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Pink Floyd Sentence Combining

Combine each grouping of sentences into one sentence using all of the sentence combining tricks at your disposal.

1.         The sky is reddened by a typical Midwestern sunset.

2.         The sky begins clouding over just before dusk.

       The sky begins clouding over just before dusk and the sky reddened by a typical Midwestern sunset but no threat of rain can stop something.

3.         But no threat of rain can stop something.

4.         Twenty thousand rock fans flock to Cincinnati’s River-front Coliseum.

5.         They are coming to see and hear Pink Floyd.

       Twenty thousand rock fans flock to Cincinnati’s River-front Coliseum to see and hear Pink Floyd.

6.         The concert is still three hours off.

7.         The concert has already attracted early birds.

8.         There are several thousand of them.

9.         They are all decked out.

10.         They are wearing their best rock-concert, faded blue jeans.

11.         They are wearing their best rock-concert, tie-dyed T-shirts.

12.         They are all keyed up for the high-energy Pink Floyd show.

       The Concert is still three hours off and the concert has already attracted early birds because they are all keyed up for the high-energy Pink Floyd show, they’re several thousand of them with their best rock-concert faded blue jeans and tie-dyed T-shirts, they’re all decked out.

13.         There are newcomers to the rock scene.

14.         Their newness is obvious.

15.         They wander about.

16.         They gawk at the others.

17.         They are conspicuous.

18.         They wear neatly pressed checked slacks.

19.         They wear expensive shirts.

       There are newcomers to the rock scene, they wander about and they’re newness is obvious, they gawk at the others, they are conspicuous, they wear neatly pressed checked slacks and expensive shirts.

20.         There are loners.

21.         Their eyes are barely open.

22.         Their arms dangle uselessly at their sides.

23.         They weave aimlessly around the circles.

24.         The squinting is so they can steady themselves.

       They weave aimlessly around the circles, their eyes are barely open and the squinting is so they can steady themselves and their arms dangle uselessly at their sides, they are loners.

25.         There are couples.

26.         They cling to each other.

27.         They are near fountains or in remote corners.

       There are couples that cling to each other near the fountains or in remote corners.

28.         There are real police.

29.         They are not the rent-a-cop breed.

30.         They stride confidently.

31.         They stride in large groups.

32.         They stride among the crowd.

33.         They twirl their billyclubs.

34.         They sweep their eyes over the area,

35.         They look for trouble.

         They stride confidently and are always in large groups looking for trouble, they stride among the crowd, they sweep their eyes over the area, they twirl their billyclubs they’re real police not the rent-a-cop breed.

36.         Hawkers call out.

37.         They call wherever there are crowds.

38.         They try to unload cheap T-shirts.

39.         They try to unload pennants.

40.         They draw only laughter from most concert goers.

       They call wherever there are crowds, hawkers call out and try to unload cheap T-shirts and peanuts but they only draw laughter from most concert goers.

41.         The numbers grow.

42.         There are circles of roamers, couples, and cops.

43.         Roamers swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.

44.         Couples swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.

45.         Cops swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.

46.         The acres of concrete that lead up to the auditorium.

       There are circles of roamers, couples and cops swarming confusedly over the acres of concrete the lead up to the auditorium and the numbers keep growing.

47.         The management realizes something.

48.         The hordes can no longer be contained peacefully.

49.         Then, the doors open.

50.         Waves of fans pour into the coliseum.

51.         They are already tired from waiting.

52.         They are already sweaty from waiting.

53.         They are just in time for something.

54.         They wait out the final hour before the show.

       The management realizes that the hordes can no longer be contained peacefully because they’re all sweaty and tired from waiting out the final hour before the show, some people show up and are just in time, the doors open and the waves of fans pour into the coliseum.

Bobby LeCount

Dedication

            Dedication is when you really care about something and devote most of your free time to it. When I dedicate to something I don’t just show up, I think about it 24/7 and try to get mentally ready for what might happen. And if I don’t think about it all the time it feels like I haven’t played that sport in forever. Its kind of awkward when you get that feeling at first because you know it wasn’t that long ago when you played but it just seems like you need some more practice at your position or need the see the ball coming out of the pitchers hand as a baseball player.

