Basketball is a team sport‚ the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually‚ two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular and widely viewed sports.[1] A regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through
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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is an excellent example of satirical drama in a relatively fantastical comedy. He proceeds to show the absurdity of the Peloponnesian War by staging a battle of the sexes in front of the Acropolis‚ worshipping place of Athena. Tied into all of this is the role of sex and reason and is evident in the development of some characters and the lack of development in others. Although the play is centered on Lysistrata‚ the story is truly propelled by the ideas of sex and reason
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Boston prides itself on being a standout amongst the most reasonable urban communities in America. Twenty-one assorted neighborhoods offer more than 600‚000 inhabitants the chance to taste‚ touch‚ and experience things from everywhere throughout the world. Neighbors advantage from remarkable medicinal offices‚ energetic neighborhood business regions‚ and a strong system of parks‚ group focuses‚ and libraries. This is a rundown of schools and colleges in metropolitan Boston. Some are situated inside
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Spirit Week?! Huh .. sounds familiar!.. Maybe because we all have so much fun during the whole week?! Yes! We ALL have fun during Spirit Week. It’s a week where students can participate in showing school pride‚ show off their creative side‚ and just have fun!! During the week of Spirit Week‚ the students dress up. This allows them to earn “Paw Points” for their classes (freshmen‚ sophomore‚ junior‚ senior)! I have seen students dress up in a lot of awesome clothes!! For example‚ on “Dynamic
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As time goes by‚ it becomes more and more obvious that the family structure is indeed changing. Many people believe that the institution of family in our society is experiencing a collapse while other people view the changes as a normal adjustment to a growing and changing society that we have made for ourselves. Because of such changes‚ we are also experiencing an extremely high rate of divorce. I believe that the heightened occurrence of divorce is truly one of the greatest changes and challenges
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Hmoob yog leej twg? Who are Hmong? Hmong people are the sub-group of Miao ethnicity who originated from Southern China to Laos‚ Vietnam‚ and Thailand to escape from government protest to take away land. When Hmong people made it to the other side and have settled down‚ another war broke out causing many to lose loved ones once again. This war was commonly known as the Vietnam War or the Secret War. It has been forty years since Hmong ran across the muddy land and reached the United States. Today
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mber 15‚ 2016 There are many conspiracies on whether or not tupac is really dead‚ and quite a few of them make a lot of sense. Most of people who have done research‚ and even written papers on it‚ think that he faked his death‚ payed off a few people‚ and fled to Cuba to live with his aunt‚ Assata (McKnight). Most of Tupac’s songs have some sort of line‚ or statement that could be used as evidence that he is still alive‚ and this is the main contributor to writer’s arguments. The album under
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The Quiet Revolution was the rapid secularisation of Quebec during the 1960s & early 1970s. The Quiet revolution had a huge leap of independence for Quebecker’s during the 1960’s. It also had a drastic change by the federal government to keep the French culture alive. This brings up the question‚ how revolutionary was the Quiet Revolution? Throughout the Quiet Revolution Quebecois’ achieved Political stability‚ reached economic fairness‚ and preserved the French Language. Firstly‚ the Quiet Revolution
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Ignorance was such a bliss. As days passed by‚ I smiled with joy and not a care in the world. Chasing after hares that peeked through the tall green grass while colorful kites flew so high that they seem to touch the white clouds. Everything was calm and quiet like the crystal blue lake‚ Not once did I see the dark clouds brewing with thunder. The sun hid behind the layers of clouds like the hidden emotions behind a masked smile. The thunder could not silence the echoes of the two fighting voices
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Things were not always as easy as it is right now. I remember having to live in a confined one bedroom apartment with my mother‚ siblings‚ and grandparents. My father and mother were separated for a period due to immigration policy. My mother decided to move to America with her side of family to give her children better life and education. Although my dad sent over money‚ it was never enough for the family. Seeing my mother struggle with money‚ it made me want to do everything I can to give them
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