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    Unwind Community Examples

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    In today’s society, the people in a town, state, and country are all connected to something greater, a shared sense of community. For one, people united under one cause can band together in order to help others in their community, helping others heal from a tragedy to collaborating to start a movement. On the other hand, people in communities can band together for corrupt reasons, to spread hate and chaos into the world. These examples of communities are evident in both today’s society as well…

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    In the past few centuries, women have taken it upon themselves to combat the misogyny they faced by speaking up through any form, and that included poetry. Feminists would speak about the objectification and commodification of women, embracing their sexuality, and acknowledging the intersectionality of other identities such as racial and sexual identity. Poetry has been used for years to make political statements, so it should not be surprising that women would use poetry as a medium to voice…

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    The book Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a young authors novel that takes place in the future. The the begging of the book there is a page titled “The Bill of Life” (Shusterman, 2007,p. np), that I am going to be referencing in the following sentences. The novel consists of a time where there has been another civil war in our country that was known as “The Heartland War” (p. np). This war was between pro life and pro choice and the of this war came a “Bill of Life” (p. np), which states “that human…

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    Cleveland Cavaliers. Knowing LeBron’s childhood that he moved nearly a dozen times in a year missing about 100 days of school of the 4th grade, having slim to no money and growing up off welfare, not knowing who his real dad was, and growing up in Akron, Ohio. He is the true face of coming from nothing but putting his heart to it and making his dream come true. In the commercial every line he says is what I feel is a hater quote, “You’re not supposed to be here”, “You’re not supposed to get out…

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    Humanity does not see social, racial, or gender division; instead, humanity pursues equality among its individuals guided by the idea that justice endows its citizens with the rights to freedom and protection under the law. When the law denies its population these liberties, the nation must come together to alter social constructs and recover the societal balances no matter the losses along the way. In times of crisis such as these, the state follows the examples set forth for them by leaders…

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    moment, and the time off gave me time to grow. At 16 years old I caught wind of a new football team being started in the city. The coach would be the same as my JV year. I took this challenge head on, and suited up for that year. We were call the Akron Chargers. We wore powder blue jerseys, and white helmets with lightning bolts. The team was composed of a bunch of childhood friends. We were also very talented. So we had both the chemistry and the players to execute. I also was wiser in the ways…

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    articles are not bad but they’re not as informative as “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies”. The first one is “Look at me! Ain’t I a woman?” by Sojourner Truth. This was a speech Sojourner Truth delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. “Sojourner was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.” (Wikipedia.org) In the speech Sojourner tells about a man who said that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best…

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    Noteworthy for this essay, Raymond admits that her biased stance is grounded in placing value on one’s sex designated at birth. She unknowingly hints at another social philosophy that employs this line of thinking: misogyny. The systemic oppression of women stems historically from designating women as biologically inferior. To quote a popular ketchup ad from the 1950’s, “you mean a woman can open it…?” (Allen). The ketchup bottle, a proverbial symbol of man’s dominance over women, second only to…

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    ball through the basket for it to go down flawlessly. That was what helped him become a great shooter in his 16-year NBA career. That makeshift basket was the start of how Steph Curry became the best shooter in NBA history. Born on March 14, 1988, in Akron, Ohio, Wardell Stephen Curry (the 2nd) was quick to pick up the basketball, following in the footsteps of his father. He was named after his grandfather, Jack. Steph also inherited the same basket that his father got from Jack. As a child…

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    Ethical Cheating In Sports

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    for skaters to make plays on both sides. I also agree that strategic fouls are a fair form of cheating because they can add an incentive for a player to help their team win. On 2/3/2016, I was working the Ball State Women’s basketball game against Akron. During the game, I saw women from both teams taking strategic fouls in an attempt to help their team achieve victory. While fouls are considered ‘cheating’ within the game and players who foul are often penalized for their actions. On the other…

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