another. One example in Tough's mosh pit article is when a man's shoe becomes untied. When the man yells "SNEAKER!" everyone stopped what he or she was doing. Another norm in the article can be the moshers clothes. Tough describes what everyone seems to be wearing: torn flannel shirts, baggy shorts, black concert T-shirts, high-top sneakers or Doc Martens, and baseball caps worn backward. These are implied standards in a mosh pit and are not always followed, but usually are.In conclusion I can relate one of my own experiences to some of the theories of violence. I remember playing high school football my senior year. In our very last home game, against our rivals, it was the fourth quarter and we were winning by a lot, when someone on the other team started pushing our quarterback. Our quarterback, not being the type that lets someone push him, pushed back. A few players on both teams were trying to break the fight up when someone took something the wrong way. This started an all-out brawl. The players on each of the benches charged the field, ran into each other with brute force and started swinging. Me, feeling sympathy for the other teams loss only hurt a few of their players, but more the a few players from each team came out hurt. The referees were powerless and so were the coaches, the only thing that was tearing our two teams apart was serious injury. After about five or ten minutes or brawling everyone started slowing down and dispersing, but by this time half of the crowd was on the field with us fighting. This provoked the fight to last longer. Overall the fight lasted about fifteen minutes and the police were called and rushed to the field. Some police were already at the scene but who ever called the rest of them didn't underestimate the fight.When I read Snyder and Spreitzer's theory I was able to relate to it. The Contagion theory can be linked to everyone getting infected by the fighting that started with...
