A+Promise+Kept+SSC

1) In the story, //A Promise Kept//, Coach Charlie Weis of Notre Dame preformed something unimaginable. Weis- during an undefeated football season (2005)- took time out of his busy schedule to spend time with Montana Mazurkiewicz. Montana was suffering from a fatal disease of cancer. Montana named after Joe Montana, the football superstar who played on the ND team and in the NFL, was a big fan of the Notre Dame team. Coach Weis heard of this big fan in the hospital and wanted to make a change on his life. In this article, Coach Charlie Weis demonstrated many great virtues by making a promise. One virtue this coach shows is generously. Generosity is freely giving of ones time, talents, and resources. In this article Coach Weis was generous enough to not only spend his time with Montana but to make sure that he made an impact on his life. "Before leaving, Coach Weis asked Montana if there was anything he could do for him," this shows the coach's generosity by being that helping hand to Montana and his family. This generosity allowed Montana to achieve things, he never thought he would be able to do, like throwing a football. This coach changed Montana's life by his generosity.

Another virtue this coach has is thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness is taking thought for the comfort and the good of others. Since Montana unfortunately was unable to go to the Notre Dame game because of his death, Coach Weis kept his promise to have the play-call Montana had chosen. Even thought Montana died Charlie Weis kept his promise. He showed a huge amount of thoughtfulness when he thought of Montana even though he couldn't make it. Also during the journey of the friendship Weis was thoughtful enough to not only show up once, but to change his schedule to see Montana in the hospital. Weis said, " We have no choice we're throwing it right," this shows that after Montana's death Coach Weis was still thinking about his new found friend. This thoughtfulness gave this young boy another reason to keep fighting his disease. Charlie Weis wanted this sick kid to have the best life he could, given his fatal medical problem. This coach kept his promise. By doing this he shows many virtues.

2) "Winning is not a sometimes thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." This quote said by Vince Lombardi and Charlie Weis, reminding me of the close relationship between cardinal virtues and capital sins. These sins and virtues are very similar in the fact they countract reach other. Greed is counteracted with couventness. This quote shows that winning and losing are similar.

This quote also shows that winning and virtues ante both good and vice and losing are both bad. These virtues and winning can become good habits. Also vices can be bad habits. This quote shows you want to make the good choices by using the virtues which ends in winning. When you make these bad choices or vices your outcome will not be successful. This is how I think this quote relates to the virtues.