“The day the world Became Football”
By: Michael LeBoeuf 5/10/13 Universal Publishing
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Dedication I would like to thank all the support for allowing me to write this book. Also the support of my family, teachers, coaches and friends. Including my motivation of playing for the Huntsville eagle’s 9th grade football team. Being able to go to a nice, clean and safe school. Living in our safe community, there’s no other feeling like being able to succeed and being important
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Table of Contents Dedication
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Part 1 Intro
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‘’Undefeated’’ By: Michael Leboeuf “Buffalo Slayer” By: Michael Leboeuf Positional System By Michael Leboeuf “A Giant Eraser” By: Michael Leboeuf “Black Train” By Michael Leboeuf Part 2:
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Intro “Million Dollar Tree” By Michael Leboeuf “My life and the World” By Michael Leboeuf “The World we know” By Michael Leboeuf “A Firefly in the Night” By Michael Leboeuf Part 3:
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Intro “Hot Air and Cold Days” By Michael Leboeuf “Our Voice, Our Mind, My Soul” By: Michael Leboeuf “Objective fire From Below” By: Michael Leboeuf “Benefit of The Doubt” By: Michael Leboeuf “The Undisiciple Me” By: Michael Leboeuf
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“Undefeated” Nothing like me and my 9th grade football team. Playing for the eagles is a god blessed honor to have. A great school, an outstanding community and most of all a proud town of Huntsville Arkansas. Winning all our games, getting stronger and having fun in between. Where the world challenges us to be our best and accomplish what others set to a standard goal that was never achieved. A chance to be a game changer, a game maker or a dream maker. To be able to thank the coaches that helps us physically and fundamentally.
On August 24, 2013 our 9th grade football team has a game on the schedule poster that every Jr. High football player fears. Not just fear but that deep gut feeling that tells you every day that you think about for the past week, that we cannot win. That’s not true, every player has a motivation that drives them. Some may grind and give up, but giving up is like saying the U.S. cannot win a war that we didn’t start. Everyone must have a positive attitude and voice sayings go out and play your heart out. The score was forty four to forty four with three minutes and twelve seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. With 2 time outs and with possession on our own 5 yard line. The first couple of drives were getting us ten maybe fifteen yards per carry. But when the defense stepped up the challenge had risen to the top, making all eleven of us plays to our maximum. Our coach called a “ 1 on 43 charley sweep” which was a passing play, almost like a hail marry but with a different blocking scheme. We get in the huddle with me playing at Tight-end, as soon as the quarter back snapped the ball; I ran all the way to the end zone and magically caught the ball to end the game.
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“Buffalo Slayer” About a young boy hunting buffalos over comes by a wagon of black slaves. The little boy takes the wagon to his house and finds that we brought home a bunch of slaves. So his family is in shock and nothing he could do. He knows that slaves are dangerous to anyone so he proceeds with caution.
On a sunny day in mid 1800s, I saw a herd of buffalos, my parents needed meat so I decided to go and hunt a small buffalo. While I was in pursuit of hunting I found a camp not too far from the north of our house. I noticed around fifteen black slaves and around twenty American white men with guns and chains. I knew this time was when blacks and whites didn’t get along. So instead of hunting for the buffalo, I climbed down off the little mountain and got close enough so that I could hear them talking. Each slave was forced to chop trees, grow crops or whatever they had to do to survive. I went behind the big wagon train which like a big cell house but on wheels and pulled by horses. I couldn’t get close enough to the slaves to open the cage so I could release them. So I got in the driver’s seat of the big wagon house and started to take off and went straight forward in the woods, I ended up getting lose but when I started looking, I knew where I was, this part of Africa is my home town. I could never get lost here; I know every store, person, or business within fifty mils of here. As I returned home with the big wagon, my parents looked shocked, is what I didn’t know was that it had around five black slaves in it.
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“A Giant Eraser” This story is about erasers everyone use in everyday purposes. Such as schools, jobs, and anything that requires lots of handing writing using a pencil. Then all of a sudden these magical things appear, but I will not mention them until you read the story and find all sorts of magical excitement. Magical things that will curse you forever, and until the end of time. Magic, is just another word for war!
On a bright sunny day, Nov 17, 2043, the air is hot, the wind is cold, strange weather for the tropics in Florida. I have seen worse in many states and places. Millions of erasers are being used for a purpose, one purpose is to clean what sins, marks or trails that we think we got rid of but in reality. It’s still there and always will be, that’s life, once you do something, it stays like that forever. Even though we don’t see it, people in a few decades from now will discover what each and every one of us wrote. Then all of a sudden, these magical guys appeared. Like Harry Potter in the 20 th century from back in the 1400s. He came back in the future to make more erasers for us to help remove our harmful marks that will change the culture. His magical character will be long remembered before the zombie outbreak.
