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I stopped at the door and nodded my head for Amie to follow. The next day there was a boxing ring set up in the middle of the gym and it was packed with parents and students from both schools. I guess my father putting up a grand bounty on my head had sparked everyone’s interest. I felt a tap to my shoulder and made my way to my dressing room to get prepared. I was in the middle of my rubdown when the boy’s coach walked into my dressing room with another man. “Excuse me, but I’m the boxing coach for the boys’ team and I need to hear from Miss Santorin personally that she is willing to go on with this exhibition. I’ve got the district’s boxing official who is the referee for the bout with me. I would also like to know who had called …show more content…
Once I beat the crap out of a few boys, then the girls would back away. Unfortunately, the crowd of boys that were always lined up trying to get my attention had more than doubled. How did I know the guys in the boxing club were a bunch of assholes and I had done the boys a favor? Now they wanted to take me out on dates to show their appreciation. I’m glad I’d finally gotten over my jealousy with Amie is having bigger boobs than mine and we had rekindled our friendship as if we never had a fight over the same boy. I grabbed Amie’s hand with mine and we made a mad dash for the car. It was like the two of us were teen idols. The boys had their cell phones out taking pictures. There were even a few boys who were holding up pictures of me in the ring with my robe off and a great shot of me knocking out my final opponent. One picture nearly had me tripping over my own two feet. It was a picture of me in a wedding dress wearing pink boxing gloves and holding a bouquet of flowers. I might have to find a way of getting me a copy of that one. For now all I wanted to do was get home and to make me an ice cream Sunday and watch my new favorite romantic comedy that had just come out on
cHave you ever been to confident in something? Well in the story “The fight” by Adam Bagdasarian Will is being over confident and very cocky because when his loyal follower Kevin didn’t think Will would be close to winning the fight but Will on the other hand thought he would crush Mike in the fight. Lastly Will under estimated Mike and thought he would be bigger and that is why Will is cocky and overconfident.
In today’s world is important to have a sense of personal and national identity, sometimes one will have to choose one or the other. This clash is important because the two can coexist but often one is chosen over the other which leads to the other being lost. The pair of graphic novels Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang illustrates this clash. The stories in Boxers and Saints takes place in the events leading up to and during the Boxer rebellion at the turn of the 20th century. Boxers centers on the leader of the rebellion, Bao, on his crusade to liberate his country from foreigners. Saints focuses on Vibiana, a Christian convert, and documents her struggle to find her place in society. Through these characters, Yang implies that one will
Football is looked over at a fun, entertaining, and harmless sport, but that is not what it is at all. Nearly 8,000 Players suffer from concussions caused by hard hits to the head each year. That does not sound harmless to you now, does it?
During a wrestling match, you are using all of your previous knowledge of the moves you have been practicing over and over. On top of that you need to have the mental mind set that you are gonna win. You may think it is easy because it's only a six minute match, but all the blood, sweat and tears that us wrestlers put in for those six minutes, may be the happiest or saddest experience of our life. We spend hours a day working with our coaches to make sure our technique is close to perfection as it can get. Most likely, you will win or lose a match on how well conditioned you are. We will usually wrestle a twelve minute match in practice, so that six minute match feels like nothing. Even with the time and effort you put in this sport, they will always be someone who might be just a little better.
Edward Estlin Cummings, abbreviated to E. E. Cummings, although he was more popularly known in all lowercase letters as e. e. cummings, was an admirably influential American poet, author, playwright, and essayist. His renowned experimentation with poetic form and language in order to create his own personal style is his most prominent accomplishment. Often, he revamped and combined words to create new ones of his own style and in his own likeness. Cummings also bent grammatical and linguistic rules to accomplish his own purposes; he incorporated the usage of words like “if” and “because” as nouns, something odd and unheard of in his time period. He was first sneered at, jeering faces refusing to accept his twisted style as poetry, but quickly his work rose to such a revered status that it shone alongside the ubiquitous writings of the great Robert Frost. The entire collection of Cummings work includes a huge number of approximately 2900 poems, as well as several novels, and countless diary entries of eloquence and skill from even the earliest years of his childhood. E. E. Cummings was, in truth, a genius, for he spent his time inventing new ways of arranging poetry in certain line types, intercepting idea with parentheses and writing backwards and in spiraling loops to emphasize his intricately concealed main points. In his time, this was extremely uncouth and unheard of, and as he steadily grew to become a famous name worldwide, more wanted to read his works. The underlying meanings in his poems were so obscure, it was hard to see past them the very first time one laid eyes on them, as it was to see past the psychical barriers E. E. Cummings hid behind when in public, and sometimes even with those he truly cared about. This sec...
