...No doubt about it, Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest of all time. He has accomplished so many things during his twenty-year career in the NBA. He is ranked third in the NBA all-time scoring list, just one ahead of Michael Jordan. Kobe has won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and he is also the only player to play for the same team for twenty years. After reading, ¨Kobe¨ by Joe Layden, I learned a lot more about Kobe Bryant than I ever knew before. I personally like Kobe very much, but there are people out there who do not care for him. I can admit he is a ball hogger, one of the worst, but that doesn't describe him all around. Not everything about Kobe is the greatest, but then again no one is perfect. He was just a boy born in...
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...ged my life dramatically; playing basketball is my favorite thing to do and brings joy to my life and family. I have never been good at the whole school thing. I am not an amazing A+ student, and didn’t have the greatest relationship with my family until something great happened. When things aren’t going right I always have basketball to motivate me In high school I was not the best student. I didn’t take it seriously, but that all stopped when I made the varsity basketball team. I didn’t want to disappoint my teammates and wanted to be eligible to play. My freshmen year I couldn’t play in two games because I had bad grades. It was the worst feeling I have ever had and from that point on I was going to do everything I could to get good grades. Basketball motivated me to work hard in school and got me through my four years in high school. I wanted to be that student athlete and not the girl that is good at basketball but cant play because of her grades. If I didn’t play basketball I would not be in college right now. I had to sacrifice a lot of things for basketball such as hanging out with friends. I made a lot of friends playing basketball and my high school team was like my second family to me. We were together all the time. We kept each other from getting into trouble and had each others back. Being so close to my teammates forced me to stop hanging out with the friends that are always getting in trouble and not making the right decisions. Playing basketball has made...
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...Robby Walker English 100 11/15/15 Lance Berkman Lance Berkman is my idol. In my opinion he is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Yankees. He has the most home runs by a switch hitter in Major League Baseball History. A switch hitter is someone who can hit from the right and left side of the plate. Berkman was well known for being a class act and a stand up gut in the Houston community. He now coaches for a baseball team in Houston, which is a branch off of my Major Kinesiology. Kinesiology is a huge, broad field you can do so many things off of this major, such as, Coach, Therapists, and teacher. Lance Berkman started his career late and that’s because he played in the Major League for 13 seasons. Now, he is in my field of study and he coaches and teaches now. Berkman played baseball at Canyon High School, Berkman then attended Rice University, where he played college baseball for the Rice Owls. He was named the 1997 National College Player of the Year. The Houston Astros selected Berkman in the first round of the 1997 MLB Draft, and he debuted in MLB for the Astros in 1999. Berkman was one of the Astros' "Killer B's" in the mid-2000s, along with Jeff Bagwell, Carlos Beltran, Craig Biggio, and Derek Bell. The Astros traded Berkman to the Yankees at the 2010 trade deadline. He spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the Cardinals, and the 2013 season with the Rangers...
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...special someone that will help you realize that the idea is still brilliant even though it may have taken a turn for the worse. I have always been recognized for my gift to lift someone’s spirits. It has always been evident that Public Relations is the career for me. Dreams and ambitions or not just sleep clouds and small child fantasies that are only in my imagination. Dreams and ambitions keep me focused and energized to achieve all that God has for me. What is achievement to me? The meaning of achievement is obtaining exertion or successful performance. That’s the proper definition according to Webster’s Dictionary. But to me, achievement means so much more. My goals and ambitions are life opportunities that I refuse to compromise or let be compromised. Obtaining my goals and working hard towards my ambitions is a very important factor at this point in my life. In my opinion, achievement is everlasting. It can be good or bad. It just depends on how one chooses to take advantage of it. For example, a criminal has stolen a man’s fortune successfully; he has achieved his goal. It’s a very bad achievement, but he was successful. However, a Christian such as myself, looks to accomplish those goals which are in the will of God. I know it is His will that I excel as an outstanding student in high school and college; live each day as a good example to other young people; and serve Him by using the multiple gifts He has given me. I will one day complete God’s will and reach...
