Performance Enhancing Drugs (Adrian)

 I think performance enhancing drugs are pretty dumb is just a cheat to get the body you want without even working hard for it. They can also cause anger and mood swings so it just makes it even worse to take them. I think athletes should not be allowed to take them. The reason I think athletes should not take the drugs is because when a young fan see’s them they want to be just like that so they will end up taking the drugs as well and before they know it there mad and depressed and they might not be able to get off the drug.

 The book I am reading is about this young freshmen in high school and he wants to be the best runner back in the team so he starts to take steroids and when he takes the drug his friends see him change and don’t want to be with him he is getting strong but is loosing friends he also throws a way a girl that he likes and just chooses the drug over her. His friend tells him that he is acting different and he gets mad and just starts punching him and as he is doing that he notices that he is changing and the drug is taking over his body. But he cant get of the drug because he is so addicted to the power and it ends up ruining his friendship.

  So that’s why I don’t think performance drugs are good because they can really mess you up.

Girls in Sports (Adrian)

I think girls should be allowed in boy sports teams because if they like the sport as much as a boy then they wont argue when they get hurt or tired. A girl could bring the equipment out into the field like many guys do she could bring the water, pads, helmets, goals, but most of all she can bring effort. It could cause the team a problem if  the girls get tired and cant keep up. It could also be a problem if she was on the football team and many other people thought that they could get hurt and not want them to be in a sport team full of boys so they could not get hurt.

 We can learn many things from it like if girls are as tough as boys. We can also learn if it was a bad idea to let a girl on the team if they can’t even keep up with the boys. We can also learn that many other girls would want to be like that one girl they will think if she can do it I can do it. If you would watch the video on Youtube  of the little girl who was on a boy football team you would see she can do as many other things like some off the other boys could not do she could catch run and tackle some of those little boys were a little bigger than her but they could not catch her or tackle her. So that’s why I believe girls should be allowed to play with boys in sports.

Tattoo's (Adrian)

  I believe a tattoo does mark that you’re an adult because the legal age of getting a tattoo is 18 years old. Most parents would not let their child get a tattoo until there 18 years old. Also some parents would like to know what kind of tattoo there child is getting before they get it I know my parents would. My father told me that I could get a tattoo but he has to be there when I’m getting it and he has to know what I’m getting. That’s why I think tattoo’s do make a transition into adulthood.

  If had to get a tattoo to mark that I’m an adult it would be my last name Ponce in old English lettering on my back shoulder to shoulder length. I guess that is what I want because my father and grandfather and so on got ponce tattooed on there bodies. And I would like to do the same as well as my fathers did and keep the tradition going.

   I would not refuse getting a tattoo because growing up I saw my father and grandfather and uncles with tattoo’s and they looked cool so ever since then I always wanted a tattoo. And like I said before I would like to keep the tradition going on getting Ponce tattooed on my body. And my father said I didn’t have to get a tattoo if I didn’t want one but I told him I did want one on my back.