Bill Buford's Analysis

In order to be accepted into a discourse community, a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. In this paper I will prove that I entered the discourse community of my high school soccer team by acquiring knowledge, establishing my credibility, and learning the game I love. In other words, I will be using the ethos, logos, and pathos appeals. I love to play soccer and watch the professionals who play on TV. I have played since I was ten years old and always played in a city league team. The requirements of being part of the team were simple but at the same time very hard. I was recently part of my high school soccer team, the Crowley Eagles. People might

Mr Birling thinks that the idea of social responsibility is ‘nonsense’. This is apparent in the line, “as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.” This simile compares the image of a hive of bees with people of all kinds mixed together as part of a community. Mr Birling sneers at this idea. He portrays himself as a ruthless character, who is obsessed with ‘titles’ and doesn’t care about anyone else who is lower class than him. It even disgusts him to think about having to be ‘mixed’ with the lower class; his capitalist views are strongly portrayed from the start of the

How much misery do you think you could go through without losing your mind? In

“I am here to start a fight, because I’m a man and that’s how I solve problems” (Phillips) The main argument presented in Brian Phillips’s essay “Man Up” is what ‘being a man’ means in the football world. In football, being a man means dealing with your problems and not being afraid to fight back physically. Phillips says that football players put on this tough guy act on the field, they fight like real men, and do not run from their problems. In this essay, Phillips argues against this idea of toughness by redefining it. All aspects of football, not just the player, but the networks and the fans treat football as a man’s sport. Phillips addresses mental/emotional issues as a problem in football by describing the abusive relationship between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. Since football is a man's sport, emotional issues are just unacceptable, but Phillips challenges this idea.

“What I see here, where the barracks used to be, at every barrack there was a pile of dead bodies, this is in your memory forever when someone asks how Buchenwald was you immediately see dead bodies again.”(Henry Oster)

A little background behind the movie, Green Street Hooligans, is that's about a college journalist drop out who moves to England to live with his sister but ends up joining one of the firms there, Green Street Elite. Usually firms don't take outsiders that they don't know very well, let alone an American. In this movie, one sees how the fights start during the soccer game and continue even after the game is over and sees how ruthless

Ellen is telling Matt not to think of the worst about their children in war, because they don’t know if anything negative has happened to them.

War played a large role in the formation of today’s society and the United States as a whole. Many wars have occurred that secured us our rights and way of life in this country. The Civil War stands out as one of the most well known and greatest victories of all time. John Buford became a well known heroic figure during his time in the Civil War, but his most greatest achievement was at Gettysburg. This was the time he made a monumental impact that turned this war upside down. John Buford proved himself worthy during his time there and greatly contributed to a successful win at Gettysburg due to his troops’ defensive skills against the Confederacy.

To shed light on a difficult and brutal moment in American history, authors James W. Parins and Daniel F. Littlefield compiled a two-volume book about the horrors of the Indian removal act. In it were bear witness to the atrocities committed against the “Five Civilized Tribes” as they are forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland. Parins and Littlefield give clear clinical accounts of the Cherokee Nation’s struggle in arguing for its national sovereignty as well as its failure to prevent the impediment by the state of Georgia into its territories. Disillusioned at any hope of repealing the influx of removal by Georgia, some Cherokees abandon their homes while others were forcibly removed. Those that did leave peacefully enough left with what they could take with them including those who were kept in bondage. Though bounded to the land in the Cherokee Nation, these slaves faced a precarious disposition much the same as their masters magnified only by their servitude which traveled with them. They suffered the same hardships and underwent the same ordeals on the great trek to new Indian Territory. Yet despite this knowledge, not much of what happened is widely presented to

Another letter Alston wrote to Brimley was from September third, 1918, he writes about praising black soldiers and their fight against the Germans. Alston wrote to Brimley that,

Borden, Douglas, and Trudeau all remain resilient in the face of political obstacles under their leadership, kept Canada as a united nation.

Bill Buford talks about what he has seen happening within the soccer crowds in England. He is unhappy with the repeated violence, and tired of the burden he feels he’s carrying. He dislikes the violent actions of ‘The Firm’, and wants to go home to New York. I however, have just finished work as a bouncer for a nightclub. The regulars there pretend to be superstars, which infuriates me. It’s raining heavily, making me sadder than usual. Riding my motorbike to a rival nightclub in Surfers Paradise, I park down the road. Talking to one of the bouncers, I enquire about job vacancies. A few minutes later I see something that shocks me. A drunk young man bleeding from his head! Another man comes out soon after, held by security guards in a vice-like

At first, Hall claims that Callum Gribbin, a young skillful soccer player, handles the pressure of playing at a high league such as Manchester United in a professional manner with the evidence provided from Gribbin’s Coach, Kenny Swain (Hall 2).However, later in his article, Hall asserts Callum Gribbin’s hot temper and lack of discipline leads Callum to rashly complain about the minimal playing time he once dealt with. When Hall provides the details of how Gribbin whined on twitter, it contradicts Hall’s argument that Gribbin handles the issues of being a skillful player professionally. Hence, the concrete evidence of the tweets written by Gribbin outweighs the remarks of the coach, Kenny Swain. Conversely, the author strengthens his stance

The book “Among the Thugs” from 1992 written by William Buford, describes Buford’s own experiences with hooliganism. The text is about the British football culture and the hooligan-ism that follows. Throughout the text, we follow the American Journalist Bill Buford, who is located at a train station in Cardiff, where he for the first time became acquainted with hooli-ganism. Hundreds of Liverpool supporters robbed the station, terrorized the area and fought with everything and everyone. His reaction to their loud behavior and performances over-whelms him a lot. Later in the text, Bill meets a united ultra from Manchester United's firm, Mick. After hanging out with him, Bill is persuaded to join the firm on matchday. This was the beginning of a whole new day for Bill Buford as a thug and a member of the firm. This analytical essay will be based on comments from Bill Buford experiences, the structure, language, receiver and the purpose of the text.

The idea of racism in English Football, particularly the Premier League, is nowhere near as old as racism in England or the rest of the United Kingdom for that matter. However, the Premier League is often times considered the world’s best league when it comes to football and draws the best talent from around the world. In the recent years, the league has seen a sizeable influx of players from outside Britain and Ireland, which shows a reflection of an increasingly commercialized game with a global reach. These incredible players are put on center stage week in and week out throughout England on the biggest public arenas and draw millions of faithful supporters to their home club’s stadium. However, even with an increase in the number of foreign-born players, racism is still very prevalent in the ever-growing sport. The reality is that football represents one of the tapestries onto which social achievements and problems, claims and counterclaims are ritually etched. The growing awareness of how racism is connected to football functions through a complicated framework which reveals it as a problem which is very much “out there” in wider society today. Racism does touch the game of football, its players, officials, and their millions of supporters and reinforces the notion that racism is still very ubiquitous in an England that is often times considered diverse and accepting.