Kevin Durant

Title Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are two very unique NBA superstars, both born with difficult life's growing up. These two share a lot of similarities and a lot of differences but these two have also been teammates for a long time, and almost won an NBA championship together. Although these two have been through a lot together, and have been like brothers. Kevin Durant decided to leave Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, the team who previously…

Does Kevin Durant make the Warriors a better NBA team? There are a total of 30 basketball teams in the NBA. Sometimes players will switch teams. My main concern is a very talented player, Kevin Durant. He was originally drafted into the OKC Thunder in 2007. Durant signed with the Golden State Warriors in 2016. A player everyone might know already from GSW is Stephen Curry. He is an excellent three-point shooter. He has the highest points per game on the warriors team. He averages about 46 pts…

Shafts of light shot through the windows on the otherwise still night, neatly silhouetting Dean and Rob in the front seats. Jack watched them, silently tracing their shadows from the backseat. The only sound was the humming of the engine, a gentle serenade to the void outside their car. He supposed this quiet was, in part, due to the circumstances they’d found themselves in. “So,” Rob murmured from his place behind the wheel, “who wants to pick up the gasoline?” He’d pulled the car up…

A swarm of bees took flight in my stomach. Although the roar of the crowd was audible from backstage, I moved around attempting to hear the fulfilling clank of the beads that attached to my cornrow braids. I felt skeptical about everything around me as this was more than ever I dreamed of in the twenty-five years of my life. I mustered the courage to peer behind the curtains only to find multitudinous copies of my book being held by people whom I’d never met before. The same words of “The fear…

Company Purpose: Under Armour was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank from the basement of his grandmother’s house in Washington, D.C. In 1995, Plank, a college football player, had noticed that the T-shirts that he and his teammates wore underneath their pads were always drenched with sweat after games and practices. Plank thought “there has to be something better,” and started designing a new athletic T-shirt that would stay light during exercise, even at the hottest temperatures. After some…

Under Armour is located in Baltimore, Maryland, but that was not its original location. In 1996, Kevin Plank was only 23 years old when he had an idea to deal with his soaking wet t-shirts from playing football that would eventually change the way athletes and non-athletes deal with this problem. Kevin was a former University of Maryland special team captain, and needed a solution so he set out to develop a solution to his growing problem so he started a company called Under Armour that was…

Under Armour or UA as it is often called, is recognized as an excellent example of an organization which has been able to successfully build its brand image in today’s uncertain markets. As a US company which started as a basement business, Kevin Plank, the founder of UA was able to apply innovative marketing tools and tactics to build a solid revenue base in the sports clothing/athletic goods industry. Under Armour is a good case study of the effectiveness of the four P's of marketing: place,…

“This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.” “Lilo and Stitch” is a childhood classic. From the cute little alien creatures that have come down to Earth, and the realistic big sister-little sister relationship, “Lilo and Stitch” is a viewing for all people of all ages. The movie teaches young children about the fundamentals of how family really works. The movie depicts a family that is made up of all different types of people, coming…

It was former Prime Minister John Howard who once said during the launch his 2001 election campaign: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. It was in response to the Tampa crisis where Norwegian freighter MV Tampa rescued 438 refugees off a sinking fishing boat named the Palapa (Doherty, 2011). It was an event that ushered Australia into what is now more than a decade of constant failures to meet humanitarian conventions and international laws…

Politics hold one truth and that is, there is no simple truth. Political truth is adaptable, mutable and most of all relative. Sometimes it is even absent and even worst sometimes irrelevant. This is difficult for people as it is not the way we live our lives and this is perhaps the reason there is such a big wedge and difference between politics, politicians and people, for most people a sense of honesty underpins the way we deal with each other. Prime ministers ask the public to place their…