Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the greatest basketball player of all time? In the story called “The Rise Of A Star” by David Lee Morgan, LeBron James can feel that way. This book is based on LeBron James one of the greatest players to ever step on the basketball court, in many people’s opinions the best. He was just a poor little ghetto kid that had nothing until June 26, of 2003.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have to move almost 7 times a year? That’s how it was for LeBron James. He had to move a lot due to money problems and shelter. LeBron James had a very scary and hard childhood. One good thing that happened for him is he met three guys and those four guys all together were so close that they called each other the “Fab 4.” They were so close that nothing would ever tear them down or bring them apart. Later another guy moved to their town and they let him become part of their gang so they called themselves the “Fab 5.” Which was also the starting 5 of their varsity basketball line up. All of the “Fab 5” were so close they were like family. Nothing will ever tear their friendship apart.
Currently today they all stay in contact and they all talk to each other. LeBron moved on straight to the NBA from high school, Sion Cotton went to college, Willie McGee went and played football at Ohio State, and Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce attended the University of Akron and now currently play on a European league team together. These 5 guys are individuals are all men that all kids can look up to. They grow up with just about nothing and now are successful and they are known to be one of the greatest starting 5 in high school basketball history.
Talking about history, LeBron in many people’s opinions is the greatest player ever to play basketball. There is stuff that he can do that no other player ever could, or ever will be able to do. The cool thing is, he is young, and strong, and smart so he easily dominates the league and everyone in it. Not only is he a great player, but also a great man. He is always going back to his home town to help kids and families so they don’t have to go through what he had to. He is always going to charities and donating moneys to help all kinds of causes of America. The world will never be perfect but specific individuals like LeBron is willing to help to try and make it a better place.
In conclusion this book was great! It was a great story and would give everyone incredible entertainment and a great story for them to read about. They can realize why LeBron is the person he is today, because what he had to go through. It seems like the people who grow up living a hard life are nicer in the future and the people who grow up living a nice life are selfish and not as nice. Wouldn’t you think it would be the other way around? Like for instance Michael Oher, he grew up in a terrible area and had no family. He is one of the nicest athletes today, and will always treat people good because he knows what life should be like, nice, and not terrible like him or LeBron had to go through.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Drugs
Have you ever gotten pressured into doing drugs? That is called peer pressure. Say someone offers it to you and you say no, but then people around you call you a wimp because you are scared to do them. That’s peer pressure. You should never give in to peer pressure. I can tell you that I have never done drugs, or have gotten pressured into doing drugs. You will not have to worry about things like alcohol, or drugs as long as you hang around the right people who are worried about themselves, their reputations, and the law.
Most drugs in the U.S.A are illegal because everyone knows how bad they can be for you. Drugs like, marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine are all illegal drugs here in the United States Of America. Although, these drugs can be prescribed by a doctor for medical reasons and purposes and that’s the only way that they can be legal. Drugs can be found or bought practically anywhere. There is a kind of drug called inhalants which is illegal but there is almost no way to get rid of inhalants. Things like sharpies or spray cans give off toxic fumes and when exhaled it makes your brain not function correctly or as we would call it get high. It kills brain cells and harms your body. Since you can’t function correctly you could even be risking your life! It is unhealthy to do any type of drug, and you should for sure not have them unless you want things like bad breath, bad body odor, chance of cancer, age faster, and be judged tremendously by the people around you. Why would anyone want that? The people I feel bad for are the ones that got sucked into it and are addicted and can’t stop smoking or snorting these different types of drugs. Or the people who inhaled second hand smoke from other that smoke around them. People get sick from second hand smoke and die all the time from various cancers and diseases. Why would you want to do that to other people? And most importantly why would you want to do that to yourself?
In conclusion, I think the world needs to end smoking. It is doing nothing but harming our country and the people in it. It is ridiculous. The smoking does nothing but damage our ground by littering, and smoking can cause more car accidents because people worry about getting their smoke more than worrying about driving, the butts of the cigarettes that people throw on the ground can cause fires, all these different problems from smoking. The main question is why do people smoke? Do they look cool? Do they feel cool? Why do they do it?
Most drugs in the U.S.A are illegal because everyone knows how bad they can be for you. Drugs like, marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine are all illegal drugs here in the United States Of America. Although, these drugs can be prescribed by a doctor for medical reasons and purposes and that’s the only way that they can be legal. Drugs can be found or bought practically anywhere. There is a kind of drug called inhalants which is illegal but there is almost no way to get rid of inhalants. Things like sharpies or spray cans give off toxic fumes and when exhaled it makes your brain not function correctly or as we would call it get high. It kills brain cells and harms your body. Since you can’t function correctly you could even be risking your life! It is unhealthy to do any type of drug, and you should for sure not have them unless you want things like bad breath, bad body odor, chance of cancer, age faster, and be judged tremendously by the people around you. Why would anyone want that? The people I feel bad for are the ones that got sucked into it and are addicted and can’t stop smoking or snorting these different types of drugs. Or the people who inhaled second hand smoke from other that smoke around them. People get sick from second hand smoke and die all the time from various cancers and diseases. Why would you want to do that to other people? And most importantly why would you want to do that to yourself?
