Boys In The Boat Resiliency

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Resiliency is the best way to describe the second portion of “ The Boys in the Boat” book. It is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and toughness. Correspondingly people like Joe Rantz, and Hitler who were looking forward to the Olympic Games of 1936, they would have to face their problems and difficulties with resilience in order for them to be prepared for the 1936 competition.
As, an illustration of resiliency Joe would be a good example of this, because of his effort to survive without his family beside him. Ever since he was a child, he had to learn how to survive by himself without the support of his father or step-mother that he should have received. With this in mind, he had to also work hard in the rowing
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During, his freshman year, when the freshmen crew was facing problems in their rowing, it looked as though it was linked to Joe. His coach Tom Bolles, would then; consider that Joe could be the problem, because of his poor wrist positioning while rowing, Bolles decided to test him. After several tests of putting Joe in different boats while rowing, he would win or lose each race. Joe would prove to Tom Bolles that there was nothing wrong with him or his wrists. However, for Joe “ the incident, brief as it was, provided a sudden and cold reminder of how precarious his position on the crew, and therefore his attendance at the university, really was.”(pg 93) in which it would signify Joe’s hope to work harder in order for him to stay on the team. This would continue to be an issue for Joe as he would be put into different boats under Coach Ulbrickson during the period of his life where he and his teammates were blinded. What blinded them was the glory of winning the Olympics and personal problems that was entering the boat with them in which it (liked the abandonment issues of Joe’s parents.) would depict their loss of resilience. In which proves the point …show more content…
The vent would take lives and it would continue in Seattle were the violence reached its climax. Were IRA members fought officered? Evidently showing that the Seattleites were not doing so well during the depression. Even though they were suffering as well as many other Americans the new president Franklin Roosevelt who had been in office for a year and a half could get the stock market stabilized, for the moment, and employment is increasing slightly. However, there were many Another american who would oppose to his new deal project that was aimed to help and aid the US citizens during the depression by issuing government programs. Naysayers would say that the New Deal was an undemocratic plan that was based on socialist ideology. In spite of his criticism, he would have people gather to a small corner of the Seattle country where we would give a speech as to what he planned to do to help reform the economics in Seattle. While here he would speak of his vision “ of the benefits that the new Grand Coulee Dam would bring to this arid land in exchange for the 175 million public dollars it would cost: 1.2 million

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