Blog assignment 6

I found very interesting essay about student-athletes by Zachary Tuthill and decided to work on it.
The first thing that catches attention is sufficiency of resources the author used. He described different examples of student-athletes by using their own words in quotation marks or paraphrasing them. For example, in second paragraph of his essay he used resource from ESPN.com to quote student-athlete Matt Leinart: “School’s done for me-I’m here to concentrate on football”, which gives us an opportunity to enjoy Matt Leinart’s view of the life and his desire.
Also, Zachary used paraphrasing method to describe student-athlete’s way of life and how do they manage their time to achieve success in both sides: academic and sports. For example, in his Athletes part he paraphrased David Castillo’s words: “He understood the sacrifice required to be a student-athlete and said he was one-hundred percent committed to football and school, finding little time to merely hang out with his friends”.
Zachary Tuthill used many resources to complete his work, for example, he used book sources, web sources, such as articles from the internet; also, he personally interviewed student-athlete from the University of Delaware. To my mind, the meaning of the essay completely relied on sources he found and cited. He used these sources to describe how student-athletes overcome difficulties and achieve success, without them his essay would have been just a probable discussion of student-athlete’s life.



Works cited:
1)Tuthill, Zachary. "Running Up Hill: The struggle of Student Athletes." Arak Anthology 2009-2010: 41. Department of English, University of Delaware.
2)"Leinart Dancing Through Final Semester at USC." ESPN.com: College Football. ESPN,26 August 2005. Web. 3 May 2008.
3) Anyaso, Hillary Hurd. "The Wide World of College Sports." Diverse Issues in Higher Education April 2006: 4+. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 26 April 2008.

The winners and the losers? Or the good and the evil?

We are good and they are evil. Our political motives are clear, but they are hiding something- this is the most common view of the government of some country.

People tend to think that there are winners and losers. But to my mind, it is not a good description. There are good and bad people, but who is the winner and who is the loser? We could tell it by reading the history of some other country by the wars they had, by the glory of the kings and the disintegration of the great empires such as the Roman empire. The description of the winner and the losers could be given from the example of the Second World War, we could tell that United states of America and The Soviet Union were the winners and the Nazi Germany was the loser, it is also written in all history documents in the world. But it is my belief that the peace won not the great countries by killing many people, by their military forces, winners were the people maintaining the peace, and they were everywhere in the world, so it is hard to tell who won.

Every country is the winner to its people, it is a symbol of greatness and everyone, I believe, love their country and are the patriots. In every country’s history books they described themselves as the winners and as the good side. Thus, everyone believe that his or her country is the winner.