Study drugs

This essay is about study drugs I will include analyses of how David Sack criticized study drugs in the article “Do Study drugs Breed Nation of Winners or Cheaters?” In the analyses, I will write about which type of text it is, writer, language and intention. I will discuss different views about using drugs in USA. I will comment on a radio broadcast “More students turning illegally to “smart” drugs”
The article “Do study drugs Breed Nation of winners or cheaters” written by David Sack, is a critical article. The structure in the sentence is complicated. There is used paratactic sentences. The vocabulary is rich, formal, neutral and academic. It is concrete and many “expert words” are used. The author tries to make the language more colloquial, so “normal people” also can understand it. The adjectives is not use in a descriptive way. The author focus on the schools, where the drugs is used. He refers to the use of drugs that, you should not take them. He refers to studies that shows kind of things according to study drugs, and to people who is studying the use of drugs. The author David Sack is using many arguments an example of a lining (page 1 line 20-21) “Not surprisingly, young people are less likely to view study drugs as cheating than steroid use in sports” he is trying to give a message about why people are using drugs. Maybe it´s not cheating to use drugs to study, but people, who takes them, because of their sport, so they can do better, are cheating. An example on a claim: “Why work hard, stay up all night studying and s risk not doing well when you can pop a pill, get good grades, and make teachers, parents and coaches happy?” another example on a lining (page 2 line 57-59). “Parents hope that competition will help their kids “toughen up” for the inevitable hardships of life. And while there is some benefit in challenging ourselves to find out what we’re capable of, competition often has the opposite effect” and a claim; “The humiliation of losing can leave lasting scars, while the euphoria of victory fades quickly because it is based on a shaky sense of self-worth. Somewhere down the line, every winner will lose. Someone will always be better, smarter, and faster.” He has a point here, you can do cheating, but there is usually people who is smarter, faster and better than you are. The writer has written the article because he want to explain and maybe warn about study drugs, and their side effects. On page 1, line 27, tries he to persuade the readers that the drugs have serious consequences, such as addiction, depression, heart rate irregularities or hallucinations. I think that the article has succeeds in explaining the phenomenon study drugs, and if it is a meaning to warn us, I think he did it, when he tells about the consequences.
There is many different views on study drugs in USA. Some people get this view that their children are being invent to win, instead of playing the game and have fun. The latest trends suggest that kids no longer working harder, but “smarter” and even with help from dangerous prescription drugs. The new trend is about to take pills to show better presentations in school. I have an example from the text, where I thinks that it is a very good point he has, because I thinks that many parents thinks the same. (page 1, line 15-16) “We tell young people, “Don’t use drugs”, but our beliefs and cons encourage them to win at all costs”.

People who has ADHD, making money by sending pills to people who don’t need them (students) they sell them around on the school, so it is very easy to get them. The pills has an effect on the students, it makes the students more effective and concentrated in the school. When it is examination time, the pills are more expensive because more students want them, so they become more concentrating in their samples. The people who sells the pills may punished for it, by imprisonment, because it is illegal. The pills is called Addy, and the people who has to take the pills, because they have ADHD, does not take them, because the pills do not have the same effect on them. They make them quiet, tired and they losing their appetizing. The more you take the pills, the more dependent you become.
In the radiobroadcast, it sounds like it is good to take these pills. It sounds like the reporter and the interviewed girl, encourage the people who listening to take the study drugs. When the girl tells about all the things the pill does for her, it sounds like the pill is very effective, and it makes me think that it could be great to have more profit in school, but I don’t think that the pill is so great, because it also has some side effects. The more you take the pills, the more dependent you become, and that is not a good thing.
I can conclude that there is many views on the study drugs in USA. Some people (most of them students who takes the pills) believes that study drugs is very effective in school, and that is why they want the pills. Some people things that it is cheating if you takes them, so you can do better in school.