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    Rubber Band Stem Project

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    chose to make an art piece. What I did was to make one side of a basketball court. A person doing a “slam dunk” on the hoop and the ball is a rubber band one. The main purpose of the art piece is to show that you can make an art project with things in your house. The court is a box of shoes, the hoop is a part of a water bottle, the ball is a rubber band one, and the person doing the “slam dunk” or ,Lebron James, is made up of styrofoam balls and a adjustable curly thing. The style that I chose…

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    thinks he created, and he is not as mean as you would think. While in Slam, Dunk, & Hook byYusef Komunyakaa, there is a boy and his team that plays basketball, and during the story the boy, called Sonny Boy, has to deal with his mother’s death while playing basketball still. In each of the stories the characters have to deal with the same things, but each story deals with it in different ways. The House of Asterion and Slam, Dunk, & Hook share many of the same ideas like redemption, challenges,…

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    amazing, but Donovan's ability to score 71 is truly astounding. In addition, Donovan Mitchell won the 2018 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, the same year he was drafted. Besides Kobe Bryant, he is the only other person to win a Slam Dunk contest in his rookie year. The New York Times states “Mitchell edged Nance Jr., 98-96, sealing his victory with a close approximation of the 360-degree spin dunk that Vince Carter used to win the 2000 contest”. This victory only further established his place in NBA…

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    Julius Erving is considered to be one of the great individual basketball players of all time. It’s not just his incredible play that makes him special, he symbolizes many things about the start of the golden age of basketball. He symbolizes the divide between the ABA, or streetball, and the NBA. He symbolizes determination and perseverance not just for waiting 7 years for his first NBA title, but for pushing through the deaths of his brother and later his son. Finally he symbolizes a role model…

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    in the NBA he is playing with many players that had looked up to him as a child and that to him is very inspirational. Guys like Cory Joseph, who is currently playing for the Toronto Raptors and Andrew Wiggins both still remember watching the 2000 Dunk Contest on VCR. The fact that NBA player still idolize him it proves how influential he truly…

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    Essay On Michael Jordan

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    text, his stance, his facial expression, and the background of him being in space as he is dunks home the point for the Chicago Bulls. Nike used the effective visual element of having a very famous…

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    Homicides Case Study

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    prosecutor must base their case on that which is provable. This is one reason why there is plea bargaining. Another reason probably is the expense to the state of trials, and also probably the backlog within the court system. Prosecutors prosecute the slam dunk cases or at the minimum the ones which have enough solid evidence to obtain a conviction. The last thing a District Attorney wants is to take a case with borderline evidence to court and lose. In Richard’s case he admits killing his…

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    Practice, practice, practice. I feel like I do that all the time, but I don't mind because it's fun. I practice for my "flying dunk". If you go on YouTube or some other video app you can find videos like "stunt dunks". Well that is similar to what I want to do. My friends and I practice jumping off of a trampoline to the right spot. We each have different parts. One of my friends, Braxton, practices catching the ball, jumping off the small trampoline doing a front flip and then, finally…

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    Milo Persuasive Speech

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    not boyfriend-like that role has been taken, however, I'm in love with milo. The gay British conservative whose fighting for the last rights of man. I'm unsure what actually tickles me, the hair, the politics, the outlandish sassy style or the slam-dunks against crazy feminist. Either way, I'm suffering from hot flushes. Like all romantic infatuations, I'm unsure when the spark hit my soul. All I know is that I'm binge watching 9+ hours of his beautiful golden locks. His most charming…

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    Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional basketball player. He is also a businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. His biography on the NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." After a three-season stint playing for coach Dean Smith at the University…

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