Over Coming Adversity

Authors Note: This is a character development piece about Jordan Burroughs over coming adversity.

”Here we are with Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska and Mike Poeta of Illinois.” “I’m Joe Buck and here in the booth with me, the one and only, Jay Glazer!” “Man I’m excited, we have two guys battling national champs about to crack skulls at 157 pounds.” Announced Jay Glazer. “All right my prediction is that Howe will be the first to beat Jordan Burroughs this year.” Said Jay Glazer with some excitement. I’m predicting that Burroughs will beat Poeta because he is the best freestyle wrestler in the world.  Joe Buck announces,”And Burroughs will just beat Poeta by a point and now is a NCAA champion at 157 pounds congratulations Jordan, What a battle.”

In 2009 Jordan was going in to a dual meet with a 7-0 record. He was facing Central Michigan's Steve Brown. He was beating Brown until he tore his pcl and lcl in his left shoulder. Now the NCAA has a rule called medical redshirt. When Jordan returned as a redshirt senior to wrestle an extra season he bumped up to the next weight class. When Big Ten 165 pounders found out about Jordan Burroughs redshirting and bumping up to a 165 pounds they started to work because they knew he would be a tough opponent. With Burroughs overcoming adversity of the injury he finished the 2011 season undefeated. He had bonus points in 17 straight matches until it was broken by Wisconsin’s Andrew Howe.

Three weeks after college Jordan started training for freestyle wrestling in the 2012 olympic games in London. Before he could get there he had to take at least 2nd place to make it into the tournament. Jordan won the men’s 74kg weight class and was headed to London. With the United States not having a gold medalist at all in the tournament. He was able to change that when he wrestled Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi of Iran. It was sad that the United States only had Jordan Burroughs and Jake Varner to take home a gold medal, but Jordan overcame adversity once again.

Jordan Burroughs is the best freestyle wrestler in the world. Burroughs took gold in 2012 as a 74kg freestyle wrestler representing the United States. Since he took gold he won 250,000 dollars. They should be payed more for dealing with the pain involved in wrestling. Now that you know my opinion on freestyle wrestling, who do you think is the best?




     

Analyzing Donald

        Authors Note: This is a character analysis about how Donald in the book Takedown changes as a person and as a wrestler.

        Donald, after he had watched a high school dual meet decides he will join the middle school wrestling team. When he decided he figured it would be like any other sport right? Wrong wrestling is a tough sport that involves no running and nothing with a ball just you and the other guy trying to beat each other. He discovers that when he wrestles Tavo, the eight grader who is on varsity. He starts to get down on himself until he works with his coach and steals the varsity spot from Tavo. 

        Then from Tavo's point of view he realizes he has a new practice partner he thinks that it will be all easy and he will be able to keep a varsity spot. When his practice partner Donald starts thinking about quiting he influences him to work with coach and him before, after, and during practice. Then he has a wrestle off and then Donald takes the spot from him.

People Can Change

Authors Note: This is a prediction piece about how people can change due to the short story, Thank You Maam.
She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it. "Goodnight!" Behave yourself, son!" she said, looking out into the street.


The boy wanted to say something else other that "Thank you, ma’am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door.


Roger ran up the stairs and gave three rough knocks on the door. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones had slightly opened the door. Roger Said, “Maam thank you for what you did.” She replied, “Roger, no problem, Roger next time if you try I will call the cops.” Mrs. Jones said, “Maam there will not be a next time, my stealing days are over.” He replied, “Alright good night now and you be safe out there.” Roger started to walk down the street back to his home which was a box at the city park up against a brick wall. He was all alone thinking about if she done that to everybody who tried to rob her.

All of a sudden a masked gunman, aggressively grabbed Roger and threw him in to his white van full of rust.The man got him the van and drove the block in to a dark ally. Roger was looking for his ten dollar bill, to pay off the kidnapper. The man took off his mask, it was his stealing partner Desean. They drove up to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s house just around the corner. Desean said that he had been scouting this house for a week. He had handed Roger a berretta handgun. They both got out of the van and Roger dropped the gun and said that he would rather die than kill an innocent woman who had changed his life in way that he could not pay back for her being so generous. Then stomping down the street in anger he left to let Desean make the decision to go to jail, die, or turn his life around.

Retelling Six Innings

Authors Note: This a retelling about a book that I had read in seventh grade that i could relate to.

The book Six Innings by author James Preller, becomes to be very sad when best friends Mike and Sam find out that Sam was diagnosed with cancer. Cancer would keep Sam from playing little league baseball. Sam still got involved by becoming the announcer which cheered up Mike at least a little bit. Mike finds himself out there all alone and he begins to start playing bad. Mike and his team have made it in the championship game and mike has played four innings of very good baseball. Then when Mike starts to play poorly he begins to take it out on some of his teammates, that’s when he realized why he played the game of baseball.

