“Just Walk On By” Brent Staples the author of “Just Walk On By” begins with his first ever victim, a well dress, early twenties white woman walking down the street in Hyde Park. It was late at night and Brent and the woman was the only one on the street. To Brent walking down the lone street at night seem normal but to the woman it wasn’t. The woman looked over to Brent with a worried glance thinking that the six feet two inches youngest black man with a bread would hurt her. After a couple quick glimpses to Brent the woman picked up her pace and was soon running away for him.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski has been the head basketball coach at Duke University since 1980. It is interesting to point out that these two men are connected by more than the mere fact that they are two of the most successful basketball coaches of all time. When Mike Krzyzewski played basketball his freshman year at the United States Military College/school at West Point, his head coach was Bob Knight. Together, these two men built a coach and student relationship that changed into a working relationship of friendship and respect for each other. Based upon the model of Robert Katz there are a few skills that accounted for the success of each of these coaches.
This stanza represents the imagery of obese children swimming and behaving like otters and enjoying themselves in the pool. The image that crosses my mind as I read the following stanza “The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool: roll and plop, plop and roll;” (stanza one), are obese children swimming in a nice pool. The other images that comes up in my mind while reviewing this stanza “slide and tumble, oiled, in the slippery sun silent as otters, turning over and in,” (stanza two). This image makes me think of a slip and slide. Since otters have nothing to do while playing in a pool, the writer uses this image so the readers can imagine the children playing in the pool and swim like an otters do in the water.
When the speaker says in line 2 “We left school,” she is saying that these young men are dropouts or they are at the pool room when they are supposed to be at school. In the second stanza, the speaker says, “Lurk late.” She says this because the pool players are out late at night when they are supposed to be at home doing homework, chores, or supposed to be asleep. In line 4, it says, “We Strike straight.” What she is saying when she says this is that the pool players can “strike” the pool ball “straight” into the pocket in the pool table. The pool players must have practiced playing pool a lot to “strike” the pool ball “straight” into the pocket. In stanza three, the speaker says, “We sing sin,” when she says this in the poem, she is talking about how the young men celebrate sin or as she said “Sing” sin.
Those are his hobbies. Joron is tall which contributes to his talent of playing basketball. Behind that talent is a caring guy that caters to his friends needs. Joron Butler is a dependent friend that will help out and assist in almost anything that you ask him too. Joron grew up in Hampton, Va.
There was a crazy person in the court. The man had very good skill of basketball. Also He won every game by himself. I was very surprised and looked at him very carefully. His eyes were very shiny.
Ball games have a important role to play at a unconscious level informing all white males and females to keep their eyes constantly fixed on the balls as a matter of life and death. Pg.135-136 This section of the book talks about specific ball games such as pool pool consist of 8 colored balls being hit by one white ball and a long dark stick. Once all the colored balls are hit the one white ball is left with the long dark stick. Bowling is also a white supremacy game because you use a big black that’s being rolled towards 10 white pins. A Pg.135-136 This section of the book talks about specific ball games such as pool pool consist of 8 colored balls being hit by one white ball and a long dark stick.
We played a game called “Skate” which is a game where we exchange tricks on a skateboard. Although these kids didn’t know that many tricks, we still had a lot of fun. It doesn’t matter: if someone is a boy or girl, tall or short, black, white, or even blue we can all skate. Skateboarding is a universal language. I moved a lot as a kid.
I love everything about the game: the sound of the net after a swish, crossing your opponent and finishing it with the pretty layup, the good feeling after making that three pointer, dribbling down the court, and just knowing the crowd is there to cheer you on; it all makes me happy. Even writing about the topic of basketball is exciting. Watching the game is also enjoyable, learning the many different techniques and methods you can use to trick or cross your opponent. Everyone has their own style in the game and I think it is exciting to watch. Being around other basketball players is where I feel at home.
Manta rays are very similar to mobula rays, which has 9 species. Manta ray is a huge animal. Its width can reach over 5 meters. Their size looks terrifying but they are actually very nice animal. When people swim with manta rays, they usually interact with people and play with people.