Boys & Girls Clubs of America

like almost everyone in the NBA has a “Kobe Story”. *He was known to show up to workouts 2-3 hours early and drenched in sweat by the time anyone else got there.Kobe Bryant volunteers his time to Make-A-Wish Foundation, NBA Cares and The Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and serves as an ambassador for After-School All-Stars. *In 2007, he launched…

around the world. Now days, the museum is honoring Ali by showing two parts, one celebrating great achievements in his career and one celebrating his contributions for society. Boys and Girls Club of America In this program, the foundation is planning to donate $2.5 million to the Boys and Girls Clubs around the America. The club helps give all children equal opportunities and provides after school mentoring and activities. The foundation has already replaced the roof and fixed up some work…

Athletic Conference which is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. There is a full athletic program at WPHS and there are varsity and junior varsity teams for boys and girls. For boys, some times comprise of basketball, football, wrestling, track, baseball, and lacrosse. For girls, teams…

I was the only girl on my team, and I remember for a long time I didn’t care because I kept up with the boys, and the boys treated me like one of them. I played coach pitch when I turned six and there was finally another girl on my team. When they asked what number I wanted to be I said six because I was six years old. When I arrived home from practice that night my dad…

This assignment can relate to my practicum at the Boys & Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren County because many of the adolescents I work with come from single parent households and face these challenges each day with food insecurity being the biggest issue. As an intern at The Boys & Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren County I have been able to teach the SMART Moves program. This program is the clubs Skills, Mastery, and Resistance Training prevention program. This program can help…

instance, many people who say they were in an after school programs like the boys and girls club has succeeded. One person who has Julio who is a Dominican that came to America to chase his dreams. When he came to America he wasn’t fluent at English. He also had a lost of his older brother due to an accident, and his mother from breast cancer. When he moved to America with his relatives he started to join the boys and girls club. Instance he became very social with many of the teens. But even…

that would impact the people around me. For my senior project, I volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club of America where I taught the children different routines and dance moves. Growing up, dancing was always something I enjoyed. It is a good form of exercise and can be enjoyable.…

prime example of this, specifically, the theme that women are supposedly inferior to men in everyday situations. The Joy Luck Club insinuates that women are repressed in speech and action. While Americans view this as a stigma, however, the inferiority of women is justified and considered a norm in Chinese culture. In essence, feminism is existent in The Joy Luck Club in the cultural influence that the mothers have on their daughters. Ironically, in an attempt to cultivate…

an America Ballet Theatre (ABT) soloist. She divides the book into 14 chapters; each one discussing a different part of her life. Copeland started dancing at the age of thirteen. She took her first ballet class at the Boys and Girls Club. Between the age of thirteen and eighteen she attended different dance studios to train in ballet. After graduating high school, Copeland moved to New York, where she became the only African American soloist to dance at the ABT. The vice president of the Boys…

It was dark in that old abandon warehouse, where we met every day after school. It smelled like mildew and on that occasion it smelled like gunpowder. Things started to get out of hand, one thing after another, and Drew was on the ground bleeding as blood started to fill that warehouse floor. I heard the piercing sounds of the sirens gaining closer and closer to us every passing second. All the gang members scattered as they got in their cars and left Drew dead on the ground and me standing,…