Any Given Sunday Essays

When it comes to motivational speeches, the pre-game speech given by Al Pacino in the movie Any Given Sunday ranks with the best of them. This speech was given before a big championship game football game to a professional football team that was crumbling apart. Even though the aging coach’s job was on the line, he gave this speech not to save his job, but instead to motivate his team to put differences apart and come together and to inspire them to perform the way they were capable. Al Pacino is

English 1030 Professor Baltin 10/26/17 (draft 1) Any Given Sunday On December 22nd, 1999, the movie “Any Given Sunday”, directed by Oliver Stone, came out. He was a two time academy award winner for best director. Cameron Diaz, who played Christina Pagniacci, won outstanding actress in a feature film and favorite actress from this movie. One of the best scene from this movie is the “inch by inch” speech that the coach, Al Pacino, gives his players. The old aged coach of the football team, works

Robert Hayden’s poem there are a few lines that are crucial to the understanding of the speaker’s tone, thoughts and feelings and to the understanding of the poem as a whole. I have found the following words and phrases to be the most important: “Sundays”, “my father”, “blueblack cold”, “cracked hands”, “labor”, “No one ever thanked him”, “cold splintering, breaking”, “chronic angers”, “indifferently”, “love’s austere” and “lonely offices”. From simply reading through these words, one can already

already 8pm and she knows that she is going to wake up exhausted only to repeat this schedule all over again. Just like Sarah, most teenagers are not getting enough sleep because they have to be at school at an early time and are not able to go to bed any earlier. This cutting of corners on sleep

As stated in the text “Isn't it sweet to hear one's language lift from the ordered streets? The sparrow.”, it is shown that the familiarity of this language has given the persona a feeling of ecstasy from the fact that Tagalog has not reached the persona’s ears in a very long time. The persona uses figurative language to compare the feeling of overhearing Tagalog to that of a bird in the line. It is because the

Imagine you're a child and the snow is heavily falling down onto your yard. You pull up your snow pants, throw on boots, and run outside to make that long desired snowman. Everything seems so perfect in this winter wonderland, and it’s not until its June 29th and you're finally getting out of school that you realize how much of a waste that snowday was. Instead of spending the warm, sunny days swimming and relaxing, you are sitting restlessly at a school desk, just trying to complete those 180 days

year. Technically, you know that it’s a week like any other. Seven days, one hundred and sixty-eight hours, 10080 minutes, and a shit ton of seconds. But if it really was like any other week, there’d be no point in lying awake in bed at 3 AM. And here you are. Staring at the ceiling of your room, counting the remaining glow-in-the-dark stars you stuck up there ten years ago that faded and burned out far faster than any real ones. You’ve never seen any of them fall; they just vanish one day and after

known to have taken (and mastered) organic chemistry. The rest of the day passed with nothing notable occurring until physics class. We all joked around and had fun between classes, and it wasn’t until physics came along that the day was different than any other. It was our first physics assignment, and I had opted to do it alone. I thought physics would be just as easy as all of my other subjects had been. Even though the homework problems were a bit tricky, I finished them in half an hour. However,

Many authors utilize imagery to allow the reader to engage in and understand their works. In Robert Frost’s “Birches,” there are several instances where the poem contains heavy usage of imagery for this purpose. The meaning of the poem “Birches” is very under-the-surface— the entire poem focuses on bent birches— too vague for the central purpose to be clear and solid. However, the poem’s copious examples of imagery enable the audience to grasp the scenery that Frost is attempting to describe. In

egocentric poems in human history as he begins with "I celebrate myself" (1:1). In some form or another, Whitman elaborates on Me, Myself, and I in all fifty-two sections of the poem. He mentions that "Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, / Not an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar/ than the rest" (5:20-23). But as he is enjoying himself, he is also enjoying everyone in humanity and believes that each and every person is special and should be valued.

