How Did Adam Goodes Influence Australia

Earlier in the 1980s Australia formed an elite national sports system to compete with the best athletes in the world. In the 1990s Australia gained extensive amount of benefits from this system as Australia created a new generation of worldwide successful sports stars.

Adam Goodes is an Indigenous Australian famous for being a player for the Sydney Swans team in the Australian Football League (AFL). Being a well-known AFL player and also winning Australian of the year for his charity work with indigenous youth, Adam Goodes can be considered as a high profile Indigenous person. Throughout his career, he has used his status as a platform to address racial discrimination towards indigenous peoples within Australia, as he himself has received public discriminatory racial slurs. Through sport and community work – Adam Goodes has transformed indigenous culture, by challenging its race relations and empowering the next generation of Indigenous role models. Indigenous Australians continue to have an ongoing resistance to the processes of colonisation and also of emphasizing an indigenous presence within Australia.

This includes factors such as sporting competitions and television expansion. This has left a positive impact on Australia as a nation because of the way our lifestyle has changed in the ways of pop culture as we are now a country which is connected to others throughout the world. The increase in growth of popularity in sports throughout the years has lead to an increase of Australian viewers of sports making our national identity stronger in the terms of being a ‘sports mad’ country. Many clubs throughout Australia have been built by migrants from across the globe which helped build our culture of sports and a multicultural society therefore leaving a positive impact on the Australian people. The negative impacts that the increase of popular culture had on sports was it drew it big television companies to pay large sums of money to sponsor certain players, teams or competition leaving some of the many role models of the sporting industry to let down there fans. Television is also have left negative impact on sports as it allowed the companies to dictate when the games would be played to allow maximum audience. Many people would argue that this is a bad decision because the times may not be best suited to play that type of game and could injure the players because it could be too hot or too cold at the time. Another negative impact of television is it lead to Australians becoming increasing unfit

The article uses compelling first hand evidence of Adam Goodes quoting on the topic of the article from an optimistic angle to persuade the reader to agree with the article. The images accompanying the article show Goodes looking positive and proud, the second image giving a visual of the article itself. Goodes is further described as being a “legend” and “winning the admiration and respect of people around Australia.” This use of selective language aids the journalist’s point of view on the athlete. This article displays Goodes as being a commendable repient for the Australian of the Year Award for his “anti-racism advocacy and youth work,” both inside and outside his sporting career.

Cathy freeman an Australian track and field athlete was the first ever aboriginal commonwealth games gold medalist. Cathy was born on February 16th 1973, in Slade Point MacKay Queensland. She is now 43 years if age.

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In our society sports are a very important social construction. As sports continue to grow, they are becoming more integrated into the major spheres of social life. Sports have become an entity, due to the fact that they not only create entertainment and jobs; sports have become a huge platform for various causes. Sports are extremely important to our society and have very powerful influences. Though experiences vary from person to person, most people have some sort of experience with sports. I personally have experienced sports more from the spectator and participant stance, and have been impacted from each perspective a great deal. Compared to sophomore safety, Jamal Adams my sports experience has been very different from impact and perspective.

Cathy’s efforts have been rewarded all throughout her career. She was the first Aboriginal person to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal. The first Aboriginal women to compete in the Olympic Games, where she was recognised as Young Australian of the Year Award, at only age 17. After, in 1998 she was awarded Australian of the Year, being the first person to receive both awards. This was because of Cathy’s efforts where she won gold in both her 200-metre and 400-metre events in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. This was a very notable event, as Cathy went on to do a victory lap holding both the Australian flag, as well as the native Aboriginal flag (Australian of the Year Awards, n.d.).

Waleed Aly suggests that Australia takes sport more seriously than anyone else because it's an expression of humanity. Aly states that the impression of sport will always remain and that these impressions turn into stories told for generations. Through these stories, as Aly states, we have narratives and characters. Aly makes the point that narratives and characters are the very things culture is built on, it is what we as a country celebrate as our national story. Aly also suggests that we learn from the sportsmen and women of our country, that their values and morals are what truly influences our society.

Adam Lee Brown was a southerner that lived in Arkansas, born on February fifth, 1974 in Hot Springs. According to the novel, Larry, his father, also grew up there. He was the second of six children in a blue-collar Baptist family that went to church on Wednesday night and twice on Sunday. Adam had a twin sister named Manda, who was born three minutes ahead of him on February fifth, 1974, and it was the last time she beat him at anything, according to the Novel. But life wasn’t easy for Adam in his older years.

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Cathy’s has embedded her name forever in Olympic history, due to her special role in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. As already mentioned, Cathy has definitely achieved her mission and dreams, as she won the 400-metre final becoming the athlete of the Games, permitting her to attain and be given the honour to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium. Just eleven days before being crowned the 1st Aboriginal to win gold, Cathy was able to attend an Opening Ceremony that celebrated both a century of women’s participation, as well as the heritage of Indigenous Australia’s. By all Cathy’s achievements and gratitude towards Australia’s Sporting Society, allowed and permitted all Aboriginal Australian’s that determination and willpower can absolutely overcome any amount of preconception and

In modern day America sports are a very important part of our culture, because we are constantly watching sports and participating in sports. In any sport we watch mythology is present. The very act itself of playing the sport is reflective of old roman times when gladiators would kill for the crowds entertainment although today instead of killing its by hitting a home run or scoring a goal. “At their best, sports are about the extraordinary capacities of the human spirit.”(Wolter). These athletes can become extremely popular to the point were they are viewed as superhuman just like in myths, and there is a reason because the best athletes in their respective sport do what no average person could do. “The most legendary performances speak of almost super-human feats: the sub 4 minute mile, Michael Jordan’s flu stricken playoff

However this has not stopped them from honouring their sons deaths and carrying their goals. They have now partnered with the NRL to stage a game in Stuart’s memory.

Colonisation in Australia is followed by 5 steps, according to Professor Virgillio Enriquez. Step 1, includes the denial of culture within the indigenous society. This first step to this process of colonisation, also gives perspectives on the way colonisers display ignorance upon different cultures. This initial step also includes the gradual withdrawal of cultural practices, as indigenous people may develop close relationships with the colonised strangers and eventually adapt to their culture. Due to the advanced culture of the colonisers, some may become converted and eventually turn against their original culture. With the denial of indigenous culture, step 2 of colonisation was invoked, with the destruction of anything representing their