Basketball hooter

My names James Saunders I am a junior at ridge wood high. I play on the basketball team and our basketball team has not made the playoffs or got a state championship since i was on varsity when i was a freshmen. I mad varsity when i was a freshmen everybody was surprised but i wasnt i knew i had the skills to make varsity i was also a starter so i was really one of the best things going in ridge wood high. It was my junior year and i was determined to get a state championship.

Me and my coach are very close with each other he's known me since i was just 7 years old. He was a math teacher for the ninth graders. When it was lunch time i always went to his room for lunch and we would just talk. He told me he needed to tell me something very important and he didnt want me to say anything to anybody. He told me that their was a 6'5 shooting guard coming to our school that he recruited from France, he said when he went to France for his vacation he said that he went to the courts and the kid was just good and he said that he was a 6'5 ripped guard that had handle and could shoot and his handles were amazing. Coach told me that his name was Ron Paul. I was a little jealous at first because i was the star of the team but i just thought to myself and it would be nice to actually be nice to have some help and i was just thinking that we could just go all the way with just to really good players and a good team also this year to help us out. Coach told me that he was coming in one week but we wanted him to be a suprise to everyone so he was just going to be a regular new kid at the school but when ball season came around he would share the spotlight with me.

It was a week later it looked like Ron was getting more comfortable he was making friends and even becoming friendly with teachers. I noticed Ron started hanging out with a very bad group of kids, they were actually a big group of bullies. I didn't really pay attention because i thought that Ron was a good kid and he wouldn't let the group he was with influence to do any bad things at all.Ron started to kind of bully some kids with the group he was with but i didn't really care for it it looked like he was just playing because he had a big smile on his face when he was doing the whole thing.

Tryouts were today and their was a boat of new freshmen trying out and a few sophmores and like two or three juniors. I was exited i was hanging out with mostly everybody from last years team we were on th bleachers gossiping about all the new people that were trying out, Then we seen Ron the biggest kid out there putting up a few shots and i watched him he only missed one shot in the whole half hour that everyone was warming up for tryouts. Coach collins blew the whistle and told everyone to go to the baseline. Their was three other coaches with him coach williams, johnson, jennings. They were asking everyone for names and grades. Coach johnson and jennings took care of the freshmen and sophmores because they were automatically on junior varsity. Coach collins and williams took the juniors and seniors. We went to a different gym from the jv players so we could have a whole court to ourselves. Coach broke us up into four different teams. Me and him went at it shot after shot with each other.

The next day the team was posted me and ron were the first two names up there. We had practice but while i was in the locker room i heard ron and someone else surprisingly i seen him trying to take some kids money but i thought he was just playing. Time passed and we were getting ready for our first game. Ron seemed to be more aggressive with everyone in practice and was started not be the nice guy i thought he was. After our last practice ron was in the locker room before everybody going through bags and everything i didnt pay attention. Today was the day of our first game. It was first block i seen ron in my physics teachers class going through his bag while my teacher just watched then he started beating my teacher up after he had taken all of his stuff. Ron and my physics teacher were really close with eachother so i thought they were just playing so i didn't pay any attention to it all.

Today was our first game everybody had on the school colors red and black. It was the end of the day and it was game time. Everybody was in the locker room getting geared up. I was talking to Will he was on the team last year and hes a junior. He told me if i knew about what Ron was doing to other students and guys on the team. He said that he was stealing and taking everybody's stuff bullying everyone also. I wasn't really surprised i believed how couldn't you. He hung out with a group of bullies I've seen him take peoples stuff, but i would hold all that off until after the game. It was game time me and Ron were in the back court. We got the ball first after tip off. Me and ron went off in the first half i had 25 and he had 24 points. the score was 55-50 we were up. We came out of half time ready to play. Ron went off and scored another 20 points i scored another 22. game was close 108-110 with eight seconds left. We let our point guard try and take the last shot he rushed up the court with the ball and he took a quick pull up and it rimmed out. I looked at ron at the end of the game he was so mad. Once everyone left the lockers Ron was still in there with our point guard i heard slamming and everything i ran over pulled ron off of him and i had to slam him down and tie him down until my coach came. Once he did he took ron but i had heard ron had ran away from the police and our coach and was never seen again. People sometimes like taking up the fame and when that happens they get into themselves.

