Present day sports have become increasingly infested with the brand new drug that is sporadically getting out hand. The sports industry is now abruptly faced with a new problem that they must control and this predicament has derived from the birth of steroids. Steroids as well as alternative performance enhancing drugs have become a major ethical as well as legal issue in sports. Some people feel, however, that steroids are the future for sports because of the athletic enhancements it may provide for an athlete. This is definitely true but these people fail to realize that these drugs are hazardous to a person’s health and they are also considered cheating. The government needs to take these things into account and create harsher penalties for people who engage in these illegal actions.

Steroids go against everything sports once represented in common society. Sports were once considered to be the traditional pure part of society because athletes were considered successful heroic symbols in America. Now, steroids have tarnished this image because people think steroids and performance enhancing drugs are synonymous with sports. Because people automatically assume that those who engage in athletic activity, professionally, take these illegal drugs professional sports has lost their once noble reputation. There is so much controversy because one side believes steroids are the future for sports because athletes will become bigger, stronger and faster. What these people don’t realize is that steroids actually harm internal organs as well as tendons and ligaments. Officials that lead specific sport industries ban these substances for the sake of their health.

Health predicaments are apparent consequences of steroid use but that isn’t the only reason why steroids are banned from sports. Steroids are considered cheating in modern society because the chemicals that go in the body strengthen and saturate muscle tissue, which gives muscles a fuller look as well as a more formidable feeling. This cheating argument is highly apparent in baseball today because certain players that have broken homerun records are now faced with an asterisk next to their name. This asterisk will haunt these players forever because they might not find themselves in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Just because they had to take a drug to make them stronger they may now be penalized for life. For instance, Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire are faced with this issue because they engaged in illegal substance use and they may be refrained from entering the Hall of Fame. Even though there are those who state everyone uses these drugs and it’s the mark of a true athlete. This side believes that the competiveness in sports today call for a certain edge and if this edge is tangible they’re definitely going to go for it. These people don’t get the point that this is cheating. It doesn’t matter if they benefit a person substantially if the benefit comes illegally. Cheating is frowned upon in society so therefore shouldn’t be done and steroids are involved in this equation.

Every sensible human being should know that steroids are an unethical as well as unfair substance that should never be allowed in any industry, not just the sport industry. Steroids have become a plague in sports and the only way to desist this problem is by striking fear into those that might think of taking them. The government needs to create harsher penalties in order to prevent steroids from anguishing sports. High-ranking officials in the government need to come up with longer sentences for substance abusers and they need to take away certain privileges these athletes have. They should serve a jail sentence if they are caught with the drug and not a sugar coated jail sentence an actual one common citizens have to serve. Expulsions and longer durations of suspensions need to be enforced as well to stop the spread of steroid users. The government needs to take drastic measures in order to keep sports alive and thriving like it used to be. They must restore the faith in the sports and the traditional reputation it once held.

The newest scientific advancement in society today is the ability to turn actual humans into robust figures. Steroids have this ability but they don’t promise a healthy lifestyle because they damage every aspect of a person’s body. This drug is the fastest growing drug currently and it is sporadically spreading throughout the sport industry while tarnishing its reputation as well. Governmental implementation of harsher and more direct sanctions need to be assessed in order to prevent this heinous growth of this substance.

Present day sports have become increasingly infested with the brand new drug that is sporadically getting out of hand.The sports industry is now abruptly faced with a new problem that they must control and this predicament has derived from the birth of steroids. Steroids as well as alternative performance enhancing drugs have become a major ethical as well as legal issue in sports. Some people feel, however, that steroids are the future for sports because of the athletic enhancements it may provide for an athlete. This is definitely true but these people fail to realize that these drugs are hazardous to a person’s health and they are also considered cheating. The government needs to take these things into account and create harsher penalties for people who engage in these illegal actions.

Steroids go against everything sports once represented in common society. Sports were once considered to be the traditional pure part of society because athletes were considered successful heroic symbols in America.Now, steroids have tarnished this image because people think steroids and performance enhancing drugs are synonymous with sports. Because people automatically assume that those who engage in athletic activity, professionally, take these illegal drugs professional sports has lost their once noble reputation. There is so much controversy because one side believes steroids are the future for sports because athletes will become bigger, stronger and faster. What these people don’t realize is that steroids actually harm internal organs as well as tendons and ligaments. Officials that lead specific sport industries ban these substances for the sake of their health.

