Animal Research

Animals being used for research, can be very unethical. Any living creature has feelings just like humans have feelings.

Tuition

The tuition of universities and colleges can be very expensive. It seems that a person would have to work a second job to afford it. As well as maintain a place to live. If they could lower the cost of tuition for colleges and universities it could make it less stressful and worrying to pay off education. There are an abundant of reasons why the United States government should lower the tuition for college students.

Qualities Of Coaching

Introduction: Readers will understand what are the fundamentals of coaching a basketball team and how to obtain leadership from coaching. 

                                                                   Narrative Story                                                            
     My love of basketball started when I was a little kid. I had always dreamed of going to a NBA basketball game. In my fifth grade that dream had finally came true. On a bus ride, to what would be a great field trip, I was filled with an abundance of excitement. I was so anxious to see the hard work and determination the players had towards the game. I couldn't wait any longer to step my foot in where memories are never forgotten and where amazing truly happens.

I'm frantically waiting to get in the doors to witness greatness. As I walked in my eyes grew bold of the mammoth structure. I felt as if I never seen such enormous building in my entire life. It was breath taking. The sight of gigantic T.V's and the aromas of hot dogs, burgers, and churros filled the arena from every direction. As we got to our seats up on the top of the arena I could feel the cold air pressing against my face. Being at such great height sent chills up my spine but nothing was going to stop me from enjoying what would be a sensational basketball game, not the cold, not the seat, and not my fear of heights.

There it was; the moment we've all be waiting for, the mane attraction and what would be the holy grail of my attention. I could hear thousands upon thousands of fans screaming and shouting for the Los Angeles Lakers. Suddenly I could feel a rush of adrenaline taking over my body. It caused me to chant and scream. It felt like all that excitement that was building up was finally being unleashed. Then at that moment the lights flickered off, and there were spot lights illuminating on the court floor. All of a sudden basketball players rushed on the court in their yellow and purple jerseys following behind them was the head coach. He came on the court with outstanding posture and had great zeal which made him notable to the fans in the stadium. The game gets kicked off even at the start of the game with not even a second spared the coach feeds the team motivation. With the morale of the team boosted the coach seems as if he has a sense of determination and positive attitude towards winning the game. At that moment I fell head over heels with coaching and I knew what I wanted to be. An to think one day, I could be apart of something truly great like this.

                                                       Coach Wilhite Interview

Dee: What leadership skills should a coach have?

Wilhite: He should be able to communicate with the team and motivate them. He should also be disciplined.

Dee: In what ways can you make a team collaborate?

Wilhite: By having the team build over time to trust one another.

Dee: How do you unify a team when they do not get along?

Wilhite: You have to have confidence in each other and push them into trusting one another. Also have team building games, practices, or drills.

                                                               Coach Wren Interview

Dee: What leadership skills should a coach have?

Wren: Integrity communication, relationships, teamwork, decision making.

Dee: In what ways can you make a team collaborate?

Wren: Everything you do is based around the team. Team building exercises drills.

Dee: How do you unify a team when they do not get along?

Wren: Reward the players that are team players by more playing time. Sit or discipline the players that don't have a team first attitude.

                                                               Coach Daniel Interview

Dee: What leadership skills should a coach have?

Daniel: As a leader the coach must understand that each player is coming in to their program at different skill levels. The coach must be able to bring the best out of each player even when the players don't believe they can win.

Dee: In what ways can you make a team collaborate?

Daniel: On the first day that the team meets the coach, the coach must get the team to understand that the only way the team wins is if everyone works together. The coach needs to get the returning players to help make the new players fill apart of the team. " I like to assign a returning player with a new player to help bridge the gap.

Dee: How do you unify a team when they do not get along?

Daniel: " I had to deal with this early this year". I sat the team down and talked to them about the importance of getting along as a team. I then talked to my team captain and had her talk to the team.
                                                               

                                                                  Coach Miller Interview 

Dee: What leadership skills should a coach have?

Miller: A coach must posses the ability to make a decision based on what he knows about his team and not what everyone thinks.  He must understand that most people will not agree with his decisions because they have the luxury of sitting back and seeing the result after the situation has occurred.  He must have thick skin, and be confident that he is doing what is best for his kids.

Dee: It what ways can you make a team collaborate?

Miller: To make a team collaborate a coach should have the team do team building drills or even exercises.