Tying Tiger is very exciting and funny. I think this folklore is for all ages. I recommend this to mostly teenagers. http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas001.htm

1. Tying Tiger. a. The Fish-basket.

George Parkes, Mandeville.

One great hungry time. Anansi couldn't get anyt'ing to eat, so he take up his hand-basket an' a big pot an' went down to the sea-side to catch fish. When he reach there, he make up a large fire and put the pot on the fire, an' say, "Come, big fish!" He catch some big fish put them aside. He said, "Big fish go, make little fish come!" He then catch the little fish. He say, "Little fish go, make big fish come!" an' say, "Big fish go, make little fish come!" He then catch the pot full an' his hand-basket. He bile the pot full and sit down and eat it off; he then started home back with the pot on his head and the basket. Reaching a little way, he hide the pot away in the bush an take the basket along with him now.

While going along, he meet up Tiger. Now Tiger is a very rough man an' Anansi 'fraid of him. Tiger said to him, "What you have in that basket, sah?"--speak to him very rough. Anansi speak in a very feeble voice, say, "Nothing, sah! nothing, sah!" So both of them pass each other, an' when they went on a little way, Tiger hide in the bush watching Anansi. Anansi then sit down underneath a tree, open his basket, take out the fishes one one, and say, "Pretty little yallah-tail this!" an' put it aside; he take out a snapper an' say, "Pretty little snapper this!" an' put it one side; he take out a jack-fish an' say, "Pretty little jack-fish!" an' put it one side. Tiger then run up an' say, "Think you havn't not'ing in that basket, sah!" Anansi say, "I jus' going down to the sea have a bathe, sah, an' I catch them few 'itte fishes." Tiger say, "Give it to me here, sah!"--talk in a very rough manner. An' Tiger take it an' eat them all an' spit up the bones. Anansi

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then take up the bones an' eat them, an' while eating he grumble an' say, "But look me bwoy labor do!" Tiger say, "What you say?" Anansi say, "Fly humbug me face, sah!" (brushing his face). So booth of them start to go home now with the empty basket, but this time Anansi was studying for Tiger. When he reach part of the way, Anansi see a fruit-tree. Anansi say, "What a pretty fruit-tree!" (looking up in the tree). Tiger say, "Climb it, sah!" (in a rough manner). So when Anansi go up an' pull some of the fruit, at that time Tiger was standing underneath the tree. Anansi look down on Tiger head an' said, "Look lice in a Brar Tiger head!" Tiger said, "Come down an' ketch it, sah!" Anansi come down an' said to Tiger he kyan't ketch it without he lean on the tree. Tiger said, "Lean on the tree, sah!" The hair on Tiger head is very long. So while Anansi ketchin' the lice, Tiger fell asleep. Anansi now take the hair an' lash it round the tree tie up Tiger on the tree. After he done that he wake up Tiger an' say that he kyan't ketch any more. Tiger in a rough manner say, "Come an' ketch it, sah!" Anansi say, "I won't!" So Anansi run off, Tiger spring after him, an' fin' out that his hair is tied on the tree. So Tiger say, "Come an' loose me, sah!" Anansi say. "I won't!" an' Anansi sing now,

"See how Anansi tie Tiger, See how Anansi tie Tiger, Tie him like a hog, Tiger, See how Anansi tie Tiger, Tie him like a hog, Tiger!"

An' Anansi leave him go home, am' a hunter-man come an' see Tiger tie on the tree, make kill him. b. The Storm.

Vivian-Bailey, Mandeville.

Brer Tiger got a mango-tree in his place. Brer Nansi go an' ask if he could sell him a ha' penny wort' of mango. Brer Tiger say no. Brer Nansi well want de mango. Brer Nansi say, "Law pass dat eb'ry man have tree mus' tie on it 'cause going to get a heavy storm." Brer Tiger say, well, mus' tie him to de mango-tree. After Brer Nansi tie Tiger, climb up in de mango-tree, an' eb'ry mango he eat tak it an' lick Brer Tiger on de head. After he eat done, he shake off all de ripe mango an' pick dem up go away leave Brer Tiger tie up on de mango-tree.

