3. Why does cousins believe “it is futile to investigate the referee’s role” (9)?
Cousins believes that it is futile to investigate the referee’s role because they are the ones who amuses crowd or audience. Although the referee’s role is to stop the fight early, it disappoints the audience to their viewpoint to stop fight too soon. The supreme moment of boxing is when the audience see the live fight that two men beautifully dodging and swingout each other’s jabs or the time when the two boxer ends up with gory battle and continue to smash at each other with pole-axe impact and that is the most amusing part of boxing.
4. Cousins ends his essay with “And that is precisely the point.” What is the “point” he refers to?
Cousins ends his essay with
His conclusion, life is not fair. Boobie Miles, for example, is a High School student who has dedicated his life to football.... ... middle of paper ... ...
1). This was an effective point because it immediately grabbed the reader’s attention. It also played on people’s natural, instinctive qualities to help those who are in need. It got readers to start thinking from the author’s point of view and could make them try to help him in any way they can. Another way he used an emotional response was by talking about “tax dollars” (par.17). This was well placed because many Americans think that they work too hard to have their hard-earned tax dollars go to waste. This also brought the readers closer to the author because they would not want that to happen, which is a typical fear of
... to realize that "cheating in victory's cause was therefore" acceptable. All these arguments put together, gives the reader the basic objective of the essay.
Norman Cousins was a news reporter. He published many books and is very qualified when it comes to writing. Cousins says that the only please a crowd is to put killers in the ring. Cousins then says, “People come out to see the knockout.” It is the crowd that is making boxing more violent than it has to be. Their were lots of investigations as to whose fault it was that Benny died, but cousins claims that their was not someone to blame. Cousins said that he was killed “because the human fist delivers enough
It started at a young age when he lacked supervision and lead him to crime. From crime he found boxing, and in that he found profession. Within profession, he found power. However, with power, he left mistakes which cost him time in prison and the burning down of his racket world empire. Perhaps he knew that his fall from success could be easily found in the cards, it may be that he was just a businessman. For this boxer, gangster, mobster, murderer, crime lord, businessman, legend, whichever adjective is used once proudly proclaimed, “All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.” (Mickey Cohen Quotes) And burning to the ground did his authority, his Rome, and his world
Again, using Ray Lewis as an example, he is known to be one of the more passionate athletes of all time in all sports. His pleasure or plaisir for the sport was shown both on the field as a player, on the sideline as a teammate, and from the television set as an analyst/spectator. The pleasure for inflicting pain via tackles was evident in his play, however, the spectator Plaisir became apparent on November 17th of 2013 when he showed absolute disgust for a particular play that Sunday in which a game changing defensive hit was deemed a penalty. This stirred up plenty of media controversy since Lewis went as far as to say he’ll pay half of the defensive players’ fine due to the blasphemous call handed out by the referee (Chase, 2013). This action clearly shows Lewis’ personal love for the sport itself, although he was always a team oriented player, this action is highly relatable to fans that have favorite players and become highly emotional when something happens as if the action personally affected
... that no one should be over confident even if someone is about to win. Being over confident may ultimately destroy you in the end. Brady dies in the end because of humiliation and regret. Lawrence and Lee uses Brady as a confident individual to an over confident individual through the play to caution Americans not to get prideful about our overconfidence.
It is quite clear that Henry’s comment is more than just that. “It is as if Steinbeck wished
Opponents of bans point to other sports that have a high risk of fatalities, such as horse racing, skydiving, motor sport and surfing. The problem for such advocates is that cage fighting share a unique characteristic: participants set out to “stop” their opponent, a euphemism for the infliction of harm that renders opponents unable to continue fighting. Knocking them unconscious is the ultimate “stop”. Participants in other sports, whilst accidents may occasionally occur, do no set out to intentionally cause harm to themselves or their
Technology is changing everything around us including our sports. With modern technology now, we can implement it into our professional sports to make the games fair. Instant replay is the most important luxury in our sports today. It allows officials and the fans to look back at the recent play and decide if the correct call was made. Not all sports have implemented it into its rules yet. The commissioners of America’s favorite sports are discussing the rules of instant replay and are including the use of it into the sports. Instant replays are the most accurate source for officials to use, and should be used in all professional sporting events. A con to having instant replays in any sporting event is that it takes away human error which can be seen as defacing sports. Although using instant replays in professional sports makes the game longer, it is great for the officials to use instant replays because there will not be wrong calls made in baseball, football, and hockey.
Boxing is a sport full of hard hitting, fast movements and lots of blood, but being a boxer is not too brutal for the society but it does have its good and bad.
They enjoy watching boxers boxing, where the two fighters are going to sustain injury and in the case of Benny Paret die after sustaining severe injuries. As explained in “Who Killed Benny Paret?” people do not like to put the blame where it needs to be or take the blame if it is their fault. “Don’t blame it on the referee. Don’t even blame it on the fight managers. Put the blame where it belongs - on the prevailing mores that regard prize fighting as a perfectly proper enterprise and vehicle of entertainment. No one doubts that many people enjoy prize fighting and will miss it if it should be thrown out. And that is precisely the point” (Cousins 341). One lesson we should all keep in mind is we should not gain our pleasure from another person’s
...same as a conventional sport. Still, the arguments used by both sides are well thought out and have a clear statement of why each one is right, with the exception of the neutral group who’s argument was invalidated by their grouping of youth.
Canadian doctors are looking to ban full-contact sports for their brutality. The doctors worry about the potential for serious injuries. The more common injuries are broken limbs, lacerations, and brain damage. During an event in Vancouver, a large number of the fighters received emergency care at the local hospital. The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) would also like sports like boxing to be banned as well. They believe that other combative sports, such as hockey and football, are different than MMA because the main goal is not to ultimately knock out your opponent. The main reason that they wish to ban sports like Ultimate Fighting and Boxing is to prevent serious injuries from occurring. This clearly shows tha...
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