Materialistic Elements In Devon's Life

Devon Miles is a teenager who has just graduated high school and plans to attend Atlanta A&T University on a scholarship. Growing up, Devon’s fathers wasn’t really there to support him as he grew up, and him and his mother weren’t really financially stable, so receiving this scholarship meant a lot to him and his family. Devon’s perceptual lens lets him to understand music in a broader sense, while letting him express it through drumming. While growing up with no father pretty much, as he left Devon and his mother when he was little, he did leave behind some music tapes that he produced and left them for Devon. This is where Devon believes he gets his musical influence from and tries to let his own expressions out through his own music. I believe Devon views his self-worth in a positive manner as well as having a high self-esteem. This comes from the self-confidence that Devon shows throughout the movie. He is always trying to show off to the

Derrick Coleman plays for the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL. He is the first deaf football player to play in an offensive position.

Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough, not knowing just how much potential you have? One of the most salient experiences of my life was making the Island Coast High School football team, because it taught me that to succeed you must be confident in yourself. The old me would have thought, “ I’m not good enough,” because I never thought that I could compete with kids that already played football. I suppose that I always felt like i couldn’t compete with football players because whenever I would play football in eighth grade, I would not be able to keep up with them. Little did I know, all of that was about to change the day I made my way to the middle of the humid, scorching fied, staring into the eyes of North Ft. Myers Highs’ freshman football team.

Things we want versus things we need. People often forget what they really need in life like water, air, food, shelter, love and affection and most importantly a family. Most people think they need a nice car or they need a $600 phone or nice name brand clothes but really you don’t. They don’t need all the extra stuff all of those things are mainly what you want because that’s what you see everyone else with around school or work or just in general wearing. So it makes you want it because you see everyone else with it. You don’t need materialistic things to make you fill superior in society.

Vanden High School hasn’t had a good record of winning anything. For Sarah to join a football team that has teammates that don’t want her to play, is very hard for her. “This is a man’s game”-p27. Sarah has three competitive brothers who

“Football has actually helped my life out so much, without football I don’t think I’d be as far as I am,” Thayer said. “Understanding the game of football is one thing, but it actually teaches you how to be a man in some circumstances and how to grow up a lot faster. I’ve had coaches that are out here who help me daily and they help me understand that everything’s not going to go your way and when it doesn’t go your way keep your head up and keep pushing and that’s when things come your way. So, I think football has taught me a lot and it’s actually driven me all the way here and to be able to go from high

Constantly the boys are instilled with the dreams that they are gonna be big in college and then possibly the NFL. Realistically this is very untrue as in Permian’s fifty-five year football history, only six players have tried for or made the pro leagues telling us that football is not a good career. The boys envision themselves playing for some of the biggest colleges in the nation, however for many they want even have the grades to stay in college academically. “Charlie Billingsley found out that life in college was a whole lot different …you were a whole lot more expendable in college…there was always a bunch of guys ready to replace you in a second”(Bissinger 63).Furthermore the boys once in college will finally realize that they are disposable. No more are they the once “stars” that they were in Odessa but players needed to get wins and a good record.

To want is to feel a need or a desire for; wish for. Many will do whatever it takes to somehow please the desires they can't control. Some wants are for selfish reasons and are only beneficial for the one who wishes them, but there can be wants for others too. They can be good or bad. To achieve the impatient needs you might have to disobey the rules, or defy the authority and law. Studies have been recorded to test people and their own personal wants, many of the results ended with them choosing the choice more so beneficial to them. Also in many occasions they chose the choice that would’ve normally been against the rules. In these cases someone is faced with a want that they should not be able to achieve because it's against their given

However, he claims to have quit the team because it’s one of those schools “things that saps your freedom” so perhaps the author felt like football was just him forcing his personality into a group and keeping him from being

Growing up you learn that no one is perfect from famous childhood actors like Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and many more; but growing up in this society you learn at a young age if people see your failures and imperfections you automatically get teased and judged for it. Countless nights I’ve devoted myself to playing volleyball only to get my dreams crushed consecutively from sixth to eighth grade, finally making the team freshman year. This essay I will explain the effects of always being told by kids and coaches to give up or you’re not good enough.

We come into this world wanting things that are not ours, and things we do not deserve.

There are three phases of Dorset culture. Early Dorset which was from ca. 2500 B.P.-2000 B.P. (Ryan 2012:44). There is debate whether this phase is a terminal phase of Pre-Dorset rather than Dorset, though the consensus today is that it is part of Dorset (Ryan 2012:44-45). Middle Dorset which was from ca. 2000 B.P.-1500 B.P. (Ryan 2012:45). This period is linked with abandonment of the higher arctic for preference of subarctic and coastal geography. This is thought to be due to “climatic cooling that occurred at the start if the Dorset era and culminated in an episode of extreme cold at circa 2100 B.P.” (Ryan 2012:45). Late Dorset is from ca. 1400 B.P.-500 B.P., in which there was an eventual disappearance of the culture (Ryan 2012). This

In human’s lifetime, people have to go through many different obstacles that await them in everyday life. When they are a child, they have to learn how to speak and walk by listening and observing others people. As they start growing up, they learn to socialize with people and participate on everyday activities in society. Then, they set the purpose in life, which they really want to do in the future, and try hard to obtain that goal. When they have a clear goal they want to reach, people tend to have a lot of ambition and the motivation as they are overcoming the obstacle everyday. However, in Ritchie’s case, his stage of life is standing still and not moving one bit forward, which make him almost invisible to society if he does not have

Of the majority of the standards of Think and Grow Rich!, the rule of Desire is probably the most critical of all. Hence, Hill has set it at the earliest reference point of his book.To comprehend what Hill implies by Desire, it is vital to overlook all meanings of thoughtful envisioning that the word may hold. Slope 's Desire is not about wishing, as wishes might work out as expected, as a rule by the activity of some outside operator. It 's about needing. Just when a man or lady genuinely needs something does he or she act towards achieving what is needed. Where wishing is frequently vague and hesitant, needing is very much characterized and focuses on a strategy. While needing something is completely created and working for you subliminally at painfully inconvenient times of the day, you have Desire.

If there is anything I fear more than disappointing my own parents- it would have to be hitting rock bottom. If I evaluate my eighteen years of living, I am proud to say how grateful I am for everything I have. I get the opportunity to manage a busy schedule of working two jobs and going to school five days out of the week. In addition to how I get to live under a roof rent free, eat more than one meal a day, and be surrounded by friends and adults who motivate me to do my best every day. For the past, several months, people have been telling me to not work so hard; but I would rather work hard, than not work at all. With that said in mind, I can see my future panning out well, that is if I continue making responsible decisions. However, even the most successful idols have hit rock bottom, and I hope that would never happen to me.