Health predicaments are apparent consequences of steroid use but that isn’t the only reason why steroids are banned from sports. Steroids are considered cheating in modern society because the chemicals that go in the body strengthen and saturate muscle tissue, which gives muscles a fuller look as well as a more formidable feeling. This cheating argument is highly apparent in baseball today because certain players that have broken homerun records are now faced with an asterisk next to their name. This asterisk will haunt these players forever because they might not find themselves in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Just because they had to take a drug to make them stronger they may now be penalized for life. For instance, Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire are faced with this issue because they engaged in illegal substance use and they may be refrained from entering the Hall of Fame.

Although there are those who state everyone uses and should use these drugs because it’s the mark of a true athlete and a true competitor. This side believes that the competiveness in sports today call for a certain edge and if this edge is tangible they’re definitely going to go for it. These people don’t get the point that this is cheating. It doesn’t matter if they benefit a person substantially if the benefit comes illegally. Cheating is frowned upon in society so therefore shouldn’t be done and steroids are involved in this equation.

Every sensible human being should know that steroids are an unethical as well as unfair substance that should never be allowed in any industry, not just the sport industry. Steroids have become a plague in sports and the only way to desist this problem is by striking fear into those that might think of taking them. The government needs to create harsher penalties in order to prevent steroids from anguishing sports. High-ranking officials in the government need to come up with longer sentences for substance abusers and they need to take away certain privileges these athletes have. They should serve a jail sentence if they are caught with the drug and not a sugar coated jail sentence an actual one common citizens have to serve. Expulsions and longer durations of suspensions need to be enforced as well to stop the spread of steroid users. The government needs to take drastic measures in order to keep sports alive and thriving like it used to be. They must restore the faith in the sports and the traditional reputation it once held.

The newest scientific advancement in society today is the ability to turn actual humans into robust figures. Steroids have this ability but they don’t promise a healthy lifestyle because they damage every aspect of a person’s body. This drug is the fastest growing drug currently and it is sporadically spreading throughout the sport industry while tarnishing its reputation as well. Governmental implementation of harsher and more direct sanctions need to be assessed in order to prevent this heinous growth of this substance.

Steroids in sports have a very controversial issue because there are so many athletes who use these performance-enhancing drugs. Authorities, high ranking officials in sports, seem perplexed when it comes to this issue because they do not know what to do to those who take these drugs. One side states that steroids are the new and enhanced formula for peek performance while the other side states that steroids are unethical as well as unfair. Then there’s the parent side that’s worried about their children who play sports because they don’t want them taking these performance enhancement drugs either. Even though there are conflicting opinions on the matter, the only reasonable thing to do is ban these drugs permanently and create harsher punishments for those who engage in such activities. These penalties might even include a jail sentence, larger fines, greater suspensions and even expulsion from the sport that athlete is involved with.

The reason why steroids are the most controversial issue in present athletics is because of its potency and effectiveness. With steroids, athletes can increase their strength insurmountable amounts within a very short time. They want results as fast as possible and the quickest way to get these results is through performance-enhancing drugs. The speed, energy, endurance, agility, strength, power and explosiveness it can provide an athlete, proposes the argument over the legality of steroids. One-article states, “The Mitchell Report fingered 89 professional ball players, but many of these allegations were nothing new for baseball watchers.” One side believes that steroids should be a part of the game because they make better athletes, which will make the crowd happy. For example, the year Mark McGuire hit 70 homeruns, baseball ratings were at an all time high that year because of the excitement of all the homeruns Sammy Sosa, ex-Chicago Cub, and Mark McGuire were hitting.

However, the other side of the picture presents the statement that states steroids are unethical as well as unfair. People still believe that these drugs are a form of cheating and in that case should be banned completely. Most people are all about the natural athlete that engages in hard work to increase his/her performance. According to the article, “Steroids, Sports and the Ethics of Winning,” “Society cares because steroid use is a form of cheating. Since steroids work so well, they create an unfair advantage for those who take them, and this breaks the social contract athletes have implicitly agreed to: We are going to have a fair contest.” A majority of the fans that watch athletic competition always want things to be fair so when a person takes these drugs, they really have a problem with it.

Parents are actually the most concerned with this issue because the whole reason they got their kids involved in sports is to keep their children away from bad influences such as drugs. How can they now, with all this hype on steroids teenagers are going to want that edge too so they can get drafted into a professional sport. The old perspective on sports was that parents highly enticed their children to play sports because they wanted their children to stay away from bad influences and bad behavior. Sports were where all the disciplined kids were, according to parental thinking, but not anymore because steroids play a huge role in tarnishing that reputation for sports.

