The American Spectator

words, it is war minus the shooting”. Violence in today’s sports occurs when people do not discuss their issues and resort to the violence to solve their problems1. The violence in sports is not limited to players, it includes coaches, referees, and spectators. For the purpose of this essay violence will be defined as the use of excessive physical force and has the potential to cause harm. Media will be defined as the “means of mass communication”. It’s no mystery that some sports such as…

expect to be a spectator at the Meadows Music and Arts Festival in Flushing Queens since I was there for work. But as I stood backstage watching the crowd scream and cheer for Jay Z decided that I could no longer handle watching the crowd of concert goers stare in awe of him. I needed to be front and center stage to experience what they were seeing and to witness one of the notable greatest rappers of this generation perform live. I inched my way through the crowd to now be a spectator. I found…

The Olympic Games lead the world in showcasing a variety of foremost winter and summer sporting events. One principal sport includes tennis, a racket based, non-contact game played with one or two players on each side of the court. Tennis is played recreationally and competitively across the world. Tennis originated in England during the 19th century, but its role as an Olympic sport exhibits how it reaches numerous audiences worldwide. Tennis's universal presence suggests that it can be enjoyed…

Organizational strengths are positions of organizational power that are derived from the organization’s state of existence. Given the present-day struggles of the San Diego Chargers franchise it would be natural for one to assume that the Chargers franchise is devoid of any organizational strengths. In actuality, the Chargers franchise possesses a multitude of internal strengths, each of which are capitalized on to various extents. Of the many strengths possessed by the Chargers organization,…

The Civil Rights Movement impacted American society from 1954 to present day by starting with Brown v. Board of Education. This went ended up at the Supreme Court and which a ruling was passed to make segregation illegal for public schools. This lead to the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. On August 28, 1955 a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. The same year on December 1st, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to…

Hancock’s screenplay raises questions of cynicism, boosterism and liberal guilt especially of the upper-class liberals. The main surprise in Hancock story, is he does not write a villain to generate conflict. Yet, he does give the idea that people should be afraid of certain black male stereotypes. Michael’s character was written as though he has few thoughts of his own. On the flip side, Hancock writes the central story around the mom Leigh Anne. Hancock writes her as a strong-willed woman who…

when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” – Dr Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches In 2014 the American film Selma was released for the first time, taking on the story of the historical march of Selma to Montgomery. The march was led by King, Bevel, Williams and Lewis and the film starred David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Carmen Ejego and…

explain his belief of how African-Americans should live their lives in white America. The first metaphor is about a ship lost in the sea and their need of water. In this metaphor, Washington describes how every time the ship asked for water, a vessel would tell them “cast down your bucket where you are”. When the ship finally cast down their bucket, they got it full of fresh and sparkling water from the Amazon. With this metaphor, Washington attempts to get African-Americans to ‘cast down their…

of his mission to create great American poetry. However, despite his seemingly harmless portrayals of certain minority groups in America, mainly African-Americans and Native Americans, Whitman often reinforces the dominant views expressed by those in his own time. Moreover, he subconsciously celebrates colonialism by his praises and encouragements of westward expansion. While Whitman does sometimes focus on racial minorities in his celebration of the ordinary Americans, he does so only as a…

Timo Kulig Ms. Guidorizzi Junior English 7 30 September 2016 Patrick Henry’s plan to save America Patrick Henry’s ,,Speech to the Virginia Convention” was in 1775 during the American Revolution. To get the attention of the spectators, he said to the President: ,,Sir, we have done everything that could be done , to avert the storm which is now coming on.” Patrick Henry wrote that speech to support the Virginia militia. He used pathos as his persuasive technique to convince the people to go to war…