Mike Tyson became a household name. He was a man with no remorse in the ring. However, his reputation changed drastically in a short period of time. He may have just started off being well known for his athleticism in boxing but later became known for his crazy antics in life. He started off, as a juvenile delinquent and he later became an alcoholic, drug addict, womanizer, and convicted criminal. Mike Tyson is morally responsible for his actions as a child and as an adult due to his self-forming actions and his superiority complex. Mike Tyson’s childhood was not an easy one. He grew up in the meanest section of Brooklyn, New York called Brownsville. Tyson describes living in this area horrendous. “It was then that the kids would always …show more content…
When Mike Tyson became a household name, he let the fame of his career mask his world. His name became his mask. A social experiment that was enacted in the 1970s relates to certain aspects of Mike Tyson’s superiority complex. Doctor Philip Zombardo conducted an experiment where he randomly selected college students to be “prisoners” and “guards”. For no reason, after the first day the guards started getting a superiority complex. The guards wore sunglasses, as known as their masks. The guards began to abuse their powers and treat the “prisoners” harsh and cruelly. They started acting like there was going to be no consequences for their actions or for how they treat people (Zombardo). Mike Tyson adopted some of these same characteristics when he became more and more famous. Tyson was a humble man at the beginning of his career. However, things started to change when he became more famous. He started to abuse the power of his name, also known as his mask. He began to be extremely promiscuous in his sex life. Women coming towards him because of whom he was in celebrity and he used them for pleasure. He also started addictions, especially with alcohol. He became cocky and started to disregard his training because he believed he was the best at what he did and did not need to improve, no one would beat him (Toback, 2009). Mike Tyson let the power of celebrity go to his head enabling him to think there were no consequences for his actions, so it did not matter what his actions were. This can all be connected back to his self-forming action of hanging out with those boys who tried to rob him. Tyson wanted to fit in and be a part of their group. He thought that this would make him more important. This self-forming action started him on his most powerful addiction of
Hoffer confirmes this when he said “The money counted and the tents folded, the circus finally left town” (Hoffer 1). Hoffer used this to show that the fight was like a circus. The fight was like a circus because they had packed up after they counted their money that they made off of their “animals”, which were Tyson and Holyfield. Another example of circus diction that Hoffer used is “if so, he neglectedto consider that, win or lose, he would be branded an animal, with people recoiling from him in horror” (Hoffer 2-3). This means that Tyson seemed to overlook the fact of how people would look at him for now on. People would look him as an animal and would be hit with horror when they saw him because of the fight. Circus diction was overall used to show how the fight was circus like and how the fighters, Tyson and Holyfield, were like animals at a circus on
With women and family groups applying pressure upon the Immigration Minister to ban Tyson from Australia they are denying him the opportunity to do his job. Tyson does not indent to visit Australia on a holiday and to roam the streets in search of sexual prey. He will have the intention of fulfilling his responsibilities and given the time spent in prison for crime committed long ago, fears of him re-offending are unjustified. Furthermore, people jump to conclusions about his character based on his past rather than likely future intentions. According to a close friend of Tyson, former Australian boxer Jeff Fenech, Tyson would have a busy program including promoting boxing on a world class level in this country and raising the profile of the sport. Fenech is in a stronger position to judge Tyson’s character rather than other people, because of his inside knowledge of how professional boxing is organised.
The first reason Muhammad Ali isn't a hero is because he is violent. For almost all of his life he fought in boxing matches that all started when he was a boy because he wanted to beat up the kid who stole his bike. For 14 years, on-and-off, he was heavyweight champion and before that a lightweight champion. To do this, you had to have the rage to hurt your opponent. Muhammad Ali even said, “I believe in the eye-for- an-eye business, I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat” (Myers 36). Now, in his 60’s,...
It started at a young age when he lacked supervision and lead him to crime. From crime he found boxing, and in that he found profession. Within profession, he found power. However, with power, he left mistakes which cost him time in prison and the burning down of his racket world empire. Perhaps he knew that his fall from success could be easily found in the cards, it may be that he was just a businessman. For this boxer, gangster, mobster, murderer, crime lord, businessman, legend, whichever adjective is used once proudly proclaimed, “All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.” (Mickey Cohen Quotes) And burning to the ground did his authority, his Rome, and his world
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in 1966, his mother, Loma Smith Tyson was never married to his biological father Jimmy Kirkpatrick. By the time Tyson was born, Kirkpatrick had left Loma to fend for herself and her kids. Loma Tyson and her children (Rodney, Mike and Denise) started living in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Growing up in a ghetto neighborhood as a child of a single mother was difficult for young Mike. Due to his big...
