Roberts Papa Jack Research Papers

American writer Joyce Carol Oates is an expository writer that provides a successful informative piece about the dangers of boxing. This sport has been shadowed by events that influence athletes to prolong their careers with dangerous intuitions. In “The Cruelest Sport,” Oates implements exposition, narration, modes, and tone to effectively persuade her audience of the threats boxing impose.

In Joyce Carol Oates’, The Cruelest Sport, she argues that boxing is a cruel and savage sport and that it should not be practiced or even considered a sport. The title of this work The Cruelest sport leads to the questions: Why is it the cruelest sport? Is it because of the physical injuries? Or is it because of the corruption? Oates argues that because the ultimate goal of boxing is to injury someone, it is a barbaric sport. Boxing is the only sport where two men climb into a ring and fight each other like animals. Boxing is harmful because of the injuries, wounds, and deaths that occur during every fight. Victory is usually when one of the fighters is knocked out. Victory is usually achieved when one fighter is unconscious. Boxers fight

The main plot of the story starts with a successful boxer in the roaring twenties. James J. Braddock fought his way to becoming the best-known boxer ever. He is a very well known boxer in his day. The Great Depression takes a toll on everyone in the country. James has lost pretty much everything he worked his life for. This did not stop James from trying his best to provide for his family and even got the chance to fight in the ring once again. This has become the best comeback in the face of great hardships. He never gave up to shoot for his goal to beat the best-known boxer at the time, Max Baer. No matter how hard it was back home he fought his best to get his life back. He then got the nickname of “The Cinderella Man” for his comeback

For a book that is a must read in class, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes is a book that really is a must read. I remember hearing the term about giving someone a Jack Johnson, but I never knew where the term came from. For example, they use this saying in Anchorman and now that I know who the saying is about, I find it to be even funnier. Anyway, if you are someone who likes sports or history of sports, then you should read Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes because it gives a description as to how a young African American came to rise to the top at a time where this was unheard of. This is almost like an underdog story, but it turned out that Jack Johnson was the best regardless of this skin

Boxing has been around since 688 BC when someone had first struck another person in play. Today boxing is a household sport watched all over the world. Many of the professional boxers started at a young age learning techniques and the fundamentals of boxing. Boxing is an very aggressive sport with many blows to the face which could cause concussion and other serious brain injuries. By continuing to allow an adolescent to participate in this high-risk and unsafe sport it can put the child in harms way and has the potential to permanently damage the brain. Although some have argued that adolescents should start at an early age to acquire defense skills and that every sport has its own risk, it is clear that a sports which requires deliberate

The documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness” directed by Ken Burns casts light on the extraordinary life story of legendary boxer Jack Johnson. The documentary is about the barriers Jack Johnson had to overcome to satisfy his hunger for becoming the best and living “The American Dream.” Johnson had humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas and it was in those beginnings that glimpses of his bright future were slowly but surely beginning to show. Through out his life, he showed independence, relentlessness, ability to improvise, call attention to himself and get around rules meaning to tie him down. Jack Johnson was a self made man who had the drive to go forward and achieve what he wanted to achieve

“Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson,” is a documentary on the first black World Heavyweight Boxing Champion John Arthur “Jack” Johnson. In 1910, after years of trying to challenge white Heavyweight Champions, Jack won the title. The era in which Johnson fought was filled with racial tension and hostility (Film). Fears of the black race gaining control and power were high, and there were numerous efforts to keep blacks oppressed and separated from the white community. When one hears stories of past discrimination and oppression it is natural to compare them to today's society, and speak of past oppression as if they are non-existent. Even though there have been uprisings and revolts among minority groups to gain

For this biography I would like to talk about George St-Pierre. George St-Pierre, aka GSP is a professional mma (mixed martial arts) fighter and held the UFC world champ. GSP has a black belt in Kyokushin Karate, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. George was raised in St-Isidore, in Quebec (a town of only around 2,000 people) and was bullied by older kids for years, when he was 7 his dad put him in Kyokushin Karate. St-Pierre has said “life isn’t like the movies, when you’re only 8 or 9 and they are 12 there is still only one of you and three of them you can’t do anything, that is the sad reality.” When he was 12, he watched Royce Gracie fight in UFC 1 and decided to dedicate his life to making himself better in every way that he could. GSP added boxing,

