Arm wrestling

Arm Wrestling with My Father In this essay written for his freshman composition course, Manning explores his physical contact with his father over the years, perceiving gradual changes that are, he realizes, inevitable. For Manning, description provides a way to express his feelings about his father and to comment on relations between sons and fathers. In the essay after Manning’s, Itabari Njeri uses description for similar ends, but her subject is a daughter and her father. “Now you say

Arm wrestling is a trial of strength in which two people facing each other with one elbow resting on a platform, clasping each other’s hands, try to force each other’s arm down. Many factors affect the outcome of an arm wrestling competition and the force a person’s muscles attempt to generate. The effect of gender on the amount of electrical activity generated by a subject’s bicep brachii during an arm wrestling competition is investigated in this study. Due to the relative strength of the female

What would be a better expression of father’s love? Squeezing each other’s fists till strips of tendons bulge out? Or wrapping arms around each other for a warm embrace? In “Arm Wrestling with My Father,” Brad Manning experiences a change in his father’s expression of love; from arm wrestling, to a hug. In his story, Manning successfully depicts a boy who admired his father’s masculine strength and grows up to also respect his tenderness and gradually learns to replace his father’s role. His depiction

Brad Manning’s “Arm Wrestling with My Father” he indicates that the physical contact between himself and his father is a representation of their relationship. When Manning is a boy his father, and he participates in arm wrestling regularly. Of course, Manning being a child loses but all he does is giggle. Manning’s relationship with his father as a boy is playful and fun. In his teenage years, he did not laugh around his father anymore. His relationship with his father is never emotional, like a

In Arm Wrestling with My Father Manning’s father is the protectorate and authoritarian position throughout his younger life, but Manning would always detest ideas, fight, and with no avail, he would always contest with his dad at strength tests, arm wrestling, as this was the main way he and his father would communicate. Eventually, Manning was able to overcome his dad at arm-wrestling (with many convictions), and this very closely correlates

In the description essay” Arm wrestling with my dad,” Brad shares many important emotional moments with his father through deep hugs, this is the most common relationship that fathers and sons share today – physical bonds rather than spoken ones. Physical bonds between parents and their kids are not specifically exclusive to fathers and sons, however it is more common that fathers and sons physically connect rather than emotionally. This is relevant in the text because Brad wrote –” His words were

In “Arm Wrestling with My Father,” Brad Manning writes about the relationships he has had with his father. He shares how they’re relationship has changed throughout his life once he came to a realization. In “Shooting Dad,” Sarah Vowell also writes about her relationship with her father and the differences in opinion between the two of them. Both authors end their essays by coming to a realization about their fathers. Although both authors have similar experiences with their fathers, they come to

their fathers were unorthodox. This was explicitly outlined in Brad's freshman composition paper titled Arm Wrestling With My Father and Sandra's magazine article titled Only Daughter. Through varying rhetorical strategies, the authors purpose and audience is clearly portrayed in both selections. One of the most important components to any piece of writing is the intended audience. In Arm Wrestling With My Father, Manning's intended audience is anyone who may have had an abnormal or physical relationship

is unique and unequivocally expressed, as one will discover in this compassionate and heartwarming short essay Arm Wrestling with My Father, written by Brad Manner. Brad Manner wrote this persuasive essay for his freshman composition course, where he shared his unique relationship with his father, as the two bonded through ritualistic father-son competitive arm wrestling. His father’s arm symbolizes the strength and love he has for his son. However, as the story progresses into Manner's college

‘Arm wrestling with my father” is an essay written by Manning in a freshman composition course. I feel that this particular essay is built on deeper meaning than what the words themselves express. Judging from the message in the essay, I believe that the reader for this essay would best be a father who has a small boy growing up in preschool. The father would be interested in reading this particular essay because it gives a detailed explanation from a son’s point of view of the how a father is supposed