Al Davis

Al Davis was remembered Saturday as the AFL commissioner who helped lead the merger with the NFL that changed professional football forever.

He was praised as the trendsetting owner of the Oakland Raiders, who broke racial and gender barriers while winning three Super Bowl titles and preaching his mantra of "Just win, baby!"

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After over 60 years has the owner of the Oakland Raiders, making 2 moves and winning multiple championships, Al Davis died at the age of 82. Davis was a NFL visionary and a true football genius. He actually was one of the main people responsible for merging the two leagues and forming The NFL many years ago. He is quite possibly the reason why the NFL is integrated and there are no discriminating barriers today, being the first to hire black coaches and a mainly black team. First to hire a black and a Latino head coach and first to place a woman has CEO of his team.

Davis led his team to 3 Super bowls and was the leader of the most feared team to ever play in the NFL. He preached that winning is all that matters, he is quoted saying "Just win, Baby!"

Davis is leaving behind a great team that is currently 4-1 and is worth around $761 million. The team is staying in the Davis family and they have no plan to sell any time soon. Davis also leaves behind a legacy that few can match, very few people have come close to contributing to change like Davis did.

Life

Has anyone ever thought about what they want to do before they die? I know I have and most would refer to as a bucket list or simply just the List. I have recently taken this thought into account and I realized that there is so much I want to do before my final day comes and I need to get started.

One thing I want to do is I want to travel the world. I want to see things that few people have ever gotten the chance to see. I want to explore the jungles; I want to go scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef.  As some may now I am set on becoming a marine biologist so a lot of what I want to do before I die is explore the ocean. I want to see fish of all different types of species and see them in their natural environment. I am a person who is huge on animals and the environment and there is nothing better than seeing a wild animal in its own world.

I also want to do other things that most would want to do as well such as. I want to start a family, I want to have a successful job and I just want to enjoy life. I want to be able to buy my kids anything they want and I want them to be able to see the world as I will have. See the world is out there for us to take it so why not? Right? There is so much left for me out there and I know I’m going to see it.

RE Amir Razavi

This quote is from a post written by Amir Razavi:

Why the hell would you be "hiking" in the moutains of Iraq/Iran. Are you serious? Why don't you be normal in the sense that you have california or the Rockies and dozens of other places in America you can hike. Why did you decide, "Oh let's go hiking in Iran this Summer" "Oh yeah, forsure man". I just dont understand that.

I agree with Amir in when he says this because like really, why would you need to travel to a country that has a lot of war  problems going on just to go hike a mountain. I mean i understand that people want to travel the world and see different things but it isn't very smart to go to a country that has a lot of problems going on already. It is not safe and they do not need any extra trouble which happened because like Amir said the US media blew everything out of proportion. But then again that is what the US media is known for, they take a story and turn it into something it not. They make everything seem 100 times worse than it actually is and make up assumptions just to make an interesting story or to strike fear across the nation.
In this story the i blame everyone involved. The Us is wrong for blowing it out of proportion like amir said. The guys shouldnt have been there in the first place but i can see why they would want to travel. Also Iran didnt have to imprison these guys for hiking everyone just needs to relax

F16s

 
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/09/2011927234346775308.html

 The United States decided to sell 18 F16 to the Iraq army. The deal is worth over 3 billion dollars. Iraq recently made their first payment towards the jets. These jets are going to be used to help the Iraqi army maintain power after the United States army leaves. Iraq recently payed 1.4 billion dollars as a partial payment in order to keep the deal on track. Iraq has recently stated that they would like to make the deal 36 fighter jets instead of 18. With the deal underway the Iraqi army has been training guys to be able to fly the jets. With these jets the Iraqi army will be able to roam the skies and try to maintain peace.The fighter jets will not be sent to Iraq till next fall or possibly in 2013.
I really like that the US is selling these fighters to Iraqi army because now we are going to be able to get The United States army out of there and bring our troops home. Because up until ow the problem was that we were not able leave Iraq and now that everything would stay under control but with these fighter jets, there is more assurance that they will be able to hold it down. With these jets the Iraqi army will now have power, even if they don't have to use them it symbolizes power and a changed country that can hopefully keep terrorists aways. I hope to see this war end soon.

college essay #2

After growing up and hearing stories of your dad's years of playing football and watching it on TV, the sport attracts you. As a young kid I loved everything about football and I knew I had to play it. I didn’t get the actual opportunity to play until my 8th grade year, and I knew from then on that this is my sport. Now as a senior, I am in my 5th season and love every second of it. I am one of three varsity captains and that is one accomplishment that I am truly proud of. It took a lot of hard work but the moment I heard my coach name me a captain I knew that every drop of sweat and blood I put into this game was well worth it.