            During the summer I was playing baseball like everyday and then all of a sudden I had like two or three days off and I didn’t think about. All I wanted to do was hang out with friends and go to parties. Just get out of the house and do whatever came my way. Play it by ear so to say. And when baseball resumed it felt like I was whole different player. Being lazy on groundballs, not throwing the ball hard and not seeing the ball out of the pitchers hand as well as I was before our three-day off baseball break. This is why when I dedicate my self to something I have to do it all out. Practice everyday at all the little aspects of the game. Such as going to hit or go take fly balls or groundballs, play long toss with a buddy to keep my arm in shape. But not too much or my arm will get sore.

            The ways someone can be lazy in baseball is not paying attention or during batting practice not running down fly balls or not going after groundballs. Just not going hard. I like it when I’m going all out and I know the person next to me is going just as hard as I am. If everyone does this in practice, I twill translate to the game. I want to know that the left or right fielder is trying as hard as I am, and have trust in that person to make the right play or execute the play. This year I can say that I trust the left and right fielder next to me, since I play center field. One of the biggest question marks in a team is the bench players’. Some guys get mad that they’re not starting and don’t try to get better in practice and when its time for them to go in the game they choke as in not hitting the cut off guy in crucial situations and letting the guy who hit it get on second and letting the double play chance go away. Also by misreading fly balls because during practice they were too busy talking and not trying to get better at it. But this year everyone works hard and when those bench players go in they execute every play and do a good job in what they have to do. Everyone seems dedicated to the team, and it seems like people are having fun playing baseball.

            Most people say that their dedicated to something but I don’t think they’re dedicated on my level. Other people just show up and go throw the motions, I try to make myself better so when game time comes people are scared of me. This year just in the first three games I’ve walked eight times. Pitchers are scared of me. That’s because people talk about me and when its time for me to hit the, opposing pitcher freezes up and can’t throw strikes. I’m not trying to talk my self up but it’s just what I’ve noticed this year. And when I pitch, hitters freeze up cause I’m such a presence one the mound. I mean there are seniors on other teams who have faced me before so they might be comfortable hitting against me but the underclassmen might be a little worried. Because when I hit I try to focus on the pitchers best pitch, focus on what he likes to throw in different situations. His arm slot and how much movement his ball has. Does he slow down his arm on a change up and does he change his arm slot change on curve ball or does it look the same. Does he move his throwing hand in his glove before an off speed pitch or does he hide it well? All these things you pick up when you’ve been playing baseball for a while.

Bobby LeCount

Essay Fun

P.5

Coaching

Without a good coach there’s no stability in a team. A prime example of this is the 2007-2008 Shorewood Baseball Team. We had a lot of talent and were better than what our 13-10 record showed for. There were three or four games where we lost by a couple runs, or made some stupid base running mistakes. I think we could’ve won those games if we put in people who could actually run the bases smartly instead of putting in a little faster person but not as good of a base runner. Having speed and being smart are totally different things. I would rather have a smart runner than having a guy possibly getting picked off and ruining the game that way. If we stuck together and played as team, and not worrying about messing up and getting benched, then we could’ve won those games and possibly could’ve been 17-6, and maybe could have gotten further in the playoffs.

            Even though we had five coaches, we were a little under coached. Our outfielders were pretty reliable and the infield was on lockdown. The pitching was off and on, not very consistent. We hit the crap out of the ball pretty much every game, except for a couple. It was like seeing a beach ball floating to the plate, and when you hit the ball it just float like a paper airplane that would never come down. But our catchers were not good at all and that’s how we ultimately lost in the playoffs, well the one that really mattered. We won our first game in the playoffs by beating Monroe, and the next game would decide if we go to state or have to play another game after that to see if we can go. But in the first game we were up 5-2 against Mountlake Terrace and there was two out in the bottom of the sixth inning, with runners on first and second with a 3-2 count on the hitter. Our pitcher (Cole Clerget) threw a ball and our catcher (Derek Schaffer) decided to throw the ball down to third even when it was ball four. It wouldn’t have been that bad if he threw it to the third baseman (Trevor Mitsui) but he over threw the third basemen, and they got 2 runs off that. So now the score is 5-4. Then the next guy gets a hit and it’s all tied up. We end up losing the game in the bottom of the ninth with a Terrace hitter pulling the ball down the left field line and the guy who was on first scored rather easily. After seeing that runner come across the plate and the Mountlake Terrace team going crazy, my stomach turned and it felt like my heart broke. It was worse than breaking up with your girlfriend. The pain was unbearable; I just wanted to go sit down and do nothing. On the bus ride home no one said a word. I looked around and I saw the disappointment on everyone’s face and I was so close to crying because it felt like I let my team down. Those looks haunted me for months and months. I never want to see those looks ever again, because if I see them then I know I failed in some way.