The “Fight of the Century” between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao shared similarities with the Fight of Last Century between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in terms of grandeur and publicity. The fight between Johnson and Jeffries was painted on a background of racism and is viewed as a key event in the struggle against white supremacy. However, with the U.S. striving to eliminate racism, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao was not centered on racial conflict. Nonetheless, the fight on May 2, 2015 contained ingredients of social justice issues. “Mayweather is Jack Johnson without a redeeming side. Johnson, despite a polarizing persona, at least inspired pride among black folk. Mayweather's violent history with women renders him a hip O.J. Simpson,

Boxing has been around since the early B.Cs, it does not have a creator but it does have people who made it into the sport it is today. Legends say that Apollo was the original maker of boxing and fighting, but that was obviously just a myth. Jack Brownton is among those people that shaped the sport to what is today by implementing the first set of rules in 1743. John did this and unintentionally created a successful sport which many people love and find entertaining. Boxing was created and known as a manly art of self-defense but then it grew into fighting for prize money, awards, and glory. (“historyofboxing”) (“whitecollarboxing”) (“fightclubamerica”)( “fightclubamerica”) (“artofmanliness”.)

My intention with the story I told was to talk on the brief period in former world heavyweight champion James Douglas’s life, circa 1993-1994, where he was indulging after getting a twenty-four-million-dollar payday for his only championship defense against Evander Holyfield, a fight he lost by third-round stoppage. Much exists on his stunning victory over unbeaten champion Mike Tyson and the comatose state he slipped into after the post-boxing indulgence saw his weight escalate to four hundred pounds. The comatose state motivated him to get back into fighting shape upon waking up and make another run at the heavyweight crown, a comeback in which he went eight-and-one, losing only to Lou Savarese. But little exists detailing the short span in which he lived in luxury. I wanted to try to depict the things he did to occupy his time after losing the title.

Cassius clay, one of the world’s most distinguished boxers, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 7, 1942. Clays work ethic was apparent even in the early years of his life. As a child, he raced the school bus to school each morning. His friends would wave to him as the lead fluctuated based on the school bus’ stops. This work ethic extended to the classroom. Because of a learning disability, Clay had to work extra hard in school to not fall behind. Clay grew up with racial segregation all around him. These injustices sparked a passion in him to change the way people viewed African Americans: “I wanted to show that color didn’t matter”(Muhammad Ali: An American Legend). Clay’s boxing career began because of an incident when he was 12 years old. He and a friend rode their bikes to the Columbia Auditorium for The Louisville Home Show. When they were ready to go home, Clay discovered that his bike was stolen. Filled with rage, Clay wanted to retaliate. He found police officer, Joe Martin, who told him, “You better learn how to fight before you start challenging people that you’re gonna whoop” (Hauser 18). Martin became his coach, and although Clay never found the thief, he found a love of boxing that would continue throughout his life. Between the ages of 12 and 18, Clay

The aim of this project is to discuss the different angles and views about the sport Boxing. In this project, I will be discussing whether or not the sport “Boxing” should be banned as a professional sport, leisure activity or anything regarded as the traditional “Boxing”. I will be looking at boxing as a whole, locally and worldwide, the youth, and most importantly, how it differs in certain areas of the world, for example, How the change of normal `regular boxing` in the United Kingdom has transformed in certain, economic periphery countries, compared to others and how the state of a country may also affect how the sport is perceived. I intend to find out as a whole what people believe the decision should

Many of us are familiar with boxing. Some people may hate it, while others may love it. Regardless of what your prospective is of this particular sport, a large majority of people have been influenced by it in one way or another if you have ever been a witness or involved in a simple fisticuffs. So, with that said, this essay is set to breakdown the three different styles of boxing.

The first text is Hurricane directed by Norman Jewison, Hurricane is about a man named Rubin Carter who’s dream is winning the middle weight boxing title but all came to a crash when some unsuspected murders happend.