Seven Deadly Sins Summary

The modern tragic hero, Lance Armstrong, created his own tragedy. He is flawed in many ways. His tragedy was created by his love of lying and dishonesty. He is comparable to Macbeth. They both knew what they wanted; Lance to win, Macbeth to be king, and they were willing to do whatever it would take to get there. Lance Armstrong was a role model to children, cyclists, and cancer survivors. He took it upon himself to create a tragedy.

an Every Second Counts (2003)” (1). His skill had started to fall off from the others, so to recover he used techniques to enhance his performance and had admitted to it: “Armstrong admitted he had been involved in doping during his cycling career” (1). This obsession with winning caused an unhealthy cycle because it lead him down a pathway of drinking and drugs right before he raced. In turn, Armstrongs winning leads him to be the largest figure in cycling for a while, but he still wanted to conquer every race in sight. With every race that he won, it was almost as if a signal was sent to him that it aided others with his condition, when in reality it harmed the spirit of competitive cycling.

Lance Armstrong destroyed his reputation just like Braun by taking steroids. However, Armstrong denies his steroid use, but he has stopped fighting the United States Anti-Doping Agency accusations (“Peddling” par. 2). His defense in

Do you want your children to learn that to succeed they must cheat in life? Do you want your children to learn that they must lie in life to get anywhere? Do you want your children to learn that to succeed in sport they must use illegal drugs? Children are learning all of these things from the so-called role model Lance Armstrong. He is truly an immoral role model for all ages. He promotes to people a mélange of terrible qualities and bad ideals. Today I will prove to you why Lance Armstrong is such a terrible role model for all ages by looking at how he completely deceived the world, how he used illegal drugs and how he cheated and affected the whole sport.

What is more fragile, glass or trust? While it is true in the sense that glass is extremely fragile, trust is the clear winner here. It can take months, or even years for some people to earn other people’s trust in them, but only a few seconds to break it. In 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, the San Francisco Police Department is on edge after learning that they may or may not be sheltering exactly what they are trying to prevent: a couple of criminals that are hellbent on getting rich in the easiest ways possible. Will the San Francisco police force be able to figure out who the corrupt individuals within the department are, or will they find out that they are up against an evil that is bigger than them? There are three

Within the text Lust: Seven Deadly Sins written by, Simon Blackburn, which his goal is to teach his readers the meaning of lust and prove it is not just a sin, and that the meaning of lust means a lot more than what people think it’s meaning is. The meaning of lust is, “the enthusiastic desire that infuses the body for sexual activity and its pleasures for their own sake”. (Blackburn, p.19). The goal of sex is different for everyone, for some people their goal is just to get pleasure, and others it is a form a love to conceive a child, some do it just to prove that they can do it, some do it to get rid of someone or even to earn money, people look at sex in many different ways, some in a good way others in a way that makes it a sin.

Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds were 2 very good athletes. In fact, “Barry Bonds has the record of most home runs” (Geron) and “Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France 7 times” (“Lance Armstrong Biography”). But, these two amazing athletes both have something in common. They both used PEDs. These people would not have performed as well as they did without the help of PEDs. Suzie Abernethy said, “I did not look at Lance Armstrong the same after I found out he was doping.” Without drug

The Tour de France is just one of the main races in the world that has been cheated on by the use of illegal drugs. One of the main competitors in these races is Lance Armstrong. He is also one of the main drug users in these races as well. He won the Tour de France seven consecutive times in a row. Some of the other riders and bystanders that watched these races questioned Lance Armstrongs ability to win these races. Everyone knew he was good but not that good. Finally it came out that Lance Armstrong had been using EPO throughout his career. He finally admitted to using this drug on the Oprah Winfrey show and it went viral.