Dee: How do you unify a team when they do not get along? 

Miller: You don't give them a choice, they will get along when they are playing/practicing.  They don't have to like each other off the field or outside of school.

   Inspirational Coach Speech

There are an abundant of coaches that demonstrate great traits of leadership.

Coach information slides

                                                        Year-by-year history of the Chicago Bulls

     The Chicago Bulls named by Dick Klein in reference to the cities livestock industry joined the NBA for the 1966-67 season. From their 1966 debut to the drafting of Derrick Rose the Bulls have had success threw many of the NBA seasons. The Bulls have had plenty of coaches and won plenty of championships since the appeared in the NBA rosters. Many of those coaches had trained plenty remarkable and talented basketball players that some might consider to be the best players of all time. The Bulls are reckonized for their strategic offensive and defensive plays and ball movement on the court. Which lead them to win their first NBA championship in 1991 at the hands of coach Phil Jackson. The Bulls have made it to the playoffs a total of thirty four times and they went to NBA finals six times. Over the years they have showed a great deal of strength and determination which in the end put many of their players and coaches in the NBA hall of fame. Hall of famers include George Gervin, Artis Gilmore, Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Robert Parish, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, etc. The Bulls continue to stay very motivated due to their current coach Tom Thibodeau. When it comes down to leadership being a significant component to winning games the Chicago Bulls are a force to be reckoned with. With a recorded record of more than fifty wins this season the Bulls are ranked as 3rd in the eastern conference and 9th overall. You could say that the Chicago Bulls is a team full of leaders thanks to the plenty of dedicated coaches that won them many key games. For that the Bulls will go down in history for being one of the most successful team in NBA history.

                                                                            

                                                                    Coach Timeline 

The coaches that the Chicago Bulls had over the pass years drove the Bulls to seasonal success. Those coaches had demonstrated and abundance of leadership skills that plays a key factor in making a team. The support that these coaches had for the team made it seem that the team was more than a team but a family. Coach by coach the Chicago Bulls continue to strive for greatness throughout NBA playoffs and finals. 

Johnny Kerr 1966/68

Dick Motta 1968/76  

Ed Badger 1976/1978

Larry Costello 1978/79

Scotty Robertson 1978/79

Jerry Sloan 1979/82

Phil Johnson 1981/82

Rod Thorn 1981/82

Paul Westhead 1982/83

Kevin Loughery 1983/85               

Stan Albeck 1985/86

Doug Collins 1986/89

Phil Jackson 1989/98

Tim Floyd 1998/02

Bill Berry 2001/02

Bill Cartwright 2001/04

Pete Myers 2003/04

Scott Skiles 2003/08

Jim Boylan 2007/08

Vinny Del Negro 2008/10

Tom Thibodeau 2011/11- present 

                                                                              The Phil Jackson Era 

     Phil Jackson one of the head coach of the Chicago Bulls  was a outstanding and inspirational athletic figure. He began his career as a player drafted in the second round by the New York Knicks. He then retired from play in 1980 to only eventually coach many other minor basketball Leagues. Sooner or later Phil became assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls he then got promoted to head coach in 1989. Spending nine winning years with the team. Leading and training many basketball players that would become his star players such as Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman. With his impressive leadership skills he earned the Bulls six championships wins. He is well known for the modernization of Tex Winters triangle offense that was a significant play that he used to make it to the playoffs every year that he served. Phil Jackson got plenty of inspirations from the books that he read like " On Becoming A Person" and " A Monk In The World". Phil demonstrated many qualities that fits a great coach like leadership, discipline, decision making, and teamwork he will forever be know as one of the best coaches and leaders that ever lived. "Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents". -Phil Jackson-

                         Conclusion
I have successfully taught the fundamentals of playing basketball and discussed being a coach you need to have great decision making skills, teamwork, and you need to be able to communicate with the team. Which by then you will obtain leadership qualities.

