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Being Cut from a High School Basketball Team Did Not Deter Michael Jordan

on any team in their childhood, and Jordan was a clear exception to that rule (Green, 2006). Jordan recalls that he could not rea...

Tulsa Schools/A Toulmin Argument

society. It is quite conceivable that cutting teacher salaries will discourage and frustrate teachers, encouraging many to leave ...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Basketball Games in High School

In three pages this paper reviews high school basketball games in a consideration of players, weaknesses, strengths, and strategie...

Film Review of Coach Carter

Carter and takes a swing at him, which Carter blocks and then, with an arm pended behind his back, Carter pushes Cruz against a wa...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

Cultural Hero Michael Jordan

In seven pages this paper examines the career and social achievements of NBA basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Eight sources a...

Fact or Fiction in the Life and Film Adaptations of Michael Collins

the boundaries of Eire. While Jordans film begins amidst the political turmoil of Ireland in 1916, with Jordan at the center of t...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

High Performance Teams

the context of virtual meetings. In some way, the virtual team can meet at a moments notice because logistics are not in the way, ...

Gay Discrimination is Wrong

immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...

Gunmen at Columbine High School and the Media's Influence

In six pages this paper presents the argument that media in the forms of music and cinema strongly influenced the Columbine High S...

Man and Image of Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan

In five pages this paper examines Michael Jordan's iconic status as well as the man behind the image. Three sources are cited in ...

What To Do With A Dysfunctional Team

take the time to plan how they will work as a group (FAA, Team Performance, 2006). The individuals on the team do not have the sam...

In Favor of Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in High School

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

Georgia Education Demographic Analysis

In this paper consisting of six pages Georgia demographic data based on 1990 census information is applied to the educational syst...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Successful Efforts in Secondary Education

School improvement efforts for all grade levels is not a new idea. The most recent push was in the mid-1990s. We are all familiar ...

Columbine Shootings and Media Influence

In a paper consisting of six pages it is argued that the media influenced the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High Sc...

LeBron James, Psychological and Ethical Moral Egoism

was receiving a congratulatory gift for his academic achievements, specifically, his 3.5 grade point average (Kansas City Star, 20...

People Need Training to Become Effective Teams

Teamwork training is essential if teams are going to be effective. Teams need to learn specific skills to be effective, high-perfo...

Achievement Gap Among Students

attachment, and school climate each has an impact on student achievement (Stewart, 2007). Research that investigates these types o...

The Killer Bees: Bridgehampton, NY

important for players, and students, to get the experience of school spirit starting at an early age so that they can "associate p...

Case Study Colleges Cut Budgets

This essay focuses on a case study entitled, "The new normal: Senior student affairs officers speak out about budget cutting." The...

Statistical Assessment of Team Performance and Coaches Salaries

A correctional analysis is undertaken in order to test whether or not there is a correlation between basketball coaches salaries a...

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

Attendance Policies for High Schools

In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...

Michael Jordan's Participation in the Summer Olympics

August 10, 1984, the U.S. mens basketball team was coached by then Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight. It was the las...