Duel In The Sun Case Study

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One of the most famous american marathon, the Duel in the Sun, included Mr. Beardsley facing an immense competir, Alberto Salazar. Mr. Badsley ended up in 2nd place with two seconds behind Mr. Salazar. Mr. Beardsley then married a woman named Jill Beardsley in 1979 and had one son, Andrew, everything seemed to be going very well for Mr. Beardsley, until November of 1989. Mr. Beardsley was using an auger on the back of a tractor to lift corn into a crib, and he had somehow became entangled in the auger and it began to tear him apart. Before he lost consciousness, he managed to stop the machine. Mr. Beasley's recalls his ribs being critically injured on the right side, hi right arm, his left leg was mangled, and his head was also critically damaged. Mr. Beadles ended up crawling on his belly toward the house when …show more content…

Bradleys had four more accidents and was always prescribed pain medications. As his tolerance to the medications increased, he was prescribed more and more pain pills. He suffered a litany of disasters had he persevered, but sadly due to all the medical prescriptions Mr. Beardsley was given to help treat his pains, those pills made him get addicted to the pills. What increased his addiction even more was the loss of his father. Mr, Bradley had later received a call from his father, whom he learned was dying of pancreatic cancer, and was too much for Mr. Beadle's to handle. He wanted to visit his father, but he was low on his prescription pain medication and his doctor was out of town. He had a prescription in his wallet so he doctored it, photocopied it, and forged a signature, photocopied it again and forged a signature. By the end of the day Mr. Beardsley had collected pain pills from nearly a half-dozen pharmacies. Mr. Beardsley suffered his father’s death while his addiction spun out of control. Mr. Beardsley was finally caught on September 30 1996, forging drugs by a pharmacist and he refers to it the day where his life was

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