In conclusion, I think the world needs to end smoking. It is doing nothing but harming our country and the people in it. It is ridiculous. The smoking does nothing but damage our ground by littering, and smoking can cause more car accidents because people worry about getting their smoke more than worrying about driving, the butts of the cigarettes that people throw on the ground can cause fires, all these different problems from smoking. The main question is why do people smoke? Do they look cool? Do they feel cool? Why do they do it?
The Hundreth Dove
Imagine this, being bossed around and always being told what to do and when to do it. That is what life was like for the fowler named Hugh in the short story The Hundredth Dove written by Jane Yolen. The fowler is told to go out and get 100 doves for the king because the king was getting married. The fowler thought of how great he would look if he went out and brought back exactly 100 doves for the king. So, he worked as hard as he could to get those 100 doves and his work paid off because he caught those 100 doves and brought them to the king. The main point of this story is to always try your hardest and stay on task, so you can always attempt on doing the right thing.
Talking about the lesson of the story should make you think back to your past when you were assigned to do something and you did it no problem, or back to a time when you were battling to either do the right thing, or the wrong thing. It is always the best choice to do the right thing, even if it is something you don’t really want to do, you will feel way better afterwards. After you do something good you won’t ever want to do something bad again because the feeling from knowing you did something good makes you feel so great about yourself you will always want to have that feeling. Why would you want to do the bad thing if you will just feel scared, mad, and sad afterwards? When you could feel happy and great from doing the right thing. In the story Hugh chooses to do the right thing and brings the 100 birds to the king instead of letting the 100th bird go like it was trying to tell him. He took the right path and felt good after it because he knows what he did was right.
Along with the lesson comes a very good theme. The theme of the story is man vs. himself because the main character, Hugh has to decide whether he wants to let the bird go and get what he is promised from it, or take that bird back to the king with all the other 99 birds. He ends up choosing the right path and bringing back all the 100. His conscience was telling him to let that bird go because he could get stuff from the bird, but his mind was telling him you know the king told you to bring back 100 birds and this is your 100th bird so why would you let it go? He listened to his mind and brought the bird to the king and felt very good about himself because he knows what he did was right.
After hearing about the author’s lesson and theme from the story it was very hard not to focus on the author’s style of writing. The author really has a great writing style. She is very good at having a good lesson put into a good story which makes it very entertaining. If you read a good entertaining book that has a good lesson it is super hard not to learn from it. If you are ever debating on whether you want to do something think of the positives and negatives for each choice. It will help you choose which choice you should make, and it should help you approach to making the right decision and not the wrong one. If it is hard for you to decide what to do sometimes you can even ask a friend or a family member to help to see which they think is right so you can get some positive feedback. But, you should also know that if you would like to feel better in the end the right choice is always and always will be the right way to go.
So, in conclusion this was a great story that had a great lesson. One of the best. People need to always things through a couple of times before they do something. Think about the stuff that we could have if people always thought stuff through and always made the right decisions like even world peace? People would always be doing the right thing and nothing could go wrong. Although, we are human and we do make mistakes, but all people do is look at the mistakes we make and the accomplishments we have. Look at those first. But, what would life be like if we had world peace?
Talking about the lesson of the story should make you think back to your past when you were assigned to do something and you did it no problem, or back to a time when you were battling to either do the right thing, or the wrong thing. It is always the best choice to do the right thing, even if it is something you don’t really want to do, you will feel way better afterwards. After you do something good you won’t ever want to do something bad again because the feeling from knowing you did something good makes you feel so great about yourself you will always want to have that feeling. Why would you want to do the bad thing if you will just feel scared, mad, and sad afterwards? When you could feel happy and great from doing the right thing. In the story Hugh chooses to do the right thing and brings the 100 birds to the king instead of letting the 100th bird go like it was trying to tell him. He took the right path and felt good after it because he knows what he did was right.
Along with the lesson comes a very good theme. The theme of the story is man vs. himself because the main character, Hugh has to decide whether he wants to let the bird go and get what he is promised from it, or take that bird back to the king with all the other 99 birds. He ends up choosing the right path and bringing back all the 100. His conscience was telling him to let that bird go because he could get stuff from the bird, but his mind was telling him you know the king told you to bring back 100 birds and this is your 100th bird so why would you let it go? He listened to his mind and brought the bird to the king and felt very good about himself because he knows what he did was right.
After hearing about the author’s lesson and theme from the story it was very hard not to focus on the author’s style of writing. The author really has a great writing style. She is very good at having a good lesson put into a good story which makes it very entertaining. If you read a good entertaining book that has a good lesson it is super hard not to learn from it. If you are ever debating on whether you want to do something think of the positives and negatives for each choice. It will help you choose which choice you should make, and it should help you approach to making the right decision and not the wrong one. If it is hard for you to decide what to do sometimes you can even ask a friend or a family member to help to see which they think is right so you can get some positive feedback. But, you should also know that if you would like to feel better in the end the right choice is always and always will be the right way to go.
So, in conclusion this was a great story that had a great lesson. One of the best. People need to always things through a couple of times before they do something. Think about the stuff that we could have if people always thought stuff through and always made the right decisions like even world peace? People would always be doing the right thing and nothing could go wrong. Although, we are human and we do make mistakes, but all people do is look at the mistakes we make and the accomplishments we have. Look at those first. But, what would life be like if we had world peace?
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