Bear Bryant Essays

  • Paul "Bear" Bryant

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    Sept. 11, 1913, in Moro Bottom, Ark, Bryant was born one of 11 children in a farm family. He earned his nickname as a schoolboy in a barehanded wrestling match with a bear Bryant was an offensive lineman and defensive end for Fordyce High School, earning all-state honors for the 1931 Arkansas High School Football State champions. After graduating in 1936, Bryant became an assistant coach at Alabama for four years and Vanderbilt University for another two. He joined the U.S. Navy after the bombing

  • Paul Bear Bryant

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    Paul “Bear” Bryant was one of the top coaches of college football, winning more games than any other coach in history. Paul Bryant, an American college football player and coach, was best known for his time as the longtime head coach at the University of Alabama. Before, Alabama, he coached at the University of Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M. Bryant took an active interest in the players' lives outside of football, but he also was a strict disciplinarian with his players. The legacy of Paul Bear

  • Bear Bryant Biography

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    Bear Bryant was a great man and coach, and he changed his life and college football forever with the decisions that he made. Paul Bryant (Bear) was born into a poor family and was the eleventh of twelfth children. Paul William Bryant was born in Moro Bottom in Arkansas. It's a small, unknown city. Legend has it Bryant got his nickname around the year 1927 by wrestling a bear from a carnival. People say that he only did it to impress a girl! From then on he was called "Bear Bryant" and that's where

  • Paul William (Bear) Bryant

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    Paul William Bryant lived his childhood with no very much. Paul was born on September 11, 1913 in Moro Bottom in south central Arkansas. He was one out of eleven other children that his parents had. His parents were Monroe and Ida Mae Bryant. His father Monroe was a farmer and his mother Ida Mae was a stay at home mother and tended to the house. A few years later in Paul’s life they moved to a few miles south of Forge, Arkansas. (“100 years Of Bear”) There were about 3,600 people in the town they

  • George 'Bear' Bryant Character Traits

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    football team. His name is Paul William 'Bear' Bryant (Hendricks). Bryant was born in Fordyce, Arkansas, on September 11, 1913. Paul's parents were William Monroe and Ida Kilgore Bryant. Paul was the eleventh of twelve children; three of them died in infancy. Paul was born into a poor southern family. Paul's life was hard because his dad was disabled most of his life, forcing Paul and his siblings to run the family farm (Solomon).

  • Critique of the Movie Educating Rita

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    education may be. The story is presented in the form of a comedy, a comedy that revolves around the personal and pedagogical relationship between Rita and her main teacher, Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine). Frank Bryant teaches comparative literature, and it is his job to prepare Rita for her exams. Unfortunately, Frank Bryant has lost all enthusiasm for his academic field and its related teaching duties. He loathes most of his regular students, and the main function of the rows of classical works that

  • A Christmas Story

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    Ho.” is probably one of the most popular lines of the 1983 Christmas classic, A Christmas Story, written by Jean Shepherd. According to The State Newspaper web site, “A Christmas Story is a low budget movie about a sort of dysfunctional family.” (Bryant) It is a dysfunctional tale about a nine year old boy named Ralphie growing up in 1940’s Indiana dreaming of the perfect Christmas gift, a Red Rider 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. His parents, teacher and even Santa Clause believe otherwise

  • Four Critics’ Perspective of Theodore Roethke's Elegy for Jane

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    "Elegy for Jane," recalling his young student and his feelings of grief at her loss. Opinions appeared almost as soon as Roethke's tribute to Jane, and passages about the poem continue to appear in articles and books. Recent writings by Parini, Ross-Bryant, Kalaidjian, and Stiffler disclose current assessments. According to Parini, Jane's death is not the subject of the poem; rather, her death presents an occasion for calling up a certain emotional state in which Roethke's feelings of grief and pity

  • Romeo and Juliet: Joseph A. Bryant’s Considerations

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    William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has always been a very popular play. Joseph A. Bryant states this in his introduction, but there was never really contention. Most likely written in 1595, we learn from Bryant that this is thought to be one of Shakespeare’s more mature works that shows the pinnacle of his creativity (xxviii-xxx). Because of this creativity, audiences love Romeo and Juliet. However, Bryant also tells us that "[a]mong professional scholars the play has sparked less enthusiasm"

  • Eros

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    In the Poem, EPƒÇƒÃ, by Robert Bridges, Eros is referred to as an ¡§¡Kidol of the human race¡K¡¨ with a perfect form and looks, however, he bears no expression on his face. On the other hand, in the poem, EROS, by Anne Stevenson, Eros is portrayed as a ¡§thug¡¨ with a bruised and ¡§patchy¡¨ appearance. I believe that although both authors are trying to convey the same message, they choose different ways to go about it. In the poem by Anne Stevenson, I believe that she is trying to show that while

