The author gave this inspirational speech to his players before they played the semi-finals in the 1980 Winter Olympics. The speech severed as a catalyst
“The path Joe Rantz followed across the quad and down to the shell house that afternoon in 1933 was only the last few hundred yards of a much longer, harder, and at times darker path he had traveled for much of his young life” explains Daniel James Brown in his novel, The Boys in the Boat (Brown 31). The reader follows Joe through his early trials, errors, successes, and failures, all of which molded him into a persevering character. Through disappointments and abandonment, Brown’s The Boys in the Boat illustrates Joe Rantz, son of mechanical pioneer Harry Rantz, as a cunning, intelligent, and hardworking individual determined to succeed in his endeavors. Although Harry Rantz, Joe’s father, began adulthood with a “most satisfactory life —
Joe Rantz’s character arc helps him develop over the course of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Towards the beginning of the book, Joe is very independent and goal oriented. After being abandoned by his dad for the second time 15 year old Joe knew that to be able to feed himself he would need to take every opportunity he could to stay ahead of The Great Depression. “In all all this Joe grew continually stronger and ever more self reliant. Through it all he stayed in school and earned good grades” (Brown 62).
Daniel James Brown, the author of The Boys in the Boat, uses Joe Rantz’ story to symbolize the way America was able to find hope in a time of hopelessness and despair in the world-the Great Depression, and Nazi Germany. Joe Rantz was kicked out of his home at a very young age, even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. Joe’s mom, “Thula exploded in the face of what she saw a lax discipline... she would not live under the same roof as Joe...went back upstairs and told [Harry’s] only son he would have to move out of the house. Joe was ten” (Brown 36).
The troubled mother who was determined to live a normal life. The wise man who dedicated his life to building boats. The young boy who played his life on the violin. And the beloved father who carried on only for the sake of his family. They were all resilient, holding onto their faith, strength, and integrity.
His training regimen is rigorous and unforgiving, pushing the rowers to their physical and mental limits in pursuit of perfection. Furthermore, the
One can distribute this statement into all fields of group sports; The Aquinas College running team is a groups of Saints. Therefore, depending on the sport one plays or organization one participates in, they become members and representatives of it. Now the statement
In the book The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, the author tells the story of the 1936 Olympic team. The coach for the 1936 Olympic team is Al Ulbrickson. Some argue that he is harsh and inefficient in the way that he coaches because he switches the boys to different boats. However Coach Al Ulbrickson is a good coach because he is very clever, if he wasn't clever the boys would not be on the Olympic team, Coach Al Ulbrickson is also a quiet coach. Coach Al Ulbrickson is a clever coach, if he wasn't clever he wouldn't push the freshmen boys to try to make the Olympic team.
“Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.”(Zig Ziglar). In the novel, The Boys and the Boat, Joe Rantz, the main character, got knocked down in life more times than he could count, but he always got up and moved forward. At a young age, Joe Rantz’s mother passed away and his family abandoned him. He learned to fend and work to make money to provide for himself, making enough money to go to college, where he made the rowing team, despite the many challenges.
In this book the author shows perseverance through teamwork to survive and get through the hard times. One piece of evidence is the author shows this on page 138 when Minho and Thomas use teamwork to save each other and Alby from a griever. The author states “Both boys ran at the griever and jumped and kicked the griever into the valley”. The author proves this by saying how they persevered through almost getting killed by a river and the ended up using teamwork to kill the griever and survive it. Another piece of evidence is on page 280 when Thomas and his friends use teamwork to find out pieces to the maze to help escape in the future.
(112 words) As much as God can be an inspiration to keep fighting, family and close ones can act as one as well. This is the entire premise of team sports. Not playing well and letting down one’s teammates is a catastrophic result in any team sport. Additionally, this can also be a reason to train vigorously.
In the novel ‘Boy Overboard’ written by Morris Gleitzman, female characters were disadvantaged by the oppression. Females suffer from sexual abuses, prostitution, child labor, rape and struggle to win attention and voice from the society. In the time period of the domination of the Taliban, female's voice and rights start to diminish. They had to start covering themselves with long layers of garment and be more aware of their surrounding community as that they might harm them. With the disturbs of the taliban which is an islamic fundamentalist group that is still ruling parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries around, it makes it hard for a women to have freedom.
Competitive sports provide a community which kids can work with and beat other teams with. “Playing a sport helps children develop social skills which would benefit them even when they grow older. Playing sports teaches them about teamwork and cooperating with others. They learn to interact with people from different ages” (Mahaseth). When these kids grow up, they can use these skills to be able to cooperate and talk with their colleagues.
The connection of Social Theories and Sports is seen in how we see different kinds of human behavior and interactions of individuals; it can provide positive and negative outcomes. With the help of Social Theories we can grasp the process, patterns, values,
It was quite Monday in spring, a normal day but for me and my team it was a big day. It was the day we started training for the important race; the race decide which track team was the best in the city. My teammates are, George, Aron and Dylan. We have been working hard because we lost the championship last year it would be good for us to come out this year and win the championship.
