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Alex Rodriguez, Tonya Harding, Lance Armstrong, and Pete Rose are just a few of the athletes who have suspended or banned from being caught taking performance- enhancing drugs. What are PEDs? PEDs are a substance, mostly taken by athletes, to benefit, or “enhance” an athlete’s performance by increasing speed, muscle, energy, also altering the body weight and composition. So why should performance enhancers be illegal? Even though using performance-enhancing drugs can help an athlete get ahead, they

Alfie Kohn states that “competition by its very nature is always unhealthy” and has written an essay opposing the concept. There are various examples of competition in the world today, from sports that the world watches on television, to spelling bees children in elementary and middle school participate in. Competition is a part of our daily lives whether we’re aware of it or not; however, it does have its disadvantages that leads me to support Kohn’s opinion. People watch sports all year long

Vince Lombardi, most likely the best coach to ever lead a team to victory or multiple ones on a football field. His ethics sometimes questionable, but never misunderstood, were always meant to lead and encourage his team to be nothing but the best, and the best was achieved in 1967. After nine incredible winning seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Lombardi decided to retire as head coach. The Packers had dominated professional football under his direction, collecting six division titles, five NFL

technology isolates people in a bubble-” warns Tannen. “The Argument Culture shapes who we are and has a defining impact on our lives and on our culture.” She believes it causes us to distort facts. As an example she cites the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding story. “After the original attack on Kerrigan’s knee, news stories focused on the rivalry between the two skaters instead of portraying Kerrigan as the victim of the attack.” Tannen also says it causes us to waste valuable time, as she cites

politician completes a speech. We know that they swarm from one hot news event to the next--from a press conference by Gennifer Flowers, to a riot site in Los Angeles, to congressional hearings on a Supreme Court nominee, to the arraignment of Tonya Harding.

Michelle Kwan once said, “When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.” Kwan has been a champion since the beginning. She started figure skating when she was five years old (Kwan 7). She was born on July 7, 1980 in Southern California and has lived there her whole life (Ramback 16). Kwan has won many national, international, and world competitions. At the age of seven, Kwan knew that she wanted to become a champion (Kwan 18). Michelle Kwan is an inspirational

Effectiveness of Dunning’s argument The “We Are All Confident Idiots”, written by David Dunning, talks about human beings who often overestimate their knowledge of certain topics, and claim knowledge most confidently could be those who understand the least. He also discuss the difference between true wisdom and knowledge. For example, when beginners start learning some knowledge about a subject, like Physics, they tend to think they learn quickly and know a lot about that subject after only learned

Competing Against Doping Sport is thought of as an activity that is governed by a set of rules and is engaged in competitively, while doping is the idea of using banned natural or synthetic substance for the purpose of enhancing performance in sport. In this paper I will argue against the fallacies presented on the topic of allowing doping in sports. I will argue that the notion of doping in sports is not based on sound moral reasoning and given the choice, not all athletes will

The most notorious that comes to mind are: Selena, Tonya Harding clubbing Nancy Kerrigan, O.J. Simpson's murder trial and the Lewinsky scandal; such scandals build the framework for audiences to enjoy Chicago as a critique of America’s penal system in relation to fame. The main scandal in the movie starts as

The origins of the Cold War from 1917-1945, the United States was faced with tough times during the 20’s and 30’s. The Great Depression led Americans to question capitalism due to Russia and their communist beliefs doing well, even though Americans had no true context of what was really going on in. This helped enforce the Soviets goal of international prestige. The Soviet sports system introduced the raise the psychological and physical standards of their athletes by socializing social engineering