Doping

Should performance enhancing drugs be illegal for student athletes? All the way back in 1865, “canal swimmers in Amsterdam and Holland were the first competitive athletes charged with doping” (ProQuest staff). During these time periods many of these athletes would mix cocaine and heroin to make a concoction called the speedball (ProQuest staff). These athletes would mix the substances to get the extra boost of performance for them to believe that they were at their best every competition. Many…

A tall, inhuman being created by men who had the foolish ambition to alter what it means to be human all possible through genetic engineering if the science goes that far. If the first part of that sentence seems familiar, it is because it strikes many of the same chords of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when Frankenstein created the monster in his lab. Technology, no matter if it can be used for good, can become monstrous if the technology goes down morally questionable roads. Genetic…

Over the past years there has been talk of people doing illegal drugs or support enhances to increase sport abilities. As the number of drugs being used in American Sports is decreasing, there are still many cases of drugs being used. The usage of these illegal substance isn’t good for the player’s health or for the sport itself. Many American athletics such as high school, colleges, and professional level give drug tests for the safety of the sport and player. With the knowledge of health risks…

Photoshop is the biggest weapon of mass destruction of the egos and self-esteem of women and men all over the world. Dolly, Cosmo, Playboy, Vanity Fair even explicit magazines. We’ve all picked one of these up and some point. Many of these magazines involve models, male or female, and these kinds of magazines are poisoning our minds. If we think about it, most of us want to be gorgeous, glamorous, hot and sexy. And why is this? Because everywhere we look, there is flawlessness in…

available to these people to keep them safer and healthier. According the research of Stephen Wang in his article “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized”, “…as drug makers continue to develop undetectable substances and athletes engage in doping practices that allow them to avoid testing positive. Legalizing PEDs, he proposes, would reduce the health risks, deter criminal activity, and make more effective use of limited resources” (Wang). The majority of the world views steroids as a…

Lance Armstrong is not your average Tour de France winner. He is a gifted athlete, a cancer survivor and a philanthropist. Despite his story and the obstacles he has overcome, Armstrong’s behaviors are understood when viewed through a psychological lens of cognitive theories, developmental theories and personality theories. When we analyze Armstrong using psychological theories, one begins to realize that what appears to be conflicting behaviors are an example of the cognitive dissonance theory,…

Space Programs to Venus My science fiction assignment will be about humans preparing to travel to Venus. In this paper, I wall talk about the Soviet Venera 9 mission. My science fiction paper will consist of ways for probes to survive on Venus long enough to work and restore Venus to what it is believed it was: an Earth-like planet. It will talk about the silicon carbide transistors which can withstand the extreme heat, nuclear batteries that can work on Venus as an alternative to solar and…

the risks of taking them (“192 Banned Performance”). These drugs have many positives, but none of them are enough to outweigh the negatives. The purchasing and use of steroids should continue to be illegal unless needed for health issues. Although doping can improve athletic ability and speed up recovery time, with the use of anabolic steroids comes many health risks. Athletes who have been using anabolic steroids for a long period of time have a greater chance of getting hepatitis B and C,…

Drug Abuse in Sports The nature of sports is the passion and desire to win, the habit of competition is second nature to us humans and many athletes would do anything to come out on top of their opponents. However, the decision is up to us to choose whether we want to make the right decision or wrong. Majority of athletes would take the time and improve by working hard this being mentally and physically, however, there are some athletes who would rather take the easy way out and use drugs to…

The movie is intensifying, yet the only thing taking away from the movie is the bright light from someone's phone. After the movie, lunch is filled with the constant ringing of laptops, smart phones, and tablets. Are these situations relatable to what you experience on an average day? Regardless of where we go, technology is an extensive part of everyday life. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, She explores the pursuit of advancement within technology. Frankenstein provides a deeper message…