A movie that has influenced me is 1994 classic, The Shawshank Redemption, with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. This movie influenced me to always have hope, even when you are in the worse place possible, or if you're just having a bad day. More people accomplish small victories in their life than big challenges. So, from this movie, I learned to always have hope regardless of the situation and how bad it is. It's hope that drives the soul, and makes the person continue to move on. This have helped me in my voyage in this life, and will continue to aide me as I continue my journey

I think that sports players (mostly football, basketball and baseball players) have the biggest impact on children. As they grow up, many children play sports, and most of them admire a certain athlete that plays that same sport. For me, when I was growing up, A.J. Hawk, for the Ohio State Buckeyes, was the athlete I looked up too. He was a great linebacker, a good football player in general and every time I played football, I pretended to be him. With determination and practice, many of these kids want to be like these sports players, and some end up succeeding. Some plays different sports year round so that they can play the sports that they enjoy. In addition, some of the children try to imagine that they are their favorite player, during a game.  

Rest in Peace, Maria.

This is a picture of Maria Tiberi, an OSU student who died last night in a car crash.  Her father is sportscaster Dom Tiberi.

Maria took my poetry class two years ago and was just a warm, kind-hearted, talented, and fun-loving young woman.  It makes me very sad to hear she is gone.

Her family will need our prayers and thoughts and my heart goes out to them.

Just want to share this news, students, and remind you to please be safe out there in life and on the roads.

Mike

Maria with her father, Dom.  She wrote a lot of poems about him, and kidded with him a lot.

This was our Poetry class at the old OSU campus in Delaware.  Maria is on the far right next.

Welles Crowther

I am writing this blog on Welles Crowther. Welles as a young kid noticed his father putting a red handkerchief in his left shirt pocket. Welles was really close to his dad so he wanted to do the same thing. At age six Welles father gave him a red bandana that up untill his death he always wore. Welles became a firefighter in his early 20's. On September 11 Welles got the news the South towers had been hit so he gave a call to his mother and father stating he was alright and that he was going in to save the survivors. His father worked in the North tower, so he was waiting watching the South Tower knowing his son was in there. Welles was on the 78th floor rescuing survivors carrying the wounded down 30 floors to a working elevator and back up making countless trips. at 9:59 he had made it up to the 103rd floor with a broken arm, cracked ribs, and a punctured lung still getting people to safety. While his father was watching the South Tower hoping his son would make it out, all of a sudden it collapsed. Welles body was found on March 19, 2002 and they could tell it was him because he was wearing his trademark red bandana around his face.

What surprised me the most about this story is how since age six he has worn his red bandana 24/7 during sports games and at school making it his trademark and this is also how he was later identified after his heroic actions.

I don't think I can relate to Welles because  he is more brave than I will ever be. I would like to take some of his bravery and use it in my life to help me become a better person and try and become half the man Welles was.
 

   

William J. Mahoney II was not a victim of the 9/11 attacks, he was a hero. I have always been inspired by stories of brave people who run towards fear instead of away. William Mahoney ran into the World Trade Centers knowing he might have to sacrifice his own life to save others as a Fire Fighter in New York, City. This wasnt Williams first encounter with a plan crash. Before he was a Fire Fighter he was a New York police scuba diver and assisted with the recovery effort for the TWA Flight 800 crash. He was the father of four and a baseball coach. His heroic actions will never be forgotten, especially by is family. Another thing that surprised me was how big his family was. He ran into the World Trade Center knowing how many people who loved him that he would have to leave behind. What I could apply to my own life from Williams is to always be unselfish and giving yourself for the better of others. He was truly a great man and I am going to try and live my life like I know William would.

Christine Lee Hanson

It always surprises me how people could be emptying their hearts from mercy and innocence with deceiving thoughts, thinking to represent the name of God. Christine Lee Hanson was only two years old when the fatal attack happened. She Loved to work in the garden with her father. “After they all done planting, Christine would say to a tree or plant: ‘I bet you are thirsty. Let me feed you and five you a hug,’” Mrs. Hanson said. Eight years ago before the attack, Mr. Hanson whom is passionate about his work and most things he pursued, married Sue Kim, a Korean American doctoral candidate in micro-biology at Boston University. The couple had one child which is Christine. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Hanson, Sue Kim and Christine Lee presumed dead in the crash of an airline into the World Trade Center. This atrocious attack made us learn that ignorance is one the of apparatuses to kill the feeling of innocence and sympathy toward others. As human being, we should put an end to the brutality in ourselves and start to have some logic sense about our actions. 

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”_ Thomas Campbell

Jessica Leigh Sachs

Age: 23

Place of Residence: Billerica, MA

Location on 9/11: Aircraft, Flight 11

Occupation: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Auditer

She is born in April 22, 1978 in Rhode Island. She grew up in Minnesota. She did graduation in accounting (BBA) from University of Massachusetts in December 2000. She had accepted a job at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an accountant and was working long hours there. Every Saturday she went to an eight-hour course for the C.P.A. exam. And on Sundays, as usual, she attended services at New Colony Baptist Church in Billerica, Mass. When she realized that UMass, with 26,000 students, had no Southern Baptist ministry, she helped establish Mercy House on campus. She applied for only two jobs, at the first- and second-largest accounting companies, and was offered a place at each. On Sept. 11, she was flying from Boston to Los Angeles on business, her first trip out West; eight months into her job as an auditor in the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers when she boarded American Airlines Flight 11 on a business trip to Los Angeles. It was her first and last trip in her life.
 I surprised her death which is very quotation.She was very young and she was a nice person who always helps people and children.i like her thoughts for students, and i surprised for her hard work. she goes college and rest of time she does social works which is very hard to maintain time and study.
i am proud to be like her, if i get chance to do something for others i never will loss that and i will survive for my country. i respect to her thoughts, and her feelings. i will do hard work in my study as like her and do social works. life is one and i don't want live only for me, i want to live for others.i want to do something different from others, which will give my familiarization.

9/11/2001 catastrophe.

Waleed iskander ( age 34)

Waleed Iskander was a inspiring rare and remarkable person who managed to touch the lives of everyone around him and in his fieldwork. His homeland was originally from United Kingdom, London. And came to New York as a chief of digital strategy for Europe, monitoring group. Waleed was located at the AA fight 11 group on that day. He had many interests and he believed in living his live to the fullest. He loved all sorts of activities such as traveling to different parts of the globe and spending time with his family and close friends. He was an admirable person known for his kindness and compassion around everywhere he went to. He had high ambitions to succeed as a top chief digital monitoring group and was a liable and loyal family person.

        
In researching the victims of 9/11. I came into an enthusiast explorer who was a leading global strategy consultant. He served his life as as a leader and died as a warrior. The thing i found interesting about this person is his accomplishments and attributes in his community as he was a foreign coming to America he went to Harvard where he grew knowledge and became inevitably courageous. The main thing that surprised me is how he was on vacation going to see his mother the day he died. He happened to be on one of the hijacked plains in American airlines flight 11 when the unthinkable happened.

This consultant was a role figure in which he was a hardworking intelligent foreign who managed to graduate from one of the top universities in the country.His wide ranges of compatibility helped him reach his goals and I admire his efforts and achievements in life. He taught me a lesson to always work hard and dream big because the world is the limit and you can control it with your opinions and actions. He also showed me how family comes first in everything and traveling is a way of life even as a busy worker.