...played, not to mention they are banned in most, if not all, professional sports around the world. There are multiple ways to look at this issue, but regardless of which way you choose there are concrete facts about steroids that should make you think twice before choosing a side. The use can halt growth in adolescents, cause behavioral side effects, psychological issues, and inflict major physical distortions. These conditions apply to both males and females and include acne, clotting disorders, liver damage, premature heart attacks, strokes, and elevated levels of cholesterol to say the least. With all of that being said, some might question why anybody would consider taking this drug. Due to our modern love for sports and competition, athletes around the world are willing to do almost anything to make it to the top. They have devised methods of taking steroids without getting caught and will continue to do so as long as they leave with a win or a gold metal. According to Dr. Richard T. Bosshardt, a medical expert on the subject, “Sports can teach children to young adults so many valuable lessons: the value of hard work, consistency, and goal setting... To have this undermined by doping among those...
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...guidelines, rules and punishments students of today have been reduced to cheating, forgeries and out blatant plagiarism. Many students take advantage of copying fellow classmates work whenever the opportunity presents. Other times, students will simply have someone else complete their work and present it as their own, not realizing the ramifications and consequences of their action. This fosters a lack of creativity; no sense of responsibility and the students then block the opportunity of new experiences and knowledge. This practice of cheating, copying and forgery by students are unethical and should be brought to the surface whenever possible. Students aren't the only ones who haven't cheated. Politicians, athletes, and even those who are close to you. Cheating, for the most part, is wrong. There are a few small examples where cheating can be good, but nonetheless it is something you shouldn't be doing. I will explain why it's not a good idea, especially for students. First, everybody cheats. Some may justify it, others proudly proclaim it, and others will deny their cheating vigorously. Their creativity level drops every time they copy or have someone else do their work. After a while of copying and forging, the student's ability to think creatively and successfully becomes next to nothing. Unfortunately, today's school system has become a playground where students have developed more and more ways of cheating. The internet is a huge blame. Other way is having students who have...
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...and should not be used for any sport for numerous reasons. These types of drugs come with serious health risks. First, there are many dangers to the body from steroids. Second, it is just unfair to other players and athletes. Thirdly it could possibly cause a crash in an athlete’s career if getting caught. Steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, PED’s, are very harmful to the body. It is not worth the risk of permanent damage to the body and organs. Most PED’s contain hormones which will cause extreme behavioral changes. People who take PED’s act more aggressively, are more likely to sexually harass somebody, and are generally more violent. So just from taking these drugs the users are effecting their and people that they are with lives outside of sports. The use of any PED is unfair to other players because they are not competing against a person its, the drug. It takes out the spirit of competition. A player that has been on a steroid has an unfair advantage due to the power gained from the drug and not the body. It is basically a form of cheating. PED use can cause a crash in an athlete’s career if they are caught using the drug, because if it gets on the news it would give him/her a bad reputation, the drug will cause the downfall of the athletes career and possibly get the player kicked off the team, it’s a shocking matter for the fans to find out and also winning without relying on drugs is a real accomplishment to a player, because you didn’t need any help...
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...Constance, do you think that Dee might actually understand what the quilt means in regards to their heritage? She probably can not appreciate the quilt as much as Maggie can and will, but I do not believe that means she does not understand it, just a thought.Is cheating always wrong or is it ever acceptable? If this question was as cut and dry as it sounds, then as the prompt states “cheating has mainly been publicly condemned.” The problem seems to be closer to question, what is considered cheating. Take baseball for example, they have many “unwritten” rules. The one that comes to mind for this example is sign stealing. Some believe that sign stealing is cheating, others believe it is part of the game. I believe that cheating is never...
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...agree that the primary cause of cheating is the pressure and obsession from society to do well, succeed and basically be perfect. Although these authors view these things in common, the conclusions they reach on the morality of cheating is different. In Too Much Pressure by Collen Wenke, she defines cheating as “taking work done by someone else . . . and writing your name on it and saying that it is your own work.” The article draws from her experience growing up in a school, where everyone cheated. At first she came to the conclusion that students cheat because they are...
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...12 December 2012 Steroids are the death of sports Steroids are the worst thing when it comes to competition because during this can cause a serious problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because at the end of the day were all human. Its when you’re...
