Paraphrase and Quotation Analysis

The topic of this essay is about the struggle of student athletes. The dilemma of student athletes is about getting a balance between playing sports and their academic studies. Due to the sports training, most student athletes may miss classes or do not have time to finish their academic assignments. In the essay, the author talks both from the athletes’ side and coaches’ side. This is a paraphrase: According to Stress in College Athletes, which details the courses of stress to those affiliated with college athletics, ninety-five percent of male athletes and eighty- five percent of female athletes found such factors as making up assignments missed because of games and practices as a primary cause of stress(Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41). This is a good paraphrase, it is not only shows the athletes’ stress comes from the sports, but it also gives us very detailed statistics about how the sports training influenced student athletes’ stress. After reading that, readers can get the conclusion that the sport training does have a big influence to the student athletes because of the percentage it shows. One of the quotation is also convictive, it is “football practice and games are like hitting your head ten times against a brick wall and then you go try to study for a math exam”(Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41). This quotation has a vivid comparison. It shows how hard the stress that the student athletes will get from the sports. All in all, both of these two sentences show that the student athletes’ stress come from their sports they play with. That is the reason that the essay talks about how the athlete students should get a balance between sports and their academic studies.

Winners’ History and Losers’ History

History cannot be changed forever. However, different people write history in different ways, although people always want to keep history authentic. Sometimes the words and the perspectives written in the book can be different. Losers’ and winners’ perspectives always differ on the same history. People never want to talk more about their mistakes in history, even the winners. For instance, in today’s Japanese history book, students still cannot learn the Nanjin’s massacre in China in World War II. Japanese soldiers killed more than 4,000,000 Chinese people. On the other side, Chinese history uses one chapter to talk about this massacre. Every one in China knows about the massacre. Furthermore, people can identify the author’s background by their word choices in history book. For example, people cannot hear or look at the word ‘escape’ to describe the Chinese republic army in the long movement in 1934; instead, people use the word ‘movement’. However, it actually was a big escape for Chinese army due to their losses in earlier battles. In my opinion, more or less people put their personal perspectives into the history article when they writing, but now more and more documents, articles, and movies are made for correcting the mistakes in original history documents and reanalyzing our history.