Learning From Mistakes The Pact and The Gridiron Gang Essay

It is human nature for everybody to make mistakes. Some mistakes are as little as a typo that can simply be whited out and corrected. Some as big as infidelity in a relationship. Some mistakes are easily forgiven and others not so much. But there is one thing for sure, if mistakes are never made, a person will never know their true purpose in life. Now of course most mistakes you will have to pay for but, every great person has made some sort of mistake to get them where they are now. Every mistake in life is a lesson that contributes to making people successful. The Pact is about three young men (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt) growing up on the streets of Newark, New Jersey around the 1980’s and follows them up until†¦show more content†¦After being straight defiant, he picked the slab up and it immediately dropped on his foot, breaking every bone is his foot. As he sat in the hospital room, looking at the x-rays of his bones, he began to ask the doc tor all kinds of questions about the formation of the bones and the ways they could be broken and so on. It was there with his broken foot that he realized that he wanted to be a doctor, and from that moment on he lived his life chasing the dream of being a doctor. Had he never dropped the slab and not listened to his brother, he would not have realized his life dream The Movie The Gridiron Gang is about a group of Compton teenage boys, who have all been convicted of felonious crimes. The crimes range from murder, to drug dealing, to armed robbery and everything in between. All of the boys have been sent to Kilpatrick Detention Center, Where Sean Porter and Malcolm Moore are the overseers. Sean is a former football star, so he believes that bringing a football team to the detention center will teach the boys some unity and discipline. Mr. Porter’s supervisors are very reluctant to let the program be started because after all, they are a group of convicts. After a while of begging, Sean is allowed to start the football team. At first many of the boys are reluctant to play. Most of them are from rival gangs and rival neighborhoods and refuse to be on the