For many people, gaining a competitive edge is crucial in one 's success, even if it comes at a cost. In modern professional and amateur sports, the introduction of performance enhancing drugs has dramatically changed the nature of the game. Arthur Caplan, author of A Shot in the Rear: Why Are We Really against Steroids?, presented argumentative reasons from both supporters and objectors of steroid use. While Caplan attempted to use persuasive appeals, the lack of sources used combined with a poor structure severely weakened his argument. In order to enhance his argument, Caplan used persuasive appeals, such as logos and ethos.
Throughout chapters ten and eleven of Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport, Heather L. Reid addresses the many issues that arise between the relationship between virtues and sports. In particular, Reid states, “It is characteristic of sport that we want to know not just who won but also whether they deserved to win” (Reid, 140). The emphasis on the “deserving” to win closely ties with ethics, assuming that only virtuous people “deserve” to win. What grabbed my attention even more was Reid’s next statement regarding immoral actions that occur outside of the arena of sport: “The detection and punishment of cheaters is (at least presented as) a priority, and even immoral actions that have nothing to do with sport can tarnish an athlete’s image and detract from his or her results” (Reid, 140). I agree with Reid’s proposal that an athlete’s reputation can easily be affected by actions irrelevant to his or his sport.
By allowing professional athletes to use drugs, what message are we sending out to young sports players and those who idolize their sporting heroes? Is the goal to inform them on how to cheat, or how to use your own muscle and blood to win? Performance-Enhancing drugs used by athletes can cause many health problems and create an unfair advantage to other athletes. Many of the performance enhancers used have serious health risk and allow the use of such substances could cause peer pressure to all athletes to consider using them. Athletes dreaming to improve their performance the easy way are often the first you see to start using substances; this places them at risk of the many consequences.
This picture contends, how lance Armstrong looks when he is off drugs. The pump represents drugs and it shows that if lance Armstrong has no drugs on him, he won’t perform as well and get an advantage over other competitors. The illustrator has used Exaggeration in this cartoon. It’s not possible for a human body to be deflated which draws the audience in, due to the fact that he is pumping ‘Truth’ into himself. The illustrator has also used a visual metaphor.
Growing up requires a high demand of endurance as life is filled with hardships and challenges. Thus in order to live through them, people must be as strong as the stress and anxiety which builds upon them. Both Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me” and Lisa Keiski’s “Suicide’s Forgotten Victims” demonstrate how to persist life challenges. Despite experiencing different forms of hardships that enable them to survive through their pain, Murray and Keiski transmit life lessons about individual growth. They emphasize survival through society, authority figures, and themselves.
Throughout his professional career, Armstrong had taken performance-enhancing drugs. Lance could have been a good athlete and role model, but his drug use turned an inspiring success story into another doping scandal. Lance grew up in a somewhat unstable home environment. His mother was young and single, and later married and divorced a man that Lance considered too harsh (Gutman 2).
9.2 (2013): 135-59. Print. This article written by Jack Anderson a Professor of Law at Queen’s University, Belfast, concerns the legal issues that surround the prohibition of doping in sport. The current policy on the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport is underpinned by both a paternalistic desire to protect athletes' health and the long-term integrity
The story “The Chosen One” analyzes Tiger Woods’ struggle in finding the precise balance between the corrupting effects of fame and the retention of humanity. He struggles in the mental battle to push fame’s corruption back and maintain his humanity. The narrator states the Tiger will beat fame “…because of his mind, one that grows more still, more willful, more efficient” (40). If Tiger forces himself to stay away from fame obsession, he can preserve his state of humanity. But if Tiger gets comfortable for even a second “[t]he machine will win because it has no mind” (40).
A step in this direction is the new drug testing program that was negotiated and approved by the owners and players for the 2005 season. It is far more comprehensive, intrusive, and punitive than the 2002 program that it replaced. Time will tell whether the new program will rid the sport of the blight which allows juiced-up players to achieve phony records that overshadow authentic accomplishments (Staudohar. 2005).” All players work hard everyday, but the ones who are taking steroids to get ahead faster are just cheating themselves. Although, there could be a brighter side to steroid use.
The history of drugs in sport is one of the main impacting factors on its impact within society because it is through the history that many other aspects such as the economy have been impacted. The use of drugs in sport by athletes such as Lance Armstrong throughout the history of high performance sport has meant that with every new method of testing that the world anti-doping agency is coming out with, there are people coming out with ways for their athletes to undetectably dope. This has meant that because athletes have seen other athletes such as Lance Armstrong get away with doping for so many years, they believe that they too can easily get away with in, therefore creating an increase in the use of drug in sport. Between 2012 and 2013 there was a 20% increase in the positive testing to drugs by both Olympic and non-Olympic sport. This is a dramatic increase because of the fact that there was only an increase of 0.8% in the amount of drug testing preformed (14).
Background: Performance-enhancing drugs have been widely used in sports for centuries. The first recorded use of PEDS in sports was during the ancient Olympic games in 776 BC when athletes experimented with herbal medication 2. However, what qualifies as cheating to us was perfectly acceptable to them and the athletes that participated weren’t
Athletes use of performance enhancing drugs has become all too common in today’s society. With many athletes testing positive for doping, sports are becoming tarnished with athletes trying to gain an unfair advantage on their competitors. Although players are tested often for such drugs, there are still many loopholes and some drugs are not detected by current systems. So what would cause an athlete to put their body at risk to gain just a slight edge on their competitor? Sports should be a test of real skill, not artificial skills given by doctors.
The Breakfast Club The breakfast club is a famous teen film directed by John Hughes. The Breakfast Club provides many concepts of adolescent struggles like identity issues, peer pressure, stereotypes, family relationships. The storyline follows five high school students from different social status meeting at their school’s library for Saturday detention. The film depicts Claire as the princess, Andrew as the jock, Brian as the brain, Allison as the basket case and Bender as the criminal. However, later in the film, they realize that they are more than what society portrays them and that they have more in common than they thought.
As people try to compete to be the best by using illegal methods such as using drugs in sport competitions or using drugs to enhance their athletic performance. In this argument essay I think that drugs should be panned in sports because they will affect people's health and it may lead them to death.
AS91101 - 2.4 Writing Portfolio Piece Two - Cooper Title: Drugs in sports Drugs have become an integral part of any modern day sporting event. Drugs give an unfair advantage to the user and the competitors that are using enhancements are not using their own full abilities to win the Olympic medal or championship. This makes it unfair to other competitors that are not using a drug or other enhancements to compete. Athletes like Lance Armstrong and Nadzeya Ostapchuk not only give sportsmen and women a bad reputation but influence the way the public think about sports and run the risk of addiction and long-term health issues.
