Kevin Durant Paper Pride matters in the NBA, but not more than skill. When Kevin Durant drops 40 on an opponent, they don’t begrudge him his talent. What kills them is that the kid looks like he’s 15! Actually, that’s not too far off. By taking the NBA by storm as a 19-year-old—and winning league scoring titles just a few years later—Kevin has given Oklahoma City fans a lot to get noisy about. Not bad for a player who considered quitting his high school team as a frosh and then spent all of one
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Quote “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard” -Kevin Durant The quote I chose was written by Kevin Durant. Whatke I think this quote means is that the person with the most talent doesn’t always win. It’s also saying that just because you’re the best doesn’t mean that you’re always going to be in that position. If you stop working as hard as you did to get into the position that you’re in then you can easily lose that position because there is someone out there that’s not as
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acceptance speech of the NBA’s most valuable player, Kevin Durant makes a persuasive argument about how he got to where he is today using his credibility, logic, and emotion. Many would not consider Kevin Durant an author because he hasn’t written a book. However, through the writing and presentation of his acceptance speech, Kevin Durant creates the story of his past for the audience, making him an author of his story and of this speech. Durant uses credibility in order to persuade the audience of
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individual was the center piece of an entire city and was the hero and champion that Oklahoma City. As of now this person has turned his back on the city he once called home and has taken his talents to the west coast. This individual is none other than Kevin Durant.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Nike has contributed in different kind of social services. Based on our research, we had found that Nike has been helping the adolescent girl in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Rwanda. It provide massive resources to adolescent girls. Nike formed Girl Hub, a strategic collaboration with the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) aimed at transforming the lives of adolescent girls living in poverty by engaging girls themselves as active participants in 2010. They
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Black Hawk Down: Battle of Mogadishu “War was ugly and evil, for sure, but it was still the way things got done on most of the planet.” (Bowden 1999) Mark Bowden’s book, Black Hawk Down, is a great novel. This book portrays the struggles and triumphs of the men who fought over in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. In this book, we are able to see firsthand experiences of the men of the U.S. Rangers and Delta Force. Their main objective is to capture a Somali drug lord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid. However,
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1. In October 1993, American forces went into Somalia to begin assisting relief operations to help the citizens of Mogadishu. “They had come close to grabbing Aidid several times but that was not their only goal” (22). Their main mission on October 3, 1993, for the seventh time, was to capture Aidid and his men. Unfortunately, the intent of this mission was not successful due intervention by civilian solders. 2. In the early moments of the Battle of Mogadishu, the “US Army Rangers and Delta
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business were responsible for the health and safety of workers involved with the HIP. In February 2009, the Rudd government (Government) unveiled the HIP as part of its stimulus package in respond to the GFC. This program may have been stemmed from Kevin Rudd’s (2009, pp 28-29) belief that “Labor, in the international tradition of social democracy, consistently argues for a central role for government in the regulation of markets and the provision of public goods”; and it has “acted to help the real
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plans green and gold car’ by John Kerin, The Australian Financial Review, Tuesday June 10th, 2008, p. 4 Chapter/s in text article related to: Chapter 1 and Chapter 11. Article Summary: During a recent visit to Japan by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Toyota announced plans to produce a hybrid Camry at its Melbourne plant. The announcement comes after months of behind the scenes negotiations between Industry Minister Kim Carr and Toyota executives. Mr Rudd is anxious to have a locally built
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Australia seems to be stuck between its economic interests, which lie with China and Asia, and traditional ties with the America. General Peter Leahy warns of US-China collision FORMER Australian army chief Peter Leahy has urged Australia to tread warily in expanding its military ties with the US to ensure they do not "lead to increased tension and even conflict" with China. [pic] the Australian, 12 April, 2012 Warning against becoming "caught" between the US as its security guarantor
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