Lisa Leslie

Maya Moore and Angel McCoughtry are both considered legends in the WNBA. Have you ever tried to debate whether one player was better than another? Maya Moore is the superior player over Angel McCoughtry. Maya Moore is a better defensive player, offensive player, and also has a more successful career than Angel McCoughtry. Maya Moore and Angel McCoughtry are both a strong defensive presence making giant blocks. Maya Moore is a better defensive player than Angel McCoughtry. Maya Moore is an exceptional defensive stopper making the defense turnover the ball. She gets in the lane to deflect the ball, goes for the loose ball, and also goes strong for the rebound with 6.7 rebounds a game. Maya plays smart defense by not going for the reach but still being a nuisance to the offense. Maya also is a good teammate by going for the double teammate and helping out on the stop with a block where she averages 0.79 blocks per game. In the WNBA semi-finals Maya Moore stole Noelle Quin (player from Phoenix) pass with 1.5 seconds left in the tied game 71-71 made a free throw winning the game 72-71 to sweep the defending Champions. On the other hand Angel McCoughtry lacks the defensive mind to play smart defense. Unlike Maya, Angel plays risky physical defense going for the steal which results in a foul and leaves her in foul trouble. Like Moore, McCoughtry gets in the lane to deflect the pass, and averages 5.3 rebounds a game but goes over players for rebounds. Angel McCoughtry comes up with…

Ouija Boards (Laugh, Moore, 2013). This is a crucial aspect of her criminal profile due to the fact that her counterpart, Paul, was so obsessed with the virginal attributes in a victim. It is not hard to be drawn to the conclusion that this is most likely where the majority of her hatred and resentment towards the victims came from. However, her obsessive compulsive actions as a child lead us to an issue that is quite perplexing. If an individual is so focused on planning everything out and…

Gender Roles Mediation has been portraying negative stereotypes about gender since it was created. People may not always notice that the media of TV shows are influencing them, but they are. No one can escape being influenced by media. This has happened to me. I have watched The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother and loved it; however, I never noticed the many gender stereotypes that it has portrayed. Until I read an article explaining the stereotypical roles assigned. People believe…

FRANKENSTEIN: The True Monster Mary Shelly’s novel titled Frankenstein is the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Victor Frankenstein is a man obsessed with knowledge of the unknown. He played a dangerous game with the laws of nature, and creates his own form of man. Guilty of robbing dead bodies of their parts to build his creation piece by piece he has the nerve to feel disgust at what he created. “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation;…

Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her mother was also a nurse and had written a book about the profession. From the time she was born to 1895, Virginia spent her summers at the Stephen’s Talland House in England, which to this day is still standing. The looks of the dramatic Porthminister Bay had a view of the Godrevy Lighthouse that inspired her to write. Her mother passed away in 1895, followed by her sister two years later. These events left her in a state of shock. She called it “the greatest…

As individuals we have an utter compulsion to better ourselves, and the instinctual belief of a better tomorrow. In the short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Sylvia and friends are introduced to a new way of living and naïvely forced to perceive the world in a whole new aspect, therefore stripped of what they once knew. Entering this unfamiliar world, they are exposed to what they could only dream of, delighted by their surroundings, Sylvia and her posse could not help but…

organization, focused on theoretical and scientific research, that worked in conjunction with the organization that was already in place (OSTI, 2016). Manhattan Engineer District After the decision was made to move forward to the production phase, the Army became directly involved. Specifically, the then S-1 program was placed within the Corp of Engineers to provide heightened security and production resources (AJ, 2015). In some ways there were different priorities between the military and the…

Every night after our dinner my family and I would sit down and watch The Big Bang Theory on television. Those thirty minute airings had my whole living room roaring. We loved how awkward Sheldon was and how Leonard was always chasing pretty Penny. It was not until recently that I have noticed how misogyny is portrayed throughout the show. As I watch the episodes back I still laugh: however, I cannot help but to realize how the women, in particular Penny and Amy, are characterized throughout…

school Leslie Burke. While Jess comes from a family of low income and Leslie family is of high income that does not interfere in their friendship. Together the two make up a world of their own without any problems, a world in which they can disappear to. They name it Terabithia. The difference in income never becomes a problem even when it is Christmas time and they decide to get each other gifts. The topic of money develops into a theme, and what young readers get from this text is money should…

Sheldon Cooper Sheldon Cooper, or Shelly as his friends and family sometimes refer to him as, is a character on the television series The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper is a senior theoretical physicist at CalTech where he works with his roommate, Leonard Hofstadter. Sheldon has many things that seems odd about him. Some of the things that are a little different that he does is that he must knock 3 times of his neighbor Penny’s door. He does not quite understand sarcasm when it is spoken to…