Blog Post #8: Summary / Analysis

The general argument made by the author is that children can play sports at a very high level of competition in his work, "The Short Game" the young golfers have to compete in a nationwide tournament that all their work leads up to. He displays how the children are willing to work out everyday to perform at a better level every time they step on the course, when he selected such a widespread choice of children it shows that not only one area of the world have kids who are determined to do something great and willing to give up their childhood. In the sports documentary Josh Greendaum, suggest that children have to give up a lot and risk to not have a normal childhood to be great at golfing. In conclusion, Greendaum's beliefs that children can play at a high level of competition and still remain kids.
In my view Greendaum is right because he shows how well the children perform, but also he inserts montages of the children running around and playing with the children like normal kids. More specifically I think the author shows that the kids can have negative effects from playing golf, for example one of the children has to go to a psychiatrist for her attitude problems because golf makes her so stressed out. Therefore, I strongly agree with Josh Greendaum's belief that is displayed throughout his works.

Blogpost #8: Rhetorical Precis

                  In Josh Greendaum's sport documentary, "The Short Game" (2012) he proposes that young children can still preform at a high level and still remain as young children.  The author first displays this by choosing a wide selection of children from all different nations around the world; he then shows clips of the children playing and running around and having a good time together, and to conclude he shows that the children can have detrimental effects in the future. For example Alexa has to go to a sport psychiatrist for her attitude problems. His purpose is to show the young children can perform at a high level of competition and still be a kid. He seems to have a neutral audience in mind because he exposes the audience to the good and bad of children playing at a high level of competition.

Blog Post #8: Opipiniate Analysis

         The sports documentary "The Short Game" is a film based on young children performing at a high level of gold. I think this documentary displays how young children can compete at a high level of competition and still remain kids. I think that the producer shows this well by how he shows clips of the kids outside of the tournament, how they are running around on the courses and just being kids. Also, he shows clips when the children are out to dinner and you can see that the children joking around and playing with there food, they are being children. But in a sense I do not agree with the produce because the children are losing their childhood over golf. Their whole life is centered around golf and they do not get exposed to a normal childhood like normal seven and eight year olds. On the other hand the children in the movie are learning great life lessons they have better life skills than the normal young kids. Ultimately I agree with the producer and his works, of how he displays children playing at such a high level and still remain children.