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    Everybody like basketball. Basket ball had a lot of great players like Larry bird or the king Jordan. To me the best is Kobe Bryant also known as the black Maba. I am going to tell you about his early career and his professional career. His legacy and the records he broke and set now I am going to tell you how he came straight out of high school to the NBA. Bryant started playing basket ball when he was 3 years old. His favorite team growing…

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    for the skilled baseball player he was. Yes racism still was a war for Jackie but more people started to look past that. Jackie died October 24, 1972 happy with his accomplishments. One of Jackie’s sons, David Robinson played in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs basketball team. Inspired by his dad’s accomplishments, he won many medals and championship…

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    Monday Night Kobe Bryant continued to tie all of our heads in a knot, by putting up great numbers by Lakers’ standards; unfortunately, he posted up “Okay” numbers by the rest of the leagues’ standards. Should the all-powerful, all-knowing, Black Mamba retire? The Lakers have accomplished so much with Kobe being their Golden child; Recently, the Lakers stand in the last place in the Western Conference. Has the fact that Kobe Bryant himself commented about his pending retirement and more…

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    The San Antonio Spurs are 5 time NBA Champions under legendary Coach Greg Popovich! In the wake of confronting an overwhelming misfortune to the Miami Heat amid a couple of years ago in the finals, the Spurs returned with a retaliation and were in it for the slaughter. Other than a drive for recovery, the Spurs had something unique this year. Maybe, it was a procedure that the other NBA franchises excluding the Golden State warriors simply weren't prepared for. Other than their astonishing…

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    the idea of the arts being so disjointed and classified separately. If a muralist were working today, they would probably want to show different arts and sciences together in harmony. This manner of thinking was championed by Modernist poet William Carlos Williams in the early part of the early 20th century.…

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    He caught the ball with eight seconds left in the game. A defender ran towards him, one hand in the air to try to block the shot. As he jumped up, the entire crowd held their breaths. Everything was moving in slow motion; his arm extended and the ball spun out of his hand, gliding up into an arc headed towards the hoop. As the ball neared its highest point, the shot clock went off, and the shrill buzzer pierced through the silence. Everyone in that arena was focused on one thing: the basketball,…

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    Gender Barriers In Sports

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    This sports study will define the increasingly important role of female coaches in all-male basketball leagues. The presence of female coaches in collegiate basketball defines the expanding parameters of coaching opportunities for women in the male-dominant NCAA men’s basketball league. The example of Theresa Phillips, Stephanie Ready, and Jennifer Johnston that defy the patriarchal culture of men’s coaching in all-male leagues at this level of performance. Patriarchal values in all-male…

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    In the situation of guatemala one of the most important factors to focus on was what each dictator wanted to gain and why, while also analyzing their purpose due to the current situation. After the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas Guatemalan politics then dissolved into a series of coups and battles for power that were fought between guerrilla forces, each with their own ideology of how the country should be controlled, which started the countries thirty six…

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    William Carlos Williams is an imagist poet, who superiorly controls the meaning of his poems, using subtle language manipulations. One poem that shows this in particular is The Young Housewife. This poem is about the time the speaker was driving and sees a young housewife near the curb, calling the ice-man and fish-man to come. He compares her to a dried leaf, which at the end, he crushes with his car. This poem was published in 1916, a time when the world was a misogynistic place. Though the…

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    About Poet: Denise Levertov was born in the United Kingdom 1923 and died in Washington in 1997. Levertov never received a formal education as a kid, therefore, she was taught by her parents about religion and the art of writing. When Levertov was growing up, she was an agnostic (later converted to Christianity in 1984) and many of her poems talk about religion. Due to her writing style, she was considered to be a “Black Mountain” poet. Black Mountain poets were poets in the 1940s and 1950s that…

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