The Death Of Benny Paret Rhetorical Analysis

“When I was seven I had an answer to this question that made sense to me….if I was the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament” (Beah 218). A Long Way Gone is a memoir of a child soldier who is the author himself Ishmael Beah. Beah around the ages of twelve to thirteen grew up in Sierra Leone during its civil war. During his story, Beah talks in a tone that is straight to the point, however many devices help the reader imagine his loss of innocence. Beah uses a series of flashbacks, symbols and motifs to illustrate his loss to his readers.

There is a huge debate going on today about gender. Society believes you’re a boy if you like blue, and like to play sports and go hunting; and you’re a girl if you like pink and have long hair and pig tails and play with Barbie dolls. Society has forced us to choose between the two. I believe that both women and men can both have it all. As Dorment says, ‘competing work life balance and home as much as women’. (Dorment 697) I believe in this article Richard Dorment, has argued his opinion very well, I think both men and woman equally need to be involved in housework as well as taking care of the children. In today’s world were judging who were going to be even before were born. Throughout this article Dorment effectively convinces his audience that men and women should be equal by using statistics and emotional stories, Dorment uses personal stories and extensive research to make readers believe in his credibility, and lastly Dorment employs the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos effectively.

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

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

Norman Mailer uses imagery to negatively depict boxing. This passage is based upon Benny Parent and Griffith, who are club fighters. Mailer uses imagery to describe the violence of the fight. Motifs that are used in this passage are death, simile, and animalistic imagery. Mailer witnesses the tragic death of Paret. Through many motifs, Mailer is able to have an effect on his audience, allowing them to feel the same horror.

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

Elliott J. Gorn’s The Manly Art is a unique book that tells readers the origins of boxing in American culture. The book was published in 1986 by Cornell University Press, the book discussed the development of boxing and American society. Gorn takes sport history, a commonly misunderstood and misinterpreted topic and wrote a book that not only was easy to read but allowed readers to gain knowledge on the sport. Gorn says “To understand prize fighting, I have discovered, is necessarily to understand something about nineteenth-century America. Ideology, ethnicity, social class formation, violence, urbanization, gender roles, religious world views, productive relationships, all are a part of sports history in general and boxing in particular.” (Gorn, pg. 12)

Ronald Schechter and Liz Clarke recently released a book entitled Mendoza The Jew: Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism. Based on a true story, the graphic novel follows prizefighter Daniel Mendoza. Born in 1765, Mendoza’s role in the British community was very limited. Many Jews were banned in Britain until after 1656. Even so, after the banning was unenforced, most Jews flew “under the radar” and lived in some of the poorest parts in England. Although they were technically part of society, they were treated as if they were not. Throughout the course of the book, we see the struggle that Daniel Mendoza goes through to achieve his goals. Here, we follow Mendoza on his journey to success.

Robert Cohn best boxer at princeton.Hates fighting. A Jew. Spider Kelly taught them all to fight really well despite their size/weight.Spider made him work to hard and fight too many matches when he seriously hated boxing.However,his last year he studied hard,read,started wearing glasses.Everyone one forgot the “middleweight boxing champion”.

Cousins provides that the nature of prize boxing itself is the main factor. He first bring up the style of the fighting that prizefighting consist of. Cousin makes the point that the proponents of the boxing “searched for killers and sluggers and maulers” as opposed to boxers skilled with the technical aspects of pugilism. He links this with fatalities by stating that although a man can take a punch repeated impacts will cause damage and has a risk of killing the man being stuck. Next he also loops the fans into the nature of boxing.

However one weakness that was quickly discovered by the Boxer and by the Western powers ,was their introductory rituals before battle. The western powers used this time to attack with their weapons giving them the advantage in the fight. Both group learned to improvise their techniques such as the Boxers gaining more guns in battle.

Fighting 3-5, 5 minute rounds, the sport demands high levels of endurance from an athlete who is required to perform his lethal best from bell to bell.

which is a common method of winning. A person can go a whole fight without throwing a single punch