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    Pick and Role The pick and roll is one of the most well-known and basic plays in all of basketball. The pick and roll is executed between two players and these players are usually the point guard and the center. The point guard is the player that runs the team and is usually the smallest and quickest player on the team. The center is the player that lots of team run the plays through and is usually the largest and strongest player on the team. The most basic pick and roll is when the center…

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    melancholy, and appreciative. In the “snow” by Bruce Meyer describes a lost love and its relation to nature. Set outside in the snow, Meyer begins to describe a cold winter as an allegory for a first love. Meyer beings by describing how “time does not pass when snow is falling-”, represented by a stream of consciousness. The incorporated dash acts as a pause at the end of the line to add suspense and further submerge the reader within “the snow”. The effective use…

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    “In Praise of the F word” readers may get the wrong idea of what the “F word” could be. When readers think about the “F word,” they generally gravitate towards the vulgar word that has innumerable amount of meanings. In this case the author is talking about the word failing. To many people the word failing has no meaning, but to others failing has a lot of meaning. “In Praise of the F word,” the author introduces readers about how people are floating through life doing the bare minimum. The…

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    caused my insides quake. I held my hand to my boney figure as if to comfort myself, and waited for the gurgling to stop. People passed me without a second glance, too busy with their lives to pay attention to someone like me. I understood, these people pass the homeless everyday and they have things to do, and they don’t want to waste their lunch caring for someone who they don’t even know.…

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    love. Margaux’s skin now dangled from her skeleton, while the sun only provided motivation for the overwhelming migraines. The darkness inside the apartment now mimed the aura of the room, welcoming the impending passing; only to have the dark angel pass by, leaving behind a trail of suffering. Tom held himself to the same captivity, never leaving her…

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    Neutral Tones Analysis The poem ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy is a dark, solemn poem, reflecting on the termination of a relationship that he had in the late 1860s. It has a very melancholic note and in the duration of the poem, he shows the sadness and emotions in the narrator. The poem was published in 1898, however at the bottom of the poem he marked it as being written in 1867, perhaps he did not want it to be published then, before he met Eliza Nickels. It has a rhyme pattern of ABBA as…

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    However, when the clients are in the classroom, they receive two breaks. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. During the break, two CYC’s cook food and send the left overs with anyone who is homeless. The last program that they offer is the PASS program which mainly helps with personal development. In…

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    It was a cold and windy night in Big Timber Montana while Dakota was at his favorite bar watching the football game. Dakota is 31 years old and was born and raised in Montana. He grew up learning how to hunt and fish from his father when he was younger. Dakota's mother and father passed away a couple years ago, now Dakota lives by himself in a small ranch just outside the small city of Big Timber about 6 miles away from the bar. Dakota drives a beat up and rusted Ford pickup truck and works at…

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    In the article “In Praise of the F Word”, by Mary Sherry, she explains how flunking a student is for the wellbeing of students than to pass them if they absolutely do not understand the materials of that class. Mary Sherry speaks of this, due to the fact that she is an adult literacy educator, and also a writer.…

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    Racial Passing Reflection

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    influences our identity, and about how racial passing still occurs today really spoke to me and allowed me to see more how we live in an ever changing world. She began the talk by discussing racial passing and what it is. How people of color would pass as white individuals in the past to have better opportunities in life. She then went on to discuss how she initially became interested in passing, and the story about how her cousin passed as a white woman for the entirety of her life.…

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