Journal Four by Tim McGuire

Tim McGuire

English 1109 @ 1:30, M-W

10/05/2020

Journal Four - Tim McGuire

     There are many themes that we learned in this chapter. The most important theme in this chapter to me is mistreated. It all started when Clarett called out Geiger about not letting him go to the funeral. Clarett called him out which made Geiger look like a bad person. So, after the national championship Geiger wanted to try and start some type of controversy with Clarett. Geiger had the perfect opportunity when Clarett had to do a police report because cd’s were stolen from a car, he burrowed (Clarett 153). So, NCAA opened up the investigation saying it was almost 12-thousand dollars and asking how he got the money to buy them (Clarett 154). Clarett writes, “When my attorney and Jim Brown said this was bullshit, that’s what they were referring to. This was some bullshit. And this is where it was obviously personal. Geiger called for the investigation. He called the NCAA about this. He gave me up” (Clarett 155). Overall Geiger used and mistreated Clarett as a human. Geiger only wanted him to win the national championship so he looks good for doing it, he didn’t care for him as a normal person.

     

     The person that had the most influence on me was my cousin Kevin. I looked up to him as a big brother to me. He was in High School still while I was in 6th grade. He played football and wrestled. That’s what made me start playing football because I wanted to be just like him. Even to this day I still look up to him as a role model. He is great husband and dad, and one day I want to be just like him with my own family.

Journal Four- Pietro

 

Pietro Pozzi

English at 1:30-2:30 M-W

10/03/2020

Journal four  

One of the themes that sticked out to me the most in chapter ten is revenge. Clarett, during the winter, borrowed his friend’s car. Couple weeks later, someone stole some CDs from the car’s backseat, which they possessed to the owner of the car. Clarett didn’t know exactly what to do, so he called Tressel and he told him to file a police report about it. Clarett didn’t give that much attention to the situation at the moment because the stuff stolen weren’t even his. Unwillingly, he filed the report in a wrong way, and forgets about it. Halfway through the summer he gets a call from OSU telling him he needed to come back to campus and had to answer some questions to the NCAA about his car-break in. He thinks that Greiger called the NCAA investigation on him as he states: “Geiger called for the investigation. He called the NCAA about this. He gave me up”. (Clarett, 155) Clarett thinks Geiger called the investigation to revenge when Clarett called him a liar the year before. he wanted to vindicate himself and show that he wasn’t the liar but Clarett was. I think the reflection towards the end part of the chapter is important because, he expresses the feelings of his life without football and how this affects it. 

Growing up I had a lot of people that in a way influenced me, but otherwise of Clarett experiences I don’t think I had a lot of negative influencers. The most important one was probably my best friend all through elementary school and middle school. His name is Pietro, we have known each other since preschool, but we only became close friends in elementary school. I always used to go over at his house after school, we would just hang out and pretty much grow up together. I think he had a positive influence on me, we were just teenagers experimenting new things: play, having fun, share things with each other and grow up together.  

Journal 4 Bowman

 Alayna Bowman

English 1109 at 1:30, Mon -Wed

4 October 2020

                                                            Journal Four

            One major theme in chapter ten of One and Done by Maurice Clarett, is betrayal. This theme is portrayed many ways throughout the story. In the story, an Ohio State employee, Andy Geiger betrayed Clarett by starting an investigation into how he got money to buy all of the CD’s in his car. Clarett told them that they weren’t his CD’s and that they belonged to the person he bought the car off of ( Clarett 154). They continued to investigate him, charged him and took away all of the help they had been giving him in school. They betrayed Clarett by letting him help win the championship then kicking him out of the program. Another theme in this chapter is persistence. After all of this they had put Clarett through, he still re-enrolled into classes at Ohio State and tried to play football again too (Clarett 161). Obviously, football didn’t work out for him because Geiger wouldn’t let that happen. 

            The writing is at its best at the end of the chapter when Clarett leads us back into his darkness that he thought he had escaped from. Right when he stopped playing football, he became depressed and begun hustling again (Clarett 162). This really made me feel how he felt during that time and it helps the reader know how much of an effect football had on him. 

            My cousins and sister had the most influence on me as a teen. I am the youngest in my family and was always dropped off at my grandmas house with my cousins. As the youngest, I always wanted to be like the older girls so I did everything they did and learned from them. This was a positive influence because it taught me how to grow up faster than others and they taught me things I needed to know about being an adult. I still go to them today if I need help with things. This relates to how Clarett grew up with his brothers and cousins at his grandmas house as well.

