Ray Lewis talks about how the greatest glory in life comes from the greatest pain. Ray takes us inside the unexpected pain he experienced in his personal life as well as in the game of football. He shares how he took his greatest pain and turned them into his greatest victories in this TEDx Talk. You may want to watch the entire video, but scroll to 15:27 and watch. This is where I started my greatest pain. Just like Ray Lewis, time after time I sat waiting for my father to come pick me up. His quote "The Greatest pain a man will go through his life is the disconnection of his father when you know he is living" This hit me like a ton of bricks. Growing up in a small town has its advantages and disadvantages. I know how it feels to know that …show more content…
The end result, probation, court cost, and a record. My mother could no longer handle me and I ended up living with my dad. Living with my father changed me in so many ways. It put me in an uncomfortable position to get to know a man that I didn't know. He did teach me some things like changing brakes, being accountable, hard work ethic and focusing on my education. Although things were positive there were times where I faced verbal abuse. At times, it felt like a drill sergeant and I was in boot camp. My father was in the military and did everything in precision. So imagine you are in high school and your day starting at 6 am and not ending at 10 pm. I was in complete isolation from all my friends and all family members. I spent a lot of time myself and often was depressed. The verbal abuse would tear me down emotionally, and I head in my anger towards my father. Eventually, I had enough and I decided to leave my father's house. But it wasn't easy, my father would not let me leave. My mother reached out to my father explained to him that I wanted to leave. The conversation ended up in a mess and my father threatened that I couldn't leave. My mom gave me a cell phone and I hid it under my bed. One night my mom called me after my father left for the night and told me to pack my things. With the county sheriff, I was escorted to my mother's
Thesis Statement: About Thirteen years ago, Ray Lewis a Baltimore Ravens linebacker was involved in an disagreement outside a nightclub in Atlanta where Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar were stabbed to death. Ray Lewis and his fellow associates left the scene. With blood found on his white suit Lewis would later be blamed for the murder charges of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar while pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.
Lewis, who was born in a time of rejection, shows that you can achieve your dreams if you want to. Even though he faced many road blocks to his career as a runner, he was still highly successful. He tried everything he could to make it happen, and in the end he did. He also showed how wrong people were of thinking that he was incapable because of his background. He completely changed racial barriers for the better in the sport’s world. Sadly, this wonderful person passed away on November 15, 2003, but that doesn’t mean his legacy doesn’t live on. Ray Lewis is an inspiring person who had a huge impact in the world just because of a simple dream, and that shows that everyone is capable of having an impact, if only you follow your dream.
Small towns, quaint and charming, ideally picturesque for a small family to grow up in with a white picket fence paired up with the mother, father and the 2.5 children. What happens when that serene local town, exuberantly bustling with business, progressively loses the aspects that kept it alive? The youth, boisterous and effervescent, grew up surrounded by the local businesses, schools and practices, but as the years wear on, living in that small town years down the road slowly grew to be less appealing. In The Heartland and the Rural Youth Exodus by Patrick J. Carr and Maria Kefalas equally argue that “small towns play an unwitting part in their own decline (Carr and Kefalas 33) when they forget to remember the “untapped resource of the
With less than 5,000 residents living in Smallville, Ohio, it is an ideal small town where everyone knows each other, multiple generations of families live and grow and barely any crimes are committed. The main road leading into Smallville is like a never-ending run of corn fields, silos and dairy farms. It's an old town with old traditions. As brief as my residency was in Smallville, I witnessed the social injustices and educational issues that plague small town living.
Many folks go their whole lives without having to move. For them it is easy; they know the same people, have loads of friends, and never have to move away from their families. As with me, I was in a different situation. I grew up my entire life, all eighteen years of it, in a small town called Yorktown, Virginia. In my attempt to reach out for a better life style, my girlfriend and I decided we were going to move to Shreveport, Louisiana. Through this course of action, I realized that not two places in this country are exactly alike. I struggled with things at first, but I found some comforts of home here as well.
