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    Great Basketball Coach

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    What Does It Take To Become A Great Basketball Coach? Have you ever imagined not having a coach for your sports team? Or why your coach is so successful? Even though they are very demanding‚ they’re essential for any team’s success.  “I demand a lot out of my players‚ but we have fun and I give them room to learn and make mistakes‚” said Coach Mike Bates. They provide structure and are the heart and souls of each team. Coaches have to love the game.  The team reflects the coach‚ if he’s successful

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    Crossed Up: Does Crossed Hand/Eye Dominance Affect Basketball Shooting Percentage? Abstract Everyone ’s used to the idea that people are either right-handed or left-handed for particular tasks. That is‚ one hand is preferred (or dominant) over the other for a particular task. Did you know that people also have a dominant eye? This project is designed to look for consequences of having the dominant hand and eye on the same side of the body (uncrossed) vs. having the dominant hand and eye on opposite

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    Thiroux’s Truth

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    Thiroux’s Truth Do you agree with the author’s list of characteristics of good‚ bad‚ right‚ wrong? (Thiroux & Krasemann‚ 2011) pg. 28. The author was correct in stating that we tend to label inanimate things with words that would be construed as morally or aesthetically improper. From the moment we are born‚ the human brain is transitioning through a process called learning. In most situations‚ internal or external‚ its development is greatly affected by imitation and/or repetition of certain

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    The Truth is in the Knowledge Aaron Gillett University of Laverne Abstract “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Truth is education‚ but a person could never find the truth without being enlightened. The truth is the easiest thing to find‚ but many people do not care to find it. Most are more comfortable with the truth or afraid of what actually might be true. However‚ if they would just be optimistic and fearless they might actually experience

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    Hockey and basketball have many similarities‚ but are unique in their own ways. Both sports have been around for over 125 years. They both can be played in backyards‚ parks‚ or in professional arenas. Each sport is entertaining and has a big fanbase‚ and the goal is to put an object in a net using five players on each team. While the two sports have a lot in common there are lots of differences. In hockey you can push people off of the rubber disc that is called a puck to score. Pushing a player

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    Basketball is one of the most popular sports in North America. It is popular because of Basketball superstars like Michael Jordon and Magic Johnson who make the game look so easy and exciting. Although a lot of people want to play like those superstars‚ they don’t know how to be a good basketball player. In order to be a good basketball player one must have good ball handling‚ accurate shooting‚ and great observation. To be a good basketball player‚ he or she must have good ball handling. A player

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    Universal Truths

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    Mandy Huang 5/21/13 Universal Truths Universal truths can decipher lessons about life which can be found in different genres of text. The three texts‚ “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty‚ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ and “The Journey” by Mary Oliver share a similar universal truth and themes. The universal truth found in the three texts presents struggle and determination. Each author presents the universal truths in a resembling and diverse way. In the story‚ “A Worn

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    An Inconvenient Truth

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    An Inconvenient Truth The climate crisis that our planet faces has become an ever-increasing and extremely controversial issue. In the book “An Inconvenient Truth‚” Al Gore goes beyond the political and economic implications of this crisis and states that global warming is a moral issue that humans need to address. For years‚ scientists have been examining the reasons for the changing climate and have come to the conclusion that global warming is real and it is serious threat to the world. Eventually

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    An outstanding basketball player by the name of Julius Erving once said‚ “The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life- mental‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ as well as physical.” The sport of basketball is tremendously hard to master‚ and it shows because only a select group has successfully mastered the game of basketball. Basketball is the sport that requires all aspects of your body to be excellent. To be a great basketball player you have to be physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally strong

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    History of Basketball The first game similar to basketball may have been played by the early people of ancient Mexico as early as 500’s. The Mayan people used the decapitated skulls of their enemies as the ball. They also made sacrifices if you did not win the game. James Naismith was a man born on In 1861‚ James Naismith invented basketball. The idea of basketball came from Naismith’s early school education. He used to play a game known as duck-on-a-rock. The idea was to knock a "duck"

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