In the early to mid 2000s Metta World Peace then known as Ron Artest was one of the most feared defense players in the league. In his prime he was able to guard all five positions‚ however nothing last forever and like everyone else father time caught up with World Peace. Today the trophy for the most feared defender in the NBA goes to PJ Tucker of the Toronto Raptors. He’s one of the best defensive players in the perimeter or in the post. His basketball journey started at Texas and has taken
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Lead-In/Hook: Do like books about basketball and crimes and is by basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar who introduced the sky hook to the NBA and he won 6 NBA championships and a great basketball player. Book title‚ author‚ & genre: Steal the game is a by Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a realistic fiction book. Protagonist: The protagonist Chris is a middle schooler with a brother who dropped out of Stanford Law School. Chris always looked up to his brother. Chris plays basketball for his school. His parents
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references‚ in which he refers to a basketball games hype up of the crowd in the arena. He goes on to explain how teams all across the NBA have their own star that they put up there to scream at the crowd. But like in the situation that the Cleveland Cavaliers were put in‚ they went from having Lebron to Mo Williams. At first when beginning to read the essay I thought this was a weird introduction for his readers to have especially when the essay is called The Movie Star. Once I finished the article though
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Cavalier poetry is centered on carefree pleasure and living in the moment whereas roundhead poetry is more centered on religion and eternal life. Andrew Marvell‚ as well as other cavaliers‚ often spent their time indulging in worldly pleasures. John Donne was a clergymen‚ so he spent most of his time in the church and with other clergymen‚ meaning how he spends his time is different from how Andrew Marvell and the cavaliers spend theirs. In John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His
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entire poem is a series of images that lead up to this moment The Pomegranate In “The Pomegranate” Boland fuses together the universal truth of Greek myth to the modern day woman. She draws on the legend of Ceres and Persephone to symbolise the poets own maternal instincts‚ that is the parental desire to protect and shield the child from any harm that may come their way. Her daughter’s uncut fruit leads her to recall the pomegranate. Boland cleverly creates her own physical environment which mirrors
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splendidly evocative and satisfyingly sensuous. His poetry reveals more careful craftsmanship‚ a more conscious intellectuality. In quality and integrity they are conversational directness and ease without losing himself in discursiveness. Let us take our Poet‚ lover‚ Birdwatcher where beauty and bareness of statement go together where it weaves the themes of birdwatching‚ wooing and writing poetry together‚ and shows their resemblance: the need for patient‚ quiet waiting until the rare bird is revealed
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“cutting word”—poets writing haiku in English or other Western languages often use a dash or an ellipsis to indicate the break or cut between the linked images. Haiku poems first appeared in Japan 700 years ago‚ but the form did not migrate into Western poetry until the 19th century‚ after Japan’s harbors were opened to European and American trade and travel‚ when several anthologies of haiku were translated into English and French. In the early years of the 20th century the Imagist poets adopted the
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specifically Jamaica‚ during the year of 1900-1929 there were two poets whose work truly stood out and made a statement. Those poets were Thomas Redcam (1870-1933) and Claude McKay (1878-1972). Thomas Redcam was a Jamaican poet who came from Irish ancestry. Throughout his life he promoted Jamaican literature and was a notable poet. He was seen as helpful and encouragement to younger poets during that time period including Claude McKay. Both poets had such a love for their country and made it clear in their
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Emerson’s “Poet” First published in 1844‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson released his essay titled “The Poet.” In this essay‚ Emerson provides his thoughts of the ideals of a poet. He was not speaking of any poet‚ instead an American poet. What should their ideals be? What should their role in society be? And how can the American poet distinguish him or herself and think independently from the European influence? Emerson argues that the poet is a “namer” and a “seer”‚ who permeates the secrets of
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Gray‚ Burns‚ and Blake: The Transitional Poets It was the mid-eighteenth century and poets were tiring of the neoclassical ideals of reason and wit. The Neoclassic poets‚ such as Alexander Pope‚ "prized order‚ clarity‚ economic wording‚ logic‚ refinement‚ and decorum. Theirs was an age of rationalism‚ wit‚ and satire." (Guth 1836) This contrasts greatly with the ideal of Romanticism‚ which was "an artistic revolt against the conventions of the fashionable formal‚ civilised‚ and refined Neoclassicism
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