Peyton Scott Quotes

Of the more than twenty million Americans who are running today, most who start do so for the wrong reasons, with the wrong attitude, and tend to lose interest after a few weeks or months. Many quit. This is usually because they become concerned with superficial goals such as time and distance and never discover the more profound mental benefits that running offers. (Lilliefors 15)

“...the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out. There was his size, and his attractive appearance. And most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.” This quote from page 22 in Lord of the Flies begins to illustrate the early struggle for power between Ralph and Jack on the island. From the start, it was a battle between the two boys regarding who was most qualified to take charge and step up as chief. William Golding argues that power is something that comes with responsibility, and struggle. The responsibility that falls on Ralph’s shoulders is tremendous, and there is a very clear struggle for power throughout the novel, which we will later explore.

There are some similarities in the stories To Build a Fire, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and The Veteran. In all three stories the main character is a male. In To Build a Fire written by Jack London, the main character does not have a name but it is a male because the story says “The man looked along the way he had come” (London, 64). This quote shows that the main character is a male because it says the man. You would not call a woman a man so it has to be a male.

Tony Montana is a very vulgar person, able to drop any manner of language that can offend a person. Arrogant, violent and very frank, assuring to Sosa that the only thing he has in this world is his word and his “balls”. Tony is the survivor that has no qualms on killing other people if it can guarantee money and food. His ruthlessness will eventually land him a position in Frank Lopez’s drug cartel and will steadily make a name in the Miami underworld. He also developed a liking to Frank’s mistress, Elvira. With his excessive push to expand, he eventually gunned down Frank and took Elvira, and started building his own empire. Living in a lavish lifestyle, he would eventually develop paranoia and would develop a strong addiction

Nathan Scott is main character and the basketball star of the Ravens high school, just like his very proud father. Dan Scott wants his son to be an over achiever, but he gets pushed even harder by his dad than the team's coach. Dan Scott went to tree hill and was a well know basketball player and pushes his son to achieve his best. When the team celebrates a victory they decided borrowing their schools bus. Several arrests were made; Dan to talk to the coach and police and manages to get Nathan out of trouble. Unfortunately others are less lucky and got kick off the team. The coach had to get new players, so the coach invites Nathan's step brother Lucas Scott. Who only plays basketball for fun because his passion was reading books. Nathan

Ernest Hemingway once said, “Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose” (Ernest Hemingway). Perhaps this is the reason 1920’s new woman Lady Brett Ashley was able to control her life with such ease. She had never been tied down to a man, therefore she had no real love to lose. She was free. As the novel progresses so does Brett’s outlook on love. Lady Brett Ashley is very much her own person. The character she depicts is placed in this story to strongly emphasize the hypermasculinity of women in the 1920’s. Brett was written by Hemingway as the complete opposite of Frances, married housewife, who was the ideal woman before the new era was brought upon by the 20’s.

Lemlem has been actively involved with College Track since the start of her junior year in high school. She comes to the center three to four times per week for several hours of tutoring, enrichment, and college prep work. Though most students start the program during their freshmen year, Lemlem got a late start. Being a mature student, she realized that she could not fully commit to the program and did not want to take a spot from another student. Consequently, she did not apply to the program until she could fully participate in the program.

Ann Deever and Chris Keller both hate Steve Deever because, they expect him to be a man who supports and helps others instead of killing people for personal gain. One example is when Ann explains that, “It’s wrong to pity a man like that. Father or no father, there’s only one way to look at him. (Act 1, Pg 31)” This quote shows Anns anger to Steve not being able to achieve her expectations as a man helping another. Moreover, Steve also failed her by causing her boyfriend, Larry Keller, to be missing in action. The bitterness in her tone comes from the fact that Steve has caused great shame to the family for an action that is cruel hearted and self centered. She loves her father, but it is his actions with shipping the cracked cylinder heads

“Pick up the pace guys, its meatloaf night!” Exclaimed Pleasant Grove High School track coach Bill Saunders. You could see the pain and agony that the athletes were experiencing as they made their final laps around the track in attempt to finish off that day’s workout. The mid afternoon sun was beating down on the young adults and you could see tears of sweat running from their faces. Bill Saunders has been the track coach at Pleasant Grove for four consecutive seasons now and says, “There is no greater feeling of success than seeing the smiling faces of those athletes who achieve their season goals!”

After another great year of running and training, Chino Hill’s Cross-Country team ended with an amazing season. Throughout all the hard-core training and rigorous races, both the boy's and girl's teams had successful results. Injuries had been a recurring problem, as some runners didn't train during the summer. Despite struggles and injuries that had occurred throughout the season, there were many improvements and achievements in the team. In League the Girl’s Varsity Team won first, and the Boy's Varsity Team achieved second. The Boy’s JV, Frosh/Sophomore, as well as the Girl's JV placed second. In Boy's Varsity the top runners were, Andrew Arvizu, Jake Bergmann, and Noah Rehfeldt, and the Girl's Varsity the top runners were, Rachele Sunagawa,

Mr. D. has coached at Wabasso for numerous years and has left a lasting impression on all of his runners. Mr. Dudgeon’s main priorities throughout all his years of coaching are to expand and improve his teams and, most importantly, to make sure everyone has fun. For instance, he puts unfathomable amounts of care and time into meticulously designing the perfect workout for each day of practice; he even does the workouts himself before he has our team run them. Furthermore, Mr. Dudgeon always makes sure that we feel prepared for the upcoming meets, and most importantly, he makes sure we are ready to “destroy the competition,” as he says. His infectious love for running, drive for success, and through-the-roof level of care for his athletes helps him build larger and more successful teams every year. To be specific, Mr. D. started with a cross country team composed of five girls and built it up to up to a conference-champion team of 10+ runners in a matter of only three years. The product of Mr. Dudgeon’s labor was a shiny cross country coach of the year plaque. Similarly, in a mere one year's

“My older sister ran and I always looked up to her,” Dobson said. “When I ran cross country in middle school, I realized I should run the distance events in track.”

Clay Jensen is more honest because he put a lot of thoughts into what he hear and gives his feedback and he speaks his mind. For example, if he doesn’t like something that happened while listening as Hannah speaks in her tapes, he speaks his mind (rude or aggressively) but if something questioning or second-guessing happens in the tapes, he gives a playful response but sometimes he acts as if he’s serious. For example, when Hannah seems curious about how her kiss with justin will be Clay says “Hannah, if you kissed back then like you kissed at the party,trust me, he liked it.”

In high school, distance running has improved not only my physical strength but also my mental toughness, and it has benefited various aspects of my life. By running seven miles per day consistently, I learned to persevere regardless of the difficulties and setbacks, and perseverance also enabled me to accomplish boring and complicated tasks such as spending hours finding and fixing one single unnoticeable bug in my program. Moreover, I became accustomed to challenging myself after I pushed my limits by ordering my legs to move in great pain during every race; accordingly, I would proactively seek academic challenges by taking courses at which I am relatively weak. As for the longest run, my life, I will keep running forward with the same spirit, never stopping self-improvement. Therefore, I will keep distance running in college.

Two weeks passed and I began to notice a considerable change in my overall physical ability. I could finally complete fifty push-ups, and sprint without severe signs of physical fatigue. I was excited beyond belief and determined to get back on my feet; I learned from cross country that an unyielding will was needed in order to accomplish any goal, and I will continue to live my life as someone who will never quit. Consequently; about a year has passed, I am now healthy and fully able to use my body to its limits. In addition, I plan on training intensely over the winter season so I will have a chance to break my school’s 400 meter dash record and qualify for the state track