Summary Essay: The Education Of Dasmine Cathey

In “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates how an education is important by the way the narrator’s point of view about his family’s lack of education changes. He shows us how his attitude changes towards his parents from the beginning to the end. Based on paragraph five, when the character says, “Don’t matter,” says Granny. “A cat sneezin’ always means rain. My rheumatiz is worse’n usual, too.”

When a physical, demanding sport collides with a brutal, poverty-stricken town, true character is revealed, and the devastating realities of high school kids are shown to those who live in a sugar-coated world. The Manassas High School football team is full of new talents that are apparently worthless when a different players is shot, imprisoned, or drops out of school on an almost weekly basis. That is just a glimpse inside the misfortune that the kids of this film are enduring day in and day out. Some parentless and some virtually homeless, it seems as if the only way out of a constant state of need is a miracle, or death. Released in 2011, Undefeated has much more to offer than the typical football documentary.

Growing up can essentially be defined as the process of enduring the obstacles and challenges faced throughout one’s lifetime. By overcoming them, one becomes stronger as the valor needed to withstand anything builds character. Both Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me” and Lisa Keiski’s “Suicide’s Forgotten Victims” demonstrate how to persist and overcome life challenges. Despite experiencing different forms of hardships that enable them to survive through their pain, Murray and Keiski transmit life lessons about individual growth. They emphasize survival through society, authority figures, and themselves.

In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark,” written by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates the significance of education through the lives of the narrator and his family. As the storyline changes his view of their education changes. In the beginning, he feels more educated, which changes to him feeling really embarrassed, but at the end, he finally gets a great understanding of his family education. At the beginning of the text, it shows how he thinks that because he has been in school for a while he knows just about everything. In paragraph 7, it states “I’d been going to school for a while, you see, and thought I knew just about everything”.

To most players on the Permian High School football team academics are put off because of football. But Brian Chavez is not most players, he cares about school a lot. Brian has a grip on reality he realizes that he cannot play football forever, there has to be a backup plan. “As he headed into his senior year he also realized that he wanted something more. No matter how glorious and exciting the season was, he also knew it would come to an end” (Bissinger 156).

Football is a priority over academic achievement in Odessa. Almost all athletes who reside in Odessa have low expectations within the classroom. Don Billingsley, as well as other football players, pass their classes by doing minimal work. The teachers are burned out

In Felisa Rogers’s “How I learned to love football,” she begins talking and describing how her husband that she loves so much Rich and how he likes to tell her about football. Rogers then discusses her athletic inability of non pleasurable and how she and her family never cared much for sports and really didn’t pay attention to em. Rogers is a freelance writer and a graduate of Evergreen State College and a former teacher. The purpose of this article is to show how the author found out and opened her heart on how to have love for something that she pretended to love but never really cared for it. As a young lady growing up, “Rogers was raised to believe that football and baseball were the province of Neanderthal types who didn’t even know the

Gladwell attempts to explain that people who have experienced the death of a parent at a young age have an advantage in everyday life. He introduces Jay Freireich, son of a Hungarian father who committed suicide. Freireich was raised by his mother and brother. Gladwell proposes that because of the obstacles and hardships Freireich had of overcome, he is more equipped to handle difficult situations. That’s not true because I believe when you go through any hardship, it will change you and help you to develop grit.

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.

In the midst of all of this he finds a balance by focusing on what really matters. At the same time this keeps him focused on his main goal which is education. Education will be his family's way out of poverty. Through seeing his younger brother that is unemployed and will be having a child soon he looks beyond this and is genuinely proud of where he comes from. He realizes how strong his family is when he seems them fighting through poverty and making things.

The character feels an almost bittersweet sensation here due to his father not being there for him in times when he needs him. It is a tragedy that even though he is relieved that his health is in satisfactory condition, his father is not because of his own choices of an unsatisfactory

Lastly, the two words the son and the man add to the complexity of the relationship. This shows that the man can’t picture himself being a father, especially after knowing he can’t meet the child’s expectation, but will always picture his son being a child in his eyes. In conclusion the author uses literary devices to add depth and emotion to the complex relationship between the two characters. He does this by changing the point of view throughout the poem from son to father. He uses a purposeful structure from present to future coming back to present to demonstrate with the complexity of the father's

In Texas, football is a way of life; people eat, sleep and breathe it. Specifically for the people of Odessa, Texas this is very true. The book Friday Night Lights follows the 1988 Permian High School football team as they made their run for the State Championship. This type of culture that puts football and, everyone involved in it, on a pedestal creates no room for anything besides football to succeed in a town like Odessa. In 1988, when this took place, gender, class and race all mattered a great deal.

Then after writing about how all of Maurice’s career never blossomed, words like, “struggled.” and “floundered” shift the mood from happy and promising, to disappointed and sad. Then again the story goes from Maurice to his son, Mort. Gladwell then begins to speak about how Mort did everything his father wished to do like, successfully opening a law firm and a broadcasting franchise. “Every dream that eluded the father was fulfilled by the son.”

His optimism is generated from and proven in this essay through his and Hazel’s parents lack of discipline providing encouragements to pursue