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“Twelve Angry Men” About a jury room with twelve jury’s and all of them must have the same vote. Either Guilty, not guilty or hung jury. In which evidence is the key of the man’s freedom or to be locked up and never see day light again. In which the outcome will be heart pounding. A room full of moist and hot air. A hot sunny summer day where the heat is blasting in your face, where the storms occur the most.
On September 12, 2015, in a hot New York City Metro Complex down town of the governor’s building. We have twelve men, am number nine. Which is called Jury number nine? What is stressful about a jury is that each person will decide the fate of a young man that claims he’s not guilty. We all saw the evidence, in my opinion I agree that he is not guilty, not just because of my gut feeling but because I know when a person tells the truth and when someone doesn’t. It’s the way they react when they do something bad, such as the way they move their eyes when talking to a person. Now it’s down to all of us to decide, all twelve of us voted not guilty. Not because we want a killer if he was one, but to let each and every one of us to show how we feel about one another. Willing to put in the work and have good results.
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“Black Train” About a boy standing at the platform to board the train. You could hear the train whistle a mile away. Then before the boy could get on the train, a gate opened in front of it. Sucking the train out of the air, then demons start appearing. The boy is from a planet called Alibis. The demons are his enemies and he must do whatever means is necessary to survive. I didn’t know exactly where the train was going. After paying my fare, I simply stood on the platform waiting for it whisk me away somewhere, anywhere but here. Than that’s when it happened, a dark raging portal appeared from the railroad tracks and took the train like air. The portal was at least six feet tall and five feet in diameter. It had fire in the rotating back ground, like a gate leading to a different dimension or world of some sort. Never be discovered, as I look through the portal I start to see full powered firry hound dogs coming out of it. I start to run at a fast brisk, but before I get far I see them everywhere. I run inside of the train house, where I see a bunch of men and women that seem dead lining outside for a train that probably will never arrive. I open the door and then all I see is darkness, then my life has ended because of that one place has taken the life out of me.
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“The Million Dollar Tree” A young journey in New York Times. A time when the past was present, a time where time doesn’t exist. A place where living is a factor or even death is a factor in living. This tree grows outside of this man’s house, full of joy due to the money growing out of it. Then, faster than he collect the money, bombs start falling in the New York sky. Bombs falling like rocks, each bomb blowing a block to nothing but dust and the sound of explosions. On January 16, 2014, an awesome tree grew in my back yard. The length was around 100 meters and 50 meters in width. The tree started sprouting in the winter, but not just an ordinary tree, this tree was creating money. Hundreds and thousands of dollar bills. I collected them all in a bag and went in my house and hid it in my closet. Then when I return outside I see Russian troops, tanks helicopters and everything else destroying the city of Manhattan. I hid in my closet as well with the money, I close my eyes and pray and pray just to live a little longer in case I survive the blast if they try and blow me up. Magically no bombs hit me and there I live today as a rich boy playing football for the Huntsville Football Eagles. As a tightend and being the best American citizen I can be and being special on the field of play.
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“My life and the World� Talks about how growing up can be sometimes difficult. How bad life can be at sometimes with people older than you. Its all about decision making, making the right decision will lead to good things. Such as a goal set in life. Being pressured by others and in school by teachers to make deadlines. Growing up can be scary. It can be bad or you will to make wise decisions. Everybody needs to grow up sometime in their lives. It can be awesome for some people, but it is harder in life. You will be pressured more than what you expect, growing up will be hard at some point. I noticed that growing up is not easy in high school, because of all the things they expect out of us. I decided to do good in my early life so that way I will learn to grow up. Then when I got out of school, life got even harder, I had to work, go to college to learn more and be able to play pro football. Even though its hard, you have to show life how hard you will fight to reach your goal.
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“Life without laws” About our lives and everyone else’s life’s without laws. Living in a world that didn’t have laws. This young boy telling us that we should all have laws and obey them. Without laws no one knows what we would do, maybe even go instinct. Or even have a global war fair until there’s no one left. Maybe the world would have peace instead of war, who knows. What would my life be like without laws? I think that living free would be bad for everyone, just like it’s a law to kill each other’s. Now if it wasn’t a law then everybody would be dead or with a war. Every law is the most important, no law is least important. If there’s a law then all of them should be obeyed We would not learn anything new with a law or a group of laws like we have today. People would be hurt, being bullied or who knows even being killed. We should all follow simple rules that sometimes our minds and body’s forget to think about. We might steal something from someone else but even though we never stole something before, our body is forgetting it.
