In the book Sacred Hoops written by Phil Jackson‚ can typically be described as life relating to basketball spiritually and mentally. At this point Jackson was already ready to retire. He was ready to retire because he realized the game of basketball was slowly changing. The game was changing simply because the players were getting to focused on their ego; players were driven only by money‚ and they weren’t about working with the team only because they want all the glory for themselves. Jackson claims
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was wondering if you could get me a basketball hoop so I can play my favorite sport at home. Some of the reasons you should get me a basketball hoop is that I don’t like walking 5 blocks to go to the community basketball hoop‚ it can help me with exercising my body and doing a workout‚ and some of my friends can come over to my house to play on my very own basketball hoop. The reason that I don’t want to walk five blocks to the community basketball hoop is that sometimes there could be another person
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The story I read and am writing my essay on is the book Hoops by Walter Dean Myers. The reason why I am writing this essay is because I like this is a great book. The book is about a seventeen year old boy named Lonnie‚ faces a difficult life with the harsh nagging of his mom and trying to become pro at basketball. Later on in this book Lonnie faces a really difficult decision if he wants to throw the game or if he wants to beat the opposing team. This is a great book because it teaches about friendship
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Robert Deiz AS 201 MW 5:30 – 7:20 4/14/10 The movie I chose for my presentation is Hoop Dreams. This movie was produced in 1994 by Steve James‚ Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert. Hoop Dreams is an excellent three hour documentary about two black boys growing up in the inner city of Chicago‚ Illinois with aspirations of playing basketball in the NBA. The movie starts out when William Gates and Arthur Agee are going to enter high school. William and Arthur both are recruited by Earl Smith a talent scout
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Hoop Dreams When I first arrived at Rotunda D I thought to myself great I get to stand the whole time because there is not one open seat. Dean Nickels started the event off by introducing Scott Naggy‚ head boys basketball coach. Naggy then talked a little about how they recruit players for South Dakota State University. He then introduced two of his players. The first was from the West side of Chicago‚ he talked about how he would play basketball to escape from the hardships of growing up in West
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Field of Dreams is a movie about second chances. With Ray‚ building the baseball field in his backyard it is Ray’s second chance to have a relationship with his father who‚ is dead and while alive did not have a good relationship with his son. It is Terrance Mann’s second chance to go see a ball game at Fenway Park. Shoeless Joe’s and the other Chicago White Sox who were kicked out of the game‚ it is their second chance to play baseball again. Moonlight Graham’s second chance to get a major league
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The season was going good and going by fast‚ our record stands above 500. Our last tournament was in Lawrence Kansas. We played one game against the “Kingdom Hoops‚” and we played amazing…‚ in the second half. In the first half we played super sloppy. We ended up winning the first game by about twenty points. We had to travel to another gym for our next game. The next game was going ok against the “Omaha Grizzlies” we know they were better than us but we worked harder in the first half. Up by 4
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Reaction to Sacred Hoop: The Ways of our Grandmothers The chapter The Ways of Our Grandmothers reviews many traditional native beliefs. Dealing with many aspects in tribal myth‚ tradition‚ and ritual‚ it shows many parallels between different native practices and acknowledges the “matriarchal” society was largely dominant before the Europeans came to America. The reoccurring theme or idea I kept reading was that in the beginning there was Thought Woman‚ and from her other Woman spirits and then
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assignment I was tasked with first isolating myself from people and performing my monologue while swinging a hula hoop around my arm. Everytime the monologue the stopped‚ I had to stop my piece. I then did the monologue again completely with the arm. After I completed this i moved the hula hoop to around my hips and torso‚ and performed the monologue on high and low pitches. Only speaking when the hula-hoop is in motion. I then repeated this process in a public place. For my monologue‚ I portrayed Annie
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there will be eight to ten hula-hoops set out across the side of the gym and on the opposite half there will be a pile of bean bags. When the music begins or when the start signal is said‚ students will perform 10 push-ups on the side with the bean bags. After the push-ups‚ each student will pick up one bean bag and perform any animal movement that they would like until they get to the throwing line. Students will use an underhand throw to toss the bean bag into the hula-hoop. After tossing the bean
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