There really is only one thing to do when it comes to preventing steroids from scattering anymore. Harsher penalties should be instilled so players will be deterred from ever using them again. More frequent drug tests should be placed in the system along with hormonal level testing so players cannot get away with human growth hormone use. There is nothing ethical about these drugs because they are just forms of cheating. So for those who try to cheat, should be admonished for their actions. Penalties that even reach a governmental level can be in store for the player who decides to take illegal substances of this extent. Also, larger fines as well as greater suspensions can really affect a player because they’ll feel ashamed of themselves, which will positively reinforce them to never d it again. Expulsion can be placed in the system as well but only when extreme measures call for it.

Overall, steroids are a negative aspect of sports that we, as a society, will not have to deal with if we increase the punishments for those who decide to take these drugs. Even though there are many arguments, which persist, people should definitely know that steroids never existed originally and therefore should be completely vanquished from the game.

Sports have seen dramatic changes over the last few years because of the new expectations of fans. Ever since the steroid era has come about, fans expectations have altered because they want their athletes bigger, faster and stronger. The main question sports philosophers’ debate about is, “are steroids illegal if so many athletes today use them?” People still believe in is the all-natural method that requires hard work but that is now long gone. These robust figures we now see on television are not offspring’s of the clean and all-natural method. If we think steroids are illegal we should think again because it’s scary how many athletes actually take the drug.

Steroids have become an on growing epidemic in the world of sports and there’s really nothing authorities can do about it. Athletes today still abuse these drugs and find a way to get away with this drug abuse even though they know they’re illegal. Athletes always try to find that little extra edge on the competition so they look for the easiest way to increase strength, agility, endurance and speed. Harsher penalties should installed in order to halt this steroid onslaught on sports. The government might have to intervene at some point to resolute this predicament we have so frequently seen.

Steroids have become the most controversial issue in sports this past decade. People have considered that steroids are unethical and they are also tarnishing the reputation of what sports used to portray in society. In previous years, baseball has always been considered to be "America's past time" and happened to be highly regarded for its role model players. Everyone regarded sports, and baseball in general, to be the one pure thing in society where athletes could compete in a gentleman's game. What was once praised and adored is now criticized because of all the corruption that taken place in last decade. Parents once thought that they could lead their kids away from drugs by engaging them in athletic activities, however, that is not the case anymore. People are concerned, with the new demand coaches have for their athletes, because everyone is looking for that edge above the competition so they, themselves, can compete at a higher level than their fellow competitors. These motivations that have occurred are the reasons why harsher penalties have been enforced, in regard to performance enhancing drugs. These penalties, however, have not been very effective because a vast majority of the athletic world still prefers to utilize these drugs because of its advantages. I believe harsher penalties must be instilled, in the system, in order to halt this tremendous spread of performing enhancing drugs. For instance, zero tolerance to anyone who is caught, more severe sentences such as longer suspensions and weekly drug tests and, if this does not put fear into athletes, government intervention should also be applied (such as federal offenses).

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The article poses the question of, “is new technology making the common American illiterate?” Quite frankly one side of the argument believes that this is a new era of literacy that has not been seen since the Greek era. People believe that people have been writing more than they have ever before. Previously, people used to finish school and never write another piece of text again. Ever since facebook, twitter and text messaging has come about people are writing in excessive amounts. There has never been an era of writing that the human race has seen before like the current one we are in right now.

Are people smarter as a result of all this new writing or are they not using their minds as well because they are not interpreting text?

Why are people so obsessed with new technology and our new style of text?

Does facebook writing actually qualify as informative and intellectual writing?

The “R U Really Reading” article argues that the Internet is corrupting the human mind and has decreased the interest Americans once had in reading. Some countries are developing literacy tests for paper reading and Internet reading because its gotten to the point that everyone only indulges themselves in the Internet. Some consider that reading texts off the Internet is still considered the consumption of texts but to a different extent. People still, however, do not believe that consuming text off the Internet is the same as reading it on a traditional paperback book. Skeptics have argued this and this will consistently be the new argument for the 21^st century.

Event though reading off the Internet may be different to some, to me, it’s the same thing because your still consuming information from a text. It does not matter whether it’s from a book or a computer, its still reading, no matter what anyone says, when you’re perusing through a page and obtaining information off that page. Maybe it’s true that we, as a society, have grown extremely dependent on the Internet but we are still reading and perhaps more than we used too. I remember when the Internet wasn’t this advanced. I would never pick up a book or read anything on paper, not even my homework. Now I can read everything off the Internet and even have my homework right in front of me. In reality, it’s definitely more convenient this way and reading is still reading on the Internet.