Brian Turner's "The Hurt Locker" captures his personal and painful experiences during his time spent in war and furthermore, express the tragic events he witnessed. Brian Turner's poem is miraculously able to gather multiple first hand accounts of tragic, gory, and devastating moments inside a war zone and project them on to a piece of paper for all to read. He allows the audience of his work to partially understand what hell he himself and all combat veterans have endured. Although heartbreaking, it is a privilege to be taken inside "The Hurt Locker" of a man who saw too many things that should not ever be witnessed by anybody. Turner's words bring to life what many have buried deep inside them which subsequently is one of the major underlying problems facing combat veterans today. Reading this poem, I could not help but wonder what the long term effects of war are on a human being, if it is worth the pain, and how does a combat veteran function properly in a society that is unfamiliar with their experiences?
...e views of his elders pushed down him made it a struggle growing up in the small town.
Most children have unpleasant parts of their childhood, and I am no different. My parents divorced when I was very young, but my mom was able to keep us. This only lasted for a period of four years, then I was taken from my mom and given to my dad. It did not take long for my situation with my father to turn into an abusive one. My father did not abuse me much, but he stood back as others were more than willing to fill in for him.
Children who grow up in small towns often desire nothing more to leave the place they are confined to. Everything is remarkably mundane, strikingly predictable, and they yearn to feel the thrill of the unexpected that living in a city provides. However, there are key life lessons one can only experience in a small town. With just over 4000 inhabitants, one cannot make a trip to any store without meeting two, or ten, familiar faces. Constant interaction makes a person uncomfortably friendly. They are willing to talk to anyone sitting on a bus, waiting in line, or standing in a bathroom. In addition, these circumstances foster a trusting nature. In fact, there are few people in a small town that could not be trusted. Of course, the trust and friendliness allowed for a lot of freedom as a child. Parents never thought twice about allowing a child to venture out with friends or spend hours running around playing make-believe. Children have to supply their own entertainment, only increasing the independence they have. While they spend their lives wishing to get out of that town, they grow up to realize how it truly impacted the person they have
Life tends to put stepping stones in one path to help one grow. Sometimes it can feel like nothing is ever going to be okay but do not ever let that be the case. Sonny, who was going through a trapped feeling found his way of dealing through a good and bad way. Isabel cries every night and has occurring nightmares but she is dealing with the death of her daughter. Sonny’s brother, the narrator, even though it took him a while to deal with his suffering, he cried and finally understood why Sonny tried so hard to say free through music. Suffering can be truly difficult but dealing with it will help you continue to move forward in life.
Small towns are looked down upon and criticized because they are small; however, they might be the best town of all. All of the people who reside there are thoughtful of one another, care for their neighbor, and their family. Small towns have good cultural values of what is considered good, desirable, and proper (Schaefer 2016:63). Residents feel like they are a part of something bigger than the town. People who grow up in small towns have better morals, give more athletic opportunities to children, and have a sense of community.
Living and growing up in a small town is better than doing so in a big city.
To start, in my own experiences growing up in a small town, you get to know a lot of people throughout the town. Alexis said, what she also liked about her hometown was “it is small and you know a lot of people.” Whenever she said this, it made a connection, because she was a stranger and I already found something in common with her based on our hometown. Small towns are similar for the
I moved to Kennesaw, Georgia from Carmel. This move was by far the hardest move I have had to go through. I was established and comfortable in Carmel. I didn’t understand why this was happening and I was really upset and angry, especially with my parents. I didn’t understand why we had to leave. It was especially difficult leaving my friends, because I had grown up with them. One of my friends, Elaine, I had been friends with since I first moved to Indiana. We lived right by each other and were practically inseparable. This time I was moving about 8 hours away. I didn’t think I would ever get to see my friends again and that really made me distraught with the idea of moving. Of cours...
Whenever we were kids, we didn’t quite understand situations as well as we would now as adults. No matter how many questions we asked at that young age, we were still left puzzled. That’s how I felt as a child whenever one of the most tragic moments in my life occurred. I was too young to see how severe the situation was at the time, but now, after growing up, I can understand the misery and depression my family felt.