...We’ve all failed before. Some more or worse than others. bUt through our failures we learn. We fix mistakes and learn from them also. Iv’e expiernced failure, whether its not getting that ideal grade in a class or even as simple as drawing a cartoon or a soccer ball. One failure in particular that i hold onto is not mkaing the baseball team my sophmore year. I learned alot from the failure. I was coming off of my first year of high school and high school baseball. I played summer baseball but I didn’t get much playing time. Around that time my confidence level regarding my skills and ability were pretty low. I wasnt always the first choice for any of the postitions. That gave me motivation to work harder. I would finish my school worl, stay on top of my studies so I could put most of my energy into baseball. Every practice I would do more, work harder, and just go that extra mile where most of my teamates didnt go. I worked hard everyday in preparation for the tryouts, that were coming up in the following spring. During the winter we would have winter workouts almost everyday. If you play baseball for North Medford you have to be committed...
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...In my brief eighteen-years of life, I have encountered many obstacles and faced great amounts of adversity in my athletic endeavors. From pulled quad muscles to kicking in a game while battling salmonella, I have always played to my best abilities by learning to manage and overcome barriers that stand before me. While these physical hindrances have been difficult, none are as devastating as failure. Most consider failure to mean that one didn’t reach their end goal due to poor performance or circumstances. This is not failure but instead part of the process of being successful. The real failure, however, is when someone gives up on their goal and quits trying to reach it. As an athlete, I have heard a lot of pep talks about success and failure....
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...This I Believe in baseball. Baseball is full of life it brings people together, celebrates people's character, shows pride, leadership, and gives me an escape from anything that may worry me in life. Baseball allows me to play with all my friends and people that I don’t know. Baseball brings people together whether they are playing, spectating, or umping, these people including myself are there for one thing, to play baseball! Baseball brings people of all sizes, religions beliefs, ethnicities, and all ages together. Every Time baseball is played we celebrate what Jackie Robinson has done for equality of all humans. Most importantly in baseball it doesn’t matter who you are or what you have done you aren’t judged. Baseball teaches me...
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...for the rest of their lives through the game of baseball. The game of baseball is truly the greatest game for instilling trust, teamwork, cooperation, discipline, work ethic and many different character traits that will provide a solid foundation for the rest of their lives. These coaches talk about the love of the game, making baseball fun, competing with class, hustling, and integrity. The life lessons of failure, fear, frustration, loneliness, slumping, making adjustments and controlling emotions are lessons that are learned in this great game of baseball. This is a game of failure and young men must learn the ability to fail and bounce back, and I talk about this with my team all the time. The many different highs and lows of life are more easily handled if you have experienced this before and know how to handle it. You must not be afraid to fail, but you must learn from your failure and rebound. How you respond to failure, frustration and slumps is what is really important. Being a part of a team also instills many positive characteristic traits in young men, none more important than trust. Players must learn to trust each other and coaches must learn to trust players. Teams that have players and coaches that truly trust in each other are winners. Along with those mentioned above, there are also many other principles we learn in the game of baseball such as: Class, character, teamwork, and discipline. Baseball not only teaches us lessons about life, but is a...
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...The journey baseball players take on from the beginning of their careers to the end are full of success and strife. Baseball is a game of failure, but the failure is what fuels our desire for success. I’ve been playing baseball since I was eight years old and has pretty much been the main focus of my life. As I grew up, the game has taught me many life lessons that go beyond the baseball diamond. After high school, I received a scholarship to play for Kankakee Community College near my home of town of Chicago, Illinois. The picture was takin last year by one of my teammates shows me preparing to play in a Regional Championship with the winner advancing to the College World Series. The photo represents various different aspects of my playing career and how the journey has helped me become a better man. Throughout my baseball career I have faced a lot of adversity. I started my career at age eight playing for Jackie Robinson West Little League in inner city Chicago. My father also played in the league when it first was established. He also played college baseball, so he mentored and taught me the foundations of the game. After my little league career I began playing for a travel team. Traveling around the country, I was able to meet players from around the country and learn their stories. I enjoyed hearing them because it was cool to talk to someone with the same goals as you. As I entered my high school years, I entered a very intense part of my career which was finding a college...
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...Matt Banary Barry Bonds Steroid Use The article that I chose to write about goes in to Barry Bonds and his usage of steroids in the MLB. Barry Bonds started taking steroids in 1998 and continued on doing so throughout his baseball career. Bonds started to get stronger and hot more and more home runs while he was on the use of steroids. He eventually beat Mark McGwire’s single season home run record (70) and hit 73 home runs. This spectacular accomplishment what short lived because Barry Bonds was caught with taking to types of performance enhancing drugs, Cream and Clear and Trenbolone. To make things worse he lied in front of a federal court saying he did not take steroids and that in fact he did take them. During the year we talked about a topic like this in chapter 6. That performance enhancing drugs has had a long history in the professional sports and that much substance abuse constitutes a form of deviant over-conformity. Deviant over-conformity consists of subnormal ideas, traits, and actions that indicate an uncritical acceptance of norms and a failure to recognize any limits to following norms (ch.6 pg. 159). Barry Bonds taking performance enhancing drugs is a good example of this because he was unable to accept the norms and limits for taking performance enhancing drugs. He did not care that it was illegal as long as he was one of the best and he continued to play in the game he loved. Ironically I believe that steroids were a good reason why he...
