Adriel Jeremiah Green

It is not always easy to be rich and successful, but it would seem it came natural for Adriel Jeremiah Green. He is a NFL wide receiver and he is a star. He is one of the top receivers in the NFL and he is only in his third season. He is six feet four inches tall and 207 pounds. He was also the fourth pick overall in the 20ll NFL draft.  It is surprising that Adriel has made it this far because he started playing football in high school and has been through a lot. Life can throw a lot of difficult events at you and for Adriel Green this was very true and these very traumatic events would change his life forever.

Adriel had a brother named Avionce and they did everything together. He looked up to his older brother and his brother would take care of him. Adriel said sometime Avionce would tell his parents, “Mom. Mom, Dad you don’t have to worry you don’t have to wake up I’ll cook something for me and A.J to eat.”  At age nine Avionce ended up dieing in a car accident, which Adriel ended up surviving with no injuries. After the car accident Adriel said to his father, “Daddy I tried to wake Avi up, but Avi wouldn’t wake up, Avi wouldn’t wake up I tried but he wouldn’t wake up.”  The loss of Avionce was devastating to Adriel and he struggled to get over his brother’s death. When Adriel’s mother, Dora, was asked about how Adriel took the death of his brother she said, “He was sad all the time. He would come in and look at Avionce’s picture.”   Upon Avionce’s death he joined the juggling team and performed at high school varsity games.

As he got older he realized juggling was childish and joined real sports like basketball and football. The juggling help Adriel with hand eye coordination and was an automatic star in football. When John Mckissick was asked about Adriel he said, “A.J was about as talented as a guy I’ve seen. He was just dominate in everybody that we played.”  He was also a very talented basketball player and started varsity his freshman year. His coach was Louis Mulkey, but Mulkey was an assistant coach and he was no ordinary coach because he would sometimes seat right behind A.J in class. Mulkey would do this because A.J was not a good student and struggled in school. Mulkey was also a fire fighter and was killed in a fire. Adriel’s family was watching the fire on the television and Adriel said, “ Coach Mulkey ain’t come out yet daddy.” The death of Mulkey really hurt A.J and he felt when there was someone to look up to they were taken, but Adriel didn’t give up. Adriel had an exceptional senior year in football and lead his basketball team to a state championship. Adriel has been through unimaginable situations and he just says, “ I juggle all situations that comes my way.” Adriel is a tough guy and has been trough a lot, but has realized through pain there is success. 

Graduation

As time winds down an old chapter closes and a new chapter begins the low roar of what it seemed to be like screaming fans were waiting. My time in high school was coming to an end. All that hard work was finally going to pay off all those sleepless nights all those endless hours studying it was time. Time for the gates of adulthood to open up and I was ready to hit the ground running. The blue silver and white banners saying congratulations graduates felt unreal. The quote by nelson Mandela truly meant a huge amount to me now every task seems impossible until it is done. It was unreal to me that four years have passed and it was finally over. In my all blue cap and gown. The only words exchanged between students were “we made it man congrats”. As all of these thoughts were unraveling in my head it was time for me to stand. My row was next we stood at attention and gracefully executed the moves that we were taught the week before as we walked up to stage butterflies rushing through my stomach and all I could do was smile.

As I was searching for my mother in the huge crowd of proud parents and relatives right before I went up to get the piece of paper that I worked so hard for. I found my mother in that beautiful elegant dress her smile stretched from ear to ear and as they called my name that single tear drop fell from her cheek and this tear meant so much to me do to the fact that this was the most powerful and independent women that I have ever encountered in my life. All my life she was strong and never shed a single tear and that one tear showed me that I finally made her proud she had finally watch her son become a man. A man I became, throughout these past four years I learned so much from my peer and my teachers, but more importantly myself. I learned things that seemed impossible for me were accomplished and things that were beyond my horizon soon become possible to touch. One thing I can definitely say is that life throws curveballs but when they come high schools teaches you to sit in the batters box wait for it and knock it out the park.

