Chris Herren

He stayed their for about 28 days, Chris referred that year to be his most healthiest year in his 15 years of drug use. His NBA teammates also helped his throughout that year by saying, you can’t do drugs and alcohol if you want to stay on the team, and if we find out you will be kicked out. In later years Chris turns back to his drugs again and this time it’s even worse. By now he had married Heather, his high school sweetheart. From the NBA he and his wife got to travel all around the world to play against other teams. People thought Chris didn’t do drugs anymore, he quit. But he didn’t, he started doing drugs anywhere and everywhere. Any new country he went to he would get addicted to a new type of drug. He got addicted to crystal meth and heroin while traveling. Toward the end of the story Chris goes to another rehab center and gets assigned to the pot sink. In the documentary he tells us, how that very spot is the place is where he collected all of his thoughts and turned his life around. He rethought of all the bad things he has done in the past 15 years such as getting way too high and getting arrested, sleeping behind 7-Eleven, stealing his kids game console to

With drugs everywhere in this world, Chris Herren became what he never believed he would; a drug addict. Chris grew up in a poor family in Fall River, MA and could have become a NBA star. He was predicted to be the number 1 pick in the NBA draft if he was clean. Now, not even the highs of his NCAA and NBA career will cover up what he has done to his life. The life of Christopher Albert Herren is a true example of how a person can overcome a struggle and then make an impact in society.

Russ was a standout basketball player who seemed to lose his touch after his parents were brutally murdered. He was a top recruit who lost his desire to play just before his senior year. Coach was close with Russ’ grandparents and felt that Finley would help him find his love for basketball again. Finley was preparing for his senior season as well, where he hoped to lead the team to a state championship. It was finally his turn to take the starting point guard position and run with it. However, he would later realize that it would not be an easy job to win.

“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a story literally exaggerated to its limit by showing, in the near future, what it means to be equal in every way by having people not being able to show any form of intelligence or creativity whatsoever. When Harrison Bergeron breaks the chains of government oppression, he dies for his failed cause. He dies because he chooses not to conform to the rest of his oppressive society. His parents, George and Hazel, who are nothing more than two bodies under the government’s mind control, can do nothing to save their son or seek justice for his death. The story is not only a reflection of the author’s concern with controlling the masses through

According to Walt McCandless, Chris caused him a tremendous amount of pain, despite having “so much compassion.” Causing parents pain is a part of growing up and becoming an adult. Getting jobs , moving out, and watching their kids make mistakes for themselves are just some ways pain is unavoidable in the growing up process.

Chris Herren was a very good basketball player in high school. Chris smoked weed and drank until he made it into Boston College to play basketball. At Boston College, Herren was introduced to cocaine and failed multiple cocaine and marijuana drug tests. Failing these drug tests resulted in Herren being kicked off the basketball team and expelled from BC. Herren was given a second chance at Fresno. At Fresno, Chris' drug problems continued. However, he still played extremely well. Herren was drafted into the NBA by the Denver Nuggets in the second round (33rd overall). Chris was traded back home to the Boston Celtics where all his drug dealers were. Chris became addicted to pain killers like OxyContin and Vicodin. Herren was arrested

Drugs can ruin your life, family, career and future. Jude Hassan author and main subject of the novel Suburban Junky, has a lot of similarities and differences with Chris Herren, former NBA player and star of the ESPN Documentary, Unguarded, regarding their addictions to drugs. The major similarities are their rehab time, painful withdraw and the major difference with them is that Jude did it to be popular and Chris did it to deal with the stress. Both Jude and Chris served a long period of time in jail because of their problems with drugs.

By contrasting a player’s ardent exuberance for basketball with his xxx disappointment in the poem “American Hero,” Essex Hemphill reveals the athlete’s conflict between his enthusiasm for the game and his resentment toward his superficial fans. For instance, the author emphasizes the player’s fervent frame of mind, “[having] nothing to lose... / I let the tension go. / Shoot for the net. / I slam it through...” (Hemphill 1, 8-9, 11-12). Hemphill illustrates the competitor’s energetic passion for basketball by describing his game-winning skills and slick athleticism. In contrast, the poet depicts the player’s resentfulness toward the cheering mass as he muses “I scored / thirty-two points this game / and they love me for it” (13-15). Despite

"If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with it—and soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again…" This statement by George Bergeron sums up Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story "Harrison Bergeron" in one line. "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a futuristic United States in the year 2081, where all individuals are made equal regardless of what their natural born characteristics were. They are made equal both mentally and physically, all to the same measure of intelligence and strength. In "Harrison Bergeron" the society has become apathetic and equally conformed because of the power of the Handicapper General, the forced use of handicaps, and the people within the society who continued to let

Chris Dummitt, a cultural and political historian who specializes in modern Canadian history , explores the North American man in the 1950’s in his article, “Finding a Place for Father: Selling the Barbecue in Postwar Canada.” Through the analysis of several magazine and scholarly journal articles, as well as commercial advertisements, Dummitt entices historians with his exploration of how “men’s barbecuing transgressed normative gender roles” (209). Dummitt argues that barbecuing’s masculine attributes arose out of the changing notions of fatherhood and the place of the father within domestic family life (210). However, the importance of the altering female role within society is not recognized within the article. Without the rise of female

Rhetorical Analysis of “As Bad as They Wanna Be” In a world of commercialization and advertisement, college sports usually provide a welcomed oasis from the furnace of money-hungry advertisers. This, however, may not be true forever. In the past few years, an increase in advertisements and deals between colleges and corporations has become noticeable. In the article “As Bad as They Wanna Be,” the author and speaker Thad Williamson effectively describes his concern for the UNC Tar Heels and the amount of commercialism and advertisement that is appearing around college sports.

          Five years later he joined a local little league basketball team named The Pellets. Shaun was the teams Center considering the fact that he was a 4 foot 2 five year old. His number was 31 and that number seemed to give his team luck because they won the next three back to back Championships.''WE ARE THE BEST'' he would yell ''Yes we are'' his coach would respond. It was like that for those three years and two other years where they lost right before the Championship game so they would not make it to the championship, but they were still considered great, but sadly the year he turned ten years old, he decided to quit basketball

PEN/Hemingway Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and the Whiting Writers Award. He is also a

Tony Hsieh graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a computer science degree and went to work for the computer software giant Oracle. Then he quit.

Since 2006, he has been clean and uses his story to encourage others with their own addictions. The