Article 8:

   
          London 2012 Festival and cultural Olympiad in Britain: Jump, Twirl, Paint, Act

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/arts/london-2012-festival-and-cultural-olympiad-in-britain.html


      Sarah Lyall composed this cultural sportive article to describe the cultural Olympiad that will be held along

with the sportive one. She did a fantastic job providing information about the cultural events that will take place

in England and their descriptions. This article would serve as a guide for people who are planning to visit

London this summer to enjoy both the sportive competitions and the various cultural shows. I felt happy reading

about all events across the country including theater, music, dance, sculpture, performance, movies and so. We

will sure enjoy this summer with the Olympiads.

Article 7:

  Yoga, American Style:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/12/is-yoga-for-narcissists/when-high-achievers-do-yoga

      Suketu Mehta wrote the article using an ironic approach to criticize the way Americans practice Yoga. He

thinks that instead of managing every day’s stress and relaxing, some Americans practice Yoga to show off! He

condemns competition between people while practicing Yoga and the fact that Americans practice only one

type of Yoga which is the least important among many. He tries to transmit the message that Yoga is a sport to

clear people’s mind, help them focus, distress and become better citizens and positive people, instead of sport

where you compete to be the best and consequently hurt yourself.

Article 6:

 Offensive Play:

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Freporting%2F2009%2F10%2
F19%2F091019fa_fact_gladwell?tab=people&uname=hapappas

   This article is a study that was done by Malcom Gladwell to show the relationship between the offensive play

and brain damages. The writer used the scientific approach. He used medical terms and described the cases of


several players of football and boxers to show the side effects. He provided several doctors’ opinions and

research studies. The article described each case in details, and providing descriptions of how those sport

people would start getting side effects, neurological problems and brain damages due to the hitting they got

when they used to practice their violent sports especially football and boxing.

Article 5:

 NFL’s Bad Boys:

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fbyliner.com%2Fspotlights%2Fthe-nfls-bad-boys?tab=people&uname=hapappas

   A simple summarized article about NFL’s players who got in trouble but got back to play. The journalist

used nice metaphoric words such redemption, forgiveness and compassion to describe the return of those

previously condemned players to the fields. The way of summarizing the case of each player and passing to the

next story was nice and smooth. Each case can be written in one big article, but the journalist still did a good

job in just short paragraphs.

Article 4:

Distant Replay:

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   A very nice article that was written by Mark Bowden. It describes how the greatest football game in the

history is seen in the eyes of a modern NFL head coach, Andy Reid. Simple and organized, this article

describes how Andy Reid, the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles sees the details of the best football game

ever, which was held on 1958 between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants, the best defense against

the best offense. The article describes the reactions and comments of the coach on the main portions of the

game. It is a long article, but interesting and funny. The journalist did a great job describing the comments of

Andy and commenting on them.

Article3:

 Lance Armstrong Rides Again:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/09/armstrong200809?printable=true

    This article was written by Douglas Brinkley. This journalist is the neighbor of the famous indefatigable anti-

cancer crusader and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. This article was nicely written as a

form of story. The journalist got my attention fist by stating that he’s the neighbor of Lance Armstrong. He also

got my attention through the very long article by using the suspense method. For example, he stated that he did

not know why he was invited by the champion. Then he started guessing ideas and citing discussions that talked

about those ideas. He went through the article from politics and if Armstrong could go for elections, to

wondering if he got the cancer back, up to the main point which is the return of Lance Armstrong to riding and

his decision to win his eight championship title.

Article 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/sports/playmagazine/04baseball.html?sq=&st=nyt%22=&scp=22%22by%20Sara%20Corbett=&pagewanted=all

    This article which was written by Sara Corbett describes how baseball itself can constitute a life for people.

For this reason, the journalist took Jarrod Petree, a 12 year old boy as an example. I liked the way she

described his beginnings with baseball and how he was born to play baseball. She well described his family and

how they care about their son. They seem very committed to the future of their son. They even made him the

center of the family and they adjusted everything depending on him since he is always traveling with his team

Central Florida Express. Another nice thing in the article is the use of the emotional words of his family

members to express their feelings and how they support Jarrod for his life goal. The journalist also did a great

job by going into some specific details such as the way of those kids’ lives, their schedules, their dreams, their

families’ hopes…

journal entry 1

Let’s Start Paying College Athletes:


- The journalist Joe Nocera discusses the issue of paying college athletes. He argues that college athletes make

huge efforts for their schools and must be rewarded for those efforts by getting paid like professional ones. He

used many powerful arguments in order to convince the audience with his point of view such as providing some

key information. For example, he cited the efforts and time spent by college athletes on their games which go

up to 50 hours per week. He also provided statistics of the millions of dollars that the coaches get. Another

good argument was providing the revenues that come from advertisement, TV contracts…

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all