![]() ![]() Knight before Air Jordan elevated the business. For instance, when he met with Notorious Drug Kingpin Rayful Edmond and when he met with Nike owner, Phil Knight, and how he helped Mr. It was refreshing to read what actually happened and what John thought of the situation. A lot of what we thought we knew about John was what the media told us. He tells it like it is whether you believe him or accept what he has to say. Yet, John teaches us how we can beat the odds when the cards are stacked against us. He spoke not only about racism in sports but in this country. He is transparent about his personal feelings about his decision-making whether they were good or bad. ![]() In this book, John talks about more than basketball but about life itself. He arrived quietly on the scene and gradually became visible to all. ![]()
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![]() Even the local friars, Jacomo and Bernardine, employ Machiavellian tactics, as does the prostitute Bellamira and her friend Pilia-Borza, the thief. ![]() After he exploits Malta’s Jews to pay the tribute money owed to Selim-Calymath and the Turks, Ferneze schemes with Martin Del Bosco, the Vice-Admiral of Spain, to keep the tribute money. Ferneze, Malta’s governor, also resorts to Machiavellianism. ![]() Barabas, the richest Jew in Malta, came into his enormous stockpile of gold through Macheville’s “means,” and he is willing to lie and murder-even his own daughter, Abigail-to maintain his wealth. The play’s narrator, a ghost named Macheville, is the embodiment of Machiavelli himself, and the other characters likewise prescribe to the “policy” of Machiavellianism. Machiavelli died in 1527, but his name has long since been synonymous with unscrupulous scheming and godless corruption in the name of self-interest, and this idea is reflected in The Jew of Malta. 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