What Football Taught Me And Suicide 's Forgotten Victims

In the personal narrative “My Body, My Weapon, My Shame,” Elwood Reid retells his experience playing football for a Big Ten college. He goes through practice with intense ferocity and cares little about physically abusing his body. However, despite his strength and athletic prowess, the coaches only view him as something of their possession rather than a human being. From the practices to the training room to the parties, Reid describes with reluctance and candor the sad reality of belonging to someone else. As a football player who lends his body out every single play, from whistle to whistle, enduring the pain and fatigue from both physical and mental abuse, he does not even get the satisfaction of being called a human. Through similes and

“ Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being a athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life.”

Mr. Gladwell had only concentrated his thought on head-injury based issues. Van Der Galien clever use of this quote shows the reader his opponets side, while the reader knows partially about Van Der Galien’s belief on the issue. Van Der Galien then argues or expresses his opinion about the previous quotation. “Not true, Mr. Gladwell: the only needed justification for college sports is that they teach students and athletes to be the best they can be.” (Van Der Galien,

One of the most significant influences upon high school athletes can often be found in professional athletes; these experts can offer an example to live up to, and advice to hardworking student athletes. As Thomas Jefferson football players looked forward to Winter Break, they received a special surprise, offering them inspiration and thoughts to carry them through their off-season, through the visit of famed Broncos player DeMarcus Ware. On Tuesday, December 8th, in addition to providing a stellar pep-talk and kind words to TJ’s players, Ware also presented an abundance of new equipment to TJ’s football team, leaving many players already eager to begin the new season.

In recent news, a woman’s tragic story has gone viral. Brittany Maynard is a woman with terminal cancer who has announced that she will end her suffering and die with dignity through the process of physician assisted suicide. She is making the dramatically difficult decision to do this and she is not taking it lightly. However, the majority of the public is extremely outraged by her personal decision. They are outraged because they see her giving up on life and on her friends and family. However, she says that this decision is completely the opposite. Whatever views anyone else has on the topic, everyone in this situation, whether it be very low quality of life due to old age, terminal illness or chronic pain that is sure to end in tragedy,

“Football has actually helped my life out so much, without football I don’t think I’d be as far as I am,” Thayer said. “Understanding the game of football is one thing, but it actually teaches you how to be a man in some circumstances and how to grow up a lot faster. I’ve had coaches that are out here who help me daily and they help me understand that everything’s not going to go your way and when it doesn’t go your way keep your head up and keep pushing and that’s when things come your way. So, I think football has taught me a lot and it’s actually driven me all the way here and to be able to go from high

Sports are a significant part of society and spectators enjoy particular events regardless of the type. However, there are many players who develop special working and social relationships with whom they are participating regardless of the type of sport. The relationship and how people interact with one another can be the determination of how successful a team can be. The particular film based on a true story that I chose is titled When the Game Stands Tall. This film consists of a high performing football team of De La Salle High School in the state of California. Jim Caviezel portrays the head coach (Bob Ladouceur) as a man with such vision and passion that goes beyond the fundamental principles of coaching the game of football. The football team had won 151 games without being defeated which is the highest winning record a team has had in the game of football. The film shows the internal struggles of the players in their lives as people, and how they perform on the field. It also shows the external tragic difficulties that they face while they attend and play for De Le Salle High School. In the movie, the head coach helps the students/players by not only coaching them but also showing them how to live a flourishing life by committing to endure difficult life situations and the way to overcome them. He helps teach the principles of brotherhood and companionship with the team that they build. In the movie, the head coach and the staff had taught the players

American Football: The Most Dangerous Sport An F-16 pilot endures a G-force of 9 when he takes off; American football players endure a G-force of 150 on the field(Football Physics). The debate about how dangerous some sports are a hot-topic in society. No matter what level of competition you study you will find football is the most dangerous sport. Between the amount of deaths and length of an injury there is a lot that could make sports dangerous.

The debate between Mark A.R. Kleinman and Ira Byock discuss the topic of suicide whether it should be legal or not; Kleinman is arguing for suicide to be legal, which will come to the conclusion that suicide should be allowed for anyone and not have any punishment for an attempt. Byock argues the opposing argument that suicide should be illegal, but the focus of this argument will be Kleiman’s point of view. The exigency, the problem that can be fixed, is viewed in this argument that it is the people’s right to kill themselves and this is due to the depression and/or the feeling of thinking they are better off dead. The audience directed towards this argument is people committing suicide and those who oppose the people committing the ‘crime’ of suicide. Constraints, the biases, in this situation would be ethical beliefs and the people who have witnessed or experienced these suicidal thoughts. Kleinman’s reasoning is the use of emotion and human rights are seen to enhance his argument. Therefore suicide should not be legal, it should be treated instead of encouraged.

Published on December 6, 2010 by Thomas Lake, “The Boy Who Died of Football” explains a period of life of a 15-year-old boy named Max Gilpin. Max is portrayed as a shy and obedient child that strived to please everyone. He was a sophomore student and football player at Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Kentucky. Lake writes that Max was not pressured to please only two parents, but also his two step parents, “They had family meetings, four against one…” (1). Although he played football, it hadn’t always been a passion of his. He was persuaded many times by his parents to continue football in middle school. Lake states, “...gradually he came to embrace football” (1). Wanting to please his

During the years of 2012 and 2013, roughly 1.1 million high school athletes played the sport of football (Jeffrey, 1). That number is extremely large in comparison to other sports such as soccer, basketball, and even baseball. The more important statistics, the ones that are often not reported, are the injury statistics. During the same year (2012-2013), there were a reported 616,209 high school level football injuries, most of these impacting the head and neck region, making this sport extremely dangerous for young children (Comstock, 25). Even though football is a massive part of American culture and is the most watched sport in the United States by a large margin, this activity should not be played by youth due to countless concussions and other serious injuries.

When one is in the mindset of failure the very idea that we can grow through the experience seems so impossible. After all, who would want to grow at such a cost? The protagonist from Sanyika Shakur’s Monster: The Autobiography of An L.A Gang Member and Dan Millman’s Way Of the Peaceful Warrior both went about making like a playground for their greatness, while all the time missing the moments in life that matter.Although their journeys are definitely unique, both accomplished a sense of Growth Through Loss.

Rogers informs football fans and non football fans to look and think positive into all negative things or things that don't as planned. She does this by using a special choice of words, her personal relationship and a dynamic tone. Rodgers gives us a chuckle, but also a number of other things. She opens the text so that we can relate to her in our own personal ways, even if it does not relate to football. I’ve always enjoyed most of all the sports but i feel this way about cheer. Rogers also engages her readers with a important word choice with her love and relationship. She also uses a exciting and dramatic tone.

" In passage one, it states that football players face great risks for their health ? if you know that already it should be easy for you. National football league they official testified it before Congress in 2009 about a lot of risk to players. football players suffers from the memory from the brain. The brain disorder a frequent head injuries caused these issues. if the player can injure his head in a different mean tackle/ violent tackle to the ground, from the very bad impact on the head-butt to each other

Even though it was a struggle for me to even go to practice everyday, I still pushed through and I made the best of every single situation. When game day came, and it was time to play, all I could think about was the feeling I would get when the ball hit my hand. Many people don’t understand what it feels like. It feels like you found a missing puzzle from your life, which you didn't even know was missing. It’s like every worry you ever had, big or small, is gone. For that split second that the ball touches your hand, nothing else matters. It’s just you, the ball, and the court.