How Soccer Explains The Sentimental Hooligan

In this chapter of How Soccer Explains the World, Foer explains the rising of Hooliganism and it's downfall. Throughout the chapter Foer explains his interview with a man by the name of Alan Garrison and he tells about his life as a soccer hooligan and the leader of one of the English organized crews of soccer hooliganism. Throughout the interview Alan tells about his childhood and how he came to like an English soccer club know as Chelsea, and then how he came to be a hooligan for that club. he explains his battles, brusises and then how the hooliganism or at least the original hooliganism started to decrease. Alan started to explain how big corporations who invested in the soccer teams started influencing on who went to the games from rebellious young men to young men and women with office jobs and the average worker. In the end Alan discussed how hooliganism then started to become organized and the hooligans would run if they had organized a beating against a rivals's club fans and saw the cops around. He explained how his pride in hooliganism of Chelsea had died along with the globalization of these big corporations such as McDonald's.

How Soccer Explains The World Chunk #1

How Soccer Explains The World, by Franklin Foer discusses the ways in which globalization has produce both cultural and economic failures. Foer does this with his use of soccer as a metaphor to show how the game explains this globalization. Foer when he was young, was horrible at soccer and because he couldn't play; decided to thoroughly study the game and soon became an expert in all aspects of the game. This is why he's able to explain why soccer explains the world and does this in his first chunk with the gangs created in what used to be Yugoslavia. He explains that fans of rival teams would create games and attack each other and even threaten opposing teams players. This was also mainly do to the different forms of governments being fought over by the Serbs who were against communism. Foer uses anecdotes of a once powerful instigator and notorious criminal of crimes committed by rival gangs while also producing an interview with those, who once were a part of these games. Thus Foer's first chunk explains different gangs, violence, and sects produce from globilizations failures.

"But What Do You Mean?" by Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen's essay, "But What Do You Mean?", discusses the ways men and women differ when holding a conversation with the opposite sex. Tannen explores seven topics of discussion where men and women differ from including; apologies, criticism, thank-yous, fighting, praise, complaints, and jokes. Tannen uses anecdotes, expert opinions, and contrasts to show how women and men would differ in a conversation. Tannen's contrasts range from women being more sensitive when holding a conversation with someone from men being straightforward in a conversation, and not holding back the truth. Tannen claims that women tend to take the other person's feeling's into account when talking with him or her; while me on the other hand, don't. Tannen's essay serves to show how one can have a conversation with someone of the opposite sex and still get his or her point across without confusing the other person.

Do you think Tannen feels critical towards the way men tend to hold their conversations?

How do you think Tannen's essay can help with conversational boundaries presented in her essay between men and women?

What does Tannen mean when she say's that "men are designed to maintain the one-up position, or at least avoid appearing one-down"?

anecdote: I recently sat in on a meeting at an insurance company where the sole woman, Helen, said "I'm sorry" or "I apologize" repeatedly. At one point she said, "I'm thinking out loud. I apologize." (391)

diction: Although the problem might have been outright sexism, I suspect her speech style, which differs from that of her male colleagues, masks her competence. (391)

irony: When you state your ideas, you hedge in order to fend off potential attacks. (393)

metaphor: When the other speaker doesn't reciprocate, a woman may feel like someone on a seesaw whose partner abandoned his end. (392)

personification: "Troubles Talk" can be a way to establish rapport with a colleague. (394)