The Perfect Attitude I believe in a good attitude, a small, but powerful trait to have. A good attitude can change your day from bad to good, change somebody else’s day from bad to good, or even change somebody's life. Some people could be looking up to you, and you wouldn’t even know it. That should be motivation to have a great attitude even when nobody is watching. Make somebody’s day, give them a reason to look up to you, and even in bad situations, always be positive. I believe that you should never let anybody’s opinion of you, whether it’s how big, how small, , how smart, or dumb you are, don’t let anybody's opinion stop you from having a great attitude and doing what you love. My story of setbacks all started when I came into my freshman year of high school football. I hear it all the time, “that kid is too small” and “You can’t play football, kid, you’re going to get killed” and of course the classic, “Why do you even play? you’re too small to go anywhere with football!” I’ll admit it, I let the comments get the best of me, and started believing that I wouldn’t play a lot, I wouldn’t go anywhere in sports, and that i'm too small for contact sports. Well, mid-season of my freshman year, our quarterback, the backbone of our team, got pulled up to varsity. Guess who was the backup? yeah, thats right, yours truly. I had to step up and be the quarterback for our JV team. 5’7” 120 lbs kid taking over and running our offense, all the comments started coming back to put somebody else in because I was too small. That didn’t stop me. I believe that this happened for a reason. There was a reason I got this opportunity, maybe by chance, maybe by luck. The first game as quarterback was very rough, we lost by a lot. Even my teammates were losing faith in me and my abilities. A few more games went on and to be honest, they didn’t get much better. We kept losing and my teammates didn’t think I was the guy for the job. Then it happened. I was on kick return, I went to go block for the guy who was running the ball, and got blindsided. My knee felt like it blew out of place, I was in excruciating pain and I had no idea what to do. So I kept playing, it’s just a little bruised right? little did I know i’d pay for that decision later. I believe that your attitude has a direct effect on how you do everything. When I had that injury, my attitude was over all good, because I didn’t care that I was hurt I just wanted to play! After that season I was excited to play quarterback next year as well, because i put so much work and effort into trying to be a better quarterback. This is where I pay for my decision to play the previous year. Fourth of july weekend, only weeks until the kick off of the 2015-16 football season! I couldn’t be happier! My friends and I were camping and having a great time, so we decided to go boating that day! why not, right? last couple weeks of summer before football, let's have some real fun! So my family and the others went out onto the sandbar, and towards the back of the boat the water was 6 feet deep, but towards the front, little did i know, was only 3 feet deep. One by one, the kids jump off the boat like frogs into a pond. so I decided to hop in too, but off the front of the boat. The water was so murky i couldn’t even see the sand as it lay on the bottom of the lake. As I leaped in expecting to plunge deep into the cool water, my expectations were shattered as I hit the bottom much sooner than I expected. An instant shock with through the back of my right knee, the same knee I had hurt before, but this time, much worse. The swelling came right on cue, and the ice started getting packed down on my knee. We drove the boat back, and from there the car waited on shore for me. The ride to the hospital wasn’t fun at all. I didn’t have a very good attitude, i just wanted to close off the world and be okay. I knew something wasn’t right. I believe that whenever you get bad news, you feel like your whole world just crumbles beneath your feet. “It appears you may have torn your hamstring Jake. Come in for an MRI in about a week and we’ll re-evaluate you, but for now it looks like you’ll be on crutches for a while. Absolutely no football.” Wait, what? did I just hear that right? no football, are you kidding me? I’ll admit it, right there in that moment my attitude was at a 0. I was so mad, and disappointed in myself. They told me if I would have decided to dive head first, I would have been dead instantly. For the next few weeks, I watched my teammates playing football, laughing, and having fun. What was I doing? sitting on the sidelines feeling bad for myself. In that moment I said to myself, screw this, i’m playing this season. I started walking again and started working on my knee a lot, lifting weights and just focusing on basically self-rehabbing. I worked so hard to get back to normal, i’m still not 100% but i suited up for our first game, and in face every single game and practice and even started. 3 games in, our quarterback went down and I stepped up yet again and I felt like I did a lot better than ever before. When I started working my knee out, yeah it hurt, but I felt like sitting out would have hurt me more, and my attitude to get back into the game was at a 100. I believe that if i've learned one thing from this terrible experience, it's that you can’t feel sorry for yourself and mope around. Get up, and get after it. A bad attitude isn’t going to get you anywhere. Put your big boy pants on and man up. Face your problems at full throttle, and run through them. I think I hurt myself more than my knee hurt me, because of my poor attitude. Never again will I have a bad attitude towards something I know I can come back from. A good attitude is the key to success, and when that mindset, i’ll always be successful.
