Fame Is To Be Earned

Vince Lombardi or Vincent Thomas Lombardi in real life was an American football coach. He was born in June 11, 1913 at Brooklyn, New York, Vince died September 3, 1970 at Washington, D.C. at the age of fifty-seven. He was a great man known for his skills in coaching. He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s. The National Football League's Super Bowl trophy is named in his honour. He led the team to three directly league championships and five in seven years, as well as winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. He was enshrined in the NFL's Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

He`s the son of Enrico "Harry" Lombardi and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo. Vincent’s grandparents on his father’s side, Vincenzo and Michelina came from Salerno, Italy. His mother’s parents (his grandparents), Anthony and Loretta, came from an area several miles east of Salerno. Henry had three siblings and Matilda had twelve siblings. Vince is the oldest among 5 children: Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The clan of both Lombardi and Izzo settled in Sheepshead Bay.

The father of Matilda named Anthony put up a barber shop in Sheepshead Bay prior to the turn of the century. Harry and his brother, Eddie, built a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District When Matilda was about to give birth to Vincent. During the Great Depression, Harry became successful in his business and their family prospered. Vincent spent his childhood in an ethnically-diverse, middle-class area.

The Lombardi family were religious and because of that going to church every Sunday is an obligation. After the mass there will be a compulsory dinner with extended family members and local clergy. He became an altar boy at St. Mark's Catholic Church. Outside of the family’s local region, the children of Henry and Matilda experienced discrimination that lives throughout the time against Italian immigrants. When he was still young, Vince Lombardi usually helped his father at his meat cutting business but he did not like such doings. Because of boredom, he started playing football at the age of 12 in an organized football league with no coached in sheepshead bay.

Vince Lombardi: I am Determined

"This will never happen again. You will never lose another championship." – Vince Lombardi

Lombardi’s first year was not that easy. In 1958 National Football League (NFL) season, the team Packers with the five future MVPs playing on the team finished the game with a record of 1-10-1. This game was the worst in team Packer history. The players of the team were dismayed, the Packer shareholders were discouraged and the Green Bay community were angry with the result. The anxiety in Green Bay extended to the NFL and the financial viability of the Green Bay Packer franchise survival was at risk. On February 2, 1959, Vince Lombardi accepted the position of being the head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers. He created punishment training treatment and accepted complete dedication and effort from his players. In the year 1959, Packers has an instant development, finishing the record of 7-5. Rookie head coach Lombardi was named “Coach of the Year”.

Vince Lombardi: Sweet Victory

It was Vince’s second year as a coach when Green Bay won the NFL Western Conference for the first time since 1944. This victory along with his religious passion led the Green Bay community to give him the title "The Pope". The Packers entered the finals and they were led by Lombardi in 1960 NFL Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Before championship game, Lombardi met Wellington Mara and advised him that he must not take the invitation to be the head coach of the Giants which was offered after the end of the 1959 season. In the final quarter of the game, an execution that would have gain victory was blocked a few yards from the goal. That was Lombardi’s first and last championship game loss. After the game and after the press corps were gone, the team was left alone at the locker room with Lombardi and then he suddenly told them, "This will never happen again. You will never lose another championship." Later on, it was almost a years as coach of the Packers, Lombardi made it to a point to tell personally his running backs that if they did not make it from one yard that would personally offend him and he would look for revenge.

Lambardi would lead their team for victory on 9 post-season games. An incredible record streak or broken until Bill Belichick won 10 in a row from 2002 to 2006. In 1961, the Packers won against the Giants for the NFL title at Green Bay (37–0) and in 1962 at Yankee Stadium (16–7), gaining the first two of their five titles in Lombardi's 9 years of coaching. After their victory in the 1962 championship, Lombardi was called by President John F. Kennedy and asked him if he would, "come back to Army and coach again" but Lombardi gave Kennedy an inferred denial of the request. His only other recorded season game loss happened at St. Louis Cardinals in the Playoff Bowl (3rd place game) after the 1964 season however, it was officially classified as an exhibition game.

Lombardi continued his career to be able to accomplish a 105–35–6 (740 winning percent) record as head coach and he never again experienced a losing season including postseason but without exhibition games. He again led the Packers to win three consecutive NFL championships in 1965, 1966, and 1967 an achievement accomplished only once before in the history of the NFL (by Curly Lambeau, Co-founder of the Packers, who coached the team to their first three straight NFL Championships in 1929, 1930, and 1931). At the end of the 1966 and 1967 seasons, Lombardi's Packers teams would as well set off to win the first two Super Bowls, solidifying his title as, possibly, the greatest coach in football history. Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers towards complete championships in five of 7 seasons.

Vince Lombardi: Legacy

As early as 1967, Lombardi suffered a digestive tract problem, but he refused to take the proctoscopic exam which was recommended by his doctor. It was June 24, 1970, Lombardi was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital and after running some test the doctor found out that he had a “revealed anaplastic carcinoma in the rectal area of his colon, a fast-growing malignant cancer in which the cells barely resemble their normal appearance." On July 27, Lombardi was sent again to Georgetown and exploratory surgery they found out that his disease was fatal. Lombardi was accompanied with Marie (his wife), family, friends, clergy, players, and former players at his room in the hospital. Lombardi received a phone call from President Nixon and he told Lombardi that all of America is here to support him because of that Lombardi answered that he would never quit fighting his disease. Before he died Lombardi told his father Tim that he was not afraid to die but the only thing that he regret was he wanted to accomplish more on his life. He died on September 3, 1970 at the age of 57 and still his name prospered and his title will never be forgotten.

