My Father, Michael Roy Quintana Sr.
Some may say a great time to appreciate your father is on Father’s Day, some say the day of Thanksgiving or even on his birthday. Today is no special occasion but a day I want to share with you an amazing man of perseverance, a man of strength, a man of character, a man of motivation, a man who is fully alive in Christ and a man who loves his family more than anything in the world.
Today, I would like to introduce you to my father, Michael Roy Quintana Sr.
My father was born October 31, 1972 to Martha and Juan Quintana in New Mexico. Martha and Juan’s marriage did not last and was raised by his mother, Martha and step-father Ronny Lindsay.
In the duration of my father’s childhood he was a kid of mischief but also started to develop the hard working values he carries out today. One of the things he did as a child, with his brothers, would steal bikes and rebuild them to look even cooler than they did before. Not a proud moment for him now but cool that his mind worked so well in the rebuilding of such objects. He didn’t go grow up in the best home with his parents both addicted to drugs and alcohol and an abusive step-father to his mom. The lack of parenting led to his rebellious behavior growing up.
At the age of 12 my dad was introduced by his sister to her friend Alicia. Alicia thought of him as very annoying and hated the thought of being around him. My dad, however, started to grow on her a bit and it wasn’t very long until they started their “12 year old romantic” relationship.
These two had broken up several times between the age of 12 and 15 due to multiple reasons but mostly because of distance that would part them between moving to different states. This, however, wouldn’t be enough to break the love they shared. Mixed tapes of romantic loves songs, letters back and forth kept their love very much alive. My dad returned to her, an exciting moment in their lives for both of them. My dad would soon be informed t by his than girlfriend that they would be expecting a baby girl. My dad’s comfort to my mom’s indecisiveness whether she wanted to keep the baby or not was strong and brave telling her that he could see having a family with her wanted to have a family with her.
Though he had to leave during her pregnancy he fully intended on returning to be with her. He would call her and in the background he could hear the voices of my mom’s pessimistic aunts saying, “He isn’t coming back for you,” and other awful things. He assured her that he would return to her to be her spouse and father their child. And he did. He returned to Fort Collins, Colorado where his daughter Felan was born April 13, 1989.
After being married, September 2, 1990, they had three more children, Felicia, born November 27, 1991, Michael Jr., born April 9, 1993 and Marissa, born February 6, 1995.
He maintained a very strong work ethic. He did his all in a job. It caused him great discomfort to ever call in to work or to take days off. Work, to him, was a big thing because it would tend to the needs of his family.
It was in the late 1990s where my father’s appearance in our family started to fade. Like any person who had neglectful parents, a home without God and an early starting with children, my dad began to smoother in other places other than his on home. This was a dark time for him in which it created a deep hurt from his family. But even in this dark season my father continued to work to provide for his family.
For years since late in my childhood up to my 18th birthday my father and I had an incredibly broken relationship. Some days my father and I would scream at the top of our lungs to each other, we would say things that no father should say to his son and no son should say to his father. We lived many years under the same ruff in disharmony. A broken relationship, however, began to heal slowly when my dad started going to church with us again. At this point I began being humbled to the fact that I wasn’t the best kid to him and that I had a big part to play as to why our relationship had faded.
I look at my dad now and I see a man of such great character. My dad’s intentions were never to hurt his family but this was his best way to cope with the stress in his life. My dad came around and we all came around to him knowing that both wrongs don’t make a right.
My dad has lived in several places including New Mexico, Colorado, New York and Idaho and is very glad to call Kuna, Idaho home now. My dad has maintained several positions in his life working for; starting with Wendy’s with my mom, Les Schwab Tires, JR Simplot Potato Company, Jet Heating and Cooling, Window Wizard and now works full-time for the Kuna School district as a janitor. He is a member of Kuna Life Church, a diehard Denver Broncos and Boise State Broncos fan. He loves to karaoke on the weekends, barbecue on nice warm days and rock out to some good ol’ 80’s hair bands. He has been married to my mom now for 21 years but have been together for 26 years. He takes great pride in all his children and their accomplishments, with one daughter married, two kids in college and his youngest a junior in high school maintaining straight A’s since the fourth grade on her way to college soon. My dad looks to my mom with great love and admiration for her accomplishments. Although marriage hadn’t been easy for them before, I see my dad look at my mom in any occasion with a very strong love.