Brer Tiger see Brer But pass an' ask Brer But to loose him. Brer But say dat he kyan't stop. Brer Tiger see Brer Ant passing,

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ask Brer Ant to loose him; Brer Ant say he kyan't depon[1] haste. Brer Tiger see Brer Duck-ants passing an' ask him fe loose him. An' don' know if him will loose him, for don' know if him will put up wid him slowness, for Duck-ants is a very slow man. After him loose him, Brer Tiger tell him many t'anks an' tell him mus' never let him hear any of Duck-ants's frien's pass him an' don' call up "How-dy-do."

Brer Nansi in a cotton tree were listening when dey talking. De nex' evening, Brer Nansi go to Brer Tiger yard an' knock at de door. An' say, "Who is deah?" an' say, "Mr. Duck-ants's brudder." An' dey tak him in an' mak much of him, get up tea because it was Mr. Duck-ants's brudder, an' after dat go to bed. In de morning provide tea for Mr. Duck-ants 'fore he wake, an' when he wake an' was washin' his face he got to tak off his hat. An' Brer Nansi is a man wid a bald head, an' dey got to fin' out it was Brer Nansi an' dey run him out of de house.

Friday after next

There are many virtues to Ice Cube. He can somehow record albums, perform at shows, and appear as the token gangster in a million bad movies. Also in the case of Friday After Next, he finds the time to write, produce, and star in a story about stupid cops, racial stereotypes, bad jokes, and also weed.The first act is delightful enough, as hangin' with Ice Cube's Craig feels like checking in with an old friend. His crazy dog-catcher father returns, as does big bad Debo, played by Tiny Lister. It is Debo's escape from prison that convinces the highly worried father to ship Craig off to his rich uncle's house for safe keeping, a la "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air community." Craig does his best to adjust to this new life. He hangs with his cousin Day-Day, played by Mike Epps, who wins a silver star for trying to fill Chris Tucker's clown shoes. Epps does admirably, stuttering, stumbling and falling down performance.

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cast

Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Don 'D C' Curry, Anna Maria Horsford, Clifton Powell, Bebe Drake, Sommore, K D Aubert, Katt Williams, Maz Jobrani, Terry Crews, Joel Miller, Reggie Gaskins, Lou Myers, Ricky Smiley, Michael Lamone Bivins, Emilio Rivera, Lileé Anderson.

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Plot and settings

Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track him down.

Year of the movie

This movie was made in 2002.

Rating

Friday after next was rated 5.3 out of 10.

Writer/Producer

Ice Cube was producer and writer.

What did you dislike about this movie

The only dislike i had about this movie is i think Mike Epps should of had a more jokes.Its not as good as the first original Friday. I think they should of did this movie with also hilarious Chris Tucker. I think they should of had a little bit more play with the Joker brothers. I also think that Mike Epps (Day Day) should of played the same character trait as smokey from Friday.

Who do you recommand this movie to

I would reccomand this movie to the black and hispanic audience. Mostly the white audience. I said mostly the white audience because this movie was produced by a black group people. If you let a whole different group of people watch this movie they might like because its different then other movies they usually watch. Its also better to get a review from a different crowd of people b ecause their review on the movie might be different from everybody elses review.

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

"Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally gotten jobs as mall security guards and moved into their own crib. When a fake evil Santa Clause robs their rundown apartment on Christmas Eve, they embark on a comical adventure in an effort to track down the bandit and retrieve their stolen toot." Meanwhile Day-Day's rent-a-cop tactics cause them to continually miss their chance to catch the Santa Clause and instead has them squaring off against innocent caroling ladies, shady neighborhood kids and the police!

Moral/Message of movie

With a new job comes responsibilities so you have to take care of it. In this movie Craig and Day Day end up screwing around and get in trouble with people they really shouldn't be messing around with. So the message is really just to take care of responsibilities for having your own job.