Dribbling

holding the young African Americans back, and reaching their full potential. Henry Gates Louis, a successful author, historian, and much more, writes about why young African Americans believe that the peak of their success will only be reached by dribbling a ball. Gates analyses why this happens, and what is causing it to do so. “Young athletes, particularly young black athletes, are especially ill-served. Many of them are functionally…

Basketball: The Greatest Sport Played Indoors Basketball is a very physically and mentally demanding sport, which is why michael Jordan once said this about basketball “ I’ve missed over 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, have been trusted 26 times to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring, basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as…

But why not finish off this tankard before leaving? He emptied the contents into his mouth, some of the wine landing on his tongue and the rest dribbling down the front of this cloak. At this point, who cared if he smelled like a winery? He fumbled around for his money pouch, and after a good long while of searching, he realized he didn’t have it on him. Arthur dined here often, and he could settle up tomorrow, but still, facing Will and explaining he had no money on his person was embarrassing.…

Basketball! It seems like a century ago, basketball was being played with peach baskets and soccer balls, today basketball is well known all around the world having billions of followers and it’s one of the most popular sports in history. Origin of the Sport It was the 891st year of the 2nd millennium and the 91st year of the 19th century, when a physical educator, and sports innovator James Naismith invented the game of basketball. He first called it “peach basketball”, it came to him when…

Michael Jordan the American Icon What makes a person an American Icon? Someone who is admired, well-known and represents some aspect of American society? When thinking of an American Icon who better to come to mind, other than Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan is the exact definition of an American Icon. He is well-known for his performance as a former American professional basketball player by young and old generations. Children all over have grown up watching Michael Jordan with his incredible…

psychiatric patient; initially wanting to stay as a mental patient for as long as possible, to accepting a contrasting identity as mentally healthy. In the opening of the novel, Allan is incredibly direct as she introduces the protagonist, “Fact is I been dribbling since before I was born. My mum was a dribbler and her mum as well…” (3) The protagonist is immediately introduced as a “dribbler”, taking pride in the hereditary lineage of mental illness. N takes immense pride in the identity of…

Augmenting Motor Skill Acquisition In an attempt to describe the augmentation of motor skill acquisition I am going refer to the work of Schmidt and Lee (2014) throughout this assignment and inform my comments around a skill used in basketball; the free throw. A free throw is a skill that is generally unaffected by environmental factors, such as opposition. This results in a stable and highly predictable environment throughout performance. These characteristics of a free throw describe a closed…

Having a healthy lifestyle is a good way to decrease the chance you’ll develop diabetes. Choose healthy foods, meaning foods lower in fat and calories. You should eat foods higher in fiber. Exercise is also recommended, plan for thirty minutes of moderate physical activity a day. Take a brisk daily walk if you’re overweight, losing seven percent of your weight can reduce diabetes risk (“What Causes Type 2 Diabetes” np). When you’re a diabetic it’s good to keep track of what you eat and how much…

What It Takes to Work Hard Work is means something different for everyone. How is it possible to work hard if we do not even know what work is? To me, work means an action you do to better yourself or an object. There has to be a motive behind the world to be granted the reward in the end which is success. Anybody that is motivated wants or needs to be successful within their lifetime. Maria Bartiromo, a well known American television journalist and magazine columnist, had once said, "I think…

Just like that, I passed out. As I woke up, there were four ambulances that were standing right outside of Ben's house. There were people all crowded around to see what had happened. People were screaming and yelling, begging for help. People are passed out on the floor. Policemen telling people to evacuate the site, and get back into their houses. And I feel motionless, just standing there, as if my nervous system had just decided to take a break. I'm just standing there praying, hoping he will…