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Brain Vs Brawn By Mark Cotharn

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Two Sides of the Same Coin In his essay “Brain versus Brawn”, Mark Cotharn talks about the discrimination he experienced as both a hard working student and a football player. He points out that while race and gender are usually what come to mind, there are many ways to discriminate. Even simple things such as being attractive or anything really that gives you an unfair advantage or another person can be considered discrimination to an extent. Cotharn is acquainted with both the favorable and unfavorable sides of the issue. Until his junior year he was given special treatment as a football star because the town he lived in adored the sport. Teachers even went as far as to exempt him from assignments and give him extra time to allow him to focus
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