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    Julius Winfield Erving III was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He was one of the very few players that changed the game. When he played he electrified the court giving him sense power making him seem like he can do anything on the court. Dr.j went up against some of the Nba’s greatest players like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Clyde Drexler and embarrassed them by dunking on them because of his ridiculous athleticism. While he was playing there was no one that could guard…

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    pushed for his own death exclaiming with a dry smile, ‘my ancestors are smiling down on me, can you say the same?’ as he gets decapitated. Next my turn, I take the place of the other executed prisoner. I smell the rotting of his old tunic and the fresh new blood in which I’m shoved down upon. I stare my executioner in the face as he begins to ready his bloodied axe. Just as he finished preparing to lift the axe, the coal dragon, Alduin, appears and crashes on the nearest stone tower to barbeque…

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    Parx Casino Case Study

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    Parx casino located at 2999 Street Road in Bensalem Township is that largest casino in Pennsylvania. Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. purchased the racetrack and original building located at 3001 Street Road in December 1990. The facilities new owners added simulcasting horse racing and six Turf Clubs, which currently operate seven days a week within the state. Parx boast over 200,000 square feet of gaming; 35000 slot machines; 130 live table games; a premier poker room with 80 poker…

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    Prokhorov: A Case Study

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    of the then New Jersey Nets. Since then he has ran for President in Russia and claimed that the he would get married had the Nets not won a championship in the first five years of his ownership. Currently he is the owner of a team with the worst record in the NBA (18-59) and is still not married. How did we end up here? When Prokhorov purchased the Nets, he did what any person with 8.9 billion dollars would do, he moved the team and built a state of the art arena in Brooklyn, New York. He…

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    The Hurricane Film Essay

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    the scene. It gives, us the audience a more hopeful perception of what is come for Rubin. It in the final moments of the scene, when the music is at its loudest and fastest, a voiceover of a boxing commentator say’s “In this corner, from Paterson, New Jersey, wearing the white trunks with black stripes, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter!” The words spoken by the boxing commentator are used by director as metaphor of what is to come from Rubin. The director compares Rubin entering the ring to him…

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    The Hurricane Carter Essay

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    Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…

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    James Welsh (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003) was an award winning Native American writer and founding father of the Native American Renaissance movement, a literary movement for Native American authors. Within the movement, Welch is notable for his works Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986) James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on Indian territory on November 18, 1940. For the majority of his early life, Welch lived and studied within Native American cultures. Welch was very…

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    Throughout history, Canada has grown in so many ways from being more independent, proving our strength in the war, technological advances, gender and racial equality and many more. Canadian basketball is one of the many concepts that has evolved over the past few years thanks to former Toronto Raptor Vince Carter and retired NBA player Steve Nash. There has already been visible change in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for example the last two first round drafts have been Canadian…

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    The Hurricane Movie Essay

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    I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me. In the film “The Hurricane” directed by Norman Jewison, the main theme is imprisonment. The theme focuses on not only physical imprisonment, but also imprisonment of our mind through misconceptions and internal conflict. Norman through the character Rubin Hurricane Carter also displays the willpower it takes to overcome these types of imprisonment. Norman uses a range of symbolism, shots and dialogue to help the audience…

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    Had you ever herd the Jersey Devil or seen the creature do you believe it’s real or fake? Well what I think it is real this is a story of this creature or you could called it a monster tale, monster tale is something to scare the kids away from going to the woods. The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or a cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of the Southern New Jersey, In United States. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations…

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