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...many people have heard of Steve Prefontaine because of his short life-span. He was only 24 years old when he passed. The purpose of this paper is to inform you on who Steve Prefontaine really was, and what he achieved as a high schooler and in his college years. Methodology When I was first given this assignment, my mind started racing on who I thought was a leader and a catalyst for change. Everyone started calling out who they wanted to do and slowly but surely every famous person I knew was taken. I was really stumped and started researching “leaders” on google but everyone who came up didn’t seem interesting enough. My AVID teacher Mrs. Swain asked me what I enjoyed doing and I replied with running and she brought up Steve Prefontaine. She brought me up to speed about him and it got me interested how he for the longest time he held the record in every distance track race. As I began researching about him, most of the cites said the same thing: He held the record in every distance track meet and died at age 24. So for a while I couldn’t find out more information on him. In the article “The Legacy of Pre still lives on” gave me Pre’s whole back story. Where he grew up, how he was on the less fortunate side, he went to college full ride and how he at first wasn’t interested in the sport. Another part that was difficult to find was how he was a catalyst for change. I knew he was responsible for the running boom in the 1970’s, but besides that he wasn’t very involved in anything...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay Major League Baseball Greatest Two of the world’s greatest baseball players were Jackie Robinson, and Babe Ruth. Both of the men established a career in a game they both truly loved. Jackie Robinson, and Babe Ruth have accomplishments that will remain a part of life’s history in the spirt of baseball. However both are known as baseball legends, they offer their differences and similarities amongst not only by their careers but by their personal lives. Throughout my essay I will explore their history and career also what makes them legends that they are today. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia. Robinson was the youngest of five siblings. Jackie attended Washington Junior High School, and enrolled at John Muir High School, recognizing his talents Jackie oldest brother Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports. In 1936 Robinson won the junior boys championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament All Star Team. After attending Muir High School, Robinson went on to Pasadena Junior College where he continued his athletic career. Toward the end of Robinson’s term, Frank Robinson, Jackie’s oldest brother whom he felt closest was killed in a motorcycle accident. The incident motivated Jackie to pursue his athletic career at a nearby college known as UCLA, where Robinson felt close to his eldest brother’s...
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...during the 2000 Olympic Games where she won three Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. She was later sentenced to six months in prison for lying to the court and stripped off of all of her medals. Throughout history, there have been many stories of athletes using performance enhancing drugs, but none more than in the last 20 years. As technology advances in science as well as the media, more drugs has been engineer to enhance performance as well as the test to detect such drugs, as the results get to the hands of the media, the entire world would be at noticed in a manner of minutes. The fact is that performance enhancing drugs have existed since the time of the ancient Greek during the original Olympic Games from 776 BC – 393 BC. The question is why should we care? If most athletes are using it, is it a plain level field? And why is the government involved? Should the government be involved? Let’s examine the issue and conclude what should be the ethical choice. I will first begin asking why do athletes choose to use performance enhancing drugs. The obvious answer would be to gain an advantage on the competition, which is the selfish reason. But why not, Should we be looking after ourselves? An egoist approach to this issue, if the athlete can take a drug that makes them better...
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...A College Education Will Get You More Money Sherri Coleman English ENG 101 March 14, 2010 Mary-Angie Salvá-Ramírez, Ph.D. In order to secure a good job, one must have a college education. A college education ensures you with a good job with great benefits. A college education, also, gives you more confidence in what you can accomplish. A college education also gives you more of an option with choosing the job that you want. A college degree opens the door for many opportunities, financial stability, a comfortable lifestyle, and emotional security. A college degree gives you more peace of mind knowing you have a degree in a specific field. With a much secure feeling on being able to afford the finer things in life. Having a college degree gives you an enormous advantage in the work field with training and more pay. Unlike a high school graduate, you have more leverage. You can choose your places of employment and your salary opposed to having to settle for what is open and in most cases, minimum wages. When you have a college education, you have the option to choose what job you want. You do not have to settle for a job because that is the only job that you can get. You can have your pick and chooses because you have the qualifications. You will not be looked at like you just did enough to get by. You will be looked at as the person who wanted more education to better yourself for a job. You will be looked at as a person who knows what you want and have taken the steps...
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...of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches individuals to act in the right manner and remain committed towards it. Taking performance enhancing drugs has a long history in sport. In 1904, a marathon runner nearly died from a mixture of brandy and strychnine, a poisonous substance that...
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...THE IMPACT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS, AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONG HISPANIC FEMALE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS A Dissertation By Kelly J. Manlove BS, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1996 MS, University of North Texas, 2006 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION In Educational Leadership Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas May, 2013 THE IMPACT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS, AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONG HISPANIC FEMALE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS A Dissertation By Kelly J. Manlove BS, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1996 MS, University of North Texas, 2006 This dissertation meets the standards for scope and quality of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi and is hereby approved. Kamiar Kouzekanani, Ph.D. Bryant Griffith, Ph.D. Chair Committee Member Jacqueline Hamilton, Ed.D. Pamela Meyer, Ph.D. Committee Member Graduate Faculty Representative JoAnn Canales, Ph.D. Interim Dean of Graduate Studies May 2013 © Kelly Jean Manlove All Rights Reserved March 2013 v ABSTRACT THE IMPACT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS, AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONG HISPANIC FEMALE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS (March 2013) Kelly J. Manlove B.S., Stephen F. Austin State University M.Ed., University of North Texas Dissertation Chair: Kamiar Kouzekanani...
