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What if your best friend went on an adventure. They had everything they had ever wanted. They didn't tell you or their family where they were going or how long they would be gone. They just picked up and left. Would you respect their decision to not tell anyone their plans? Would you think that this was a good idea of theirs, or would you think that this was a stupid decision on their part? Well this is what Christopher McCandless did. In 1968 McCandless was born. He was born to a good, wealthy, and happy family. He had everything any child could ever wish for. He was smart, athletic, and had a good education. In June 1990 he completed collage. In July of 1990 Christopher McCandless left his family and almost all belongings, and didn't tell anyone where he was going, or how long he'd be gone. Three years later McCandless was found dead in a blue bus located in Alaska. He had died of starvation. He went off and, ¨lived his life.¨ McCandless went out and lived in the wild. While Christopher McCandless died peacefully, the question has arose on whether McCandless was a noble adventurer or an arrogant fool. The evidence from many stories and social media clearly states that McCandless was in fact an arrogant fool. Christopher McCandless was an arrogant fool because he was not prepared, he

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.

The ultimate goal of a boxing match is a knock out. The knockout punch brings satisfaction to the winner of the boxing math and the crowd. This one punch can make a fight exciting. However, if there is not a knockout punch, the fight is often times dull. After a knockout punch, one man loses consciousness while the other man dances around the ring raising his hands in victory and is swarmed by his coaches and the press. Oates continues to argue that boxing is the cruelest sport by comparing a boxing match to a tragedy. If a fight has no knock out by the end, it seems like the fight is missing something. The knockout punch is a cruel but key aspect to boxing which makes people love

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

When you see yourself living out your dream, the thought of what you're most passionate about pulls you in. Passions in one's life change based on what had affected that person. Dreams are defined to change. However, the benefits of these thoughts is that they belong to you and only you. Not one person's opinions matter but your own. Chris McCandless simply was living out his own ideal life, the way he wanted; not to the idea of his parents, his friends or of society. McCandless wanted to escape society and civilization which he felt was tying him down, while also trying to discover himself. McCandless is not by any means a wacko. He was simply defying society and its ideal expectation it holds upon us as a whole.

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.

The death of one is not worth the money earned from winning a fight. This is important to realize because the expense of one’s life is worth way more than the winnings of a cage fight. In “On Boxing,” Joyce asserts directly why she thinks boxing is not a humanized sport: “In the boxing ring, even in our greatly humanized times, death is always a possibility - which is why some of us prefer to watch films or tapes of fights already past, already defined as history” (source c). Joyce is stating that many watch tapes from the past when boxing first started because it was much safer then, than it is now. Also in “On Boxing,” Carol states directly her opinion for the sport boxing: “In no other sport can so much take

Gorn goes to discuss the rules and regulations of boxing, stating; “The two athletes settle on a site for the fight. Strip to their shirts, roll their sleeves up…” (Gorn, pg.37) By adding this information and going to such detail as he does; “At the end of the fight the boxers are bruised, disfigured, and covered with blood, which they spit out, vomit out, or drip from the nose.” allows the reader to get a feel for how violent these fights were but also to allow readers to dive into the fight with their feet first. Gorn goes on to discuss more fights and discusses ‘The Great

Silly promoters, always ready to set up the next fight. In this instance, they got it right. The ending of the fight with Chavez Jr. was instantly forgotten and forgiven as Max Kellerman segued Alvarez’s post-fight ring interview with a question about Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KO’s). The anticipation in the crowd grew with boos, applause and excitement as the arena screen displayed a compilation of GGG dismantling opponents. Seriously, you can’t script this folks. Or, as the promoters showed us, you can.

In the novel, The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, Alfred Brooks is training to be a Contender and will learn a very important lesson in his life that is necessarily just about boxing. At one point in the novel, Alfred is training hard to be a contender. Alfred learns that in order to be a Contender he must put in the hard

Using the analogy “take a punch on the chin”, Murphy draws attention to the similarities between Adam Goodes and Muhammad Ali, how they were both fighters and held much respect from their fellows and well as their opponents. To further demonstrate the comparison between the two, Murphy utilizes the alliteration “hardest hits” to emphasize the strength and resilience of both Adam Goodes and Muhammad Ali and their unwavering belief in their heritage and culture and how they would always stand up against the emotional hits they would receive. Through this, Murphy is able to point out the similarities between Adam Goodes and a universally acknowledged fighting legend such as Muhammad Ali and get readers part of the booing crowd to view him as a

The sport of boxing is a conflict sport that causes thousands of injuries and even deaths every year. As with any conflict sport harm to a participant is expected, but when the injury stretches to the extreme of a death it is a shocking outcome that involves many investigations. These investigations point fingers at both plausible and implausible causes this deaths. Norman Cousins points out the potential causes during the Griffith v. Paret Match that resulted in the death of Benny Paret in his essay Who Killed Benny Paret? Cousins in Who Killed Benny Paret?

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 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.

IM has had no voice in whether or not he wanted to enter the boxing ring, or participate in the battle royal. In Tewarie’s article we learn that the Battle