Foul Shouts Essay

I find myself here a few years later, looking back on those times when I thought that I would never grow old, but here I am asking myself, “Why did I give up a sport that I enjoyed so much?” ,or “Why did I join wrestling again after a year of failure?”. After reading Grazer’s work, I think I have an answer. It wasn’t entirely because I didn’t want to upset my father that I quit basketball and joined wrestling, it was because I knew all I needed to know about basketball

In Graff’s essay he speaks of how being introduced into the sports community taught him

In,”Slam, Dunk, & Hook”, the author writes about a group of boys playing a game of basketball with a lot of emotion. The author states in line 24-26,”When Sonny Boy’s mama died He played nonstop all day, so hard our backboard splintered.” The players are filled with anger that is caused by all the tragedies that keep occurring in their lives. The anger started to pile on so much that they started to play the game as way to let out the anger instead of letting it take over their actions and lead them to act out in violence.

Jesse Owens is a track star for America who broke three world records in 1936 Olympics games. Rudy steiner said, “ I was being Jesse Owens”(58). Rudy tells Liesel that she can not beat him because he is Jesse Owens.His confidence could be illustrate the same as Jesse Owens in Germany with the hierarchy of the Nazis. Rudy’s confidence makes him believe that if Jesse Owens has confidence than he could have it too. Rudy bragging to Liesel expressing to her that she would never beat him in a race illustrates that he could beat anyone who tries to race him. In addition, Rudy portrayed his confidence with Liesel. Rudy comments, “How about a kiss, Saumensch”(241). Rudy’s confidence led him to believe that Liesel would kiss him. Every time when rudy does something good for Liesel , he tends to ask Liesel the same question. Rudy’s greatest desire is a kiss from Liesel. The desire of a kiss is a boost of Rudy’s confidence. Confidence could control your actions from good to bad

By contrasting a player’s ardent exuberance for basketball with his xxx disappointment in the poem “American Hero,” Essex Hemphill reveals the athlete’s conflict between his enthusiasm for the game and his resentment toward his superficial fans. For instance, the author emphasizes the player’s fervent frame of mind, “[having] nothing to lose... / I let the tension go. / Shoot for the net. / I slam it through...” (Hemphill 1, 8-9, 11-12). Hemphill illustrates the competitor’s energetic passion for basketball by describing his game-winning skills and slick athleticism. In contrast, the poet depicts the player’s resentfulness toward the cheering mass as he muses “I scored / thirty-two points this game / and they love me for it” (13-15). Despite

In today’s society, forgiveness is sometimes a touchy subject. Some believe forgiveness is not necessary, while others follow the belief in the Bible, “forgive and forget.” However one looks at this subject, forgiveness can be difficult in certain instances, especially between a coach and his players. When conflicts arise between these two subjects, there are instances when forgiveness can take years, sometimes many years. In the book, Bleachers, the author, John Grisham, shows the reader the inside of this quest. The main characters, Neely Crenshaw and Eddie Rake, battle inner conflict as they struggle through ambivalence toward one another. Neely, the All-American football player returns home after 15 years when he discovers his coach is

His comparisons to the football team such as, “Some of you might burst out of these locker rooms today and be on the short end..” pg(4)display ethos because it helps that he used one of the most popular sports to bing attention to the class of

It’s often an uphill fight. The ego-driven culture of basketball, and society in general, militates against cultivating this kind of selfless action, even for members of a team whose success as individuals in tied directly to the group performance. Our society places such a high premium on individual achievement, it’s easy for players to get blinded by their own self-importance and lose a sense of interconnectedness, the essence of teamwork.”

“The more I learns about the history, the ways, and language of my people, the better my understanding of who I am.” quote by Jeremy Thompson, who found lacrosse were not only just a game that been played just for fun, but play it to entertain the creator of it. This essay will be discussing about what the quote were acually meant, why it's necessary for each person to learn their fastest to understand their present & who we are, and some examples of how my past has help me understand who I am.

