Mitchell Swim Mrs. Miller Period 1 Money Ball Statistics When you think of the word statistics‚ what is the first thing you think of? If this is Mrs. Miller reading this than you are probably thinking about math. However‚ most sports fans would think about baseball. They cannot have a conversation about baseball without mentioning someone’s statistics. The player’s stats tell all about what he has done is his time playing the sport. It can even tell who is better at each category like hitting
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My board game is based on the book Legend by Marie Lu. The actual game is based on the plot from the beginning of the book up until right before Day’s mom is killed. The board and it’s complexities is a lightened way of showing the hardships and sorrows that day faced all to get his brother a vial of plague cure. Three important literary elements they my board game reflects are plot‚ theme‚ and tone. Some of the smaller literary elements shown in the game are setting; Los Angeles‚ California this
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The Message of the Black Ball The Story “The Black Ball” written by Ralph Ellison is about a man named John‚ born around the civil war that goes through difficulties and challenges in his life him being an African American. In the story‚ it seems like it’s just a straight forward story but if you take a real close look at it you can see that there is a message within the story. Through Metaphors and allegories and other literary terms like characterization‚ you can see the negative of how
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Summer Reading 10th Grade Ball Don’t Lie Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena was a legendary realistic fiction novel in which a young boy faced the challenges of everyday life in the projects. The protagonist Sticky is a boy from the slums of California who spent a large portion of his life in an orphanage. Throughout the years he has changed foster parents‚ but has never found the right one. Sticky is passionate about basketball and is known to be a prodigy at what he does. He
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To the game that changed my life‚ thank you. I remember the day that you found me‚ in a store full of strings and cleats. You helped me pick out a gray and pink stick with pink goggles and a mouth guard. On that day in 2008 you strengthened me in one of the hardest times of my life‚ when my Dad was on the other side of the world fighting for our country. You have strengthened me multiple times since. You have continued to be the single most consistent aspect of my life my life. You have stood as
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Material facts The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company made a product that it claimed could protect the user from contracting influenza. The Company published advertisements claiming that it would pay £100 to anyone who got sick with influenza after using its product according to the instructions set out in the advertisement. Specifically‚ they stated: £100 reward will be paid by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company to any person who contracts the increasing epidemic influenza‚ colds or any disease caused
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exercise for each major muscle group on a stability ball. On another day‚ perform the same exercises in a stationary position (i.e.‚ not on a stability ball.) Report the following. List the exercises you performed. Were you able to use the same weight on the stability ball? If not‚ why do you think you could not use as much resistance? What populations would benefit from stability ball training? Are there certain individuals who should not use a stability ball? How will this learning experience and the knowledge
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Gastronomy 1 GWIR Assignment Trying to narrow down my favourite food wasn’t very easy‚ but if I had to choose one‚ it would have to be pasta. The reason being is that pasta can be dressed up in so many different types of sauces and there are many different types of noodles. I also like the fact that pasta is such an old type of food but is still loved by everyone. There are stories that say that Marco Polo brought pasta back when returning from one of his journeys to China‚ but in fact that is
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Cherokee Ball Game Lacrosse was invented by Native Americans in what is now eastern North America in the 1400s. It was played mostly by Cherokee tribes in the southeast and Mohawk tribes in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Valley areas. The strategy of the game is the same today as it was then. Players use long poles with nets to move a ball down a field toward another team’s goal. To score they must get the ball into the goal. Today‚ lacrosse is played as a professional and a recreational sport
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yelled my alarm notifying me that it was finally time for me to raise out of bed. Even though it was only six o’clock in the morning‚ my mood instantly brightened when I looked at my phone calendar and instinctively remembered that today was my final first volleyball game of the season. Quickly‚ I stumbled out of bed to go brush my teeth and begin getting ready for what would end up being my last day of playing volleyball. After choosing my favorite pair of black spandex paired with my hot pink
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