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NY Times Opionator Article by Gavin Miller

                                        NY Times Opionator Article: Cavs Struggle               Growing up I've always been a very big fan of basketball, I love everything about it. While being a big fan of the sport I'm also a really big fan of watching it as well. With that being said the NBA is my favorite to watch and talk about to friends, family, etc. I have noticed over the years though that some of the articles are made solely to degrade a player or simply a team on its own, but Marc Stein seems to have done both at the same time. Simply put, if you are to use Lebron James name in any article you are going to attract a large following of people: the media will criticize Lebron James regardless of whether or not he is playing good or not. In this case, Lebron James team isn't playing well, but Lebron James himself is having an MVP type s...

Blog Introduction Gavin Miller

                                                                  Introduction                 The classes I had last semester involved me writing a lot in most of my assignments. The two biggest ones were Critical Reading and Sociology, Sociology being the most, which was very shocking for me. In Sociology we had to complete a journal entry every week that included us writing up to 400 words each journal entry. At first I thought it would be really time consuming but most journals I did only took me up to ten or fifteen minutes to do so hopefully I am able to use that ability in this class. However, in Critical Reading I did a few projects that involved me writing up to about two or three pages.  I feel like I could be a strong and competent writer if I wanted to be, I ju...