In my book there is plenty of action not violence, but sports action there are plenty of football games in the story. The author does a very good job of describing the action of a football game, the crack of the pads and helmets and all. And the characters really come alive with their emotions and how they interact with other people in the book,and how much emotion they show for the game is true for our football team and theirs. The storyline in this book is actually very interesting with the conflict of interest with Arlo and his brother and their competition to see who is better. My memorable connections to the book are with Arlo, the football field were the most memorable.
The Beneath the Armor of an Athlete by Lisa Whitsett, is about a book that shares her great experience as she stepped into the wrestling career. While the story, there are few elements that I found parallel which I had previously learned from last class. Self-talk is the repetitive example that had been brought in her story while becoming a wrestler. Toward the beginning of the novel, Whitsett explains are experience inside the sauna that changed her. During her time inside the, sauna almost every player had given up because of the atrocious heatwave yet she didn’t quit because she talked herself into enduring the pain.
Do genetics really matter when discussing a person’s ability to perform in their respective sport? Or is it the amount of hours that a person has put into the craft? In “The Sports Gene” by David Epstein, the author attempts to answer this gene vs. practice question. Epstein does this by including examples of high jumpers, differences between average and world champion chess players, as well as what scientists call the ‘big bang’ of body types, to name a few.
Darrell was the complete opposite he was a skinny, short, and don’t have any type of muscles in his body, but then tryay is a big boy with big muscles, and he can fight (6-7). Darrell thought of join the wresting team to make him strong to stop tryay of bullying him, but then tryay found out that Darrell want to join the wresting them and he start to make fun of him without no mercy “I heard this little punk joined the wrestling team, he’s gonna have to wrestle fourth graders cause he’s so tiny” (122). Langa uses the conflict of protagonist and antagonist to create an atmosphere of fear, anger, and being powerless which makes the readers worry about the safety and well-being of the main
However she fails to state that high school sports teach discipline. For example in today’s society more and more kids find themselves on streets drinking and doing drugs. However for the kids who partake in sports are more likely to stay in school and get an education. In the article Amanda states “sports can be bait for students who otherwise might not care about school” contradicting her own main argument. This type of contradiction causes the audience to feel unchanged about their opinions towards the subject and proves that sports teach discipline.
In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete”, Jessica Statsky tries to highlight the growing issue and destructive effects of the competitive sports. These sports are fabricated keeping the age and standards of an adult which make them unsuitable for children. These sports have a negative impact on a child’s health as a whole. The body and the mind are both equally. Developing bodies of the children suffer a great deal because of the extreme physical activity demanded by the competitive sports.
Summary “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” by Jessica Statsky is a thoughtful insight on the competitive sports for children. She is of the view that the competitive sports can ruin the enjoyment that games are supposed to provide. These methods of playing the games like adults can prove to be lethal for physical and psychological health. The author quotes from an authentic source that “Kids under the age of fourteen are not by nature physical.” (Tutko)
In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete.” Jessica statsky brought forward a pressing issue of competitive sports that has now become a part of our lives. Statsky claims that these competitive sports have a harmful effect on a child’s mind. The extreme physical pressure is quite damaging as well. The injuries children face can sometimes take forever to heal itself.
The characters are very important in Octavia Butler’s science fiction short story “Bloodchild”. A character is a person presented on a dramatic or narrative work. When it comes to the story of “Bloodchild”, most people would agree that gender roles are reversed. This agreement may end, however, on the question of character in Butler. It is safe to say that understanding the characters, who they are and what they do, help explain the theme of gender roles.
The book highlights the good and the bad of the sport. For someone who may not be too interested in it, or just has to read it for a history class, he made it entertaining. Giving not only a history lesson on the sport but just as much on the working class of America and the emerging commercialized leisure’s and shifting social classes in the nineteenth century. Gorn is able to interweave social and political issues of the times all told with characters as colorful and wild as the early days of this country. Men crave the order of violence with rules and attach elevated importance to such contests in part because so much of life is entirely unjust and oppressive.
John recognized his flaws and tried very hard to correct them and overcome them. Unfortunately fell victim to the consequences of his errors but he preserved his name in the process. His character’s actions captured sympathy from the audience. John had all the qualities that would make him a tragic hero. He was a good person with human flaws that caused undeserved
BRESLOW, JASON M. "FRONTLINE." PBS. PBS, 28 Sept. 2015. Web. 01 May 2016 “ To the research this many the athletes are playing a unprotected game in which their health an lives are always on the line.
His perspective in the chapters he narrates shows us he is a very emotional person and reacts out of instinct rather than processing things first. We also learn that he has a knack for perceiving things he doesn’t know for a fact are real. He also tends to refer to himself in the third person, which can be seen as his way of understanding what others think of him. The most important aspect of his character that we learn about is his tendency to let his inner emotions control his actions because he is unable to process them fully and is detached from reality. An example of this is when he burns down the barn to end the trip to bury his mother's body.
The writer further explains that the idea of winning sometimes causes severe injuries that may prevail for a lifetime. In these games, a child may crash into one another accidently that creates a fear of getting hurt. Just to protect themselves some children back out of many games and are left behind when it comes to the development of their bodies. The rest of the children who are part of these games are in a constant pressure from their parents and coaches that cause the stress and anxiety. Furthermore, the writer states that this “sport becomes job like”.
Children who participate in competitive sports at a young age experience more serious negative impacts than positives, including a risk of severe injury, losing
