Descriptive Essay On Lebron James

The first factor she believes has influence on the body image of black women and young girls is the celebrities shown in the media. In her essay, she mentions celebrities within black culture that are shown in the media as beauty ideals. Her examples included actresses, musicians, and models who are thin. There are also TV shows and ads that are shown to consumers. She gives an example of a show called “The Parkers” which follows a woman with a full-figured body. The show portrays her as a loud, ghetto woman who is constantly denied by a black college professor. The man constantly squirms away from her and goes after women with thin body figures.

Specific purpose: To persuade my audience about how LeBron James is the best basketball player in the world.

When LeBron James was born, nobody would have guessed that he would have been the one to go all the way to the NBA and perform like he does. He has amazing talent and he knows how to use it. And what's so amazing about how he went all the way to the NBA, is he was living in a state of poverty with trouble all around him and still managed to make it tontine big times.Even though the odds of how he lived were against him, LeBron James managed to put his talent first and become one of the best basketball players in the world.

Lebron James has once said, “You have to be able to accept failure to get better”. Lebron James has accomplished many things in his life. Lebron James is a NBA all star. He is know by “King James” and people usually think of him as the greatest basketball player in the world. I am going to be telling you about his accomplishments and his downfalls when he did not quit on himself.

We may have one of the best all-time NBA shooters playing right before our eyes. That player is none other than Stephen Curry. It has been apparent mostly this year in the season he is currently playing with the Golden State Warriors. With the NBA being quite contemporary, Stephen Curry has done things never before seen on the basketball court. There have been many NBA legends in awe and left speechless because of the talents of Curry. Stephen Curry has proven to best the best shooter in NBA history by having a great work ethic, inheriting genes from his father, and having the team he has around him.

We bet you had the same reaction. After Bruce Jenner set his manliness aside, we figured it's anyone's guess who's next on the chopping block. Carmelo Anthony, known for his earth-shattering basketball skills and solid Olympic performances, seems to have a good head on his young shoulders. We dig further to discover the reason behind this investment.

Was LeBron James the cause of his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, to lose in the 2015 NBA finals against their rival, the Golden State Warriors? Some people would agree, while others would disagree with this topic. There are many reasons why people would blame LeBron James for losing the 2015 NBA Finals such as: they hate him, he think he is the better than anybody, and other reasons. The way I view this topic, I totally disagree for the simple fact that LeBron is not the cause of the Cavaliers lost. LeBron James out did everyone that was playing in the finals even though his team was not healthy.

Lebron James is the MVP (Most Valuable Player), for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He lead the team to the championship in basketball and won it all. Earlier that year Lebron came back to Cleveland Cavaliers from the Miami Heat with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Why leave when you have a big 3 on your team? He said he wanted to go home for his last few years of basketball. If you ask me I think he'll be in the league for at least more 5 years. Lebron is seventh on all time scoring 200 point over Shaquille O'Neal.

Moreover, Rhoden describes today’s sports world as one with no black power. Many black athletes have great potential and are recruited from their high schools to attend good colleges with a promising education. In practice and games, they play against each other and if they are good enough to make the cut, they get drafted and play at a professional level. As a result, their owners (white individuals) get richer with their unique style of play and talent. The drive for these athletes is of course the good paying salaries, (to some) their education, and their dream of making it out of the streets they grew up in. Rhoden uses Michael Jordan and LeBron James as good examples of athletes that instead of helping on improving the power for the African

The first few seconds of your first earthquake are disconcerting. You don’t know what’s happening. The undulation, the noise, the inability to focus -- it’s all disconcerting. But once you’ve been in a few, you know the feeling. You don’t relax, but you don’t panic, either.

The bad image of black athlete is one of the most important problems today. African American athletes are not that different from white athletes; however, media portrays a bad image of them for some unknown reasons. Our world is full of the great African-Americans who showed incredible results in professional sports. On one side, a lot of African-American athletes in the limelight right now come from nothing to somewhat. On the other side, there is a negative connotation that all African Americans have is sports because they are not educated, all they have is natural talent, and all they want is to make the money and not do anything to get there. Television today is often concentrated in stereotype – filled African Americans sitcoms, television news is often shown in negative or crime based stories about black athletes, music & music videos - profanity, misogyny, hard, thugged out. The image is terrible and the reason for that is that media in general just looks at the negative too much.

He possesses the appearance of power and strength. Notice that this is an ESPN magazine sports cover which is highly viewed by sports fans, especially young black males. This picture alone holds the power to not only impress but to entice those who want to be depicted this way. The sports media industry does not directly state that black athletes dominate sports. “They just show an endless highlight reel of slam dunks and touchdown runs, and the pictures speak for themselves.” (fulwood). In fact the “media creates false perceptions about black athletes in America” (Munir). I was also informed through research of a cartoonish illustration “of people with overt racial and ethnic features apparently swimming in a cash-filled house.” (fulwood). I can imagine the thought process of not only the young black males who came across this picture, but also of the family of these males. They saw money, lots of money. From my own personal experiences I have heard parents say to their boys, “You’re going into sports.” Or “You’ll make a lot of money as an athlete.” But this is not the parents fault. Glamorization is never seen with black males in other profession besides sports. The first image on the left, depicts this professional basketball player as somewhat inhuman as he is seen dunking a ball and boasting this act of achievement in mid-air. The image on the right is the famous Labron James. His strength is shown through his muscles, which are covered in tattoos. These images are how the mass media target and pull in viewers. Munir revealed in his article that these images of the “black athletic form produces a black athlete as post-human” (Munir) and that they are also portrayed as “strange creatures” (Munir) with “sub-human abilities to jump higher, hang in the air longer, punch harder and run faster.” (Munir). In a nut-shell African-American athletes are projected as

Despite this, it can be discerned that the author, Dyson, makes the argument that Michael Jordan because of his prowess on the court, became a cultural icon specifically for African Americans. Not just a cultural icon, but an American icon. The author states through several sentences that the grand total meaning of Jordan's impact on our culture and society is bigger than his skills on a court or even as a man. This statement is supported by no attestation. In fact, the first few paragraphs of this article are more statements written in grandiloquent language than arguments or corroboration for any arguments

When people think of NBA (National Basketball Association) greats many names come to mind like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Lebron James, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. But one name tops this list and that name is Michael Jordan. His skills are extraordinary with a unique style NBA fans have ever seen. He was and all-around legend who could score without giving any effort. He is the best defensive guard to walk the earth he has the best on-ball defense forcing steals and blocking people's shots with skills like this no doubt he's the Greatest of All-Time.

Weber and Carini challenge the double standard Sports Illustrated demonstrates concerning not only the frequency of women on cover but also the fashion in which they are depicted. Weber and Carini tallied the frequency of women portrayed on SI covers for 11 years (2000-2011) and then calculating a yearly percentage. Unsurprisingly, the average percentage of women featured on the covers was only 4.9 percent. The highest percentage was only 10.2% which occurred in 2000. However, the percentage took a dramatic downfall the following year to only 1.7%. In other words, the percentages continued to decrease rather than increase. Weber and Carini attribute this to the influence of media. Women grow into a world in which their athletic skills are not