Muggsy Bogues Essays

  • Penelope's Guile In The Odyssey

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    When a person goes through a trial, he or she faces a challenge and their characters are revealed through their actions as they try to overcome it. In the movie, The Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, leaves his queen Penelope on the island and goes off to battle in the Trojan War. Victorious after fighting in ten years of war, Odysseus announces that he conquered Troy alone, without the help of the gods. His hubris angers Poseidon, the god of the sea, who decides to punish him by

  • Odysseus Is A Hero Essay

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    Odysseus is a typical example of a hero. He is able to pull off miraculous things to save himself and his crew seemingly without fail. The story of his journey is well known, and a great tale of his adventures. In the two parts we have read so far, we see what he is willing to do for his crew, and his intelligence and quick thinking in difficult situations. The first challenge that waits them is the island of Cyclopes. They begin by checking out the island to see if there is any danger, but they

  • Scarlet Ibis Compare And Contrast Essay

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    Disappointments to inspirations Muggsy Bogues was a NBA point guard who was listed as five feet three inches and he weighed one-hundred thirty-three pounds. The average height for an point guard is six feet three inches and the average weight is around one-hundred ninety pounds. People looked at him wondering, “How is this guy in the NBA?” Muggsy showed many people that he could play basketball at a high level despite his height. His stature helped him as he was very quick on the court. He

  • Steph Curry Research Paper

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    twenty. He had also met a current teammate Kevin Durant. Curry met Durant at the age of ten when Durant walked into a little league game seeing Curry shooting from a great distance, Durant wondered who the kid was. Muggsy Bogues was always Curry’s favorite player as a kid because how short Bogues

  • Most Craziest Changes In The NBA

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    If you’re a NBA fan and you’ve been watching for a while you’d know that the NBA has drastically changed but they’re are a couple of changes that i think can change the NBA to becoming more exciting and even more advanced. The NBA has came a very long way with changing different rules and adding new things into the game . Puting the three point line in the game and even calling fouls are changes we all know about but here are a couple of changes that you may have never knew of. One of the most