Derrick Rose Thesis

773 Words2 Pages

Memories that Help
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow…” Albert Einstein. We are constantly faced with flashbacks of our memories, euphoric or devastating; we learn to grow from those experiences. Memories can help people in their efforts to learn from the past and achieve greatness in the present. From personal experiences to literature, learning to accept the past and build for the future is what sets individuals apart.
Throughout life, every day gives the ability to build confidence and spark ambition in us. People can turn negative or positive memories or thoughts to become successful; just like many athletes, celebrities, or civilians that we see. From Derrick Rose, who was notorious for his explosive quickness …show more content…

From a dangerous low-income area, prestigious and successful point guard, Derrick Rose, become the first round pick in the 2008 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft. Throughout his career, Rose averaged an astounding 20.4 points per game; Ultimately, Rose sustained a career ending injury in his knees. With his memories of his childhood to reflect on, he was able to come back four months earlier than the average patient with a knee injury: torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) and meniscus. Having a difficult time bouncing back from a surgery that affected his game, Derrick Rose didn’t let that stop him from growing as a person on and off the court. To this day, he continues to innovate his style of play and continues to stay on a positive path. An additional success story includes Steve Jobs: A man who was adopted by parents who were a different race and took advantage of his own intelligence and hobby in electronics. He was capable of innovating phones and computers that altered the structure of recent technology. Even though, adopted and probably more fortune than other, Jobs was capable of running a prestigious multibillion dollar company that we all know as Apple Inc. Even though being given up for adoption by his parents and not meeting them till the age of 27, Steve Jobs didn’t let his …show more content…

Constantly surrounded by stories of how positive or negative memories could have a positive impact on someone’s ambition toward their success. For example, in the movie, The Karate Kid, a boy raised by a single mother, is faced with having to move from the U.S to China to get physically bullied upon arrival by a group of boys at school. The main character, Dre, eventually receives help from his building’s maintenance man to learn martial arts to fight his bullies in a prominent competition. He finally goes on to win the martial arts competition against the bullies and gains honor to his African-American family. The constant memory of Dre’s bullies constantly picking on him, gave him the drive to work hard to come out on top to stop them from harming him for good. Noticeably, Memories, bad or good can help people toward self-liberation. Another example of how memories could help people is The Hunger Games book series. Living in the lower-income area, in almost poverty, Katniss Everdeen volunteers for her little sister to fight to the death with eleven other girls and boys from different districts. She manages to survive and stand up against the strict Capital to convince them to have two winners; Katniss and partner Peeta Mellark. Eventually, Katniss becomes the symbol for a district wide

Show More
Related

  • Mnemonic Li Young Lee Summary

    572 Words  | 2 Pages

    Sometimes people need to hang on to difficult memories because without them they would feel lost. In short, it is better to feel pain than nothing at all. Memories are made up of the highest and lowest points in your life and all the little ones in between. The poet, Li Young Lee writes, “even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.” Even with the good and bad memories, the feeling of belonging overcomes the sense of being lost.

    Read More

  • Comparing Brainology, Dweck's Superman And Me

    1164 Words  | 3 Pages

    “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs,” was said by motivational speaker and American author Zig Ziglar. This relates to Carol S. Dweck’s article “Brainology” and Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me.” Ziglar, Dweck, and Alexie all feel that it isn’t easy for someone to become successful. It takes hard work, perseverance, and the want to learn and grow. In Dweck’s article, she stated that someone with a growth mindset would become more successful and knowledgeable than someone with a fixed mindset, which was demonstrated by Alexie in his essay, and by a personal experience of my own.

    Read More

  • Linda Brodkey's Essay 'Writing On The Bias'

    956 Words  | 2 Pages

    Success isn’t always so easy. Sometimes there are risks and factors that play along to allow for growth. However; personal development is a lifelong process. It’s a way for individuals to assess their skills and qualities, and consider their aims in life to set goals in order to maximise their potential. In order to receive the best outcome; there may need to be obstacles and challenges in the way to prevent an easy route to reach the top in success.

    Read More

  • Labyrinthine By Bernard Cooper Summary

    1049 Words  | 3 Pages

    Primo Levi once said, " Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.." The memory of a human being is a fascinating matter, but it is not something that stays with us forever. Memories will often change or multiply with unnecessary information, but they are what define you as you.

    Read More

  • James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

    1133 Words  | 3 Pages

    Accordingly, although Ruth shelters her children from her painful past, she reconciles her experiences and becomes a wiser and stronger mother to raise her accomplished children. Ruth’s memories reveal a mother’s triumph in providing an optimistic outlook for her kids. Similarly, when people reflect on their past, especially via their defeat and agony, they can gain wisdom by understanding how problems developed and how people approached them. These reflections also help individuals understand who they are today and where they are going tomorrow. Lessons from the old days can empower them to adjust their present behaviors and to reach their goals in a brighter prospect.

