DO NOT POST COMMENTS UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO

AS OF 2/26 STUDENTS ARE NOW GIVEN PERMISSION TO POST THEIR COMMENTS.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUOTES FOR IRP

Choose a quote with a KNOWN author.
Your quote should be set up in the following manner.

Choose an appropriate title for your quote post, i.e. Becky's quote about winter, John's quote about happiness

"Put your chosen quote in quotation marks."
List the author of your quote underneath.
Leave a space.
Somewhere in the body of your quote include a picture that enhances your quote post.
Key in some background information on your author or something interesting you discovered about your author during the research of your quote that would be of interest to your peers.
Key in why you chose this quote, and/or why it has meaning to your life, etc.

Please have all quotes posted by the end of week 5.
When all quotes have been posted, I will instruct you to make comments (minimum of two). Pick two or more quotes by fellow classmates and add a comment to their post. You may comment on their quote or on their author or on the information they shared. Comments should be posted by the end of week 8.

Inappropriate quote posts or comments will not be tolerated and will result in a failing IRP grade. Build each other up, not tear each other down.


Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Have to believe

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
Joe Louis

Joe Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914. He and his family are cotton pickers from Alabama; they fought against poverty for many years. Joe and his family moved to Detroit in 1924, where Joe became a professional boxer and was known as “Brown Bomber”. Joe won the Golden Gloves of heavyweight, and within the year he won 12 contests. On June 19, 1936 he had the most painful fight of his life against Max Schemling. After 1938, the year of defeating Max Schemling, Joe became the world champion. In 1942 Joe joined the army for four years and worked as a physical education teacher. Louis retired in 1949 still as heavyweight champ. He knocked out 5 heavy weight champions and is a powerful part of the boxing history for many decades to come. When he died in 1981, Joe Louis was eulogized - and continues to be known as one of the greatest prizefighters of all time.

I chose this quote because you have to believe in yourself. If you want to become something great you should believe and work hard to get where you want to be. Every one wants to be remembered as doing or being something great, but no one wants to put forth the effort to be that someone. So, otherwise if you want to go to heaven, or you're thinking about it, you should trust and believe.

4 comments:

$~*VaniLLAnGE1*~$ said...

Coty,
I think your quote is the most famous quote of all (he he).
A vast majority of the world wishes for that.
Good choice Coty.

Ariston said...

Your quote is absolutly correct. I often think about going to heaven and what it would be like to have no worries, and to always be happy, but I CANNOT and DO NOT want to think of death. It scares me to know that eventually it will happen and Gavin will be left w/o a mommy. Good choice!!

Miranda said...

What a great quote! This one even caught the eye of my husband. I think that in life people tend to forget this. What a great quote!

Danielle said...

This is so true, I don't I know anyone that wants to die, but if you ask them were they wont to go they say heaven, great quote!!!