The Seattle school case and Gratz v. Bollinger were in fact colorblind. The Seattle school system didn’t want to become un-proportional in terms of race. Any school that became out of line with that would start to evaluate the race of students‚ trying to keep as close to 60-40 as possible. The court begins to question the fact the only thing being considered is the race of the students when putting them into particular schools. They believed it is not just about color‚ but about where the kids have
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Sports Fans Sports! There are around 8‚000 different types of sports in the world! In America‚ out of those 8‚000 sports‚ we participate in only 137. Even though it’s a small amount compared to the total that’s still a very wide variety of sports. With the vast amount sports‚ there are fans everywhere. There are 317 million people living in the United States. Excluding about 20 million for kids age 5 and under‚ 82 percent of the 297 million are sports fans. Meaning there are about 243.5 million
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4th Annual ITE day Quiz Bowl Winner’s By: Frederick T. Ferrer On September 6‚ 2012 was the second day of celebrating the 4th Annual Institute of Teacher Education (ITE) day celebration. The program started at exactly 8’oclock in the morning and it was opened with doxology by the chosen students followed by the message of Prof. Teresita H. Bernal‚ the ITE program chair and he inspirational message of the guest speaker Dr. Marcelino C. Gapultos‚ instructor 1 of the Isabela State University‚ Roxas
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Every year‚ around the first week of August‚ right when summer is about to end and the beginning of the summer monsoons‚ people gather at a ballpark known as Ricketts Park. A state of the art baseball stadium that when spectating the ongoing games‚ you can smell the sweet smell of the cottonwoods that shade the stadium from a cool breeze. Even more so‚ the warm smell of hot dogs with just the right amount of greasy glaze coming up through the small‚ thin cracks of the aluminum bleachers‚ escaping
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Southwest Sports Group Contract for Alex Rodriguez: The 10 year contract which Tom Hicks and his team proposed for Alex Rodriguez was one of the biggest ever in the history of Baseball. It was a major Investment decision for the group. The Group had taken over the Dallas Stars few years earlier and spent on buying quality players. This worked wonders for the team and Dallas Stars went on to lead the group. Tom Hicks had a policy of spending 50-55% of team revenue on team payrolls. If that is maintained
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The Boston Photograph By Nora Ephron In Nora Ephron’s essay “The Boston Photographs‚” she argues that readers should be provided with raw footage of what is really going on in the world around us on newspapers‚ even if the photographs are those of death of people. Nora Ephron writes about three very controversial pictures of a rescue attempt that failed in Boston which later on appeared on the news showing a 19 year old lady who died in the event. Ephron’s analysis of these pictures and public
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Russell Westbrook was born on November 12‚ 1988 in Long Beach California. Russell started liking basketball because his father got him into. Russell played college basketball for UCLA and he played for them until 2008 when he was drafted for Oklahoma Thunder. He has played for the OKC for 9 years. He took OKC to the 2012 finals and he became the most dynamic players in the NBA. He is very well known for his outfits. Russell gained little attention as a 5’8 freshman at Leuzinger high school in lawndale
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Nora Ephron’s revealing article‚ "The Boston Photographs" explains the power photojournalism has over the public eye‚ through telling the story of the publication of three controversial photographs. Ephron argues that the publishing of brutal and disturbing photographs is absolutely necessary in order to thoroughly explain the severity of certain situations to the public‚ where keeping the gory truths could give some a false sense of safety or reality. Nora Ephron supports her argument through the
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On a night when the Oklahoma Thunder desperately needed an offensive boost from injured forward Keven Durant‚ the Boston Celtics went into Oklahoma and took care of business with a solid 100-85 victory. Guard Marcus Smart led the Celtics in scoring with 26 points on 9 of 14 shooting‚ including 3 of 5 from 3-point range. He also added 8 rebounds‚ 3 assists and 1 steal while only turning the ball over once. The Celtics also benefited by another strong outing from guard Isaiah Thomas who added 20 points
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Ochampaugh v. Seattle 588 P. 2d 1351 (Wash. 1979) Facts Ordinary pond owned by the city Popular with area residents for fishing and swimming The two boys were familiar with the pond and had gone there before. Neither boy could swim. There were no warning signs around the pond. The pond‚ while man-made‚ was in existence before the city purchased the land. Issue Was the pond a “trap” or extraordinarily dangerous enough to render it an “attractive nuisance” to children and thus create
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