"Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.
I agree. Sports shape so many people's lives and allow them opportunities that they otherwise would not have.
He knows the class will attract students who are unfamiliar with religious studies and says that's okay. He noted, however, it's still an academic course.
It would be interesting to attend one of these classes and hear everyone's different viewpoints on the topics
In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion."It's a divine inspiration," Bauer said of the idea behind the theology course that begins in January 2009.
This is crazy to thing that a group of people love something so much that they want to turn it into a religion
Fans of the Montreal Canadiens pray that the sacrifices made on the ice of blood, sweat and tears will lead them to glory
This line from the photo subheading shows the passion each and every Canadian has for the game of hockey
"If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."
This line made me laugh a little
ichard had led the Canadiens tothree Stanley Cups and had scored 50 goals in 50 games,
These are wild stats
Three days later Campbell suspendedRichard for the Canadiens' three remaining regular-season gamesand the entire playoffs.
This was the reason that the people of Montreal were so passionate about their hockey and caused the riot... which is still unacceptable no matter the reasoning behind it
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal, my homefor the past 21 years. The Rocket was the preeminent presence,if not player, of his era. Whenever he stormed a goaltender,Richard's glare could be seen from the top row of the Forum--andin taverns for hundreds of miles around,
Maurice Richard was a once in a generation athlete for the Canadian people
moke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests
It is crazy that fans are so passionate about their sports that they will release tear gas and initiate full blown riots over them
In 1947, he broke his stick over the head of another Ranger, Bill Juzda.
Ohmygosh!! How was he allowed to keep playing!?
Yet Richard had a dark side. His intensity sometimes provoked violence. His tantrums had become as legendary as his goals.
I never realized how emotional of a sport hockey can be!
By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list.
This is insane !
In 1939, when war broke out in Europe, the 18-year-old Richard tried to enlist for active duty, but military doctors determined his wrists and ankle — already broken during hockey games — had not healed properly.
His life would have been so different if enlisting would have worked out... so crazy
You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard. And none of them meant to their fans what le Rocket meant to Canadien fans.
To be mentioned higher than some of the biggest names to ever play the game of hockey is pretty incredible
Richard presses a towel to the gash on his scalp, which will take five stiches to close.
Ohmygosh that must've been a bad cut!
Then Richard snatches a stick from the ice and swings it wildly at Laycoe. He cuts him below the eye.
I cannot believe they were able to go into fights and use their stick to hurt their opponent !
And the Rocket, who always refused to align himself with a political party, would lead his teammates to five straight Stanley Cup victories until retiring in the spring of 1960 with 544 regular-season goals to his credit.
WOW! 5 Stanley Cups in a row is an incredible feat!
After the riot, the NHL began to crack down on all-out brawls (especially carrying your stick into one), though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule.
There are still many fights in hockey today that are brutal and get bad so I wonder how much this rule changed back then.
Garbage and various fruit rained down on the NHL boss, one man raced up and smeared a tomato on Campbell, and less than a minute later a homemade tear gas bomb went off.
When people are upset about things related to hockey, they will do whatever it takes to make sure people know and understand their anger.
hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."
This quote shows just how important the sport of hockey is to the Canadian people. He is putting it higher than their religion and the leader, which says a lot.
Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.
This is a great description and shows just how intense hockey can become
150th birthday in 2017.
Wow that is a lot of years !
A violent end of an era for the NHL and Quebec
This is a very intriguing title and makes me want to keep reading the story
This title makes me interested and want to learn more about the topic.
You cannot shoot devils with a gun," objected his mother. "But when you feel the temptation coming, seize your rosary and sa
This was one of the lines that stood out to me the most... she is saying that in times of trouble, stand strong in your beliefs and ideals and do not try to hurt or be mean to others
The icy road held alongside the frozen river. The houses on the other shore, each surrounded with its patch of cleared land, were sadly distant from one another. Behind the clearings, and on either side of them to the river's bank, it was always forest: a dark green background of cypress against which a lonely birch tree stood out here and there, its bole naked and white as the column of a ruined temple
This is a very descriptive part of the reading that allows me to visibly understand what they are trying to depict
The pea-soup was soon ready and on the table
I have never had pea-soup before ... I wonder how it tastes !
Others began to discuss the chances of the crops, before the ground was even showing. "I tell you that we shall have a lean year," asserted one old fellow, "the frost got in before the last snows fell."
These people are aware of how damaging the snow and frost can be on their crops and want to make sure to handle this before it gets our of hand like it did last year
The snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun
This is such an interesting beginning as it talks about snow being in April when most places are done with winter by that time of the year
A little girl of five years, at the Mission of saint Ignace, of Infidel parents, came every day to prayers, morning and evening. She had so constantly adhered to this duty, even against the wishes and the prohibitions of her parents, that we could not refuse her Holy Baptism,—seeing that the spirit of the Faith was abundantly compensating in her for the years that she might lack in order freely to dispose of herself in a matter wherein grace has more right than nature.
This is such an admirable thing for a young child to be doing... under the scrutiny of their parent to learn and grow in a religion...
Truly, God is great and adorable forever
They are very strong in their strength
we gave them, at the start, a cask of Eels, and a barrel of Indian corn; also 6 Blankets, 2 pairs of snowshoes, etc. For their Cabin,
This is a large donation to the people, they will be well equipped with food and warm clothing as they spend their time in the winter
On palm Sunday
This is a common day celebrated by christians and catholics as well !
Savages
There is a lot of use of the word savage in the articles written in this time period ... very interesting
They accordingly depart homeward, after having burned to death many captives, most of these being Christians.
This is so sad, that they were targeting Christians and burning them to death for their beliefs
About 1,800 persons have been baptized during the year, not including those baptized by Daniel at the destruction of St. Joseph.
this is an amazing number of baptisms !
Deer, Bears, and Moose
This is another instance like the turtle... it is interesting that they capitalize the animals names
Now, as she fell, the Turtle
It seems as though they are talking about the animal turtle but I am curious as to why it is capitalized ...
We surround the Cross, painted anew in its first colors, [32] upon which I had placed the body of our Lord crucified; we recite some prayers; and then I adored and kissed the Cross, to show them how they ought to do it. They imitated me one after the other, apostrophizing our crucified Savior in prayers which natural Rhetoric and the exigency of the time suggested to them.
This is such a vulnerable and special moment with the cross and showing how it should be viewed and treated
On Sundays, we assemble all these young people twice in our Cabin,
I wonder what causes them to meet twice on Sundays... I know at my old church we had a service in the mornings and then at night there was Bible studies for different age groups so there might have been something like that going on ...
As the women and children caused us much trouble
What caused the women and children to cause them so much trouble? Why were the men not causing any trouble?
Reverend Father General cherishes this Mission as the apple of his eye
What does the author mean here when they say he cherishes the mission as the apple of his eye?
This is so interesting that he gave them 12,000
This is so interesting that he gave them 12,000 beads in order to make his directions and to follow accordances of the country.