This piece was included due to its nature of how important these games are to people from our area. This game would have been huge for Tom Brady and his fellow teammates on the patriots. The season was already stressful with edelman being out for the season making this last game just that much more interesting to watch and write about. When writing i came to the conclusion and learned that you aren't always going to win in the end everything comes to and end and you must learn from your mistakes. This writing means a lot to me and I'm sure it hits home with many other New Englanders since this is one game we all thought we would win. I enjoyed writing about the game because it was a chance to write from a neutral perspective instead of seeing
Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney on the 7th of April 1939 and died of a methadone overdose at age 53 in 1992. He is a well-known and celebrated artist both in Australia and internationally. Whiteley was awarded a range of prestigious art prizes including the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman several times. He is best known for his portraits, landscapes and sculptures. His unique perspective of the Australian landscape has endeared him to Australians (he was awarded the Order of Australia in 1991). Having grown up near the harbour in Sydney, (until he was sent to boarding school in Bathurst at age 8) the harbour features in many of his paintings. Brett Whiteley has explored emotions in his work through the subject of the art, colours and media used. He has brought many of his experiences and influences in life to his artwork. His response to alcohol and drugs as well as writers, musicians and other painters. Bob Dylan, Francis Bacon, Vincent Vah Gogh, Henri Matisse were paid tribute to by Whiteley as both inspiration and subject. Brett Whiteley uses the subjective frame as his work is
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar believes that the issue with America’s education system is not the ignorance of students, but their inability to reason with information. Abdul-Jabbar starts his argument by pointing out some of the ignorance in the education system. He points out a few cases where students refused to read material that may have challenged their beliefs. He then states that the country has no problem with funding education, but teachers mainly feed facts to students and then give them tests, leaving little room for the tough questions. Most importantly, Abdul-Jabbar claims that the war on education is a war on reason. Dating back almost 400 years ago, philosopher Francis Bacon concluded that humans struggle to discuss information contradictory
In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose, he begins with an anecdote of his mother working her blue-collar job at a diner as a waitress. Rose vividly describes her common day that is packed with a constant array of tedious tasks she has to accomplish to make her living. The authors goal appears to be making the reader appreciate the hard work of blue-collar workers because society places a stereotype on them as being less intelligent than someone with more schooling or even a white-collar job: “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no inmate that links hand and brain” (282). I agree with Rose’s conclusion that if we continue to place a stigma on
People come to being on the road for countless reasons and though there is no real certainty on the road, there are two things that are certain, the road stands in opposition to home and your race and ethnicity plays a major role on the trajectory and the way others treat you on the journey. African Americans have an especially strong connection to road narratives. This is because, from the beginning, the race’s presence in America was brought by forcing them on to the road against their will. It is for this reason that there are countless narratives, fictional and non-fictional, of black peoples on the road. For Birdie Lee, a literary character, the beginning of the road marks the end of her comfortable home life and the beginning of her racial
...ming because at some points you feel hope for the Coach but then the reader realizes how difficult the battle against cancer is and how most individuals have a slim chance of surviving. Which then creates a sense of reality, displaying that not everyone wins in life no matter what it is whether its football, or an illness. Hirsch then ties the reality back to something that is sort of unreal to humans until we experience it, death. This incredible combination creates a mood that over powers the reader throughout the entire piece until the end which is the loss of hope, and sadness. The poem was pieced together beautifully in an extended metaphor, which finalizes the impact of the authors purpose on the reader. Hirsch use of language made the poem become very real, and causes individuals to grasp a hold of a bit of reality and realize that in life everyone can't win.
Reilly uses rhetorical questions to show how the love for football goes beyond the sport itself. In his second rhetorical question, he asks “how do you replace the men?” after 9/11 took the lives of twelve football players and two coaches. The later rhetorical questions (with the exception of two) focus on the individual men who lost their lives and how it would be so hard to find a replacement for their specific position. By focusing on the men rather than the actual sport of football, it shows that the men are more than just a team, they are family. Each one of the men who lost their lives brought something unique to the team and the bonds they created with one another will last for a lifetime. This helps contribute to the bittersweet
“Shazier injury, dirty hits cast dark shadow over steelers MNF win vs Bengals” is a informative essay which attempts to explain the events impacted the Bengals vs Steelers monday night football game. The author backs up
I decided to review “Silver Linings Playbook”, which is based on a romantic-comedy novel written by Matthew Quick. It was produced in 2012 by The Weinstein, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro.
