Jaynyah Bland Miss B. English1-2nd per. Dec 7. 2012 My Basketball Experience When I was in the 8th grade‚ I came back to public school. I was eager to make the basketball team. My friends who were on the team last year motivated me to tryout. So after school I went to the tryouts and surprisingly‚ I saw most of my friends there. The coach‚ coach Huff‚ had us do lay ups‚ free throws‚ running up the bleachers‚ three point line shooting‚ two point line shooting‚ and suicides. Then we had to
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Basketball The game started brightly‚ we attack‚ they attack back‚ but this wasn’t just a normal game. This was a playoff match against our arch rival Riverbank High‚ in what was a repeat of last years finals. So far so good I was thinking to myself as I was supped off for the first time in the quarter‚ we were up by four points going into to the second half. All of the sudden they went on a scoring run and our defense completely gave out‚ in just the two minutes before the half the score
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One of the many ways you can classify a tennis player personality is by how competitive they are. There are several classifications of competitiveness. They can be obnoxiously competitive‚ competitive‚ or laid back competitive. The obnoxiously competitive player will throw their racquet out of frustration for missing one shot or complain to the referee that you are somehow cheating. A competitive player will applaud you for your good shots and get frustrated at themselves for bad shots. An opponent
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Why do players in different sports get paid differently? In hockey you can make over 12 million dollars in one salary but in football you get way more then that sometimes. How come some players get salary more just for being only a little bit better than the other players. When some football players start‚ they seem great and get payed a lot but the players that have played for a while are getting payed less. We want to know about it. In football the players get payed because of their contracts
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Khaled Ahmed Personal Statement - College Essay Walking through the door I felt a tense sensation among everyone. Hundreds of kids all with killer intent‚ all competing with one another. The room was dark and eerie‚ the hardwood floor full of dust. The dark winter night didn’t help the situation much either. Ever since my entrance into the room all I could ever think about was the outcome. As time slowly passed‚ my frame slouched forward‚ every step taking its toll. I could feel my heart in
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love of basketball. Not knowing it yet but they’re lives would end up intertwining. They grew up only forty minutes away from each other. Both of the boys played for organized team and both lead them in scoring. One day while Spencer was shooting baskets‚ his parents noticed a lump in his thigh. They took him to the doctor and found out that spencer had been diagnosed with cancer. This started a long trial of chemotherapy . While only forty minutes away josh was continued playing basketball getting
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the rules. To be a professional soccer player you have to eat healthy food and go to bed early. Also‚ you need to be on time for your practices. ered your questions. Describe the first and most important step in starting your
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Elements of good writing Being clear: Being clear is the most basic requirement of good writing. How can you be successful if your reader doesn’t understand you? Being clear doesn’t necessarily mean being overly direct or obvious in your statements. It really means that you try to avoid confusing your reader‚ unless you have a very good reason for doing so. Being convincing: Whenever you write anything‚ you are essentially going about the business of convincing your reader that what you are saying
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The Good Earth Essay The Good Earth by Pearl Buck provides an excellent form of archetypal structure. It shows how nature is clean and pure‚ while the mechanistic world is corrupt and evil. There are many ways that it can be proven‚ yet only three are really stressed throughout the novel. The three stressed throughout the novel the entire time are‚ nature providing‚ money corrupting‚ and how the law of the land is the only right way. That was why‚ in The Good Earth‚ the archetypal structure
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read was My Basketball Book‚ by Gail Bibbons. This children’s book is about exactly what comes to mind when reading the title. This book demonstrates as well as illustrates the fundamentals‚ rules‚ and overall goal of the game of basketball. My Basketball Book takes a child step by step through what they need to know about the structure of the game and how it is to be played by explaining it through words and pictures. First and foremost‚ the reason I chose this book was because basketball was my favorite
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