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Bullfighting - College Essays

Bullfighting

The spectacle of pits a man against a charging bull. The
bullfighter, called a matador, faces the bull in a large dirt-filled arena that
is usually surrounded by spectators. Aided by a group of apprentices, called
the cuadrilla, the matador goads the bull into charging at him. A bullfight
usually features three matadors, each of whom fights two bulls. The bulls are of
a distinctly savage breed especially trained to attack humans. A bullfight is
relentless. If a matador is injured, another replaces him, and the bull is
killed at the end of each match. To followers of bullfighting the contest
between man and beast demonstrates human skill and courage as does no other
sport. However, ...

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on foot and plant
the barbs in the animal's neck, weakening and angering the beast even more.

Finally the matador comes in for the kill. Brightly dressed, he uses a
sword draped with a cloth, called muleta. After a number of intricate passes
with the muleta, during which the matador must work extremely close to the bull,
the matador sights the bull along his sword, runs forward, and plunges it in,
aiming for the half-dollar-size spot between the shoulders. If the sword enters
correctly between the shoulder blades, it severs the aorta, or great artery, and
the animal dies almost instantly.

A crowd-pleasing matador may be awarded one or both of the bull's ears
or its ears and tail. An exceptionally fierce bull may be honored by having its
body paraded around the arena. The one thing that sets the Spanish apart from
most Europeans living beyond the Pyrenees mountains is their national spectacle
of bullfighting. Every city and most towns of any size boast a bullring, ...

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