Estrogen Desire And Toughman Analysis

Limitations: Capacity to Achieve
The idea that an individual is capable of reaching any dream that they wish for, so long as they strive to the best of their ability, is one commonly shared. Parents are known to encourage their children by sharing the concept that by working hard you can achieve anything. However, an individual is not necessarily capable of achieving any goal they wish; we have all been limited as human beings and have a certain capacity to achieve. Through the wide collection of stories and accounts in ‘Inquiry: Questioning, Reading, Writing’ by Bloom, White and Borrowman and other supporting texts, it is evident that hard work does not enable an individual to be anything they want to be. Disability is a restriction experienced
Among the other effects estrogen has on humans, particularly in females, high estrogen levels have proven to cause women to reach higher body fat percentages than men as shown through the text, “the body of the average woman is 27 percent fat, that of the average man is 15 percent fat” (Angier, 21). Although a female may have strong motivation to become an elite athlete, a duplicate male will always be a better all-around athlete as Angier reiterates when she employs similes stating that, The leanest elite female athlete may get their body fat down to 11 or 12 percent, but that is nearly double the percentage of body fat found on the elite male athlete, who is as spare as a pronghorn antelope” (21). Through her description of the male athlete as a ‘prong-horn antelope’, the author emphasizes the lean nature of elite male athletes. As much effort as a woman may put into their training regime, it is clear that the male body type will always surpass the capacity of a female’s. According to the Riddhita Chakraborty’s studies, “genes may determine 20-80% of an athlete’s performance.” These studies identify the necessity for an individual to be gifted with the correct
Through the writings in ‘Inquiry: Questioning, Reading and Writing’ including Mairs’‘On Being a Cripple’ and Angier’s ‘Estrogen, Desire and Puberty’ as well as other supporting texts, the audience is able to recognize disability and genetics as significant obstructions along one’s journey to achieving greatness. Intelligence, or lack thereof, is another factor the audience must consider when determining the accuracy of the idea hard work enables one to achieve anything, as demonstrated through Not Smart Enough to Be Rich?

Works Cited
1) Mairs, Nancy. “On Being a Cripple.” Inquiry: Questioning, Reading, Writing. Second Edition. Bloom, Lynn, Edward White and Shane Borrowman. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson, 1993. Pages 24-34. Print.
2) ‘WHO | Disabilities.’ World Health Organization. n.p., n.d. Web. 15 September 2013.
3) Angier, Natalie. “Estrogen, Desire and Puberty.” Inquiry: Questioning, Reading, Writing. Second Edition. Bloom, Lynn, Edward White and Shane Borrowman. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson, 1993. Pages 14-23. Print.
4) Chakraborty, Riddhita. ‘How Much do Genes Affect Your Athletic Potential?’. University of Utah, n.d. Web. 16 September 2013.
5) Putterman, Louis. “Not Smart Enough to Be Rich?”