The greatest rivalry

The weekend I traveled to Dallas Texas with my cousin, brother and father was a weekend to definitely remember. It was September 19, 2005, a cool and slightly windy Monday night, the biggest rivalry in football history, 80,000 fans showed up excited, nervous, anxious and ready for the game. Every single person was screaming and shouting, some where chanting “Go Redskins”, “Its game time Cowgirls”, others where chanting “how about them cowboys”. Now looking at the stadium from a distance, it looked like the stadium was covered in white and blue jerseys. But despite the amount of white and blue jerseys in the stadium, I was surrounded with burgundy and gold. The cheerleaders were cheering, the dance girls were dancing and the song “stronger” by Kanye West was playing in the loud speakers when the players started running out of the locker room.

Just as the redskins where about to kick off, you could feel the tension, excitement and anxiety. When the game started, it was even on both sides of the field through the first and second quarter with the cowboys leading 3-0. As the game continued, the Redskins continued to suck. The offense was absolutely horrible. It was 5 minutes left to the end of the game; the Redskins were down 13-0. Now at this point, I can honestly say that I gave up, lost hope and accepted that defeat. But just as I was about to seat down, a big play to Santana Moss for a touchdown to put the Redskins on the scoreboard for the first time (13-7). Some people around me kept saying “one more touchdown” and to myself I was saying “we ain’t gonna score”. The Redskins defense stepped up and stops the cowboys forcing them to punt the ball with a little over 2 minutes left. I started to have faith, I started to believe. With exactly 2:35 minutes left on the clock, another huge play to Santana Moss for 70yrds and a touchdown put the Redskins up 14-13 and that is how the game ended.


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The Point: The battle is not over until the fat lady sings therefore you should not give up.

A dream career or a dream job.

What is the American dream? Most people would have different views on what the American dream is but 95% of the time, it involves making lots of money, being able to do what ever you want to do when ever you want to do it. And to be completely honest, I am part of the 95%. My American dream involves me making at list a 7 figure salary without having to stress my life.
Now some people when asked what they would like to be when the grow up would say I want to be a lawyer, some say I want to be a doctor, engineer, pharmacist, teacher, nurse and the list goes on and on. But as much as I want to be a pharmacist, I would honestly say that my ideal job would be a professional football player. Football would be my I deal job because first of all it is something I truly love and have a passion for. Second, the salary rate of a football player is 3 times if not more the salary rate of a pharmacist per year and that completely signifies my American dream.

Educational Memory Land

My best educational experience hit me in my tenth grade year. Mr. Gross who was my algebra 2 teacher was a very tough, strict and very sneaky teacher. But despite his methods, I still consider him the best teacher I ever had. Whenever he is teaching a topic or chapter that we the students didn’t understand nor had a hard time understanding, he usually acted it out in some kind of funny skit or he would tell a funny story that relates to the topic at hand. He practically made mathematics fun and exciting. He never gave home works. He always said “pop quiz tomorrow” before every class was over just to keep us in check just his method for making us study the material when we got home. I learnt so much from him and I think he is the reason I love mathematic so much.
My worse educational experience happened in my 12th grade year. Mrs. Ubaldo who was my AP chemistry teacher was a very strict teacher. She didn’t care about the students. All she cared about was making sure at 2:35 she was on her way home. She was very boring and whenever we asked question regarding a problem, she always answers with her favorite quote “you guys should already know this, You pick up you books and read and maybe you will know it” We always thought that she just didn’t know the answer to our question and therefore she gets defensive. For that reason alone, a little over half her students including myself didn’t do very well in her class and therefore didn’t take the AP exam.

Key to success in life.

Growing up as a child, my parents always taught us to believe that people tend to become to us what we expect them to become. They told us to refrain from saying “I cannot do it” because according to them, “the more you say I cannot, the more likely you begin to believe it”. For the longest time, I just didn’t understand how not being able to do something could affect your later life. But as I grew older, I learned to understand and believe that with hard work and determination, you could do and be whatever you want.
I believe that hard work and determination goes a long way. I remember the story my mother told us about her childhood. According to my mother, her parents past when she was just 5 years old and because of that, she had to live with her aunty who had 6 children of her own. Between sending her six kids to school, there wasn’t enough funds to send my mother to school but she was so determined to go to school so she decided to start saving up all her money. After a year, she saved enough to pay for her first year tuition. After her year in school, she had such outstanding grades that the school gave her a full scholarship which helped her graduate with a Bachelor’s degree.
When ever I hear about the topic of hard work and determination, I think of the movie “The pursuit of happiness”. In this movie, Will Smith’s character had a boy, a wife and was between jobs. Half way into the movie, his wife left him and their child and ran off. They were thrown out of their apartment for lack of payment. Despite all the hardship, he was still determined to give his son what he never had; he was determined to make it if not for himself, for his son. He decided to intern at a prestigious company with a huge amount of other intern all fighting for one job open at the company. So he worked hard, struggled and went the extra mile do achieve his goal. And after all said and done, he got the job.
I believe that what ever you decided to do or be in life, it requires dedication, hard work and determination. If you wanted to be a professional basketball, baseball or football player, you will get a lot of criticism, you will be told how hard it is and how low your chances are of making it, you might even be discouraged by people close to you, you might even feel like giving up but if you are determined and willing to really work for it, you will make it.

