Pledge of allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the great nation of Lockenshire, the land of the free. Together we stand, together we work, and together we change when needed. To help, to grow, to achieve, that is what we believe. Therapy causes amnesia. Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock therapy, is a standard psychiatric treatment in which a patient receives electric shocks which cause spasms. The treatment is meant to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses; it is effective against depression. Studies have shown that retrograde amnesia occurs to some extent in almost all patients. The amnesia is only immediately after treatment and is mostly temporary. This is still a big problem as it causes a …show more content…
Jackson) returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court”. Chief Editor, Max Gonzalez said, “Coach Carter is an excellent movie. It mimics human nature”. He mentions this with the proof of how there are some players who acted egotistically. They faced consequences are shifted to becoming more of a team player. The other players naturally wanted to work together to win basketball games. To add, humans are neither good nor bad at birth; we become who we are as a result of our experiences which makes sense because one of the meaner teammates had experienced a lot of poverty and violence growing up. The characters were also free, rational, and social people; they had a choice to be on the basketball team and a few refused when Carter had first arrived. Coach Carter seemed very strict in the beginning since he laid out contracts for each player to sign. This was almost like a constitution. Effective decision making was also involved in the movie, using the teleological approach. Coach Carter locked the team out of the gym so that the students …show more content…
Nonetheless, the removal of trees is a problem. Remember, when making decision we use hedonistic calculus, the teleological approach. Choose actions based on the consequences that produce the greatest pleasure and the least pain. Therefore, planting trees would be a great option as it has great benefits and no negatives. Writing a letter to the government would also be a great idea, or even helping an environmental organization at the Benevolence Center, due to the same reasons. To conclude, it would be helpful to reduce not prevent the killing of
In 1966 the NCAA basketball championship game consisted of the accomplished four-time NCAA tournament winner, the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and a small southwestern institution in El Paso, home of the “progressive” Texas Western College Miners. During this epoch, racism was still thriving in the South as well as the collegiate education and athletic system. Unlike most institutions of the South, Texas Western experienced integration over a decade earlier and opportuned coach Don Haskins to recruit talented players, regardless of their skin color. The film Glory Road exemplifies the many hardships these student-athletes confronted on and off the court. Prior to becoming national champs, the Miners dealt with plenty of internal tension.
As a child Davis started playing football and started making headlines as a young man. Scouts started lining up to talk to Davis during his senior year of high school. Coach Schwartzwalder and former player, Jim Brown went to Davis’s hometown to recruit him to play for Syracuse. As the documentary continues the audience gets the understanding that racism is present in colleges. Not very many college have allowed black players to play for their team no matter how much potential that individual has and what they will bring to the 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.
In Charlotte Tennessee, November 24, 1938, Bailey (father) and Mazell (mother) Robertson were about to become new parents, to a boy, named Oscar. For “The Big O”, all he knew when it came to basketball is utter domination. He had started playing when he was six, dominated then, played in middle school, dominated then. Then everything changed when he got to high school and moved. Oscar had moved to Indianapolis his freshman year of high school.
Also as time is going on, he develops problems with Mtisha, with his new coach, with his teachers, his teammates, and his anger. Latimer’s, Slam’s new school, assistant coach, Goldy, looks after Slam, gives him helpful advuce, and keeps him out of trouble. When Mtisha and Slam are fighting, Slam has a mindset that he is just going to get over her but he is madly in love with her, so it doesn’t really work. When the author is narrating, he makes it so that whenever he writes about Slam’s basketball career, it is always practice or a game. And during the game between his old school and old team, and himself with his new team, things start to get
The government has passed many conservation policies to protect animals, eco-systems, plants and trees itself and indigenous people’s way of life, but many of these policies get overlooked and require a lot of extra work. How it affects the rest of the world- This action is permanent, and all of the world is targeted as a potential setting for deforestation. It is predicted that the continuing action may result in very few rainforest across the entire globe. Cutting trees can also be harmful to our ozone layer, which protects earth from dangerous radiation.
The movie Hoop Dreams traced a poor young talented African American, named Arthur Agee from grade eight to college. Arthur hoped to play professional basketball in the future to help his family to escape poverty. Despite the fact that his family is poor, and the neighborhood he lived in, were disadvantaged to him to pursue his goal in many ways. Firstly, Arthur showed great determination to play professional basketball, and he would like to lead his family out of poverty. Secondly, his ability to adapt to difficult circumstances, played a significant role toward his success in basketball.
Our society as a whole must work to preserve all the ‘Good Oaks’ in the environment for future
To what extent do you believe that psychogenic amnesia is distinct from organic amnesia? Amnesia is the total or partial loss of memory and can affect different types of memory (Madan, 2011). In order to be able to help those with amnesia using the best treatment, the different forms of amnesia need to be understood correctly. In knowing this, the treatment can be designed around the type of amnesia, with the cause, symptoms and ways to help becoming more specific and focused. By studying the diseases and improving our knowledge of the roles that memory plays we can increase our understanding of the brain structures and how the types of memory fit together.
This act has a lot of cause and effects. Removing trees leaves animals with no place
Clive Wearing was a prolific British musical conductor and producer for BBC. He was a wildly intelligent and successful person. It came as a surprise to himself and his family when unexpectedly suffered a loss of consciousness. The type of memory loss that Clive Wearing has is retrograde and anterograde amnesia. He is unable to retain new memories; he is also unable to unearth past memories to his consciousness as well.
But with the help of Coach Boone and the other assistant coaches, the football players realize that hard work and dedication will help change their moral and values in life. Remember the Titans uses sports gerund to illustrate the change of integration and how the football players overcame racism and
The movie “Coach Carter” was based off of a true story. It was written by Samuel L. Jackson directed by Thomas Carter. A California high school basketball coach puts school grades above sports. His purpose is because he went against that success for young adults is achieved through the world of sports than the classroom. Being successful was to be a good role model and that is what the movie “Coach Carter” is all about.
This action by the school board resulted in the demotion of the schools seasoned, Hall of Fame nominee; Bill Yoast (Caucasian). Coach Boone suggests to Yoast that he stay on as assistant head coach. Boone tells Yoast “I think it would go a long way to smooth things over” Yoast initially refuses but is humbled when his team communicates their plan to boycott the school if he can’t be their coach. What follows is a series of racially driven conflicts and it’s up to Boone to get them to see beyond race and work towards a common goal as a united team as they leave for football camp.
With changes to policy, hopefully others will not have to suffer as a result of these trees. The biggest concern is that this could happen to tourists or school children. The area sees a great deal of tourists, which can become a real concern when they are not familiar with the