My dad is the strongest man I know. When I started working the first time, I thought to myself, “I want to have a work ethic like my dad.” At the beginning of spring my dad whips out the yard tools and aims to have the greenest, nicest lawn on the block, to this I think, “I want to have a yard like my dad’s.” I look at my dad now and what an amazing man of God he has become and an amazing, loving father and I think, “I want to be just like my dad when I have kids.”
Today may not be Father’s Day, his birthday, Thanksgiving or any other special occasion but I am glad I got to introduce you to my father, Michael Roy Quintana Jr. A man who I aim more to be like.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Comemmorative Speech Planning Sheet
Your name: MJ Quintana
Topic of your speech: My Dad, Michael Quintana Sr.
General purpose: inspire
Specific purpose statement: To commemorate my dad’s life and the great accomplishments he has made.
My specific purpose is to inspire my audience by praising __My Dad, Michael Quintana Sr.__
Introduction:
Attention step: “We have had lows. We have fought. We have ignored each other. We have completely stopped talking. We have regained trust. We have moved on. We have forgiven. We are best friends. We are father and son.”
Credibility step: We may have our stumbles in the past but our relationship is incredibly strong today.
Central idea: Today I am both glad and honored to present and praise to you, my father, Michael Roy Quintana Sr.
Preview: --
Main Points: I want to talk to you today about my father’s childhood, his teenage years and growing up to be a father and husband.
Topic of your speech: My Dad, Michael Quintana Sr.
General purpose: inspire
Specific purpose statement: To commemorate my dad’s life and the great accomplishments he has made.
My specific purpose is to inspire my audience by praising __My Dad, Michael Quintana Sr.__
Introduction:
Attention step: “We have had lows. We have fought. We have ignored each other. We have completely stopped talking. We have regained trust. We have moved on. We have forgiven. We are best friends. We are father and son.”
Credibility step: We may have our stumbles in the past but our relationship is incredibly strong today.
Central idea: Today I am both glad and honored to present and praise to you, my father, Michael Roy Quintana Sr.
Preview: --
Main Points: I want to talk to you today about my father’s childhood, his teenage years and growing up to be a father and husband.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Speech Planning Sheet - Informative Speech
Speech Planning Sheet
Your name: MJ Quintana
Topic of your speech:
Boys and Girls Club of America
General purpose: (informative, persuasive, inspire, entertain)
Informative
Specific purpose statement: (write this down to make sure that you have thought through our purpose. You do not say this statement in the speech)
To inform audience about what the Boys and Girls Club of America is and how it helps the youth and families of our country.
My specific purpose is to inform my audience about ____Boys and Girls Club of America___ (fill in the main idea of your speech).
Introduction: Attention step: How will you hook the audience?
Famous Celebrities who attended Boys and Girls Club of America before making it big.
Credibility step: (state your experience, your research or both)
My experience is working for the Boys and Girls Club of American in Ada County, Boise, Idaho.
Central idea: one sentence (sometimes called a thesis) that sums up whole speech that you say in the introduction. It should be something like: "Today I would like to tell you about ....).
Today I want to tell you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
Preview: Road map for the audience your main points.
How the Boys and Girls Club of America came to be, what importance it serves in our country, how it influences the youth that intended the club and the future of the BGCA.
Outline of Main Points: (No sub-points. Use Roman Numerals -- should look like the body portion of Chapter Ten outlines).
I. The Boys and Girls Club of American started back in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut.
II. The importance of the BGCA stands by its main slogan, “Great futures start here.”
III. It influences our youth because so many of the celebrities of our country today used to be club members such as Usher, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez and more!
IV. All across the United States there is a new club opening daily. Right now where I am from Boise, ID is in development of opening a new club.
Your name: MJ Quintana
Topic of your speech:
Boys and Girls Club of America
General purpose: (informative, persuasive, inspire, entertain)
Informative
Specific purpose statement: (write this down to make sure that you have thought through our purpose. You do not say this statement in the speech)
To inform audience about what the Boys and Girls Club of America is and how it helps the youth and families of our country.
My specific purpose is to inform my audience about ____Boys and Girls Club of America___ (fill in the main idea of your speech).
