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- 581: Kobe Bryant
- ... go to someone else for the game-winning shot. The 18-year-old rookie, Kobe Bryant. The Golden Child. A lanky, charismatic, 6-6, 200-pound prodigy, Kobe had led little-known Lower Merion High School to the Pennsylvania state title the year before. This year, he was being asked to carry an NBA team to the Finals. No problem. "Give me the ball, coach," Bryant says. "I'll drain it ... team-and dish the ball off to an open teammate. He won't automatically drive the lane, falling into traps that contain his game in ways that weren't possible when he was a high-school player. You still see that look of giddiness, the gee-whiz flair that has many people comparing him to Magic Johnson, but there's also cold determination, an undying competitive streak that's very reminiscent ... his age entering the League? "Sheeeet!," Horry says with a laugh. "Because of how talented he is." The talent was never a question. Kobe broke Wilt Chamber-lain's 40-year-old, Southeastern PA high-school scoring record of 2,359 points (with 2,883), and earned a No. 13 spot in the NBA draft without ever stepping on a college campus. He was USA Today's High School Player ...
- 582: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... trimmings." I suppose she meant the halo. Now here is a gold-miner's compliment. It is forty-two years old. It was my introduction to an audience to which I lectured in a log school-house. There were no ladies there. I wasn't famous then. They didn't know me. Only the miners were there, with their breeches tucked into their boot-tops and with clay all over them ... is dangerous to omit it- our guest is a distinguished citizen of the Great Republic beyond the seas. In America his Huckleberry Finn and his Tom Sawyer are what Robinson Crusoe and Tom Brown's School Days have been to us. They are racy of the soil. They are books to which it is impossible to place any period of termination. I will not speak of the classics- reminiscences of much ... the baby proposed to take a walk at his usual hour, two o'clock in the morning, didn't you rise up promptly and remark, with a mental addition which would not improve a Sunday-school book much, that that was the very thing you were about to propose yourself? Oh! you were under good discipline, and as you went fluttering up and down the room in your undress uniform, ...
- 583: Hunger Of Memory
- ... with his family gave Rodriguez comfort and a feeling of safety that was not felt outside of his home. Rodriguez was forced to leave that comfort and safety every morning though once he began attending school. The author describes hearing the cold, harsh sounds of the English language and wishing that his teachers would welcome him in Spanish, instead. The author explains that, as a child, he regarded Spanish as his ... as an American citizen like the other children in his class, and this discouraged him from readily learning English. Ultimately, Rodriguez did learn to speak the public language. Some of the teachers at Rodriguez s school were concerned with his and his siblings unresponsiveness in class and their unwillingness to speak English. They spoke with his parents and suggested that speaking English at home would make an easier transition for the ... did Rodriguez hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill his house. Speaking English began to separate his family. As he and his siblings began speaking more and more English outside of the home, primarily at school, the parents had a more difficult time communicating with their children and, therefore, conversations became strained and less frequent. While his home life considerably changed, Rodriguez s life at school became drastically different. Previously ...
- 584: Suicide
- ... life upon failing a critical exam" (www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-su.html). The most common type in the United States is egoistic (www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-su.html). My junior year in high school, one of the most popular boys in school, committed suicide. He was a star football player and an excellent athlete. He was brought up in a good family and had outstanding values. Academics were never a huge problem for him. One day at the beginning of school during the morning announcements, school officials announced he had killed himself. Through connections, I found out the two main reasons that he committed suicide. He found out the previous day that his fiancé was ...
- 585: Ebonics Is Not The Answer
- By: kamila E-mail: kamila@yahoo.com EBONICS IS NOT THE ANSWER Over the pass few months, a controversial subject regarding the education of African American students in the Oakland School District has made its way to the top of discussions across America. “Ebonics” or African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Vernacular Black English (VBE) has been erroneously called “slang,” “broken English,” instead the full-fledged ... shows there are several important reasons such as lowering the English standards, wasting the taxpayers dollars and finally lowering the students’ self-esteem and confidence are equally significant in the fight against Ebonics. Oakland Unified School District strongly disagrees with the linguists and the Board of Education opinion of lowering student’s academic standards and proposes its ambitious professional development goal: ensuring that teachers understand the structural details of AAVE so ... the trial in Ann Arbor1,” said Jim Boulet, Jr., Executive Director of Standard English Proficiency Program. “The marketplace is demanding excellent communications skills. These children are being denied that opportunity,” Boulet said. Ann Arbor High School is not the only failure in the history of African American Vernacular English. Twenty-six years ago, Brooklyn College offered a course, which taught "Black English" as the alleged native language of African-Americans. ...
- 586: Gender in Sports
- ... at the collegiate and professional levels as well. While most of these teams are formed and exist for both men and women, it is interesting how different each team tends to be treated. At High school football games, for example, the students and faculty show up in record numbers to prove their loyalty to the team and to the school itself. This football team is always comprised of men who use the sport to demonstrate their masculinity through the smashing and bashing of each other's skulls. Occasionally, one may find a select number of ... makes a man playing a sport more interesting to watch than a woman playing the same game? Perhaps it is due to the fact that women's sports aren't as popular at the high school and collegiate levels as the men's sports tend to be. For this reason, the owners and developers of professional sports leagues may not feel that there is a need for these types of ...
- 587: Time
- Time Time is of the essence! Be on time! Time to go to school! We are running out of time! You may not realize it, but our lives are controlled by time. From the time we get up to the time we go to bed we are its slaves. Being a teenager, time definetly controls me, it has to. I have to be up at a certain time, so I wont be late to school. During the school day I have to be in class on time. After school I have no time! I have work and extracurricular activities that I am involved in. After this I eat dinner, study then go ...
- 588: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... died just before Isaac was born. When Isaac was three years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on the farm in Woolsthorpe with his grandmother. After going to small country school, he was sent at the age of twelve to the Kings School in the near by town of Grantham. At first Isaac was an awful student. He didn’t care about his school- work very much, all he ever wanted to do was paint, make kites, write in notebooks, and invent toys. He had no friends at all. Isaac was dull and dreamy, he had the worst ...
- 589: Schools And Tests
- ... arguments presented deals with the conditions of the schools. Specifically the renewal and renovations of schools comes into question. Should the harried taxpayers of Cobb and Dekalb counties, for instance, bail out incompetent or corrupt school boards in other states? Should New York City be rewarded for failing to build new schools in a timely manner? This is the fallacy known as the circular argument. A circular argument is where the ... her character, which has no relevance on the argument being made. This statement has no relevance on the point of the schools in America. The second point Williams focuses on is the education of the school system in the country. More specifically he turns his attention to the testing of America s youth through the end of high school. High school graduates can take the SAT or the ACT. Well, this sentence is a clear case of the false extremes fallacy. Dick Williams assumes that high school graduates have only the choice of ...
- 590: Creative Writing: My Summer Off
- ... and descriptions and, if you're not careful, you end up with nothing more than the cover and the brief synopsis on the back page. My novel on the subject of the end of summer school debate has lost its share of pages but the back-cover synopsis, the essence of the entire experience, is still with me. “We are about to begin our annual debating tournament,” the instructor beamed with ... morning. Get some practice, get some sleep, see you there.” I don't know what drew me to the course but I can remember my parents telling me they felt I should go to summer school. I was opposed to the concept of summer school right up to the moment I was issued the dictum “go to school or get a job”, at which point I became the world's greatest advocate of off-season learning. Besides, I was ...
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