...for their kids can make a huge difference in their lives. If this love is only temporary, or when their kids do something right or well, that can emotionally hurt the kids worse than many may realize. Conditional love will act as the root of all evil in a relationship between a parent and their kid. It shows the kid that they will be loved based off of what they do and how well they do it, not because of who they are. Unconditional love however, can make all the difference in a relationship. Kids who are loved unconditionally learn that they also should love unconditionally, and that it is the greatest kind of love. They learn that they are loved because of who they are and not what they’ve done. As Margaret Paul explained, “Our children become a mirror of our own behavior, discounting us when we discount ourselves, disrespecting us when we disrespect ourselves,”(Courage 3). This adds to the proof that if parents love their children, their children will love them back. If parents respect their children, their children will respect them back(courage 2). Growing up, I was blessed and fortunate enough to have parents who loved me unconditionally. Although they fought...
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...What I knew Sports have always been fun and exciting for me. When I was a little boy around 5 years old we were living in Virginia and my mom put me in my first basketball camp. It was fun to get on the court and practice and play with the other boys. I could not wait to get to practice each day. Some days I was tired and I realized that sometime you have to push yourself and work hard when you are a part of a team. There is no better feeling than after you have worked hard in practice and the coach calls your name to go on the court and play in a game. Touching the ball for the first time makes you nervous but when you hit the first shot the excitement takes over. Since I was a little boy I have watched basketball games with my mom. Seeing how exciting it is and how the fans go crazy when a player makes a basket made me want to become a basketball player when I grow up. I have watched Kobe Bryant play and I have dreamed of being a great player like he is. Kobe works hard and competes with his heart each night. He seems to enjoy his job and I want to enjoy whatever job I choose for my future. I have followed Kobe throughout his career and have his posters and jerseys. I look at them sometime and tell myself that I will be a great player like him someday. I know that it will take a lot of hard work and long practices to become great. I know that I will be forced to train and keep my body in the best condition. Sports are about being physical, athletic, and strong. The...
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...Growing up in New England, an area rich in sports tradition, I developed a passion for basketball at a young age. The first game I attended was game one of the 2008 NBA finals in which the Boston Celtics battled against their arch rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics claimed the championship that year and from that day on, basketball was my life. In the years leading up to high school, I attended basketball camps, played on AAU travel basketball teams and practiced relentlessly to sharpen my skills to earn a spot on my high school varsity basketball team. I was thrilled when I found out in my sophomore year that I was the only player to go straight from the freshman team to varsity. However, after the first week of practice, my coach extinguished my hopes of being a meaningful contributor to the team. Despite my best efforts, it...
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...influences whether they know it or not. The adult who strongly influences my present life and will influence my future career decision is a very good friend of mine named Billy, who is nineteen. This influence of mine gives me motivation to do and be better, critical feedback, and tips and advice. Homer Hickam is motivated by his teacher, Miss Riley, to follow through with his dream and accomplish the most he can. Similar to my life, my influence motivates me to do better and accomplish as much as I can. Billy never gives up on me no matter how many mistakes I make, he believes I’ll be better, for example in school. Billy wasn’t a straight A student and prioritized school while he was in school but, he makes sure I do all my homework no matter how small it was. He expects big things from me in the future just like Miss Riley’s high expectation from Homer in the future. Today, Homer is a former NASA engineer so hopefully I’ll be just as successful with the guidance from my influence. Billy is a very smart person and is particularly good at visualizing and noticing small key things. Billy does not directly tell me whether I did a good job but the thought of me doing something perfectly right satisfies me because I know he is proud of me. This influences me greatly and affects how I would make a decision today. Before I make a decision for example on a test, I put myself in Billy shoes and think about how he would see it by using an alternative method to solve the question....
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...September 25, 2009 Greatness=Drive The article “What it takes to be great,” by Geoffrey Colvin is very well written. Geoffrey Colvin makes valid points to support his opinion on what it takes to be great. I agree with Colvin’s idea that to be great at something it requires hard work. He expands on this by saying it takes “deliberate practice.” What Colvin meant by “deliberate practice,” was that is performing not just to get something done, but to be efficient and push oneself to accomplish more. An example could be playing basketball. If a person shoots one hundred foul shots a day does not mean he or she is deliberately practicing. The best way to get better would be to make sure you made at least 85 out of 100 foul shots per day. Deliberate practicing is pushing you to that next step. After reading this article agree with want Geoffrey Colvin states to become great at a certain activity. I have learned throughout life from my parents and personal experiences, hard work is the only true way to become good at something. No one is born with the wit for chess or the ultimate basketball skills. Everyone who was ever great worked themselves day in and day out. In the article Colvin mentioned that some people are gifted, which gets them an advantage, but that person still has to work as hard as the others to become great. Using professional athletes is a perfect example. Lebron James is arguably going to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Granted he has advantages, 6’8”...
