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  1. Apr 2020
    1. Professional football players, too, are selected for gameness. When Kyle Turley was knocked unconscious, in that game against the Packers, he returned to practice four days later because, he said, “I didn’t want to miss a game.

      Comparison between prized dogs from dog fighting and NFL players. Only difference is a person in good mind and body chooses to be a football player and accepts the consequences and risk of the sport and because of their athletic grace and ability are heftily rewarded.

    2. N.F.L. veteran, when you bring in his college and high-school playing days, could well have been hit in the head eighteen thousand times: that’s thousands of jarring blows that shake the brain from front to back and side to side,

      accumulative

    3. But a football player’s real issue isn’t simply with repetitive concussive trauma. It is, as the concussion specialist Robert Cantu argues, with repetitive subconcussive trauma. It’s not just the handful of big hits that matter. It’s lots of little hits, too.

      Repetitive hits have no matter in the stakes when you're mind is adapted to taking big hits

    4. it was that it came after the 76-g blow in warmup, which, in turn, followed the concussion in August, which was itself the consequence of the thirty prior hits that day, and the hits the day before that, and the day before that, and on and on, perhaps back to his high-school playing days.

      accumulative damage is correlated and progressively worse and tolerance can be higher but the brain was always sustain permanent damage.

    5. no one has died in Nascar’s three national racing series. Stock-car fans are sometimes caricatured as bloodthirsty, eagerly awaiting the next spectacular crash. But there is little blood these days in Nascar crashes

      The goal of NASCAR is to win and avoid injury, Football it's indefinitely you are going to be hurt and it's not that preventative especially considering your position.

    6. It’s a feature of the sport that dogs almost always get hurt. Something like stock-car racing, by contrast, is dangerous, but not unavoidably so.

      Theres definite risk in the game of football.

    7. This was a teen-ager, and already his brain showed the kind of decay that is usually associated with old age. “This is completely inappropriate,” she said. “You don’t see tau like this in an eighteen-year-old. You don’t see tau like this in a fifty-year-old.”

      Emphasized emotions and also to show the damage that the sport can have even in the young and especially the young.

    8. Of those players who were older than fifty, 6.1 per cent reported that they had received a diagnosis of “dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or other memory-related disease.” That’s five times higher than the national average for that age group. For players between the ages of thirty and forty-nine, the reported rate was nineteen times the national average. (The N.F.L. has distributed five million dollars to former players with dementia.)

      Definite correlation between football players and the average person.

    9. everything seemed entirely normal until you looked under the microscope and saw the brown ribbons of tau

      you might not even notice it.

    10. If he hadn’t had the accident, he would almost certainly have ended up in a dementia ward.

      Serious consequences as time progresses

    11. are actually victims of preventable brain trauma?

      Questions the ethics of sport and psychological effects on society to prevent breakout cases and crime. to preserve the mental health of society

    12. called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.), which is a progressive neurological disorder found in people who have suffered some kind of brain trauma. C.T.E. has many of the same manifestations as Alzheimer’s: it begins with behavioral and personality changes

      CTE is mind altering

    13. “I reached out to an awful lot of people to get their views—not only on what was right for the young man but also what was right for our society and the N.F.L.”

      Being a professional athlete means you have a duty to your job and your fans if you can't play that's money and career you are risking

    14. Vick was suspended from football. He was sentenced to twenty-three months in prison.

      Shows to show instead of putting this person in jail, he could've gotten help for psychiatric needs.

    15. There is no middle ground. If you are hurt, you can play. If you are injured, you can’t, and the line is whether you can walk and if you can put on a helmet and pads.”

      Exemplifies the business of sports.

    16. “They cleared me for practice that Thursday. I probably shouldn’t have. I don’t know what damage I did from that, because my head was really hurting

      Shows how the organization deals with injuries

    17. But their real problem was with their heads, the one part of their body that got hit over and over again.

      The consequence of the sport is trauma

  2. Nov 2019
    1. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many black children that way.

      Why are languages treated that way?

    2. Would learning black english be any beneficial or even be appropriate for non black english speakers?

    3. If two black people, at that bitter hour of the world's history, had been able to speak to each other, the institution of chattel slavery could never have lasted as long as it did. Subsequently, the slave was given, under the eye, and the gun, of his master, Congo Square, and the Bible--or in other words, and under these conditions, the slave began the formation of the black church, and it is within this unprecedented tabernacle that black English began to be formed.

