Saturday, September 27, 2014

eng assignment 1




 

Summary of short story

Destroyed by Peter Martin is a short story about the use illegal substances in the world of sports. He goes into detail on how he believes it’s cheating. He believes the statistics players get while on steroids don’t count, and that only their clean records should be kept. He also discusses that the players that use have serious damage to their bodies.

Paraphrasing paragraph ten

            In this paragraph he says that the competition aspect of sports is obsolete if players use steroids like it guarantees a win. He thinks the only true sport is when they are all natural and are operating at the best of their abilities unenhanced.

Paragraph 7

My favorite part is paragraph 7 where he describes the ancient Olympians being true sportsman and the toughness of the true sport of the ancient Olympian Games. The   only thing is that if steroids where available back then would they use them or deem them cheating.