John learned how to be gentle by watching his father. John worked in the fields with his father; they had two mules named Jack and Kate. John would beat the mules and try to get them to work faster. The mules didn't work under these conditions. After watching John do this for a while, Joshua Wooden walked towards the mules and told them to get up, and without any physical punishment they started to work again. This stuck with John all through his life. He believes that physical and mental punishment is not needed to motivate people to work harder. John learned to work hard by watching his mother. She did the washing, scrubbing, ironing, cooking, mending, and canning with no electricity while helping with the farming. Joshua Wooden had what he called his "two sets of threes."" The first set was about honesty: Never lie, cheat, or steal. The second set was adversity: Don't whine, complain or make excuses. John Wooden's parents are great examples of role models. It all starts at home, the parents must guide their youngsters thinking, show them there is more to life than sports, and show them how to treat and respect others. Growing up with such committed parents, maybe that's the reason John Wooden stresses that parents have to be good role models for their kids.
Success, Achievement, and Competition are all key words that describe Coach Wooden. Success is truly found in how well you prepare yourself. Coach Wooden believed that if you prepare to the best of your ability, whether you won or lost you are still a success. He feels you can only be in control of yourself, not what others do. Basically he is saying, work hard and don't let what others do affect you. Wooden didn't judge his success on victory or defeat. Instead he based it on how well he prepared his team and himself. Wooden coached at UCLA for over 27 years, the first 14 years in many people's eyes, he was unsuccessful because he didn't win a championship.
As a coach, I am considered the leader of this team. As head coach, it is my job to not only teach the fundamentals of how to play and develop skills, but to also teach life skills. I will always come to practice prepared and ready to go. Both players and coaches will always encourage one another an...
John Keats uses various techniques in his compositions to evoke a reader's response to his theme. ... One other such poet would be A.D Hope in his poem Phallus where Hope makes comparisons to, "gods" god, divine divining rod and wooden horse receives into your Troy. ...
Biography of John Dillinger Born John Herbert Dillinger, on June 28, 1902 (some sources say June 22, 1903), in Mooresville, Indiana. John Dillinger was a crook and a gangster who robbed banks for a living. ... Dillinger was born to honest farmers John and Mary Dillinger. ... On the night of July 16, 1933, at the age of 30, John Herbert Dillinger left Mooresville to become one of America's most famous criminals. ... Using a wooden gun that had been smuggled into the prison, he overpowered the guards, locked them up, and walked through the prison gates. ...
John Proctor is one such townsperson who is accused. After his wife Elizabeth is accused by Abigail "who wants Elizabeth gone so that she can have John, a desperate series of events leads Proctor to be charged. ... Next the town of Salem is revealed, an almost utopian looking group of wooden, gable roofed structures dotted along greenery hugging a blue harbor. ... Inside the wooden structures, as revealed by scenes in Parris's house and Proctor's living room, the brownish wood color dominates, as almost everything is made of it "from furniture to the floors and walls. The i...
When analyzing the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," I wondered what was trying to be said about the urn. The poem uses many of the elements. It uses a very formal diction, has a closed form, and it uses the images that are on the urn to describe what the urn looks like. The author, John Keats, uses form...
This problem faces John Wemmick in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. ... Upon arriving at his home turned fortress, Walworth, his, "square wooden face- and "mouth like a mailbox slot- begin to melt away, revealing a jovial, boisterous cartoon character. ...
Soliloquy - a speech in a dramatic work in which a character speaks his/her thoughts allowed Aside - a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play Irony- the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect Dramatic Irony - character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character Paradox- a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investiga...
"Maggie and Dee's mother promised Maggie that she would give her the quilts when she marries John Thomas" (Walker 69). ... The main and most important symbol in "The Lottery" was the black wooden box. ... Summers arrived with the wooden box and Mr. ... Right then, the reader knows that nothing good is going to come out of the stool and black wooden box. ... The black wooden box and its contents were a symbol of darkness and death. ...
"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is a story relating to a husband, John Wright, who was found strangled in his bed. ... This hints to the reader that the setting in fact tells the tale of Minnie Wright and what drives her to kill John Wright. ... Hale when she views her rocker, it is"dingy red, with wooden rugs up the back......., and the chair sagged to one side.(30)" Things become even more evident to Mrs. ... They knew John had killed the one thing Minnie had that was dear to her and they figured this was the final straw for Minnie so she killed John. ...