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In the newspaper I have selected, the articles discuss a number of sports that were played in Canada in the early 1900’s. I will focus on the hockey articles in this first paragraph and argue how hockey as a sport has shaped society to be a hegemonic one. To begin, I will summarize the hockey articles discussed in the newspaper and bring up what I thought is important not only to how sports was reported and looked at but as well how sports shapes society and as well sets gender norms. In the…

Annoyed, I listen to the loud patter of rain on the roof. Each drop only a tap, but together they make a blaring noise. It's the first time that I have left the U.S., this time to go to Belgium, and not only is it raining, I'm also horribly sick. With snot dripping from my nose; a box of seemingly useless Kleenexes to the side of the bed, the seconds tick by one after the other. Each minute seeming as long as, or longer than, an hour. I lie in bed, with my eyes closed, but sleep does not come,…

“Yeah Doc, this has been a tough series, very physical game play by these two teams, we've seen stats we have never seen before in the cup finals, each team is averaging 60 shots on goal a game, that is insane!” “Thanks Eddie, now we go to center ice for the puck drop.” I was really nervous, in my rookie season, 19 years old, my team and I got to the cup finals, now we are in game 7, an elimination game, It seems like it was just yesterday I heard the guy at the 2014 NHL entry draft say…

Saturday afternoon in December and frighteningly cold out. Becca had gone to the ice rink to watch Ashley skate. Sitting on the bleachers, freezing, wishing her best friend was a gymnast or even a pianist, she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors and…

Writer, Malcom Gladwell, in his nonfictional book, “The Story of Success” establishes the reasons why some people are successful in their lives. He uses non fictional stories to solidify his point he was trying to make Gladwell claims that achieving successful can vary. Gladwell shows us that there is an alternate way of how people gain their success His purpose is that inherited gifts and abilities to individuals is not the reason why people are successful. To back up and to clarify his claim,…

I knew, would be my last, so I wanted to go out with a bang. I remember the last night of playing professional hockey. The tickets sold out, televised nationally, and one big speech that I was supposed to say, but it wasn’t long. I went out on the ice of Madison Square Garden, and I noticed the number 99 was on the creases, everyone cheering, I was at home because of this. The Canadian National Anthem played, and I had to sing along. Then, my idol, Gordie Howe, came out and went to…

Before the end of the late spring, he had been decided for the group that would say/argue at the national wheelchair b-ball titles; the Link Autos won the national title, the first of three titles Fox would win with the group. Tired of the unforgiving Winnipeg winters, Rolly moved (starting with one place then onto the next) to Vancouver, English Columbia, in 1966. Not long after losing his right leg to growth, Fox chose to keep running crosswise over Canada to raise (thinking about…

The last ice age happened 2 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. At this point, North America is at its normal position, north of the equator. The glacier that covered the Ice Age was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Before the Ice Age, there was a valley called the Hudson Valley. During the Ice Age a glacier scraped through the rock, which gouged out 240 meters of rock. The sediments got removed from their previous location and deposited in a huge pile, a terminal moraine in Long Island. The…

The first thing I noticed when I walked into Jasmine Middle School was how big the eighth graders were. I knew that in middle school the sixth graders would be the babies, but it was still kind of a shock at how big eighth graders really were; well, at least I hoped the kids I was looking at were eighth graders. If the group of kids hanging out by the lockers were seventh graders, then eighth graders must be huge. Luckily, after looking around for a few seconds, I spotted my best friend,…

King Henrik has reigned supreme during a long run of success on Broadway. A stellar performer for more than a decade with the New York Rangers, the goaltender from Are, Sweden, has been one of the top players of his generation and one of the top goaltenders of all time. Since arriving in the NHL in 2005-06, Lundqvist has won the Vezina Trophy, Olympic gold and led the League in victories. The Rangers selected Lundqvist in the seventh round (No. 205) in the 2000 NHL Draft while he was playing…