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GEORGETOWN, Texas – The Gents visit to the 2017 Southern Collegiate Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament came to a close Friday night, February 24, as Centenary (12-14) was knocked out of the Tournament for the third year in a row by Texas Lutheran (17-9) in an 88-85 loss in the SCAC Quarterfinals.

In this paper we are looking at the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike and; looking at these questions relating to the poem does the poem's speaker pity or admire Flick? Are readers meant to pity or admire Flick?

Is power necessary? Everyone wants power. People with power want to keep it and people with no power want to get it. Power is having control over one’s life and the lives of others. Power is very important in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird “by Harper Lee. In the novel the story is set in Maycomb, Alabama. The central conflict of the story is a rape trial between a black man named Tom Robinson and a lower class white woman named Mayella Ewell. Although Mayella is powerless when it comes to class and gender, but her race ultimately makes her powerful.

James just sits at the bar drinking his regular whisky with a few ice cubes drinking his problems away. James lives in a broken down apartment in Harlem, New York trying to provide for his family. James can barely reach his wallet and drop a twenty on the bar. He starts walking back to his miserable life while moving side to side drunk. James fell a couple times and one last time in front of his apartment and he hears screaming in the room he was about to walk into. It’s Natalie yelling at the kids to keep their grades up and help around the house. James listens for a little while and walks in trying his hardest not to collapse.

We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

Then Ung started to talk about what happened after the Vietnam War and how a lot of people started to move to different place. Ung described what happened to her family and everyone got separated. After Ung and her family also moved to different state, the military took her father and he never came back. After three

A literary element that are conveyed in the theme of the book, Michael Jordan, would be the facts that are given to his sports career time line and what he did as a famous athlete. Michael did not make his high school basketball team his sophomore year, so he would get up early and practice, showing persistence (Edwards, 1995, p. 7). This helped to convey the theme of the book because Michael did not give up on basketball. He would wake up at six in the morning to practice (Edwards, 1995, p.7). An example of the theme is present in the book Michael Jordan when the author Nick Edwards states that he “led his team to the 1982 NCAA Finals” (Edwards, 1995, p. 10). Michael Jordan retired after nine years, but missed sports so much that he went to playing baseball for one season. His parents taught him that being a good person is better than being a good ball player. “He will often visit sick children in the hospital” (Edwards, 1995, p. 26). After missing basketball, Michael decided to go back and play for the Chicago Bulls. Michael was a good ball player and persevered through being denied a spot on his high school sophomore basketball team and went on to be a famous basketball player.

The boys are so depressed they no longer want to have anything to do with Nola or going to the circus Nola finds new friends and then sees that the boys have fallen in with the wrong crowd Nolas mom gets engaged. Nola finds the Swift boys dad.

In the poem Ex-basketball Player, by John Updike, Flick Webb, a man who use to be a star basketball player, lets his talents go to waste as he now leads an unhappy life as a gas station attendant. John Updike uses a critical tone to emphasize that the present excels the importance of the past.

Omgosh ! Janiya basketball tryouts are in a few minutes be ready said “ Coach B. Wright “.As Janiya walked through the CFA gym doors she then saw the varsity and JV basketball team that was there. Janiya had to keep in mind that when playing a sport you should know your position. It helps you to know how to do your defense, improve your skills, and do the things that your position does correctly. With all of that in her mind. Janiya will never forget when she made the basketball team.

Through studying immigration statistical data, it has been found that the highest percentage of mexican immigration has occurred on the most recent decades. However, there was a high percentage of mexican immigration on the years of the 1920s and the 1940s. These two decades were having an increase in mexican immigration due to the establishment of the Bracero Program. This program was started during the 1920s and again in the 1940s, but was later stopped in the 1960s. Between and after, these time periods, Mexican immigration into the United States was almost non-existent. After an increase in the 1920s, there was a tremendous decrease in the 1930s only to increase again in the 1940s. Then in the 1950s there was a huge decrease in the rate of Mexican immigrants entering the United States. Mexican immigration began to have an increased number of border crossings and travel into the United States after the economic crisis in the 1970s. From this decade to present day, mexican immigration in the United States is only doubling each decade. Between these time periods, however, there was almost no significant amount of immigration. The years of low rate of mexican immigration were in the 1930s, 1950s, and the 1960s.

Some of the emotions and experiences Ron Woodroof faced in the movie, are similar experiences faced by real people living with HIV/AIDS. Even though HIV positive people may face certain struggles, the movie teaches people that living with HIV is not the end. Ron Woodroof lived 7 years later after his HIV diagnosis. Also, the movie serves as an insight for those that do not have safe sex. If people do not use protection, they are more susceptible to HIV, and they may become HIV positive like Ron Woodroof.

Running into the gym with my team, knowing it was my last middle school basketball game, but first championship game I felt elated and truly blessed. My knees quivered with anticipation after seeing all the bleachers filled with people. After realizing even the press and other media was in attendance I grasped the moment like a newly elected president at his inauguration. I am warming up doing basketball drills, when I began to look at the flags on the gym wall depicting the history of the basketball team. The years and dates of the last championship game, Historically a championship game had not been won since 2007 . The more I stared at the flags, the more it made me want to win this game and make history in this gym. As the crowd and cheerleaders start to chant, cheer and get loud, I started to feel more comfortable and rowdy more than I had ever felt in any other game that I’ve played. Waiting for the referee to blow the whistle for jumpall to start. I felt my fingertips tapping the side of my leg, which for some reason gives me a sign to myself that I am pumped up and ready to play!

“Tommy wake up Gage and Henry just pulled up and you have practice in 40 minutes” mother said.

she just decided to go to bed. Over the next few days Nea tried calling Sourdi, but could not get ahold of her to find out what was the matter. Nea senses that Sourdi is in trouble and tries talking to her mother about it, but she just gets offended by Nea. Nea then decides she is going to go to Sourdi’s home in Des Moines to find out what the problem is. She calls Duke, late in the night, explaining to him that Sourdi is in trouble.