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“The World we know” About a young boy traveling across the states to search America. He goes to Nola to visit his friends, and discover what’s down there. As he’s down there he finds some interesting things
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“A Fire flies in the Night” About a dead devastating island with five boys. Each one of them scared, hungry and hurt. We all came from a plane crash that was supposed to fly across the Atlantic. We got shot down by German aircraft while flying. We ended up waking up on a sandy beach with no food, no supplies and no help. The story starts with us almost dyeing to all of us getting rescued. On a dead devastating island with the light cool breeze blowing. Only the five of us trying to survive day by day. This boy named Fred is the oldest of all of us. The youngest boy is Jalapeño; he is only nine years old. The days are cold; the nights are warm, only sound there is the popping of the camp fire and the ocean tides. It’s the night before Christmas, so we all want to be saved as quickly as possible. Before I got on this island, I was in a place called land of the free. I had a nice house, food, shelter and even family. Ever since that day I have been eating fish from the ocean and fruits from trees. My only wish is to return safely.
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“Hot air and cold days� Is about activities that we do every year, or even anything. Explains about Halloween and stuff that involves family gatherings. Describing autumn season and how fun it is to do stuff. Going outside and taking a hike can help you discover the world even farther. Also telling about the fun anyone can have if they celebrate with others.
Take some time to enjoy some of the sights and activities that come within the autumn season. Have you ever picked apples at an orchard or jumped in a pile of leafs. Maybe you have used a pumpkin, gourd or scarecrow to decorate your home. If the weather is standing to get cold, bundle up and go on a hike. You never know what you may find while on a hike. You may even learn something new meet new friends. Most people meet each other by hikes, or road trips.
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“Our voice, our mind, my soul� Ever wanted to know about the voice, a voice that all of us hear. A voice that can tell the future or retell the past in many ways. About how listening and understanding will help anyone in life. Also about the power element in the voice. A voice that affects us in so many ways.
The voice is the part of our lives. Our situation is how we explain our voice. The voice is a powerful element, how we speak or speaking the words to our chapters in our book of life. Each and every one of us has a script that is written each day. A voice cab effect our situation, by the courage we speak. When one speaks, that voice is affecting others or a situation.
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“Objective Fire From Below” Is about being an objective or unbiased person. Being object is really not possible but some can be unbiased. This story is mostly about how people are, such as their prejudice ways and such. Even being both can sometimes be part of life or just the way the person is. Or even both, it’s still not really possible in my opinion.
Have you ever wondered if its possible to be complete object or to be unbiased. No, its not possible because we cannot be objected in life. It doesn’t make since for a person, since my opinion is set on not believing in it. People cannot judge what I say or do. Even though staying in a vault in my childhood back in 2076. A lot has changed since then, it’s now 2103 and objected or unbiased people are not anymore. Facts and tails are no more than a joke people will buy to hear or know about.
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“Benefit of the Doubt”
Is about benefit or fear for safety for one another? Knowing that anger will destroy us, anger doesn’t help a situation sometimes. Most of the time anger is what causes a person to change his or hers life. Some people may end up in jail or dead, or who knows. We all have the right to shine just like everyone else does.
Do we give benefit of the doubt or act out of fear for own safety? Most people act of fear for their own safety. Some people give the benefit of the doubt, so we all act out of fear from something in this world. Seeking justice doesn’t always help a person. A desire to punish is finding a way to hurt them, such as taking something of theirs away. Like killing a family member, or stealing something valuable. Releasing anger on someone else is not the answer to justice, sometimes justice comes on its own. Our deepest fear is we are not unlighted by the presences that force our daily actions. We’re all made to shine just like our children do. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in every one of us. As we let our light shine, we personally give others permission to do the same.
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“The Undisicple me� Is about the element of the air and world we live in. How we cannot touch air but can feel it. How we can see light but cannot hear it. Ways that we create so unique things that in able us to do incredible things that no one ever imagined. So many ways that we will never understand, not ever because of the incredible world we live in today.
The air is clear but we cannot touch it. The breeze is powerless but cannot be seen. Odor is forceful but cannot be seen or touched. The wind is evil but not harmful to people. Wind is like a sudden beast due to its outstanding nature to mankind. Air is so unique that we cannot understand what we feel when we feel it. In maybe a hundred years or a million, not even mankind will understand what the world we live, see, and touch is created by.
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