The history of basketball wasn’t really even created to be an individual sport itself. It was actually supposed to be a daily exercise or indoor activity in the YMCA. It was being in use for off season football players. They called a man to create the indoor activity. His name was James Naismith. (Sportsknowhow.com) He made a ball out of rubber in a sort of volleyball form and put up fruit baskets for hoops. The players had to dribble to the other side of the court and try to shoot the ball into…
Lakeita Hudson Jaclyn Harding English Composition 1 21 November 2017 Kneeling for the Anthem Colin Kaepernick, who is a bi-racial man grew up relatively privileged, but felt he was disconnected from his ethnic background. In college Kaepernick joined an all-black fraternity, and was a social activist early on. He became aware of the many challenges that African American men had to endure while in college. When police violence against African American males became spiraling out of control,…
As high school comes, many distractions leave an athlete 's mind to boggle, especially when a girlfriend or boyfriend comes into their life, this can be the number one killer of dreams for them to ever come true. Most kids will fight through the pressures and make it to play in college. Only the most skilled and talented student athletes will participate at this level after high school leaving as the last stepping stone into the world of a professional athlete. At the collegiate level, athletes…
Born in Ohio in 1984, LeBron James garnered national attention as the top high school basketball player in the country. With his unique combination of size, athleticism and court vision, he became one of the premier players in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers. After leading the Miami Heat to titles in 2012 and 2013, he returned to Cleveland and helped the team reach the NBA Finals in 2015. High School Basketball Star Professional athlete LeBron Raymone James was born on December 30, 1984, in…
An ongoing issue in the world today is one of the world’s biggest controversies, gun control. The Second Amendment to the Constitution is the right to bear arms. Gun control is an issue that has reached the highest court in the nation, the Supreme Court. Rhetorical analysis throughout text can vary especially when debating or discussing such a big controversy as gun control. Evidently, this issue continues to raise states throughout the rhetorical theory in the construction of three text.…
follow-through phase and recovery phase. The jump shot has gradually evolved in the NBA, and is considered one of the most important and most commonly used shot in basketball. There are many sharpshooters in the NBA, like Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Carmelo Anthony who master the jump shot, and they excel in the little details of these phases, which helps them excel in their craft. These phases are truly important in a basketball jump shot and we would be able to see the movement from…
In his introduction to Permanence and Change, Hugh Dalziel Duncan wrote, “Burke demands that we become masters of many perspectives in order that we may understand one perspective” (Duncan xv). This statement does a sufficient job of explaining Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism to the casual observer of rhetoric. Today, it is second-nature for all 24-hour cable news channels and most people to take into account several diverse perspectives when dissecting events as trivial as celebrity…
The beginning of Team USA basketball really started making the game of basketball well known to people across the United States. The history of how it started and how far it has gone has also made it very interesting to see the growth throughout the years. Team USA began with just a couple of tryouts in a couple of different cities and now it is one of the most popular things in the US. From the first years of Team USA basketball, they started to dominate and they have continued to do so as time…