In the world today competition is all around. In sports, much fiercecompetition is shown. All athletes compete for one thing and one thingonly, which is a national championship. Competition also exists in theworkplace. Employees will try and beat the other employee for the highestrank in the business. However, out of all of this competition, the mostintense, exists in school. Students compete for popularity, classes, spots onsports teams and most of all grades. Through this competition for gradesstudents negatively suffer socially, mentally and physically. Therefore,competition for grades has an unhealthy influence on students. When students compete for grades he suffers with his social life. When a student begins to compete for a grade, he may result in cheating. When he cheats off of someone and maybe gets caught, he will get suspended. Once he gets suspended, his parents will be very disappointed in him. Once his parents find out they may ground him for a while. He may then not be able to compete in after school activities and he could lose his friends. Hence, when a student competes for grades, he suffers socially. Furthermore, competing for grades has negative physical effects on a student. When a student begins to over study, he may begin to become very tired as well. When a student is tired and trying to study, he may resort to pills. The pills will keep him awake longer. While he stays awake, he may begin to overeat. When overeating, he may become obese. Becoming obese may put a lot of extra stress on him. From this extra stress he may also develop ulcers too. Thus, when students begin to compete for grades, it has devastating effects on his body. Moreover, in school, in school students suffer mentally when competing for grades. A student may develop depression as his grades begin to fall. When this happens, the students self-esteem drops, and he could lose all self-confidence. Once this hap...