After we lost we had to play the next day and the whole team was emotionally drained from the game before. We played about the worst we’ve played all season until the bottom of the seventh inning when we scored four runs and ended up losing seven to four.

            If we spent more time on the little things, as in base running, communicating, being disciplined at the plate and not throwing the ball down to third base when it was ball four with two outs, we could’ve won that game against Mountlake Terrace. When we practice everyone doesn’t want to put in the work but that’s the most valuable time so we can get better in those elements of the game. I have always told myself when I’m a senior all the slacking off is not going to fly, and we’re going to work hard every day and be good and THE team to beat in Wesco.

            Over the years I’ve learned that if you really want something you need to work hard for it. This is a prime example of wanting something really bad, not putting out the effort to get it, and coming up short. Since everyone on the team this year has felt the disappointment from last year, we have been as a team, working harder than ever to achieve our ultimate goal; WINNING STATE.  

1. A rant is like when you start off on something and then you keep going on about it and then go to something else and keep going on with that. Like dragging it out. This is a rant because it just keeps dragging it out.

2. A rant is changed in the age of the web by being able to respond to people ideas or rants. Then the person responding will rant and there will be a whole bunch of rants. Link to stuff.

3. Samples because he gives authors that he doesn’t like and talks about them. 

4. focuses on trying to prove his point and starts telling you about the whole thing then goes to specific things.

5. They not bad but not good. If you really care about something and someone doesn’t understand you, then you kind of have to rant in a way.

Being happy is when your in the right state of mind. It’s kind of like happy gilmore, you have to find your happy place. But if things in your are going wrong it easy to go into the wrong state of mind. To stay happy you should hang around people who make you feel good, and don’t always out you down. I try to do that the best I can but sometimes you can’t control every situation. 

1. I was watching the TV when I turned on the news channel and the person who was talking was like dang, “its a hurricane, oh my god its a hurricane”, and I was like dang, “I think I’m going to die”. 

2. I was sitting in my desk day dreaming about getting out of school, when the teacher came over and gave me a wet willy. And I was like dang that was gross.

1. He hooks the reader by comparing the days of his great grandparents and his days and the days to come. 

2. He brings up the wars about his grandfather being in the war class of 1942. Since being in the war he must of saw terrible things.

3. Since 1942 the days of America have gotten better. So why can’t the future be better for him and for the days to come. He’s taking it one day at a time.

4. Tomorrow makes the point of tomorrow will be a better day. I think it’s a perfect title for this essay, because he’s always talking about tomorrow so why not put it as the title.

After hearing T. Susan Changs essay I realized that she uses a lot of imagery. Well maybe not a lot but the parts that stuck in my head were the ones that I was visualizing. Such as holding hands and watching the clouds make shapes overhead. It sounded like even though technology is developing very quickly she can survive with out it. She used it to find her husband which he’s thankful for that and is loving it as far I know.  

My experience with writing has been pretty good. Last semester with Ms. Bemis was a blast. Sometime when i was asked to write and it made a good impression was when Ms. Bemis told the class to write about someone you care about. I wrote about Emmett. He’s been a good friend since the pre-school days. He’s a Homie for life. My teachers have told me to be thoughtful and to put effort into my writing. Also they’ve said to be descriptive in what I’m trying to say. Some writing I’ve done independently would be just about baseball and how the game went. I especially write about Shorewood baseball games. Writing is required in school because well honestly I have no idea. the teachers I’ve had for english have always been hard graders i think they should lighten up a little.

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