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Essay On How Football Changed My Life

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This personal response includes three examples of how one influence has changed my mind about a subject or subjects. In school, we chose two sides of an argument and split into different sides of the room. The room was split into two-side yes abortion and no abortion. This is a very sensitive topic but both sides did there research and got the facts for an argument. On the yes, abortion side we started with it is the women’s decision because it is her life. We got a hefty response why life is precious and it is wrong, so people started to switch sides. Now there are more people on the no abortion side. I was sitting on the yes side and we pulled out some statistics from questions and it made me think of the percentage was tilted towards not abortion is wrong so I switched over to the no side and stayed over there for the rest of class. I was not the most popular in middle school so I didn’t fit into the popular class. There was this kid named Tyrone Jackson and he was the most popular person. I heard many things about him and I heard he could do anything quite well and he can to this day so I was nervous to talk to him. The reason for being nervous was that I was a small, scrawny boy so I …show more content…

My whole life I wanted to be a wide receiver for the NFL. Once I got to high school no one knew my potential at all so, I sat on a bench every game waiting for a chance. I never got to play as receiver because the coaches moved me to a lineman practice. What do I look like playing on the line. I asked the coaches many times, if I could be a receiver and they never said I could be. One day I was helping set up a varsity game and I was throwing the football around then, my coach said you need to be a quarterback he makes me throw a few passes and the next day I’m practicing with the quarterbacks. After that whole season, it influenced me to stay at that position and I’ve never gone

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