Persuasive Essay Example "Pro Athletes Salaries""
Topic: Professional athletes are overpaid
Specific purpose: To convince my audience not to support and glorify pro athletes.
Thesis: Nobody should be paid millions for entertainment while others that do an important job as teachers are underpaid.
I. INTRODUCTION:
A. Attention material/ Credibility Material: Wouldn't it be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year and an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements simply to play a game? Michael Jordan, along with many other professional athletes thinks so. In the 1996 season, playing 3,106 minutes Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day whether he played or not, equalling out to be 160 dollars a second. Even more unbelievable are Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley in his comeback from prison. In a single second, he made 280,000 dollars. The fight lasted 89 seconds. Tyson earned $25 million plus $500,000 in expenses for one of the shortest fights in history.
B. Tie to the audience: Now, my question to you is. Do these athletes really deserve all that money?
C. Thesis and Preview: Today I’d like to talk to you about first, professional athletes’ salaries, what is wrong with it, second, how this can be fixed, and finally, how this affects us.
[Transition into body of speech]: I will start by telling you about the need for athletes’ salaries to be reduced.
II. BODY:
A. The world but also Canada needs skilled workers to keep its economy growing.
1. The problem is that skilled trades’ positions are the hardest to fill. There is an insufficiency of skilled workers, people choose jobs that are paid more and thus a sphere of the economy lacks professionals. The money should be more equally divided for each profession. If each job will be paid equally people will follow careers that they like not that are paid more. That way there will not be an insufficiency of teachers or firefighters or social workers and so on.
a. In today's society, one will be paid more if
Specific purpose: To convince my audience not to support and glorify pro athletes.
Thesis: Nobody should be paid millions for entertainment while others that do an important job as teachers are underpaid.
I. INTRODUCTION:
A. Attention material/ Credibility Material: Wouldn't it be great to make 31.3 million dollars a year and an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements simply to play a game? Michael Jordan, along with many other professional athletes thinks so. In the 1996 season, playing 3,106 minutes Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day whether he played or not, equalling out to be 160 dollars a second. Even more unbelievable are Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley in his comeback from prison. In a single second, he made 280,000 dollars. The fight lasted 89 seconds. Tyson earned $25 million plus $500,000 in expenses for one of the shortest fights in history.
B. Tie to the audience: Now, my question to you is. Do these athletes really deserve all that money?
C. Thesis and Preview: Today I’d like to talk to you about first, professional athletes’ salaries, what is wrong with it, second, how this can be fixed, and finally, how this affects us.
[Transition into body of speech]: I will start by telling you about the need for athletes’ salaries to be reduced.
II. BODY:
A. The world but also Canada needs skilled workers to keep its economy growing.
1. The problem is that skilled trades’ positions are the hardest to fill. There is an insufficiency of skilled workers, people choose jobs that are paid more and thus a sphere of the economy lacks professionals. The money should be more equally divided for each profession. If each job will be paid equally people will follow careers that they like not that are paid more. That way there will not be an insufficiency of teachers or firefighters or social workers and so on.
a. In today's society, one will be paid more if