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...Exercise 1: In previous time, reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to shredding before disposing trash by the defendant seemed to be a legal assumption of the federal courts of appeal. Exercise 2: "by reason of illness or there incapacity, or for any other reason", the statue requires the discharge of a juror - invests a trial court with latitude to make a balanced determination affecting the administration of justice based on the facts required to be adduced, recognizing that criminal proceedings should be necessarily or fairly delayed against the interest of either the defense or the prosecution, especially when the trial is under way and so many other participants are involved. 1. Unnecessary negative for "settlement". Rewrite: Although prevailing at a formal hearing will probably result in more compensation of your damages than settlement, the settlement is a much quicker and more flexible process. 2. Unnecessary words. Rewrite: The statutes do not apply to state prisoners because the statutes have been broadly rejected. 3. ?? 4. too many redundant words. Both Indiana and Ohio States permit an individual to be director in two insurance companies so long as interlocking directorate is not a means of lessening competition or creating trends of monopoly 5. too many redundant words. Doing business with discount operations should also be a cause for the low price Rewrite: One argument is that consumers benefit from lower clothing prices because there is extensive...
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...Hall of famer Ty Cobb, made a huge impact, not only on the 1920’s and 1930’s, but he effected the whole world of baseball. Setting the new best batting average, people knew that the “Georgia Peach” was different from the others of their time. Born on December 18, 1886, in Narrows, Georgia, Tyrus Raymond Cobb’s love of baseball started at a very young age. He started playing sandlot ball when he was old enough to swing a bat, and that’s where it all began. He was the eldest of three boys of William Herschel Cobb and Amanda Chitwood. He graduated from Franklin County High School in Royston, Georgia. His father, though, didn’t support his ambition of becoming a baseball player, as he was a teacher, principal, newspaper publisher, and state senator. Therefore, when Ty left to become an athlete, his father gave him some words of advice,...
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...Nothing Can Stand In Their Way Imagine baseball without Babe Ruth, comedy without Jim Carrey, and women’s right to vote without Susan B. Anthony. They would not be the same. Everyone at one point in time has an obstacle that stands in his or her way. Those obstacles can be simple like not wanting to get out of bed in the morning because one is extremely tired. It may be a huge obstacle like one losing their job and still having to put food on the table. According to an unknown source, “You can either allow the obstacles in your life to be the excuse for your failure or make them the reason behind your success.” Though obstacles may stand in someone’s way of achieving their dreams, if one possesses determination, courage and confidence, nothing can stand in their way. Many people use determination to help them achieve their dreams. Jim Carrey is one example. Jim was an odd child, while he was sitting in his high chair, he would make faces at his parents or whoever was feeding him instead of eating (“Jim,” par 3). As a child he was very shy at school. When his family moved to Toronto he was determined to use his talents of clowning around to help him make some friends (“Jim,” par 4). “Jim told Shane Peacock in Saturday Night that “for some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really did not have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this...
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...Brandon Hess Mrs. Countryman ENG-102-007 6/19/2015 1. Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha. Henry Dobbins carried peaches. Dave Jensen carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and bars of soap. Ted Lavender carried six or seven ounces of premium dope. Mitchell Sanders carried condoms. Some emotional burdens would be hopelessness, love, fear, guilt, and trust. I thought of hopelessness after I read when they were waiting to get picked up by the chopper and it made me think they all carry a slight emotional burden of hopelessness. Feelings were you don’t know when you will be out of war, when you will be home, and if you will get picked up from the chopper. The burden of love because Jimmy Cross is battling with his emotions and imagination of him and Martha together. The burden of fear because all these men carry things that help them not to be scared anymore, or cover up their fear with these items. The burden of trust because in the book, Kiowa reads the Old Testament. I thought he reads this because he doesn’t have any trust in himself or his men. The burden of guilt comes to mind immediately after Strunk emerges from the tunnel; Ted Lavender is shot and killed by a sniper. Cross may have thought it was his fault for letting one of his men die, while daydreaming about Martha. 2. During the time they were at war I think the physical things are more of a burden. Physically it makes them carry an awful lot of unnecessary weight. Also it may make them think...