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...Project Design Plan The experiment is designed to test how the degree of inflation in a basketball directly relates to its rebound height. My intent is to determine how the air pressure can negatively affect the ball with too short or high a rebound. This is relevant to basketball players because they need to maintain control over the ball. Too little inflation and the ball will not bounce high enough for them during dribbling to continue forward at maximum speed to score or they will not be able to pass the ball on a bounce because the ball may not make it to the next player. Too much inflation and the ball may become erratic and not go where it is intended during a pass and will be much more difficult to handle while dribbling. Literature Review The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the governing body for professional basketball in North America. In order for a basketball to meet regulation standards for professional games, the NBA states on page ten of their rule book in section II.f.(1) “ The ball shall be an officially approved NBA ball between 7 ½ and 8 ½ pounds of pressure” (National Basketball Association, 2013). The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) states in its rulebook in section 16, article 7 that “when [the ball] is dropped to the playing surface from a height of 6 feet measured to the bottom of the ball, it will rebound to a height, measured to the top of the ball, of not less than 49 inches when it strikes its least resilient spot nor...
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...friend Rowdy, one day Arnold decides he wants a better life and decides to switch to an mostly all white school called Rearden, with this decision he lost many friends and community members but stays devoted to stay at Rearden. Arnold with his brain damage stays insistent to go to Rearden, make the basketball team at Rearden, and eventually beats his...
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...understand what each of these terms refers to. Sex is our biological makeup, this serves to categorize us into two distinct groups, males and females. Gender, on the other hand, refers to traits that make us masculine or feminine. So how do the traits associated with gender mold our behavior in society? I would like to draw upon personal experience in order to answer this question. I was raised in a single parent household by my mother. As long as I can remember, she was my primary caretaker. In my younger years, my main male influences were my grandfather and my great grandfather. One a construction worker and other, a retired World War II and Korean War veteran. The soldier and the construction worker, two things that defined masculinity to me at a very young age. The bravery associated with a soldier and the ruggedness of a construction worker are still things that are primarily associated with masculinity today. My views have somewhat changed though, I now know that there are female soldiers, and there are female construction workers. This has not changed the respect that I have for the men that my forefathers were, only the idea of masculinity that went along with it. Having model of masculinity really shaped my life decisions. From a young age, I always knew that I wanted to be a soldier. Seeing pictures of my great grandfather only added fuel to the fire. Something about him standing in his uniform instilled a great deal of pride in me. I thought that is what being a...
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...a mother does that for her child, a man for his wife; we ask that a people as a whole may not fall into great error--- and we know that what we ask is by no means always granted us. In the case of someone for whom it is a matter of life and death, this can become a serious problem. Why has he had no answer, or at least nothing like the answer he had asked for? Why is god silent? Why does he withdraw? Why is it that just the opposite of what I wanted is happening? The distance between what Jesus promised and what we experience in our own lives makes you think, every time--- it has that effect in each generation, for each single person, and even for me. Each one of us has to struggle to work out an answer for himself, so that in the end he comes to understand why god has spoken to him precisely like that.” (Pg. 40) “ Augustine and other great Christians say that god gives us what is best for us—even when we do not recognize this at first” (Pg. 40) These three quotes explain exactly how I personally experienced some experiences; I went through in the past. During my 2011-2012-basketball season we went through a rough stretch, were we only accomplished losing games. I asked the lord and myself why us, why my team, why this year, WHY? I could never understand exactly why the season we were having, was happening. I could only begin to think that not all good things happen to good people. The amount of stress and hours of pain put in throughout that basketball...
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...Sherman Alexie ENG 150 – Critical Analysis Assignment Fingerprints Recently, I was introduced to a man named Sherman Alexie. See, what I liked about Sherman from the beginning was the dissimilarity we shared. Too often, as a society we get so caught up in the bait of commonality that we forget it’s the differences that make us individuals. His family was not like mine. The significant values that shape a young man’s life, like Sherman’s and mine, were founded on different life experiences and were respected on unfamiliar levels. I came to see he loved differently and for different reasons. He esteemed for different reasons and his perception on life was remarkable yet understated. Sherman had a way of seeing things… the realness he bestowed was astonishing, but more importantly, he was able to help me see differently too. You’re asking, “Where did you meet this Sherman Alexie?” The answer to that question is difficult to state because I feel like I’ve known him my whole life, but I doubt he’d say the same of me. The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie written for anyone willing to read it. It displays his inner deepest thoughts through the story of a young man named Junior. The great thing about being introduced to a man through his work is that he reveals himself to you through nothing but the deepest and best thoughts; and Sherman had many. Sherman Alexie was a Native American who grew up on a reservation in Spokane...
