peer review at various times throughout the semester
How often will these reviews be?
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Genre & WritingSituations
For this project will it be based on our topics (games, sports etc.) or can we chose?
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Arguments are also situationallyspecific: that is, they look, sound, and persuade differently depending on audience, exigence,kairos, purpose, genre and context.
Will we be given those ideas or will we be given brushstrokes to help us or will it be more option one or two?
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Insecurity, rivalry, hubris, recklessness—that was half of the story
This really does show us half of sports, not just the successes but the human element, one in which ones ideals and skills can be affected by success or projected success.
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Sonya worked at an Air Force base in Maryland, managing a Burger King. Shepulled long shifts and saved her money. In 2002 she watched the Nathan’s conteston TV and got curious. Over the next few months she experimented at home, thenentered a Nathan’s qualifier in 2003 and earned a spot in the finals
This backstory reminds of of not only Hollywood's movie's about sports, but also how in real life , athletes don't just decide one day to be one, they are brought into it by someone else, continuing a cycle of competition.
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“a mission similar to that ofFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan—namely, to balance the forces ofinflation and deflation.”
A quote that obviously gives an interesting comparison, however it definingly grabs our attention and gets us imagining how this compares to that.
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Sonya Thomas takes first, with twenty-five. “That’s the fifth time I’ve come insecond to Sonya,” Rich LeFevre says. “It’s getting boring.”
An example of what makes sports from boxing's one vs one to Soccer's One City vs Another so enjoyable, even if a game is not for a championship or if it is, you go against for someone long enough, gain that genuine annoyance or even hatred and you form a captivating rivalry that draws people in and forms must see stories.
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In a twelve-minute eating contest you don’t get a feel for the front-runners untilnear the end. Everybody knows that it’s in the final minutes that the outcome isdetermined.
I get an imagery similar to football, how similar to the contest, at any point a comeback or upset can occur.
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