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this weeks article of the week is about Fetal tissue and how it can help with big diseases and afflictions like Cancer. I think this is awesome because it's a way that we can learn more about and potentially cure these big diseases. I can tell from experience because my aunt had breast cancer, she is now proud survivor of it, that if they find a cure this could be revolutionary for millions of people! It does have a downside though, will all the stuff about abortions and planned parenthood. The videos they talked about, about how they get the organs and tissues are graphic and they probably shouldn't have talked about that, but It is for a good cause even though I don't really have a side on abortion or not. I feel like if you want an abortion, you should have one, but if you don't then keep it. So i don't really have a side on that, but i do thing with the fetal tissue, it;s all going to be for a good cause!
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In this week's article of the week, it was about technology in the classroom, and if it helps us or not. In my opinion, it doesn't make a significant change in our behavior or our learning. We are all learning just the same and we are still doing the same things, its just that now we have more technology. To me, it seems pointless to have Chromebooks, its just more hassle and more confusing than how we used to do it. In our school, is our test scores going up? is our kids getting smarter than before we had them? i really doubt it. I liked the way it used to be. Sure the Chromebooks cut back on paper, but its just more wasted energy. Last night for example, I was trying to write this very blog and my WiFi went out, so i couldn't write it when i wanted to. It would be so much easier to just have paper and pencil.
Book Blog #7In my book Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher Clay finally gets to listen to his tape all the way through. That is when she faces the reality of the unknown. He faces the truth that if he would have just stayed in that room with Hannah, is he would have just stayed with her when she told him to leave that maybe she wouldn't have killed herself. Also he learns that his best friend Tony wasn't on the tapes but he contributed just as much as the rest of the people on the tapes. Clay learned that Tony was the one who have Hannah the tapes and he was the one who taught her how to make the tapes with the hand held recorder, which she used to record all of her suicide notes. The unknown kills them both, becauss they both do not know what might have happened if Clay would have stayed with Hannah, or if Tony wouldn't have given Hannah the tapes. The unknown is scary, and it kills them both a little.
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Choice Blog #6Obsession, now that is a big deal. Well i have a confession to make, I have one! Shoes are an obsession, they are a lifestyle and they are amazing! Some people don't care about them, but not this guy! They are awesome! There are so many endless possibilities of what types you can have. You can have shoes for basketball, you can have shoes for running, casual, or anything in between. My favorite shoes are obviously Nike. Nike has made so many shoes I don't even know where to begin. The Roshe 1s by Nike are by far my favorite ever! They are a casual shoe that is so comfortable that it is unbelievable. They have a large soul that are made for support and stability and they are like this mesh material that feels so light, like your not wearing anything. You can also go to NikeID.com and customize your own pair of shoes to all your preferences. In my opinion Roshe's are the best shoe ever. I believe this because in general, people want a shoe that is light, durable and comfortable, which is exactly what the Roshe's have! So there, you know my obsession, shhh don't tell anybody!
Book Blog #6In my book Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher, the main character, Clay, finally hears his tape from Hannah. This brings him to realize that he was just a little too late. She tells him in his tape how she was amazed by him, and that she'd wished that they would have gotten to know each other better, sooner. But there's only one problem... They didn't, and Clay was too late. Even though she had an amazing time getting to know Clay, she already made up her mind of ending her life. We can all that something out of this and that just to treat everybody how you want to be treated. If you were depressed and wanting to end your life, you'd want somebody to talk to too. Clay made the mistake of not doing that soon enough. I can tell you from experience, there has been times where I was down, just needed somebody to talk to, I know how it feels, so just be there for each other. If everybody is there for everybody, then we won't have to worry about somebody hurting them self's, because they can talk to us. Treat everybody how you want to be treated.
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