One Game‚ One Love By John Victor Marcelino After almost 4 months of waiting‚ the world’s most popular basketball league‚ the National Basketball Association (NBA) returns in front of its tens of millions of fans around the world. With the last season ending on a high note via an epic 7-game Finals series between the elite teams of Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs‚ NBA fans will expect more surprises this new period of basketball battle. By the bird’s eye view‚ let’s look on some teams
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True Black Motherhood A black woman writer‚ Toni Morrison‚ represents the affirmative meaning of black motherhood in her novel Sula (1973). She intends to reevaluate the positive experience of the black mothers who had no choice but to strategically accept the value of self-sacrifice for the survival of the black community and their children under the late twentieth century’s oppressive conventions. Nevertheless‚ there have been long controversies whether the Eva’s burning her own son or Helene’s
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Emma Villegas 4/23/13 Occasional Essay Stop and smile A smile is one of the simplest of cures for anything in this world. It can cure broken dreams‚ broken confidence‚ and even a broken heart. Not everyone has the same smile‚ but they send out the same message: showing happiness‚ friendliness‚ appreciation‚ love‚ and kindness. A true smile is the best way to keep you and anyone else in a good mood. “When you’re smilin’‚ the whole world smiles with you‚” Said Louis Armstrong in his
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I am a lucky person. I was raised by a very caring pair of parents with three very good siblings in an extremely affluent town. I attended the best grammar and high schools in the state‚ continued on to graduate from one of the best universities in the world‚ and had no idea what to do next. My drive to excel was both internal and externalI really do love success‚ but I was equally pressured by outside sources to succeed. The advantages I was given served both to help me start ahead of others
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I’ve only done one exceptional thing in my entire life. It was two months ago but I feel like an eternity passed since that day. I always thought about myself as a person who’s impossible to get provoked. I based that opinion on my attitude towards Beca Baker‚ a girl who was trying to get on my nerves since the first day of high school. She was talking shit about me‚ pranking me - or at least trying to‚ she was way too stupid to pull of a successful prank - and making sure other people hated me as
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Truly Holmes? The Modern H. H. Holmes : A Normative Critique. Herman Webster Mudgett‚ better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes‚ was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair‚ Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind‚ and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders‚ of which nine were confirmed‚ his
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Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) – Does it really boosts the Sales? Gone are the days when customers use to easily lure away by the gimmicks of the marketing persons. Today the customers are cleverer and demanding than ever before. They cannot be easily caught in the snare of the companies’ ideological gimmicks as they used to be in the past. I would love to share with you a real life and an interesting anecdote which is about a sales promotion program of a well established and renowned cigarette
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these three problems: unhappiness in their marriage‚ discontentment with the amount of intimacy‚ and profound confidence. The second lie I want to address‚ also from LeaderU.com‚ is that starting sex early in a relationship will help you get to know one another and become better partners later. This is a misunderstanding of what sex really is. According to LeaderU.com‚ "In healthy marriages‚ sex takes its natural place beside the intellectual‚ emotional and practical aspects of life. (Fryling‚ 1)"
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Right from the beginning of the story‚ the children innocently try to find out the truth about Boo Radley‚ unaware that they’re bothering him. They soon learn Boo’s true nature‚ through his kind acts of giving them treats and toys‚ to providing them with a blanket during a house fire. Someone who gives to others and doesn’t expect anything back‚ like Boo Radley‚ shouldn’t be made fun of and treated rudely. They realise this and end their childish activities with Boo. Since he treats them with kindness
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Personal Response "The Things They Carried‚" by Tim O’Brien. At first it seemed to be just another war story. As I started reading I thought I was not going to have any interest at all in the story; however after I got into the story I found myself more interested than I thought I was going to be. This story is an excellent representation of war itself. It is very realistic and easy to relate to even without any personal experience with war. The title itself paves the way for
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