  • Bear Hunting By: Emmett Eickert

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    I have my gun pointed toward the bear. “Can you see the bear in the cross hairs? My Dad asked very quietly. “Yeah,” I told him too quiet to hear. BANG!!!!! Show me how you are shooting Ouch I thought, my ear hurts. I could see everything as it had turned gray. I could barely hear anything. The bear ran off toward the west to our marsh, ‘the swamp’. Everything then got silent. ************************************************************ Earlier that morning, we were at the Quinn motel, in Ironwood

  • William Faulkners The Bear and Barn Burning: A Comparison

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    William Faulkner’s The Bear and Barn Burning are two different short stories, but are very much alike in several ways. The theme in both gravitates toward the finding one’s self theme, where both the main characters must find themselves amidst many different circumstances. Faulkner also portrays the main characters in each story much the same. There is a difference in the tone between the two stories however, proving that he can write two different stories, but put in many similarities. Finding your

  • Marx's Theory of Money and the Theory of Value

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    quantitatively, as an amount of exchangeability or command over other commodities. The classical economists viewed value as a real, though socially determined, entity, with its own laws of conservation and motion. Value in this sense bears the same relation to commodities as mass bears to physical objects. It is not surprising that in societies where exchange is widespread value takes on an independent form as money, as an expression of general exchangeability. Value is a central social reality for people;

  • Photosynthesis Of The Giant Panda

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    about 250 pounds for males and up to 220 pounds for females due to all of this bamboo consumption. The panda's legs must be able to carry this weight over long distances and up high trees for an average of 10 to 16 hours every day, to allow the panda bear to maintain the proper nutrition levels necessary for survival.

  • Panda Express: Americanized Gourmet Asian Cuisine

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    A vast empire that continues to rise is the king of americanized gourmet asian cuisine, Panda Express. This fast food restaurant has its arms wrapped around a large demographic do to its large food proportions, great tasting food, and comfortable atmosphere. This is one of the most ideal things to bring in to Brownstown. The allocation of Panda Express to the people of Brownstown would only bring more people to the town as well as envelop its people in good tasting food. Not only is panda express

  • Personal Narrative: Polar Bear

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    for anything at all. All of the sudden a flash, and then I was on top of what seemed to be a pink fluffy polar bear I was kind of freaking out and kind of curios. Out of the corner of my I eye there was a tiny silver peanut on my holder, he whispered a date, 2024 I nodded my head and poof! We took of in a spiral of colors. Glancing at myself and the peanut as well at the polar bear I saw that we were a really ugly color yellow maybe the most ugly yellow ever seen, it made me so nauseous, that

  • Cole The Spirit Bear Analysis

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    angry with peter he beat him till blood was involved so I think that is what makes him a monster. Cole should at least control his anger! Also sometimes when you get angry your face turns red .Say Cole showed anger towards the Spirit Bear or towards any other animal, the bear would literally crush his body, but it also figuratively crushes his pride and his sense of anger. He felt like a new and a different person after he let his anger out. Mostly anger is about emotion, like when Cole was

  • Why Red Pandas Are Endangered

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    There are under 3,000 red pandas left in the world. This is because they are losing over 50% of their habitat. They are endangered, but there are many ways to help. First, lets explain red pandas a little more. I am going to tell you a lot about red pandas. Red pandas are endangered animals. There are nocturnal animals, so they come out and do stuff at night. They are omnivores. The scientific name for red pandas is ailurus fulgens, but they are most often called red pandas. They live in China

  • Treadwell Mistake In Grizzly Man

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    Treadwell’s death was him deciding to camp at the grizzly maze in a place where he was hidden from the bears rather than a place out in the open where the bears would be more aware of his presence (Nelson & Herzog, 2005). Also, another mistake was camping in the grizzly maze during the time of year when the bears he was familiar with had gone into their dens for hibernation and different more wild bears showed up in their place (Nelson & Herzog, 2005). It is possible that not getting on his plane to

  • Smokey the Bear

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    Smokey the Bear In 1950, a careless act turned into tragedy when a fire burned wild and swept away over 17,000 acres of forest watershed land in the Capitan Mountains, Lincoln National Forest. When the fire had died off, a badly burned cub was rescued from a charred tree. This cub, later named 'Smokey,'; was taken to the National Zoo where he lived out the rest of his life. Smokey was soon used to create an animated bear aimed at informing people of forest fires and fire prevention. The 'Smokey