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For Naismith, Basketball Was Only a Start - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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basketball Naismith EWSIS

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  • corey stanley on 02 Dec 09
     
    I'm learning more about college basketball, and how and when it was created. What i am really interested in knowing more about is, what made James Naismith (the founder of the game) come up with such an idea? What made him decide one day to take a basket and throw something inside of it and make it a big sport. I decided to research my questions online and this one article in the NY Times caught my attention because it explained why he created the game. I chose the article i did because, what better way to find out more about the game then finding out more about the person that started it. "James Naismith and his wife, Maude, practicing basketball, a game he invented in 1891 as a way to keep rowdy students busy during winter." The quote i chose above basically is explaining James Naismith's reason for creating the sport and who he created it for. He wanted to get the kids that had nothing to do and were going down bad roads to discover the game and get interested in it. Over a winter break or a vacation instead of doing something destructive, they could go and play this sport. I think this is perfect because the game was invented in 1891 and still exists in 2009. It is my favorite sport and has changed a lot over time. It went from using an actual peach basket with no hole in the bottom to having metal rims with nets. The game has evolved into something great and with never go away.
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npr basketball sneakers James Naismith

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  • corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
     
    What i noticed most about, "Diversions" was the way the game used to be back in the 50's and 60's when it came to the shoes they wore. This really stood out to me because the stars of the 50's and 60's wore flat little sandle like shoes with a little piece of rubber underneath for about 10-15 years, until sneakers were made. "Basketball was invented in 1891, by Dr. James Naismith. A physical education teacher at the YMCA in Springfield Massachusetts. More than a decade past before any sporting goods companies started to market shoes specifically made for the new game."
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Ulysses Joyce James Joyce walking tour

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 30 Apr 11
     
    A digital journey though James Joyce's Ulysses
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  • A minister as well as a medical doctor, he quickly realized that taller players had an advantage in basketball and wondered if there was a way to stretch babies to make them grow taller. Naismith actually conducted experiments on a machine he invented
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      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      This was a man that thought a lot about how he could make people love his invention, but it is impossible to make babies taller.
  • James Naismith is known to the world as the inventor of basketball
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      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      I love this man for creating this sport.
  • James Naismith and his wife, Maude, practicing basketball, a game he invented in 1891 as a way to keep rowdy students busy during winter
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      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      I think this was a good invention to keep kids and adults busy and active instead of doing something stupid and getting into trouble.
corey stanley

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  • James Naismith and his wife, Maude, practicing basketball, a game he invented in 1891 as a way to keep rowdy students busy during winter.
    • corey stanley
      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      I feel this sport that was created years and years ago really helped kids get active and have something different to do on there off time.
  • James Naismith is known to the world as the inventor of basketball
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      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      I love this guy for inventing what is now my favorite sport. lol
  • A minister as well as a medical doctor, he quickly realized that taller players had an advantage in basketball and wondered if there was a way to stretch babies to make them grow taller. Naismith actually conducted experiments on a machine he invented
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      corey stanley on 03 Dec 09
       
      This quote is interesting to me because this man tried to make babies grow taller to have an advantage at his sport. It shows that e put a lot of thought into this invention even though making babies taller is impossible
Paul Allison

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  • Not much happens in “The Sisters,” the first story in James Joyce’s Dubliners.  Some of the meaning in the story comes from descriptions of the light in and around the house where the town’s old priest, Father Flynn’s body lies.  Other meanings come through the characters’ memories of the priest, expressed through incomplete dialog and longer reveries by the narrator. Additional meanings can be surmised from the vocabulary, some of the specific words Joyce uses in the story, “like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.”
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      Paul Allison on 26 Jul 09
       
      The idea of looking for meaning in the descriptions of the light came to me pretty quickly. Then I realized that I could find other aspects of the story where meanings come through: characters' dialog and internal monologue of the narrator; and in the use of language. I started to see that this initial paragraph could make my whole argument in short hand. Then I would develop these themes in the remainder of the writing.
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      Paul Allison on 26 Jul 09
       
      This essay began as a set of notes that I put on a Book Glutton version of Dubliners. I'm reading there this summer to see how it works. Then I copied the notes into a Google Doc, and I organized them and re-wrote them into this essay. With this essay I'm trying to figure out what I mean when I ask students to create a close reading of a text. What exactly are we asking students to do? We're not asking them to do research. Instead we are asking them to "use the language of the literature" (as an MIT professor put it in her syllabus ) n their own analysis of the particular, representative and evocatve sections of the text.
  • The narrator, a young man is introduced in the first paragraph as someone on vacation. He has had some sort of relationship with the man who at that point lies paralyzed inside his house after he has had his third stroke. It’s night when the story starts and the narrator is out for his regular evening walk. The narrator doesn’t feel invited into outside the house, but he also has a morbid attraction to what is happening with the man who has had the stroke.
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      Paul Allison on 26 Jul 09
       
      This paragraph was a slight revision from the note I posted on the first paragraph on Book Glutton. I like the way this paragraph follows the arc of the story, not revealing much about the story beyond what we know in the first paragraph. It tries to explain the meanings we can gather from the descriptions that Joyce give us in that first paragraph.
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