time I scored in a basketball game was a life changing event for me. I was about to quit because I didn’t think I would ever be good. My dad‚ he was my coach‚ told me not to because he saw potential in me. The first year I played basketball‚ I didn’t score‚ so I wanted to quit. "Don’t quit playing"‚ my dad told me‚ "you can be a great player if you work hard." The first time I scored made me want to play more. It was my second season and I was the happiest kid in the world. My dad was in the sidelines
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About the short story The short story Black is My Favorite Color by Bernard Malamud is about Jewish-Black relationships in America similarly to several of his other novels (such as The Assistant‚ 1957) and short stories. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) was born in Brooklyn as an offspring of Russian Jewish immigrants. Along with Saul Bellow‚ Philip Roth and Paul Auster‚ Malamud is one of the most important Jewish-American writers. Black is My Favorite Color deals with prejudice in general and positive
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Basketball is a wide known sport‚ that has impacted my life in many ways. I love basketball‚ it has kept me from doing other things‚ but I truly can’t complain because of many amazing opportunities I have been granted. Not only has it impacted my life it has also impacted millions of people’s life around the world. My passion for basketball has impacted me in many ways‚ short term things that are good include new friends‚ always being busy with people who work as hard as you do‚ you get to travel
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It is quite clear from the title that this thread deals with reading as a hobby. Actually‚ I was the thread-starter. I wanted to discuss reading with people who simply can’t do without it. I wanted to speak about beneficial effects of reading. And that is why I have called it "Advantages of reading as a hobby”. But as it usually happens in on-line communities‚ other people influence our intentions a lot. That is why I can’t say that the thread is dedicated to positive sides of reading. It is about
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Spartan Basketball When it comes to basketball‚ first I was a fan‚ then a dreamer‚ now a player‚ and soon to be a coach. Throughout this process‚ I have gained an abundance of knowledge about this game that I love most. A combination of how I was raised‚ my personality‚ and my skill on the court have molded and favored a way that I prefer to watch this sport be played. One coach I connect to the most is Tom Izzo. I love how he orchestrates his offense‚ and the high expectations he has of his players
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One of my favorite books is Point Guard‚ by Mike Lupica. This book is about a girl named Cassie who has been the best at sports her whole life. She played softball and girl’s basketball‚ but her team always won. Eventually she got tired of everything being easy‚ so she decided that she was going to play on the boy’s basketball team this year. Her friend Gus Morales doesn’t know what to think of this. He doesn’t know if or why he is against a girl playing with boys. Throughout the season Gus has to
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REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT OF DEVELOPING A HOBBY Last summer whilst I was talking to one of the residents she remarked about how varied the bird-life was that came into the garden and that she would like to find out what they were and encourage more birds into the garden by getting a new bird table. I spoke to the manager and she agreed for me to take the resident to the local garden centre to choose one. I said that I would be happy to take her along to the garden centre on Thursday as it would not
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Being one of my high school’s student leaders‚ both on and off the court‚ both inside and outside the classroom and both inside and outside my immediate community‚ has taught me that family is first‚ consistency is key‚ and consensus on the one common goal ensures success. As the captain of my Freshman Basketball team and now as the Head Manager of my Varsity Women’s Basketball team‚ this lesson has been learned over and over again in the past four years. I carry this with me everywhere I go. In
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informing you on my favorite memory‚ my Pee-Wee football championship game. My favorite memory is definitely my Pee-Wee football team winning the super bowl. Ever since I was really young‚ I always wanted to win something like that but I knew it would be hard. And the reason that this is my favorite memory is because how i’ve always wanted to be a part of something like that since I was a small child‚ that is what makes me remember and love that memory so much. This is not only my favorite memory but it
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I was the first freshman to make the varsity basketball team in six years. My freshman year season was excellent I helped my team reach the semifinals but we ended up losing that game. Sophomore year came around and the season was just a few months away I had got better and mentally ready for the school year and the season but overnight all of that would change. In late October had just got home from the gym playing basketball with my friends my day was going marvelous it was late at night and I
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