Running Head: Employment Barriers of Ex Offenders Employment Barriers of Ex Offenders CJ 483 Prisoner Re-Entry Jackson State University Finding Employment quickly is a priority for individuals leaving prison‚ and is usually mandated as a parole requirement. Ex offenders often require some flexibility in their jobs‚ in order to meet court ordered or parole mandates‚ such as drug counseling‚ and therapy‚ and to meet regularly with their parole officers. Returning prisoners also enter a competitive
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league after coming from Upward basketball. The first year my team was horrible and everyone went their separate ways after the season. I joined Dave Buffenbarger’s team the following year hoping for a better outcome. A lot of the girls on that team were some of my close friends‚ and some were not. This was not a problem as we quickly became close. MYB gave me the chance to make new friends through their league and become even closer with my old friends. With a few players always coming and going after
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I stopped playing basketball frequently after my 6th year in the elementary school. At that time‚ I did not take basketball seriously and only played for fun. When I came to Portland earlier this spring‚ I made new friends and they asked me to join them and play basketball together. It has been a long time since my last basketball game then. As a result‚ my skills have dropped and did not play as well as I used to be while I was in elementary school. I was pretty disappointed with myself. However
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have come to the conclusion that basketball is my all-time favorite pastime. Watching the sport on television is just as enjoyable as playing it. Strangely‚ basketball has always seemed to permeate my life in one way or another. Sometimes‚ I feel like I was born to dream‚ live‚ and even sleep thinking about basketball. Basketball is such an amazing sport and I cannot fathom living in a world in which the sport did not exist. Nonetheless‚ basketball has impacted my life in such a
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Pearl Harbor. Young people from all over the country joined in the war effort to help fight. This included people that already had jobs and people that did not have jobs. In this time period men mostly made up the sports field. The effects on basketball‚ baseball and football in the 1940’s were greatly affected by the United States getting involved into World War II. Body 1- Baseball B. During the early 1940’s‚ the time that the United States was in the World War II‚ baseball
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Basketball History Basketball is played everywhere today with girls and boys playing the well known game. The man behind the game basketball is Dr. James Naismith. At first the game was played with a rubber ball and a peach basket. The first true basketball game as we know was January 20th‚ 1892 in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. Dr. Naismith made the game for YMCA to play originally. Dr. Naismith wrote some simple rules‚ most of his original rules are used today. There was 13 rules‚ but nine have
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Basketball Due: 12/1/10 Table of Contents History of Basketball Page 1 Rules/Fouls/Violations Page 3 Court Diagram Page 7 Bibliography Page 8 History of Basketball In early December 1891‚ Luther Gulick‚ chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers‚ now Springfield College in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ instructed physical education teacher James Naismith to invent a new game to
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There’s an old saying in basketball that teams are made in the winter and spring‚ but players are made in the summer. Right now‚ basketball players all across North America are making plans to spend their summers working on their games. Some will spend it in the gym‚ others in the driveway or the park‚ and some may attend a basketball camp or two. But with a limited time to work on their game‚ and hundreds of options to choose from‚ how does a player find the best basketball camp for their own personal
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was the ball‚ held in the referee’s hands‚ about to be thrown up into the air. I stood a few feet behind the boy on the opposite team‚ poised and ready to catch the ball when my teammate smacked it toward me. Oh‚ I was so nervous. Suddenly the basketball hit my stomach with incredible force. It bounced off and rolled away on the floor to be picked up by the opposite team. The game had begun‚ and I had already dropped the ball. I hadn’t even seen it flying toward me when I was looking straight at
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the team‚ the coaches’ ability has a huge influence on the outcome. Committing to a career as a basketball coach has many responsibilities and challenges‚ although it can be beneficial. Focusing on being a successful basketball coach means believing in the staff and team. According to Tammy Murray‚ a previous high school basketball coach‚ “what if” statements are an ineffective way to coach a basketball team because they cause the individuals to think for themselves and not as a team. Murray also
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