Patriots Pen

Authors note: I'm writing this topic for the patriots pen, and its about sports, pioneers, presidents, and military. 

Are you proud of my country? When I think of that question, it makes me think of a big, independent, strong, and mostly peaceful, country that makes me safe and proud to I live here. I am proud of my country, because of many different things, like the military, pioneers, presidents, sports, and the patriots of the United States.

 When I say I’m proud of the military, I don’t just mean the military; I mean the army, navy, and all the others too. It means a lot to this country that we are free, and if we didn’t have these people of the military are country would not be like this today. Our special forces have also won lots of important wars for are country, and other countries too. Some of the memorable wars we have won are World War 1&2, Korean and Vietnam's wars.

The United states also have a big history in sports. Are country is the founder of football, baseball, and my favorite sport, basketball. Baseball and football were both invented around the same time (1863-and-1879), but basketball was not invented until 1892, and was not played until the 1900’s. In recent years a couple pro athletes have joined the army in time of need. One of the athletes was an NBA player named Pat Tillman he join the army rangers and later died in 2004, in Iraq. Pat Tillman is not the only one who has done this, there are many more pro athletes who are willing to help are country.

Finally I want to tell you about the pioneers of our country, and how they changed the United States. If the pioneers didn’t come over to this country we wouldn’t be here right now, we would be back in Europe maybe, and we wouldn’t have the great country we call home today. When there were too much people on the east coast, the pioneers were the ones to migrate west.

Once more, pioneers, presidents, military, and sports, are some of the many reasons that I am proud of my country the U.S.A.

Chicago Bulls

Authors Note:since my favorite basketball team is the Chicago Bulls i, i wrote an essay on them.

The Chicago Bulls are one of the greatest teams in the history of the NBA, but they were not always very good. For about 8 years they were one of the top teams but then they fell apart and the two new teams were the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Then in 1984 the Bulls drafted Michael Jordan 3^rd overall, he started to bring the team back to the top. But they always came short of the finals because of the Detroit Pistons. Just Michael Jordan wasn’t enough, so the got players like Steve Kerr, Luke Longley, B.J Armstrong, Scotty Pippen and most importantly coach Phil Jackson. After that the very next season the Bulls won their 1^st championship.

This far into the story you probably know that I like basketball, but you probably didn’t know that all six NBA finals the Bulls appeared in they won all six. The thing that I think is amazing is that they won all six in the 1990’s (90-91, 91-92, 92-93, 95-96, 96-97, and 97-98). In that span Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen became one of the greatest duos in basketball history. Then after that Michael and Scotty were traded away and they became bad again.

Just recently in 2010-2011 the bulls were lead to the NBA east finals but came short to the Miami Heat who had required Lebron James and Chris Bosh last summer. In 2010 Michael Jordan was elected into the hall of fame, and in 2011 Scotty Pippen was too. And that’s the history of the Chicago Bulls. #5

basketball

my favorite sport is basketball, and my favorite teams are the chicago bulls and the OKC thunder. my favorite players on those teams are D- rose, K-D, and russel westbrook. I also like college teams, one of my favorites is UCONN, and jeramy Lamb plays for them.