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    9.9 of every 100‚000 teenagers are the cause for deaths. Steve Harmon is a high school student‚ who is sent to jail and is being tried for murder. The plot takes place in Steve’s jail cell and the court room. The lesson to be learned from the book is‚ if someone does something wrong they have to pay for it. The book is a murder mystery‚ that can entertain anyone. This book is a must read in my opinion. The plot of the book Monster includes setting‚ main character‚ and conflicts. First‚ the story

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    The novel‚ “The Bully Boys” by Eric Walters chapters 15-18 continues about a farm boy named Thomas who rides alongside James FitzGibbon as a companion due to the fact the Americans are hunting him down. First‚ FitzGibbon is hit by a musket ball and is injured. Thomas needs to defend FitzGibbon from getting hit again so‚ Thomas kills 1 soldier‚ badly wounds 1 while the third one escaped. The injured soldier tells Thomas to deliver a letter to his wife and kids because he thinks he is close to death

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    Hula Hoop

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    I’m talking about hooping‚ the modern evolution of the hula hoop. THESIS Today‚ I’m going to share some information about the hula hoop phenomenon. RTL Knowalil: Most of you might know a lil bit about hula hoops from playing with them as a child. This speech will help shed a new light on an old idea by providing you with new information about different uses for hula hoops. Knowalot: Some of you may have used weighted hula hoops in exercise routines. You can learn some valuable new information

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    Sacred Hoops

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    Sacred Hoops A. Bibliography: Jackson P. (1995). Sacred Hoops. 1st ed. New York‚ NY: Hyperion. B. Summary: Phil Jackson ’s book‚ Sacred Hoops is him telling a story about his spiritual basketball journey to becoming one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time. It starts out with him coaching a season of the Bulls‚ then it flashes back to his high school life and him winning the state championship for Williston High School. After that he goes from an all American in

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    Walter Dean Meyers’ Monster is a realistic fiction novel following Steve Harmon‚ a sixteen year-old student on trial for felony murder‚ navigate his way through one of the most challenging‚ nerve-wrecking experiences of his life. The novel focuses on time spent at Steve’s trials as well as moments in jail‚ while it also takes the reader back to moments of his childhood. Written in the point of view of Steve himself‚ the book is written as a journal and not only focuses on the events which are taking

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    Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls basketball team to one of the longest winning streaks in professional sports. In his book‚ Sacred Hoops‚ he describes his approach to coaching a group of acknowledged stars. He clearly understands that simply collecting a set of outstanding players does not a championship team make. One way of understanding his approach is to think of every problem or project having components in four different spheres: 1. Mental‚ logical‚ scientific‚ technical 2. Systems

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    particularly affected by his conversation about the Holocaust with Henrich Gruber‚ Dean of the Evangelical Church of East‚ which denied the evil nature of the Holocaust by ascribing it to God’s will and special role of the Jews in the history and development of religion. After this interview‚ Rubenstein stated‚ “If I believed in God as the omnipotent author of the historical drama and Israel as His Chosen People‚ I had to accept Dean Gruber’s conclusion that it was God’s will that Hitler committed six million

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    William Dean ‘ Ecumenical Service for the Victim’s of the Canyoning Tragedy 1999 | Authors Context | * Sir William Dean (then Governor General) and his wife flew to Switzerland to represent Australia just days after 21 people ‚ 14 Australians‚ died in a canyoning tragedy. | Audience | Family‚ friends and Swiss representatives made up the immediate audience. Due to media attention the wider world was also addressed on a smaller scale. | Purpose | To make a very public speech on the occasion

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    Hoop Dreams

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    Running Head: HOOP DREAMS: REFLECTION PAPER In the movie “Hoop Dreams” a film producer followed two African-American boys on their journey to become professional basketball players. Sadly‚ Arthur and William’s story is too common into today’s lower income areas. Income unquestionably plays a role in this equation; since the parents don’t have the funds to give to their child to go to school this is the child’s only way to college. Many kids at a young age are forced to pick a sport

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    “The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic‚’ who are glad to be what they are.” - Isabel Briggs Myers (goodreads). MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator‚ Myers Briggs Testing Instrument) is a personality assessment that was based off of the Jungian typology theory created by Carl Jung. Isabel Briggs Myers is the one responsible for this assessment‚ and the one responsible for my ungodly obsession with it. It was my Junior year in Psychology and our teacher‚ Mrs. Mais‚ took us into

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