            

Journal Four by Isaac Swert

 Isaac Swert

Professor Lohre

English 1109 at 01:30, T-Th

23th September, 2020

Journal Four by Isaac Swert

In chapter 10 of One and Done there were a few important themes throughout the chapter. One important theme is racism. Clarett worked himself very hard to be a star athlete and then the NCAA and Andy Geiger tried their hardest to prevent Clarett from playing again. Clarett even says “This is when Jim Brown was like screw you too and called Andy Geiger a slave master because he was acting like he owned my ass and could whip me himself or have me whipped by the NCAA”(Clarett 156). This is how he was treated during the trials; he was never given a fair shot. Another important theme is that your past follows you. The NCAA and Andy Geiger were never trying to help him because they just saw him as a hoodrat. Clarett even brings light to this when he says “Yo, you’re not trying to save this kid from the streets---you’re trying to kick him back out onto the streets”(Clarett 156). I thought the writing was the best on page 159 because it talks about his process of trying to get back on the football team even though the odds are against him. This creates a sense of hope for the reader and pulls you in deeper. It also helps you sympathize for him and it puts you on Claretts side during the trials.

In my life, a man named Paul Maynard the Third, or Trey as he likes to go by, was a very big influence on me. I met him during my first job and he became a close friend of mine because he took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. But he didn’t just show me the ropes at work, he also gave me pointers at school and life and even technological help. He has helped me have an appreciation for grammatical structures and vocabulary because he is very strict in those areas. He has also taught me to check the facts of what I am saying by constantly questioning me about the information I share to him.

Works Cited

Clarett, Maurice, et al. One and Done: How My Life Started When My Football Career Ended. Maurice Clarett and Bob Eckhart, 2019.

Journal 4 - Hailey Moore

 Hailey Moore

Snapshot One, My Name ; Nicolas Gottshall

 Nicolas Gottshall

09/02/2020

English 1109 at 1:30, Mon. & Wed.

            

                                                                MY NAME   

            There are many reasons I can find value in my name. My liking to my name was not always the case though, especially at a young age. I have had many struggles with my name from learning to spell it, to the always entertaining substitute teacher's first try crack the puzzles of the names of each student.

            I never knew where the origin of my name came from and always wanted to try to figure it out on my own, but no one in my family's history shared any part of my name. It turned out that I had a great uncle named Thomas that had passed away at a young age due to a car accident. And because of that my mother had given my middle name to me in regards to him. As for my first name the story changes. Do to my mothers absolute random state of mind she carries with her in her mind everywhere she goes, my mom decided to name me after Nicolas Cage. To this day she doesn't know why she did it but it is the leading cause to the bulk of struggles I have had with my name. From a young age I chose to go by Nic instead of Nicolas. This is the weird part for most people. Normally Nicolas is spelled Nicholas. Nicolas Cage doesn't spell his name with an "h". With that being said Nic is not spelled with a "k". My last name comes from my dads side of the family and they originate from Germany. He always told me from a young age that Gottshall meant the guard to gods hall. Whether it was true or not I did not care to much because it gave me a feeling of pride.

            I do not plan to ever change my name. I value and love the people who created it and carried it on to ever considering changing it. My struggles with my name do not compare to other people's. So yes, Something like Nicolas will do.

Journal Two ; Nicolas Gottshall

Nicolas Gottshall 

08/31/2020 

English 1109 

                                                    

                                                        JOURNAL TWO

             My name is Nicolas Gottshall, I am currently a sophomore at The Ohio State University, Marion campus. I am currently studying aviation Aviation and plan to be a commercial airline pilot. My goal is to get piad to travel the world and see and do everything the world has to offer.

             Through the fist 26 pages of The House on Mango Street, the chapter My Name stood out to me the most. The author tells us a story of how she recieved her name from her gret grandmother. She tells us of how wild her great grandmother was and her great grandpa grabbed her up and tied her down, married her. She says ,"she looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow." I feel this applies to so many peoples lives. Everyone wants to live to life they saw in their dreams as a child. But, so often something comes along such as a child or finding the love of your life and everything slows down and we chose to accept the life the world has given us.