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    Americans love high performance and we love technology. Why, then, do we get our knickers in a twist when professional athletes—think Lance Armstrong or A-Rod—turn out to have achieved their great feats with a boost from performance-enhancing drugs and other banned technologies? Not everyone turns up their nose when a high-profile athlete dopes. Some offer excuses: the pressure to perform is overwhelming, and the rewards are too tempting to resist. We allow special diets, scientifically…

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    is punishable by exclusion from ESL One. Friesen’s teammates and owner of Cloud9 publically denied and denounced the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs, but the damage was done."Similar naivety hit eSports last year when Kory Friesen, a professional Counter-Strike player better known by his handle “Semphis,” talked about the rampant use of a stimulant that is commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. In an interview with Mohan “Launders” Govindasamy last July, Friesen…

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    Why Do Athletes Get Paid?

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    Major League Profits Do you deserve to receive the money that you are responsible for earning? The majority (if not all) people would answer “yes.” This concept applies to the athletes inside the professional sports world. Just as a major business man would earn a high salary for a big company, these men and women do the same. With everything else put aside, the sports industry is essentially a business, and businesses and its workers perform to make money. These athletes are great sources of…

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    Should Opioids Be Banned

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    Imagine that you lost everything, your family, friends, children, and your job that helped you care for your family, all to drugs and all for what? Just a little painkiller that turned into a major addiction. I postulate that painkillers and steroids used in any sports event should be prohibited. I can not even begin to get close to all the wrongs in this topic. Some of the reasons include, cause for addictions, cause for emotional and present day scars, and it leads major league player down…

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    Athletes who use performance enhancing drugs damage the integrity of sportsmanship. Using performance enhancing drugs fundamentally change the spirit of sports. Sports are contests of character, but when you use drugs to get an unfair advantage, the integrity diminishes. Using performance enhancing drugs to gain an advantage violates the idea of “Spirits of Sports”. Using PED’s takes away the aspects of cooperation and teamwork. Sports are an extension of our personal ethics, and it brings out…

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    Other stereotypes/misconceptions that are involved with these athletes are that they are dumb/ignorant jocks. These misconceptions are commonly brought up when talking about college athletes. However, most people do not know how disciplined an athlete has to be to compete at the collegiate level while maintaining the grades to be eligible to play. In the article, Athlete’s struggle against ‘dumb’ jock stereotype, written by Ashley McDonnell, a swim and diving athlete of Brown University by the…

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    Why Do People Get Paid?

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    People use several work to earn money. Some of them want to earn enough money to their life and some want to earn more like athletes and entertainers. Now days, we see athletics and entertainers earn millions of dollar every year. All these people work hard to achieve their goals. Also, some athletics usually face problems like injured on their body then they treat themselves for a long time. Moreover, entertainers face problem as well. On other hand, many people around the world are dying…

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    Sports in the 1980s were characterized by several of the best athletes known in football and basketball and the growth of interest in ice hockey. Females and the disabled revolutionize the sports industry, proving that they can perform equally as well as ordinary male athletes and even outperform them. Leisure activities often included those that were developed the decade before but did not reach peak popularity until the ‘80s. One of the most admired athletes from the 1980s is Joe Montana, a…

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    Mechanical Engineering designs, develops, builds, and tests mechanical and thermal devices that include tools, engines, and machines. Mechanical Engineers typically work in a professional setting. Occasionally visit worksites where a problem or piece of equipment needs their personal attention. Mostly work in engineering services, research and development, managerial positions. Mechanical Engineers who plan on selling their services…

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    is each day more involved in our daily lives. Hence, it is important that engineers are able to make the correct decisions on which is the right way to act. Engineers can base themselves in the several norms and rules that are outlined by their professional organizations. However, there is a finite amount of things that can be stated as rules. For this reason, and as the Good Engineer reading proposes, it is important that engineers posses virtues that would enable them to distinguish what is…

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