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through the halls. “All of the class of 2016, please report to the gymnasium NOW!!!” I started rambling with my classmates about the tone of her voice and why we were wanted in the gym. “Excuse me!”, I said as I pushed through the crowd. We sat in the bleachers occasionally glancing at our phones while Mrs. Jones stated, “I am glad to have seen this class improve throughout the years! I want to show you my gratitude by presenting a gift to all of you. Thomas County Central High School hasn’t…

girls outperform boys either. In high school, my volleyball team absolutely dominated our league. We had at least four girls on our team who would go on to play in college, and other schools could not compete. Every regular season game would see the bleachers packed with students, parents and people from the community. When playoffs rolled around, we would have a line outside the gym that stretched into the parking lot. A busload of fans drove for over an hour to watch us play for the section…

Professional athletes, especially NBA players are harshly criticized of their high salaries because many people feel what they do does not amount to what they are being paid. They feel NBA players aren’t contributing enough to be paid on that magnitude. Many people can’t stand that NBA players are paid millions while teachers, doctors, lawyers, or other professions are making nothing compared to them. Many strongly feel that NBA players do nothing more than play a ball game. However, there is a…

Callaway initially introduces that there are two different types of running backs, shifty back and power back. Although they have different styles of running the ball, all back have a certain skills required to be successful on the field. One skill all backs must have would be vision, or in football terms, the ability to see to a hole in the line of scrimmage as the play develops. Vison also applies to being able to run and follow one’s blockers to produce the best amount of yardage. Also, a…

A group of teenagers are starting high school the next day, and they are nervous they won’t fit in. They consult an older sibling, and he replies, and assuages their fears, by saying that they should drink a couple of beers before school; after all, that;s the cool thing to do. The fourteen year olds listen to the eighteen year old big brother, and they start their high school career with high hopes, fantastic dreams, and horrible hangovers. Flash forward to junior year, AP Exams are coming up…

Defeating Doubt by Dunking There is a sense of nostalgia when I hear the squeak of the court, or witness some of my favorite NBA legends dunk on a defender. When someone has that special talent to dunk, it gives them more power, more intimidation. It dispels fear into the hearts of other teams, causing them to shutter as someone walks out of the locker room, knowing the abilities that they have. I wanted to set fear into the hearts of my opponents, to have the ability to dunk, to end the game…

see the White Sox. The boy finds his younger brother playing baseball with his friends, he tells them that they are going to see the Sox, then both of them run excitedly to the field. The two boys run up to the ticket booth to get tickets for two bleacher seats, they walked up the steps, found their seats, and sat proudly in the…

The bright light shone on the smooth golden floor of the rowdy gymnasium. I ran towards the hoop dribbling the ball until I shot it into the air. The ball sailed in the air as an orange streak and landed in the basket, hanging there for a split second before falling to the ground with a resounding boom. The gymnasium instantly erupted with cheers. I decided to take a break so I headed towards the locker room. On the way to the locker room I heard footsteps behind me. I whipped around to see the…

public or the world’s opinion about them as individual NBA players. Finding the information for this question was not easy, but it was manageable. Majority of the information found for the research topic was by researching on popular sports websites (Bleacher Report, ESPN), but a survey was also used to gather information as well as researching through NBA players accounts on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). There are four major key findings found from the folio about the research…

People write for all sorts of reasons. They write to show their emotions in diaries; or regularly blog on a page they 've created saying after every one, from anonymous because they are scared to give out their own identities because of a troubling past. Also a common way of writing is poetry. My senior year English teacher Ms. Sutton told me something that actually made sense to me. Ms. Sutton said, “Poetry is the easiest way to your soul, and poetry can tell your life story just with a couple…