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event for the people all over the world, doping issues still aroused widespread concerns. The aim of the paper is to explain the rules of anti-doping control, and give the examples of doping violations during the Rio Olympics. In addition, it presents the steps that the International Olympic Committee plans to take to deal with the doping issues. What are the anti-doping rule…

determination of the black abolitionists was by far one of the most powerful. During and following the Revolutionary War, slaves petitioned both on a state and national level to put an end to slave trade and to achieve emancipation. Through this, anti-slavery societies began to form within the black…

The controversial topic of performance enhancing drugs are still in discussion today. Some believe that they’re good to use, while others believe they give an unfair advantage to the sport being played. A performance enhancing drug is any substance taken by athletes to improve performance. Typically, well-known athletes are the ones to use performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs are used by multiple athletes of every sports across the world. Therefore, the athletes who use PEDs…

Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States, and abolitionist movement played a huge part in abolishing slavery to its core. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips were part of this movement; among these abolitionist Frederick Douglass stands out the most because he was born as a slave, he had experienced the slavery, and despite being a slave, taught himself how to read and write. He shares his experience…

and commitment; respect for rules and laws; respect for self and other participants; courage; community and solidarity. Reasoning to many programs why doping is fundamentally contrary to the spirit of sport. In fact, there is evidence that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reasons that doping is one of the most important and difficult problems confronting sports today. "Clearly, burying our heads in the sand…

The United States has not always lived up to its ideals of unity and coexistence amongst its constituent states. This was the case during the Antebellum era, in which the nation was exsanguinated by the wounds of division as the Northern and Southern states had a tense interaction. The catalyst behind this tension was the topic of slavery. By looking at a map showing the expansion of emancipation in the country, it is obvious that the Northern states have been getting rid of slavery since the…

Throughout the sixth chapter of The American Political Tradition, Richard Hoftstader the author, refers to Wendell Phillips’ role in history as an agitator. For Wendell Phillips the role of an agitator was a profession, very different from that of a politician, throughout his course he could never be satisfied to the fullest. Hoftstader believes that Phillips’ role as an agitator “was not to make laws or determine policy, but to influence the public mind in the interest of same large social…

When examining the African American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective, historians and scholars have focused predominantly on the lives and influences of a few, celebrated characters. For example, early abolitionist advocates, such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, and twentieth-century civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. have received significant attention and justifiably achieved revered status among…

at the actual speech. Like the title says, this speech was not given on the Fourth of July, which fell on a Sunday that year, since it was a custom of that era prohibited secular events on the Sabbath. The speech was organized the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York the Monday after the 4th of July. At this point in time the spokesman, Frederick Douglass was well know as a speaker. Douglass (1818-95) born into slavery, escaped at age 20 and went on…

Olympic drug testing in international athletes is a huge topic on todays Olympic games. A lot of opinions are shared and a lot of problems are to be dealt with. Performance enhancing drugs should be legal to provide better and faster healing, but anti-doping efforts should be betterly enforced for fairness of competitions and legitimacy of gold medal winnings. With the various arguments against doping or with doping, you can 't deny the fact that there are many perils of using performance…