What does success mean to you? This essay will show how one ordinary man changed the lives 15 young men and put them on the road to success as it inspired many to do the same with their lives. It will also show how grades should come before anything else. Education in school is the 1st road to success. You will have more job opportunities through the subjects that you learn in school than any other extracurricular activity. Some kids believe that they can rely on other talents to help get them through life. Those talents could be band or sports. But only two percent of all college athletes make it to the pro’s. There are also not enough music careers to include everybody either. The most important thing that you can do to have success is to listen in the classroom. Coach Ken Carter was born in Fernwood, MS and then moved with his family from a small town in Mississippi to the big city of Richmond, CA. During his high school years, he played basketball from 1973 to 1977 setting all kinds of records for scoring, assists, and steals that would stay on for 30 years until his own son, Damien, would break all of them. Carter then went to college. He attended two very prestigious universities, George Fox and San Francisco State on basketball scholarships. As a job, he purchased and operated two sporting goods stores, a saloon, and a barbershop. He was then offered a job to coach the struggling Richmond High School basketball team, who had a 4-22 record the year before. In the beginning of the season, he have his players sign contracts to sign telling them to meet certain academic standards. They included maintaining a 2.3 GPA, attending all their classes, sitting in the front row of those classes, wearing a tie on gameday, and addressi... ... middle of paper ... ...rade you’d think they would complete it. One of the top reasons that a person does not complete their work is called sports. Sports drain a lot of precious time that could be used for doing homework. “These boys are student-athletes. Student comes first,” argued Ken Carter to his player’s parents. Another big reason is that a student will just not do their work. They feel that they have got bigger and better things to do and they don’t care what will happen to them in the future. No matter what goes on in life, school is the 1st road to success. So ask yourself, what does success mean to you? Hopefully this speech brings the same message that Ken Carter taught his player. Also the same message, that drove them to find that grades should come before any other extra curricular activity that helped them and so many others to achieve one of the #1 goal in life-success.
This rich NBA great was not always the wealthy man everyone knows; through hard-work, he achieved status. Earvin Johnson grew up in a large and poor family. “With so many kids to take care of, my parents didn’t have enough money left over for luxuries” (Johnson 6). Johnsons’ parents believed in the value of hard-work, and stapled this into his mind at a young age. With this idea in mind, Johnson picked up a basketball. Basketball was always a great love of his, and he always wanted to make it to the next level. With the preaching of this value by his parents, he worked hard and became very good. After years of practicing and coming up through a troubled childhood, Magic was presented a great opportunity. Since he was so good at basketball, all the major colleges wanted him to play for them, “I finally narrowed down the field to two choices… the University of Michigan and Michigan State” (Johnson 51). It was a decision that would change his life, and after many hard days of going back and forth, he decided to attend Michigan State University.
On September 8, 2009, President Barack Obama held a speach at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, which was broadcast all over America to the millions of students, from kindergarden up to twelfth grade, he was hoping to reach with an important message. In the speech he stresses the importance of getting an education, and he reaches out to the students to tell them why they have a responsibility not only to themselves but also to the country; ”-if you quit on school- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country”1. With this sentence he suddenly makes every single student listen, he makes the whole genration feel important, and hopefully this will motivate all of them to work harder in school, get an education
Don Haskins was the head basketball coach at Texas Western College from 1961 to 1999. Growing up in the 1940s, he had a love for basketball but he lacked raw talent. His friend, Herman Carr, who was black, was a better player and they had played many games together during the course of their primary school years. Haskins was always bothered by the fact that Herman had to drink out of the coloured fountain, and use different restrooms. He did not understand why he was being treated as inferior despite being a superior player. When they graduated high school, it disturbed Haskins to learn that Herman did not receive a scholarship to attend university, simply because he was black. This was a tragic realisation that would haunt Haskins throughout his career.
Society instills today's youth with that without a college education they will not be successful. But then again what defines success? Success is a wide-ranging term that has different meanings to different people. Some people believe that making money defines success, while others believe that success is having a loving family. Still, society seems to demonstrate and even promote that success is portrayed by making money. The general public states that in order to be a successful person one must make a heavy salary out of college. The problem with this philosophy is that some people are not meant for college. In Bird's article, she writes that college is not been effective for everyone. Half of all high school graduates attend college and the pattern of dropouts is becoming more and more obvious showing that some students don't fit the mold (305).
