May PPOW

                                                                                                                                        Matthew Herrera

                                                                                                                                        May 7, 2015

                                                                                                                                        English 8-7

                                                                                                                                        PPOW

                       All-Star

            It all started happening the fame, and everything in his life and nothing else could've been better until it happened but first let me tell you how it started. I was a senior playing football and I was good really good there was no pass I couldn't do I was top on my team starter, and top in my education.

It was the start of the season and they were doing a blitz and they corner backs were covering the wide receivers really good and I couldn't get a pass to them. The only thing I could do is tried to run but I had to wait for an opening. It was through the middle and I went for it but once I took a step it closed but there was no going back so I cut to the right side of the field and my fellow teammates were setting up amazing blocks and then I got blind sided and couldn’t get up. All I remember is the coaches carrying me out of the field.

            “Can I still play,” questioned John.

            “You can its just we think you should not,” replied the doctor.

            “Who's we and any ways I need to,” answered John

           

I stormed out and got in the car soon after my mother returns to make me a deal. She says if I wait a week without playing football she would let me play again and I agreed. I have been dying for the week to be over but it's still Monday. When I walk into school everyone is excited and asking me if I am okay but I ignored them and went on with my day. It killed me to know that I was missing games but it was Friday so I would be right back in no time.

Its finally that time when I get to come back and I am excited just like everyone else while we walk out of the lockers but my coach stops me and tells me that they have found another person to start instead of me. I was disappointed because I had to sit on the bench for the whole game and also we had lost because my back up threw an interception and failed to make the tackle. The crowd screams at the coach for not putting me in and I knew the coach wanted to but was holding back and I think I know why.

I get home and ask my mom if anything is new and she plays it off like she doesn't know anything but I know she is the reason coach didn't put me in but I had no proof so I went on with my day.

Its practice and I work my hardest and it feels and looks like I never got injured and everyone could see that I was doing well. I was walking out of practice and then my head started to swirl I didn't know what was happening but then it stopped and I was on the ground.

The next thing I saw was my mother running up to me but by the time she got there I was up she asked me what happened and I played it off and said my legs hurt from practice so I laid down and she bought it. That night coach called and I wanted to know why I wasn’t playing so I picked up the other phone to hear their conversation.

“I wanted to know if I can put John in tomorrow,” mumbled coach.

“No, he is dying he will get hurt and then I wont be able to spend time with him,” she cried.

“You are killing him by not letting him play,” replied coach

I hanged up the phone and went to my room to make a plan and process this in my head. The next morning there was a game and I was ready to play. I came up to coach and demanded to play and he did and I thought it would of been harder than that but it wasn’t.

I was on the field and I was doing perfect but then the world was swirling and I was struggling to stay on my feet then it stopped and I looked around and saw frank wide open and I chucked it to him and waited to see if I still had it. This was an important play because it was all tied up and this could get us to state.

Frank fumbled the ball a little but got it and ran but a defender was closing up on him and then they clashed. I ran down to see if he had made the touchdown and it was close. The whistle blew and I looked at the scoreboard to see if we had made it just like everyone else and then it went we had won the game. The crowd came rushing down the field and then they picked me up and everyone was shouting my name but I had to get home and tell my mom about it.

I was about to my house then I saw police cars around it and I got out and ran. I ran into cops and they told me I couldn't go in but I told them it was my house and they let me through but the policeman at the door informed me of what happened. I broke down in tears and just fell and stayed there until they picked me up and took me to my grandma’s house. We had the funeral and I stayed there longer than anyone else did and drove back to my grandma’s house the next day I convinced myself that I would go to state and make my mom proud.

When I got to school everyone of my friends were standing there to support me and I thanked them all. It was about lunchtime when some new kid came up to me and told me to get out of his spot but I didn’t listen to him.

“Get out of my spot before I hit you so hard your mom will feel it,” yelled the kid

I got up as fast as I could and punched him in the jaw he didn’t see it coming and then my anger took over and I was on top of him punching him. The coach came in and pulled me off of the kid and told me to go to the office. I was penalized to miss one game of state but I didn’t care.

Games passed and we were moving up and it was about the time for the championship to come and everyone was working their butt off to be perfect because they heard scouts were coming to watch. We were versing the same team that gave me my injury and I was nervous but we had to do what had to be done and that was winning. The first quarter passed and it was tied up 14 to 14. It passed quickly and without a warning it was the last quarter. The time seemed to go by quicker than usual and we had to kick off.

They had scored and we just got the ball with 40 seconds left and everyone was worried about the clock so I had to step in.

“Hey look at me not the clock we can still do this,” I yelled, “So here’s the plan.”