After losing against his former school’s basketball team Coach says that the game was not worth Arnold’s concussion. Arnold jokes saying that he would go over to Wellpinit if he could and play them . “ The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” (Alexie, 148) This tells us that Coach notices how Arnold is, and how determined he is to play for his team against his former teammates, and that is showing something that, he is very dedicated to his new team and will do anything to prove so. “So Coach and I sat awake all night. We told each other many stories. But I never repeat those stories. That night belongs to just me and my coach.” (Alexie,149) This leads me to conclude that a player-coach relationship is very special, because Arnold is motivated by his Coach and his teammates to do better because they believe in him and this changes his own character perspective. Arnold gets influenced by his team, and his coach who are big supporters of him and actually respects him even if he fails because they will be there for him every step of the way as a team. This really makes me feel that it is one of the most significant moments because a team are like brothers who stick together no matter what, and it really does affect Arnold in a

Marc Darko had reached the basketball stadium, and another devastating vision flashed before my eyes. Marc Darko thought he was going to faint, but he had handled it and kept his consciousness. He decided to camp out at the top of the bleachers because it was all dark there. As he climbed to get to the top, the smooth, plastic chairs led his way. Next, Marc Darko sent text messages to the Chinese Mob telling them he was waiting for them at the stadium. Then, Marc Darko received a text back. The text back stated, “We are two minutes out; we’ll be there soon.” Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him.

Thesis: This paper argues that basketball is the most difficult sport, for a number of reasons that will be pointed out through the literature on the game, the coaches, and the players.

Pat Riley concludes the book with a chapter named ‘One from the Heart’. He mainly talks about different warriors from the world. From Earvin Johnson, a basketball player, to Rafe Esquith, a man who provided immigrant kids in a hard neighborhood a better education. But the thing I took from this chapter was how he says, “A basketball game is an event-filled forty-eight-minute stream of possessions-shots, blocks, rebounds, steals, passes, fast breaks-just like a year in the life of family or a business is a 365-day-a-year event stream. “ He says it is not humanly possible to win on every possession, to score every time you get the ball, or to block your opponents shot every time the ball is in their hands. No matter what sport or your role in life, there are always smaller encounters within the larger whole. The quote I took from that chapter that Riley states is, “Each small victory improves the odds that you will

One of the most common fears for public today is the fear of being forgotten. In the present media, pop stars and athletes are worshipped and praised; incredible athletes like Michael “Air” Jordan and the “Pistol” Pete Maravich are inducted into the Hall of Fame, where the best of the best go to be remembered. Even the tombstones of loved ones often echo their final moments, eulogizing their time on Earth. Human nature naturally yearns for identity and a sense of “eternity” in things deemed worthy and satisfying by the world. Olympic athletes who dedicate their lives to working hard are stripped of their medals; their scandal of the usage of steroids and other enhancement drugs leave a stain on their otherwise reputable, “god-like” reputation. What one does in their last moments often leave an impression and final cast for their true character and virtues. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, the author knows the importance of “lasts” in the novel and uses the last moments of characters to explore common themes of human nature and to further develop a character. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne of The Scarlet Letter uses literary artistry, the final decisive acts of Reverend Dimmesdale, and the last exposition and the responses of the Puritan community to further explore the character of Dimmesdale to ultimately convey a message about value of virtues, perserverance, and the hypocrisy of human nature.

Have you ever imagined a white South African begging for money from a black man on the street? Can you believe this black man throwing few coins at him? That is what I saw when I traveled in South Africa in 1998. In fact, South Africa has undergone a rapid and fundamental change. In four years - from 1990 to 1994 - the country succeeded in getting past a painful transition from an autocratic white minority rule to a black majority rule. Its political and economic institutions have been restructured, its society transformed. Despite the fact that the racially-based segregationist policy, Apartheid, has been smashed, the battle between the whites and the blacks has just begun.