Womens basketball is often overlooked and judged, little do people know how much of an impact it can have on a lady playing the sport. Most people think of basketball as a mans sport, and could never interpret the game from a female players perspective. In the autobiography "She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey" by Cynthia Cooper it shows the reader just that, the dedication being brought by a woman into the game of basketball. Cynthia Cooper is one the best female basketball players America has produced. In the past ten years she has accumulated MVP awards, scoring titles, gold medals, and championships. Cooper shares how she made it to the top of her profession after growing up poor in Watts and wining a scholarship to USC. She spent years on a European basketball court where she proved herself to be one of the best female basketball players of all time, culminating with Olympic glory and becoming a WNBA star. "She Got Game" is the story of a female gifted athlete that is living proof that hard work, commitment, and determination can pave the way for success no matter what obstacles are put in front of you.…
“Every scar I have makes me who I am” proclaimed an anonymous author. Sometimes people make decisions that will stick with them forever, even if they don’t want it to. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, she writes about a teenager named Melinda who goes through a ton of drama over the summer before and during her freshman year. A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. He stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her. Melinda is terrified and calls the police. Rachel, her former best friend, finds out and leaves her at the party. Rachel hates Melinda for involving the police. Melinda walks home to an empty house, refuses to speak and isolates herself from society.…
Thank God for braces. After eight years of an oppressive overbite, my teeth were at a loss, with no end in sight. Old thumb-sucking habits over-crowded or spaced out some teeth. Gaps and crooked teeth made me afraid to socialize for fear of people seeing this monstrosity, so I stopped smiling. My parents prodded me to say “cheese” in pictures, but my smile looked more painful than pleasant. My hopes of having nice teeth darkened, but my teeth relentlessly yearned for one to rescue them from their distress.…
Jaqueshia is a petite, average girl with very short, natural hair. When I first met her, I realized her hair was unevenly cut. Her clothes were fitting very tight on her, which were inappropriate for a 4th grader. Her shoes were very nice and clean. It was very evident that she took care of her shoes by keeping them clean. She had on the same color socks as her shirt and shoes were. She coordinated her clothes very well. Jaqueshia teeth were in bad shape. They were broken in the front and a few visible cavities on the side.…
In the story Speak Melinda is being seen by other students on the bus is very different from how the readers are viewing Melinda. At the beginning of the story Melinda gets on the bus at the first stop and she decides that she will sit in the front in hopes that one of her friends would sit with her. In the story Melinda says, “If I sit in the front, it will make me look like a little kid, but I figured it is my best chance I have making eye contacts with one of my friends, if any of them decided to talk to me yet” (Anderson pg. 3). Along with that, on the inside she really wants to sit with a friend and avoiding sitting next to a stranger, also Melinda wants her friends to talk to her. Following, from the perspective of the other students they just see another student just sitting in the front row and not really thinking why she is doing that.…
1) at 11 years old, George had sported a set of crooked teeth and his mother took him to a university of medicine and dentistry to receive braces in hopes if improving his smile .…
which is usually done during every doctor’s visit. During this procedure, the child’s teeth is…
Reading the article Happy" by Pharrell Williams: Why This Song Has Grabbed The Nation by Eamon Ford we can see his interest in a phenomenon he presents to us, analyzing and feeding information to us. A part that stands out in the beginning of this is his justification of writhing this article, "the crowd at the World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth clapping and grooving along" his writing from that sentence displays that it’s a song many people enjoy and from many age groups. He puts us in a scenery we can image and then proceeds to show the relationship between the earlier statement and how many cd`s have been sold in the Uk as well as how many times it plays on the radio. Forde shows us how they may relate how the people in the stadium may know the song through the times of listening to it on the radio,…
whom she called John and Mary. The story itself is very different from most of other…
Observations: Please describe in detail the structures and features you observed on the pituitary gland slide.…
Melinda Sordino is a just starting her freshman year at Merryweather High School and is not off to a good start . Before school started Melinda attended a party with her best friend which ended in her calling the police for reasons the reader learns throughout the book . Her year starts rough with her friends not speaking with her and her not speaking at all . She begins to become slightly depressed and caves into herself , when it is brought to attention that art is a way to escape her thoughts. The reader begins receiving hints as to what happened at the party and Melinda starts to talk less and less . The only person who she would consider…
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.” - Judith Lewis Herman Melinda school peers call her "squealer", because she alerted the police during a summer party after she was sexually assaulted by Andy Evans. Since then she has ascended upon deep depression in which she has blockaded everyone out.…
“Every scar I have makes me who I am” proclaimed an anonymous author. Sometimes people make decisions that will stick with them for forever even if they don’t want it to. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, she writes about a teenager named Melinda who goes through a ton of drama over the summer before and during her freshman year. A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. Andy sees her and stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her. Melinda gets extremely scared and calls the police, Rachel (her ex-best friend) finds out she called the cops. Rachel then leaves her at the party and hates her, for calling the cops, from that moment on. In conclusion to this Melinda…
RAINN states online that “sexaul violcenc can have a psychological, emotional and physical effect on a survivor” (RAINN). Throughout the story Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson describes how a sexaul assult accident can impact one's daily life dramatically in many ways. The novel Speak, is a story of Melinda Sordino who was ferociously raped over the summer at an upperclassmen party and after the incident she calls the police for help and they arrive to find only a highschool party with illegal substances. Since no one knows about Melinda’s night, a majority of students who attend Merryweather High School in New York thinks she got everyone caught. In conclusion, Melinda loses connections with everyone which makes her feel like an outcast. Laurie…
I am reading the book "In My Hands" by Irena Gut Opdyke. This story is about a Polish girl who is constantly avoiding the Germans during the Nazi rein and she was a holocaust rescuer. This blog post is going to be mainly about some of the main characters in the story. This story is a Biography.…