The fifties era was an era of consensus and order. As a family, there was a certain image to live up to in order fit into the American dream; however, a family only had to appear American and while it may be argued that Doris Goodwin succeeded in life because she grew up in a typical household in the fifties, that is not the case, and in fact, Goodwin’s life in the fifties did not live up to the stereotypical idea of the fifties time period. The image of being American during the fifties was based on consensus which was seen through the typical American neighborhood. All families were religious, the dads went to work while the moms stayed home and the children were at school, and each family had a favorite baseball team; however, it was not the idea of consensus that allowed Goodwin to succeed in life. (Anderson Class note, “Life at Home in the 50’s” 3 April 2014; Anderson Class notes, “Book Discussion” 8 April 2014)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used his writing skills and his own personal thoughts to make good argument that appeals to people's emotions and beliefs. In his article Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: When Politicians Commit Hate Crimes, he talks about how politicians make racist comments and people are taking it as if it is ok for them to say it since the politicians are. Kareem is arguing how we are the ones that need to speak out for what is right. Due to his section about the wrongfully accused Muslim boy, and his analysis of the racist politicians, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was successful in achieving his purpose of appealing to the emotion of the reader and providing them with information. Politicians publicly being racist, and it is causing the races and religions being accused to be targeted more. The wrongfully accused Muslim boy is a emotional way to get his readers to agree with his argument. The closing paragraph with the reference to one of his favorite movies was a great way to make people think, even after they finished reading his article.
I have learned so much about football in general and the Seahawks from doing this paper. Its amazing on when I pick a topic that I really like on how I can into the paper and make it the best that I can. While I was doing my research I really started to understand the game better. When you understand the game the more fun it is to watch the game and more intense the game is. I really enjoyed getting to research such a cool topic that has been in the news a lot recently for winning the super bowl. But it was kinda hard trying to find the rich history from when the team started. It was still awesome to be able to write about this topic while they won their first Super Bowl!
The impact this game had on the NFL is pretty crazy and it changed the look at the playoffs. Going through the season for both teams it was pretty remarkable they even had a chance to make it to the playoffs. Matt Flynn will go down as bringing the best comeback ever and he doesn't even play anymore. There has been other great comebacks in packer history; however, none of them had an impact to the season like the Packers vs Cowboys. Lions vs Packers comeback was an amazing game, especially with the hail mary to finish. That game did not really determine are playoff hopes as much as the cowboys game
Mavericks, Mark expresses how failure is essential and a part of the equation required in
Born in Sydney 1939, Whiteley was always artistic. The house within which he grew up overlooked the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the river, encouraging Whiteley to develop a love of the water and landscape. At the age of nine, Whiteley’s parents sent him to boarding school in Bathurst. It was then that a crucial moment occurred in Whiteley’s life. He read a book on van Gogh’s work and realised that he was a painter. ‘...about eleven I decided, and I quite deliberately decided that I would into an art’ (Brett Whiteley in Pearce 1995, pg 15). Whiteley’s time in Scots College helped him to come to love the countryside, and in his landscape works it became a prominent feature.
The formal elements really helped Thomas Eakins get the iconography across to his viewers. The first major formal element I noticed was his use of lines, directional and implied. He used lines to make the viewer look at the main scene. I saw directional lines in the rail on the benches the men are sitting on, if you follow the rail down it directs your eyes right to where the surgery is occurring. Also, in the middle where the doctors are standing, the wooden circle makes your eyes go around to the crowd of medical students. The implied lines are seen in the way the people in the room are looking. The medical students are gazing down at the surgery, even though they come off tired their heads are still leaned down towards the operation.