Aristotle: He Was Great

"What is not capable of action cannot do anything by chance" – Aristotle

Aristotle was known as a student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. He was a Greek philosopher and a polymath. Aristotle lived from 384 BC to 322 BC. He was known for his writings. This works of him covers many subjects this includes: physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. In Western philosophy, Socrates which was Plato’s teacher, Plato and Aristotle were one of the most important naissance. Western people believe that Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.

"Almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine" – Russell

Aristotle's visions on the physical sciences deeply shaped medieval learning and influenced extensive into the revitalization. Even though, they were eventually replaced by Newtonian physics but in the zoological sciences, it is proven that some of his observations were established to be accurate only in the 19th century. In the late 19^th Century, Aristotle’s works restrain the earliest known formal study of logic. This was incorporated into modern formal logic now.

"Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?" – Alexander

In middle Ages, metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a deep influence on philosophical and theological thoughts of the Islamic and Jewish traditions and it continues to influence Christian theology especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. Aristotle’s principles gained transformation interest with the modern advent of virtues ethics even though his works is very influential. Nowadays, Aristotle’s works in all aspects were the most reachable philosophy in academic studies. “A river of gold” this words was the word describe to his literature. Even though Aristotle wrote many elegant essays and dialogues, experts thought that the majority of his writings are now vanished and only about one-third of the original works have stay lived.

The Great Professor’s Life

"I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy," – Aristotle

Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs is also known as Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice about 55 km (34 mi) east of modern-day Thessaloniki in 384 BC. His father’s name is Nicomachus, he was the personal physician of King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was taught and educated as a member of the nobility. When he reached eighteen, he continues his education to Plato’s Academy because of that he is entail to go to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy. In 348/47 BC, before quitting Athens Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years.

Aristotle was disappointed with what the direction of the academy took after control was passed to Plato’s nephew Speusippus death. It was said that Aristotle was just feared anti-Macedonian outlooks and left alone because Plato died. Aristotle travelled with Xenocrates with his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor. While he was in Asia, Aristotle travelled together with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos where as one they investigated the botany and zoology of the island. As time goes by, Aristotle married Pythias which is Hermias's adoptive daughter (or niece). After Hermias death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son named Alexander the Great in the season of 343 BC.

The History of the Great Man

"The size of the sun is greater than that of the earth and the distance of the stars from the earth many times greater than that of the sun, then...the sun shines on all the stars and the earth screens none of them." – Aristotle

The great teacher, Aristotle says that “on the subject of reasoning” he “had nothing else on an earlier date to speak of”. Nevertheless, Plato reported that sentence structure was developed before him. Prodicus of Ceos, were more concern of how the correct usage of words was being used. It was said that truly Logic seems to have came out from dialectics. Reductio ad absurdum was used to the concept to their philosophical discussion but never truly understood the logical propositions. Plato comes to the point that he experienced difficulties in logic. Although Plato had a rational conception of a deductive system, he could never really create one and relied instead on his dialectic. Aristotle’s teacher Plato believed that deduction would simply follow from principles. For this reason, he focused on preserving solid principles so that the conclusion would logically follow. As a result, Plato understands that a method for obtaining conclusions would be the most beneficial. He never accomplishes something in devising such method but his best endeavour was published in his book Sophist, where he launched his dissection method.

His Unending Legacy

"For that for the sake of which a thing is, is its principle, and the becoming is for the sake of the end; and the actuality is the end, and it is for the sake of this that the potentiality is acquired. For animals do not see in order that they may have sight, but they have sight that they may see." – Aristotle

After his death, twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle remains one of the most influential people who ever lived because of his contribution to a lot of subjects. According to one philosopher named Bryan Magee said that “it is doubtful whether any human being has ever known as much as he did". Aristotle originated the formal logic; he was also the pioneer of the study of zoology and left every future scientists and philosophers in his liability throughout his works and contributions to the scientific method.

"Nothing is more remarkable than [Aristotle's] efforts to [exhibit] the relationships of living things as a scala naturae” - Charles Singer

Regardless of his achievements, Aristotle was said to be human, committing some mistakes. By his influence, Aristotle's errors are painstaking by some to have thought back science significantly. Bertrand Russell said that "almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine". He also refers to Aristotle's principles as "repulsive" and calls his logic "as definitely antiquated as Ptolemaic astronomy". Russell also said that these errors make it hard to do historical integrity to Aristotle. Until, one considers how large of an advance he made upon all of his ancestors.

Looking Towards Women

“Good people may for that reason stretch their mind even more, whereas empty minds that are lost through carelessness will be put to flight by the obscurity when they encounter sentences like these.” – Aristotle

Aristotle's investigations of reproduction explain an active, ensouling masculine factor bringing life to a lifeless, passive female part. Because of this, one reason Aristotle is measured by some feminist detractors to have been a misogynist. On the other hand, Aristotle as a human gave equal weight to women's pleasure as he did to men. He also gave comments in his Rhetoric that a society cannot be happy except the women are happy too. In fact, in the places like Sparta where the lot of women is bad, there can only be half-happiness in society said Aristotle.

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