October 3, 2011 Coach Powe Mid-Term (Pickle ball) Pickleball has the combined features of badminton, tennis and table tennis but also has its own unique features. This sport receives point scoring from badminton, the court structure from badminton and tennis, the net from badminton and tennis and the paddle from table tennis. The ball is plastic and contains several small holes. A game is played to 11 points. Only the server can score points – 1 point per serve.
Gene’s bitter attitude towards Blitzball reflects his envious personality. However, Finny exhibits a completely different attitude towards the sport which reflects his distinctive personality. Finny’s ability to create a popular game at Devon that he himself could not even win at demonstrates his charisma for fun and sports. Finny excitingly picks up a medicine ball saying, “ Now this, you see, is everything in the word you need for sports”( page 36). He then goes on openly explaining all the rules to Blitzball.
For instance, if a pitcher is having an amazing game he might be referred to as a “hot pitcher”. Or if there is a poker game on television such as the World Series of Poker and a player gets a couple extremely lucky or favorable hands the announcer might refer to him or her as the “hot hand”. “Hot” has been used as a slang term as far back as the early 1900’s, when the newspapers came out there would be a newspaper salesman on the side of the street screaming “Extra! Extra! Read all about it fresh news stories hot off the press!” As Savan states that whites who “Plagiaries” (191) black talk don’t deserve to be talking in a language that they are just imitating, but not all slang words have derived from the “hood”.
The Bulls had pure shooters such as John Paxton and Steve Kerr who would knock down 3-point shots when they were needed (Wikipedia.org). John Paxton was the reason the Bulls won the 1992-1993 NBA Championship due to the fact that he hit a 3-point shot with 3.9 seconds left in game six against the Phoenix Suns (Wikipedia.org). The reason the Bulls were so successful was because everyone on the team knew their role and knew what they had to contribute to the team for the organization to be successful. The role players knew they had to grab rebounds, make hustle plays, play defense and leave the scoring to Michael and Scottie. As
RULES * All shots with the tennis racket must be done using the underarm technique. Over arm hits will result in a warning then 2 points will be taken off the team if repeated. * Players can only take 10 steps before passing the ball to each other or shooting for goal. If tagged within the 10 steps then the player must stop and pass the ball. * Players can only shoot for goal past the half way line (in the other team’s territory).
Starting positions are very limited, so that is why the African Americans and whites fight over them. To make an African American player look bad, the white football players wouldn’t block for the African American during practice. The white people just wanted to make the African Americans look bad. All the white football players cared about was to make sure that all the starting positions were filled with their own race. It caused many conflicts between the players, not only during practice but during games.
2) One of our favorite activities: dodge ball. You may think of dodge ball as six players on a team and six rubber balls; but I’m adding a bizarre new twist to the average game. Ours involved ten stairs, a wall, and one ball. 8) “Rachel, I got you!” Hannah would shout with a giggle. Playing dodge ball up the stairs of my old house was a classic.
For example, when the team is at an away basketball team and they are called onto the court, no one cheers for them. Also, when one of the team members of the team was in a bathroom at a diner, he was physically beaten by white people who opposed them playing. Yet the African American basketball team shows superior skill. The team rises above all of the hate, however, and ends up winning the championship game in the end of the movie. This is an example of subjugated African Americans rising above the situation that they are in because even though the public was doubtful, and was disgusted by the team, they rose above it and ended up doing well in the
It’s really bad to treat African American’s like they are worse than whites but that doesn’t mean that we should treat them like they are better, these scholarships might lead our country to become more and more racist, and some African American’s might even find these scholarships racist. Slavery was and is a horrible thing and it tears people apart thinking that our country played a big part in it but that isn’t a good enough reason to give African American’s scholarships for being black. Our country needs to try and treat everyone equally, no matter their race or color. Katherine Johnson wrote a
By being stereotypical we are pretty much condemning a race of people by saying oh he is white so he committed this crime or he is black so he is probably going to commit this crime. That right there shows the mind sets of our society which to me seems to be a really negative outlook on the world. One thing I learned from by doing this research paper is that in fact white people make the majority of the population that actually commits the crimes, I find it really pathetic that people are always so oblivious to that and are always the first ones to discriminate against another race for committing a crime that anyone could possible commit. I hope that one day that the word race will not be associated with criminal activity, it may sound like a impossible goal but I believe one day it will indeed