School Providence Analysis

Hockey. How bad is it to be a heartless player? The dilemma with Eric is that he feels a flaming fire in him but he can’t even explain it to anybody. He can’t even explain it to his parents that really like watching him play. Chris Lynch’s IceMan offers insight on Eric’s experience with hockey and how it shaped his life and just generally made him who he is. Eric is 14 years old. He is an average hockey player on his team. He talks about the games he had played and what he thought about how they went, and how he felt during the game. After reading the story Iceman by Chris Lynch it gave me a lot of thoughts about how to act in distinctive situations. I don’t recommend this text to everybody because it is predominantly about hockey. This fiction

Through my entire life I had been playing baseball. Baseball was the one thing that consumed my life. It was a job to me, not a passion. That was the first problem that resulted in a complete 360 in my life. When I started to play baseball, it was in a way satisfying and fun. It was something every little kid did over the weekend, as the family watched them sit on the ground pick flowers and play with the dust. Something so simple that made me feel so, existential. It gave me so much, it was great. As I began to realise the potential life this game could give me at around age 9, I began to become serious about baseball. I quickly began to feel like a superstar at the local Little League. “This is great!” I thought. Running circles around everyone, people would come to the field to see MaHall’s team play. As the years grew on, leading my teams to championship games years in a row, it would come crashing down. When I was 11, I was on the Dodgers, we were the best team in the league, and we knew it. Let’s go back in time for a bit. It’s the last inning and we are down by just one. Here I go up to bat with a man on first base. As I walk up to the plate I could hear the catcher say, “oh no.” He knew who I was, as everyone did. “I’ve hit many walk offs and clutch hits before, how was this different?” I remember thinking. Well past Jonnie, here’s how it’s different, it’s the championship game,

Then I began to spill out the emotions of never being able to compete in college sports. My competitive nature will always be a part of me, and now I would have to find something to replace my participation in organized sports. As I was writing this, other ideas began to flow. Attending such a close-knit school for four years, the next ideas inevitably began effortlessly pouring out: missing my peers and teachers, being

Author Kris Vervaecke wrote an essay titled, "A Spectator's Notebook," for Writers in Sports. She talked about sports and how they affect different generations. Vervaecke supports her claim by showing how much she loves sports and by using her children as examples throughout the essay. Her son, Ben, represents strength, determination, and talent because of how successful he was in golf, and before he leaves for college he puts in Michael Jordan’s Air Time, that united Ben and Vervaecke. On the other hand, Vervaecke’s daughter, Emily, is a bench-warmer and was told she is only smart not athletic, so she was “benched” in the classroom. She then talks about her other son, Andrew, and describes him as the true athlete of the family because of how much people liked him. Vervaecke’s purpose is to show that sports are not just about something fun to do or watch, but can have a motivational impact that can affect someone's emotions, and she does this by developing an influential tone.  Although Vervaecke mainly talks about her experiences and her childrens throughout the essay, her experiences apply to many students across the country. Many student-athletes are very successful in their futures because of what sports have taught them. Students should be involved in sports because student-athletes learn responsibility, how to manage their time, and take care of their psychological

Nothing beat the overwhelming emotion of stepping up on the pitcher’s mound and hearing the chant of my name, my heart clawing its way out of my chest. Before throwing the first warmup pitch, my mind raced through the entire season. How, as a team, we have made history winning all three major tournaments in the high school level. We had beaten many top competitors and lost plenty crushing defeats as well. My mind pondered, which situation will I be in today, glorious victory or destructive loss. This is the feeling I lived for during high school, it was my sole purpose. However, this was merely one minute of that fateful day in which I played prodigiously trying to win a baseball game.

When I was accepted into the Rappahannock Scholars program in the school year of 2013-2014, I began to think differently and transitioned into a mature young adult. Before entering the program, I had considered the academic qualifications to get into college to be the most important. This program, and the advisor, taught me that colleges look for more than just academic interests. They are also interested in work experiences, leadership opportunities, club memberships, and honors and awards.

In his childhood, Ripken was apart of baseball camps set up through Wartburg, and with encouragement from his father started to play baseball up until sixth grade. He later on volunteered at the same baseball camps and helped register kids into the camp. Baseball was a somewhat large part of Ripken’s childhood and he was lucky enough to have his father be the head coach of some of his baseball teams. Ripken’s junior year consists of starting his first year in cross country. He had wanted to join in the beginning of his High School career and is glad he got the chance to run this year because of the love he has gained for the sport. Cross country is of significance to Ripken because of the hard work and effort he has to put into the sport. In return the sport has given Ripken a feeling of reward because of running, a sense of success and being proud accomplishing a challenge. Another important sport that Ripken has obtained from would be tennis. He was able to join his freshman year of High School, and from then on to the present junior year. During tennis, Ripken has expanded his circle of friends and built onto his teamwork skills. Tennis is one part of school Ripken has looked forward to because of his great team, all the fun the sport provides, and believes it has been the best part of High School. Besides school related interests, Ripken also

