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    Then someone with color and someone with dash‚ brought fight fans are running’ with Cash.”(Clay) Cassius’ professional boxing career began October twenty ninth 1960 with a six round fight against Tunney Hunsaker‚ after Ali’s victory the two fighters remained life long friends. In the next three year Ali would achieve 19 wins and had earned himself the right to challenge

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    Elliot’s interaction with the world of boxing is portrayed as chaotic. Daldry’s use of dizzying camera angles‚ ridiculous choreography‚ distracting piano playing in the background and aggressive yelling from the coach and Billy’s dad‚ convey Billy sense of pressure and confusion. The knock out marks his failure and the coach’s words‚ “You are a disgrace to this gym and to these boxing gloves” states the reality that Billy does not belong to his father’s world of boxing. With Mrs Wilkinson’s command to

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    writes that a sign is “something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody‚ that is creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign‚ or perhaps a more developed sign” (Silverman 14). Both Jessup’s boxing gloves in Winter’s Bone and Allie’s baseball mitt in Catcher in the Rye creates a concrete understanding of symbolic significance. However‚ it is essential to recognize more than the symbolic relevance while analyzing a text. The semiotics of each

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    Why Boxing Should Be Banned What does the United States need to do in order to prevent these tragic deaths caused by boxing? There has been a continuous debate throughout the world on whether or not boxing should be banned. Some people have argued that boxing should be banned because of the horrific results from the fatal blows in the head that can lead to fatalities as well as serious brain injuries that appear later on to the boxer’s life. According to The Washington Post‚ since the year of 2002

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    1920’s Slang Examples of popular slang phrases during the 1920’s: • Bees knees- used to refer to something that is positive/good • Gigglewater- alcohol • And how!- This phrase is used to show that an individual is agreeing with someone else • Baloney- used to address something that makes no sense • Bent- used to refer to someone that is over intoxicated • Bimbo- a strong tough guy • Cash- used to refer to a kiss • Dapper- the father of a known flapper • Doll- used to refer to an attractive woman

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    Play Response In the play Midsummers Nights Dream‚ the director conveyed many different meanings in the play and there were many that stood out to me that night. One of the main concepts I captured from the play was the significance of love. All characters in the play are lively‚ careless and thoughtless‚ especially the character Puck‚ one of the dominant characters in the play. Through the assistance of imaginary elements as well as characters Puck and Oberon‚ the true message of love in William

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    James J. Braddock once said‚ " I have to believe that once things are bad‚ I have to change them". The movie Cinderella Man is about Braddock rising from a poor‚ unsuccessful boxer to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The historical background to his life and career was during the same time period as the Great Depression. James Braddock was not always the boxer he is now known to be‚ in the 1920’s he had lost one third of his fights and people referred to him as a “bum” which is the lowest

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    Socio-cultural The demographic trend is going to the younger generation. For the past years‚ Elorde Boxing Gym was only visited by people who earn money or adults but recently‚ the young genration is starting to dominate the Elorde Boxing Gym. The rise of Manny Pacquiao helped the gym attract more customers especially the young generation. The emergence of Filipino Boxing helped the Elorde Boxing gym attract customers. People especially the youth look up to Manny pacquiao‚ Nonito Donaire‚ Brian

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    interest. He wanted to become a boxer‚ much like Joe Louis whom he profoundly admired. At the age of 15 Hairston quit school and juggled through several odd jobs before deciding to start boxing as a living to help support his family. Each morning for about six months Hairston went to the Tremont Fighting Club‚ a boxing gym in the Bronx‚ with a written note stating “I want to fight.” Although his request was not taken into consideration at first due to his deafness‚ but later on the owners of the gym

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    is excited about boxing‚ but would like to reschedule going to boxing for another day. The youth does not have boxing shorts and gloves. WYP Ngo encouraged the youth to just try it out. WYP Ngo encouraged the youth to visit the site. WYP Ngo explained to the youth‚ the gym provide the boxing gloves and the youth can just throw on any shorts. The youth insisted on going to the gym next week. The youth discussed with WYP Ngo about materials for boxing. The youth would like a boxing shorts‚ a

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