Introduction: Attention step: How will you hook the audience?
Famous Celebrities who attended Boys and Girls Club of America before making it big.
Credibility step: (state your experience, your research or both)
My experience is working for the Boys and Girls Club of American in Ada County, Boise, Idaho.
Central idea: one sentence (sometimes called a thesis) that sums up whole speech that you say in the introduction. It should be something like: "Today I would like to tell you about ....).
Today I want to tell you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
Preview: Road map for the audience your main points.
How the Boys and Girls Club of America came to be, what importance it serves in our country, how it influences the youth that intended the club and the future of the BGCA.
Outline of Main Points: (No sub-points. Use Roman Numerals -- should look like the body portion of Chapter Ten outlines).
I. The Boys and Girls Club of American started back in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut.
II. The importance of the BGCA stands by its main slogan, “Great futures start here.”
III. It influences our youth because so many of the celebrities of our country today used to be club members such as Usher, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez and more!
IV. All across the United States there is a new club opening daily. Right now where I am from Boise, ID is in development of opening a new club.
Informative Speech Outline
MJ Quintana
Gillespie
COMM 1212
13 October 2011
Informative Essay
Boys and Girls Club of America
Introduction
I. “Take a seat, take a seat, take a load off your feet. Rooty-tooty, sit on your booty!”
II. This is just one of the many songs sang during assembly time at the Boys and Girls Club to get the members attention.
a. My experience working for the BGCA
b. The ending results
III. Today I want to tell you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
a. How the Boys and Girls Club of America came to be
b. What importance it serves in our country
c. How it influences the youth that attended the club
Body
(Transition: When you think of BGC can you even imagine it being over 100 years old?)
I. BGC started in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut
a. Mary Goodwin, Alice Goodwin and Elizabeth Hammersley thought that there had to be a better place for boys who roamed the streets.
b. 1906 Boston Boys started an affiliation called “The Boys Club” with 53 members joining the organization.
c. 1931 Boys Club Federation became known as the Boys Club of America.
d. 1956 Boys Club received recognition of 50th anniversary.
e. 1990 Name changed and amended by congress to the Boys and Girls Club of America.
f. 2006 BGCA celebrated its 100th Anniversary.
(Transition: You may think that this club could be just seen as a daycare like any other care giving facility but there is more to this club.)
II. What importance it serves our country.
a. Is it a daycare center?
b. Slogan, Rules and why they are so important.
i. Great Futures Start Here
ii. Respect Club Staff, Respect Club Members, Respect Club Equipment, Respect Yourself
(This club has a huge impact on our nation and the faces we see in our nation today)
III. How it influences the youth that attended the club.
a. Celebrities
i. Ashanti, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopes, Usher
b. Youth
i. Kuna Club
ii. National
c. Statistics
i. 57% of Alumni said The Club saved their life.
ii. 90% of Alumni graduated from high school. This is 23.33% higher than the national average.
iii. 28% of Alumni believed that they would have dropped out of high school if not for the Club .
iv. 92% of Alumni reported that helping others was a priority.
v. 86% of Alumni say that the Club played an important role in their ability to work with others.
Conclusion
IV. We can see that the Boys and Girls Club of America is a vital organization for our country.
V. Today I was here to inform you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
VI. I told you about the history, the importance and the influence this organization has on our country.
VII. If you are not familiar with the organization I encourage you to apply for a job or volunteer to see what an outstanding program this is.
Gillespie
COMM 1212
13 October 2011
Informative Essay
Boys and Girls Club of America
Introduction
I. “Take a seat, take a seat, take a load off your feet. Rooty-tooty, sit on your booty!”
II. This is just one of the many songs sang during assembly time at the Boys and Girls Club to get the members attention.
a. My experience working for the BGCA
b. The ending results
III. Today I want to tell you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
a. How the Boys and Girls Club of America came to be
b. What importance it serves in our country
c. How it influences the youth that attended the club
Body
(Transition: When you think of BGC can you even imagine it being over 100 years old?)
