In Sherman Alexie’s the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Junior‚ the Native American teenager and protagonist‚ has trouble reconciling his past to his present. When given the opportunity to leave the reservation to pursue a better future‚ Junior finds that it is hard to leave his past behind. The community on the reservation doesn’t want Junior to move forward to a better and more rewarding future because they feel betrayed by his actions. Junior struggles trying to make a new future
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recreational basketball game‚ I was upset because we lost‚ and I told my father “I don’t care that we lost!” My father got upset at me for saying this and yelled at me all the way home‚ which was a ten minute drive‚ about why I should always try my best and care about what I do. “I like it when somebody gets excited about something” and my father got excited about me not caring about losing (Salinger). My father yelled at me for ten minutes in a car ride back from a recreational basketball game because
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holding Texas State’s University collegiate sports events. It is the home court of the Men’s and Women’s basketball team and the women’s volleyball team. It has seven thousand two hundred seats that surround the hard wooden gym floor. This stadium is where students like me go to see the games and to go show my Bobcat spirit. But Strahan Coliseum was not always there and while I was at a basketball game I wondered why Strahan was built‚ when it was built and was it named after somebody and if it was
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Spencer Swigart 9/12/13 The basketball gym has always been an escape from reality for me. As soon as my sneakers touch the floors of the white river gym my mind goes blank and I do what I have always done and play basketball. I feel as if nothing can touch me when I’m in the gym‚ like nothing matters other than that very moment. Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of having the best game of my life in front of thousands of fans. And even though there is no one in the gym but me‚ I still act like
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On April 4th‚ 2007 radio shock jock Don Imus‚ began discussing the NCAA Woman’s Basketball Championships. During the show Imus characterized the Rutgers University woman’s basketball team players as “rough girls” commenting on their tattoos. He even went as far to call them “nappy-headed hoes.” “What has society come to that anything is acceptable today?” (Vivian Stringer‚ coach of the Rutgers women Scarlet Knights as reported by CNN news). This is a prime example of how our current society feels
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Chicano background and the neighborhood he grew up in. Furthermore‚ he describes himself being stereotyped as one of the “barrio boys” basically meaning that he is considered inferior to the Anglos. In high school‚ the writer states that he was on a basketball team and that there was one day when his coach announced that his team was to “buddy up” with the opposite team. The opposite team was all White and therefore had a big conflict with the “barrio boys” due to racism. One of the Anglos threw a bag
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popular in the USA. People participate in swimming‚ skating‚ squash and badminton‚ tennis‚ marathons‚ track-and-field‚ bowing‚ archery‚ skiing‚ skating etc. But the five major American sports are hockey‚ volleyball‚ baseball‚ football and basketball. Basketball and volleyball have been invented in America. There is a large choice of sports in America. This can be explained by the size and variety of the country. Another reason of the popularity of sports is the people’s love of competition of any
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Your Best Shot by John Coy is about a middle school boy by name Jackson and his three friends Gig‚ Isaac‚ and Diego and it’s the start of the basketball season. But with so much drama off the court‚ how can they focus on their performance on the court? The target audience for this book readers who are grades 3-6 and ages 8-12 who are interested in basketball and are working through similar issues that are present in the book such as grades‚ parent divorce‚ and parents in the military. The genre of
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most number of funerals his classmates have gone to are 5. Throughout this traumatizing event‚ Arnold takes refuge and stays focused in his passion of playing basketball. Through sheer dedication Arnold qualifies to the varsity team as a freshman‚ leading his team to a near perfect season‚ and beating his reservation’s high school basketball team. Soon after‚ Arnold discovers that if you let people into your life and open up a little bit‚ amazing things can happen. At the end of this novel‚ Arnold
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HPE102A – Energy Systems The Sport I will be doing this assignment on is Basketball. The two drills activities I will explain are dribbling‚ and defending. The Lactic Acid System is the energy system being developed in drill 1. The energy system being used in drill 2 is the Aerobic System. Section 1 There are three energy systems used when playing sport; ATP-CP‚ Lactic Acid and Aerobic. The ATP-CP System lasts 15 – 30 secs and it doesn’t require oxygen. The Lactic Acid System lasts for 30 sec
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