Hardball Quotes

During the reading,I began to think of sports, soccer in particular. This is because when the author was referring to hockey, it made me think of the sport that I play and how I can improve.When the author writes“ if your are to work to develop that ability, the system will reward you” ( Outliers pg.17). I made a connection to what my parents and been instilling in me not just in sports but also in life.I really like how the author takes examples from different circumstances to prove his point. This allows readers to connect to the reading, and in turn makes the book more enjoyable to read.

Imagine, the person you love the most, talk to the most and spent time with the most is gone, and the only person you have ignores yous and blames you for your mother's death, and on top of that, you are only fourteen. Well in the novel “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo Kelby experiences this. Billie Jo Kelby is just your average girl that lives in Oklahoma but when her mother and baby brother die due to a fire, her life flips upside down. ANd to make it worse, it takes place during the dust bowl. In the book “Out of the Dust” it shows Billie Jo is unwanted, reminiscent, and caring.

Darrell Mercer was forced to leave his home in Philadelphia to move all the way to California to live with his uncle against his will. He will have to go to a new school, to make new friends, and to have new teachers. Darrell will have to watch out for Tyray and Rodney the bullies of the school. It will be a hard time in his Junior years.

Through reading my novel Raw for the last 3 weeks, I have struggled to make a personal connection to the reading material. I couldn't say that my life has involved me robing a liquor store or being sent to a rehab farm in the middle of a rural countryside in Sydney. In fact, my life is quite different from Brett’s. Brett is the main character in Raw. He is a troubled 16 year old that dropped out of school not too long ago. Because of this, I would classify Brett as a rebel. The character of Brett relates to a person in my life that grew up a reckless teenager, and has now evolved into a kind gentlemen and a proud father. This man that he reminds me of is my uncle. They are quite similar because as the story goes, Brett was a wild teenager that made out to be untameable but Sam (the warden of the farm), saw deep down that he is a good kid. In the end he pulled his head into line and picked up a lot of essential life skills from the rehab farm.

In chapter eighteen of The Prince, Machiavelli tells the reader how to be successful and when not to keep your word. It is seen through out history that people of power constantly renege on their promises. This philosophy can be connected to our most prominent political figure of this modern day: President Obama. In this chapter, Machiavelli has two major premises: the nature of man, and the nature of fighting. After explaining the natures of both man and fighting, Machiavelli makes the argument that it is better to be a fox (thus successful) and gives a basic outline on how to be one. Machiavelli says, “A wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to

During the second World War, an olympic record holder, Louie Zamperini, was one of the few men that got shot down into the ocean and was stranded for 47 days on a lonely, little raft. The great American hero we all have heard of didn’t start out like you would have thought. He was a young scoundrel who was influenced by his brother to run for something better than away from is problems. After years of running and going to the German Olympics to set the best lap run in the 5,000 meters, Louie had gone into the Air Force and had gotten into trouble at a Japanese POW camp after a crash. The book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, expresses Louie’s life exceptionally well, especially

Would you stop someone from achieving their dreams because you wanted to protect them? Sometimes you need to take risks and be brave, take a big leap into the world. In the novel The Wednesday Wars By: Gary D Schmidt, the Protagonist Holling Hoodhood Has an older sister, Heather. She is in high school and is going to be graduating soon and would like to go to college, although her father has denied her many times. I think that Mr. Hoodhood’s reasons for not wanting her to go to college are fairly reasonable. He does not want Heather to go to college because there are wars going on and people are dieing, I think Mr. Hoodhood just wants Heather to be safe, he also wants her to stay and work for him. I think that Mr.

Anthem represents a collectivist society that is stagnant and primitive where the word “I” is obsolete; talking in first person is a sin. It is always “we” and never “me”. Equality 7-2521, the main character in Anthem, writes in a journal about himself but only uses “we” forms. Writing about yourself is a sin in this society. Equality starts of his first journal entry, the beginning of the book, with this quote; “It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put down upon a paper no others are to see,” (1.1). At the end of this book, Equality’s outlook on the sin, whether it is a sin or not, changes. He decides his actions are not a sin. It is him being an individual. His own self.

2. -Throughout the novel, Pip faces a plethora of challenges, however, Joe was always the one person he can trust, love, and respect.

During The Glass Castle, Rex Walls lets his children down numerous times but he has actually came through for them too. An example of how he let them down was when he tried to run over his wife Rose. He was drunk at that moment, which is the problem most of the time, and Rose was pregnant dodging the car while they were in a desert. He is letting them down at this moment because while he is in his drunken rage, he could hit Rose and kill her and the baby.

The title Odd Ball fits to this book for many reasons and could be debated. My side is most definitely affirmative. Odd Ball is a great name for this book the reason is that these facts are all odd in baseball’s past. Having a 3 foot 7 batter bat who never played baseball before and just jumps out of cakes is weird and odd. Tell me getting stuck in a doghouse during a baseball game is not odd!

Lou Brock’s famous quote, “show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time”, can easily be applied to Silo. Silo is the exact opposite of what Lou Brock is warning everyone not to become. Silo simply does not care what opinions other people form about him, on or off the field, as long as he is winning. When Silo is on the field, he goes to great lengths in order to not look good, but to win football games.

“You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”- Thích Nhat Hanh . This quote means that it doesn't matter what others think of you it’s just matters what you think of yourself. In the novel, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton addresses the theme of accepting yourself for who you are, and not to let others change you. It is implied by S.E. Hinton that people should learn to embrace themselves for who they are and not to change if others don’t accept you or have prejudice towards you.

A lot of times in life, people can go through hard times. They have to learn how to be brave during those times. The main character Farah, is brave. She shows this in the beginning, after she moved to the U.S, in the middle, when she makes a friend, and in the end, when she decides to join in with making the apple cider.

In Bamidbar 20:8, God tells Moshe and Aharon to gather the nation and speak to the rock in front of them and water will come out of the rock for the people and the animals. In pasuk 10, it says, “וַיַּקְהִ֜לוּ מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְאַֽהֲרֹ֛ן אֶת־הַקָּהָ֖ל אֶל־פְּנֵ֣י הַסָּ֑לַע וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֗ם שִׁמְעוּ־נָא֙ הַמֹּרִ֔ים הֲמִן־הַסֶּ֣לַע הַזֶּ֔ה נוֹצִ֥יא לָכֶ֖ם מָֽיִם”. Meaning Moshe and Aharon gathered the group in front of the rock. Listen you rebels, can we give you water from this rock? According to the Ramban, Moshe and Aharon's sin is that they say can we give you water of this rock and not can God give you water from this rock.