after a court trial against his trainer‚ it was proven that Barry Bonds had used steroids during training throughout his baseball career. Now his record of 73 home runs in a season has a big asterisk next to it (Bunning). Yet‚ Barry Bonds and many other athletes are still inducted into their sports’ Hall of Fame even though they used steroids. Athletes who used steroids should not be inducted into the Hall of Fame because it is illegal to use steroids and those who use steroids are cheaters. First
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Steroid Abuse Hurts Baseball The abuse of steroids among players in Major League Baseball is corrupting the image of America’s Pastime as well as endangering the health of those who use the illegal substances. The lack of testing and punishment for the use of illegal substances like steroids in the Major Leagues portrays a negative image to aspiring young athletes. They see their role models using steroids and becoming better athletes rather than seeing suspensions for the illegal behavior or
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Running Head: PERSUASIVE ESSAY Transportation is Becoming Expensive Jessica Uribe University of Phoenix Phillip Partridge Essentials of College Writing comm/215 April 4‚ 2007 Transportation is Becoming Expensive As everyone knows‚ gas prices seem to be going up and down every week now a day. Gas prices also vary from gas station to gas station which causes us to look for the gas station with the lowest prices. The question is: Is it really worth driving around to the gas station with
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Persuasive Essay “Action is the foundational key to all success.” These wise words were spoken by Pablo Picasso‚ and they could not be truer. In life you can’t expect to achieve great things without putting forth an extensive amount of effort. In this case the great thing I am trying to attain is a six or higher on the AP exam towards the end of the year. I know that I am beyond capable of achieving this goal as long as I continue to apply myself and remain dedicated throughout the year. Over
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Athletes in modern sport are required to push their bodies past their normal abilities in order to achieve the one goal that all athletes long for: to win. In the past winning did not come at such a high cost as it does in modern sports; in his article “Aretism” And Pharmacological Ergogenic Aids in Sport‚ M. Andrew Holochak states that “we take a greater interest in sport today than perhaps we‚ as fans‚ have ever taken before” (2000‚ p.361)‚ this means that athletes are under more pressure to win
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Steroid use has a bad reputation when it comes to sports‚ however it can also be used to save lives. Steroid‚ short for anabolic steroid is a class of organic compounds with four rings of carbon atoms in its molecular structure. This includes any hormones‚ alkaloids and vitamins. The type athletes frequently abuse are the synthetic hormones. Quantities of these hormones larger than what humans normally create can help improve the body’s ability to gain muscle‚ improve speed‚ and increase endurance
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of steroids are legendary. People who use steroids usually end up with many health problems such as‚ stunting growth‚ the appearance of masculine physical characteristics in women and of feminine ones in men‚ unfavorable change in sexual characteristics in both genders and psychiatric complications. Using steroids can also cause damage to the liver that cannot be cured. Plenty of athletes have ruined their careers due to abusing the use of steroids. Some athletes are addicted to steroids because
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life? Would you take it then? Probably not. However‚ you would be surprised by how many people say yes to both questions. In the past three decades‚ anabolic steroids have been a very serious problem throughout the athletic field (Budak). It is reported that over three million athletes and body builders alone have used steroids. Anabolic steroids are drugs that include testosterone‚ the male sex hormone and estrogen‚ the female sex hormone. The word anabolic comes from the Greek word “anabole” which
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Amber Draper October 21‚ 2012 EN 111 Prof. Cain Persuasive Essay while in high school classes all day‚ teachers talk about the same math‚ science‚ and numerous other subjects‚ but they always seem to either through sex education or not talk about it at all. Sex education should be taken a step further in high school today. Many teenagers are no aware nor are they educated about sex. Sex education should be a part of more high school curriculum. While in high school sex education is not really
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because of the use of steroids‚ his dreams of becoming a Major League Baseball hall of famer are shattered (“overshadowed”). Alex Rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs‚ which help improve their running speed‚ strength‚ and skill (“Doping”). Athletes are pressured into taking these drugs in many different ways by the people that surround them‚ like their family members‚ coaches‚ fans‚ and themselves. They want to keep improving as they evolve. They want to be the best athlete they can be. Tyson
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