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

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

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,

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)

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

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

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

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

Since the existence of human beings, there have been creation myths to explain how life existed on the planet. These creation myths have a huge impact on how people view utopia. Nearly every culture or society has its own creation myth, which is just a version of how humans came to exist on the planet Earth. Many religions also have their own versions, such as the Christians, Islamic, and Jewish. Some cultures with creation myths include the Greeks, the Romans, the Norse, the Chinese, the Mayans

some of their most well-known works including “Imagine” and “Bloody Sunday” respectively. Although both songs speak out against war and its effects at different periods in time, “Bloody Sunday” utilizes chilling, graphic imagery to communicate its message whereas “Imagine” asks the audience to imagine a series of fanciful, far-fetched scenarios to get the same point across. Ultimately, the personal level in which “Bloody Sunday” connects with

Stellar Academic Record: While a stellar academic record is not exactly a ‘skill’ required to be a successful solicitor in the City, it indicates that the solicitor in question has some of the qualities required for success. A stellar academic record shows that the solicitor possesses intellectual ability and can put that intellectual ability to use through hard work and focus. I understand that the work of a solicitor in a City law firm is rigorous and demanding. So the solicitor in question must

names. Our names might also come from places that our family has been living for generations, or our names might mean something special. In the news article “Native American Heritage Month” we meet a woman that has a very special name herself, and has given just as special names for her children. The reason behind the special names is that the family is a part of a special tribal community and their names mean something spiritual in their language. So as we see, these names tell us a bit of who we are