The Visual Beauty of Sports (Remix Explanations)

-Throughout this blog I have included multiple remixes of each entry, probably more than every body else did, but regardless they are integral to my portfolio so here's their explanations.-

First Quarter: What Do Emmitt Smith, Black Beauty, and To Kill a Mockingbird All Have in Common?

                                                 

-In the first semester of my sophomore year I ended up in and English class that I had no clue what to expect in. After getting the syllabus and being there for a few classes, I still had no clue what was going on. When I wrote my first assignment, the literacy autobiography, I finally began to get the gist of what direction the class was going. I wrote this on my true feelings about literature and reading and how they have influenced my life. Throughout the story, I explain the various books that I have read throughout my literate years. I started with Black Beauty then I moved on to sports books mostly reading about Emmitt Smith and Babe Ruth. When I hit high school I learned to love reading other types of novels, even classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird. My tale of literacy is one that most of us can relate to but is rarely told. Here is my literacy autobiography so buckle up.-

Second Quarter: The Social Network: An Alternative Space to Exist

-The Social Network is a film that will always be regarded as a testament of our time, Some might even call it a cultural artifact.  Being that the main focus is about mass media and how relationships rise and fall around them, this can truly speak to our society today. Another way of looking at the movie and its cultural value is to see the way people now are using social media to escape reality and live somewhere else. Facebook and other social networks create an alternative space to exist. During the movie Mark does this in a way but it is through the creation of Facebook that he does it. The movie creates a metaphor for Facebook which is the action of Mark creating Facebook. In a way Mark is using Facebook before it is even invented. A mind blower... I know-

Third Quarter: The Evolving Helmet in the Evolving Game

-Here is where sports really start to make their presence felt on this blog. So far we have seen how sports have affected my reading life and we have also analyzed the film The Social Network and how it is a testament of our time. I have further elaborated The Social Network on to a sporting level and now I will discuss sport and one of its most important cultural artifacts, the football helmet.-

Fourth Quarter: Cultural Value of Sport and its Political Impact

-Now that we have analyzed sports in almost every other conceivable fashion, I feel that it is appropriate to look at it on a global scale and its ever-important political impact. Through all of these instances that I mention in this post, you can see that major sporting events have even larger political impacts than they have on the sport itself. Some of the events that I mention include the "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919 and its impact on the American worker, Jackie Robinson and how he began the civil rights movement of the 20th century in America, the 72' Olympics in Munich and how it was the most globally involving event since World War Two, the 1980's USA v.s. USSR "Miracle On Ice" Olympic hockey game and how it defined the Cold War, and these most recent Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and how the Chinese might have just supplanted America due to its domination of the games. These sporting events defined history and will surly continue to define our globe as time goes on.-