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ulmination
The way the author wrote this piece I find interesting on how he would use dialogue form the players, then some back story on fasting, then history on the Muslim religion.
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This sentence here almost makes me think of the article by REILLY. they both have to do with football and over coming barriers.
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halal chicken
All throughout the piece, freedman is tying football with the Muslim religion and history of how Dearborn is so populated with Muslims.
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alk about a rebuilding year.
The starting sentence of this chunk is so powerful. Because without even needing to look at the date, I had an idea that it was something bad that the author has witnessed or has been through. Then he leads into saying how many players they've lost and it all started coming together. It was 6 months after 9/11.
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Most of the guys on the team have a nasty case of the WTC cough,which is what you get from digging week after week, up to 18hours a day, and inhaling dust, smoke, glass particles, asbestosand, indeed, microscopic remains of their fallen comrades. Butthe guys are playing. "Damn right," says fullback Tom Narducci."It's tradition."
I find this so inspiring that regardless of what's happening in the outside world, that your not going to let that effect the sport you love.
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ou cry together at enough funerals, you figure you can bleedtogether on a football field, too.
I found this so powerful and the fact that the author included it twice truly makes an impact on this article. It wasn't your typical sad soppy story. It was showing how family comes to together during hard times and they patch up their bruise ( losing teammates/co-workers) with a band-aid (football).
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The Wild quietly dangled him as trade bait, then made a half-hearted attempt to re-sign him for about $1 million a year.
I like how the author used the word "dangled" instead of held or hung. Dangled makes the sentence more dramatic.
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The Wild led, and Boogaard stood and jeered — or chirped, in hockey parlance — from the bench. The Ducks chirped back.
The writer's moves in this article are very interesting. His word choice is very different. He uses the words "chirped" and "jeered". Instead of snapped or talked back.
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Coaches and scouts laughed as they congratulated Boogaard.He was 16.
A 16 year old boy is being cheered on by adults to fight. I get it that its hockey but, they don't know where this would be going or the turn that it would take. It's also interesting that the author put "he was 16" in its own sentence and paragraph. Almost to emphasize his age.
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He did not know whom he would fight, just that he must.
This is in an interesting way to start the article. Because if you are a hockey fan you know of Derek boogaard and his fighting history. How he would fight more than play it seemed. This sentence almost gives me vibes that he's an animal or a pet to the coaches.
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It was a cycle that commanded the rest of his life.
interesting that the author added this in here. Boogaard was only 16 when he got into his first hockey fight. And because of that, that's what he's known for or just known of doing. And because of that, he died with that legacy of just being a fighter.
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