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    Gutterballs and The Dude 's desire for comfortableness with the reality of female genitalia, but remains inaccessible due the fear of castration that comes with the confrontation of a woman 's lack of a phallus. Thus, The Dude requires the fetishizing of bowling in order to access Maude and her symbolic meaning. The manifest content of the dream, the physical images of the dream, are highly overdetermined from an original source: "multiple determination must be of importance in choosing what particular

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    Specific Purpose: I want my audience to know how they can improve their bowling scores the next time they go out on a Friday night. Organizational Pattern: Informative Introduction I. Attention-Getting Device: How many of you guys think that you are the world's worst bowler? I bet you didn't know that the lowest game ever bowled by a man on ABC men's league is two. Mike Kappa, of Racine, Wisconsin, accomplished his outrageous score by throwing 18 gutter balls. However Richard Caplette

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    “Come, on, Brooklyn. You can do it. Just relax.” My best friend Adelina was encouraging me to get my final strike for my state-qualifying game. I knew that I could do it, and I had 100% confidence. Until I walked up to get my bowling ball. My adrenaline was rising, and I was getting hot. I grabbed my ball with both hands, wiped the oil off of it, and cautiously stepped up to my approach. I was starting to get extremely nervous, and I even started to shake a little. I took a deep breathe, and I could

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    Zachary Crockett Bowling

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    “The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling” in March of 2014 in order to inform readers about the history of professional bowling. Currently, the Professional Bowlers Association, or PBA, is facing an extreme decline in popularity mainly due to low funds. Even though there are many people who love the sport of bowling and support the professionals, the sport as a whole is on a decline. In the article, Crockett basically talks about the entire history of bowling. In the second half of the article

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    The setting took place at a bowling alley aboard the Military installation of Twentynine Palms, CA. They were celebrating a 5th birthday party of Child C. The following description is about two 4 yr. old boys. Child A had light skin, with curly black hair. He was wearing blue jeans, a white and clue stripped collar shirt and blue Nike shoes. Child B was taller than the first boy, had light skin, straight long black hair, and big brown eyes. He was wearing blue jeans, and a blue shirt with red

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    It was fall of my first-grade year of school. The group of approximately fifteen of us gathered together for Meghan Zimmerman’s birthday party at Cordova lanes Bowling Alley. Each of us were enthusiastically, waiting for our turn to bowl. No one may know if everyone’s failure to follow directions caused me to bust open my chin but it certainly was a factor. In the events that followed I learned that if one fails to follow instructions the consequences can fall on those who do obey. Everyone had

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    “In second place with a 439…” the announcer overhead called out. We, my family, friends, teammates, coach, and myself, already knew it. Another first place. I did it not once, but twice. Class 1A Girls’ State Individual Bowling Champion. I was happy, walking myself up to the middle of the lanes, everyone’s proud or envious eyes on me. I was happy when they placed that golden state-shaped medal with its bright pink strap around my neck, gave me yet another pretty plaque, and shook my hand so firmly

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    After having the opportunity to take a bowling class this semester, I have learned much more about bowling and how it can be used as an overall fitness program and healthy lifestyle. As almost anything in life bowling has it benefits and its weakness. It’s worth to further explore them and discuss these ideas further. First we talk about how bowling can be played for fun with friends and family, we than talk about that it’s competitive sport and it can be treated like many of the popular sports out

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    BRUNSWICK, OH- The ball glides down the alley striking the top pin causing them all to ripple down. Brunswick’s bowling team's season is coming to an end and for the seniors their jersey’s put to retirement. Some seniors will continue to play in college but for most their final game is almost here. Megan Zipp, 12, talks about all the expectations she had for senior year and why they were all reached. Zipp said, “knowing I was going to be bowling a lot more this season and having been on the team for four

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    Recreation Center, hereinafter referred to as Pleasant Valley, is an old family bowling alley that introduced the sport of bowling to the blue ocean community of Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to the plaque and picture on the wall, Pleasant Valley opened in 1945 with just six bowling lanes. Under the ownership of Robert Di Ventura Sr., Pleasant Valley expanded its bowling alley to 32 lanes, installed automatic pin setting machines, innovated to computerized scoring, added an arcade, built a large

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