Sports Logos By The Late Noah Augustine - 1926 Words

The essay â€Å"Sports Logos an Insult to Aboriginals† is written by the late Noah Augustine. This essay is written in his point of view and it’s based on his opinion of why he thinks that big money sports teams shouldn’t be using the Aboriginals culture or religious symbols to represent a certain sports team. The author thinks that it’s an insult to his people, his culture being Aboriginal himself, he states in his essay his is preferred to be known as (Mi’kamq) rather than Indian. He directly states that using religious symbols as caricatures for the sports team is offensive to his cultural beliefs. In the essay he states that not all people understand why using these spiritual leaders as a sport logo is offensive. The thesis of the essay can be found in the second paragraph of the essay when he states that by using the images that sports teams use is insulting to most Aboriginal people. This essay is a persuasive opinion essay the word choice t he author uses is all to make the reader agree with him. Some examples of where word choice has a particular effect in the essay can be found throughout the essay. The first example can be found in the first paragraph in the first sentence, â€Å"Last Thursday evening, I watched rather helplessly as nine Indians were thrashed and battered about by just as many men in blue and white† When first read by the reader many different things could be going through their minds, one assumptions could be that the â€Å"Indians† that the author is