Alex Pettyfer

spender which makes it uncompetitive. The Los Angeles Dodgers payroll was 234 million and the Miami Marlins payroll was 65 million in 2015 that being a difference of 169 million (Blum). With the huge gap in pay reflects in the quality of play. In 2013 Alex Rodriguez was paid 29 million in 2013 that is 4 million more than the entire Astros roster. That is not fair at all because if a single player is deemed better than a whole team how can it be expected to be a competitive game. Having a salary cap allows

gives them a more competitive edge on other athletes. They do not fear the consequences of what could happen to their body. Athletes only think of the upside to what they are getting. Some examples of athletes that have used steroids are Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Lance Armstrong, to name a few. Many people speculated Barry Bonds taking PED’s, but when he was tested ,there was nothing found. Then the idea of undetectable steroids came up. “When told that he has never failed a steroid test, as

Proving whether or not someone is innocent or guilty is a difficult task. That's why we rely on court hearings, lawyers, judges and unbiased jury members to help decide whether a person is guilty or innocent of crime. In the court of law, Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. On January 13th, 1999, Adnan Syed supposedly murdered his 18 year old ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee by manual strangulation. Hae Min Lee’s body was found in Leakin Park located in Baltimore City Maryland. On

shows how time is the one thing people will always underestimate. In the tiny town of Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter, a senior in highschool, a seventeen year old boy changed their world in nineteen minutes . . . one boy who stopped time . . . . Judge Alex Cormier, a dynamic character, woke up late on the morning of March 6, 2007, she found her daughter, Josie, the protagonist, awake studying for a chemistry test. It was any typical school day in Sterling, with Matt Royston, her boyfriend picking her

Anthony Horowitz’s dystopian novel Stormbreaker, is about a teen named Alex Rider. When Alex’s Uncle Ian, his last remaining family member, dies, Alex finds out his life was surrounded by lies, including that his Uncle was actually a spy rather than a banker. Due to this Alex ends up at MI6, the secret spy agency, instead of his uncle’s “employer,” a bank. He is thrown on a mission by way of blackmail, and doesn’t know what to do. He meets Herod Sayle, a successful businessman, that had been bullied

“Rodriguez was the top superstar in Major League Baseball for many years, and many expected him to be the “clean” record-holder for home runs by the time his career ended. All those hopes came crashing down in 2009 after Rodriguez admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs earlier in his career” (“The 15 Biggest Steroid, P.E.D., and Doping Scandals in Sports History. Men's Journal, 10 Jan. 2018, www.mensjournal.com/sports/15-biggest-steroid-ped-and-doping-scandals-sports-history/). Athletes

human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. It was based on a series of interviews spanning from 1963 to Malcolm X’s assassination on February 21st, 1965. Autobiography was written for two purposes: to chronicle Malcolm X’s rise to prominence during the Civil Rights Movement and to outline his philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. However, following his assassination, Autobiography’s epilogue (written by Alex Haley) described the development of the book as

time and time again proven himself to be one of the best authors to reside in the United Kingdom, and this book is no exception. As the ninth installment in the Alex Rider series, the book was created thirteen years after the original, yet it loses none of the same appeal. Over 12 million copies have been sold worldwide, catapulting Alex Rider to the forefront of fictitious British spies. This book has been well received by critics,

to win trophies. A leadership model you can apply to him here is Transformational Leadership, A transformational leader is a person who stimulates and inspires (transform) followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes (Robbins and Coulter, 2007) Sir Alex Ferguson, had expectations and visions for his players, and they were to be a role model and behave on and off the pitch, and succeed in winning matches and trophies. He would of then set goals to achieve for the club, which

First off, Alex is clever and curious in the book Skeleton Key. He was clever throughout the book so far. At the start of the book it says, “He ran on tip toe… Now was the time to move” (Horowitz 135-136). This quotes explains that he was on a yacht and saw that one of his partners was in trouble and being held hostage. Alex thought a diversion quickly, which was to set the yacht on fire. His goal was to get everyone outside to help put out the fire while Alex and his partner escaped without being