The eight deadly sins include: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride, and raingerphy. The wife of bath in the Canterbury tales has a moral about lust saying, true beauty lies within and that every woman should be obeyed in all things by their husband. The monk in the Canterbury tales has a moral about gluttony saying, prosperity is fleeting and deceiving. In the pardoners tale in the Canterbury tales the moral was about greed saying, money is the root of all evil. In the pardoners tale it talks about the sin sloth by examples of drinking and gambling.

"Is it worth the time I'd have to spend away from my family, or time I could be doing something I really wanted to do...”(Formichelli 1) Spending time with family or friends is a very joyous activity and requires you to spend only your time. There are many activities that do not require money. I fall victim to buying idols to achieve happiness when there are many sources of joy in my life, such as my sister, grandparents, and all my good friends. There are three shortcomings in specific that I am guilty of committing: thou shalt not be a slave to immediate gratification, thou shalt not pretend to be too busy to think about money, and thou shalt not be ruled by your social life (Anthony and Chick). These flaws of mine come from a story written by Jason Anthony and Karl Chick titled “The Seven Debtly ‘Sins.’”

“Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?” Lance Armstrong, seven time Tour de France winner and cycling superstar responded, “Yes” (“Lance Armstrong and Oprah Winfrey”). Lance Armstrong is just one of many professional athletes who doped to get ahead in sports. Armstrong’s guilty verdict exemplifies the efforts to punish athletes using performance-enhancing drugs. The increase in anti-doping efforts is evident.

The subject of doping is an issue in sports that is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. The win at all costs mentality has both financial and psychological roots growing deep within sports. I too was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and his journey of overcoming cancer and winning the Tour so many times was absolutely beyond inspirational to me at the time. I was crushed when learning of his banned drug usage. Through his own admission, his usage of performance enhancers stemmed from beating cancer and developing that win at all costs mindset (Cycling, 2013). Although I do believe I understand the genesis of his attitude, Lance and others have done the world a great disservice. Anytime an athlete is at the top of the game for any great period of

In 2012 the greatest cycling doping scheme fell apart around the ringleader, Lance Armstrong. He was called a cheat, bully, and stripped of all seven of his consecutive Tour De France yellow jerseys. At the heart of all of this was a drug called EPO and a method called blood doping. In an investigation by the International Cycling Union (UCI) they found that the period between 1990 and 2000 to as an “epo epidemic” (Lodewijkx 3). And even now dozens of professional athletes get banned over the use of this substance every year. After the “witch-hunt” that was the trial and eventually lifetime banning of Lance Armstrong from professional cycling there is evidence that rHuEPO may not even help these world class athletes perform any better than non-rHuEPO using athletes. The largest problem in cycling today is the instantaneous bans and little investigation that goes along with the use of rHuEPO by the UCI. This essay asserts that the UCI instead of putting these harsh bans on the athletes should examine: rHuEPO physiologically rather than through speculative models, the extent which a cyclist’s performance is enhanced in a true race environment, and the psychological fallacies that come with rHuEPO use and cyclists who win a lot so they may eliminate rHuEPO use.

The seven time victories of Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France proved to be an unforgettable accomplishment that has inspired individuals to part take in the sport of cycling. This triumph, however, spurred curiosity and scandal on whether Armstrong had taken performance enhancing drugs to achieve his victories. The use of performance enhancers has been a debate sparking controversy among the industries of professional sports. Advocates of the legalization of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports believe that it will result in an increase of fans, elevate athlete’s skills, and expand economic sport profits. In contrast, protesters of performance enhancing drugs believe that it will lose fans (due to game deception), risk athlete’s health, and bankrupt sports’ businesses.

In 2012 the Texan super-athlete Lance Armstrong had all 7 of his Tour de France winners medals stripped by USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) even though he passed thousands of drugs tests during his time as a cyclist. It was only until his illustrious career ended that USADA finally gathered enough evidence to prove that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team (Armstrong’s team) ran what they described as “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen”. Admittedly the case of Lance Armstrong was exceptional, a one off most people would think, but in the CIRC (Cycling Independent reform commission) doping report published February this year, one incredible