Secondly, Louie is now stranded in the Pacific Ocean and is defiant to the thought of giving up on himself and the others that are stranded. In this example, Phil shows how defiant he is in Louie. Out of all the crewman on the plane, Phil portrayed that Zamperini was the man he wanted beside him on the raft. Unlike Mac, whose actions indicated weakness. Additionally, the quote is showing us that Mac was a pushover compared to Louie’s heroic actions.
This is about a player who loved the game so much, and he wouldn’t let anyone get in his way, no matter how many times he would get turned down by someone, he would always get back up on his feet. Born and raised in Oakland, Don Barksdale attended Berkeley High. The basketball coach cut him from the team for three straight years because he only wanted one black player on his team. You are probably wondering how he got a scholarship in basketball. He started going to the local basketball park and played basketball with UCLA players.
With the support of their families, William’s and Arthur’s motivation to accomplish this goal led them to fantastic high school basketball careers. From viewing the film, I found that I share William’s and Arthur’s determination. William, for his entire high school career, braved a 180 minute round trip commute to school and back. He spent three whole hours almost every day in transit to attend one
Most importantly, he never gave up on his dream playing professional basketball. In his senior year, “Arthur led his team to win the 1991 public league championship. Therefore, it is clear that Arthur has a strong adaptability to adapt any kinds of situations in life, and this adaptability ultimately changed his life
Jimmy butler's story begins on the streets. One day he was playing basketball alone he had no one his mom was taking away because she good barely afford food for jimmy. So he was on the street trying to survive one day But one day a basketball family helped him to get off of the streets and gave him a home. And gave him an opportunity to go to school play basketball the sport he loved when he finished high school he got into college and played for the basketball team.
“The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance” – Shannon L. Alder. The novel, Hoops by Walter Dean Myers, chronicles the life of Lonnie Jackson– a high school student from Harlem with an impressive talent for playing basketball. Lonnie’s goal in life is more than just to become one of the best players to ever hit the court. Lonnie wishes to create a new life for himself– one that is free from the struggles of Harlem streets.
One summer, there was a kid named Dean Gullberry and Dean liked to play the game of basketball. Dean would always go out to the river court and do what he does best. Dean had three best friends that he had always spent time with 24/7 playing basketball and just hanging out. His friends Ben Dover who lived across the street from Dean, Dixie Normous who Dean met at the river court but didn’t go to his school, and Jack Koffing who Dean met playing travel ball back at Compton. Dean Gullberry had always wanted to play in his city’s basketball league but people kept on saying that he wasn’t good enough, strong enough or big enough to be in the league.
Darrell Mercer is a small kid from Philadelphia who is moving to California and meets a bully named Troy Hobbs. Darrell is getting bullied a lot and gets tired of it. He also asks a girl to the dance named amber Lynn. And he also joins the wrestling team to get stronger and to get more confident.
James McBride goes to Virginia, back to where his mother lived in order to try and find the purpose for which he is there. Apart from that he learns about his mothers effects on what she has done in her lifetime. Although james McBride goes to speak with James Aubrey, he realizes that when he goes to visit over there all the jewish people would greet him in a kindly manner. In Chapter 22, as James speaks to Rubenstein, he sees the significance of what Aubrey has to say about him. As he meets him Aubrey is astonished to see James, but shows no emotional effect of his presence and personality.
Jimmy say he wasnt a rich kid he didnt have lots of money and he got in troubrl with his mom so he got kicked out at like 16.That gave him his first derive to be better
The standard way of thinking about friendships is that all friends are the same. That could not be further than the truth. My best friends and I are polar opposites. My friends and I all believe in letting each other be ourselves, that is why we are best friends. Savanna is a Netflix queen she loves TV, and never see her without her phone.
The book The Outsiders is about a gang who protects each other. They have to deal with many loses and hardships. I liked this book because it showed a group of friends and family, working together to try to be higher than the other gangs, and it showed how close people who are in the same group can get. A character I like is Soda. He protected the whole group, and stood up for them.
The book, “SLAM!”, by Walter Dean Myers is based on a seventeen year old boy and his everyday life as well as narrating his basketball career. The book starts off with him explaining how good he is as basketball, to how he moved schools, from one where everybody knows him, also more povert than his current, magnet school, where the basketball team isn’t as good and where he has to make new friends. Everybody calls him Slam, a nickname because of his basketball dunking prowess but his real name is Greg Harris. He has trouble in his classes in the beginning of the year, as well as trouble with his new team, trouble making new friends, and trouble throughout. His mom is a caring, sweet mother like any other and his dad is having trouble finding
Three years ago, my father suffered through his first hepatic coma. I was glad I have been able to care for him, but I also wished I could cure his disease altogether, so I did not have to see him being only cared for symptomatically; I was sure more could be done. This experience piqued my interest in becoming a research physician; I want to help patients, both by caring for them, as well as working to develop novel treatments through laboratory experimentation. I was enthralled, and realized that I had to learn more about medical research. Over the past three years, I have been engaged as an undergraduate research assistant in a number of research activities.
