In America competition is in our everyday lives. Even if it is competing with someone else or yourself it is still considered competition. People are always trying to be the better person. Take politics for example when America is trying to pick a new president there is a competition to see who can win the people’s votes. What makes competition happen every day is because it is in our blood, competition can improve who we are, and competitions defines winners and losers. First of all it is actually in our blood and as humans we like to make ourselves be number one or the best of the best. As Catherine Latterell wrote in her essay “ Competition is part of human nature”(204). There is a saying for it and it is Survival of the fittest. The strongest will be the one to survive if they are more suitable to their environment then their opponents. Here is a good example and it is about an American sport called football. If we had the Miami Dolphins flying to somewhere like New York to play the Jets in the snow most likely the Dolphins are going to lose because they do not normally play in snow because of Florida’s environment is mostly tropical climates. In the story “ We Can Work It Out: The Beatles’ Creative Competition” written by Bruce Glassman says “The major dynamic of this early partnership was now becoming clear.” It was, more than anything, creativity based on competition. Neither writer wanted to be outdone by the others.”(223). These two song composers worked together and still were competing against each other and other artists. They are always trying to top one another. Most of world goes through competition every day to be on top. So, when someone says it is in our blood or DNA, it is actually our human nature and will people use it in everyday living and the competition they will have to go through in the year. Second is competition improves us inside because it make the average person push themselves to be the best. When we talk about sports, the athletes that play the sport push themselves everyday to be on top. There is Lebron James who is one of the greatest basketball players out there to this day. He has been going through competition his whole life and for that he is one of the youngest players to go to the NBA. Without competition there would be no pressure on him to play his hardest and make him the player he is today. The way competition improves us inside and makes us who we are is because there is pressure that it makes us deal with and pushes us forward. It makes us study harder, practice harder, and play harder. No one likes to loose and that is a main reason why sports are competitive. Schools even have competition as in the book The Overachievers written by Alexandra Robbins says “In fall of 2005, a record 16.7 million students enrolled in college, 1.2 million more than only five years before. That figure is expected to increase another 2.1 million by 2013. But while the number of college applicants has increased, the number of available slots at prestigious universities has not, leading students to overwork themselves sick while attempting to squeeze into ever-narrowing funnels they vehemently hope will drop them onto the campus of their dreams”(251-252). Now that schools are getting harder to get in kids will use their SAT scores to cover that spot, but there is only so many spots that they can use. So now competition will get harder for the kids that want to attend that school and they will have to study harder and work harder to get in. For the kids that do not get in will have to compete harder next time or find another school that they want to attend. So the competition it will make a student improve them just so that they can get in the main school that the student wants. Last but not least is that competition defines winners and losers. This statement is pretty much true because in a competition people are competing to be the number one team or person. It defines the losers because it shows how much effort they put in to the game and what they get out of it. In competition there will always be a winner and a loser. Competition can turn a winner in to a loser because the pressure that it puts off is that if the athlete keeps losing he will no longer be a winner and he or she will eventually turn to illegal use of drugs to make sure that does not happen to them because they always want to be a winner. In America competition is everywhere and people sometimes have to do desperate things to become a winner. With everyone in the Unites States Competing for the wealthy life there are cheaters and there are workers. The cheaters are scam artist and thieves. The workers are people who never give up like Donald Trump. That man once had everything and then his company took a turn for the worst but he never gave up and worked his butt off and now he is back on top and that is considered a winner in the competition in American living. The losers are people like Bernie Madoff who have robbed people off of millions of dollars and cheated their way to the top. But the cheaters always end up getting caught and will be a loser.
In the Article “Find the Greatness within yourself” Donald Trump writes
“I am a competitive person and to me, that’s a good thing. Staying competitive is the opposite of being complacement. Complacency is the ultimate enemy of success.”(242)
In this competition in America social status is what everyone is aiming high for because the winners are living in pen houses and mansions and the losers are in boxes and section 8 housing. So all in all Competition defiantly defines winners and losers. To conclude, Competition is a key role in Americas society because almost everything that someone does is going to be competitive. That means that when you apply to a college, try to get a job, try to go pro in sports, and even just trying to buy a pair of heat tickets, It will all turn in to a competition to see who will when the bids or go pro and also get to go to the college of their chose. That is why competition is in our blood, competition can improve who we are, and competitions define winners and losers.