Topic: Coach athlete relationship. Coach is the center, the essence of a team. Without a coach, a team would not even exist. Sport psychologists define the five roles for a coach, including teacher, organizer, competitor, learner and mentor. This scene best depicts all roles. First of all, Carter is a good teacher. He is good at communicating with team players. He acts like a teacher that teaches everything that players need to know in order to success, either on or out of the court. Second, he is a god organizer, he schedules the practice time daily at 3 p.m. and does not allow any lateness. He knows when to let players play ball on the court and when to study off the court. Third, he is a good competitor. He bravely steps out and debates with others who do not understand his rationale. He wants all players in his team can be more successful. Fourth, he is a good learner. He is good at adapting. When the board decides to reopen the gym, he is happy and allow the player to study in the gym. Fifth, he is a good mentor. Carter was once a student in Richmond. He shares his experience with players. Tell them something is more important than just playing ball. All of these factors eventually make him a good coach and gain the respect from all
The article “How to Be a Success” by Malcom Gladwell speaks about how success is something that can be achieved if you put the time and work into it, and how success is not achieved overnight but rather through long hours of constant practice. His article is targeted to more than one group of individuals. The groups of individuals that his article targets are teenage students, young adults, adults, people who want to become an expert, or want to succeed in something they have an interest in and in general society. Another article also related to the success of an individual “An A+ Student Regrets His Grades” by Afraj Gill describes how in society many schools focus more on students’ grades, rather than their learning, and how a student is
Hoosiers once said " If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your own potential, to be the best that you can be. . . in my book we are going to be winners". This quotation is relevant to the question of What does success mean to me? I believe success is about learning what you are capable of to achieve your full potential being successful in your life. For you have a better understanding, I will explain success is about being achievable in your own way and being able to see yourself grow in your personal life and perspective of how you see yourself becoming successful. Success is not only about the choices you make to become successful, but about how you approach the way to become successful.
Success means to live a life in alignment with what brings us real joy. In my case, “success-joy” comes in many guises. At times, in being persistent with my current dreams, others, investing time and energy in what makes my life shine, and that is, without a doubt, when my life is at service of humanity and when I cultivate happy and healthy close relationships. I tend to define success as a state of being, a constant process of unfolding rather than a place to arrive. It is the journey of getting to know ourselves, in order to fully occupy every aspect of what we are; a forever changing aspiration, a state of being in which we realize that life’s greatest rewards spring from our capacity to relate to adversity in innovative ways. I have also discovered that real success shows up again when we debunk and deconstruct every single stereotype and assumption we have about ourselves. In this way, we feel capable to challenge what is commonly accepted as wisdom and then we have the opportunity to change and integrate our values with greater ones. There is an enormous joy when we feel free to play with the possible new scenarios that our imagination and creativity compelled us to try. A successful state of being is alert and grounded within us with the certainty, that the choices we embark on are in resonance with what we consider is the truth of what we are in that precise
In having Coach Carter be one of the best critically acclaimed movies of 2005, it also portrayed a sense of emotion to the viewer. It transcends a type of mood in every type of scene in the movie. Coach Carter is about Ken Carter coming into the world of his old high school, Richmond High in a new role. Known for his high school basketball career, he is asked to be the new coach of a broken basketball team with troubled athletes. As Coach Carter, he holds practice after practice. For Coach Carter, sports are a commitment and with that, comes responsibility. So Coach gives the players all a contract to sign to solidify their commitment. All of us know that to participate in sports, you have to have certain grades, and with this contract comes
This further fulfills the idea of being a “successful” person. Success should be measured by your own standards, not others. What makes your life successful and happy will not be the same for others, as theirs won’t be the dame for you. Being successful, and educated, all really revolve around how you view yourself, and what you choose to do and make with your life and the circumstances you’ve been given and have taken control of it.
The movie Coach Carter is an American Drama based on a true story of a Basket Ball coach and his team from Richmond High School. Coach Ken Carter portrayed by Samuel L Jackson and directed by Thomas Carter. Coach Ken Carter was a successful basketball champion athlete during his school days. Before accepting the job as a coach for his old high school Ken Carter use to run a sporting goods store successfully and was planning to open another store but then he got the job offer to become a basketball Coach and he accepted the offer.
For a few of us, success is being a stay-at-home housewife, successfully bringing up your youngsters. For others, success might be instructing or directing. To others, success might be characterized by the measure of instruction you accomplished. You may feel that you need to get your doctorate degree, in light of the fact that every other person in your family has done likewise. Nobody can figure out what success is to you, yet you. There are excessively a large number of us living miserable lives, since we are effectively accomplishing brief comment another person happiness, which implies that you are unsuccessful to
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Kralovec, author of The End of Homework argues that doing homework during high school has little or no effect on successful study skills of students in college. College students have only a few hours of class a week and lots of daytime hours in which to study. She says the college schedule is nowhere as grueling as in high school. In addition, the average adult does not return home from the office with three or more hours of work to complete (Kralovec). When "busy work" assignments are given carelessly and frequently, it causes students to lose interest in the subject. Negative results can also occur when a student is not able to complete his or her homework. Many times they will resort to copying homework, having others do their assignments, or cheating on tests. Bad habits such as these are likely to follow kids through their lives and have an effect on their moral judgment. With no consequences to these actions students will almost always take the easy way out when it comes to homework
Even though the definition of “success” has a very nuanced meaning depending on its culture and context, highly successful people typically exhibit the same universal characteristics. For despite common belief, successful people are not affiliated with some exclusive club and it has to do more with attitude than superior I.Q intelligence. Therefore, many people have the ability to learn about how they can be successful and do better than they are now. Due to having the privilege of interacting with successful people on a daily basis, I gradually coined my own theory of success. In addition, interviewing successful college students for the basis of the EPE course project has managed to further support and strengthen my theory. Yet rather than just being applied to an academic setting like a college or school, theses theories can be slightly modified to be applied in other aspects of life as well. It should be worth emphasizing that exhibiting some of these traits are likely good indicators of being a successful person, however there are a lot more not mentioned. For due to their vast variety, it would be extremely difficult to talk about each of them individually. As a result, I have taken the liberty of grouping them into broader categories and have listed them in no particular order.