Worth

          Worth is everything to people. Every ones falls in love with things and people that are worth something to them. No one wants something in their lives that are worthless to them. Something with worth makes people feel happy and good about themselves

           Ill tell you what, something that is worth a lot to me is my Xbox. I really don't know what I would do without it. I've been playing Xbox for about 5 years now and I probably play it way to much. I get judged for how much I play it but I don't really care I think its cool that I play it a lot. One reason its worth so much to me is because every time I play it I always have a good time, well most of the time. Sometimes I will get really mad when I lose a game because I take it so seriously. I've even broken a few controllers from throwing them after I have been so mad from losing a game. no matter what happens in my games though I will always love my Xbox and it has so much worth to me I wouldn't want any other gaming console on the planet I will always stay true to Xbox. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Xbox-360S-Console-Set.jpg. All my friends have Xbox's too and there is nothing better than having an online gaming session and night after school. I would feel really left out if I didn't have an Xbox because I would never get to play with them. Their Xbox's are worth a lot to them too. We always talk about how we don't know what we would do if we never started gaming it is a true passion of ours. 

            This is what I think worth is to people something that they truly love and care about. I just wrote a paragraph about something that a lot of you don't care about at all but worth is very different from each kind of person in this world. If something has worth in someones eyes they must have good qualities, that's what makes up worth. Worth can be anything whether its a gaming console, jewelry, houses, or sports team. One thing that I find really funny is when there are fans that are crazy about their sports teams and the are worth a lot to them but their team is absolutely worthless on the field. I think a great example of people like this are Colorado State fans. They always talk so much trash before the game and can never back it up on the field because they are WORTHLESS. http://nightlifedenver.com/images/2/media/2011/08/29/Travon+Patterson+Colorado+State+v+Colorado+fFnscJYCTiQl.jpg
             Worth is very different for everyone in this world. Worth in someones eyes represents great qualities and gets a person attached. Everyone has different taste in things that are worth something to them.
            

          

Beauty

       Beauty is a something that people see as being perfect to them. Not everyone sees beauty in the same things and thats what makes beauty so interesting. Seeing beauty in a person or object means that their qualities are just something that draws you and you cant get enough of.
       One particular object that I know many people think are beautiful is something that we see every day and that is the Rocky Mountains. I don't see how you cannot think that these mountains are beautiful. Whenever I go out of town and tell people that I am from Boulder they tell me how jealous of me living there. And they go on and on and on about the mountains. How could you say they are not beautiful there are so many different ways that these mountains can be seen. One of my favorites personally is a fresh white powdery snow that falls over the flatirons. Waking up in the morning and seeing that is one of the most amazing things to me it has really never gotten old. Also a nice summer sunset falling behind the mountains is always filled with beauty. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Flatirons_Winter_Sunrise_edit_2.jpg. People see so much beauty in land. Some people even travel places just to look at the view and sightsee. My dad grew up in a small town in southwest Kansas and he would always tell me that there is nothing more incredible than a sunset over the plain in Kansas. I didnt really believe him at first I didnt think a sunset could be that great in Kansas and I think thats what most people think. My family would travel to Kansas a lot to see my grandparents and every time I told my friends that I would go to Kansas they would always tell me how awful it sounded and that they were sorry for me. It was actually pretty funny. Ill never forget the first time I was there on my grandparents farm. It was a summer evening and the sun was about to go down and my dad told me I was about to get a taste of what these Kansas sunsets were all about and I really wasnt that excited. Then the sun started setting and it was actually really incredible.http://mollieshambeaushow.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/sunset-in-kansas-2.jpg.  I told all my friends about the experience with the sunset and they didnt think it would be to special or anything different from colorado. But that is what beauty is all about is the difference people see in everything. No one else can make a decision for you if you think something is beautiful and I think that is whats really interesting about it. It's all in what you see in the object that draws you that makes up beauty.
     

Mentor text work Toughness

       Jay Bilas really has a good outlook on the game of basketball and what goes on outside of it. In his writing he talks about how the game of basketball these days has a lack of toughness. He also talks about how toughness has no relationship to how nice a person is and I think that is interesting because I think most when people think of someone who is tough the first thing that comes to mind is that they are mean or a bully. He also talks about how a lot of coaches look at players bases off their toughness and he believes that having toughness is a very important part in taking your game to the next level and impressing coaches.
       I can really relate to this because pretty much every coach that I have played for has stressed being tough. Jay says in his book that he thinks toughness is also lost in our society and people get many things just handed to them and don't have to work for anything. He considers this to be a very important part in our lives is working for something and going after the things that we want.
       I am about to read this biography about what Jay Bilas thinks about toughness. I am very interested to start reading it and get a better view of his thoughts. He also is a former college basketball player and is an analysis no for college basketball and watch his shows on ESPN all the time. I like what he thinks about the game and I am really excited to get some more in depth thoughts from him

Obsession

       Have you ever felt like you cant get enough of something? That is what obsession is any many people are obsessed with certain things in their lives and cant go a day without thinking about it and that is all they think about. They are overwhelmed thinking or doing the thing that they are obsessed with everyday and its a constant battle not to thing about it. Even myself I will find drifting off in class thinking about the next basketball game that I'm going to play in and how excited I am for that or maybe even the next time I'm going to get home and play xbox. Its these two things that I am really obsessed with and really enjoy doing and that I believe I was leads people to be obsessed with things.