                                                                     

Reading Life

My reading goal was to read 10 books this year, I can gladly say that I successfully met that goal. My reading life has changed dramatically which in the end caused me to reach my reading goal. I had started finding books that I really found an interest in and it drove me to read more abundantly. It also opened my mind up to more different genres of books that I normally don't read. The books I have read this year are Life Of Pi, The Sorceress, Russell Rules, The Rangers Apprentice, Room, A List Of Things That Didn't Kill Me, The Graveyard Book, Once, Then, Now, Spook, The Extra, Sarah's Key, Hororstor, Miss Peregrines House Of Peculiar Children, Hollow City, and 3039 . All the books I have read, I have enjoyed but none of which are as fascinating as the book Russell Rules. The book really gives important information about leadership skills and how to be a winner and since I am an athlete there was a lot of benefits to reading the book. The hardest book I have read was was 3039. There are many reasons why it was so difficult to read. One reason was because the vocabulary words were so complicated and it took me a long time to get threw one chapter without picking up a dictionary. Another reason is because the book was very long it was around five hundred pages so it took me quite a wile to gain interest in the stories line. My greatest area of strength as a reader I would say is identifying rhetorical or figurative language that the author uses to give the story emotional appeal. I still fill like I need to read a lot more books then I normally read I also suffer from reading because the lack of vocabulary that I don't understand so I need to improve my vocabulary to read harder books. Being apart of a reading community has benefited me in plenty of ways. One way is that it helped me push myself to learning more about different forms of language that authors uses to write novels.

Globalize Language

There are a roughly outstanding 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. That of which doesn't have as much importance than the English language. The English language is important for an abundant of reasons. Two reasons is because the English language is good for business and political issues. Also English is the language of the media industry and the Internet. These are all some significant reasons why English should become the global language.

English is the official language of 53 countries and is spoken as a first language by around 400 million people. By that being said English is the language of business and commerce. The English language is what " makes the world go around" because of the financial benefits you get from knowing the language. As a nation it would get you many trade partners and you would have many economic development opportunities. English isn't just only great for business but it makes you not rely on translations and subtitles to enjoy plenty books, songs, films, and TV shows. As we all know the world is getting more Americanized as the years go by that's why knowing English is important to understand the media industry. English is the official language of the Internet which is a global source and we use the Internet to be connected to people. So in many ways understanding English is good to explore people's cultures and the different ethnic diversities in the world.

Speaking English matters because of the numerous benefits one has just for understanding it, those benefits include helping you financially and socially. With that understood those are the reasons why the English language should be the global language. 

Creed Poem

I believe in Jesus being our our savior. 

I believe family.

I believe in true friendship.

I believe in love because with Jesus, family and friends I will always feel loved.

I believe in world peace.

I believe racial equality will help lead to world peace.

Teamwork make the dream work.

I believe in Jordan and the number 23.

I believe in basketball. 

I believe my dream of being a baketball player in the NBA will be achieved through hard work and dedication.

Play like a champion on the court.

Go hard or go home.

I disbelieve in failer and losing.

I believe in opportunities.

I believe in goals.

I believe that every thing happen for a reason and there are no such things as coincidences.

I believe in education.

Knowledge is power and power is the key to my upmost imagination.

I believe in myself to prevail and triumph over my goals and that I was put on this earth for a purpose.

I believe all that I believe because it is the key to my happiness and joy.

Oppression ( Jimmy Santiago Baca)

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an accomplished Latin American poet who wrote appealing poems about his experiences in the Arizona state prison. One eye-opening poem that caught my attention is called " Oppression". I scrutinized the poem very carefully and it seems that the poem is about, how to endure the suffering and adversity of living caged behind bars. Baca began to use descriptive word choice when he says " unshed tears" because it took strength to keep the emotions bottled up inside from being in prison. When he uses metaphors like the feeling of "being trampled under" that gives the reader sentiment of empathy because it as well as shows  distress and difficulties of being imprisoned in the penitentiary. In the middle of the poem Baca began to change his attitude towards being locked away and he states that one should " look deep to find the grains of hope and strength". That symbolizes that its okay to be locked away and that one should be bold of the dangers and horridness that lurk in the walls of the jailhouse. Lastly at the end of the poem Baca articulates that " fiery spears will count your years "I feel like he's trying to insinuate that " you reap what you sow". So basically you do something wrong you get more jail time and that would be something to keep in mind. I as the reader have been given an abundance of advice from Baca because there have been times I felt like I was kept in a prison from society. In this poem Baca teaches not only prisoners but he also taught me how to overcome suffering and adversity by staying strong and being bold. Above all I feel that Baca's intended meaning is to help us subdue the fears and the sorrows of being caged in our own physical and mental prisons.