Personal Narrative: My Country Team

Culture is a personal thing. An average person has many cultural identities not just one but many others. These Identities could be Beliefs, Rules, what you like to do or what you feel like you belong in. My cultural identity would be sports because I have been doing sports for a long time. Also sports are a way to release some stress.

Shifting in my heavy metal cleats, I can feel countless sets of eyes trained on me, observing my every move from their hard stadium seats. Normally when I’m on the mound, I have ice in my veins; the stares of the crowd bounce right off. However, this wasn’t a normal day. Instead of standing on the rubber to fire fastballs at opposing batters, I was there to honor two very special ladies and to raise funds and awareness for a cause that hits very close to home, Multiple Sclerosis. During this part of the ceremony, a fellow teammate and I were supposed to present our mothers, who are fighting the disease, with a gift from the team. Unfortunately, this did not occur as smoothly as one would hope. With slick palms, I calmly approached her with

Hey Mohawks! This past Thursday was senior night for soccer. I would of never imagined it coming so fast, it seems like the season started last week. Words cannot describe how sad I am that I only have a few more games left. As we closed out our season Tuesday we are looking forward to the post season. We are hoping to upset Valley View next Monday. We faced them earlier in the season and the results were not what we wanted. I am confident that we can come out this time ready for what they are going to throw at us. I hope everyone has a good weekend and thanks for

Being an athlete from the age of 6, I belong in a large, multi-player, organization: The culture of soccer. In this culture there’re many age-levels, divisions of skill, and competitive matches that I come across frequently. To be more specific soccer has many subcultures, in which one I fit in is travel soccer. Travel soccer is defined to be a very challenging division of the sport, in which you train and play at a very professional skilled way. Not only travel soccer but also all the other subcultures like recreational, futsal, and Paralympic soccer have similarities and differences. Ideology is shared with these subcultures because they all have a set of beliefs, attitude, and a certain status to maintain in order to continue to be a soccer player.

Country that can elected a leader and is able to share power not easy to control, influence, and exploitation, because that society can make decision for themselves and will not except any negative influence from the outside. A powerful leader like Dr. Mossadegh was the obstacle for exploration of Iran from the exploitation from both outsider power and corrupted part of Iranian elite. Young Shah, who always claimed that wants best for Iran and Iranian, simply couldn’t understand what is the importance of Dr. Mossadegh, not only as a powerful leader, but also as the conclusion of Iranians movement for democracy. The act of overthrowing Dr. Mossadegh started soon, the coop under name “Operation Ajax” organized by CIA succeeded, and Iranian were throwing back to

There are many issues that I didn’t expect my country to be facing when I started the simulation. When I chose Iraq I didn’t expect there to be numerous issues taking place. On main issue they are facing is the pouring in of Syrian opposition rebels into their country. They are affecting Iraq with a uprising of tension between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the region. During my simulation I came across a couple articles that talked about the Iraqi government blaming Saudi Arabia for motivating these terrorists from many regions and their own country to go into Syria, which is effecting me. So what I did is I talked to Saudi Arabia and we came to a deal that they will call all of their citizens back, thou they will continue to fund the rebels.

Have you ever been so happy that there weren’t words to describe how elated you felt? I’ve only felt that way twice in my lifetime, but it’s the one feeling I will never forget no matter how rare it is. The first time, it was the finals against my travel teams’ rival, Muncie, who we had previously lost to early in the season. Our team was a close match up in skill level, and the games could go either way based on performance that day. It was 25-24 and my turn to get my serve in and give my team the chance to finally beat our rivals. I could feel the sweat falling from my forehead as my eyes were fixated on the seams of the ball. When it is a volleyball player's turn to serve, it is the one time all eyes are on you. I could feel everyone

