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“I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day…

Would you put your life on the line to keep others safe? My uncle is a detective and does this every day. Dave Beuter volunteers for the Walker Parish Council and the Betterment Club, and he coaches basketball for both his children. Dave Beuter also keeps others safe by responding to calls and investigating crimes, which makes him a hero. As a detective, Dave Beuter shows “big H heroism” (Cherry, The Psychology of Heroism), when he does regular patrol functions and investigates crimes.…

Growing up in the world of sports, I had a variety of childhood heroes that I looked up too. For me, those childhood heroes were Dwyane Wade and Lebron James. These two phenomenal up and coming NBA athletes, took the league and world by storm when entering in 2003. Each has collected their fair-share of accolades and trophies. From NBA championships, to NBA scoring leaders or NBA first all-Rookie team, both of these individuals have dominated the sport of basketball for over a decade. Although,…

John Wooden is arguably the most successful coach in UCLA’s basketball history. While at UCLA he coached the Bruins into twenty-one first place standings, and ten NCAA championships. In addition, while the Bruins were not victorious in all of their championship matches, when they did not win they came in 2nd or 3rd. For John Wooden, or Coach Wooden, success however was not measured by the amount of victories nor losses. Instead, Coach Wooden measured his success based off of the team’s effort…

Essay about The romantic elements in "The daffodils" Williams Wordworth William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" incorporates the ideas and aspects that are essential in poetry from the Romantic movement. Various peaceful images of nature, including a field of daffodils, possess human qualities in the poem. These natural images express Wordsworth's self-reflections, whether it be tranquil solitude at the beginning of the poem or excitement about being in the company of daffodils at the end…

Poem is a piece of writing which express feelings, emotions and ideas using descriptive figurative languages. However, poems are not dependable as a secondary source and if it is written about 100 years later than when the event actually happened. Likewise, the poem cannot be trustworthy if it contains different facts from the primary source written by the person who experienced that moment and who was actually there. Furthermore, as poems use figurative languages that exaggerate things, it is…

The two commercials that are being compared will be Steph Curry Under Armour shoe and LeBron James Nike shoe. Both commercials contain outstanding basketball superstar athletes that have cultivated the NBA league. However, both players have set a different appeal on their spectators when it comes to purchasing their brand. Steph Curry expresses determination and enhancement to grab his spectator’s attention while advertising his Curry 3’s. LeBron focus more on the qualities and features of his…

Throughout the history of the NBA, there have been many schemes and strategies used to create the most potent offense possible, an offense that is limited only by the ability of the players and has the potential to have role players make a big impact on the team and catapult star players into superstar talents. One of the attempts to create one of these lethal offenses is Tex Winter’s Triangle Offense. Adapted from Coach Sam Barry, to which Winter credits the invention, Tex’s redressing and…

Prior to this assignment, I believed that I knew a fair deal of information about Yao Ming’s past, being the basketball fan that I am. It was my assumption that he was randomly blessed with extraordinary height and happened to play very well overseas, leading to him being drafted into the NBA. However, Yao’s rise to superstardom is nowhere near as natural as I thought. Brook Larmer’s 2005 biographical exposé, Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of…

He was easily the Number one player in the country, for high school. David in his senior year did something that violated the NCAA laws. He was having illegal pick up games at NC state university. He ended up choosing to go to NC state, for his basketball career. He was the best player in the country at this point. He was thriving for four years at NC state. Led them to Three national championships, and One National Champion. He was the…