      Being able to form a language between two people ahve saved lives

    4. going

      Can languages be gentrified?

    5. Jazz, for example, is a very specific sexual term, as in jazz me, baby, but white people purified it into the Jazz Age. Sock it to me, which means, roughly, the same thing, has been adopted by Nathaniel Hawthorne's descendants with no qualms or hesitations at all, along with let it all hang out and right on! Beat to his socks which was once the black's most total and despairing image of poverty, was transformed into a thing called the Beat Generation, which phenomenon was, largely, composed of uptight, middle- class white people, imitating poverty, trying to get down, to get with it, doing their thing, doing their despairing best to be funky, which we, the blacks, never dreamed of doing--we were funky, baby, like funkwas going out of style.

      Do white Americans gentrify trends and make them more appropriate?

    6. It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity.

      A communal identity is key to forming dialects and languages.

    7. the same things: They each have very different realities to articulate, or control.

      Can different regions be associated to different languages if they people speak differently?

    8. Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other--and, in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him.

      Language is ingrained in culture and should be recognized and associated with rich history and people who wish to speak it and understand it.

    1. That is, here in 2010. I love French and I’ve read Stendhal. But last time I checked, some interesting things had been written in Arabic, too.

      is the neglect of languages such as Arabic in colleges justified?

    2. the top 3 Major languages should be requirements.

    3. This will occasion an ever greater need for Chinese speakers for business purposes. The Chinese are also avidly interested in learning English, which will make teaching English in China as common a goal for young people as being an au pair girl in France used to be. China is happening, in a way that Italy is not.

      Chinese is undervalued as a language to be learned for enjoyment but thought more in an economic standpoint.

    4. you can be richly immersed in that via solid English translations; Nietzsche need not be read in the original

      Translation technology and the future of it is much more beneficial then learning a language?

    5. The advanced study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of the French-, Italian-, and Russian-speaking world are essential components of a liberal arts education in a university setting.”

      What is the benefit of language and literature to a student?

    6. Isn’t the sense of French as a keystone of an education a legacy of

      Should colleges only be able to teach the major languages as a requirement?

    7. I have as deep-seated a sense as anyone that an educated person is supposed to be able to at least fake a conversation in French.

      Expands on the idea of faking a language. What is the benefit of language?

  3. Oct 2019
    1. there was a moment when the living language – which I'd heard spoken around me when I was growing up – suddenly revealed itself to me,

      Makes a deep personal connection to how understanding language now has unlocked many memories now by understanding what the people around him were saying.

    2. I speak French with my sons, unless my Korean wife is there, in which case we'll use English. If we don't want the kids to understand everything we're saying, we use Korean.

      This quote exemplifies language barriers that happen in many households who speak multiple languages.

    3. I'm increasingly drawn to dead and endangered languages, and want to set up a polyglot academy where people with similar interests to mine can flourish.

      Expresses how the only way to save a dying language is to learn it and have a community of people speak it.

    4. it makes me more confident. If I were kidnapped tomorrow and dropped in an unknown region, I think there are only a few very remote areas I'd struggle to make myself understood.

      Stefen establishes this example to show how learning different languages has allowed him to be more connected to the world as a community by relinquishing language barriers between himself and people from all over the world.

    5. But to have the language come alive you have to speak it, to live it. Now, I find when I'm immersed in a language, I have another, more garrulous persona.

      This point goes on about how learning language can be fully realized and be fluent in is to be able to take part in understanding the life of a native speaker; learn one's culture.

    6. The more of them you know, the more you see how inter-related they are.

      continues to expand inter-related connections between languages and most likely will expand in how culture will play a role.

    7. never studied Swedish, but when I heard it spoken around me, it seemed to combine elements of languages I was familiar with. All it took was three weeks and I was able to hold my own in complex conversations.

      He is expanding on the connections between different languages. Reveals the similarities in words from past learning made learning languages easier.

    8. loving many German writers in translation, I wanted to read them in their native tongue, and that's been my main motivation for learning new ones since.

      The first true interest that Stefen Chow has shown for language. His motivation stems form wanting to read and process information and dialogue in different languages.