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rhythms of the twin rituals of Islam and the gridiron
Ali is not alone in the sense of finding a balance betweeb the game and faith.
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"To get through the fast," he put it, "I concentrate on the game.
he focuses on the playing aspect to avoid focusing on fasting.
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As much as football meant to him, as much as it mattered to win, those things only counted for Ali if he was also staying true to Allah.
There is a sense of weighing values going on in Ali's life where he is forced to find a balance between what he loves,the game the sport the play, what he believes in which would be he fasting.
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Ali realized that he was not going to play any more football after high school
This creates emotion for the game and kinda gives a sense of this is it make it count. I can personally relate to this because I am not good enough to swim in college, so my senior year will be it, and that makes me very sad.
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the gleaming marble heart of the Golden Bakery.
Freedman s uses imagery here, possibly to draw out emotion for the topic.
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could actually kill people
how? because if they mean people turning back to cigarettes then that would makes sense but that wasn't what was said it just said that it would kill people people which honestly implies that their physical life depends on e-ciggs, so....
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His decision could very well kill people by taking away the single most successful alternative to a habit that murders people en masse.
WHAT!?!? ummmm... ok so stopping people from getting a nicotine addiction at 16 kills people... sure... okay...?
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never smoking before
but over 30% of people who started smoking started with vaping (within 6 months
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the American fast food industry has already done
vaping's main concern is brain and lungs while fast foods affect include obesity and heart issues as stated previously
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It is surrounded by horizons of flat, windswept fields, covered in grain in the summer and snow in the winter, crosshatched every few miles by two-lane roads
the author uses imagery to create a story telling feel which which makes it feel a little less harsh when talking about harsh topics such as Boogaurd's death
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Or he would park at the edge of a pasture and moo at the cows through the loudspeaker.
Ummm...? ok this kinda makes it like there was something wrong upstairs before the head injuries along with what was said before, I think this adds context as to why fighting was an out let for him, which then morphed into a career. (arrow to next couple of sentences)
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against his own goalie
Adds to: not a very good hockey player.
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hat dream ended early, as it usually does, and no one had to tell him.
I think its interesting that Branch didn't just outright say that Boogaard sucks at hokey but saying that his dreams ended early. I think that it leaves it up for interpretation a little that there could have been some reasons that weren't talked about to why he wasn't very good. It also sets up for the next section perfectly because it ties right into the side entrance he talks about. This gets at the idea that if you you really want something there is always a way.
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The players flicked the padded gloves from their hands. They removed the helmets from their heads. They raised their fists and circled each other. They knew the choreography that precedes the violence.
Branch talks about fighting like a dance, like its planned. I think it sets up for the rest of this part, and almost give Boogaard a purpose on the team. It kinda gives importance to fighting.
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vengeance against a lifetime of perceived doubters
I wonder if this might be against not only people that doubted him but also people like to one in the beginning that threatened to kill him.
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Most players work on their hockey skills. Boogaard worked hard on his fighting skills.
honestly wow I think thats funny because it talks about him having dreams of playing in the NHL, and either that's not completely true, or he knew about the side entrance from a young age.
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pile.
Reilly uses connotations in his writing to add meaning on ow these firefighter viewed their work and their play. A pile in the sense of football is a pile of people which is very happy and to bring them out of that pile is comradeship and helpful. But the pile in their work is a pile of rubbish which is a lot of death and destruction and to bring some one out of this pile is carrying out a dead body. He does this in order to show the connection but more importantly the contradictions between the two.
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But a lot of families had nobody to bury.
This seemed to be a huge problem in this article. There were a lot of people that were killed in 9/11, and there were so many bodies that went unidentified, there still are like 200 that aren't identified today. This brings up a lot of emotion especially for families without bodies, its very sad that they lost the person but now they couldn't even honor their lives by burying them because there was no one to bury.
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