Structuralism and Reality in Wrestling Essay

In the first 20 seconds of the match, I had the first take-down. I was working crossfaces, cheap tilts, and everything else I knew after my takedown. Then, I did what I do best and gave him a swift, hard crossface and cradeled him up. Squeezing with all my strength and might it took about 7 seconds of him being on his back and he was pinned! It took a total of 55 seconds to pin my first opponent at state.

In order to fully understand the creation of American Sign Language (ASL), it must be understood that it is a form of communication. That means every sign has a meaning that is culturally bound just like languages in oral communication. That also means that the language has a distinctive origin. In fact, ASL carries “several linguistic features that are similar to spoken languages” (Rosen, 2008) such as the presence of homonyms and its constant evolution (Shaw & Delaporte, 2011). The unique concept about ASL, though, is that it actually has very strong ties and connections with the French Sign Language, also known as LFS. This connection is explained by Delaporte & Shaw (2009) and Shaw & Delaporte (2011) as being due to how ASL was formalized in the U.S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet with the help of a deaf French professor named Laurent Clerc who used LSF. Because “LFS

Most girls don’t pay money to roll around on the ground with sweaty guys. Yet that is exactly what I did this last July. No, it’s not what you’re thinking; I went to wrestling camp. Wrestling is a sport that I’ve always wanted to try, but my shyness and insecurity held me back. This year I decided that I will no longer allow other people’s opinions affect my own decisions. Joining wrestling is the first major step I’m taking to change my life.

My first varsity college wrestling match was short but a success. Prior to the match we had to drive five hours to Olivet Michigan to wrestle in the tournament we were competing in. We left after class on Friday around 3:30, so we can get to the hotel and have time to relax. I was super enthusiastic all the way there. It was my first match on varsity in college! I knew I had to get the win to start off my college career.

The author mainly provides logical appeals in the article to show his research on the topic. “Sign Languages stand apart from the many

I started off young when I began to like wrestling. I would wrestle with my giant doll of the WWE wrestler Randy Savage. My parents would see me all around the house wrestling with that doll, and everyday they knew I was going to wrestle. As soon as middle school cam along I joined, I wasn’t the best in those years but I still tried my hardest. Then highschool came along, my skill from middle to high school grew tremendously. In 2006, I graduated with three district Championships and two regional Championship titles.

Football season just ended, meaning I had a couple weeks to recoup until my favorite season started--wrestling. Wrestling has run in the family for decades, each generation breaking a record or making it to state. With the few weeks to recoup, I picked up some extra hours at work. I clean at the local YMCA, so I don’t have much interaction with kids or anyone really, but I like it that way.

When performing a rhetorical analysis of a writing, the reader is identifying: the situation, the writer’s purpose, the writer’s claims, and the writer’s audience. These are questions that reader must ask if he or she wants to understand and converse with the author’s statements. To identify each specific step of a rhetorical analysis the reader will have to ask him or herself a series of questions. For identifying: the situation ask “what is the writer's motivation?”; the writer’s purpose, “what is the writer wanting to reader to think about?”; the writer’s claim, “What is the writer’s main and minor claim?”; and the writer’s audience, “who is the author’s intended reader?”.

Neo- Aristotelian is the first formal method of rhetorical criticism formed by the communication field (Foss, 2009). In the year of 1925, Herbert A. Wichelns detailed the central features of the Neo- Aristotelian method in “The Literacy of Oratory” (Foss, 2009). Before Wichelns’ method, there was no guideline to how properly conduct Criticism (Foss, 2009). This method is commonly used for analyzing speeches and other spoken discourses given to an audience of any sort. Neo- Aristotelian involves four steps: choosing the artifact, analyzing the artifact, formulating a research question and lastly, writing the essay. The difference from Neo- Aristotelian criticism and other criticism methods can be found in one of the steps, which is analyzing the artifact

As I sat down and closed my eyes. I was imagining the tropical moisture grasp my skin which brought the cooling sensation to my body. I could feel the light breeze swiftly make its way to me every so often. As I took a deep breath I felt something odd of this situation. The humidity was greater than most tropical islands. And instead of the refreshing scent of the ocean, the taste and smell of sweat of multiple bodies filled my mouth and lungs. My mouth and lips were dry as a desert, I could feel the hard chapped film creating on my lips. I was dehydrated and quenched water. The confusion of where I was, became set off when an alarming whistle blew and I heard “Get up Ali!” in an aggressive voice; I realized this was no tropical island paradise, rather the soul sucking atmosphere of the John Champe High School wrestling room. I am back into reality as the voice of my wrestling coach ringed back through my head.

Waking up early in the mornings has never been my strong suit. There comes a time though where you have to. During wrestling there are three big tournaments, and that is Districts, Regions, and State. Today was the day for Districts. Approaching there in Canton, South Dakota I have to weigh a certain amount. Luckily I got passed that part so, so far so good. After weigh-ins is when the tournament actually starts.

Before English 1103, I was able to read passages and comprehend the general message. Oftentimes during seminars, I would realize that I missed important details that altered the meaning of the text and the perception of a character. Overall I was not an in-depth reader and lacked the skills to do so. The introduction to Notice and Focus and So what/And so required me to find a quote that caught my attention then voice my opinion. In addition to ranking them of importance and why I selected them. These strategies gave me the steps towards thinking about the passage sentence by sentence and then holistically. By doing so I began to develop a foundation to enhance my perception of the passage. The Rhetorical Triangle is another strategy that heighten

Wrestling is sixth most popular sport in high school based off of participation, there are 269,514 high schoolers that compete in wrestling. Not only do high schoolers participate in wrestling but so do adults. There are many reasons why people love to wrestle including the physical aspect and the mental challenge. It is not clear when or where wrestling first originated, but it is believed the sport of wrestling evolved from hand to hand combat in the mesopotamian days. From then many different types of wrestling have formed including Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling and many others. The reason there are so many different types of wrestling is because of how many people love the sport. People love this sport for countless different

What have I gotten myself into? I have always loved to volunteer for my children’s activities, but I had no idea what the next four years had instore for me. My family’s lives were consumed with wrestling from November to March. What first started out as the enjoyment of watching my son wrestle and getting to know the other parents’ on the team, turned into a collaboration to feed and support the team. The first few years I had help from a few other moms, but my son’s senior year I was dubbed, “Team Mom”, and it was up to my husband and I to get everything done. Wrestling week started with Thursday shopping, Thursday Night dual matches, Friday Night lunch making and breakfast prepping to finish off the week with all day Saturday Tournaments.

The signifiability of language is one of the most vital foundations of human signification. It means our capability to assign meaning to the world in which we find ourselves surrounded. In summary the signifiability of language is the meaning-donating function of language. According to Pierre Bourdieu, language allows us to see certain things and prevents us from seeing other things in a specific way. He believes that our vision and understanding of the world is indistinguishably related to our language about the world. (Bourdieu 1982d, 16)