the high-salary and low-moral standards‚ sports stars are the most overrated and overpaid people on the planet. For example‚ Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics‚ who started his professional basketball career with the Minnesota Timberwolves‚ took the ACT test three times in high school‚ and failed all three times. He also took the SAT test once and failed. Garnett decided not to go to college although he was
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Remember when Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce got traded to the Nets and Doc Rivers revealed that he was leaving the Celtics to coach the Clippers? Everyone assumed that Rajon Rondo was devastated. Memes featuring photos of Rondo and sentences like "WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?" and "HOW ABOUT HIM? IS HE STILL ON MY TEAM?" started popping up everywhere. But earlier today‚ Rondo revealed that he actually wasn’t all that heartbroken about his former teammates and coach leaving Boston. "It wasn’t difficult
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Castle revolves around Mary Katherine Blackwood‚ an eighteen year old who lives in a mansion isolated from the village with her sister Constance and her mentally ill uncle Julian Blackwood. Mary Katherine‚ often referred as Merricat by her sister Constance‚ is an odd adult who has a cat named Jonas. Constance takes care of Merricat and Uncle Julian. Both Julian and Constance haven’t left their home in over six years due to a family tragedy that killed most of the Blackwood family. The Blackwood family
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The Killer Angels Letters: First Letter. Foreward: A. The Confederate officer who I like the most is Robert Edward Lee. I believe that a strong leadership is needed to captain the Confederate Army. General Lee is the commander of the the army‚ so he is certainly a brilliant leader. Also‚ Lee is “a gentleman” (xvi). “He does not drink or smoke or gamble or chase women”; he does not believe in slavery. Most importantly‚ I like Lee’s disposition. He can control himself very well and never loose his
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A revision of Shakespeare’s tragedies Othello and Romeo and Juliet‚ Ann-Marie MacDonald’s comedy Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) follows Constance Ledbelly‚ an assistant professor at Queen’s University‚ as she delves into the plots of the two plays‚ attempting to discern the possible influence of a Wise Fool on the texts‚ as well as embarking on her own path of self-discovery. Throughout the novel‚ moments of laughter arise‚ many of which provoke broader discussion of the topics broached
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character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance.” In the two plays that I have selected‚ drama is definitely a depiction of life. The Ritual by Zeno Obi Constance and Your Handsome Captain by Simone Schwarz-Bart are two of the most phenomenal Caribbean performances that have been composed. They both incorporate evidence of Caribbean background and hold a certain level of credibility for situations that occur
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In “The Man of Law’s Tale‚” Geoffrey Chaucer writes about a series of misadventures visited upon a woman. Over the course of her travels‚ the protagonist‚ Constance‚ attains a status usually reserved for her male counterparts‚ the heroes of medieval romance. This does not mean‚ however‚ that the author merely inserts a female protagonist into a male-centered genre. Rather‚ Chaucer takes the typical structure of medieval romance and manipulates it so that Constance’s character progression fits the
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------------------------------------------------- Summary The Man of Law‚ also known as The Sergeant at Law‚ tells a Romance tale of a Christian princess named Custance (the modern form would be Constance) who is betrothed to the Syrian Sultan on condition that he convert to Christianity. The Sultan’s mother connives to prevent this and has Constance set adrift on the sea. Her adventures and trials continue after she is shipwrecked on theNorthumberland coast. Northumberland is a pagan country where the King‚ Alla (based
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complaints. Constance was one of the victims that was involuntarily ordered to leave her family and home‚ to travel to an unknown country to marry a man whom she’s never met. With such confusion she comes to a puzzled realization that she is being “sent into a stranger-nation‚ And parted from the friend that long kept her tenderly‚ To suffer subjugation‚ To one she scarcely knew by reputation?” (Chaucer 130). Constance grasps the fact that her father without hesitation
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