Summary/Reflection

Summary/Reflection

Alex Schwazer from Italy won the gold medal for speed walking in the Olympics. He took a world record time and he was joyful when he had finally finished the race and won first place. However, he was caught using drugs to enhance his performance and ended up being banned. He gave a lengthy, tear-filled press conference saying he was happy to have been caught.

 

I think that Alex is not a good person. He chose the wrong and decided to cheat and win the race through other means instead of being fair. He knew what he had done and like it said, he was happy he was caught because he was feeling so guilty of what he had done and his conscious had been eaten up by his guilt. He is an example of what can happen to you if you choose the wrong and don’t play by the rules.



Summary/Reflection

Summary/Reflection

Marion Jones was a part of the Olympic team and had a great future. She had won 3 gold medals and 2 bronze medals. Yet everything turned upside down when she cheated for using drugs to enhance her performance. She lied to the officials and she got caught. She was then stripped of her medals and sent to prison for 6 months.

 

I think that Marion shouldn’t have cheated. She knew that she was doing wrong things and she knew what she was getting herself into. She was choosing the wrong the entire time she took those drugs. It’s that same thing as if cheating in a video game or cheating at school. You might feel great and on top of the world, but as soon as you get caught everything comes crashing down. The bigger you are when you cheat, the harder you will fall.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

 

There are many ways that this statement is true. For example, people smoke week or do drugs because it is fun or for whatever reason they have, but it is a wrong thing to do. The consummation of drugs has been gaining popularity over the years, but it is still viewed as wrong. As for people that don’t do drugs, they are the unpopular, “uncool” people and they are the ones that are actually doing what is right. Another example might be that of cussing or using bad words. This is really popular and can be seen everywhere in the media. This is thought of to be a normal popular thing when it is actually wrong. People who have not used bad or don’t use them at all get seen as not cool or unhip. This statement also goes along with the other quote, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”.



Student Reflection

Student Reflection

I think that teenagers that use alcohol or drugs went down the wrong path and they are going to stay there for their rest of their lives until they are willing to make a change. Their lives will be drastically changed and they will be crushed on the inside. Many teens who are doing drugs or alcohol should stop right away. They don’t know what they are doing to themselves and others and before they realize it, when they get older, they will become a bad influence and make the world a not better, but worsed place. To the people who have never used drugs or alcohol, stay there. NEVER USE THEM! Don’t even try to use them once, because once you use it and become addicted, then you won’t be able to stop. Drugs can lead you to death or to addiction or can put you in a hospital. The same goes to alcohol. So NEVER USE THEM and

 Choose The Right!!!