    Read More

  • Memory And Memory In Kim Cruey's Ru By Kim Thúy

    821 Words  | 2 Pages

    Their memories will give them an ideal live to go towards or a life in which they want to progress from. If an individual chooses to run from the past in which they lived, it is still a component in their life which shaped them to be who it is they became, despite their efforts to repress those memories. Nevertheless, the positive memories of an individual’s past will also shape who they are. Both good and bad memories are able to give an individual a glimpse into their ideal life and a target in which they wish to strive for and memories in which they can aim to prevent from happening once

    Read More

  • The Quest Of Democracy Analysis

    859 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Nuremberg or National Amnesia, A quote that caught my attention was, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat the past” (Tutu 457). I feel the quote means that by forgetting the past you also forget the lessons you learned with that experience, which will cause you to repeat it without the knowledge you learned

    Read More

  • Kevin Durant Research Paper

    1294 Words  | 3 Pages

    However, these obstacles only made Kevin Durant and his family more tenacious. His mother worked the night shifts to do her best to provide for Kevin and his brother. In middle school, Kevin was teased for his height; little did they know they would be watching him on national television in a few years because of his height (and a few other factors). In Kevin’s freshman year of high school, Kevin’s teammates would not pass him the ball. It was not a normal thing to have freshman playing on the varsity team, and his teammates we not very supportive. “Kevin felt like quitting the team, but he remembered all those extra shifts that his mom had worked to keep food on the table. He stuck it out and earned those precious touches” (jockbio.com). His first (and only) year of college did not end as well as he had probably expected. The Longhorns, going into the NCAA Tournament with a #4 seed, got knocked out in the second round by

    Read More

  • Memory In The Movie: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

    1602 Words  | 4 Pages

    The film emphasizes on the power of our long-term memory and our episodic memories. Would we be happier if we forgot about traumatic past experiences? Or are our long-term memories so tangled up with emotions and sensations that our brain is unable to truly let go of long-term memories? The film also looks at the difference between explicit and implicit memories.

    Read More

  • Michael Jordan Is A Hero Essay

    885 Words  | 2 Pages

    “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.“ These inspirational words of Michael Jordan have been the motto of the successful basketball player on and off the court for more than 30 years. Many people consider him to be the greatest basketball player of all time but a lot of people don’t realize how great of a person he is. Michael Jordan should be considered a hero not in the sport of basketball but as a member of society because of his contribution to the world as a inspiration to kids across multiple countries but also for his generous donations to countless research facilities and charities.

    Read More

  • Memory

    546 Words  | 2 Pages

    Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. We all use memory in our everyday lives. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. We all reassure ourselves that our memories are accurate and precise. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from the event and the different features of the situation. Yet, people don’t realize the fact that the more you think about a situation the more likely the story will change. Our memories are not a camcorder or a camera. Our memory tends to be very selective and reconstructive.

    Read More

  • Learning and Memory Applied

    1221 Words  | 3 Pages

    Learning and memory are fascinating. The world could not function without either. They both are used in many different fashions in a wide variety of places. Learning and Memory have been carefully studied by professionals but are also well known and used by the common people on a daily basis. I am one of those common people, a student who is constantly learning and making the most of my memory. Since enrolling in The Psychology of Learning and Memory class I have come to the realization that I encounter situations in my life that exemplify the very concepts I have studied. I have also learned that it is beneficial to apply the lessons learned in class to my everyday life. Positive reinforcement, learned helplessness and serial recall are a few among many of the learning and memory models that have come to action in my life and in my final reflections surrounding the course.

    Read More

  • Lessons Learned the Hard Way

    1090 Words  | 3 Pages

    ... important to always move forward with your life. There is no point in worrying about the past because you will never be able to get it back, all you can do is go on and learn from your mistakes.

    Read More

  • Does History Matter?

    988 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is a famous quote by George Santayana. Although the r...

    Read More

  • Memory And History: The Importance Of Memory

    754 Words  | 2 Pages

    Forgetting has a negative image, like erosion. Memory does not always make one happy. There can be traumatic memories as well. For example: there is a debate among researchers how to recover people from the trauma of Holocaust, nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Vietnam war, various massacres, crimes committed in the past etc. These deals with the past involving power and exclusion and sometimes they extend to such limit that they are beyond the reach of human reason. It is therefore, important to find equilibrium to fight the past and attempt to forget. We have talked about collective memory above and it is important to note that collectivity includes a dialogue in which individuals take part in it. As we discussed earlier that we cannot go back to the past but in order to understand it in a better way the nature of dialogue has to be considered. Memories can be in dialogical form because of ontological properties of telling the truth. Memories are created and formed by individuals who interact with each other. For instance two people might have different reasons for one cause. As halbwach will call to be an individual who is not alone and the people will make distinction with the help of history and memory. While Pierre Nora would say that there are different ways of looking at the past where time plays an important part and we involve activities like celebrations etc in the society we live in and archive it in the modern society. It is not easy to archive and store memory. There are ongoing political struggles in relation to preservation of data which dates back to period of domination and violence of human beings. For example: victims of totalitarian government wanted to preserve their memory as the event was forgotten in

    Read More

More about Derrick Rose Thesis

Open Document