In The Baseball, he shares with us many tips and secrets to his ballhawking success and teaches us strategies to get our own balls at games. Along with that, Zack discusses many anecdotes and the history of the ball. Hample divides this book into three main
In the fifth paragraph, Dillard describes Rahm’s appearance and juxtaposes that to vivid imagery. At the start of the show, Dillard was, “Idly paying...attention,” when she saw a “medium-sized, rugged man, dressed in brown leather, all begoggled…” who happened to be David Rahm. These mundane details describe Rahm as an average, ordinary man, who great things were not expected. By using mundane details, audience members understand how Dillard did not pay any extra attention to Rahm because he appeared to be average. However, once Rahm was in the plane, his actions demanded her attention.
He romantically compares her to summer’s day to get his point across. The claim in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is as follows: for a woman to lead a respectable life, she must give into a life full of repression and sexism. Ethos is the most powerful appeal in this work because the mother speaking clearly has experience. She is teaching her daughter what she believes is right from wrong, so her daughter does not grow up to have a poor reputation.
This would go on for hours and hours until finally Brent pranced inside to do his homework. A look of exhaustion spread over his face. He whined to his father, “why can’t school be as easy as shooting a jumpshot”. Brent’s father replied, “because when you put enough effort into anything, it becomes a lot easier Brent.” Brent used this as motivation into his basketball career.
The University of North Carolina played their first basketball game in 1910. The University of Maryland played their first game in 1910. Both teams have been in the NCAA for twenty-six years. The University of North Carolina record is seventy wins and twenty-four losses and The University of Maryland’s record is forty-one wins and twenty-five losses. First time meeting The University of North Carolina became victorious over The University of Maryland’s.
In the article “Traditions Subordinating Women”, Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser explore the very strong opinions, theories and beliefs of female subordination within the eyes of various origin cultures through stories, passages and history itself. This article gives a vast understanding of a woman’s role, the purpose of her body, what is expected of her, society’s double standards and how literature and poems portray women. Before Christianity, there existed many old cultures such as the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Germanics and Celtics, who all came in agreement to preserving the subordination of women. A woman’s main duties were to remain faithful to her husband, to be fruitful and to preserve and nurture her home. A woman was incapable
Jonny would toss the ball to Owen and lift him up. It was easy for Owen to be lifted because he was so light. Owen would then dunk the ball through the rim of the hoop. It does not particularly seem logical, that two unathletic boys, who did not have any love for basketball, would spend hours and hours mastering “the shot”. The boys enjoyed “the shot,” but their main goal was to perfect it and be able to do it in two seconds.
Likewise in John Updike’s short story he writes, “Stokesie’s married, with two babies chalked up on his fuselage already, but as far as I can tell that’s the only difference. He’s twenty-two, and I was nineteen this April…” this passage shows that even though Sammy did not conform he did justify his behavior towards the attractive girls ("A&P - John Updike." A&P - John Updike). Although Rainsford did conform and he knew what he did was wrong; he slept soundly and did not try to justify his actions.
Dillard 's uses humor two times in this passage to grab the reader’s attention. The first time he used humor he said “ Doing something does not require discipline; it creates it own discipline - with a little help of caffeine”. This is funny because we all that drinking a little caffeine can make you very active or in other words hyper. The Second time Dillard uses humor he says “ You don’t lift car around the clock or write books every year”. Dillard use sarcastic humor to make us laugh, It’s sarcastic because, he’s saying that you are not going to be able to just do it, you have to work for it.
Throw Like a Girl Everyone should strive to throw like a girl. Throwing like a girl means believing in yourself, striving to do your best, and balancing daily life. According to Jennie Finch: believing in yourself means to do what you think is right no matter what, striving to do your best means to always try your hardest in every little thing that you do and balancing daily life means to make priorities and focus on them. My favorite chapters are one, three, five, and nine.
In the 1920’s, women’s rights took a big turn. Women got their voting right in 1919 by the 19th Amendment, it changed everyone’s life afterward. Women were now recognized pretty much as equals. There were always men who didn’t agree but for the most part, everyone did. In the Roaring 20s, people called women, “New Women” due to some of the things that women did after they got their voting right.
Of course, only Flick is able to imagine them as such, which tells how much Flick is rivetted in the past. Thus, the variety of uses of figurative language show the reader what is going on in Flick’s mind, and the reader sees that Flick is eluding into fantasies about former victories. Updike depicts Former athlete to the current gas station attendant, allowing the reader to sympathize with Flick’s partiality for reminiscing. Updike employs a number of words regularly linked with sports to imply the former athlete’s skill. Words such as “runs,” “bends,” “stops” and “cut off” (Updike) are strong action words often used to express actions in basketball.
