The story I read and am writing my essay on is the book Hoops by Walter Dean Myers. The reason why I am writing this essay is because I like this is a great book. The book is about a seventeen year old boy named Lonnie‚ faces a difficult life with the harsh nagging of his mom and trying to become pro at basketball. Later on in this book Lonnie faces a really difficult decision if he wants to throw the game or if he wants to beat the opposing team. This is a great book because it teaches about friendship
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Robert Deiz AS 201 MW 5:30 – 7:20 4/14/10 The movie I chose for my presentation is Hoop Dreams. This movie was produced in 1994 by Steve James‚ Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert. Hoop Dreams is an excellent three hour documentary about two black boys growing up in the inner city of Chicago‚ Illinois with aspirations of playing basketball in the NBA. The movie starts out when William Gates and Arthur Agee are going to enter high school. William and Arthur both are recruited by Earl Smith a talent scout
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Hoop Dreams When I first arrived at Rotunda D I thought to myself great I get to stand the whole time because there is not one open seat. Dean Nickels started the event off by introducing Scott Naggy‚ head boys basketball coach. Naggy then talked a little about how they recruit players for South Dakota State University. He then introduced two of his players. The first was from the West side of Chicago‚ he talked about how he would play basketball to escape from the hardships of growing up in West
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Field of Dreams is a movie about second chances. With Ray‚ building the baseball field in his backyard it is Ray’s second chance to have a relationship with his father who‚ is dead and while alive did not have a good relationship with his son. It is Terrance Mann’s second chance to go see a ball game at Fenway Park. Shoeless Joe’s and the other Chicago White Sox who were kicked out of the game‚ it is their second chance to play baseball again. Moonlight Graham’s second chance to get a major league
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The season was going good and going by fast‚ our record stands above 500. Our last tournament was in Lawrence Kansas. We played one game against the “Kingdom Hoops‚” and we played amazing…‚ in the second half. In the first half we played super sloppy. We ended up winning the first game by about twenty points. We had to travel to another gym for our next game. The next game was going ok against the “Omaha Grizzlies” we know they were better than us but we worked harder in the first half. Up by 4
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Reaction to Sacred Hoop: The Ways of our Grandmothers The chapter The Ways of Our Grandmothers reviews many traditional native beliefs. Dealing with many aspects in tribal myth‚ tradition‚ and ritual‚ it shows many parallels between different native practices and acknowledges the “matriarchal” society was largely dominant before the Europeans came to America. The reoccurring theme or idea I kept reading was that in the beginning there was Thought Woman‚ and from her other Woman spirits and then
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assignment I was tasked with first isolating myself from people and performing my monologue while swinging a hula hoop around my arm. Everytime the monologue the stopped‚ I had to stop my piece. I then did the monologue again completely with the arm. After I completed this i moved the hula hoop to around my hips and torso‚ and performed the monologue on high and low pitches. Only speaking when the hula-hoop is in motion. I then repeated this process in a public place. For my monologue‚ I portrayed Annie
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there will be eight to ten hula-hoops set out across the side of the gym and on the opposite half there will be a pile of bean bags. When the music begins or when the start signal is said‚ students will perform 10 push-ups on the side with the bean bags. After the push-ups‚ each student will pick up one bean bag and perform any animal movement that they would like until they get to the throwing line. Students will use an underhand throw to toss the bean bag into the hula-hoop. After tossing the bean
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“Here ya’ go!” Riley shouted tossing him three Skittles from earlier and running up the steps."We finally have you back Mrs. Chubbs‚" Riley sighed with relief. "Time for your hoop trick!" Andi exclaimed as she put the treat on the opposite side of the hoop. Miraculously at that moment‚ Mrs. Chubbs jumped through the hoop! "She did it!" the girls giggled. She did it four more times before laying down and beginning to purr."Uhhh.. Mrs. Chubbs?" Riley said concerned‚ "Meow!" Mrs. Chubbs squealed. "Roll
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January 31‚ 2012 Casey Key Beach Day and Night The beach is filled with sun kissed tans‚ buckets and shovels under the warmth of the sunlight‚ while the moonlight brings out the belly dancers‚ hula hoops and drums. The sound of crashing waves‚ the smell of the sea air‚ and fine sand felt between your toes are some of the things night and day time life at Casey Key Beach have in common. During the day you can find beachgoers slathering on that SPF 30‚ putting up their umbrellas‚ and kicking
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