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    also an inspirational speaker, he stood up for what is right and what he believed in, and he works so hard and dedicates his life to anything he truly desires and wants. Muhamad Ali is a three time world champion in the heavyweight division and he is the first and only to do so in the History of boxing. He first got his title which was taken from him for reasons I will get into. He got it back a few years after his suspension ended before he lost it to only get it back again. People think this…

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    movie that is based on the true story of a boxer in the middle of the Great Depression. How through boxing he had once been on the top, and when the Great Depression started he lost it all, as many did to, but slowly through boxing he managed to get his family to survive and inspire the people to fight to. When the movie begins, November 30, 1928, James J. Braddock the main character is in a boxing match that he wins. After the match he goes to his house and his family. The thing about this…

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    Parallelism In Boxing

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    and it was an American sport. The sport of boxing had been played in Europe since the eighteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century when boxing became an American sport. At this time all Americans, regardless of race and financial status, could box. Any American athlete with a talent for boxing could make a sufficient amount of money that was enough to be successful. With technological advancements and increased political interest, boxing became increasingly popular in the twentieth…

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    Arm wrestling with my father is about a boy and his father being competitive in arm wrestling and them having a physical relationship, more than your typical father son relationship. Arm wrestling was a thing he did with his father and how they expressed their love for each other. His father didn’t really know how to express his love for him son so he showed it through physical sports which was arm wrestling. The love him and his father had for each other was always there, even though they…

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    Problem Chance was dribbling the ball when he heard his dad’s familiar voice “CHANCE GET BACK IN HERE AND WORK ON YOUR SONG!”. This was an average thing for Chance, his dad was a famous rapper so it was obvious that he wanted Chance to be a professional rapper too. Chance walked into his huge mansion with spiral staircases at the entrance and platinum records all over the walls. As soon as he walked in his butler, Ferdinand, told him that his father was in the studio. Chance walked into the…

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    Before Mohammed Ali was Muhammad Ali he was Cassius Marcella clay Jr .Muhammad Ali filled his way to success when his boxing career all started because his bicycle was stolen and a Louisville police officer Joe Martin who was a boxing trainer suggesting that the young Ali should first learn how to fight.18 year old Muhammad who just graduated high school making it to the Rome Olympics came back home to Louisville a gold medalist in 1960 but that joy quickly faded away when he was refused…

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    In my opinion, peaceful resistance has a positive impact on society for a variety of reasons. Two historical examples of individuals who engaged in peaceful resistant strategies were that of Civil Rights Activists, Rosa Parks and professional boxer, Olympic champion, and Activist himself, Muhammad Ali. These two individuals not only participated in non-violent resistant approaches to social injustices but, more importantly, they were willing to face the subsequent consequences of their civil…

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    With 73 wins, some would call him a reliable source because of his boxing experience and credentials. But from the beginning, he stated very bias opinions on how he felt about the fight. In multiple interviews before/after the fight, Chuvalo said he wanted liston to win. If Liston was to win he would go on to fight Chuvalo, giving Chuvalo the opportunity to win the world title. Since Ali won the fight Chuvalo was denied the opportunity to fight Sonny Liston for the title…

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    Max Shmeling Ideology

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    Schmeling Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried “max” Schmeling was born in Klein Luckow, Providence of Pomerania, German empire on September 28th, 1905. We dont have much information on his family but from what we know, his dad was boxing fanatic. Max became interested in boxing in 1921 when his father took him to the heavy-weight championship between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. Impressed with Dempsey's performance in that fight, young Schmeling became determined to imitate his new…

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    Jack Dempsey: A True Hero

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    Talton Price Eng lll. Ms. Q One can not simply discuss the 1920s without mentioning the boxing phenom, Jack Dempsey. He alone became the prototype for all the future superstar athletes that followed. Even other big-time sport enthusiasts’ could not compare to his popularity. Jack Dempsey was significantly important to the 1920s on the grounds that he made sporting events fashionable and knocking out contenders breathtaking. Sporting events expanded and thrived throughout the 1920s due to the…

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