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The Comeback “ Let's go boys!” I screamed as we raced out onto the ice. As we started our warmup drill before the most important game of our life I looked to the other side of the ice and saw the other team. “ Jeez,” I think to myself, they are definitely bigger, stronger, and faster. I shake it off as I hear the buzzer sound which means warm ups are over. We all bring it in to my coach and he says the same thing that he always does. All I care about is the game and once it starts I’m in the…

Violence in the NHL Violence in sports is a very large controversial topic and both sides have very good supporting facts to back up their choice. Some say violence is used as a strategy and some say it is just too dangerous. Sports have always had an aspect of violence in them and everyone loves a good fight in hockey or a big crunching hit in football; plus, it’s sometimes the only reason people watch. Therefore, it would take too much away from big sports, such as hockey, if there was no…

Manon Rheaume is a female ice hockey goaltender who is best known for being the first woman to play in the NHL. Manon was born in Beauport, Ontario on February 24th, 1972. Manon was the second child in her family of five. Her parents, Nicole and Pierre Rheaume also gave birth to two boys. Martin, who is older than Manon, and Pascal who is the youngest. Manon always grew up with a passion for hockey. She trained with boys and played on boys’ teams when she was in minor hockey because, at that…

Pink Ice in the Urinal: This chapter opens by talking about the masters, and how one year Herman Miller was invited to go to the masters so in order decide what to do they formed a few committees to discuss how to spruce up the facility. One person mentioned that they could put pink ice in the urinals. I thought that this was absolutely crazy, because how would the color of the ice change anyone’s opinion about the facility as a whole. This chapter focuses on all the little things that a company…

Have you ever made it to state or even the state championship? Well I have and I love hockey. Hockey is a sport that I have loved since I was three years old. My favorite hockey player is Nikita Kucherov. He is a very skilled player and scans the ice very well. To me hockey is like a key to a lock, I have to have it. Whenever I play hockey I always want to win and play good. When Nikita first got into the NHL he was not very good. Now he is one of the most skilled hockey players in the NHL. The…

Annoyed, I listen to the loud patter of rain on the roof. Each drop only a tap, but together they make a blaring noise. It's the first time that I have left the U.S., this time to go to Belgium, and not only is it raining, I'm also horribly sick. With snot dripping from my nose; a box of seemingly useless Kleenexes to the side of the bed, the seconds tick by one after the other. Each minute seeming as long as, or longer than, an hour. I lie in bed, with my eyes closed, but sleep does not come,…

The poem of "A Tale Of Fire and Ice" by Andrea Dietrich is a unique type of poem because of its structure, punctuation, diction, tone, and the amount of literary devices that were used. Structure is the set up of the poems, and the amount of lines and stanzas. In the poem "A Tale Of Fire and Ice" the set up was in two parts. One part is labeled "Part 1: Ice" (Dietrich 1) and the other "Part 2: Fire" (Dietrich 18). Under each part the set up has four stanzas with four lines in each. Throughout…

with plexiglas walls but no air supply. Foster new this was a chance of a lifetime, so he did not complain. When I talked to him after the game he said he was going to talk to the architect about possibly building something, so he could see all the ice. Hewitt will be traveling with the team to Montreal tomorrow night. Make sure you listen in. Grab Monday’s paper for the review on Sunday’s night’s game in…

Norma Ann Jones is my great grandmother and she is 88 years old. She is my moms grandmother on her dads side of the family. The grandchildren and now great grandchildren all call her Gran. Gran was born in Blakely, Georgia on a small farm on August 20, 1927. Gran told me Blakely was a very small town; it was a simple place. It had a courthouse in the center and small businesses around it. Her father was a printer and worked at the towns print shop, Blakely was his hometown. Gran’s father’s…

Nowadays in mainstream media, there is a lack of fair Asian American representation. When Asian Americans are given roles in film and television, those roles often come with the stereotypical ideology which has been stagnant for decades. Asian American stereotypes in the media are not hard to find, and range from hard-working knowledgable men, to masters of martial arts (Bruce Lee). These stereotypes often incorrectly represent what Asian Americans are like as a group however. These…