We hiked the ball and this would be the last play of the game they were covered and I had to run it. I went for the middle but it closed so I cut to the right of the field and then the same guy was coming but this time I didn't have the ball once they tackled me everyone stopped except for number 28 he started to run and no one was paying attention before the referee blew the whistle for a touchdown. We had to make this two-point conversion to win the game. It was a run up the middle I said hike and I was off straight to the middle but there was a wall so I had to jump.

I closed my eyes and opened them once I heard the whistle I looked at where I was and I made the touchdown we had won state. I got in my car and headed home.

“911 what's your problem,” asked the operator

“There was a crash, the person was perfectly driving and then he lost control and his car flipped,” cried the person.

Michael Jordan

                                                                                                            

Michael Jordan

My story starts with a birth of a kid named Michael Jordan on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. Michael Jordan had a competitive edge at an early age, his father said, “What he does have is a competition problem. He was born with that ... the person he tries to outdo most of the time is himself,” quoted in Biography.com.

Jordan’s dad built a full size basketball court for Jordan and his two brother’s, Michael Jordan started playing basketball in ninth grade.

As time passed Jordan was on junior varsity as a sophomore, and he was a good player, but he was only six foot one inches tall, so his coaches didn’t pay much attention to him and didn’t put him on varsity. After that Jordan took basketball more seriously.

Jordan started growing too and didn’t stop until he was six feet, six inches tall, Michael Jordan’s talent and his desire to excel grew with him too. Michael Jordan attended Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Jordan practiced and went to a basketball camp to be better; when he was there he caught the attention of scouts from the University of North Carolina, who recruited him after he graduated from high school.

While Jordan was at North Carolina he became the best all-around player in the country! He had incredible long shots, short jump shots, drives to the basket, and his soon to be famous slam dunks that were unstoppable.

By the end of his junior year the pros were after him, because he averaged nineteen point eight points per game and led his team to two NCAA tournaments and later the championship in 1983. Jordan was the top scorer on the U.S. Pan American Games team and he led them to a gold medal in 1983.

He was a co-captain and star of the 1984 U.S. Men’s Gold Medal-winning Olympic Basketball team; he also was named All-American in 1983 and 1984.

In 1984 Jordan was signed by the Chicago Bulls, Jordan picked the number twenty three and in 1991, he led them to their first professional basketball championship, where he was named tournament MVP.

Michael Jordan has earned just about every award and honor in the history of the sport, some medals he had won are the NBA high scorer for five years in a row, and his points per game average is the highest in the history of the sport. He also became the second NBA player to score three thousand points in one season.

That wasn’t the end though he played on the All-NBA All-Star First Team and was chosen as MVP in 1988. Jordan has been named NBA MVP, NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and was the first NBA player to win the scoring and defensive titles in the same year!

Jordan’s career total was thirty-two point six points per game average, and that’s what puts Michael Jordan in with the greatest players of all time.

In 1992, the Chicago Bulls beat the Portland Trail Blazers to win their second NBA championship title. Chicago Bulls won the next year, dominating the other NBA’s teams. Michael Jordan lost his father, James Jordan, during a robbery. Later the suspects were caught and convicted of the crime.

Michael Jordan shocked the whole league when he decided to retire from basketball and play for a minor league baseball team known as the Birmingham Barons, as the outfielder for one year.

On March 1995 Jordan returned to the NBA and rejoined the Chicago Bulls. They won the championship against Seattle Sonics in 195-96 seasons. The same year Jordan was in the movie Space Jam with Loony Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

The following season Jordan averaged thirty point four points per game, and of course Michael Jordan started every eighty-two game in the season, he helped the team win seventy-two wins out of eighty-two.

The Chicago Bulls won the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz, which will later verse in the 1998 championships and win for the second row against them. Jordan retired after the 1997-98 season but he didn’t leave sports for too long.

Jordan joined the Washington Wizards as an owner and a president of basketball operations, in 2001 Jordan released those roles and played two seasons as a player for Washington Wizards before giving up his jersey for good in 2003.

Jordan bought a share of the Charlotte Bobcats and that same year him and his wife Juanita Vanoy ended their marriage. They got divorced in the year 2006. They have three kids named Jeffrey, Marcus, and Jasmine Jordan.

Jeffrey has followed in his father’s footsteps and played basketball, Jordan and his ex-wife supported their son and tried to help him, but he wanted to do it by himself.

In April 2009, Jordan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; even though his career was over he still was active in the sport because of his share with the Charlotte Bobcats.

In my opinion Michael Jordan will always be the best player in the league and will never be forgotten.

October PPOW

October PPOW

It was cold in the crate; he didn’t know where he was, but he knew he was soon to meet the end. He didn’t know what to do; it’s been days since he ate, his stomach was like a chainsaw rumbling inside him. Suddenly the crate opened and people came in, they grabbed him by his collar and dragged him out. They threw him in a heavily guarded truck, he knew he would soon perish, so he mustered up as much strength he could get and tried to run. Bang! He fell back; the guard closest to the exit hit him with the butt of the gun and he was out.