Coming into my freshman year I was small and had very little talent, but there was one thing I had that set me apart from everyone else. I have always had such a strong desire to succeed and I have always had a very strong work ethic. See I like to prove people wrong. I’ve never been the biggest guy or the fastest so everyone usually underestimates me and what I am capable of right from the start. People would say that I would never amount to anything in football and I would always be a sideline player. So after my freshman season I began to work, I began to train every day, I realized with hard work I could turn myself into something, someone. I was at the gym every day, I was on the field every day, and I would watch football games and see how the best of the best would play and try to learn something new every day from it. And like my coaches said it would, it actually paid off. I got allot bigger, stronger and faster.

Besides changing physically, all my hard work changed me as a person. I became more confident in my own abilities both on and off the field. It made me realize that if I wanted to do something no matter what it was, I could. It also turned me into a leader. From being around the gym and the game of football so much, people would come to me if they had any questions whether it is about football, weightlifting or anything else. I guess you can say I became an approachable guy that others looked to as a good example to follow. That is why both my sophomore and senior year I became the captain of my football team, my coaches looked to me as a well rounded person that can lead this team to victory.
Football, although most may say it is just a game it is much more than that to me. Football changed me overall as a person and made me the man I am today. It gave me the realization that everything in this world is yours for the taking all you got to do is go after it.

Island Bowl

Its about that tme again. Its the day of the alameda and encinal island bowl. Every year for the past 56 years alameda and encinal have met once a year in the most epic football game ever to be played. This is going to be my third and final island bowl and im looking to take back that win. For the last 4 years encinal has won at the varsity level but this year is different. We have a new team, a new coaching staff, and a new image. We got out original colors back with these dope ass uniforms and we are rocking flat black helmets. We are stepping on to that field a new team, with more conifdence, talent and swagggg. Ive never been so excited to get this game started, im ready to go toe to toe and blow to blow with this cross town rival. This game is like none other. Their is so much behind this game, so much history, so much blood and so many tears. This game is bigger than all of us. Like really how many peoplr get to participate in an event thats been going on for so many years and the whole town comes out to watch. The amount of people that come to this game is rediculous, its likr a stadium with people screaming and yelling at every big play or bad call.
Im ready right now to put every ounce of myself into this game and go out there with my team and shock the fucking world. Its go time!!! Hornet pridde

Re. Kevin Jang

This excerpt is from Kevin Jang's post "Time Flies":

It seems like last month we were all freshman and now we have one more year left. When I was younger, I would always view high school kids to be so grown and intimidating. Now I am a Senior in high school, I still can't believe it.

I agree with Kevin 100%, it seems that everything has gone by so fast.Things are changing and they are changing fast. We are coming up on the end of our child hood and soon we will be dumped off into the world of working, bills, and possibly marriage. The days of having our parents take care of everything are gone and we are going to have to start living on our own. I still remember those days where all i had to worry about was what my friends and I were going to do that day, but now i got to worry about college, school, and football. I have to think about what it is im going to do or what im going to aim for with my life. Also as Kevin said we may never see these people we have shared classes with for years ever again and that is sad. There are some people that i know ive known for a long time that i might never get the chance to talk to again after graduation simply because our lives may take us in different directions. I just hope that i stay close to my close friends.
All though things may change alot, we now get to start our lives. There is no more being told what to do, where to go or how to live. We will now begin to make our own deceissions, up untill now we had to go to school and had to listen to our parents but after highschool we can do as we please. Life is surely changing, some will be very sad but we all have to go through it and now it is our turn and i know im ready to take life head on.