Sex Appeal Generation

Our generation is a sex appeal generation. Sex is used to sell everything these days. The media and advertisement companies understand this phenomenon and have been drawn into the idea of sex appeal. One cannot watch a commercial without seeing a beautiful girl in a bikini or some kind of seductive outfit. A music video or a movie is not worth watching if there aren’t any beautiful or sexy video vixens showing off their big butts, flat stomach and big breasts. Sex is and has always been used to appeal to my generation through the media, magazines etc.

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The growth and addiction to the "Star" and "Bucks"

The story of Starbucks coffee history begins in Seattle in 1971, when three friends with a passion for fresh coffee, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, opened a small shop and began selling fresh-roasted and coffee beans. Starbucks has always been the place to find the world’s best coffees. And now, it has grown tremendously overtime that it is now considered an American way of life.

In 1982 Starbucks coffee history was changed forever when Baldwin hired Schultz as the new head of marketing. Schultz found himself infatuated with the vibrant coffee culture of Italy. In what he describes as an epiphany, the idea hit him, he wondered, "why not create community gathering places like the great coffee house of Italy in the United States?" This idea would place Starbucks coffee on top of the map.

Starbucks has become an American icon. Most American citizen loves the fresh, delicious smell and taste of that good Starbucks coffee. After listening to everyone’s take on how awesome coffee tasted, I decided to visit my aunty who I knew was pretty much a coffee addict and spent the weekend, I woke up the next morning and asked her to make me a cup of coffee as she made hers. Now she loved that strong black raw taste of coffee, and with me being completely clueless, I thought for the most part it tasted like chocolate tea. But to my greatest surprise, it had a very strong bitter taste. As far as I was concerned, it had a very awful taste that made me almost vomit. After that experience, I told myself that maybe going to my aunt’s house wasn’t the best way to go about my investigation, so decided to pay Starbucks a visit. And after my first visit, I can honestly say that Starbucks has become an addiction to most American including me.


Starbucks has grown to the point that a large amount of Americans love to go there for different reasons. I realized these reasons when I first walked into a Starbucks coffee shop, I looked to my left and saw an elderly man in his 50s reading a newspaper while sipping on a cup of hot coffee, I turned to my right, and there was a young girl, probably a college student with a text book and a laptop, reading and typing at the same time while drinking her cappuccino de café. Starbucks coffee has grown into our daily lives. If you were to Walk through the streets of New York city, you will see businessmen in their corporate suits, briefcase on one hand and a cup of coffee on the other, Government workers waiting for a bus or cab with a cup of coffee in their hands, pedestrians waiting to cross the intersection with a cup of coffee in their hands. Going to Starbucks in the morning is a hassle because there is always a long line of coffee drinkers waiting to make their order and considering that there isn’t an age limit/requirement to drinking coffee, I pretty much see teenagers buying and drinking on the way to their respective schools.

Relationship with the Media

I would describe my relationship with the media as proactive. I personally think that I am a slight media addict because I feel as though there is always something going on in the United States or internationally (whether it be politics, sports, movies, music videos, etc) and because of that I pay attention to the media for information or entertainment. I strongly believe that everyone including myself are media addicts because people generally pay attention to the media for informative or recreational purposes. For example Nigeria-and-oil. and the funny monkey.
The things that influence my relationship with the media would have to be my love for sports, the fact that I live in a slightly bad neighborhood, the increase of gas prices, the war in Iraq, and especially the widespread famine in Africa (I am Nigerian). In order to get this information, I watch television, listen to the radio, and read magazines. I don't read the newspapers as often as I should.
I think I can change for the better by increasing the amount of time I spend reading newspapers in order to be very much aware of what is going on in my community.

Amst blog.

My name is chibuike c Onyima.  My friends call me “bk” for short.  I was
born October 6 1986 in a small city called Afikpo in Abia state in
Nigeria.  I am the second of four siblings (two boys and two girls).  I am
a very hardworking, honest and easy going person.  They always said that I
was the hardhead of the house but of course I disagreed.
     Growing up in Nigeria was an adventure. It gave me a great sense of my
culture. At the age of 5, my father left Nigeria for the United states of
America.  So you can say I was raised by a single parent.  At the age of
15, in the year 2002, I came over to the united states of America with
the my family.  Now the first couple of weeks was different because it
wasn’t what I was used to, but I learnt to adapt and after I adapted, I
feel in love with this country.
     The United States to me is a country of democracy.  This is a country
whereby everyone has the right to speak their minds and not worry about
getting hurt or getting in trouble etc.  To me, America is on the world’s
most established countries.  American is a country that I have love long
before I came over here.  A country full of opportunities or as my mother
would say “a country that flows with milk and honey”.