Kinesiology 3378F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Black Kids, Gary Gaines, Gladiator
5 Jan 2019
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Positive in how this could help children. Team epitomizes certain values that town sees as core to their identity. Book shows odessa as a crappy place to live. Things that allow this town/team to succeed, best way to teach them through this game then it shouldn"t be necessary to spend this much money on. Maybe curriculum content or is equally as important to the attitudes that are hard to learn in a classroom and can be taught through football. Book tries to show both sides of the argument. Nature of football as violent or gladiatorial concept. Is mortality right for use to take pleasure in the pain of others. Players getting permanent injuries including brain injuries. Embrace tests of character and physical limits founds in sport. Sport almost entirely takes us to our bodily limits. even in low injury sport i. e. tennis swimming, still push self to limit. cant play high performance sport and come out completely healthy.
