Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. on April 16‚ 1947‚ in New York‚ Harlem The 7 foot 2 center was named one of the greatest players in National Basketball history‚ and his talent was noticed in high school. Son of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr. a New York City policeman‚ and his wife Cora Alcindor was always the tallest kid in his class. At the age of 9 he was 5 foot 8 and by the time he was in eighth grade he was able to dunk a basketball. Kareem’s parents had him into school
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1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar background helped him climb up because starting from a lower class as his father worked as a policeman‚ not as highly paid as they are now‚ and his mother as a department store worker‚ he did not have as much money. Also growing up in a housing project in a racially diverse neighborhood‚ most kids always have a choice to stay or get out of there. I think the community‚ and the society he grew up in helped him realize he wanted a change. He didn’t want to struggle like everyone
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be a role model in my student’s eyes. I will have the fine privilege of nurturing and shaping the future generation of our societies. When I was a young boy growing up in school I didn’t really like it. I struggled with the more theory based subjects such as Mathematics and Geography but excelled in practical subjects such as Engineering and Construction studies. I was extremely lucky I had two phenomenal teachers in both Construction studies and Engineering who worked with my strengths‚ encouraging
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Economy Plus‚ after participating in my first IT (Information Technology) Summit‚ held yearly by our divisions Vice President. As I look around and observer others‚ I notice students‚ vacationers‚ and business travelers. I’m curious as to who they are in their organizations; managers‚ directors‚ janitors‚ or CEO’s? As I watch their behavior’s I begin to reflect on the session‚ my career‚ my future‚ and how I can contribute. As I think about the start of my career‚ the choices I’ve made along the
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My favorite leader –Zhou Enlai Abstract As is known to us all‚ Zhou Enlai‚ as a communist party member‚ the first premier and foreign minister of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ has a high reputation from home and abroad. This paper includes four parts in total. It starts with the brief introduction to Zhou Enlai and then pays more attention to the second part about his contributions. Following is the third part about evaluations from domestic and international. The last part comes to the
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When I was a little girl‚ my grandmother told me a lot of interesting legends with handsome and kind princes that were always in my mind‚ so I had a dream of marrying an ideal husband like them. Now‚ I would still like to marry a charming prince‚ I always believe that one day‚ I will meet my ideal lover and build a happy family with an ideal husband. Some women say that a husband is impossible to find‚ but an ideal one may be easier to find. The qualities of the ideal husband are probably different
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was lucky enough to develop my own city it would be the most unique place on earth. I would have to have a place where the climate was around 80 degrees year round and had no major natural disasters in the region. I would call my city Dillville and have a population of about 60‚000. There would be one hospital for the city and one jail for all the criminals. In this paper I will discuss my ideal city and the key elements that I believe will make my city ideal. Those key elements will be
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AN IDEAL SOCIETY The world is a complicated place and today’s standards of society make it even more difficult to live and act in one’s own way. I sometimes wonder what life would be like if we could start all over and build a brand new society - a society that guarantees social justice for all groups and full rights to every individual. Would there be a way to make everything and everyone equal? From the beginning society has been judgmental in one way or another‚ rather it is through racism
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An ideal student is the wealth and future of this nation‚hope of the family and pride of the school. He enders himself to all by his temperament‚qualities of head‚heart and knowledge. He respects his teachers and is helpful as well as friendly to his class-fellows. Such good and bright students are the gems of an institution. They are the pillars of a nation. Such students become ideal citizens‚politicians‚statesmen and leaders. I think an ideal student always takes an active part in academic as
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New jersey city university | Ideal Society | Philosophy | | Parshv Shah | 4/21/2013 | This paper contains a personal opinion and rough creation of an ideal society. The society created is based on the personal values‚ present society issues and ideas from the reading and teachings of the great philosophers who have tried to build their utopias in the past. | The perfect society does not exist. If it did however‚ it would probably sound much like the vacation brochures you can read
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