The argument that Brian Philips’s personal article, “Man Up” is an American NFL ritual meant that it’s a heterosexual sport and therefor it's a way of their manhood. If you are not any of those, then you’re considered to be not a man. That’s what NFL is teaching their players to be tough, aggressive, also creates them to be more aggressive toward other teams on the field. It teaches players to suck up serious mental health issues that the players will not seek help for because they are afraid of what the other team may say.
Brian Philips’s argument about how the NFL, you need to be a man and in order to be a real man, you will need to have all the qualities of being tough and jacked up. Philips says in this article “playing football is a man’s
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Brain knows what he is talking about when it comes to football since he is a sport's writer, he uses a lot of knowledge of the game. Also, Philips’s is basically saying that men do not seek any kind of help what so ever because they are afraid to be called “weak”. The example Philips’s uses is about how Jonathan Marten left his football career to seek help for his emotional issues. The Shadow Leagues’ J.R. Gamble called Martin “soft” and another ex-player of the Dolphins lineman Lydon Martha said that Martin was “standoffish and shy”. That Martin “broke the code”. Philips’s tone is also that men tell it like it is, and if you don’t like it then you aren’t a man. In football, some team members haze other team members, it just them being them. It’s quite funny how no one thought of Joe Heisman was soft for leaving the game when he broke his leg. Everyone supported him and was there for him and never bullied him for that. They say that if Martin was to leave for a family matter or anything other than to “seek emotional help” that he would have never been bullied and that no one would have looked down on him. After everything that happen with Martin, they put in place a “strict anti-hazing policy”. Football is like the military, because they are both hardcore, you need to be a man in either one of those, there is no pansy allowed otherwise they will send you
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I Am a Man by Steve Estes has been an incredible read; it is a book that I would recommend to anybody who loves to read, and also interested in Civil Rights. Steve Estes does an awesome job with the organization, and details of this book. This book starts in 1968 with black workers in Memphis protesting about low wages, horrible working conditions, and horrible treatments. These workers wanted higher pay to support their families and to establish a union. They started a declaration “I Am a Man!” as their motto. Estes states that the strikers chose this motto because “manhood” was more than what it seemed a long tradition that started from the days of slavery. On (page 4), this strike known as, The Memphis Sanitation Strike shows that one cannot appreciate the fullness of the African American struggles for freedom and showing the relationship and ideas about gender relationships and also identity.
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In today’s world, everyone has a sense of security that is born from the technological developments that science has given to society. While they may feel safe, there are much larger threats of disaster that people are not prepared for. These include natural disaster and human error. Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales aims to educate the people on how to better protect themselves and prevent death. The novel accomplishes this through sharing personal stories and stories of others who have survived near death experiences. This is an important subject in our culture and its importance is verified by professional reviews. To further express this importance, there are a plethora of popular television shows in pop culture that seek to entertain as well as educate its audience. Although modern technology makes it feel relatively easy to avoid and escape life threatening situations, basic survival skills, like those taught in Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales, are a useful tool to have in any situation. These thoughts are reflected in qualified book reviews that further show the significance of the subject in today’s society.
Many people have life changing revelations in their lives, but very few people are as young as Jared when he realizes what he does about his life. Ron Rash wrote the short story, "The Ascent," about a young boy's journey that brought him to have a significant revelation about his life. In the story, Rash uses a naive narrator, foreshadowing, and imagery to show the setting of the story that led to Jared's revelation about his life.
Common sense seems to dictate that commercials just advertise products. But in reality, advertising is a multi-headed beast that targets specific genders, races, ages, etc. In “Men’s Men & Women’s Women”, author Steve Craig focuses on one head of the beast: gender. Craig suggests that, “Advertisers . . . portray different images to men and women in order to exploit the different deep seated motivations and anxieties connected to gender identity.” In other words, advertisers manipulate consumers’ fantasies to sell their product. In this essay, I will be analyzing four different commercials that focuses on appealing to specific genders.
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The visualizations in the player’s head are so clear and precise from every play, every step, and every hit. Every player sees these visualizations before every game. This is what we, vicious football players, like to call game mode. As I sit in the locker room, I can just look around and see the straight non-emotional faces staring off in space thinking of nothing but the game. At this time all my problems, girlfriend, and schoolwork mean nothing. All I can thin...
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