I was born in a country where basketball was not so popular. It was mostly for the rich people‚ because they were the ones that could afford paying lots of money to the coach‚ and the team to be able to play and learn the game. Since there wasn’t too many basketball coaches in Iran‚ we didn’t have many basketball teams for different age groups. Out of all of my friends I had in Iran for the 11 years I lived there‚ only one of them played basketball in a league. He wasn’t even playing for his own
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I was interested in the Boston Massacre and found many testimonies and other primary resources there. However‚ as I read through I was intrigued by a comment in my readings about Captain Thomas Preston’s “London Letter”. In Preston’s letter to London‚ he intended only Londoners to read it and when the article was later published in the Boston Gazette it added annoyance to the already frustrated public in Boston. I was now‚ intrigued and determined to find Captain Preston’s newspaper article. I
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Lebron James was born on December 30‚ 1984 in Akron‚ Ohio. He went to St. Vincent Junior High School. When he was there they had a student verses teacher basketball game‚ and he decided to sign up. He was really tall in junior high‚ and he figured out that during the game he could dunk. Turns out that he was a lot better at basketball than he thought he was. He attended St. Mary High School. He was on both the basketball and the football team‚ and he was very good at both. In both his
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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5‚ 1770 and was a catalyst to a large number of changes within the colonies as well as the American Revolution. One question that is often brought up is who is to blame for the actual occurrence? However‚ there is no question because the British are obviously to blame for the entirety of the event. Probably one of the most important reasons why the British are to blame for the Boston Massacre is their unnecessary behavior. The British Troops killed or wounded
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all-time scorer by the time he graduated in 1974. Larry Bird was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the sixth overall pick in the 1978 draft. The Celtics gave Bird a contract worth $3.25 million over five years. Bird’s new contract made him the highest paid rookie in the history of team sports at that time. Bird averaged 21.3 points per game‚ and averaged 143 steals and 2‚955 minutes per season played. He led the Celtics to 3 championships and was also awarded MVP (most valuable player) 3 times. After
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The Boston Photographs Stanley Foreman‚ a journalist for the Boston Herald American‚ captured three famous photographs of a fire rescue case which reminded me of my grandmothers tragedy‚ displayed the themes of tragedy and anger‚ parallels to the movie World Trade Center‚ and aligns with my opinion that Foreman published the photographs rightfully. Foreman snapped the camera thinking to take heroic shots of a brave fireman successfully rescuing a woman and a child. Little did he know‚ he would
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One of the greatest sports in the world is goes by the name of basketball. This great game was invented by James Naismith December of 1891. James Naismith was a physician from Canada and attended McGill’s University in Montreal‚ Canada. After working as McGill’s Athletic director he went to Springfield‚ Massachusetts. He introduced the game when he was an instructor at the Young Men Christian Association Training School in Springfield. He created the game because he needed to think of something the
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“Boston is history‚ a history made of bricks and woods.” In the river of Boston’s history‚ just like Prometheus brought fire to lawless human-beings‚ Charles Bulfinch brought European taste and design to the arid land of architecture in Boston‚ ushering in a new era in the name of Federal Architecture. After the revolution‚ as what Thomas Pemberton said‚ Boston was capable of great increase‚ as many large spaces of land still remain vacancy. Meanwhile‚ frequent devastating conflagrations kept the
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The Boston Bombings: Case Study Analysis Boston Bombing Marathon Boston Bombing On April 15‚ 2013‚ during the Boston Marathon‚ homemade explosions were detonated near the finish line taking the life of 3 Americans and injuring more than 260. The explosive devices were determined to be two pressure cookers strategically set to detonate 210 yards apart at 13 second intervals. The investigation lead was taken over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who released photographs and surveillance
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another NBL (National basketball League) formed in 1937 and the Basketball Association of America formed in 1946 combined to form the National Basketball Association or the NBA for short. The only original teams from when the NBA had started are the Boston Celtics‚ the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia Warriors (Golden State Warriors). As the years go on‚ many new teams are formed‚ these teams are the Chicago Bulls‚ Brooklyn Nets‚ Atlanta Hawks‚ Portland Trail Blazers‚ Sacramento Kings‚ San Antonio Spurs
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