The Olympics are supposed to be a time of peace and a time where countries could come together and be free from politics. The Olympics are also a time where nations should put away their differences and celebrate the reason why they came to participate in the games, which was to play sports. Throughout history, many of the Olympics have lived up to this expectation. At the same time, there have also been some Olympics that have not lived up to this expectation because they have been experienced boycotts, political protests, and even violence. The politics in the Olympics need to be kept out because it there is no place for it. The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow is an example of one Olympics that was not free from politics because of the boycott started by the U.S.
Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's costs would justify itself.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world play or watch soccer. There are more than one hundred and fifty professional leagues in the world for soccer. While America has one major soccer league in the country Europe has a handful. Soccer is becoming more popular in America, but is far from having the popularity similar to overseas. Soccer has progressed in America from the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer. The fact is, soccer overseas has had more time to grow and develop. In time, the MLS can become a powerhouse for soccer in the world alongside the premier leagues.Eventually, the MLS will compete with the pace, shots, and skills observed on and off the ball.
Sports psychology is the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise and physical activity. Some sports psychologists work with professional athletes and coaches to improve performance and increase motivation. Other professionals use exercise and sports to enhance people’s lives and well-being. While finding ways to help athletes is certainly an important part of sports psychology, the application of exercise and physical activity for improving the lives of non-athletes is also a major focus.
The aim of this assignment is to explain how a person may become socialised into sport and how a person may become socialised through sport. The socialisation process will also be explained. According to Coakley (2008) sport is a “well established, officially governed completive physical activities in which participants are motivated by internal and external rewards”. Sociology is a tool for studying sports in society. Socialization within sport is an “active process of learning and social development that occurs as people interact with one another and become acquainted with the one another and with the social world in which they live, and as they form ideas about who they are, and make decisions about their goals and behaviours”
It was another morning commute to Highland Park elementary school on the poorly funded school bus that could have been from the 80’s. I had just boarded the bus as was sitting towards the back waiting for my group of friends to get picked up. I looked to my right to see the girl I had the biggest crush on at the moment. I was a shy kid, and never did I have the guts to talk to the girls I thought were really pretty, however, I was a big show off. I preferred to amuse the ladies with my reckless actions and ability to make people laugh with repetitive jokes. The bus soon stopped to pick up my friends. We instantly started talking about WWE and how one wrestler is better than another. It soon got very intense and the arguments started to become real. Some of the guys got up and started to demonstrate wrestling moves on each other. In order to secure my argument about how the jumping finisher is better than the chokeslam, I got up on my seat and ordered one of my friends to hold down my other friend. They were seated across from my seat, but they were one seat ahead of the cute girl I was in love with. As I climbed my seat I was
Tennis is a universal sport. Much like any other sport, tennis has its own unique set of terminology and scoring system. During a match that is broadcasted on TV viewers are usually given an opportunity to see a varying amount statistics. These statistics would the number of aces, first and second serve percentages, number of winners and errors, and so on. The average viewer would only go as far as knowing who won, but these statistics provide a much deeper into many underlying aspects of the match such as how a player won and the chances of winning. Meanwhile, the construction of probability formulas is present due the scoring system being hierarchically structured. For instance, points are gained throughout the service games; these points are which are nested within sets, as well as within the match. Thus, tennis is a game of mathematics that is highly involved with the chances of players winning the match
Many images comes to mind when a person thinks of the word sports, such as tennis, golf, basketball, football, baseball, swimming and bowling. Throughout these friendly competitive challenges of skill, fans watch as players do bouncing, hitting, passing, dribbling, throwing, or rolling a ball to knock over pins in order to score points. On the other hand there is a sport that remain where the object is to deliver blows to an opponent’s body or in order to achieve points. In boxing two powerful, strong, men or women, square off and contest in a intelligent punch off to see who will be knocked out first. This sport is boxing, a brutal exchange of jabs, hooks, uppercuts, and other swings that may eventually knock one athlete down to the canvass or even unconscious. Due to the high demand of injuries, short and long term neurological damage, the rules of professional boxing should be changed to Olympic standard rules.
Sports have professional all over the world. Men who have become proficient in certain games or sports have used their talent as an ostensible means of earning a livelihood. Since sports have got a large spectacular appeal, people are naturally willing to pay for witnessing the exhibition of skill or strength that the sportsman has acquired. The boxer, the wrestler, the cricketer, the footballer certainly have as much right to earn a livelihood by displaying their particular talent as the dancer or the actor may have.