henry armstrong
Now I Went Down to the Ringside and Little Henry Armstrong Was There
Professor Paul Clark
Jieyu Zhang
Henry Armstrong was born in an ordinary family. His family was poor, and especially this was a black family, there was racial discrimination to this family. He was often the target for teasing in school. In defending himself against bullies, he discovered his interest in boxing. Without money going to college, little Armstrong have to work to get money to let his family survive. When he saw on news that a boxer won a game and got $75,000, Armstrong quickly abandoned his railroad job to pursue a career as a boxer. (1) Although finally Armstrong became the most successful boxer in history, the reason pushes him as a boxer is because he need to survival. Fight seems to be the only way out, abandon boxing means back to old life. When place people into a hard situation, they will easily act crazy or stupid. Maybe these people will create different crazy or stupid stories, but the central contents are always about survival. Armstrong wants to survive in a poor and racism environment, so he became a boxer, which is a job normal people think crazy and dangerous job. The poor will steal or rob money or food, also in order to survival. Such as Jean Valjean (a character in Les Miserables), steal a bread just for living. So many examples happened before and now and will continue happen. The same thing also happened on me when I was in a bad environment. It was happened in my junior high school. Although this was an old stories and I have talk about it before, but there were many things I have learned from these bad experiences and many things can be related to the class. When I first came to my junior high school, I imminently noticed it was not the right school and told my parents, but because it was a famous one, the refused listen to me. So since I don’t like the school at first, it was hard for me to fit better there, so as students. When I refused go to
Professor Paul Clark
Jieyu Zhang
Henry Armstrong was born in an ordinary family. His family was poor, and especially this was a black family, there was racial discrimination to this family. He was often the target for teasing in school. In defending himself against bullies, he discovered his interest in boxing. Without money going to college, little Armstrong have to work to get money to let his family survive. When he saw on news that a boxer won a game and got $75,000, Armstrong quickly abandoned his railroad job to pursue a career as a boxer. (1) Although finally Armstrong became the most successful boxer in history, the reason pushes him as a boxer is because he need to survival. Fight seems to be the only way out, abandon boxing means back to old life. When place people into a hard situation, they will easily act crazy or stupid. Maybe these people will create different crazy or stupid stories, but the central contents are always about survival. Armstrong wants to survive in a poor and racism environment, so he became a boxer, which is a job normal people think crazy and dangerous job. The poor will steal or rob money or food, also in order to survival. Such as Jean Valjean (a character in Les Miserables), steal a bread just for living. So many examples happened before and now and will continue happen. The same thing also happened on me when I was in a bad environment. It was happened in my junior high school. Although this was an old stories and I have talk about it before, but there were many things I have learned from these bad experiences and many things can be related to the class. When I first came to my junior high school, I imminently noticed it was not the right school and told my parents, but because it was a famous one, the refused listen to me. So since I don’t like the school at first, it was hard for me to fit better there, so as students. When I refused go to