Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country
This is very true, but debating whether or not it can be considered a religion is a whole other topic
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Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players
I'm not sure that comparing hockey players to Jesus is exactly right, no matter how many connections you can make between religion and the sport
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adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks
As someone who also isn't religious, I like this aspect of the class. Taking this class would definitely be interesting, but I don't see any real value in it other than entertainment purposes
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If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved
I would also love to hear the connections between religion and a sport. I would take this class if I had the opportunity
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Bauer expects to see more than his usual 10 to 20 people in the class
Most likely people would attend to listen to how absurd this concept actually is
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It's a divine inspiration
No, it's not
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The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice
Again, this sounds so unnecessarily intense. It's a SPORT not a life or death situation
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sacrifices made on the ice of blood, sweat and tears
This makes hockey sound like a war zone and not simply just an ice rink
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Graduate course set to debate whether one of Quebec's biggest passions is a religion
The fact that there is an actual course that dedicated to discuss whether or not a sport is considered a religion is beyond me, so entertaining
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Smoke 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
I still can't wrap my head around how crazy hockey fans get and that it can escalate to something so violent
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There are moments when life gets in the way, when sports and thereal world collide at some intersection
This can be seen with all sports that are played, not just hockey
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The Richard Riot is generally considered the firstexplosion of French-Canadian nationalism, the beginning of asocial and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day.
The fact that hockey was the cause of this goes to show how seriously and personally people take the game
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During the first-period intermission a fan marched up thesteps and extended his hand for what Campbell assumed would be ahandshake. Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface.
Hockey fans are really something else. I've never heard of a fan from another sport slapping the face of the player
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On the night of Thursday, March 17, 1955, the haze was aghostly yellowish white.
I like how it's setting the scene for the readers to picture it in their minds
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His words had a palliative effect. The next night nobody threw galoshes, nobody broke any more windows, nobody stopped streetcars.
The fact that his words had such an effect on the people of Montreal is crazy
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Not surprising, then, that a French paper published a cartoon of Campbell’s bloody head on a platter with the caption, “This is how we would like to see him.”
This would never happen today
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A city bus driver was so distraught by the ruling he missed a flashing railway signal and almost killed his passengers
This is too extreme. There's no need to be so upset over a sports game to the extent where you're putting other people's lives in danger
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The people of Montreal took Campbell’s punishment personally
This shows just how intensely the citizens viewed hockey and how personally it affected each and every one of them
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cardinal sin
it's interesting to see how religious terms are used when talking about a sport
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There is no sound quite like it in the whole world of sport
I've been to plenty of hockey games and can agree that the crowds really are something else
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Richard slipped a forechecker
Not familiar with this term
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Their teammates swarm about, clutching and shoving one another
It's funny to see and hear about how teammates, who aren't involved in the initial fight, start to get angry with the other team and join in on the violence
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But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper
If his temper was really that infamous I wonder if he did this on purpose or not
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It’s March 13, 1955. The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night.
I like how this really sets the scene and starts describing a picture in the reader's mind
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it is not just a matter of hockey
The players, along with the fans, made this sport bigger and more important than itself
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third-man-in rule
Not too familiar with this rule but probably for the better that they cracked down on the violence of the sport
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Garbage and various fruit rained down
I've never heard of people throwing garbage down onto the ice, this is something else
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Ted Lindsay had been dispatched for four games after punching a Toronto fan
Punching a fan is a bit too much if you ask me
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Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand
I can't think of another sport that can be looked at this way. It's definitely one on its own kind of level
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hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope
This is a pretty bold statement considering how important religion was back then, even more than it is today
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Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice
Many think that hockey is violent today but it was much worse earlier on. This did, and still does, tend to be the reason people go and see the game
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the voice of Quebec
Really powerful concept here
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Country folk do not die for love
Interesting idea here. Are country people the only ones who don't die for love?
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The moment for laying in wood is also that of the slaughtering
After describing the colorful scene of bringing in wood for warmth, it changes to the dreary concept of killing pigs for food
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is apt to pay attention only to the sound of names, caring nothing about their appearance when written or the sex to which they pertain
This is a unique way to look at names. This isn't common today
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You cannot shoot devils with a gun
Interesting saying
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Tit'Bé
This is an interesting name
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The alders formed a thick and unbroken hedge along the river Peribonka; but the leafless stems did not shut away the steeply sloping bank, the levels of the frozen river, the dark hem of the woods crowding to the farther edge-leaving between the solitude of the great trees, thick-set and erect, and the bare desolateness of the ice only room for a few narrow fields, still for the most part uncouth with stumps, so narrow indeed that they seemed to be constrained in the grasp of an unkindly land.
Really detailed in describing the scene
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pig's bladder filled with tobacco leaves
Is this referring to the pipe or type of clothing
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We could not doubt that God had chosen to speak to us by their lips
A very interesting thing to say, very rooted in their faith
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they were stripped naked, and [46] some of their nails were torn out
Horrible things done to human beings
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in her captivity did not forget her faith
This must have been a hard thing to do while being held captive. Keeping faith in times of real hardship says a lot about someones character
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where the Savage Christians are increasing in number and in virtue beyond all our hopes
It is clear that there is no hope for the 2 groups to live peacefully among each other
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Savages
At this point I feel like this was a normal way to describe the First Nations people
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daily peril of their lives
I feel like this might be a bit exaggerated to say, as if each day they fight to survive against the Iroquois
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the mother or the wife will be at the foot of the grave calling to the deceased with singing
This is an interesting ritual, I've never heard of this happening before
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for as I have said, Huron and thief are one and the same thing
Was this idea held by many or just a few
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their occupations and amusements do not permit that
They don't believe that the tribe can be taught their religion, even though they have asked to learn
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BARBARISM
Quite a strong choice for words
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there are among these Tribes many errors, superstitions, vices, and utterly evil customs to uproot
Not much respect for a culture that it different from their own
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Kebec
I have never seen Quebec spelled this way
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savages
throughout the text, the word savages is used 52 times
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savages
Right off the bat we can see how the First Nations are perceived
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happy death
Odd choice of words to describe death
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