Hoop Dreams

Term Paper Title	Hoop Dreams
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Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball
players in the NBA.  The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book.  The idea for
the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story.
Arthur Agee and William Gates are the names of the two boys who were
followed from eighth grade to twelve grade to do the movie.
    Arthur Agee was a 5'6 125 pound guard from the playgrounds of Chicago
when St Joseph recruiters saw him.  Arthur was playing against guy's three
years older than he was and he was still the best in the neighborhood.
Arthur's parents Bo and Sheila Agee were very poor people who were on cocaine
and could not support their family.  Big Earl, the guy who recruited Arthur
told his family that St. Joe's would be able to pay Arthur's tuition if he
played basketball for them.  Arthur went to St. Joe's and met William Gates.
They had become friends in grade school but had never really done anything
together. Eventually William turned out to be the better player and all the
attention and money was focused on him.  Therefore, Arthur was booted out of
St. Joe's in the middle of the school year.  He was forced to enroll at
Marshall, the area public school.  As a result, Arthur could see his dreams
of the NBA were slipping away.  Along with that, he couldn't keep his grades
up enough to attend a Division I school.  He and the Marshall Commandos ended
up going downstate Arthur's senior year.  They finished third in the state
overall.  Arthur ended up going to a junior college named Mineral Area in
Flat River Mississippi.   After his two years in Mississippi, Arthur received
a scholarship to Arkansas State.  He finished his degree in communications
and he graduated.  Arthur never did reach his dream of going to the NBA, at
least yet.  As you can see, it takes a lot for an inner city boy to try and
reach his dream, but most of the time it never happens.
    Willia...

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