Our first-time leading class discussion we presented the story called “Roller Ball Murder.” The story is about a player who plays this deadly game and is a legend at the game but is looking for something more. Roller Ball Murder is an extremely deadly game. The objective of the game is for the runners to get past the skaters on the opposing team, field a ball, and pass it to a biker for a point. Each team consist of twenty players. Each team has ten roller skaters, five motorbike riders, and five runners. The game is played on a hardwood oval track that is fifty yards long and thirty yards across the ends. The oval has high banks and at the top of the walls are cannons. The cannons shoot twenty-pound balls out at over three hundred miles …show more content…
per hour. The ball is like a bowling ball and moves around the track until it hits a player or reaches the ground. Once it hits a player or hits the ground then another ball is fired from the cannon. Runners wear leather gloves, helmets, and lacrosse like paddles. Bikers ride their bike on the walls, where the cannons are at, and try to help the runners whenever they can. Skaters try to keep runners from getting past them. There are no rest periods and no substitutions. The story says that eighty thousand people attend these events and another two billion people watch at home. The story is about a player named Jonathan E.
He plays for the Houston team called ENERGY. He is kind of like the Lebron James of Roller Ball Murder. He is talented and has received many awards for his play over his fifteen years in the game. Jonathan E. describes one of his matches in the story and how brutal the match is. Jonathan E. talks about how two runners fought in hand-to-hand combat during the match and one of them knocked the other ones helmet off. When the player knocked the opponents helmet off it ripped half of his face off, then the player stood there admiring his work and a biker came down and flattened him and the people in the stands and at home cheered. Jonathan E. realizes that something is not right with the fans enjoying this brutality. Roller Ball Murder is basically war. There are cannons shooting twenty-pound balls, one “army” is trying to keep the other “army” from getting passed their line of defense that way they do not win, and some of the players die. People enjoy the violence of this sport in the story though. Some people watch American football in our society because they want to see the big hits, but our society does not want too to see something like Roller Ball Murder. The society in Roller Ball Murder is extremely unmoral and uncivilized. For example, people in today’s society did not like what they saw when they started seeing pictures of Vietnam and millions of people protested that war, but in Roller Ball Murder’s society they would probably
cheer. In Roller Ball Murder the most powerful people in the world are the corporate executives. There are six major corporations ENERGY, TRANSPORT, FOOD, HOUSING, SERVICES, and LUXERY. The executives run the world and fix prices, wages, and the general economy and their corporate police replaced the world armies. In the story Jonathan E. is told by one of his friends that the executives are thinking about shortening the offseason because the viewers want more. Also, in the story it says that everybody knows that the executives are crooked. These corporate executives are like our world leaders and politicians and each town that has a team is like its own country. The story says that people need a business passport to get into New York, so the world is run by executives and each team executive runs each town. It would be like the general manger of a pro sports team or the athletic director of a college running everything in that state. In our society, some world leaders and politicians seem like they are concerned about the citizens well-being, when they are more concerned about their well-being and what the citizens can give them, such as votes, to help benefit the politician. In Roller Ball Murder, the executives seem to be more worried about the viewers and what they want, but really, they want the money that comes with the viewers. This is why the executives wanted to shorten the offseason because the viewers wanted more of the violence and if they shorten the offseason then that means they would generate revenue from ticket sales and commercial advertisements more. Also, this scenario shows that the corporate executives are more concerned about their revenue then the safety and dignity of their players, just like some politicians are more concerned with how many votes they can get instead of developing policies that will benefit the citizens. For example, in the story they talk about how they may remove the helmets and let women play so the opponents can rip the women’s clothes off. Finally, Jonathan E. wants more in his life. Jonathan E. wants knowledge, but it is hard to obtain knowledge because there are no books in their society. Jonathan E. talks to his corporate executive and tells him he wants to obtain more knowledge and does feels as if something is missing. This is a sign that Jonathan E. believes there is more to life then sports or competition or money or power. For example, Jonathan E. wants to feel love again. He mentions his only wife a few times and talks about how he misses her and thinks about her. He does not feel that love while he was with the other two women in the story, he acted like they were just there until his wife came back. Jonathan E. realizes he cannot play Roller Ball Murder forever and realizes he is getting old, so he is trying to figure out what life would be like without sports and how he could move on in society without playing sports just like every athlete has to in our society at some point in their lives. For some of us it is after high school, we must learn how to live without playing a sport once we go to college. For some of us its learning how to live without sports after college and for the very few of us that get the chance its learning how to live without playing a sport after we retire from our professional career. Jonathan E. is trying to figure that out in this story and is looking for the answer throughout the story.
It all began with a childish game of jumping out of a tree into a river, a test of guts and will. All fun and games until that summer day when the star athlete is ready to jump out while his best friend follows him up the tree to jump next. The branch is shaken slightly, and suddenly the schoolÕs top athlete is lying on the ground with a broken leg. This event seems so small and feeble, but it will soon not only tear a friendship apart, but the whole school, as well.
In Edward Hirsch's poem Execution, the All-American sport of football is used to illustrate how a man's beloved high school football coach is matched up with his greatest opponent yet, something that play books and trick plays cannot defeat, cancer.
In the movie My Cousin Vinny, Vinny Gambini is set on a journey to prove his cousin and his friend innocent of a murder case. Bill and Stan are on a road trip to California to the University of California, Los Angeles, where they receive a scholarship to attend the university. On the way there they stop at a convenient store to buy some necessities for the trip. Their hands were full of food and drinks, when Bill put the can of tuna in his jacket because there was no way he couldn’t carry any more food.
