Balls Enough Analysis

Does Violence Motivate?
How can you define violence? Does it only have a physical definition, like attacking another person? Or is it defined the way Gabriella Nilsson, author of Balls Enough, does, with a much broader definition, including not only physical violence but also emotional violence? Under her definition, everything from yelling to voicing displeasure can be defined as violence. In short, humiliating anyone in any way is violence. But at what point do we cross from her definition of violence to what a reasonable person would call the hard knocks of everyday life? For athletes, humiliation is part of everyday life. On the field, humiliation is your coach calling you out in front of the team for missing a block or dropping the football. In this piece, I am not focusing on anything akin to psychological warfare, but something as simple as making an athlete do something they do not want to. Under Nilsson’s definition, teachers and coaches are categorized in the same group as people who
On this show, contestants face off to see who can lose the most weight each week. On the earlier seasons, each contestant was placed onto one of two teams, either coached by Bob Harper or Jillian Michaels. Harper is a kind coach who tries to get the contestants to lose weight by gentle encouragement, whereas Michaels would get inches from someone’s face and scream at them at the top of her lungs. These two coaches took very different coaching strategies and it showed in how the contestants would talk about their coaches off screen. Harper's team acted as if they were close friends, whereas Michaels team feared what would happen if they did not lose enough weight. This was reflected in their weight loss, where every week, Michael’s contestants tended to lose more weight. That intimidation and fear of being humiliated helped Michael’s team to achieve their goal and lose the weight (The Biggest