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...To answer this question, one must first define “cheating” outside of a dictionary. At the core, to “cheat” is to obtain an advantage that you wouldn’t normally have. The method by which the advantage is gained doesn’t matter as much as the reason for the advantage. Digging a little deeper, a person or team may encounter a situation that they are unable to overcome with their current skillset, or that the time constraints do not allow them to resolve. In these cases, they may turn to outside assistance to achieve the objective. Is that wrong? It may or may not be, depending on the specific situation. Case-in-point: a student must complete a trigonometry exam in order to graduate. While the student received high marks in every other class, and has managed to complete the trigonometry homework without extra assistance, they struggle with the time constraints of tests and exams. Given no time constraint, they have always been able to complete the work. To help with this, they jot down notes from every section of the course material in a single sheet and bring it with them to the exam. In most cases this would be considered “cheating”, because the student is using something that they were not provided at the time of the exam, even though the notes do not specifically reference the exam materials. The rise of technology has further clouded the barrier between “cheating” and preparedness. In a computer-based classroom, there are monitoring tools that allow the educators...
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...& Islamic Values in Business Section (53) Course number (0302350) Assignment 1 Written by Araam Jamal U00035221 To Dr. Alaa-Aldin Abdul Rahim A. Al Athmay For this assignment, you will carefully read the story below that summarizes the incident, behaviors associated with cheating using technology, and how you can relate this story to your own situation. You should incorporate answers to the following questions into your assignment, as they are related to issues of integrity, ethics, professionalism, and personal reflection: - Why do students cheat? What can be done to address cheating in schools? - What lessons have you learned from the case? Has learning about this case inspired you to make changes in your own life? - How do you relate this behavior to ethics from the Islamic perspective? Assignment Requirements: Length: Minimum 750 words (Approximately 2.5 typed pages, 12 pt font, 1.5-spaced) Style: This paper should be written in an academic style. The tone of your work should be thoughtful and respectful. Be sure to edit your work for grammatical and spelling errors. Papers must be submitted to the instructor by 11:59 pm on the stated due date. Reading Case: Cheating and Technology Cheating in the classroom has been happening since the first schoolhouse was built; however, it has more than doubled in the last decade due to the emergence of new technologies that give students high tech alternatives to looking at their classmate's paper. "A 2002 survey by the Josephson...
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...Cheating. It’s a word that can trigger reactions of an unlimited variety. A roll of the eyes, a shake of the head, or a hand raised in class are all common. Less forgiving, are the reactions of professional sporting associations, olympic committees, or even the Federal Government. Fines, suspensions, and even banishment from ones chosen craft are becoming more and more common. Students plagiarize, songwriters steal copyrighted work, and politicians all over the world are rigging elections. But why cheat? Is cheating ever justified? I personally believe that cheating is never justified, because at the end of the day the biggest victim of cheating is the cheater himself. The conscience is a very powerful thing. Even if the cheater is never caught, he will still live the rest of his life knowing he has been anything but genuine to those around him. For the purpose of this essay I will focus on cheating in professional sports, as these incidents tend to be the most well known and widely reported. There’s a saying in sports, “if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.” We’ve all heard the stories - performance enhancing drugs, point shaving, deflated footballs, the pumping-in of additional crowd noise - all have become commonplace in the world of professional sports. But what is the incentive to cheat in sports? Winning, of course. Winning brings fans through the door. Winning puts money in the owner’s pockets, which in turn puts money in the athlete’s pockets. Sure, the records...
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...Is cheating wrong, that is a question I ask myself every day. Many people ask this same question. Some people think this question is too easy to answer. This question has many views. I think this is a great question to ask. I think cheating is wrong because not only are rules being broken but the only person you are cheating is yourself. The best thing to do is do the work put the effort and hard work in and not cheat. The reason you only cheat yourself is because you are the only one that doesn’t know the answer and other people do. This works for sports and school. This works for sports because if for example you use performance enhancing drugs not only are you cheating yourself but rules will be broken and consequences will be taken for this. Also you ruin your credibility as a person, and you could be known as a cheater for this. This could lead to not playing for the team or suspensions and fines. Also punishment can be brought upon you for cheating from the organization that you are playing the sport for. This works for all types of school work. Let’s say that you cheat on all of your homework assignments and get a hundred on all of them. After all the homework has been completed you have a test on what the homework was on. On the day you receive your test you earn a failing grade. This failing grade was earned because you cheated on all the homework assessments and you did not know what the homework was about. So if you cheat you are only cheating yourself. ...