Months before, a white football fan in a dusty little town watched #35 as he sprinted down the field; the fan did not really see some black kid, they saw a Mojo running back. Just like so many other fans, they cheer for the black and white jersey, not particularly caring about the color of the body it’s on. The fans saw #35 as the future of their much-exalted football team; the color of his skin seemed irrelevant. As long as he wore the jersey and performed every week like he should, they celebrated him as the Great Black Hope of the 1988 season. Now, injury has taken him from the game that he devoted his life to, and he is no longer #35. Instead, he is just another useless black kid who will never amount to anything in the rigid society that
William Faulkner brings all aspects of the game to life by going beyond the game itself, and immersing the readers into the intricate details that are often overlooked by most spectators. While spectators and televised sports commentators focus on the literal game itself, the points and teams, Faulkner describes the “kaleidoscopic whirl” of motion, the grace of the players and the designs they carve into the ice. He goes beyond the typical description of skates and hockey sticks, depicting them as “knife blades of skates” and “deft sticks which could break bones.” Faulkner, through this fluid and detail oriented writing, portrays the game of hockey in a way most people fail to see.
The sentencing of underage criminals has remained a logistical and moral issue in the world for a very long time. The issue is brought to our perspective in the documentary Making a Murderer and the audio podcast Serial. When trying to overcome this issue, we ask ourselves, “When should juveniles receive life sentences?” or “Should young inmates be housed with adults?” or “Was the Supreme Court right to make it illegal to sentence a minor to death?”. There are multiple answers to these questions, and it’s necessary to either take a moral or logical approach to the problem.
Rollerball takes place in a seemingly perfect future. The absence of war, racism, and poverty stand out, especially in comparison to other sci-fi movies, such as Blade Runner. In Rollerball, there has been some sort of vague war, resulting in a city-state like governing system where every major city in the world is controlled by a corporation specializing in one product or service. For entertainment, these city-states created a sport called rollerball, which I can only describe as a mix between roller derby, hockey, and combative motorsports, and much more violent than any sport we could compare it to today. The game evolves as well, becoming more and more violent with rule changes instated by the corporations. It is implied that the corporations
In the book entitled Out of Their League, David Meggyesy describes his life as a football player from high school through his days with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Born in 1941, Meggyesy was raised in a low-income household in Solon, Ohio. Like many athletes from impoverished backgrounds, he was able to use the game of football to better himself though both a full scholarship to Syracuse University and financial stability with the Cardinals. During his career, however, Meggyesy became increasingly disillusioned with the game of football and how its athletes were subject to tremendous physical and psychological turmoil from those in power—namely the coaches and the NFL team owners. He began to see the game of football from a conflict theorist point of view. This is the belief that sport is an opiate used to benefit those in power through the exploitation of athletes which enables those such as coaches and team owners to maintain their power and privilege in society. (Coakley, 1998) Meggyesy's growing disenchantment with football and adoption of a conflict theorist point of view led him to retire from the Cardinals in 1969.
This paper is talking about “The Serial Killer,” but focus on Gary Ridgway- “The Green River Serial Killer.” He earned his nickname because the first five victims that he killed were found in the Green River. He was one of the most famous serial killers in the United States. Ridgway raped, chocked, killer and discarded 48 women, including many teenagers as young as 15 years old (Silja J, 2003). In Ridgway’s mind, he even believed that he was helping the police out, as he admitted in one interview with investigators (Silja J, 2003).
Killer really offers a safe environment for kids to experiment with various skills such as organizing and paying for transportation. Physical and mental exercise is also offered, like the case of the boy who has to jump a fence. Finally, this experience teaches players about the world they will soon be a part of by having them explore their surroundings. If video games really caused violence and taught kids to rely on violent behavior, the world would be a nightmare. Think about how many young kids you meet every day who play, yet aren’t affected by, video
Coakley, J. J., & Donnelly, P. (2007). Violence in Sports . Sports in society: issues & controversies (9th ed., pp. 198-199). Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Main Point 1: Imagine someone that has been accused of murder and sentenced to death row has to spend almost 17-20 years in jail and then one day get kill. Then later on the person that they killed was not the right person.
Ever wondered if there is a serial killer in your community? The characteristics of a serial killer may shock you or be surprisingly familiar to some of you. It is important for society to get informed about the various types of serial killers that are out there. It is essential for families to educate their children about strangers, to be careful with everyone they encounter on the streets, store, and even in their neighborhoods. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people in at least three separate events, with a "cooling-off period" between the kills. The big question is, what makes a person do these atrocious killings? We will analyze personal histories, categorized serial killers,
Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, the BTK Killer. The names and assumed names of these cold-blooded serial killers are forever branded into the cognizance of people everywhere. This is mainly due to the mass media coverage, including newspapers, movies, television specials and books. This media coverage brought to light that these killers were, on the surface, normal, successful, attractive, productive members of society – that is, until the time that their heinous crimes came to be discovered.
Michael Sanders, a Professor at Harvard University, gave a lecture titled “Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do? The Moral Side of Murder” to nearly a thousand student’s in attendance. The lecture touched on two contrasting philosophies of morality. The first philosophy of morality discussed in the lecture is called Consequentialism. This is the view that "the consequences of one 's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.” (Consequentialism) This type of moral thinking became known as utilitarianism and was formulated by Jeremy Bentham who basically argues that the most moral thing to do is to bring the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people possible.