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...Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey Robert K. Fullinwider* Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy University of Maryland * rkf@umd.edu CIRCLE WORKING PAPER 44 FEBRUARY 2006 CIRCLE Working Paper 44: February 2006 Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION....................................... 3 a. methodological limitations..................... 4 b. conceptual and theoretical infelicities...... 5 II. THE LESSONS OF SPORT......................... 5 III. BASICS................................................ 6 a. too much too early?.............................. 8 b. competition’s role understood ............... 11 c. competition, participation, and fun......... 12 d. not enough?........................................ 14 IV. WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?.................... 15 V. THE MICROWORLD OF PARTICIPATION...... 17 VI. APPENDIX A......................................... 19 a. Shields and Bredemeier...................... 19 a.1. moral maturity: what are psychologists looking for?............ 22 a.2. game thinking............................. 24 a.3. moral confusion........................... 25 b. Stoll, Lumpkin, Beller, and Hahm.............. 27 It has been recognized for centuries that sport can contribute to education values that make for the development of character and right social relations . . . . [Within this contribution] there are many intertwined and interwoven threads of influences...
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... A case can be made that that the English foreign policy was a failure because of Wolsey’s mishandlings of the finance. For example in source 1 it states that ‘greatest weakness lay in the realm of finance’. This shows us that Wolsey did not know what he was doing when it came to finance which would have helped English foreign policy. Wolsey mishandling of finance would have led to less to money to help Henry invade France and therefore make on this part of his foreign policy, which was to take over France and to redeem his title as king of France , a failure because he didn’t really take over the whole off France. The whole real parts that henry had taken over of France was Tournai and Therouanne, and these were of little significant to England which supports the idea that the foreign policy was a failure. We can also infer from another source which support the idea that English foreign policy was a failure. In source 3 it says ‘if he fortunate to win it’. This is referring to Henry to taking over France, and we can clearly see that the foreign policy was a failure because only luck could have helped Henry take over France. This all indicates that foreign policy was not a success owing it to Wolsey mishandling of finance which meant that Henry would not have sufficient amount of money to take over the whole of France. Once again in source 1 we can see that Wolsey had mishandled finance which led to the failure of the English foreign policy. It states in source one that Wolsey...
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...In the provided scenario, executive “A” exhibits level 5 leadership skills. The individuals’ strong personality and drive for success is directed specifically on the company. A level-5 leader is someone who easily praises other employees and factors, rather than themselves for the success of a company. They also promptly assume responsibility for employee shortcomings and failures. This kind of leader conducts business quietly and believes in inspired standards rather than a charismatic approach. They strive to produce the very best results. In this case, executive A’s efforts yielded a significant raise in company stock. Leader “B” exhibits the transactional leadership style. “B” believes that employees should be solely responsible for their work and actions while taking full responsibility for any down falls. At the same time, “B” believes employees should be rewarded when they yield success within their projects. Leader “B” is just as passionate as executive “A “and believes in the same ideas and long term goals. But leader “B” has a more of a “cut and dry” leadership concept, as “B” strictly believes in following the rules set forth by the company, making sure that subordinates do not deviate. Leader “C” exhibits the transformational leadership style. “C” believes in inspiring subordinates to aim high and achieve goals. “C” not only believes in executive “A’s” values and ideas, but also believes in being personal with the employees around him. ”C” believes in engaging...
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...Mental toughness is probably one of the most used but least understood terms used in applied sports. Athlete’s mental toughness is more important as their physical strength .Before you get to the competition stage first you must require having a mental toughness in you. When it’s time to compete and prove your physical and sports ability to yourself and to others with an audience present, stress and anxiety can often get in the way. Examples when taking a shot and missing in basketball or dropping a pass in football, you might feel failed or that you let your team down or maybe your friends watching, sometimes you feel as though you’re not good enough. People don’t realize that all humans make mistakes. Acknowledging that no one is perfect and that all you can do is put in your best effort knowing you failed won’t be a thought in your mind. Mental toughness in your performance also involves in tuning out on others opinions not letting words or bad habits from others get to you. Mental toughness is a competitive sport, competing against other athletes, or against a personal rival can be stressful sometimes before going into the game. It can cause anxiety to many athletes. Mental toughness is often needed to overcome any stress and anxiety to succeed. At all levels of competition, the athletes and teams that usually successful all have on characteristic in common, and that is mental toughness. An individual who is an average athlete and has mental toughness will be more successful...
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...In this book and play “The Death of a Salesman”, The main character Willy Loman, is having problems getting and holding onto a job. His whole life has always been a failure and still is proceeding as one. As this story proceeds, Willy is having some inside thoughts about life, and how things are going when it is not really happening at all, it is just all in his head. In the story “The Death of a Salesman”, I do think that the characters are very believable. They all have a personality like no one would think of. They all have very unique characteristics like: stealing, lying, going crazy, and always being miserable. I can relate to all of the characters. There are times when I think that I am in real life, but then snap out of it and come back to reality. Like Willy Loman, I also have tendencies to fail on a daily bases, and to not do my best because of what might have happened earlier in the day. Also, unlike Willy Loman, I do not go crazy, or think up some outrageous thoughts that I always believe to be real. I do fail on a daily basis on things, but as well as Willy, I do not end up failing at jobs or little interviews for small jobs. I do stay sane and get what I need done, unlike Willy Loman, he ends up not realizing things, or he forgets a lot, or he just cannot get down how to do things right. The story “The Death of a Salesman”, is a story that has many feelings and emotion, and I do think that we all could relate this story and play to all of our lives, because...
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