“According to a survey I conducted in central California schools, celebrities can motivate children to read. Through the Reading Motivation Inventory, over 900 students in 41 classes were asked if they would enjoy reading or listening to books written by famous people such as the President of the U.S., actors, actresses, musicians, or sports stars. Ninety percent of the primary students and 70% of the intermediate and middle school students indicated they would enjoy books written by or about celebrities” (Towell). This survey shows that most of the children would prefer to read a book written by a celebrity. This would also most likely be true for college students as well since college students, for the most part, are young and look up to celebrities.
Hoosiers Jennifer Lee-Ross Baker College of Auburn Hills Tuesday, December 2, 2014 The Hoosiers movie is based upon a true story about a small-town Indiana team located in Hickory that made it to the states’ basketball finals in 1954. Norman Dale who has a spotty past was hired by his friend and principal Cletus Summers to become a high school teacher and head coach of the basketball coach. This story is of redemption, friendship and individuals become a team. Most of us in life has watched a film about teamwork or participated in teamwork. Coach Norman Dale faced optimization as soon as he entered the halls of Milan High School by Myra Fleener who became a thorn in his side throughout most of the movie.
On his first day of school, he meets Coach Walski, a football coach. Paul knows he is a good goalie and tries out for the team. Paul learns that he can't make the team because his mom filled out an IEP (individualized education plan) for him because of his vision impairment. Soon after, while Paul is at his school, a part of the school collapses into a sinkhole. Many try to rescue the people who are trapped and fortunately, no one gets seriously injured.
Share a time in your life when you feel you let your parents down. How did this event or moment impact your relationship with them? My mom and dad were in Sioux Falls with my brother at a basketball camp at Augustana and Maria, Kyra, and I went to Okoboji because we went boating. We were planning on staying the night there at Cutty’s but we ended up coming back that night because of the weather, and I didn’t tell my mom or dad that I wasn’t staying the night in Okoboji that night. I figured that Maria, Kyra, and I should have some guys over since I was home alone and we were going to watch a movie with them.
Emmett went to Mississippi to visit family for a week and was staying at the home of his uncle, Mose Wright. After bragging to his southern cousins and some friends about his friendships with the white people up north, they dared him to go into a store and say something to the white woman that worked there. After the provoking, Emmett went into the grocery store to answer their challenge. Entering that store, he had no idea that he was breaking the Jim Crow laws of the South, and that his actions would bring about his death. According to his uncle Mose, at approximately 2:00 in the morning three days after Emmett had gone into the store and talked to the white woman who was later identified as Carolyn Bryant, Emmett was awakened out of bed and taken from Mose’s house.
The book I read is called Seventeenth Summer. The author of Seventeenth Summer is Maureen Daly. This book is a romance fiction story.The plot of Seventeenth Summer is about Angie Morrow's first love. Shortly after graduating from a private high school in Wisconsin, Angie meets Jack Duluth, the star center on a public high school's basketball team,but Angie's mom and dad are getting very sullen at her because she is now all the sudden spending more time with jack then on her studys. This story takes place during the summertime.
One example of flashback as employed in the short story is a seven year old Thomas telling Victor a story of his father, who at the time resides at home. Thomas tells him, “Your father's heart is weak, he's afraid of his own family, he's afraid of you, (Alexie 61).” Yet in the film, we see the development of Arnold's character when by accident, he comes upon Thomas while he is off on a secret quest looking for a vision from the forefathers. Arnold laughs at the telling and takes him to Denny's for breakfast and then home to the reservation though he extracts a promise from Thomas to look out for Victor and to help him when needed. A second example of flashback inAlexie’s short story is at the age of ten, Victor asks Thomas to tell him a story after the fireworks show. Thomas responds with a tale of two boys wanting to be Indian braves.
Before the NBA players had to wear suits before a game and the NBA enforced the rule that you had to do a year in college before you got drafted, the athletes of high school and college were getting a free ride. Teachers looked past their academic ability and let them slide because of their athletic ability. This is the same thing in Malik case until he meets is political science teacher, played by Laurence fishbone, Professor Phipps and Fudge. Even though, they have different views of the world, fudge and the professor teach Malik about being a black athlete and a black student, in different ways. Fudge, although he has been there for six years and is considered a professional student(MSN Movies
The stale air from the gym filled Chris’s lungs as he conducted his usual Wednesday post practice workout. It was a routine for him to run sprints and shoot free throws after his teammates and coaches had left. More often then not the last to leave the school were he and the janitor. “So what makes you do all of this when you know your team isn’t, especially before the big game.” Jack said putting down the mop and bounce passing a stray ball back to Chris. “I see it as my only way out of this place,” Chris replied breathing heavily, “The game in two days is just a stepping stone.” “Everyone knows you have over a dozen scholarship offers from big name schools
If you do not believe this, you simply teach youngsters that cheating can be justified if someone else is cheating too. I know I’m not supposed to use “I” but over the summer I worked at a basketball facility that runs some of the Nations top showcases for high school athletes. I got the chance to talk to a number of college coaches and ask them questions about their profession, which hopefully one day I will be in. When I asked about being ethical they never said much, yea I got a few funny stories but almost every coach told me “if you have a big decision, think about what you going to do and sleep on it, if you wake up with a good feeling then roll with