 He awoke when the car’s tires screeched to a halt. The people took him inside a small undercover base, and then he was there, in front of the man who killed his men and took him for information. The mysterious guy put him in a small-enclosed room with cameras everywhere, then the man asked what his mission was, but he would not answer so he took matters into his own hands. He tortured the soldier until he finally cooperated with him. 

“My name is captain Jones, captain of the team you killed. My mission was to get this hard drive that was taken by some bandits deep in the Amazonian jungle.”

The guy asked what was on it, “That is classified I cant tell you.”

“Why are you stalling?” said the guy.

“I’m not, I’m trying to think here so let me think and be quite. Suddenly there was a helicopter landing and rustling from outside, Bang, the roof of the enclosed base came down, he was saved, he thought until he heard the people talk, he knew they weren’t on his or the other side he made a quick dash for it. He made it out but was lost in the middle of nowhere. He knew they would find him so he had to find the perfect hiding spot where he could hide for awhile.

 Suddenly he heard a noise coming out of a bush, he hoped and hoped it was an animal but he was uncertain about what the strange noise was coming from and then…it was a little village girl and she knew where he was because she was looking right at him. She told him to follow her and for some strange reason he trusted her, he shouldn’t have though because it turned out, she was a leader of her own.

 She makes profits by selling supplies and counterfeiting money and that’s how she built her empire and no one knows her crooked ways except the ones she has tortured.

“Let me out please I didn’t do nothing,” said James.

The girl had a bold and loud voice “Be quiet prisoner”. The girl was thinking about something big but what?

It’s been a year since James seen daylight, He doesn’t know how to escape, but for some odd reason she let him go. There were guys with guns all around him and, then he saw an American helicopter it was a miracle will he be saved. … They went right past the helicopter and back where he came from. James knew they were taking him back to the mysterious man. “Here you go Muhammad,” the guard said. “My good friend how’s it like over there?” asked Muhammad.  The guard said it was fine and said thanks to Muhammad for transferring him to there.

“So you thought you could run away? Pity.” Said Muhammad. “What do you want from me?” “ Its not what I want its what you want soldier, If you bring me that hard drive you can join my team and be set free and be one of us. So what do you want to do? Agree and not die, or disagree and be shot point blank?” “Okay I’ll do it don’t shot,” cried James. “Good now go,” said Muhammad.

James started to run to the deepest part of the jungle, he saw a base and a whole bunch of armed bandits and planted a bomb, than he found a rock to use to make the guards go to the bomb to see what it was, and bang they fell within a second, but that bomb didn’t kill them, it just knocked them out and when the people came out to see the bang. When they came out James snuck right past them into their base.

He found where they were hiding the hard drive and then he went for it, but all of a sudden an alarm went off and he had to hide, plus they were probably surrounding the area as he thought.

They came in and the hard drive was gone and so was James. There is something you don’t know about James, he was trained in the navy seals so he can go without being seen and he trained two years to be finally ready to do a mission. He escaped with ease and stopped for a while and then ran, but not to Muhammad, he went to his extraction point.

He had to hide sometimes but it was pretty easy until he got there, he had to get past a bunch of guards that were trying to get into the plane. He had a grenade but that would mess up the plane and they would all be stuck there so he had to do the old fashion way. He got in a tree and aimed, shooting them down one by one killing them all, then coming down. The plane had to go up because they were taking heavy collateral damage.

 He had to get to a high point so his only option was a rooftop, he ran and ran and found a village he started to climb with ease up the narrow buildings he got to the top and put a flare down. The plane came he was about to jump.

Muhammad stopped him though they started to fight but Muhammad was playing dirty he pulled out a knife and tried to stab James but James countered it and smashed Muhammad into the roof and they both fell through.

James got up first, but Muhammad recovered faster, Muhammad tried to push James out of the building, and he almost did, but James reversed it, and almost succeeded until they both fell out of it.  Muhammad stabbed himself with his own knife, he pulled it out and he was bleeding badly. Finally, he fell to the ground.

James ran back on the roof, but for some odd reason he wasn’t running that fast, then, he noticed a trap had caught him. The trap went straight up, lifting him and dangling him like wind chimes. He got out his knife and cut himself down and bumped his head and stabbed himself.

He awoke because of the throbbing in his leg, got up and hopped to a roof and the plane was still there, but it was leaving. He had one chance and if he fails it is certain doom, he ran as hard as his leg could let him and he jumped…. He caught the rope with one hand and was uncertain he would be able to hold on much longer.

The person who was in the plane helped him up and they went back to the United States. The person who helped him up was a general-named Frank Boles he was James, best friend, he asked for the hard drive and then said sorry and shot James point blank in the head. Frank Boles said “I found the hard drive and James was killed in action by a sniper bullet in his head and then, that was the end of James heroic mission.”

The End