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...the film Hoosiers from week 13 of class. After reviewing the film I will compare it with chapter 13 of Major Problems. Hoosiers really caught my interest as a great underdog story and that is why I chose to further study the 1986 classic. I always had heard people talk about this movie but I had never seen it. In this paper I will discuss the historical period Hoosiers is set in, compare and contrast major themes from the week, and evaluate the film based on its effectiveness. Hoosiers is a fictional movie that is actually based on real events in a small town in Indiana. It is based on a true story but does change some of the truths, as evidenced by the ESPN article. The message I gathered from the film was that anything is possible if you can work hard and accept change. The little town of Hickory was very set in its ways and uncooperative of the new basketball coach. Once the town and players learned to accept something different, the team flourished. The argument the film presents is to never count someone out. No matter how small a school or town is, hard work can trump talent and compete with the big boys. The message of acceptance resonates with the viewer and is most likely why Hoosiers is so highly regarded as a sports movie. The historical period that Hoosiers is set in is 1952 rural Indiana. In this time period, people are more centralized around common goals and the entire town knows when someone moves in. There are no televisions and people have...
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...10 March 2014 Amateurs or Professionals? Big-money college sports takes your breath away. College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6 billion in annual revenue, more than the National Basketball Association. A top college coach can make as much or more than a professional coach. Powerful conferences like the S.E.C. and the Pac 12 have signed lucrative TV deals, while the Big 10 and the University of Texas have created their own sports networks. Last year, Turner Broadcasting and CBS signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal for the television rights to the NCAA’s men’s basketball national championship tournament (a.k.a “March Madness”). And what does the labor force that makes it possible for coaches to earn millions, and causes marketers to spend billions, get? Nothing. The workers are supposed to be content with a scholarship that does not even cover the full cost of attending college. Any student athlete who accepts an unapproved, free hamburger from a coach, or even a fan, is in violation of NCAA rules. Nevertheless, the NCAA prohibits any form of payments, beyond scholarships, to any athlete who is responsible for producing the revenue. The NCAA also restricts the ability for any college athlete to earn income from an outside source. In a study sponsored by the NCAA, they discovered that college players have less money than non-athletic students, and almost fifty-eight percent are not even provided...
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...A woman named Alexandra Elle once said “I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.” Accepting defeat is perhaps one of the most difficult challenges to go through. The mortification is tough to overcome after experiencing failure. Failure comes in many different forms and people have different ways of handling it. For myself, my failure came recently after I was not reelected for senior class president. After I found out I was no longer a part of student council, I had one question to answer: what do I do now? Throughout my years at high school, I have held a variety of positions in student council. I was class reporter my freshman year, class vice president my sophomore year, and class president...
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...And when I saw the picture of the article that is young girls playing basketball I was surprised and started thinking is it a story of a game? The title of the article built curiosity in me and forced me to search for what does the title mean? And who is Malcolm Gladwell? The search landed me to a Ted Talk by Malcolm Gladwell where he speaks about how David an underdog win over Goliath and I was unaware of the story until I heard it on Ted Talk. While listening to Ted Talk a thought triggered “In business never underestimate a small player basis of their size, every business has their potential which differentiates them from large players in the market”. The article further forced me to think of the strategies a business can adopt to win over the leaders in the market. Though smaller players do not have the competencies to compete with leaders, they can differentiate themselves by focusing on niche areas where there strengths are. Figure out where their competition is weak, where they cannot respond and where they do not care to compete, then go after those areas and capitalize them. In the article Vivek Ranadive had no experience in the game of basketball game. However, he identified the areas of the games where the champions do not focus and trained his team on those aspects which resulted to win the games and become champions. Another story shared in article about T.E Lawrence and Turks enlightened me that effective usage and well planning of the strengths of available resources...
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...The Power of the NCAA Abstract The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a very powerful entity. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament receives more advertising dollars and has higher ratings then the Super Bowl and the World Series. This paper discusses various other papers all dealing with different aspects of this NCAA entity and the cultural, economic and social impact the NCAA has on the modern education system. These topics include an analysis of NCAA tournament broadcasts and the influence the TV industry has on what people view, the impact of facilities to recruit high quality athletes, as well as a cost-benefit analysis of university’s scholarship system. These issues, among others, affect every college student, not just student-athletes as well as tax-payers, professors and alumni. The Power of the NCAA As a father of a high school student-athlete that is being recruited by Division I universities I felt the need to research the process and the entities involved at a deeper level. The five articles I chose helped me understand the recruitment process and the logic behind it as well as the influence the athletic departments have over every school. Division I athletic departments are either the largest or second largest buildings on each campus as far as operations (Southall et al.). One major concern with the amount of influence the NCAA has in the community is that after their big national tournament in 2006, a representative...
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