Exemplification Essay: The Electric Bill

Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though investigations reflect the role of the referee, Paret’s manager, and the doctor’s examinations as the main cause of Paret’s death, Cousins blames Paret’s death on the people that attends boxing matches to see a man get hurt or knockout because he

To begin, the warden informs Jimmy about his father death, Jimmy is left in disbelieve. “Just as well, because your family doesn’t want you to attend the funeral service (Baca 233).” Then, when Jimmy is released from prison he uncovers that his uncle Julian, called the warden, requesting that Jimmy dose not attend the funeral of Damacio Baca. Julian’s action is due to Damacio leaving Jimmy a twenty thousand dollars insurance policy for Jimmy, so he could a hire a good lawyer and defend his case. However his uncles took the money and spent it on a liquor license (Baca 235). Jimmy realizes prison is killing his humanity, he could not cry to grieve over his father’s death even though is emotions were genuine. Finally Jimmy honors Damacio by vowing that prison system will not break his sprite or stain his

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

James J. Braddock once said, " I have to believe that once things are bad, I have to change them". The movie Cinderella Man is about Braddock rising from a poor, unsuccessful boxer to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The historical background to his life and career was during the same time period as the Great Depression. James Braddock was not always the boxer he is now known to be, in the 1920’s he had lost one third of his fights and people referred to him as a “bum” which is the lowest name you could label a boxer at the time. Despite a broken hand and the hatred the crowd brought upon him, Braddock never hesitated to do his best on the rink. However, when the

By the time James began training to fight the world champion, Max Baer, who had already killed two people in the ring, he had a very large fanbase and almost everyone was on his side. Mae was extremely against this idea - everyone believed James would be Max’s third kill in the ring because they

James however, knows what he is doing which is boxing because he is one of the best at it. James was in peak physical condition with an explosive power behind him, which he made full use of. Towards the middle of both of these stories, both Jurgis as well as James sustained cataclysmic injuries that changed their lives forever. “It transpired that he had twisted a tendon out of place, and could never have gotten well without attention” (Sinclair 121). With Jurgis’s injury, he was unable to work, but this caused an adverse effect on his health that made him weak and frail. “This time, however, Jurgis did not have the same fine confidence, nor the same reason for it. He was no longer the finest looking man in the throng, and the bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were seedy, and he looked miserable” (Sinclair 125). When Jurgis was finally able to return to work from his injury he was no more the biggest worker there, which meant the employers no longer bee-lined to him, and this caused a dramatic strain on income. While Jurgis suffered these problems, he stayed at home then forced two children to start

He focuses not on the match, but on the industry-putting people who are able to kill in a ring for profit. Cousins is extremely condemning of the sport, not blaming Paret’s manager or even Emile Griffiths, the man who delivered the blows that eventually led to Paret’s death. Instead, Cousins approaches it factually, stating matter-of-factly, “Benny Paret was killed because the human fist delivers enough impact, when directed against the head, to produce a massive hemorrhage in the brain” (Cousins). Cousins is completely against this sort of fighting, and declares that it is a legitimate killer. He furthers his point by addressing the fact that, “You put killers in the ring and the people filled your arena. You hire boxing artists… and you wind up counting your empty seats” (Cousins). In that passage, the juxtaposition and antithesis of killers versus “boxing artists” makes the significance of the business aspect clear, and in turn showing how higher value is placed in money and a good show over a person’s life. Furthermore, Cousins presents his arguments with superb diction, using phrases like, “prevailing mores” to appeal to a higher educated audience. His audience is not anyone who wants to know about the fight, but rather those who share in his opinions and believe there is a fault in

Boxing is by far one of the most entertaining sporting events world-wide. There is just something about watching two individuals exchange primitive aggression out on each other. Norman Cousins Who Killed Benny Paret demonstrates the implicit hazards of the bloody sport called boxing. The story goes that, Benny (Kid) Paret, a prized fighter was coupled up against fighter Emile Griffith for a twelve round brawl on March 24th, 1962. Paret would soon suffer some serious injuries that placed him in a coma for nine days, and eventually lead to his death. In the wake of his loss, whom or what, is actually to blame for Paret’s death now comes into question.

Comparison essay Jacob and the Central Character from Battle Royal “The Story of the Good Little Boy” and “Battle Royal” are two very unusual story, written in different era, with distinctive content, both are describing the lives of two boys, one white, the other black, both are striving to achieve goals, and be recognize for the decent things they have accomplished. Although, both stories appears to be unrelated, the moral of the story are similar, which is good or bad things happen whether you are good or bad. In The Story of the Good Little Boy, Jacob Blivens wrestle throughout his life because he struggles being “good,” without recognition. The story has a sad end, but as your read on you come to the conclusion the boy may not have been as good as he thought he was.

Alfred then was in the city and found Donatelli’s Gym. He starts going there often and wants to start a career out of boxing. He meets new boxers and builds relationship with other boxers. He gets sometimes comments from people about his boxing career and has 3 boxing fights. At his second, Donatelli, the gym owner and trainer told him he cannot fight anymore since he doesn’t want him hurt and because he wasn't that good.

After he got fired, he stopped earning money and had to leave their house with supplies they had left. They travel from town to town carrying their valuables on their backs, and looking for work or handouts. Times are rough for people of the time, and many don’t survive the winter, including Tom’s wife. During their journey to survive the winter and look for work, Toms wife Agnes revels she is pregnant. As they walk her water breaks in the woods and they are nowhere near other people.

Consolidated has a few problems with their inventory control. They have a purchasing agent doing periodic checks of their inventory without reviewing their history and the demand. The lack of a computer inventory system is another problem that Consolidated must address. To design a system for consolidated the company needs to make some changes to its structure and organization.

Renewable energy can help everyone in the United States of America. If the government helps fund more renewable energy projects it can give a major advantage to the United States and we can make a major profit off of being the first to truly invest. Not only that but renewable energy projects will create millions of jobs for americans employing the hard working americans who deserve it the most. Most importantly though renewable energy will help protect our environment and help keep our planet a healthy place for all plants and animals to live. The United States needs to start funding more renewable energy projects so we can create millions, help save our planet, and to be the first to truly start investing.

Renewable energy is the source of the future energy developments. We are seeing a dramatic shift in the attitude toward renewable energy throughout the world. Many countries turning towards cleaner methods and more safe, practical, and efficient. Countries such as Norway and iceland are almost one hundred percent run on renewable resources with clean energy and air. Focusing specifically on the United States, we have an issue with change and die to the fact of political and economic pressures we have a true wicked problem in our midst.

As the impacts of climate change continue to worsen, the time to make large-scale alterations in our way of life is now, but hesitancy is creating roadblocks for these necessary adjustments especially within the energy industry. Al Gore, former Vice President, Congressman, and presidential candidate, attempts to promote change in this sector by proposing a goal for 100 percent renewable energy in ten years. Gore delivers his speech to an audience advocates and skeptics at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on July 17, 2008, and aims not only to persuade skeptics of the problems we are facing, but also to show skeptics and advocates alike how we can completely rethink our electric grid in ten years. Al Gore creates a convincing argument in 2008 for the case of switching the United States’ power grid to one run by renewable energy within ten years by implementing strategic logical appeals which include creating a sequential progression of facts and challenges, while lacing daunting scientific evidence of the time throughout his argument.