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  1. May 2017
    1. He was a schemer who used the courts for profit and revenge. He was a paranoid, angry meth addict who had been arrested for battery and domestic violence seven times.

      Here the keep describing this guy as just a bad person.

    1. For Green, that meant making games that explored religious themes.

      This comment shows his hobbys and what he loves, giving us a better understanding of him.

    2. His burly figure would be imposing if he weren’t dressed in cargo shorts and flip-flops, a wardrobe that—along with his sunny, authoritative demeanor—gives him the air of a summer camp director.

      This physical description makes Green sound like a friendly guy.

    3. “There’s a process you develop as a parent to keep your child from crying, and that night I couldn’t calm Joel,” Green says. “It made me think, ‘This is like a game where the mechanics are subverted and don’t work.’”

      This thought of his shows what type of parent he is. He truly cared about his son.

    4. Players breaking down in sobs and quickly exiting the booth.

      This shows Green has the ability to create an emotional game. Showing he has a "Soft Side".

    5. “There’s a process you develop as a parent to keep your child from crying, and that night I couldn’t calm Joel,” Green says. “It made me think, ‘This is like a game where the mechanics are subverted and don’t work.’”

      Here they transition back into narrative ny using quotes.

    6. Here is what they see:

      Here he transitions from exposition to narrative with a simple comment "heres what they see" this comments gets us ready for him to go into expanding the story.

    1. He credits his Brown University football experience for helping him become a leader and find his unique voice.

      Football helps you find your voice, it teaches you how to speak up and speak your mind.

    2. Playing football at Brown taught filmmaker how to lead

      He also says he wouldve never been able to get to brown if it wasnt for football. I find it interesting that he made it to an ivy league school through football and not his grades.

    3. Playing football at Brown taught filmmaker how to lead

      In the video he says highschool football pole vaulted him to a good college. Sports create opprotunities for people.

    4. “fourth-quarter skills”

      In the fourth quarter you are tired and want to quit but you cant. You need to fight to win and I think that may be the greatest skill that comes from sports.

    1. They’ve learned how to eliminate external influences to win the game.

      This is important to know for your job. You need to know how to deal with losing and know how to handle a victory.

    2. Six out of the past 11 U.S. presidents were collegiate athletes,” says McCaffrey.

      I had not heard this stat before but I am not surprised. Even at the top of the workplace chain you see college athletes.

    3. After he graduated and transitioned into the business world, McCaffrey found that some of his best coworkers were also former athletes.

      McCaffrey himself is an exaple of college athlete to success. If you ask around a lot of successful people did play college sports.

    1. They also said 60 percent would hire a student-athlete with a lower grade-point average before a non-student-athlete with an A average.

      This stat shows they trust student athletes will bring leadership and hard work to the job

    2. I have lifelong friendships

      This doesnt exactly go along with my paper, but sports do help people build very strong friendships which is also healthy for you.

    3. Successful athletes will have great time management skills, competitive mindset, leadership skills, team first attitude, and ability to effectively communicate within a team. 

      Sports help build not only work skills but life skills that will last a lifetime.

    1. “did u guys see me at the Oscars.” The post received almost 500,000

      Here they go from narrative with the quote and story telling to exposition when they share the stat.

  2. Mar 2017
    1. “I would always view the dollars that I get to be legitimate dollars,” Fisher said.

      I would want nothing to do with this money after all this confusion and arguing.

    2. Another bank statement they handed over showed that on a single day in 2014, Oesterlund transferred $48 million into one of the Cook trusts.

      I feel like there is even more money they are missing.

    3. I don’t know where these numbers are taken from,” he said, staring fixedly at the table.

      He stared down at the table becasue he is most likely lying

    4. This gave Fisher an idea. In May, he opened a third front, one that would give Pursglove her most powerful legal tool to begin peeling back the layers of her husband’s finances.

      They are all in this for the money, this realtionship was obviously based on money.

    5. “I am closing out all checking accounts on you now,” he texted her. “You aren’t going to use my funds to pay some Jewish lawyer.”

      How did he raise all this money

    6. He befriended Kevin O’Leary, a judge from “Shark Tank,” she says, and partied at the Maya-themed Lyford Cay estate of Peter Nygard, the Finnish-Canadian retail mogul.

      Why would you be friends with a guy like this if you are trying to hide money.

    1. But two days after the funeral he was ready to get back to work.

      This game is obviously his gift to his son, if it wasnt he wouldnt be ready to work this soon.