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    Drugs Are Bad Or Bad?

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    Drugs are bad, Mmkay? What doesn 't kill us makes us stronger right? Well that 's what athletes of this generation believe. They think if steroids or human growth hormones don 't kill us and cause us to become stronger then it 's totally worth it. Performance enhancement drugs are very harmful to a person 's body and can cause huge Problems in an individual 's life. Someone can have just a hint of these substances in their system from that time they tore a muscle and needed that edge to come back

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    Drugs in sports, also known as doping, is very common around the world. The usage of drugs in sport goes way back, about all the way back to where the concept of sports was invented, during the 1960’s. Doping is a practice that has been going on since the time of "ancient Greek athletes, who supposedly ate herbs, sesame seeds, dried figs, and mushrooms for this purpose" (Hoberman, 1992, 104).In ancient times, when the fittest of a nation were selected as athletes or combatants, they were fed diets

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    Ro-ee Tal 12-N Physical Education Written Task A: Sport as a unifier 1. Yes, I do believe sporting events contribute to unifying a nation. Majority of people an any given nation tend to enjoy and support sporting events, irrespective of the sport itself. As a result, sport acts as a common ground between people of different socioeconomic, religious, racial and other backgrounds. This common ground forces people of different backgrounds to interact and to treat each other with sportsmanship

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    for his Tour de France competitions; however, Armstrong founded a charity that not only promoted cancer awareness and research, but also early detection of cancer, using his survivorship as an example of courage to all fighting any type or severity of cancer. The Lance Armstrong foundation, which eventually became known as “Livestrong,” had a tremendous impact on people fighting cancer,

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    Doping in sports has caused a lot of controversy throughout the years in the sports world from youth sports to the professionals. The World Anti-Doping Agency does their best to catch all the drug users but falls short with some people. This causes for an “unfair” advantage and goes against the true value of sport. It can make these players stronger and more athletic which causes more excitement for the fans to watch, more revenue for teams, and growing popularity. Using performance-enhancing drugs

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    “He’s the man,” said an American as he left the seats at the Tour de France with his wife. Born on September 18, 1971, Lance Armstrong was a world-famous seven-time Tour de France champion, winning each victory consecutively, one victory after another. Eventually, people started to call him "Le Patron" because of his excellent talent as a cyclist; and a lot of people loved him. Everyone had flags with Texas on them and they all cheered for Lance to win the race and he won it for his seventh time

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    Gene doping is an extension of gene therapy. Though, instead of injecting DNA into specific cells for the purpose of repairing the function to a damaged or missing gene, gene doping involves implanting DNA for the purpose of enhancing athletic performance. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an international organization created in 1999 to "promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms," defines gene doping as the "nontherapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic

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    Although Lance Armstrong has faced scandal within the cycling world he remains to overcome all the challenges life has thrown his way and continues to do so. Armstrong’s name has been known for all his cycling achievements. His name coincides with the Livestrong foundation. Lance Armstrong’s greatest accomplishment was being the founder of the Lance Armstrong Foundation now called the Livestrong foundation. Lance Armstrong was born in the town of Plano, Texas on September 18th,1971. Lance was raised

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    1. Compare and contrast how, and for what dramatic purpose, the writers of The History Boys and Oleanna present characters who display both vulnerability and villainy. In both Oleanna and History Boys the writers include many controversial subjects to portray the characters in the plays to be both vulnerable and villainy. In Oleanna, Mamet involves sexual harassment and power throughout the play. Although, instead of using scenarios of sexual harassment near the time of the play (Clarence Thomas

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    Can someone be born evil or is the ability to be immoral something that’s acquired through the environment? Various techniques were used by Alan Bennett in the History Boys to convey how Hector wasn’t purely immoral because he let his sexual desires lead to the fondling of his student’s genitals, but because he was a dedicated educator who would stop at no means including disconnection with the traditional form of teaching in order to per-quire his students futures through alternative education.

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