       Sports are one thing that a lot of people are obsessed with. Some people will fall in love with winning and that is what sports are all about and having a competitive nature. Theres sort of a thrill when you do something great while playing a sport just little things about it that people get attached to. Even being a fan or a sport or a sports team can make people obsessed. All they want for is for there team to do well. They become obsessed with certain players on their teams and some want to grow up to be just like them. They love seeing them go out and play well. http://sports.factexpert.com/657-sports-obsession.php  . People who go to games will cheer and talk trash to opposing fans. They get a thrill out of seeing there team do well when they play and that they get to brag for a week on how they won and if they continue to win they will go on and on and on and fall in love with being a fan of the best team in their sport which is basically what obsession is. 

       Some people will take their sports obsessions with their certian team or player to the absolute extreme. After every win the football program and the University of Auburn get all the fans go out to Toomers trees and TP them http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0420/ncf_a_toomers_corner_b1_600.jpg . People get a joy out of doing this and are obsessed with the team winning and also the tradition they have of winning. The University of Alabama are the rivals of the University of Auburn and one man who is obsessed with the football team at the University of Alabama might have just taken things a little too far. One night he went out and poisoned Toomers trees at Auburn. This might not seem like a big deal to a lot of people but the trees at Auburn weren't just loved because fans got to TP them after games but everyone at the University said they trees were very beautiful and many people became obsessed for them because of that reason. When the fan who was obsessed with Alabama poisoned the trees he was basically wanting to show his hatred for the University of Auburn. The people at the University of Auburn were very crushed by this. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9360611/harvey-updyke-freed-ending-toomer-corner-tree-poisoning-case. 

       This may seem dumb to a lot of people but its the love that people have for sports and the passion they carry and the joy that they get when they upset the enemy or see them fall is truly what makes people obsessed with sports. 

Rebel

Rebelling is a very important party about being a human being. I think that people who rebel are courageous because it takes a lot to do something differently or have a different opinion about something then most people do. I don't think someone who rebels against something is always a bad person because some people who have rebelled in recent history have made a big impact on the world that we live in today. I think the perspective of most people who rebel are usually seen as a bad person or citizen. I do believe that this is not always the case. For one example back when the civil war was going on in America the north fought against the south. The biggest reason for this war was the issue of slavery in the south. If the north did not rebel and go out and fight against the south then things could be very different in our country today. There could still be slavery and people that aren't treated equally.  https://www.google.com/search?q=civil+war&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=O8AoUtO2K5HzrAGz1oDIBQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=795#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=krTE76Jwtr1DlM%3A%3BsPLmFoW5wZETzM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fipadinsight.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F09%252FCivil-War-1863-for-iPad.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fipadinsight.com%252Fipad-app-reviews%252Freview-civil-war-1863-for-ipad%252F%3B1024%3B768. Another example of someone who rebelled and really stood up for what he believed in was Martin Luther King. African Americans were discriminated against for a long time in the United States. MLK never took any of it and did everything in his power to change the way the country looked at the issue and to make things right for African Americans. He had to go through a lot of struggle more then anyone could ever think of in order to make things right. People like this I really look up to. They sacrifice themselves and their whole lives just for a bigger cause and do it for a better outcome and they don't just do it for themselves to benefit but a whole group of people.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. Rebelling is an important part of the world that we live in today. If we didn't have people that rebel then everyone would be the same and do the same things. People who rebel make our world an interesting place to live in. Im not saying that everyone who rebells is a hero but sometimes it is for a really good cause. Some people in our society rebel for awful reasons. For example people who dont like our country do harmful acts on our country. For example when the shooting happened at the showing of batman. Many people were injured during that and it was a terrible act.

Welcome to my Blog

Hey everyone.
My name is Matt Twist. I'm a senior at Fairview high school this year. It's going to be a fun and exciting year and I can't believe that this will be my last year at Fairview! I really enjoy playing and watching sports. My favorite sport to play is basketball. I've been playing this sport since I was in second grade and I have continued to play up to this point in my Life and I still love it. When i'm not playing basketball and I have some free time I enjoying hanging out with friends, family and playing Xbox.

I'm excited about this class. I've always liked writing and love doing free writing about topics that I enjoy. I really hope to improve on my writing because I know that its not perfect. I feel like I have been making improvement in high school. I'm excited to get better and being in this class!