“Slam Dunk & Hook” Basketball isn’t just a sport‚ it’s a lifestyle. It requires you to push yourself again and again and not give up until the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors‚ allusions‚ and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for
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10 Writing Hooks Writing Class Notes: Beginning Hooks - Strategies to use to catch your reader’s attention 1. Begin with a smile or a metaphor. My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book. 2. Begin with a question. Who is the greatest athlete of all times? 3. Begin with a definition. Friendly is the best way to describe my personality: I am friendly and caring. Perfect is the best adjective to describe me: I am flawless in every aspect of my life. 4. Begin with
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second half of Bell Hooks’ work. In this book‚ Hooks is giving the reader an insight into her experiences as a Black female feminist educator teaching about Black women’s issues. Although I myself am not Black‚ as a Mexican-American woman pursuing an academic career‚ I could relate to a vast amount of what Hooks stated throughout the book. The point that struck me the most was the discussion of critiques and the validation of experience in academia (Hooks‚ 1994). In chapter 6‚ Hooks critiques Diana
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Hurston Lorde and hooks all believe in social and economical equality. They believe that everyone is or should be equal. People in today’s society fight many different battles of discrimination‚ due to markers of difference. These three intellectuals give advice on how to raise future generations to become egocentric. In order to do this parents must raise their children with high self esteem. As they grow they will begin to explore differences with confidence and use their past to educate themselves
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Dalaney Renz Ms. Mendoza English 10 3/7/13 Sandy Hook Shooting Mainstream media claims that Sandy Hook shooting was a massacre and an intruder at the school took many children’s lives that day. But there has been strange behavior and evidence that the shooting was a hoax‚ planned and acted by the government so people would be persuaded to believe that guns are the problem. Therefore‚ the government would try and take away our second amendment rights. Friday December 14th‚ 2012 mainstream
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submersion/immersion in liquid." While life jackets are not the most fun and comfortable part of swimming for children‚ drowning can be avoided if more children wear them. There are styles that allow for comfort as well as safety. They have pink fish‚ blue fish‚ sharks and even mermaids. All of these styles are made to make it fun for kids while giving parents peace of mind. There are almost 4‚000 drowning deaths in the United States alone. Drowning is the most common in children ages 1-4. (AM FAM PHYSICIAN)
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College and universities have made great strides over the years. The campuses have grown‚ and the resources have improved tremendously. However‚ it is questionable if that social scene on these campuses has changed for the better over the years. “Work hard‚ party hard” has become the motto of college students to live by. Students spend the week focused on their academics‚ striving to grow as intellects. However‚ the weekend becomes the time when students look to go out and socialize at the various
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Hook-up culture was up and rising just as the feminist movement was taking place (Stinson‚ 2010). As the availability of contraception grew‚ sex did not need to result into different repercussions (Stinson‚ 2010). Meaningless sex was known as “a declaration of freedom” (Harden‚ 2013). People were free to express their sexual agency (Reid et al.‚ 2011). However‚ there are still ways that this expression could result into consequences both positive‚ like sexual gratification‚ and negative‚ such as
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Tragedy looms above all‚ striking at the most inopportune of ocassions before sulking off into the unspecified realm of dark situations yet again. It has no preference for a certain variety of victims; to seek and destroy is the only goal with matter. Such is the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting on December 14‚ 2012. With fear then cast into the community of Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ and all of America‚ it may only be said that tragedy is received in the massive doses of heartache‚ despair
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Cultural and Familial Values Throughout the interviews‚ a common theme emerged: respondents’ parents were generally reluctant to discuss sexuality. Instead‚ parents’ communication about sex and relationships was often indirect. Many respondents described sex as a topic that never naturally came up in conversation. Catherine‚ a female of Korean descent‚ recalled: “My parents would be very upset if they knew I was hooking up. They definitely wouldn’t be okay with it. I mean‚ we don’t ever talk about
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