stopped

3. ''He chased us silently, block after block. " "We ran up Lloyd Street amd wound through mazy backyards up toward the steep hilltop at Willard and Lang. "

p. 24

1. He was in city clothes, a suit and tie, street shoes, man in his twenties. The man's lower pants leg was wet, his cuffs were full of snow, and there was a pow of snow beneath then on his shoes and socks. [ skinny, redheaded, furious, determined ]

2. He seems to not care at all, kind of ruthless. [He speaks in a Pittsburgh accent] with normal righteous anger and the usual [common sense.]

3. A well dressed, redheaded man persistently chasing two kids in the snow.

1. She calls it the perfect snowball because it is made out of perfectly white snow, perfectly spherical, and squeezed perfectly translucent so no snow remained all the way through.

2. Mazy backyard: I imagined running with them under a low tree, up a bank, through a hedge, down some snowy steps, and across the grocery store's driveway.

p. 25

1. " He begun perfunctorily" " chased us passionately without giving up, so he had caught us"

2. That she hated being chewed out because it was pointless and had no point. She had been caught due to the man's determination.