Life Of Pi Research Paper

I walked off the floor with sweat dripping from my hair. So many thoughts flew through my head that I couldn’t focus on anything. My junior year of basketball felt like it ended as quickly as a blink. It was as if in seconds we went from the stars of the state tournament to the embarrassments of it. I tried to forget the disappointment of it but it still will not leave. My desire and love to win games comes from the more apparent hatred of losing them. Junior year we had a chance to win a state championship, but we lost that chance. That was when I realized that I had one chance left to win. Senior year our basketball success would only be as rewarding as we would make it. The pressure placed on ourselves was substantial, and we faced trials on the road to success. In the end, we stood alone, crowned as the champions, not letting our chance slip away.

There’s a saying that everyone’s said at least once in their lifetime, I’m sure. It’s so cliché, but now I know that there is so much truth behind it. “Believe in yourself.” Rather than giving up on yourself, use your failures to make you better. Learn how to bounce back from adversity and learn from those experiences. This is called using your growth mindset. According to Carol Dweck, research psychologist, in her book Mindset, “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” It wasn’t until the summer between my junior and senior year of high school that I learned this and of course I learned it the hard way. I had played club basketball for four summers in a row with the Longmont Rush basketball club. I loved the game of basketball and I had spent countless hours working on my skills on the court. I even wanted to play in college. I already had schools scouting me. Unfortunately, in my final season, just before my senior year, my biggest fear came true.

Survival is an instinct. Often times, in order to survive, people must shed a part of their innocence. For some, it may be subtle, taken in tiny bites along the way, and for others it could be in one traumatizing moment. Ang Lee, director of “The Life of Pi,” explores this theme throughout his film. Lee shows the viewer this loss in the use of imagery, lighting, and color. He takes the viewer on a journey through the eyes of Piscine Patel as his innocence and humanity slowly get chipped away and he is forced to do what is necessary to survive and the lengths he goes to to regain that lost innocence.

“Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Some people have to overcome challenges to have a meaning in life and not just give up. This is exemplified in, “The Contender,” by Derek Burnett, “Life in the Red,” by Benedict Carey, and “ Paralympic Star makes history on NBA stage,” by E Lancaster. After reading and annotating the articles about a determined Kyle Maynard, motivational Blake Leeper, and a resourceful Lakeisha Tuggle one could make the choice be successful in life and give up. But to do these things, you have to have a good attitude and “cut out” things that aren't a necessity.

In the beginning of the story, Lupe, also the protagonist, wants to be good at sports but no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't do any sports. She never gave up because she finally found a sport she could play, marbles. In the middle of the story, Lupe practiced and practiced working hard to accomplish her goal, to win the marbles championship. At the end of the story, Lupes hard work pays off. She actually wins the marbles championship. It made her feel so good about herself and she was finally good at, at least one sport. She was glad that she never gave up and took the hard work and time to win the marbles championship. The lesson in this story is clear, too: if you take the time to work towards your goal you might just achieve

Everyone In this world are not always perfect everyone has their flaws and imperfections but most importantly everyone experience’s failure in there life that they cope with. Even famous people or professional athletes all have dealt with failure in their life but what separates most of them from others is how they respond after or act towards it. Failure is a key factor in an individual's life I think because it makes people more determine and causes them to strive beyond that point and overcome and learn from the struggle that they have dealt with. I’ve been researching and looking into the life of one of basketball’s greatest player to ever play the game MIchael Jordan and i’ve discovered the obstacles in his life that he's had to overcome

At school in 4th grade, I heard about An infinite number called pi. Then I heard that on pi day (March 14) who ever memorized the most pi got a pie (the food). So every day and night until March 14 I memorized as much pi as I could.

“I’ve failed over and over in my life, that is why i succeed.” Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. He didn't just give up after being cut, he turned it into motivation to work harder. He came back the next year and made his varsity basketball team. For that reason being, losing is a good thing to experience.

According to Samuel Smiles, “we learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.” This became emphatically clear during my Junior year. Suffering an ongoing illness kept me absent from school and practice far too often. Both academic and physical challenges were the result. As a student-athlete, maintaining exceptional grades and high competitive standards already prove difficult, thus time management, determination, and a strong work-ethic become a natural part of daily life. Illness complicates matters as making up lost time creates hardships in both areas. Failures in the class and in the pool proved to present some tough lessons.

Throughout our lives, as individuals, it comes to our realization that the hardships one has to confront turn out to be the building blocks of our identities. In the novel ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel we are introduced to the main character Piscine Molitor Patel, a young boy who journeys through revolution and the loss of his innocence. On his way from India to Canada along with his family, he encounters unbelievable circumstances.These circumstances force him to do act like he never thought he would in order to cope with the adversities presented. Overall in the novel, we are shown that physical and spiritual adversities play an important role in shaping an individual's identity as they influence one’s ability to adapt to different circumstances

According to the definition of Wikipedia: "Emergence is a process whereby larger entities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities such that the larger entities exhibit properties the smaller/simpler entities do not exhibit", both reading and Pi somehow share the same relationship between randomness and order.

Many people find who they truly are as a person when they are by themselves in their journey of self-identity. In the book, Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel and the play, Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, two characters, Pi and Biff, go on a spiritual journey towards self-identity. Life of Pi is a story about a young man named Pi, who survives a shipwreck and months in a lifeboat with a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Being stuck on a boat with a tiger created the struggle and challenge of survival and how Pi must overcome these struggles and challenges. Death of a Salesman is a story about an aging, failing salesman, named Willy Loman who makes his living riding on smile and a shoeshine and how his american dream is ruled by societies view of how to be successful. The two works show how both Pi and Biff (respectively) grow and realize who they are as the book and play go on. Firstly, they both have expectations from their parents that they feel pressured to live up to. Secondly, they also have a connection with nature through which, they come to grow and realize their identity. Finally, Pi and Biff discover and accept who they truly are as they are both courageous enough to follow their own beliefs/desires. Both authors present how both characters

Without struggle and suffering there is no learning and understanding. I 've learned the value of this teaching while spending time in high school. When I was in high school I dreamt of playing with the best basketball players; however, I lacked the mobility due to my 240 pounds. Dragging my Flaming Hot Cheetos eating behind across the court, I pushed all the buttons I could to drop the weight, in order for me to have the slightest chance of making the basketball team. Each stride I took brought me closer and closer to my goal. Running off the Mochiko Chicken out of my system, I still had problems dealing with my ego. As I gasped for air many doubts filled my mind, but there was only one saying that I kept

Winning is every coach or player's main goal in any sport or in life. Although winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. Coaches spend countless hours preparing for a big game and this builds up the fear of a loss. No one wants to lose after you dedicate hours upon hours on the court and in the books scouting and preparing for a game. Therefore, winning becomes the only option for you and your team. Throughout this persuasive essay, dedication, toughness, and ** will explain why “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

Pi could survive on the ocean for many months is a miracle, and he even stayed with a tiger during the venture. He probably was eaten by the tiger, but he didn’t. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi survival depended on his past experiences, Pi not only survives, he becomes stronger due to learning how to swim when he was young, believing in three religions, and stay with animals for a long time because he father used to own a zoo.