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...Defying the odds of the world despite being deaf In the American society, we tend to perceive hearing impairment or deafness as a disability, which in truth isn’t really a disability at all. Instead many prefer to look at as a culture. Canada has mostly been recognized throughout the world as having the greatest hockey players. After doing research, I realized there has been one legally deaf player who played National Hockey League. Jim Kyte became the first noted and legally to date deaf NHL player. All sports entertain us in part because of the thrill and unpredictability watching the greatness of athletes dominate. My interest came across hockey player Jim, as I learned he was deaf playing in a sport with incredible high speeds along with the occasional two player fight resulting in an all-out-brawl in the middle in the rink. Kyte was renowned for his strong competiveness and strong physical ability to play defense. Jim was born full-hearing and not deaf, but rather later years at the tender age of three. When doctors discovered, he had been born with a hereditary hearing aliment that was caused by a degeneration of the audio nerve. Jim Kyte is legendary for having a 6’5 body frame broke out into the scene of his professional hockey career in 1982 drafted 12th overall by the Winnipeg jets. As being the first deaf NHL player, he was also the first player to wear hearing aids while playing. To protect his hearing aids, Jim wore a special customized helmet that had flaps covering...
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... private office, or clinic. Their patients could range from aging woman, an athlete, an unfortunate accident victim, or someone with lower back pain. Saul Wischnitzer projects his research by explaining that it's a physical therapists job to first test then measure the patients’, muscle strength, coordination, motor function, and a range of motion. After a certain number of sessions, the physical therapist must determine a process for the treatment so the patient can regain mobility. They specialized process should help relieve the pain and assure the patient everything will be okay. Working as a physical therapist gives a person the satisfaction of helping people achieve a goal with gradual progress and seeing them once or twice a week. The experience a physical therapist takes away from going to work every day includes meeting new people and having conversation with new individuals. Also knowing that physical therapists earn a good amount of money attracts some people to this occupation. Physical therapy is a modern career that is exciting, challenging, and allows a person to be social. A job in the physical therapy field requires a person to obtain a high school diploma. Certain classes are required to get the bachelor or doctorate degrees needed to have the opportunity to get hired in this field. A passed licensure exam is required by most states in order to work with a patient. One also has to acquire credits from a physical therapist educational program. According to...
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...science fiction genre, have sort of a sense of his wacky science fiction style. Kurt Vonnegut very often makes a connection to nature or the real world style with science fiction, mostly by the use of humor and irony. Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He passed away at the age of 85, on April 11, 2007. Kurt's parents worked hard, and both his grandfather and father were architects. His grandfather was the founder of Vonnegut Hardware Company in Indianapolis and was all about hard work and labor. Kurt Vonnegut majored in chemistry and was very interested in writing and graphic arts, which made it hard for him to connect with his father. Kurt decided to attend the University of Cornell after graduating from Shortridge High School in May of 1940. Vonnegut developed an early understanding for his writing ability, when he became the editor for The Cornell Daily Sun. Instead of following his passion for writing, he fell into his father's ways and enlisted in the U.S. Army to study vastly about mechanical engineering. To make matters worse, a couple of years after being enlisted, his mother committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills on Mother's Day of 1944. This was the same year Vonnegut got involved as a soldier in World War II, and has many memorable experiences on the battlefield and as a pioneer of war. It is here that Kurt develops many of the ideas and viewpoints he will use as an author in his future pieces of literature. ...
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...Rickey. However, few journalists have asked why Robinson was selected and what was Branch Rickey’s motivation? While Robinson was the first Negro player to break into the ranks of professional baseball, it can be argued that he was not the first to attempt the undertaking. In actuality, Jackie possibly was not even the first player the Brooklyn Dodgers’ organization considered for the job. The Warner Brothers film, 42, The Jackie Robinson Story (2013), highlights the accomplishments of Jackie and rightfully so, as he was an amazing man. The story actually starts prior to 1947 and ends years later in 1959, three years after his retirement in 1956. Early in his career at Ohio Wesleyan University, where Branch Rickey played and coached baseball, an incident occurred with one of his young black players, Charlie Thomas, which would forever change Rickey’s life, the future of integration of major league baseball, and would have an impact on the civil rights movement. Jackie Robinson’s amazing accomplishments, not only as a ballplayer but also as a spearheading civil rights leader are a direct result of this happenstance. The film is set in 1947, and was conceived with the purpose to highlight Robinson’s...
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...Ryan is a 15-year-old male who is currently going into the 10th grade. I have known Ryan my whole life, as he is my brother’s best friend and like a second brother to me. He lives in Overland Park, KS where he has lived since he was born with his mom and dad. He has a brother who is younger than he is and a golden retriever. Ryan was happy to help with this project, as he loves to talk about himself. In describing what Ryan’s life is typically like, it mainly is focused on his friends and the huge amounts of sports he plays. He feels that things in general are more challenging now, due to the fact there is actual competition in sport because people are just as skilled as you if not better and the fact that there are try-outs and not everyone makes it. Ryan recalls the times when he was younger when he and his friends could just play together and have fun regardless of if they were any good. The fun is completely gone, he still enjoys it but now there is that pressure to be the best and win. Things outside of school are a lot easier now because he has less rules to follow and gets more freedom. He is now allowed to go to the mall on his own, but wasn’t until last year. When asked how things may change in the next few years, he said “he will be able to drive” and he plans on getting his restricted as soon as he turns 16 in the next couple of months. Ryan enjoys his school life a lot more as well because now on certain days he gets to sleep in later and pick if he wants...
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