Trail Blazers to win their second NBA championship title. The team took their third championship the following year‚ dominating in the basketball world. Jordan‚ however‚ had other things on his mind. He lost his father‚ James‚ to an act of violence after the end of the 1992-1993 season. Two teenagers shot James Jordan during an apparent robbery and were later convicted of the crime. In a move that shocked many‚ Michael Jordan decided to retire from basketball to pursue baseball. He played for a minor
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entertaining motocross riders on the planet. When he was just 14‚ Travis became the youngest World Freestyle Motocross Champion. A year later‚ he took home a gold medal at both the X Games and the Gravity Games. Travis Pastrana - Accomplishments Aside from Travis’ accomplishments as a freestyle motocross
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eight‚ things have not always been the easiest for her. She is sometimes compared to everyone else‚ so more effort is needed since the bar is raised high. Some of her aspirations in and after high school are to manage a grade point average of a 3.0 or above while playing sports. Also‚ going to a community college and transferring to a university. Recently‚ Jackie had a major injury while sliding to third base during her first and last softball game of the year. Although she made it safe‚ it’s really
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Brian Hoeg Civil War Group Projects American Wars 3/14/06 George Brinton McClellan When you hear the name George McClellan‚ courageous‚ brave‚ heroic‚ and decisive are probably not the first words that come to mind. That’s probably because none of those words describe him. George McClellan was an indecisive coward‚ unfit for his position as a general‚ partially because of his sympathy for his troops‚ but also because of his "conspiracy theories" which constantly screwed over the union troops
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As I started freshman year I didn’t really think about what would happen after high school. As I grew older and wiser I started realizing what I wanted for myself. The thought of attending college was just as mirror vision because I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life after high school for the longest time. Researching and gaining more knowledge of universities I came upon Texas Tech University and decided to take a tour. Little did I know that Texas Tech would open so many doors for me
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At some point‚ in the interest of remembering what seemed most striking about what had happened‚ I considered adding those words‚ "the ordinary instant." I saw immediately that there would be no need to add the word "ordinary‚" because there would be no forgetting it: the word never left my mind. It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened‚ absorbing it‚ incorporating it‚ getting past it. I recognize now that there was
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Rosalind went to Newnham College‚ Cambridge‚ to pursue her dream of being a scientist‚ even though her father would have preferred she went into social working. When Rosalind went to college she left behind her spiritual beliefs in the Jewish faith‚ as World War II was beginning and in 1939 Britain declared war on Germany. Another affect of the war was that many of her teachers had been recruited to help work for the war. Rosalind’s father did not want her to continue to attend college and wished instead
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How would you feel if you were judged only by your father’s accomplishments? This was once the case for Dale Earnhardt‚ Jr.‚ son of legendary stock car driver Dale Earnhardt. When Dale‚ Jr. had debuted in NASCAR as a third-generation driver‚ many people thought that he was getting special treatment because of his father. However‚ after the death of Dale Earnhardt‚ Sr.‚ Junior began to make a name for himself. He had been interested in racing since he was a child and would one day become a spiritual
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Oprah Winfrey was born on a small farm in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi on January 29th‚ 1954‚ and life was immediately rough for her. Her grandmother raised her for the first six years of her life‚ while her teenage mother was looking for work up north. Whilst living with her grandma‚ it was very primitive and poverty was a normality. She would often wear clothes made of potato sacks and garbage bags‚ having kids in the neighborhood laugh at her constantly. Her only friends at the time were the animals
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artworks. Throughout her artworks‚ she was known as an artist who inputs Asian-American aspects in most of her artworks. Not only that she pours Asian-American aspects in her arts‚ but she has also put in realism in her artworks‚ which depicts her life that focused on her struggle to live in China and her adaptation to the learn arts in the United States‚ which includes pictures of prostitutes and migration themes in her artworks. Through her paintings‚ we can see how she was trying to convey her
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