Marion Jones burned the Track

Summary  

Olympic Track and Field star Marion Jones prestigiously won 5 medals (3 gold and 2 bronze) during the 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympics. Her reputation was abolished when she appeared outside of a federal court after being found guilty of using sport enhancing substances during the 2000 Olympics which led to her triumphant performance in Track and Field. Marion was sentenced to 6 months in prison and was stripped of her medals and her freedom.

Reflection

Marion Jones will now and always feel ashamed of her pathetic actions. Why did she use the enhancing supplements? I believe that she used the supplements because she felt inadequate something that is not uncommon in athletics. Marion jones disgraced the both herself and the athletics department. Some believe that Marion either was influenced to use the supplements or began to use the supplements because she felt pressured during or before the Olympics. Marion harbored her guilt over the course of all those years when she could have avoided all of these disastrous results. Marion Jones’s reputation and career is now disgraced which is what she harshly deserves.  

S.S.S

Student Success Statement

"You make your habits and your habits make you."

ANON

I agree with this quote, habits are created by ourselves and will eventually define us and our purspose. Examples of habits are: bitting your fingernails, truancy, eating a bag of chips a day, etc. habits are influenced upon us by either an outside entity (friends and family) or by our surroundings and ourselves. Habits are crafted and crafted thoughroughly making them hard to dismiss from our daily lives therfore, habits define you because they can either be good or bad and depending on the type of habit it can affect you tremendously. 

S.S.S

Student Success Statement

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."

Howard Cossel

Howard Cossel is indeed correct. Things that are popular are not always the best things, they can sometimes be attrocious, but since they are alledgedly popular people go ahead and do them. When you do something you know is the correct thing to do, but others do not find it popular or they believe that it's not the correct thing to do, but in reality it is the correct thing to do then go ahead and do. You should not let peoples desires cloud your judgement because those people might not even know right from wrong and will influence you to do something that you will later regret. Many youths today are influenced easily, most youths today are weak they are consumed by others desire that they are influenced into doing what is wrong such as if someone asked you to change your apparel/style of clothing and you are tempted to, but then you notice that you have an interview for a prestigious program and if you wear baggy pants and clothes with violence associated images then you will be less likely to be accepted.