In American society men are suppose to be the stronger, more physical beings. There are those two guys through school, the jocks and the nerds. So a journalist from Queens, New york analyzes on a piece in a special sports issue of The Nation, a magazine focused around politics. In Jock Culture, longtime sportswriter Robert Lipsyte personal analyzes the effect jock culture has on our society. He argues all the things wrong with having jock culture, and what impacts are left because of it. Lipsyte makes claims like, “Jock Culture is a distortion of sports. It can be physically and mentally unhealthy, driving people apart instead of together.” He uses his past experiences to explain to the audience the problems involved with stereotyping jocks …show more content…
In writing in one of the oldest political magazines, Robert claims extraordinary ideas on Jock Culture. With his audience being surround by readers of politics, his argument is more in favor of those types of people you may classify as the pukes. By playing with there emotions, Robert tries to pursue that Jocks are the bad guys and they have a bad influence. Robert uses these emotions to show that kids are being influenced while they’re young, pressured by parents and coaches into “bullying, violence, and the commitment to a win-at-all attitude the can kill a soul” (307). By choosing to attack on kids he really pokes under some people's skin, like he does most of the article. In the article Lipsyte attacks the effects of sports on Jocks, making harsh statements like, “no wonder there are so many abusive athletes, emotionally stunted ex-athletes, and the resentful onlookers. What makes this appeal so strong is that using emotion for this argument is the best way to expose the way Jock Culture is …show more content…
Lipstyes main argument is analyzing the issues that are formed because of jock culture and along with those analyze came cause and effects. For example, in this short paragraph, “Games have become our main form of mass entertainment. Winners of those games become our examples of permissible behavior, even when that includes cheating, sexual crimes or dog torturing. And how does that lead us to the cheating, the lying, the amorality in our lives outside the white lines? It’s not hard to connect the moral dots from the field house to the White House.” Lipsyte analyses how games are becoming a problem, shows the causes of behaviors that are involved, and shows the effect is has on our personal
The author begins by talking about how the fans are entertained during the whole time the game is going on. She also mentioned all the advertisements that the fans watching the event see all over the area. Then she changes course to talk about all these things that there are room for in athletics, such as “sex, alcohol, violence, and religion. ”(Smith)
In the article “Why Don’t More People Consider Competitive Cheerleading a Sport?” from The Atlantic, the author uses literary tools to persuade the reader
In the article titled Face-off on the playing field By, Judith B. Stamper explains girls have their own story of support or discrimination, success also the debate of girls be allowed to compete on boys’ sports team. First, the writer Title IX explains female athletes are been treated second-class for long enough and should pass of inequalities and biases of girls. The writer also clarifies that girls doing sports make them healthier, physically, and emotionally. Other girls that don’t play sports are less likely to use of drugs. In addition, she notes a former Stanford University basketball player Mariah says, strength and independence of things girls learn from sports, the opportunities that are changing women.
The book highlights the good and the bad of the sport. For someone who may not be too interested in it, or just has to read it for a history class, he made it entertaining. Giving not only a history lesson on the sport but just as much on the working class of America and the emerging commercialized leisure’s and shifting social classes in the nineteenth century. Gorn is able to interweave social and political issues of the times all told with characters as colorful and wild as the early days of this country. Men crave the order of violence with rules and attach elevated importance to such contests in part because so much of life is entirely unjust and oppressive.
According to " The Case Against High-School Sports" (2013), sports could create some study, health, and time management problems for schools and students. In this post, Amanda Ripley initially shows the benefits when involving in the high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. She also writes some tales to inform readers that in the US, students are interested and enjoy in sports more than other peers in other countries. However, she claims that the high-school sports have negative effects on schools and students. Next, she gave some schools ' examples to show the problems when schools and students spent too much time and money in high-school sports.
In “Do Sports Build Character or Damage it?” Mark Edmundson explains the pros and cons of children who grow up playing football. Firstly, he believes the perseverance it takes to show up for hard practices is useful later in life. Especially when they get frustrated with something and don’t notice the little bits of progress they are making.
A Rhetorical Analysis of “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” Writer, Brad Wolverton, in his article “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” first appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, conveys the journey of a former University of Memphis football player who was poorly educated and how he struggled to be academically eligible. Wolverton’s purpose is to illustrate the widespread of educational shortcomings of NCAA athletes and the complicated ways athletes struggles gets brushed under the proverbial carpet. (Wolverton) In this article Wolverton utilizes a straightforward tone by using pathos to appeal to the readers with Mr. Cathey’s difficult situation also utilizing logos and ethos etc. to help make a presentable argument to which I will be analyzing.
If American Football is an art, then its athletes paint with blood. This should surprise no one; the gridiron plays host to modernity’s most violent sport. In this unforgiving environment, it is all to common for former stars to flare out with career-ending injuries. As I kicked off my research on the National Football League (NFL), I intended to report on these injuries. With a premise on my mind and a paper in my sights, I headed to JumboSearch to begin my investigation.
Summary “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” by Jessica Statsky is a thoughtful insight on the competitive sports for children. She is of the view that the competitive sports can ruin the enjoyment that games are supposed to provide. These methods of playing the games like adults can prove to be lethal for physical and psychological health. The author quotes from an authentic source that “Kids under the age of fourteen are not by nature physical.” (Tutko)
With having their, evidence of both views on the topic, this article was published on CNN, the target audience; student-athletes or anyone interested in sports can trust that these are true facts and opinions of the
Sports What sports do you play? If you don’t play sports what do you do on your free time? Here I am going to talk about the sports I play.
Several examples are given throughout the essay such as torturing dogs, misogyny, sex crimes, disrespecting family, and the belief of hurting someone or jeopardizing one’s intelligence, health, and morality in order to be ranked first (Paragraphs 7, 10, 12, and 13). Believing these actions will be copied and accepted by the world, Lipsyte predicts society will become a darker, more despotic place if Jock Culture continues (Paragraph 12). He also believes that those labelled as Pukes should not be discriminated against because of their lack to participate in sports; everyone should be treated equally with equal opportunity instead of categorized (Paragraph 13). Lipsyte’s ending is a paradoxical beginning for the game of Jocks vs. Pukes leaving a cliffhanger on who will win the
Thus, if kids are looking to famous athletes as role models, but those athletes are getting arrested, starting fights, or even disrespecting the country, these superstars are setting a bad example for the kids who look to them as role models. Here, Nike demonstrates in this ad that “the ball bounces the same for everyone” and that every kid has the ability to follow in their favorite athletes’ footsteps; however, while many kids often see instances of poor sportsmanship and bad behavior, they also see positive behavior that encourages them to chase their goals and dreams with the same competitive and ambitious attitude that their role models
Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tries to demonstrate the negative effect of organized sports on the physical and psychological health of growing child. She claims that the games are not festive but they end up in the wrong development of a child’s brain. The coaches and parents have high hopes for their children that result in the pressure building. This changes the purpose of sports from teaching tolerance, teamwork and sportsmanship to merely winning by all means.
In our time, technology has become one of our essential things in life; specifically video games. Video games are electronic system used to run games. They involve human interaction specially teenagers. Many researches have been done on the effects of video games showing that there is positive and negative impacts. As we know not all video games contain violent contents, but most of them are violent and mentally dangerous.