How can someone ever say that reading is different when it's on paper?

Is it possible that people are being obsessive about this issue that seems a little inconsequential?

Do you think people are even reading more now since there are so many interesting applications one can access via Internet?

“New Media and the Slow Death of the Written Word,” conveys the major controversy of the new media and how it affects the common citizen’s literacy. The traditional way, in the author’s view, is the best way to look at media but he finds the new media as exciting and opportunistic as well. We, as a society, should exploit the advantages of the new media as we still appreciate the traditional ones. This is because without the traditional media there wouldn’t be a new media present in our lives today. The combination of new technology and traditional media makes up what we call new media to this very day.

I agree with the author’s claim on the issues regarding how traditional media will never die. Traditional media will never die because it came about first and without it we would have nothing. It’s the primary source of expressing opinion, learning specific things and reading about current events. The new media is the same thing, however, it just throws in those extra details so many people have grown to adore. He is incorrect when he says the traditional media is the best form of media because the new media is quick and accessible as well. The fact that someone doesn’t have to pay a penny to get their news and express their opinions, in the form of an article, tells it all. New media surpasses, at great lengths, the magnitude of traditional media but traditional media is the patriotic form of mediums that cannot die out. The original form of media cannot die out because there is still a great population of those who revolve their lives around newspapers and other traditional texts.

The author’s ten rules are utilized to assist someone write effectively on the Internet. They are all very viable sources especially the one that states quality over quantity. That’s one of the biggest misconceptions students have because they feel if their essays to short, they’ve missed key information regarding the topic they were assigned to write about. The author makes a valid claim concerning this issue and it’s actually very useful. I feel, however, that he puts a little too much emphasis on images. He says that images can portray your views when you can’t convey your views in words. I think that that’s a little to vague because whenever someone doesn’t want to write something they could just put a picture in its place. That’s insufficient and it also displays a lack of effort which no teacher or editor ever desires to see. That’s probably the only modification I would have to make. Pictures are all well and fine but to a certain extent.

Something to add to the list of rules may be avoiding tools such as the synonyms icon that is very accessible on the Internet. You can very well utilize it but don’t make it a habit because it can indefinitely distort your writing. Too many big words may often make your paper seem unoriginal which may yield to a boring read. One may take into consideration, when writing, to keep it in your own words and maintain that original theme throughout the entire paper so the reader can become embedded in your writing.

Steroids have become an ongoing predicament in all of sports. Players seem to persist in the use of these banned substances, even though they are illegal, and they seem to be tarnishing the reputation of what sports are perceived to stand for. Even the great American pastime, Baseball, has had its reputation tarnished as well because of the common steroid use that persists in the sport. The governemnt needs to crack down on these issues so they can clean up the sport and restore its reputation by creating greater sanctions along with formulating greater regulations to reassure these players stop taking these banned substances.

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The government hasn’t intervened with the sport industry and believes it should not. Ever since the steroid era has ignited, it has become a very emphatic issue to attend to. Their involvement should become more frequent and they should condemn those who have participated in the usage of prohibited substances in sports today.

New York City has outlawed the MMA industry to participate in any arena under its jurisdiction. The problem here is that MMA is the fastest growing industry in the sports world today. New York City needs override the fact that this is outlawed because it can substantially benefit the city financially.

The world should focus more attention on world hunger as well as poverty instead of worrying so much about war and supremacy of nations. People all over the world are living in malnourished and impoverished societies and yet the world seems to neglect these problems drastically. They should focus on supplying food, cleaning up these slums and establishing sufficient governments that can attend to these issues efficiently.

Chris Hedges article states that the Internet is strangling the progression and the importance of the newspapers we once cherished as a valuable news source. Journalists have lost jobs, news pages have been cut back and their stocks have also lost influence and decreased substantially. Newspapers have always had the reputation as a trustful source of current events (he actually refers to them as being a public trust). The recent filtering of information through the Internet defies the purpose of reporting. And if the news organization deteriorates then the American public will lose a vast majority of expertise and information.

There is a definite validity with this article because the Internet clutters the minds of millions of people. People no longer watch the news or read newspapers. Their main source for updates and current events has become the Internet. The newspaper was the original source for information and it was always a trustworthy form of text. Now we’ve lost that purity, per se, and we rely on Internet articles that possess unknown validity. Hedges makes it clear that if we lose these old forms of reporting the common person will be deprived of expertise and information.