Courage To Grow Scholarship

Please explain in 250 words or less why you believe that you should be awarded this scholarship.    

I deserve this scholarship because of the amount of things I can do with money. I have excelled at everything I have done in the past and I plan to become very successful. I have been an excellent student as long as I can remember and it all started in elementary school. In elementary school the grading system was numbers and it was from one to five and one was the lowest and five was the highest. The six years I spent there I got only fives on everything.  My success continued throughout high school and middle school. All throughout middle I never received a letter grade below a B and I even received an award for having honor rolls all three year. Things changed a little in high school because I received my first C and also my first D, but I worked hard and was able to raise my grade so that on my transcript I would not have any bad grades and I did not get any. The success I had in school translated to all the sports I played throughout my life.

            In my life I have played five different sports and I have done well in all of them. Baseball was the first sport I played and from what I can remember every game I pitch I did not let up more then one run and I got on base at least once every game. In football I played on both sides of the ball in every game I had a touchdown and at least five tackles. In soccer I scored every other game and my first year of wrestling I went seven and two. In basketball a played AAU on the Jaguars and we won nationals my first year on the team. I played in another league and I average a Double-double and we won the championship. In high school I did not score that much, but I was a great defender so I probably average four points a game and the player I was defending never scored more than me. I did well in sports because I treated it like another class and I just tried to work as hard as I can. 

I know I can succeed if just put my mind to it. I have big goals for the future and I am hoping to impact many lives. Due to my huge goals I might need some more than four years of college. I want to be a doctor and I know I can do it with a little more support. I feel that if I am awarded this scholarship it will help me accomplish my dream and since I have always be successful I know I deserve the scholarship. The money will definitely be well spent if I am awarded this scholarship.

Rhetorical Analysis of "The Body in Room 348"

The story written by Mark Bowden, “The Body in Room 348,” is about a true crime that happened in Texas and the victim was Greg Fleniken. The story is effective because the style Bowden uses is a very informational and descriptive one. In the first three paragraphs are very engaging and it feels as if Bowden was actually there describing every little detail. Greg was “lounging, smoking, snacking on a Reese’s Crispy Crunchy bar, sipping root beer, and watching Iron Man 2” (Bowden 1). Bowden does a great describing the scene and setting up the story. Later in the night as Greg finishes his conversation with his wife “Greg was struck from nowhere with real and shattering blow. A blow so violent it would blind a man with pain. He managed to get off the bed and move toward the door before he fell, legs splayed and face-first. He probably was dead by the time his face hit the green rug” (Bowden 1). Bowden uses great words like shattering and splayed to enhance the story and also leaves the reading guesses, thinking, and wondering what happen to Greg. It seems very sudden and does not make sense.

Bowden tells the story in way that gets the reader reading more because the plot gets more descriptive and more interesting once they get closer to an answer of what happen. The detective on the scene was Scott Apple “a short and very fit man with graying hair that he wears combed straight up in spikes” (Bowden 1). Bowden gives a good sense of how Apples looks and the description can get a good imagine in the readers head. Apple gathers information but very slowly and ends up leading to nothing mostly because they thought cause of death was a severe beating, which is later proven wrong. Bowden slowing gives information and slowly leads up to the climax, which is when they finally figure out that Greg was shoot and this come from the help of a private detective named Ken Brennan who was hired by Greg’s wife. Once they figure that out the rest is easy and they catch the killer who was next-door and accidental shoot a gun, which ended up hitting Greg. The killer was Mr. Steinmetz who was sentenced to ten years in prison.            

Bowden does a great job telling this story and since it is real he has to be very descriptive and accurate. He keeps the reader engaged and does not try and fly through all the information in the story. He describes all the character very well as well as the setting and plot. It is not easy writing about a crime but the story had good imagery and detail: writing about a crime require a lot and Bowden gets everything spot on.