Rudy

“Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach is not quitting. If you quit you will regret it forever.”(Top 7 Quotes). This quote said by Rudy Ruettiger explains how you should never give up on your dream. Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger both know this too well. Rudy Ruettiger was a kid who had a dream to play football for Notre Dame, At the same time. Grim lives in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains and his dream was to go to college and graduate. Struggling with money was a big deal for Ruettiger and Grim. Rudy worked for a minimum wage job, helping clean up and stuff around the football field so he was a janitor. He was very desperate and would do anything just to get a job and to be apart of…

First, if my team truly had reached a level of cohesion to give me peace of mind in everyone’s efforts to achieve such a level, it would be evident to my staff and any bystanders that the team exhibited team spirit, which is a “genuine consideration for others” where each athlete displays an “eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all” (Wooden & Carty, 2005). Vividly displayed in the movie Rudy, the team captain (formal leader) took the initiative to not dress out…

nothing to nobody except yourself, and after what you gone through it you haven’t done that by now it ain't gonna never happen.”-Fortune This is a very well known quote from the movie about Rudy, the football player that was willing to try and work his hardest to make it to the college of his dreams, Notre Dame. Rudy’s family never believed that he would make it to Notre Dame. As rudy was a child, he grew up watching the college football team Notre Dame play. Rudy and his dad’s favorite team…

An understanding of a work is only deepened when one attempts to create an imitation. Through this process, I was able to uncover the multiple methods that the author utilized to express love. In order to use an original work as a template, it is imperative that the imitator deeply analyzes the work in an effort to capture the major points intended by the author. I chose to imitate “Song for Rudy Burckhardt” by David Shapiro because it was intriguing to dissect all the repetition. It truly…

I can also see the song jump in again near the end of the novel when Max disappears and when Hans goes out to war, and again when Rudy dies. This song is a slow song, its also a sad song in the beginning and nearing the end its almost like its ok to let go, its ok to feel sad, but in the end you know you’ll be ok type of song. This relates to the book in many ways because of the amount of death that takes place in the novel. It affects the main characters in many ways especially Liesel since the…

profits and they sold $3.1 billion of OxyContin in 2010. Predictably, Purdue Pharma received such a mild penalty seemingly due to political connections. As a private defense attorney, they hired Mary Jo White who developed a notable hard-nosed reputation for prosecuting drug crimes as the former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. In addition, Purdue Pharma hired Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, to handle damage control with the DEA. Giuliani reportedly received several million…

appear more accurate to viewers than the show’s guests. The show opens with dramatic music while red and blue graphics swirling the screen. Todd’s voice introduces the main topics and the show’s guests for that morning. This specific episode that aired October 02, 2016 is titled “A Question of Character.” As the music plays Todd begins “Trump’s Terrible Week. A rough debate, three AM tweets, and an obsession with a 1996 Miss Universe.” Audio of Trump remarking on the former beauty queen’s…

Every president needs a cabinet to meet with on a regular basis to report departments concerns and discuss issues of importance. A presidential cabinet is a group of officers of the executive branch of the federal government. And Donald Trump is planning to stock his Cabinet with a group of ex-presidential candidates and businesspeople who are personally loyal to him. Trumps possible cabinet member appointments are looking old, white, and male. Many of which are qualified to fill their roles in…

always say that Rudy was too small or too weak to play football for Notre Dame, but in the end Rudy did play for Notre Dame. Then there was Rudy’s father who at one point told his son that the people in their family weren’t meant to go to college that they were meant to work and that Notre Dame was meant for people who were rich, and that their family…

Jesse Owens once said, “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort” (“Jesse Owens Quotes”). Rudy Ruettiger - one of the fourteen children of a poor, steel mill worker family - and Shawn Grim - a poor, Appalachian boy from a thieving family - were both dreamers of playing football in college that reached for the sky and different in destinies. They still amazed everyone about what they could…