Halloween Adventure

Authors Note: This is a personal narrative about what my friend, Austin and I did on Halloween and all the fun we had.

On Halloween night, my friend, Austin and I went to my uncle's house in Waukesha. When we arrived I leaped out of my moms gold, oval, and shiny van. So we took off slowly down my uncle's street, ten we blasted off down the next street. This was a very good street because people would leave buckets with the sign, please take one. I should have taken one but I dumped half of the bucket and passed the rest to Austin. We were cleaning up a lot of streets. The bad news was when we had too much candy, and were hungry, tired, and thirsty. I'd forgotten my phone and Austin didn't have one. So we traveled back to ancient times and asked for directions. This kind lady had told us how far we were from my uncle's house. Just as I thought it couldn't get worse we were running away from this who wanted his candy back. We had just gotten a block away from my uncle's house , I could feel my legs pumping blood so bad that they almost exploded. 

We got back and went inside.  My uncle told us  that we  just missed my mom, she had just went looking for us . He tossed me his phone and told me to call her. She had been on the other side of the city so it would be a while before she got back.  When we arrived she told us that we were going to Bubba's. Austin began to jump with a great big cheer. As we were on our way to Bubba's, Austin and I started to scavege through our bags, I had found a plastic gun that broke in a minute.The bad news at the time was that I was allergic to peanuts and strawberries.  So I was a good friend and gave Austin the candy I couldn't have.  So we arrived.  I had ordered the Bubbaburger which was bacon, cheddar cheese sauce, and fried onions on it.  When it was brought to the table I attached it with some power from my teeth.  Halfway through the fight I had waved the white flag and given up.  Luckily everyone else had finished.  so lastly, we took Austin home, this was a fun, exciting, and hungry experience.  I hope we do this next Halloween.

My Gun And I

Author's Note: This is about the first time i had used my gun and the first war that I had with my family and friends.

The 24 hours of waiting was finished. My air soft gun battery is finally charged. Now I was ready to shoot my brand new 60th anniversary Kalashnikov AK-47. It has 385 fps with 0.20g bb's. Fps means feet per second and 0.20g bb's means what size the bb's are and how much weight it has. Then I took off the top part to put the battery in. Then I loaded up my clip and was ready to go. I turned it on semi auto which means every time you pull the trigger it only shoots one bb. I hit the can's but couldn't see a dent or a mark on the can. So I turned the it up to full auto. Which means when you pull the trigger bb's will be shoot out until you let go of the trigger. Then one can was lit to little pieces, while the other ones had a dent or multiple bb's holes. I love everything about it the fire rate the handling and especially the grip

Then my friends, Blaze and Alex came over their guns for a war. It was Blaze and I vs. Alex and my cousin Brandon. Blaze and I took the front while Alex and Brandon took the back. I was being a sniper to cover Blaze so that he could get to point blank range. Little did I know that Brandon climbed a tree and came up from behind me and shot me the exact same time Blaze eliminated Alex. Then Blaze was hiding under a vehicle until Brandon shot at him and missed. Then Brandon chased Blaze down and got him so the we lost. Its was my first war, I didn't do the best but I got the hang of it. Now when I air soft I'm on Brandon's team because he's excellent at airsofting. I will never forget my first war and the first time I shot my air soft gun.

Packer's Cause and Effect

Authors Note: This is a cause and affect piece of what had happened in the odd 2010 season.

In 2010 the Green Bay Packers had started the year with high expectations. As the season went on the Packers had 15 players on injured reserve. The cause had half of the team kissed playoffs goodbye. You could see it in the games how they couldn't bet up on easy teams. They would be able to out play some of the leagues best teams.

The hard work kept the Packers in playoff hopes. They got a wild card game against the Eagles. They won on a last minute interception. The they beat the Falcons bloody. Then it was a rivalry game to go to the super bowl. They won again on a last second interception by Sam Shields. Then cause of the starters getting injured allowed the backups step up and still win the super bowl.

Bud, Not Buddy Conflict Resoulution

Authors Note: This is a conflict resolution to what Bud should do with the rest of his life

The major conflict of the novel Bud, Not Buddy  is that Bud's mom has died and he has been bouncing around from foster home to foster home. He has decied he wants to find his dad who he has never met so in the nex tfoster home he decides to take off looking. He has had enough of the Amoses so he took his stuff and sole some supplies for the road trip.He meets a nice family at a shelter who has taken and given him food. Then he gets to the city of  Grand Rapids and a family takes him in but then he realizes he has to get to another city just to meet his father.

He plans to have a relationship with him and that he will take care of him so he doesn't have to go to another foster home.My resolution to that problem would be to live with his grandpa who he though was his dad. Then he would not have to deal with being bullied, starved, or possibly beaten.