External Environment Social. KIPP Houston serves students in high-minority‚ low-income communities. KIPP’s leaders actively recruit students from Houston’s low rent apartment neighborhoods. Of the 8‚500 students‚ 85 percent are considered low income‚ 36 percent are African-American‚ 62 percent are Latino‚ and 30 percent have limited English proficiency. Many of these students come from immigrant households‚ single-parents‚ or full-time working parents with multiple jobs. This family situation becomes
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NBA Championship in 1983 and Moses Malone was Finals MVP. In the 1984 NBA Draft there were a number of players that were drafted that were later to become stars. Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon was selected as first pick. He would later play with the Houston Rockets and win two championships with them (1994‚ 1995). Michael Jordan was selected as third pick. He later became arguably the best player in NBA history. He led the Chicago Bulls to six championships in the 1990’s‚ (1991‚ 1992‚ 1993‚ 1996‚ 1997
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heels of the landmark supreme court’s decision to make gay marriage legal; Houston held their annual gay pride parade hosted by Pride Houston Inc. Held in downtown Houston for the first time since its inception‚ was originally held in Montrose. With streets in downtown shut down for the event‚ parade goers were able to mingle and relish in the victory. "This year is a special celebration for the LGBT community in Houston. Not only is gay marriage legal nation wide‚ but we get the added bonus of a
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Knicks team page‚ Simpson joined the Knicks in the summer of 2014 after serving five seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He started as an assistant video coordinator and an opposition scout. He joined the Thunder following two seasons with the Houston Rockets as the basketball operations assistant‚ working daily with the coaching staff while also assisting the front office with various projects including in-game and postgame statistical and analytics reports. Before his NBA career‚ Simpson spent
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Nathan Audette 12/10/14 Yao Ming an Inspiration Yao Ming an inspiration to any basketball player. He was a chinese athlete who was the first to play in the NBA. He did not get there easily. It took pride‚ power‚ and dedication. He started basketball when he was kid. His parents taught him the game(Young 16). His parents were both professional basketball players(Young 15-16). His father was on the Chinese National Team(Young 15-16). His mother played in the olympics for the chinese(Young 15-16)
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I Am Sam December 16th‚ 2010 In the movie I Am Sam‚ I will be discussing two elements of communication‚ facial expressions and the social exchange theory of relationships. I will be describing two different scenes of the movie to show how facial expressions are an important element of communication as well as two other scenes to show how the social exchange theory of relationships works in this movie. During the final custody hearing to determine if Sam‚ who has the mentality level of a seven
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my talent. I was named Best in Sports and Athlete of the Year when I graduated from high school. One of my favorite examples that came into contrast to the stereotype that Asians can not play sports is Yao Ming. Yao Ming who plays center for the Houston Rockets team is also one of the best professional basketball players in the NBA. His ability to block and shoot from the perimeter overcomes the average of a typical center players ability during a game. Yao Ming is clearly a prime example of a contrast
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of high students have a 4cm increasing in recently year Ⅱ.Affect Chinese business A. NBA develops Chinese Tourism industry 1. According to “Yao Ming Effect" influences with NBA‚ CBA”‚ it says that “With Yao Ming ’s nine years in NBA‚ watching Houston Rockets matches has become a ritual for many Chinese basketball fans”. . They go to Toyota Centre just for watching Yao Ming’s game. It allows more and more Chinese tend to go to the United States and make a development in both Chinese and American
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out probabilities of plays working and correlation between stats‚ wins‚ players and successful plays. The entire NFL is too broad of a sample group to do when trying to find out information such as this so I choose one team‚ my favorite team‚ the Houston Texans. I am going to base all my information for this project off of the players and stats for the 2012 regular season. I choose to pick last years team because the season is still going so there will be more information on last years team and also
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Title - Service Sector Insight Business opportunities for services sector under the AEC Contributors Dr. Sutapa Amornvivat Vithan Charoenphon Dr. Chinnawut Techanuvat Tubkwan Homchampa Teerin Ratanapinyowong Pranida Syamananda Dr. Sivalai Vararuth Witchuda Chummee Business opportunities for services sector under the AEC Progress towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) thus far has been rather slow with few tangible results‚ which may have helped explain a correspondingly slow adjustment
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