Terry Brooks

King traded the Nets first round draft picks in 2014,2016,2018 and the right to swap picks with the Nets in 2017 to the Celtics for Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry, and Paul Pierce. To the blind eye this seemed like a boatload to give up for three superstars who clearly were well past their prime, but not to Prokhorov. When introducing the three former Celtics, Prokhorov said “Today, the basketball gods smiled…

Terry Thompson states “Certainly the novel owes much of its unparalleled popularity and longevity to the author's talent for bringing to vivid life one of her own worst nightmares. But her frequent and telling use of allusions to Shakespeare, Milton, Byron…

J. R. R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. He loved to create and learn languages his whole life. His parents died when he was a young man. He attended Oxford College. The Hobbit was published in 1937 and is the prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He wrote it as a Dark Age prehistory for Europe. The novels had integrated many diverse characters throughout the storyline. There are many conflicts that change the course of the plot. This includes characters’ fates and the destiny…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…

Some believe that this America’s shale revolution is economically beneficial and an indicator of its journey to energy independence. David Brooks, an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times argues in his article, “Shale Gas Revolution”, that the U.S. shale gas industry has produced more than half a million new jobs, not only in traditional areas but also in “economically-wounded” locations such as western Pennsylvania and Ohio. He also advocates for America’s decreased reliance on foreign…

After his playing career ended, Stith and his wife Barbara Dilworth, an ODU alumnae would return to their hometown of Lawrenceville, Va., with their two sons, Brandan and B.J., both on the ODU basketball team. They also have two daughters, Bria and Brook. "When I was playing basketball, I never wanted to be a coach," Bryant said. “I had opportunities to be on an NBA bench, I had opportunities to work in a NBA front office. However, I wanted to spend time with my family. That was what was most…

could also be made that Robert Frost is trying to relate the life of “the woods” to ours. In addition to the original statement, Robert Frost uses a gigantic amount of imagery throughout the entire poem of “The Road Not Taken” (Secondary, The Road, Terry, L Andrews, Line 1) to attempt to interpret a real life situation some go through. With that being said a conclusions could be made that Robert Frost uses poetry to teach lessons about life. This also concludes that imagery is required by Robert…

disciplining a child and if it is an effective form of discipline, children’s standpoint, effects on children, risks that are involved, long-term effect, and alternatives to physical punishment. According to the study of physical punishment by Terry Anne Dobbs from the Children’s Issue Centre, it is defined as “the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain but not injury for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior” (138). Physical…

1 Introduction Leadership has been an intriguing and important part of human interactions for as long as people have lived and worked together in groups. Bass (1990) assert that leadership is a ?universal phenomenon? and that ?the study of leadership is an ancient art? (p.5). Leadership is one of the most widely talked about subjects and at the same time one of the most elusive and puzzling. Although the concept of leadership is as old as human history, interest in…

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan highlights the futility of blaming each other for the unfortunate event. Also, the novel is one of the first and most effective works on partition. While writing the novel, the writer has quite objectively treated the event, without blaming a community or religious minority for it. He has tried to stay away from the blame. “Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame”. According to him, “The…