Basketball is a simple game where you have two teams with 5 players on each and you try and shoot the ball into the hoop. Of course‚ there are a lot of rules to follow but that is the main idea behind the game. About 5 years ago my stepsister‚ Isabel‚ was playing basketball for the Bedford Eagles and I would occasionally go see her games. At some point‚ I decided I wanted to play‚ so the next season I joined the Bedford Eagles. Through my 5 years‚ I have learned a lot about basketball and about myself
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What does it mean to be Addicted? “I live for gambling‚ I work for gambling‚ travel for gambling‚ manipulate people for it. I did everything I could just to gamble.” “I thought I’d just play $20 but the minuet I put down a buck I knew I was off and running.” “If I’m winning at some point I think good‚ I already won some‚ so I think great it’s my night‚ I think this is my big night.” “I thought nothing of throwing kitchen chairs around‚ and slamming doors‚ when I got the urge to gamble nothing could
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have met their bare necessities. What does Aristotle mean by ‘good’? Does it mean happiness? Stability? I found this idea particularly intriguing because Aristotle points out that this goodness is best achieved collectively rather than individually. Is this possible? As Aristotle himself points out‚ people typically act in their own self-interest “in order to obtain that which they think good”. (1252a3) If the state aims at the “highest good” (1252a6)‚ does this necessarily benefit
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What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated In the article “What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated” Mr. Kohn point out 6 points on being educated. Point 1.The Point of Schooling. (Nel Noddings the professor emerita at Stanford University‚ urges us to reject “the deadly notion that the schools’ first priority should be intellectual development” and contends that “the main aim of education should be to produce competent‚ caring‚ loving‚ and lovable people.”) I like this quote on the purposes of education
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So many people usually suspect things like family problems‚ money‚ or even grades. But many people don’t know that even the smallest insult can really impact them. In the book “13 reasons”by Jay Asher talks about the suicide of the new girl in town. She talks through a tape recorder talking to the ones that made her do it. People might not realize they can impact a person so much. The way we impact each other is important to know. Even a small insult might make the person feel terrible because all
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expresses the torment that someone feels when they lose someone they love. This ballad tells the story of a man’s suffering within its tragic story line using the characteristics of refrain‚ a question-and-answer format and filling the stanzas with omitted details. The refrain that is repeated throughout the song is‚ “Forgive me‚ I’m trying to find my calling‚ I’m calling at night. I don’t mean to be a bother‚ but have you seen this girl? She’s been running through my dreams and it’s driving me crazy
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Bryon and Mark go to the hospital to see Bryon’s mom again. She notices the stitches on Mark’s head‚ and he tells her that he was in a fight. She accepts the explanation without question‚ and Bryon tells us that his mother never gets hysterical over her boys fighting. Like drinking‚ she would prefer they didn’t do it‚ but also seems to understand that she can’t stop it. They stop by Mike’s room. He’s upset because his father recently visited and yelled at him. Mike says that he wishes he were
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Case Study 19 Application Questions 1. Katherine had seen her ideal self as a happily married woman‚ with children‚ and her own business. In reality Katherine was married‚ but not happily. She was unable to have children‚ and her husband would not allow her to have a carrier or go to school. Rodger would say that Katherine’s mental health is not good. The ideal-self and the actual self are incongruent causing a problem (Schultz & Schultz‚ 2013). 2. It seems from her extreme positive outlook
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Patriotism does not mean a lot to me at the point of my life. The way our government is treating immigrants is rude and irresponsible. Immigrants come here thinking this is where they can start over and then they do and our government throw it all away by deporting them. I would never work for my country in the army. The reasons are because I would never want to serve our president. Our president never thinks about what he is going to say and is rude to almost everyone. I mean patriotism would mean so much
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proudest farther in the parish‚ she believed chiefly because it is a boy to bear his name”. In the beginning her husband Armand is very happy with the birth of their son. It wasn’t until three months later the boy’s skin had seem to be darker than their own. Eventually they realize that the boy’s skin is the same color as the
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