To the extent that the US was the sole superpower involved which thus meant that the simulation was a unipolar system. Despite that, I felt rather limited as the President of the US in the simulation not in a physical sense like I did not have the power but rather in a mental sense. For what weighed heavily on my mind in preparation and throughout the simulation was Waltz’s description of a unipolar system being the “least durable” (Waltz 2000, 27). For Waltz attributes this fact that the dominant power begins to take too many aggressive actions outside of their border which not only weakness the dominant power but leads to more problems. As the weaker powers begin to worry about the future actions of the dominant power and generally decide to take steps to balance the power in the system which in turn greatly hurts the dominant power and potentially ltopples them (Waltz 2000, 28). The reason that Waltz’s theory weighed on my mind was that I wanted to avoid falling victim to it and finding myself losing vital allies in the Middle East. The result of my concerns was that the US became largely a non-factor in the simulation and we generally let it develop without our intervention. We stepped in very few times throughout the process and it was generally to ensure that some outside force did not disrupt the peace. Despite my reservations about our failure to be a

The Iranian nuclear program has been one of the most challenging issues in the world for more than a decade. The struggle was mainly between Iran and six of the world’s most powerful countries, which included China, the U.S.A, the U.K, France, Germany and Russia. What’s really worth noting is that this controversy was not solely about Iran 's willingness to have a nuclear program, which to its own merits was completely peaceful, but it was about who got to have more influence and control in the Middle East as a whole. Both sides of the conflict took measures to further their goals. Iran put whatever resources needed into developing its nuclear program, and the world’s powers (P5+1)

As an athlete my passion for sports have grown so much over the past few years. I’ve always enjoyed watching sports on TV, going to sporting events and even playing sports myself. The sports that I’ve played have been, soccer, softball and cheer. But sports that I have been loving to watch and be around have been racing and hockey.

He was buzzing with excitement as the coach was reading off the starting roster, Tim was bursting with anticipation as he read “Goalie, Tim” Tim’s teammates started to shout in celebration as they knew he was the best choice. But Tim soon realized who they were playing; the south city Spartans. They were undefeated for the whole season and had narrowly beat us in a penalty shootout in the last game of the season to decide who was number one for the state tournament. Tim was buzzing as he knew he had the chance to take revenge on not only the Spartans at the state level, but Harry, their captain and striker, bitter enemy of the whole team of inner city Cowboys.

I dribbled the ball right at the last defender, just a young twelve year old looking to fit in with us older kids. He charged at me as a dribbled right past him and pulled up for a jumper to seal the 5-1 victory. Church basketball is always fun, but we never have enough people for an organized team. Unfortunately even if we had enough kids, my family doesn’t have the money to pay for special shoes or a ball.

The series of disappointments that have harassed the growth of Iran began with a poor foundation, its leadership and government, and has then snowballed with each coming failure and conflict, however it is the people who choose to stand on that foundation and continue on or rebuild it. Iran, throughout the last decade has had several shifts in how government is deployed, the indecisive tug and pull of religiously kept sanctions or a move towards further westernization, and the maintenance of the tight control on its population to maintain diplomatic control.

First, I would like to give an overall background of the country Iran. Iran is officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, the name change was due to its revolution from 1978 to 1979 when the ruling monarchy was overthrown by Shitte Mulims. Iran was also known as Persia until 1935 until Nazi Germany influenced the Iranian government to change its name to Iran. Following the revolution, Iran adopted its current theocratic government and first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was chosen by a 86-member body of clerics know as the Assembly of Experts who are responsible for carefully selecting and monitoring the Supreme Leader. Ruhollah Khomeini was succeeded by current Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei. The relationship between the United States and Iran became tense when a group of Iranians held hostage U.S. personnel in Tehran’s U.S. Embassy, the country’s capital, for over a year between 1979 and 1981. Iran would fight Iraq between 1980 and 1988 in what became known as the Iran-Iraq war. This war would expand out to the Persian Gulf where the U.S.’s and Iran’s military would battle each other in what turned into The Gulf War which took place from 1990 to 1991. Under U.S. eyes, Iran has become a supporter of terrorism due to its involvement with it and because of its current nuclear program. Iran recently replaced its president due to Ahmadi-Nejad’s winning streak for the presidential election. The current president is Dr. Hasan Fereidun Ruhani who

Iran has seen drastic changes since the year 1979 after the Iranian Revolution. Primarily due to the original infrastructure being overthrown by extremist Shia Muslim rebels. Iran was once a western-influenced country, but over the past 35 years, it has transitioned into a theocratic government and unfavorably viewed country as of recently. This assessment will outline a brief country background for better understanding and will be discussing current events, threats to and from Iran. It will also provide a short term and a long term assessment for the time to come.