Thursday, March 24, 2011

srp

Throughout the Senior Research Paper process, there are many things that I liked, things that I hated, and things I wished I did differently. I liked how the entire paper process was split up into parts and evenly spaced out throughout a certain number of days. I liked how it was so organized; otherwise I would have procrastinated on everything.  I hated that there was so much research that we had to do and how many sources we had to cite in our paper. I wish I would have done a better job on my research and actually read most of the stuff that I got so I could have written a better paper.
                I recommend for the students next year to read and take all your time on research and find good sources and reliable ones. And just make sure you read the book.

Monday, March 7, 2011

The Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals Problems..
                The quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals for the last nine years, Carson Palmer, wants out. He has requested a trade so he may leave the team, but the owner, Paul Brown, has repeatedly said that he will not deal his franchise quarterback.  But almost the entire Bengals Nation wants Brown to deal Palmer. After the year he had last year, all the fans want to move in a new direction.
                So with the NFL Draft coming up, it looks like the Bengals will go with some type of Offensive player selection. They have the fourth overall pick in the draft. After the NFL Combine this past week, no quarterback seemed fourth pick overall worthy. They really liked Cam Newton and they are hoping for the opportunity to draft Ryan Mallet in the second round.
                So with their first round pick, all signs point to wide receiver A.J. Green from Georgia. All the analyst have said that he is the best piece of talent that they have seen since Randy Moss, and we all know how he turned out. He is one of the best receivers to ever play the game. So not a lot of people will argue with this pick here, especially with wide receivers Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco will most likely enter free agency or be traded. So with all the young talent they have at that position, they need to get a deep homerun hitter, and that is what they are getting with A.J. Green. So I cant wait for the draft to see what happens.

Monday, February 28, 2011

soccer

Bicycle kick at the end of a game
                The Mariemont High School Varsity Soccer team had an up and down regular season, but won most of our games. I was on that team. I was the starting goalie.
                We had a record of above 500 and we were scheduled to play MicNick. When we did our scouting report on their team, we found out that they had a couple of pretty good players, but one really great striker.
                During warm-ups in that game, we decided to move our starting striker and midfielder Andrew Fields to play in the middle of our defense. We did this because he plays defense for his club team and he is better at defense than he is at offense.
                So we started to play the game. We jumped out to an early one nill lead. But they came back down and scored because someone was left wide open back post.
                So as time is winding down, we are down by a goal. The score is three to two. There is 22 seconds left. We have a free kick. I go up to take it and then I kick it and their player kicks it out of bounds. So we get a corner kick. Quinn Budig goes to take the corner kick and kicks a floater to the back post. From out of nowhere, Taylor Henderson’s foot comes out of nowhere and he hits a bicycle kick to tie the game and keep us from losing.  From that game on, we won a lot of games and went deep  into the state tournament.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

poetry project

Sonnet 18 on PhotoPeach



Diction- The author keeps comparing a women to the idea of summer and how she is so great like a beautiful summer day.
Syntax- At the beginning of the poem, the author starts out by asking a question and using a question mark no emphasize the question on how he compares her to a great summers day.
Shifts- The author is talking to her about summer and even though the summer comes and goes that she will always stay with him and will never leave his heart.
Imagery- The author is comparing this women to many different things. Like when he says how she has a gold complexion and how she is like the darling buds of May. He is praising her.
Language Use- The only language use is when the author is comparing this women to a summers day.
Theme- Love is very strong and once you have found it, you will never want it to go away and will want to keep it forever.
Tone- It is happy and optimistic because the author is talking about his love for a women and how she is so beautiful like a summers day.

This poem is about a man writing about his love for a woman. He starts off the poem by comparing her to a summer's day and how he loves her and doesn’t want her to go away. He talks about his gold complexion he has for her and how she shines like the heaven does. He says how his eternal summer shall not fade meaning he will never loose his love for her. So that is what the author is trying to describe throughout this poem and what he means behind it.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Love

Miss Me by Drake and Nicki Minaj
This is a song completely about Drakes love and affection towards Nicki Minaj. He straight up says in the song “I love Nicki Minaj, I told her, id admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f*****g did it.”
So this song is a good example of love because that whole song is about his attraction to Nicki Minaj and how he just wants to be with her.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Ohio State vs. Michigan

Ohio State vs. Michigan
                Every school in college football has a rival. The school always gets super pumped up to play against their rivals because for most schools, it is the biggest game of the year. There are rivalries, great rivalries, and then there is Ohio State vs. Michigan. This is one of the biggest rivalries of all time in all of sports.
                Before every game that they play each other, there is so much trash talk and hazing between the two teams and all of their players. Once the two teams come out of the tunnels, they start their warm ups. But very soon after they start to stretch and stuff, players start talking. There is always this huge huddle at mid field of the two teams. They are separated by the coaches for the respected schools. Both schools hate each other so much that they just want to get at each other before the game even starts.    
                There will be physical confrontations all throughout the game and players will get after each other all game long. It is why the game is so hyped up.
                Ohio State, while under the coaching of head coach Jim Tressel, has beaten Michigan ten out of the eleven years that he has been coaching at Ohio State. Michigan is ahead in the all time rivalry count of the games because they were so great in the past. But in the present and in the future, Ohio State is taking over this rivalry and will come out the better team.


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Friday, January 28, 2011

Michael Crabtree Amazing Catch Against Texas

Michael Crabtree’s game winning catch against Texas
                Going into the 2008 season, everyone thought that Texas was going to win the national championship behind the leadership of defensive end Brian Orakbo and quarterback Colt McCoy. Going into the last week of the season, Texas remained unbeaten. They were ranked number one in the nation and all they had to do was win and they were in the national championship game. But they had to play the seventh ranked team in the country in Texas Tech in an old fashion rivalry game to end the season.
                The game went back and forth the entire game. One team scored and then the other would come right back and answer the score with a score of their own. It was a great game.
                There were eight seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter. It was second down and ten yards to go from the Longhorns twenty eight yard line. Tech was driving with a chance to win the game. The score was 33-32 Texas was winning.
                Gram Harrell dropped back to pass and threw a deep fade rout as a prayer as the time winded down. He somehow got a ball to wide receiver Michael Crabtree. He caught it and fought off two Texas defenders and ran it in for the game winning touchdown catch.
                That picture was worth so much because just the situation when he caught that ball was insane. The stadium literally blew up because of him and that catch.
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