Group Assignments
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Dear Amy Maestri,
We read your attempt at a rebuttal today on a controversial essay “How Soccer is Ruining America”. We are not sure if you are just blinded by your own ignorance or you lack the ability to comprehend a sarcastic essay.
Lets begin with you first argument. We can see where you are coming from but you can not make an authentic rebuttal against something that was meant as a joke. Webb clearly mocks the belief that men are defined by their hands: “When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands.” This is an example of his sarcasm because the majority of the population DO punch a wall with their hands when angry.
The next counter argument that you construct makes suggest as though you did not read the entirety of the essay.You claim that Webb wrongfully analyzed the way things went down in younger sports. You obviously mistook his sarcasm once again.Webb clearly does not mean that kids should be “broken down in sports before being built back up” and this can be detected by his use of diction: “Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling." At the end of Webb’s essay, he states that he is a parent who reads on the sidelines at games; making it even more evident that he was being satirical.
Dear Amy Maestri,
We read your attempt at a rebuttal today on a controversial essay “How Soccer is Ruining America”. We are not sure if you are just blinded by your own ignorance or you lack the ability to comprehend a sarcastic essay.
Lets begin with you first argument. We can see where you are coming from but you can not make an authentic rebuttal against something that was meant as a joke. Webb clearly mocks the belief that men are defined by their hands: “When you are really angry and acting like an animal, you kick with your feet. Only fools punch a wall with their hands.” This is an example of his sarcasm because the majority of the population DO punch a wall with their hands when angry.
The next counter argument that you construct makes suggest as though you did not read the entirety of the essay.You claim that Webb wrongfully analyzed the way things went down in younger sports. You obviously mistook his sarcasm once again.Webb clearly does not mean that kids should be “broken down in sports before being built back up” and this can be detected by his use of diction: “Our chanting was compensatory behavior, a way of making the time go by, which is surely why at soccer games today it is the parents who do all of the yelling." At the end of Webb’s essay, he states that he is a parent who reads on the sidelines at games; making it even more evident that he was being satirical.