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Swish It was my final high school game at Chino Hills with my best friend Lonzo Ball. It was the State Championship against Mater Dei. College scouts were scattered over the whole stadium! I want to impress the UCLA scout because Lonzo had committed there and i want to play basketball with my best friend. If i could get scholarship to UCLA it would be amazing. “Chardee this your time to shine let’s get out there and do what we do best.” Lonzo told me. “You’re right, you better make me look good

W.G. Sebald died in a car accident and his writing career were fairly short, however, during his lifetime he was one of the most innovated writer in the twentieth century. In the novel The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald translated by Michael Hulse, has many unique elements and style of the novel. The Emigrants are written through a narrator’s perception and intervention illustrating memories, civilization, nature and culture. Sebald is an author who wrote his books without a specific writing outline or

around a white-dominated society in Between the World and Me. He explains that the ‘Dream’ unintentionally draws upon racial differences, making a black man work twice as hard to fit into society. Along the same lines, in “A Martian Odyssey,” Stanley G. Weinbaum demonstrates that it is human nature to judge an individual based on their appearance, which leads to similar mentalities being overlooked. On the other hand, others contend that society is very accepting of all races, and discrimination or

Over time the viewpoints regarding technology and the importance of it changes depending on the different situations of the time. The three texts Feed by M.T Anderson, The Time Machine by H.G Wells, and As We May Think by Vannevar Bush are influenced by the context of their respective times when they discuss technology. In the novel Feed, the use of a machine that gives access to the internet and retrieves information for the user which is implanted in a person, a feed, being used to illustrate a

Julien Maarek Mr. Konopka APUSH II 8/27/17 Chapter 23- Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896 The Bloody Shirt Elects Grant General Grant is nominated for the presidency by the Republican Party in 1868 The Republicans supported the reconstruction of the South Grant just wanted “peace” The Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour Grant wins The Era of Good Stealings Jim Fisk and Jay Gould created a plot to raise the price of gold in the market in 1869. They did so by buying and hoarding tons

In Richard Wilbur’s Juggler, the speaker depicts a juggler who is entertaining both men and women with his elegant prowess and practice of juggling balls and other various objects. The speaker describes the juggler as nothing more than a simpleton, entertaining those who watch his display and retreating when he is tired or done. This simple but deft actions of the juggler reveals the simplicity of the speaker, who like the others, is amazed. The juggler’s delicate and precise gestures and movements

What sort of life and experiences could lead and inspire a man to write a story of a dystopian future that, over 50 years after its creation, feels like can become a reality in the not-too-distant future? Keith Ferrell shows the life of that man, Eric Blair (George Orwell), in the biography George Orwell: The Political Pen. Ferrell presents Blair in the biography as being rebellious and introverted yet considerate. Eric Blair is represented as being a rebellious person throughout his life because

Mr. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a fascinating man. He weighed nearly 290 pounds. He was so large that P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud sound as “a sound like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.” Chesterton once remarked to George Bernard Shaw, his friendly enemy in many a debate and exchanged essay, “To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England.” Shaw responded, “To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it.” Chesterton originally attended the Slade

He trudged deliberately slow, his steps hesitant and afraid. The girl behind him was silent. She ought to be, he thought bitterly. She was the one who caused this in the first place. He tried to form any other thoughts but the one idea that circled his head was of his utter demise. He squared his shoulders, awkwardly pushing out his lanky chest. The sound of wooden wheels clattering against the ground made him turn in anger. He brought his foot harshly and kicked her. She screamed, tumbling to the

In The Gay Marriage Case, Obergefell v Hodges, the United States Supreme Court decided that a state may not prohibit same-sex marriage. Instead, it emphasized that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to the gay society through the Due Process Clause of the 14th amendment of the United States of America Constitution. The involved decision maker in the case was Justice Anthony Kennedy, who gave four primary reasons for his decision. Despite the numerous criticisms about the decision, the