Nicholas Carr’s article argues that the Internet as well as text messages have provided more reading material for the masses but this reading is much different. Our ability to interpret text and make connections to the material has been disengaged because of these new sources. Carr states that never has there been a communications system that has played such an important role in the lives of the public before. The influence the Internet has on our lives in remarkable but yet it’s not a positive influence. Google hasn’t helped this current issue because its main goal is to build artificial intelligence.

The Internet has definitely not a valid source for building knowledge because it possesses an abundance of articles that only clutter our brains. I don’t feel that it is very useful even though there are many valid sources that one can find. With exception to these valid sources, the other half of information posted is a bunch of useless information. We have lost the ability to interpret texts and experts say that, “we’re more decoders of information,” now then ever before. The connections to writing are long gone and you can blame the Internet as well as Google.

"Terrible" Terry Tate Accepts New Assignment

Ron Felcher, C.E.O. of Felcher & Sons, has recently appointed Linebacker Terry Tate to his staff. Retired NFL linebacker, Terrible Terry Tate, has accepted the enforcer job at Felcher & Sons and has been expected to clean the place up.Terry’s duties are to enforce the law at the office and make sure no one is disobeying common regulations at the office. Terry has stated that he will be taking his job very seriously and assured his boss that employees will feel the pain if they step out of line.

Currently, Felcher has commended Terry on a job well done because the office has seen significant improvement. Felcher quoted that, “since Terry has been with us, productivity has went up 46%.” Even though Terry’s retired, his poise and determination in the office is just like it was on the field. His tenacious defense in the office emulates that of his playing days.

Terry has no time for games or pain. The only thing he has time for these days are punishing those who get out of line. He has unleashed the pain, however, on those who defy the regulations of the office. Ask his fellow employees. He has penetrated fear into all those who work at Felcher & Sons and no one gets out of line when Terry’s around.

People have said that Felcher is insane for hiring Tate but he begs to differ. He thinks of himself as someone who thinks outside the box to stimulate success for his company.

This new idea might sound crazy and out of line but it has been very effective. Maybe businesses all around the world will take this new idea of punishment into effect because of the overall success we all have seen at Felcher & Sons.

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The Onion’s articles poke fun at famous people who have done great things such as Derek Jeter, who recently broke Lou Gehrig’s all-time Yankees hit record. The one article posted stated that Derek Jeter has fewer hits than Harold Baines, long time Major League second baseman as well as ESPN broadcaster. The article makes mention to Jeter being 144 hits away from Harold Baines who could never shine Jeter’s shoes. It stated that Jeter is honored to be in the vicinity of Harold Baines which, in reality; he has more hits than him anyway. The satire here is very prevalent but it’s also very humorous as well. They’re actually mimicking Baines because he thinks he’s an egotistic newscaster on the new network MLB Network. This is also funny because Jeter just broke one of the most prodigious records on all of baseball, which Baines could never reach even if he played 20 major league seasons. Also, the George W. Bush article was very humorous because it made mention to the fact that Bush laughed when he realized he was president of the United States for almost a decade. All he could do is chuckle at the fact that he was once the commander in chief of the most distinguished nation in the entire world. When asked how he felt about this, all Bush could do is smirk and grin without giving a reasonable answer to the question. This too is funny because he really wasn’t a great president and he didn’t do much to directly assist the nation.

Michael Skube’s article is based on the new phenomenon of blogging. Bloggers now happen to be everywhere and it is on rapid increase. People believe that the news produced from blogs are, however, more interesting than that of the official news. Some bloggers are persistent partisans in political debate but, compared to the real national conversation, it’s particularly tiresome opinion. His point of view declares that blogging is tiresome, cranky, never in doubt and skeptical opinion of what the national conversation really turns out to be. Some of these bloggers have all the liberties that a journalist possesses but with few of the obligations. Even though blogging is an efficient transmission of information, it neglects to tell the whole truth about specific news and current events.

Both articles share certain similarities in that they both possess the fact that, blogging has sky rocketed ever since the Internet has become a more potent force in societal interests. These two articles emphasize that blogs have become a more sufficient news source since it invigorates the audience more than the standard news editorials might. But these articles definitely share their differences. Andrew Sullivan states that blogging will bring about a revolution concerning how people percept the news, in the near future. Skube presents the argument that blogging brings about excess skeptics that arise a cranky and a tiresome opinion of what the news actually is. He calls bloggers journalists without the obligations when Sullivan manifests the idea that they are independent writers who purposely write for the sake of the passion. Both of these authors hold similar yet contrasting opinions of what blogging actually curtails. Who holds the better argument? I’m not sure but maybe all this blogging I’ve been up to will soon help me discover its truth.