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    Coach Carter Coach Ken Carter was a basketball player turned basketball coach who decided to take a job at Richmond, Ca. as the head basketball coach. When Mr. Carter acquired the job he was there to just teach basketball and when games. In the process of this he changed his players lives; he also instilled life-values in each of his players. Lessons like respect, teamwork,and that education is vitale these lessons took these players farther than they had ever imagined not them themselves but also farther than the whole community believed they would go. While at Richmond High school Coach Carter instilled respect into each of his players. On the first day of practice he called all of his students “sir” as a sign of respect he also asked them to call him “sir”. He also said how the “n” word was a derogatory term that was a sign of disrespect. The coach also achieved this by making them wear tie and jacket on gameday this instilled self respect. In summary, he changed the way treated themselves and others by teaching them respect.…

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    The film begins with Ken Carter, a former star player at Richmond High School and now a successful business owner, comes back to his old high school and takes the job as a new basketball coach. He requires all his players and their parents to sign contracts to play. The contracts include terms like maintaining a 2.3 GPA, attending and sitting in the front row of all classes, obeying a dress code on game days, etc. Some of the boys leave. He trains the others and turns the team to an undefeatable…

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    boys’ basketball team, the Oilers. Coach Ken Carter is very serious about this new job and he takes on the responsibility of this team with only four wins on their previous season. He holds the boys to a very high standard: they have to sign a contract that states that they will get above a 2.3 GPA, they will get progress reports from their teachers, and they must respect the coach…

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    In Marge Piercy’s narrative poem, “Barbie Doll”, the story of a young girl is told from the viewpoint of an outside speaker watching her grow up around the norms of society and ultimately ends her life because of it. Throughout each stanza, a new important piece of information is expressed to the readers to contribute to both the theme and tone of the poem. Piercy is able to cultivate the idea that inward beauty is not valued in today’s society, and that artificial perfection can only be…

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    what is expected from them and the underlying rules that are now explicitly spelled out for them. Ken dolls are what people picture when imagining a rich white young man. Whenever Ken dolls are paired with a Barbie doll in a career package, they are the ones with the higher position. For example, in a the field of health, Ken is the doctor while Barbie is the nurse that is holding a baby. This exemplifies the glass escalator and the glass ceiling because if Ken was the nurse, he would be more…

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    also nostalgic for me personally. I never asked for anything else, every christmas, every birthday, the only thing on my list were those dolls. Every young kid has their favorite toy or doll. When I was younger, my favorite thing was Barbie. For almost every holiday and birthday, I got something that had to do with her. There was the Barbie dream-house, the mini bright pink VolksWagon car, I even had a Barbie scooter; not to mention the box of at least ten barbies, including Ken. I was born in…

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    Valeria Lukyanova could pass for a living Barbie doll; however, when you think about Barbie, Ken follows closely behind. Barbie and Ken may be the very first love story (between dolls, that is). Although there are several men who have gone under the knife to resemble this iconic doll, the most recognized human Ken doll is probably Justin Jedlica. THE NICKNAME ‘HUMAN KEN DOLL’ – COMPLIMENTS OF 20/20 During an interview for OWN’s series, Where Are They Now? Jedlica opens up about how he came to…

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    The Coach Carter

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    The Coach Carter movie was based on real event of the 1998-1999 basketball season of the Richmond High School, California. The high school is part of the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) that is located a crime-ridden area and socioeconomically disadvantaged community. The school’s academic performance was extremely poor and held such a high dropout rate record. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was a successful sporting goods local store owner who accepts a low-paying job to…

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    Famous and strict basketball coach Ken Carter is one of the most respected coaches known in college basketball history. Kenny Ray Carter was born on February 13, 1959, and throughout his life, he was an American business owner, education activist, and former high school basketball coach. Carter attended San Francisco State College and George Fox University. A movie was made to honor his famed basketball coaching career. In the movie "Coach Carter" Samuel L. Jackson instilled maturity,…

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    I strongly believe that giving back to my community/school in one or another way is the most important thing outside of my academics and this is why I want to become an RA. At the age of thirteen I started my own roller skating classes. Being the instructor of a roller skating class and running the class by my own taught me to be leader, grow from my failures and gave me the opportunity to give back to my community. When I first started learning how to skate in the state of Washington, the…

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