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    and illicit drugs. It’s intended to provide a generalized endorsement to eliminate the use of drugs, especially among athletes today. Some of the most famous baseball players in our era, or even in past years, have been caught using PED’s, i.e. Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, and even Mark McGwire. All three of these players considered one of the most popular athletes that were caught using PED’s while playing professional baseball player. But the real question is, what kind of PED’s are…

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    The Steroid Era

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    In today’s day and age of baseball, we are all living in the so called, Steroid Era. It is named the Steroid Era because players over the last two decades have been caught using performance enhancers, which has become the latest major problem in the MLB. Performance enhancing drugs, which are commonly known as PED’s, means basically what it states; it enhances a player’s performance on the field. Over the last few years, members of the BBWAA have not voted in players that have been caught using…

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    Have you ever changed to something different in your life? Well that’s what Alex Rider is dealing with he has stuck with a certain organization for many years. He now had an urgent feeling to switch to the bad side. My book Alex Rider Scorpia starts off with an investigation. Alex Rider the young, brave, and intelligent spy is sent on a mission to Venice to investigate an organization called Scorpia. Scorpia is an organization that carries out acts of terrorism to get money: “ We are a…

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    For example Alex Salmond visited China on more than one occasion during his time as FM in order to improve trade-links with the country and with an eye in attracting foreign investments and jobs to Scotland. Nicola sturgeon also visited China in 2015 for a trade mission…

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    Media Effects On Athletes

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    The championship game is a week away. The star athlete of one of the teams is receiving negative media coverage with domestic violence allegations. How can the athlete play while being bombarded with all of this negative, external attention? Athletes are at the mercy of what the Media says about them. The Media will report anything that enables them to gain more viewers. The negative attention that athletes receive from the Media contributes to their diminishing performance, unrealistic…

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    The storm affects how the characters act because the storm turns people like Dean that have O blood type into zombie-like creatures that just want to kill others. Alex which is Dean’s brother doesn’t know his brother barely anymore because of how he acts towards others when he is exposed to the outside for too long. I also think that the storm affects Dean’s relationships especially with Niko which is his best friend who is now acting differently to him. My second reason why the storm is…

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    4). Good leaders constantly adjust to the new technological changes that transform industry norms. In sports, Sir Alex Ferguson exhibited the ability to adapt to technological advancements through advancements in Manchester United’s training facility, Vitamin D machines, player vests with GPS systems, and other means. Former CEO of Manchester United stated, “Ferguson…

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    Six Feet Under Analysis

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    In the series Six Feet Under, the underlying color scheme is muted and cold. The strategic use of color in the series coincides with the underlying theme of death throughout the show. The first instance of the dark color scheme is shown during the show’s theme song, in the theme song there are many items that appear in gray, brown, and white colors. The flowers in the opening song of the show start off with bright green and pink colors, which quickly turn to dark brown dull colors as the flowers…

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    Is Adnan guilty or innocent? In the podcast and transcript, Adnan was a high school teenager, whose best friend is Jay. Adnan was the one that killed Hae which is his ex-girlfriend. A few days after Hae was killed, Adnan got sent to jail for his crime of murder. A detective named Sarah Koenig was investigating whether Adnan actually did killed Hae. When Sarah was listening to Jay when he was being interviewed by a police, he told 2 different stories which gave the police a lot of complications…

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    When you think of steroids you probably think of bodybuilding or wrestling but in the last 10 years, Major League Baseball and steroids scandals have become linked. MLB players like former stars Mark Mcgwire and Jose Canseco as well as former NY Yankee Jason Giambi came clean and admitted to using steroids in their careers. The Mitchell Report, a file that was published by former US Senator George Mitchell that investigated the use of drugs in MLB was published in 2007 and revealed a number of…

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