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Both of them came from nothing and ended up succeeding in some of the difficult of things to do. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa was born the oldest of 5, dirt poor in a small village outside of mexicali, he ended up becoming a prestigious neurosurgeon. Mike Tyson was born into the slums of new york being raised by a single mother who died when Tyson was 16 years old. By the age of 13 he had been arrested 36 times, by the age of 20 he became the youngest heavyweight champion in the world. In both of these cases it took determination, hard work, and persistence; but how many people were also determined, a hard worker, and persistent, if not more so then these two that never came close to achieving what Dr Q. and Mike Tyson did. good luck? Very
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York (Biography.com Editors). He was raised in North Carolina. His parents are Delores and James Jordan. He was very close with his dad and they both loved baseball above all things. He has an older brother Larry, who he worshipped. Larry played basketball and Michael followed in his footsteps. He attended Laney High school in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a sophomore he was
Capone had a very challenging and different childhood with eight siblings, he was born January 17th, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. He had struggled in school, not because of the work as he was a fairly good student but he saw rules as something to break and not something to follow. At the age of 14 Capone left school after striking a teacher in the face. He worked odd jobs around the city until he met his mentor Johnny Torrio and
Psychology covers a huge field and one interesting aspect of it is personality. Personality by itself involves various issues. Some aspects are Psychoanalytic, Ego, Biological, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Trait, and Humanistic. Different types of behaviors are amazing to learn about, mainly the behavior therapy, collective behavior, crime and punishment, and Social behavior and peer acceptance in children. I chose Behaviorism over the other aspects because I believe behavior determines human personality and is very interesting. You can tell what one is by his behavior, and one behaves according to what place he has in society. By doing this paper on Behavior, I hope to get a better understanding of, if behavior develops a personality or if personality guides behavior. I also see behaviorism helping me in the future with my personal and professional career by understanding human personality and behavior better than I do. No matter what your major is, if you can determine one's personality by his behavior you can really get your work done from that person and understand the better than you would otherwise. This person could be your employee or your employer. Behavior Therapy Behavior therapy is the application of experimentally derived principles of learning to the treatment of psychological disorders. The concept derives primarily from work of Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. Behavior-therapy techniques differ from psychiatric methods, particularly psychoanalysis, in that they are predominately symptom (behavior) oriented and shows little or no concern for unconscious processes, achieving new insight, or effecting fundamental personality change. The U.S. psychologist B.F. Skinner, who worked with mental patients in a Massachusetts State hospital, popularized behavior therapy. From his work in animal learning, Skinner found that the establishment and extinction of responses can be determined by the way reinforces, or rewards, are given. The pattern of reward giving, both in time and frequency, is known as a schedule of reinforcement. The gradual change in behavior in approximation of the desired result is known as shaping. More recent developments in behavior therapy emphasize the adaptive nature of cognitive processes. Behavior-therapy techniques have been applied with some success to such disturbances as enuresis (bed-wetting), tics, phobias, stutteri...
One of NBA’s all time All Star favorites, Michael Jordan, was not just about basketball all his life. Experiences in his childhood and early teens brought him to that life. His actions as an adult got him to where he is now...a millionaire. Michael Jordan was one of the best basketball players who had some bumps in his life, but overcame them to become a successful man.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. later known as Muhammad Ali, was a black boxer, and was proud of it. Many African Americans were ashamed of their color, but Ali was different. He was the first boxer to win the Heavyweight Championship 3 different times. He had a great personality and was liked by the people. During his life, he made big decisions that changed the course of his life completely. Muhammad Ali's journey through life was a great inspiration for African American people, but Ali himself deserves the admiration of everyone.
He was fearless. He was powerful. His footwork was more beautiful than a ballet dancer. He is an Olympic Gold Medalist. He is the G.O.A.T of boxing. He is… Muhammad Ali. I will inform you about the biography of Muhammad Ali of how people saw him in real life, the Movie Ali how it portrayed Muhammad Ali based on his life through screen write, and the Vietnam War. Muhammad Ali is considered one of the greatest athletes in boxing history, but before there was the Greatest of All Time or the acronym G.O.A.T World Heavy Champion Muhammad Ali, he was just a little kid that went by the name Cassius Clay.
Cassius Marcellus Clay was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942, during a time when Louisville was severely segregated. African-Americans were often considered the ‘servant’ class. The highest goal that many parents could realistically set for their children was clergymen or public school teacher. Cassius Clay’s father was a billboard painter and his mother worked cleaning houses. Being an African-American in poverty wasn’t easy; in fact, Clay was mistreated from birth. His mother recalls a specific incident in a convenience store when he was very young. “…He wanted a drink of water and they wouldn’t give him one because of his color. That really affected him.” Clay was eventually led into boxing as a way to deal with stress after having his bike stolen at the age of twelve. It was in the ring he would leave his legacy as an athlete, but out in the real world was where his fighting legacy would really leave a lasting impact. As an advocate for all people, Muhammad Ali was able to challeng...