John Henry is the main character known as Hammerman. Hammerman is considered to be part of the oral tradition category. John Henry is presented as a ballad to be sung, whereas Hammerman was written as a story to be read. Hammerman was a black worker, in the 1870’s, who helped build the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. John Henry was born and raised to become a steel-driving man. He wanted to touch and play with a hammer ever since he was born. As he got older and stronger, John was able to work with

The point of view in the story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker plays a big part. Throughout the story, one of Mama’s daughters came to visit. The way Mama and Maggie see her is not in a very pleasant way. In fact, they are scared to tell her no when it comes to anything. From Mama’s perspective Dee seems like this rude, stuck up, spoiled child because she had the opportunity to go out and expand her education, while Mama and Maggie continued to live their lives on the farm. On the other hand, if

Regret is an incurable disease caused by lies, distortion, and falsehood. People often try to find a cure for this disease or try to believe that regret is something that is easy to cure, however, it is not. Once an individual make themselves believe in a lie they tell themselves, the pain and suffering that comes with regret will continue to linger for a lifetime. Sinclair Ross’s short story, “The Painted Door” highlights the idea that individuals who deceive themselves in the chase for happiness

Hope. As a child, her musical inspiration was Jimmie Rodgers. As a young child she learned to yodel, play organ, guitar, and violin. At the age of fourteen, she received her first musical employment. She often performed many at her church on Sundays. She enjoyed singing many different kinds of gospel music.(James Manheim)

Catfish begins with the fan mail of a young girl, Abby, to New York based photographer Nev Schulman. As they continue their innocent online correspondence, Nev is introduced to the rest of Abby’s family. Specifically, Nev is introduced to Megan, Abby’s older sister. Megan and Nev begin having an online relationship. The relation continues and grows to be more serious, however Nev notices some red flags that point to Megan not being truthful. When Nev goes to Michigan where Megan lives, he discovers

massive blizzard struck the center of North America, killing between 250 to 500 people and affecting thousands. There were many factors that made this blizzard exceptionally deadly. Many farmers and children who were outside were unprepared to deal with any cold conditions, “a day when children had raced to school with no coats or gloves and farmers were far from home doing chores they had put off during the long siege of cold” (Laskin 2). The reason for this is because they had no idea the blizzard was

In Away, Michael Gow discovers the way in which the key themes of redemption, self-knowledge and reality/unreality are vital to the overall understanding of the play and the reconciliation between the characters to each other as well as complications during their lives. Away has a short but detailed story line which allows us to see in which the way the families have broken connections between each other while on a Christmas family holiday. Gow used a range of stylistic devices to and language techniques

Dedication: To my husband, Allen and children, Nicholas and Danielle, and of course, Gunner the Wonder Dog. L.G.M. For my own children, Patrick, Amy and Emily. Though you are scattered around the world you remain my primary pack. And in loving memory of my niece Megan, who introduced me to the joy of tiny dogs. E.G.   Hi! I’m Bob Golden.   My Person, Beth, rescued me from a shelter. We like to go on adventures. An adventure is when you do something fun and exciting.   Adventure 1: Hiking. We live

Bob Ewell. Jem screams in terror “Run, Scout! Run! Run!” as the two dart for their home in terror. Bob Ewell quickly catches up and attacks the children. He pounces onto Scout, but is instantaneously ripped away, supposedly by Jem, before he can do any fatal damage to her. While Jem and Mr. Ewell were brawling on the lawn, Jem hollars in an attempt to liberate Scout from Mr. Ewell. Unfortunately, Bob Ewell gains the advantage over Jem, as he shatters Jem’s arm and smacks him unconscious. Then, Arthur

My chosen designer for this assignment is Michael Kors, who was actually born as Karl Anderson Jr., on August 9, 1959. He was born in Long Island, New York; but later moved to New York City. Kors’ name was changed because of his mom’s marriage to his step-father. His mom gave him the option to change his first name, also. She told him, “You’re getting a new last name, so why don’t you pick a new first name?” Kors stated. Michael and David were his mother’s favorite names. So he chose Michael as his