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    When I was six, I loved to play basketball and go to church. I loved basketball so much that I played basketball for three hours every day in the morning, and my favorite thing on the weekends was church service. As a little kid I dreamed of becoming a basketball player and after retiring, becoming a pastor. As I grew, basketball took over my life. Duke gave me a full ride to come play for them. I had to skip church to go to practice sometimes. One night after my first college game, where I…

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    The Reject Shop was founded more than 30 years ago in the year 1981 by Ron Hall and John Shuster having “seconds’ store in South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria. Since 1994, the chain was already lion's share claimed by Macquarie Bank however was skimmed on the Australian stock trade in June 2004 when Macquarie chose to offload its shares. The float was effective, with the company tripling in size two years subsequent to opening up to the world. Previous CEO Barry Saunders, enlisted to the company in…

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    It is a sitcom that is a “documentary” about a paper company called Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The characters that I chose to analyze are Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), and Michael Scott (Steve Carell). Dwight Schrute works at Dunder Mifflin as a sales representative. He wears the same type of clothes everyday, a mustard-colored dress shirt, dark tie, and a brown suit jacket. He is a tall, skinny, white male, and he has…

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    Iago was out to get Othello and Cassio simply because Othello gave Cassio the lieutenant position over Iago. This agitated Iago to the point where all of the jealousy within him caused him to deliberately hurt those closest to him. Due to this, here should be no sympathy for Iago because he is a manipulative villain. He brought the feeling and consequences upon himself because he was not willing to accept Cassio’s superiority to him. He then desired to seek revenge upon Othello for rewarding the…

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    American professional basketball player Derrick Rose was the most electrifying player in the league. In 2008, Rose was the number one draft pick for his hometown Chicago and played for the bulls. Also he won many awards and won the rookie of the year in his first season playing professionally. Within his third season in 2010, he led the bulls with sixty-two wins and becoming the youngest MVP in the NBA history, he is currently the youngest who won the award at the age twenty-two. After making it…

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    business, yet it's similar to MJ's message was made for him. But the truth was it was made to market Nike Air Jordan shoes in the market. This commercial targeted almost everybody to buy their new shoes and be “legendary”. To achieve this, they have Michael Jordan talking to some young basketball players that…

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    “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell was written in 1916, a time where women had virtually no rights and any minor movement to tirade against the upper echelon was strongly disparaged. Being a woman during this time period was, therefore, nearly impossible. Glaspell was born in 1878 and became well-educated, attending Drake University despite the presiding belief that college made women unfit for marriage. She became a reporter, and it was not until she covered the John Hossack murder story…

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    If you are given two choices, popularity or family, which one will you choose? Grace Unplugged directed by Brad J. Silverman may represent all teenagers in answering the question. After writing and directing a series of successful programs for kids, the following year, Brad’s first feature film, the Christian romantic drama No Greater Love was released. On 2013, Brad J. Silverman directed Grace Unplugged, another Christian themed movie which reach myriad groups of society especially teenagers,…

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    force in the NBA. “You’ve never seen anyone with the footwork, athleticism, and shooting ability Kobe has,” Kevin Durant tells me. “Being able to shoot the three off the dribble, catch and shoot, you’ve never seen that many skills in one person.” (Michael Eric Dyson). Based off raw talent, skill set, and mentality, Kobe is the most unstoppable player ever. Coming from fellow MVP Kevin Durant shows that he is respected and is unmatched in many…

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    Samantha Bee is a comedian, political commentator, and a late night television show host. Bee hosts the late night comedy show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS. She started out as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. She was on the show for twelve years and was the longest serving correspondent before leaving in 2015 for her own show. According to The Cut, Bee has talked about women’s rights like abortion and child care, examined current political issues…

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