Executive Summary The charities our team decided to analyze were The March of Dimes and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. ... The National Wheelchair Basketball Association was created after WWII in 1946 and the first national tournament was held in 1948. ... If I had to choose to work for one of the two charities we studied, I would have to choose the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. ... The final reason is two-fold, I have played basketball my entire life so the charity aligns with my hobbies and secondly, I have a friend who was recently paralyzed and has actual...

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Through high school, Terry also participated in cross country running and basketball. ... He took kinesiology at the Simon Fraser University, where he also played on the basketball team. ... The pain persisted, but Terry dismissed it as a basketball injury. ... During the time between Terry's release and his Marathon of Hope he played wheelchair basketball with the Vancouver Cablecars. In August, Terry went to the national wheelchair basketball games, only two months after joining the Cablecars. ...

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She now must use a wheelchair. ... She goes out in her wheelchair and wheels around for several miles each day. This keeps her physical health up by having to roll her wheelchair. ... This also affects her mental/emotional health because it helps her deal with the stress of being in a wheelchair and not being able to do everything she could've done. ... Another physical behavior she has incorporated into her life is playing on a wheelchair basketball team. ...

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Countries that are rich in resources and capital should have more money, much in the same way Michael Jordan has a gift for basketball, and should have a more heightened opportunity to become professional and make millions of dollars than say, some five foot tall fat guy in a wheelchair. ... The five foot tall fat guy in a wheelchair might dominate in the Special Olympics, and perhaps that's where he belongs. ... In other words, the U.S. is like M.J. not being satisfied with simply dominating in pro basketball, and feeling the need to play for the Special Olympics as well, so as to get ...

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Watching people play basketball on wheelchairs made me realise that I was lucky after all. ... Fate left the unfortunate athletes on television in wheelchairs and only left me with two simple operations. ...

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The advertisement begins with a scene of men in wheelchairs playing basketball. The use of the wheelchairs appeals to the viewers' pathos. ... This quote appeals to both the credibility of the brand and the emotion of those watching due to the intense nature of the quote, the wide-angle scene showing one man in a wheelchair, and all of the friends he was playing with standing. ...

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Most people are only mildly affected by this but many become dependent on wheelchairs later on in life. ... For example if everyone is outside playing basketball you could encourage them all to play and then the child in the wheelchair can be included by being able to pass the ball and even shoot the ball. ...

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The doctors offered to surgically remove my son's spleen, so it will give him a chance to live until his early twenties, but in a wheelchair because this disease has restricted all of Sergey's physical activities. I decided to leave the spleen in place; therefore, the doctors decided that Sergey's physical activity has to be restricted: he can't play football and basketball and he is not supposed to run, jump or ride a bike. ...

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When was the last time you seen a report with video footage of children happily playing basketball in an urban community park or a game of kickball in a field and the story end there? ... In this movie one of them is in a wheelchair due to a gunshot wound before he is twenty years old, another has been in and out of jail for most of his adolescence and the movie begins with a welcome home picnic for him. ...

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We see David at first as a hero of sorts, the star on his wheelchair basketball team in the Special Olympics, a cop who was paralyzed in the line of duty and a man who has his own charity house set up for underprivileged children. ...

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Not long after waking from the coma, we were all visiting with him in the hospital and he and his brother, were watching a basketball game. ... This is where he learned to use a wheelchair, a 4 prong cane, a wooden cane and finally walking on his own. ...

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I felt bad till now seeing them sitting in wheelchairs, some of them limping and other children who survive landmine blasts once in a blue moon receive prostheses that are able to keep up with the continued growth of their limbs. ... One of my friends who was really good on playing basketball, always told me that there is no way he will ever become a basketball star. Before his disability, his dream was to play in NBA and be a well-known basketball player. ...

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Fencing Fencing is more of an unusual sport that is played a lot not only in the United States but all over the world. Fencing holds national and international competitions held at the college level and played widely in the summer Olympic and paraplegic games. It is a sophisticated form of du...

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War is a terrible thing. A terrible thing that is necessary to keep my country safe. I joined the military so I could give back and protect my loved ones and my country. I knew war was going to change my life but I never thought it would be this dramatic of a change. My name is Axle Steele and I ...

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