Dubai: Globalization on Steroids by William Morehouse in The American Scholar‚ Winter 2008‚ 1st December Promotions for Dubai on CNN‚ BBC World‚ and other satellite channels show a shimmering skyline of glass and steel office towers with their graceful curves and aquiline shapes‚ suggesting a distant galaxy where all the unpleasantness of urban life has been airbrushed away. But advertising almost always offers more promise than reality‚ whether the product is potato chips or a city or a country
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the sports world‚ with new drugs being created everyday along with headlines announcing yet another athlete has been caught using PEDs. These performance-enhancing substances can range on a wide scale‚ from stimulants‚ like cocaine‚ to countless steroids. With questions about what to do about the issue‚ it seems that stricter rules and constant testing of athletes is the first step to making sure athletes are winning by their natural capabilities instead of with the help of PEDs. Doping in sports
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Tag‚ you’re it! Many children play this common game on the playgrounds today‚ but what if this sport was put into the Olympics. This paragraph will be discussing why this game is good for our leg muscle when we run‚ why some parts of the game could be dangerous‚ and why it should be in our Olympics today. What is tag? Tag is a common children’s game that is also called touch or tig. To play‚ a player who is “it” must chase the other players trying to touch the other player‚ making that person it
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Performance enhancing drugs(PEDs) have been a very debatable topic over the years between teen athletes and professional athletes. Performance enhancing drugs are any substance taken by athletes to improve an athlete’s performance. PEDs can come in many shapes sizes‚ and colors‚ for example Pills are the most common way of consuming enhancement drugs‚ because it is easy to purchase‚ and also it it very easy to transport between dealers and buyers. The most common sport(s) that PEDs are associated
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Baseball player Alex Rodriguez went from having a salary of twenty nine million to ending his career shortly‚ all because of the embarrassment of using Performance Enhancement Drugs (P.E.D.). He was caught using a banned substance and it cost him a season of baseball. Performance Enhancement Drugs are any type of drug that an athlete can take to increase the abilities or performance of themselves. The punishments for violating the Drug policy in sports should be intensified because of the damage
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Wrestling Should Be Kept In the Olympics On Tuesday‚ February 12th‚ 2013‚ the International Olympic Committee woke up the world by voting to drop out wrestling from the Olympic Games beginning in the summer of 2020. Most people were shocked to hear the information that was said and me wanting to go to the Olympics for wrestling and the IOC wanting to vote it out. Wrestling should be kept in the Olympics because it is the oldest sport in the modern time of the Olympics‚ it creates physically fit and
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Drug testing for professional athletes has been a debate for a long time. Drug tests are tests that are used to find out if someone has used drugs or not. “Urine is the most common type of drug test. Others are hair samples‚ sweat patches‚ oral fluid‚ and alcohol breath” (Drug Testing). Athletes get tested for drugs because they can have an unfair advantage over other athletes. “PEDs or Performance Enhancing Drugs are drugs that give athletes unfair advantages if they use them. PEDs have the ability
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Steroids and Baseball As most people know by now‚ the ban on steroids has become one of baseballs biggest rules as of late. They are banned for a number of reasons‚ mainly because steroids are dangerous and harmful to someone’s body‚ and because steroids make a person more muscular. Every year more and more professional baseball players are caught with steroids or some type of medicine that is similar to steroids in their system‚ and then make up an excuse as to why they have these drugs in their
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advantage over other athletes. The use of anabolic steroids by professional athletes will often lead these young athletes to use and not feel that it’s a dangerous problem. In this essay I will present facts that show steroids should not only be band as they currently are‚ but are causing an ever growing amount of our youth athletes to use these drugs. This should not and will not be tolerated in the world of sports There is to much steroid use by the young athletes. Jimmy is a freshman in high
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enhancing drugs in sports. Enhancing drugs like Anabolic steroids‚ Androstenedione‚ Human Growth Hormone (HGH)‚ Erythropoietin‚ Piaretics‚ Creatine‚ and stimulants‚ and many other drugs athletes use in sports. According to John Neundorf‚ TheSportster.com‚ “Top 15 Most Commonly used Performance Enhancing Drugs‚” he states‚” Propranolol‚ also called a beta blocker‚ is a medication designed to block the effects of epinephrine‚ a hormone produced by
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