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...unequal to the other students in the class and the department. If Helen reads the final exam in advance, the conditions under which Helen and students who don’t cheat are being judged will be different. On the other hand, if Helen cheated in this course she would get the highest academic honor—summa cum laude. That will be unfair between what she did (cheat of ting) between the honor she got. When facing this ethical dilemma, Helen has two alternatives: to cheat or not to cheat. From my point of view, cheating is unwise, because chances are that the professor or other students find out Helen’s cheating in the final exam. In that case, several bad consequences would happen: Helen would get a C or fail the class, she would lose the job opportunity at Big&Apple LLC if the company found out her unethical behavior, she would probably be removed as president of Belta Alpha Psi and her eligibility for summa cum laude would be lost. Even she got an A in the exam by cheating, and won the summa cum laude. This unethical behavior will likely either to make Helen feel very regret and guilty in the...
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...success. It is not fair for a person who has worked hard his or her entire life for success, to be at the same status as someone who has cheated his or her way to greatness. Success means many things to many people, and everyone will do anything to reach that ultimate goal. In life the true indicator of success is not what is accomplished, but what is felt. And for a fact everyone wants to feel happy in his or her lifetime. For that reason many people lie and cheat their way to success to feel fulfilled. But people that achieve success the wrong way will just lead their lives to disappointment. For example, a student wants to be a doctor, but cheats his way out of high school and college, by not studying, copying from others, and cheating on tests including the MCAT’s, he or she will unjustly receive a medicine degree wouldn’t be a successful person....
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...Academic Honesty The opportunity or the accessibility for students to cheat is greater now than previous years. In the article, “Honor Principle differs from peers,’ ” by Lindsay Ellis and Kira Watkin of Dartmouth University, it is stated that Dartmouth, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania base their honor code on trust. This leaves for an open interpretation of the honor principle by students, and works off the idea that students are able to distinguish for themselves what is inappropriate and appropriate behavior. Although it is rather generous to have an honor principle that is so vague, it can also be a bad thing to have. Some students may not want to collaborate or share tips about the work because they’re afraid it would be in violation of the principle. I think that certain guidelines should be established for very research heavy assignments, such as labs and papers, in each class, like Biology Professor Smith at Dartmouth does with her students. This was a policy I have followed through my high school and first years in college. Each student collaborates with obtaining the data, but it’s the interpretation of it that varies. There was an incident at Harvard University that was discussed in class about the 125 graduate seniors who were made to take a leave of absence or withdraw for collaborating on a take home test. An investigation is being conducted for these students and it was brought up in class about whether or not it was fair to rescind all...
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...and studies secretly? Given the two situations that the others might study or may not study, it might seem to a random student that studying is the safer strategy. At least he won’t be left stranded at the lower end of the GPA spectrum and well, there is this chance of actually doing well in the exams! Now everyone might think this way and end up studying thereby eliminating any relative advantage of studying that any one might have. What we have is Prisoners’ Dilemma in the academic setting in a new multi-player avatar. Can “collusion” be implemented to solve the problems arising out of, let me dare term it – Students’ Dilemma? The problems are many? How to monitor effort? How to design a “punishment” for detractors to deter them from “cheating” (which ironically, in this context means studying!)? How to ensure that a student doesn’t get mistakenly punished for doing well in the exam by chance or by sheer ability? And the questions continue… Consider a hypothetical scenario where students to agree to spend a specific and significant amount of time in the common area everyday so everyone watches over the other. Students can choose to watch movies or pay games and everyone gets to watch what the others are doing. This will leave a reduced time for any prospective “cheater” to study extra in his/her own time. Ideally the system should...
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...have an inclination to cheat. Pre-Test: In order to really test out this theory I decided to take a visit out to my old college campus. The university of Orono at Maine and take a visit to a class which was having an exam. I sat in on the class and acting as if i was a student to really test out the theory of whether or not students would be more inclined to cheat or not given the opportunity. But before I had even gone out to the actual class itself I decided to post a status on the Umaine Facebook page to see what peoples opinions were. Of course you had your generic responses such as Cheating is morally wrong. Or the responses such as its taking the easy way out and it is not fair for the fellow students were most of the responses that I have gotten. So with taking the responses on Facebook and keeping that in mind I decided to test out the theory myself. Reason For Research: Cheating is a primordial inclination in man. I feel like everyone honestly if given the opportunity to cheat and to get away with it can do it and will. So i wanted to test that and really see peoples morality when it came to issues like this. Sampling/Data: You will state your rationale for choosing the method chosen —explain how you are going to “do” the observation or interview or Survey. I will be visiting the campus of...
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