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June 25





Paul Younger

Paul "Tank" Younger was born on this date in 1928. He was an African-American football player and administrator.



He was a graduate of Grambling State University playing running back/linebacker 1945-48. Paul Younger started at Grambling at tackle, but it didn't take then young coach Eddie Robinson long to see that Younger's size and quickness was better suited in the backfield. There he earned the nickname "Tank" by running over everything that got in front of him. A record-setting career in the backfield and at linebacker earned him a spot on the 1948 Pittsburgh Courier All-America team. "Tank" was the Tigers' leader on offense and defense.



As a freshman, he led the nation in scoring with 25 touchdowns, scoring many times on an end-around play. In his junior year, he rushed for 1,207 yards and scored 18 touchdowns. Younger also completed 43 of 73 pass attempts, 11 for touchdowns. His career totals show 60 touchdowns, which, at the time, was a collegiate record. After his senior season, he was named Black College Football's Player of the Year. After college, he wasn't drafted to play professionally and was labeled a 500:1 shot to make it in the pros. He became a free agent, signed with the Rams, and opened the door to a new talent source, becoming the first player in the NFL from a "Black college."



He had a very successful NFL career with the Los Angeles Rams and the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning Pro Bowl status five times. He became the first Black player to play in an NFL All-Star Game, and after his playing days, went on to become the league's first Black assistant general manager in 1975. He lived in Los Angeles, California until his death on September 15, 2001 at the age of 73.

Prince Caspian book report by: Marcus Bradley

 

Marcus Bradley

Reading

February 5, 2010

Book Report



Introduction

This story is about a rivalry that started within the Caspian family where the current king who now rules over Narnia is very upset at the fact that he is not considered to be the real king of Narnia; he knows that Prince Caspian is the rightful heir to the throne and Prince Caspian is in danger of losing his life to this fake king.

Plot

Also King Miraz hates the fact that Prince Caspian has the Narnian people on his side and he wants him dead because Miraz now has a son of his own. King Miraz intends to have his son take Prince Caspian’s place as the new heir to the kingdom of Narnia.

Meanwhile the four Pevensie siblings Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are at boarding school in England. They are magically pulled back into Narnia on a nearby beach where they discover a castle they once lived in and found their weapons they kept stored in a treasure chest and for their protection they put them on.

Thereafter Susan noticed that her battle horn they used to summon for help was missing from the chest and they started their journey without it inland to Narnia. On their way to town they rescued Trumpkin, a Narnian dwarf, who was being attacked by some of the king’s men who wanted to drown him by the castle where the children were.

Trumpkin is a friend of the Pevensie family and he wanted to repay them for their help by telling them about the Telmarine, a new enemy that has took over Narnia by force and they work for King Miraz and Queen Pruniaprismia.

Conflict

King Miraz only received the throne by killing his own brother King Caspian the ninth and the only reason he even put up with Prince Caspian for so long is because he was waiting for his own child to be born. Now the conflict begins because King Miraz is attempting to kill his nephew and until that point Prince Caspian never knew what his uncle was really up to.

Now fully aware Prince Caspian gets help to escape the king and hide until help arrives he must remain hidden in order to stay alive.

King Miraz has gathered his army and ordered them to find and kill Prince Caspian.

Resolution

Prince Caspian was helped by Doctor Cornelius, his tutor who helped him escape; he also taught him about the ways of Old Narnia.

Cornelius gave the prince, Susan’s horn as he left to hide in the woods only to be knocked out by his scared horse that runs away from him.

When Peter and the others found out about Prince Caspian they search to find him to join forces with him to defeat King Miraz and his Telmarine army.

More importantly, as Trumpkin and the children search for the prince; Lucy stumbles onto a path that leads to Aslan in her dream. What Aslan told her was to lead the others to him because he can give more information on how to stop the possible war that is going to happen.

At first the others were not ready to believe Lucy but they did listen to her in the end and followed the path given to her in the dream. As they moved closer to Aslan they noticed clues that helped them know that they were on the right path like seeing Aslan’s shadow was one of the clues and then as they moved closer to the end of the path they saw Aslan himself.

Aslan commands the others on what to do by splitting them up to do different task so they can defeat King Miraz and his army. Aslan follows Susan and Lucy because Lucy is too young for the battle that is about to happen. He sends Peter, Trumpkin, and Edmund to the castle to find King Miraz to kill him to restore peace to Narnia but it will be a tough task because King Miraz will not go without a fight.

On the way to the castle Peter and the others run into Prince Caspian by accident and they start to fight each other. Caspian realizes that Peter is the high king during the fight and the fight ends with them joining forces together.

2nd Conflict

Now they are off to the castle where King Miraz is sleeping; the king is not aware of their plans and he is not ready for them. When they get to Narnia Susan is already there to help fight off the Telemarines from interfering with their plan to kill the king.

The team kills the guards who protect the king’s castle and Prince Caspian tries to kill the king himself but was not successful because he was scared. The king is now aware that the prince and his friends are there to kill him so the king gets his army ready for battle but so is the high king Peter and the Narnians.

Eventually, Peter challenges King Miraz to a single one-on-one fight for total control of Narnia. The cocky King Miraz accepts the challenge thinking he can win easily against the high king Peter. The battle ends by King Miraz being killed by his own man who only wanted to fight the Narnians but he was then killed by Peter.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Aslan pushed two trees together so the Pevensie’s can return to their world and go back to boarding school. Prince Caspian is now high king of Narnia and peace is restored in the kingdom once more. The evilness that went on there is gone for now and the Pevensie family returned to their home in England.

This story was great because it deals with life and adventure; what readers can learn from this story is the battles and challenges we go through as a way of life. I think we can learn a lot from their story.