Carolina Flores has had an extraordinary experience at Casco Bay High School. She had a passionate smile as she said, “I would redo my four years here again.” Her journey before a CBHS was different. Her 8th grade year everyone kept telling her only weird go to CBHS or it's a hard school. But her mother didn't wanted her to go to Deering High school because her older sister had a horrible experience at DHS. “My older sister didn't want me to same experience as she did in high school,” Carolina said. But right now she is so grateful and thankful for mother forcing her to go Casco. She learned how to come out of her comfort zone, for example, her biggest millstone was being a dj at her 10th grade year for the Halloween dance.

Jamie, while motioning with his hands, retells his difficult transition, shifting from high school varsity to minor league. “I was used to being one of the top players at my high school, but now I’m playing with and competing against the best athletes from other high schools, states, and even countries. It was definitely a big roadblock to overcome.” With starting to play in the minors at age 18, it started to take a toll on Jamie, both mentally and physically. He would often practice a couple times a day for hours at a time almost everyday of the week. While talking about his transition to the minors, Jamie paused and leaned forward with his hands on the table; “It was definitely tough, tougher than I thought that it would be. Once I was away from home and family, I felt a void for the first time. I started to feel empty. I knew that my end goal was to play professional baseball, I just didn’t know how to connect the dots from where I was to my goal; I didn’t know how to overcome that roadblock. Once I gave my life to Christ, I still missed my family but I never felt lonely again.” A second thing that helped Jamie overcome his state of emptiness was his teammates and relationships that formed on the

It just always seemed like something that I had to do. Ever since I was ten years old I’ve been playing, practicing, and talking about golf. I always have had a love for the game, but I never really thought about how stressful and painful it made my life. Even at ten I thought my future had already been planned for me. I was already thinking of life as a professional golfer. I was certain that I would go play golf for a big college, and instant fame would soon follow. It wasn’t until the last couple of years that life has changed for me.

From my first T-Ball team to my senior year track club, the comradery and confidence I have gained from competing on numerous sports teams has made an enormous impact on my life. Growing up, I went to a very small Catholic school. With less than 100 students in the entire school district. In third grade, our family moved to Manteno. Where each grade level had at least 120 students. Baseball and Basketball were crucial for me in my early years. It was how I became acquainted with most of my friends growing up in Manteno. If it wasn’t for competing on a team, I would have stayed timid for the rest of my life. With the confidence sports have gave me, I have been able to challenge myself to experience the world and all

Reilly appeals to pathos to convince his readers that sports are a powerful influence on everyday life and evoke the feeling of sympathy from his audience . This appeal supports sports journalism is the best form of journalism because of the influence it has on everyday lives. Reilly describes how the relationship between a father and son was healed through a sports team's victory; “I knew a Boston dad and son who hadn’t spoken in five years… But when the Red Sox won it all in 2004, the son came home. They hugged and cried and laughed” (658). The son and father both had cared deeply for this team, following them all season with equal heart and devotion. When the team finally won this meant a lot to both the son and father, and despite their differences, the father and son were able to share their ecstaticness over the win and heal their relationship.

His resentment towards the system shatters Corey’s hopes of his father deciding otherwise about him following his dreams to the field. As a young adult, Corey stands up to his father a few times within the play. In their arguments Corey can hear the anger his father holds with him still as a 53-year-old man. “He can cause people to lose their dreams and partly does this because he is bitter from the loss of his own.” (Armstrong, 21)

Ever since he was able to go to school, he has been a fellow classmate of Webster High School Class of 2019. In his ongoing high school years, and way before that, he has been involved with sports, for as long as he can remember. His father, Jarrod Washburn, former player for three Major League Baseball teams, had inspired him to play baseball. Jack Washburn’s first job, even included baseball. He has the opportunity to teach young kids about the sport of baseball; he likes the idea of being able to help others who are interested in learning about something he really cares for. Besides baseball, he does have other interests. Jack is also a fan of basketball, and connecting with the outdoors by hunting, fishing, and hiking.

Within historic Virginia City resides the Fourth Ward School, a building constructed in 1874. When it was built, Virginia City was booming with a population of approximately twenty-two-thousand people. Virginia City at the time wanted to show off some of its pride as a city with a new four story school. As the school today is so very old and has a history, people running the museum have to balance keeping the place funded and staying historically true. Today, the museum has lost much of its historical authenticity and has taken on more of a museum’s role, rather than a historical building role. However, that does not diminish the education potential the Fourth Ward School still has.