I. BGC started in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut
a. Mary Goodwin, Alice Goodwin and Elizabeth Hammersley thought that there had to be a better place for boys who roamed the streets.
b. 1906 Boston Boys started an affiliation called “The Boys Club” with 53 members joining the organization.
c. 1931 Boys Club Federation became known as the Boys Club of America.
d. 1956 Boys Club received recognition of 50th anniversary.
e. 1990 Name changed and amended by congress to the Boys and Girls Club of America.
f. 2006 BGCA celebrated its 100th Anniversary.
(Transition: You may think that this club could be just seen as a daycare like any other care giving facility but there is more to this club.)
II. What importance it serves our country.
a. Is it a daycare center?
b. Slogan, Rules and why they are so important.
i. Great Futures Start Here
ii. Respect Club Staff, Respect Club Members, Respect Club Equipment, Respect Yourself
(This club has a huge impact on our nation and the faces we see in our nation today)
III. How it influences the youth that attended the club.
a. Celebrities
i. Ashanti, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopes, Usher
b. Youth
i. Kuna Club
ii. National
c. Statistics
i. 57% of Alumni said The Club saved their life.
ii. 90% of Alumni graduated from high school. This is 23.33% higher than the national average.
iii. 28% of Alumni believed that they would have dropped out of high school if not for the Club .
iv. 92% of Alumni reported that helping others was a priority.
v. 86% of Alumni say that the Club played an important role in their ability to work with others.
Conclusion
IV. We can see that the Boys and Girls Club of America is a vital organization for our country.
V. Today I was here to inform you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.
VI. I told you about the history, the importance and the influence this organization has on our country.
VII. If you are not familiar with the organization I encourage you to apply for a job or volunteer to see what an outstanding program this is.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Welcome to my World
Welcome to My World
I. Ever since I was a younger boy my family and I have been through very intense, tough times. These times almost led to divorce, a broken relationship between me and my parents and even a lost relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ. In these times my mother would always tell me and continues to tell me to this day, “God never said it would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.” I fully installed my trust in my mother and her statement never failed nor continues to fail because by the grace of God, after 21 years my parents are still married, I have a very strong relationship with my parents and I am at one of the strongest places I have ever been in my relationship with the Lord.
II. Who I am (Transition: "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” –John 16:33.)
A. Explain the type of house I grew up in
B. Death of my grandma and Nicole
C. Growing up Christian and losing faith
III. Hardships of my life and how I have dealt with them (Transition: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled neither afraid.” -John 14:27)
A. How my family is now based on our past
B. What I am doing and how I am living based on the deaths in my life
C. Where me, my faith and my faith stands
IV. Conclusion
A. Quote – “When we lose our sense of urgency to live for God, we end up wasting our time! God has a plan for us, for our world, and for his church. Without God’s gift we will never gain a heart of wisdom. So how do we get such a gift? Ask for it without doubting! Trusting the Lord for wisdom has a huge effect on us and the way we conduct our lives. Rather than losing heart, God gives us a heart of wisdom!” -Verseoftheday.com
B. Restate introduction and purpose.
C. When life hurts the most remind audience, “God never said it would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.
I. Ever since I was a younger boy my family and I have been through very intense, tough times. These times almost led to divorce, a broken relationship between me and my parents and even a lost relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ. In these times my mother would always tell me and continues to tell me to this day, “God never said it would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.” I fully installed my trust in my mother and her statement never failed nor continues to fail because by the grace of God, after 21 years my parents are still married, I have a very strong relationship with my parents and I am at one of the strongest places I have ever been in my relationship with the Lord.
II. Who I am (Transition: "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” –John 16:33.)
A. Explain the type of house I grew up in
B. Death of my grandma and Nicole
C. Growing up Christian and losing faith
III. Hardships of my life and how I have dealt with them (Transition: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled neither afraid.” -John 14:27)
A. How my family is now based on our past
B. What I am doing and how I am living based on the deaths in my life
C. Where me, my faith and my faith stands
IV. Conclusion
A. Quote – “When we lose our sense of urgency to live for God, we end up wasting our time! God has a plan for us, for our world, and for his church. Without God’s gift we will never gain a heart of wisdom. So how do we get such a gift? Ask for it without doubting! Trusting the Lord for wisdom has a huge effect on us and the way we conduct our lives. Rather than losing heart, God gives us a heart of wisdom!” -Verseoftheday.com
B. Restate introduction and purpose.
C. When life hurts the most remind audience, “God never said it would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.
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