- Thesis
The article aims at evaluating the effects that GI law had on the universities and colleges and specifically, the article evaluates the effects that the law had to the football clubs that were found in the universities. Since the First World War, football clubs were higly valued by the universities. The fans of each team had a role to play in ensuring that the club had the best players. This is what created a lot of competition between colleges and universities in the process of selecting quality players. This led to passage of laws that would regulate the method that colleges and universities used to select their players.
2.Dissect the article, list the key supporting arguments, note any opposing arguments, consider these in relation to the thesis, and discuss the relevance to the identified issue;
During the Second World War, many men who were aged 18 years and above left colleges and universities and joined military. Specifically, veterans joined the military service in large numbers. The effects of this are that university and college football clubs lost important players. The fans and those who financed the football clubs left the clubs considering that they had no good player. After the end of the world war, the government found a need to attract more people to universities and colleges. ‘This is why the GI bill was passed. According to the bill, veterans and other people who had served the military service during the war for more than 90 days were allowed to go back to the universities and their fees were subsidized.’1
- Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
Some of them were allowed to receive free university and college education. The bill had many effects to the universities colleges.
In the first place, the bill enabled many veterans to get higher education. Before the bill was passed, many women and black Americans had no hopes of joining colleges and universities. However, the bill made the education cheap for these people. This is why a large population of this group of people joined the universities and colleges. The bill in this case was important in that many young people got a chance to improve their future live.
The other effect is that the resources of the universities and colleges were not enough to serve the new population of the college and university students. The universities had to hire more instructors to ensure that instruction at the universities would go on well. According to the article, women got these positions. This shows that the women benefited a lot from the bill.
The GI bill was important for the university and college football teams. The coaches once gain had a bright future for their clubs. In the first place, most of the payers who had left to join military were back. They got a chance to continue with their football activities. Second, many quality layers who had completed high school level and directly joined the military service had now come to the colleges and the universities and had a chance of joining the football clubs also. ‘This means that the coaches in the universities and colleges had a difficult task of selecting the best players.’1 The good thing is that they expected to get quality players who would play excellently and bring praise to the universities.
- Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
It was expected that the people who were back from the military service had good life experience and would behave well in the universities considering that they were now mature and had settled. However, this was not the case.
Most of these people became criminals and were difficult to deal with. The coaches had a difficult time dealing with these people. Even though they were good players, dealing with them had become difficult. Some of these students failed to attend club activities when they were required by the coaches. This was a challenge to most of the clubs in colleges and universities in the United States.
‘The GI bill also led to a situation whereby coaches competed higly for the best players.’1 Considering that the players were allowed to go to a College or university that they wished, the effects were that coaches offered huge sums of money to the best players. Rich clubs became richer because they got the best players hence attracted best donors to finance the clubs. The veterans benefited from the huge sums of money that was offered by the clubs they played for.
3.Analyze the author’s conclusions in terms of both supporting and opposing arguments with attention paid to implied cause and effect, competing influences, and suggested resolutions;
The article concludes by arguing that GI bill had both negative and positive effects to the players and the universities. ‘Generally, veterans and women benefited from the bill. Players benefited from the good play that was received.’1 However, it became difficult to manage the clubs considering that people of different behaviors found their way to colleges and the college and university football clubs.
- Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
4. Compose an overall response section, which critically examines the issue and its circumstances on three levels: 1.Social and cultural identity at the local level.
This helped the poor people to grow economically. The culture that existed during the period also changed. The belief that the black Americans and women were weak people in the society was brought to an end considering that their performance in football and academics revealed the fact that they were also people like any other.
How social and cultural identity at the local level builds, supports, and/or detracts from, identity at the national level.
The bill is important in that it promotes socialization between people of different cultures. People get to understand the culture of their neighbors and this creates acceptance. The students can later live in peace considering that they know each other. The bill therefore is important in that it brings blacks, whites, women, and men in colleges and in football clubs together, which promotes their social interactions. This creates peace and understanding at the national level.
- Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
Suggested implications of the particular political state in a global context
The effects of the bill are important in general considering that it enables citizens to be economically of importance. The fact that more people access education through the bill means that the country has labour that is highly productive. The country can compete even in the international markets in terms of sale of labour. Competition between the clubs in colleges makes it easy to select a national team. The competition leads to development of quality players who can compete globally and earn the country global fame.
- Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
Work cited
Paul A. The GI bill and collegiate football recruiting after the World War II. International sports journal, 2004.
