President Barack Obama has been pushing forward his agenda to free America from dependency on foreign oil and many people and opposing politicians believe that this is just unnecessary and will cost too much. I personally disagree with him because I think that it is an unnecessary task and it will cost a lot of money. I think that instead of wasting money on these new technologies he should be using the money on better things such as fun dings for schools and so on. I would say that I agree with
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Shirer-1 Thesis Statement: Contrary to popular opinion‚ professional athletes deserve their salaries because of their talent‚ the huge revenue they draw‚ the demands of their job‚ and society’s emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine
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Should D1 College Athletes Get Paid? INTRODUCTION On average‚ annually D1 Colleges are earning 50 million dollars across all sports in the schools. All of the D1 schools are making a great deal of money off these stellar athletes and they are receiving very minimal in return. On the other hand‚ if D1 colleges decide to pay their athletes how could this affect the other programs in the school? This is where the discourse begins on whether we should pay the college athletes‚ or is a scholarship more
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Compensating the Student-Athlete for Participation in Intercollegiate Athletics. Sports Lawyers Journal 3‚ 25-50. This journal takes a look at the difficulty of being an NCAA athlete and the detrimental affects it has over the well-being of the athlete’s health. This journal is in support of paying NCAA athletes with it’s underlying argument that the NCAA regulations prohibit scholarship athletes to work which on turn effects the overall wellbeing of the student athlete. Overall‚ this journal states
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How many college athletes aren’t poor? The college athletes refers to the people who play sport that is organized by institutions. Only one out of twenty five would become pro. I think they should be paid to know how to administrate the money‚ so it wood be good for them. Also they are in danger while they are playing. First of all‚ they should be paid‚ because they put their body in danger and they can get hurt. If they get hurt‚ they lose their scholarship‚ and they don’t finish their careers
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Should College Athletes be Paid? Imagine what would happen if we would pay the college athletes for performing. It would be a disaster because that is all they would do‚ they would only play for the money. Most of the athletes wouldn’t play for the fun of the game‚ or the fame that comes with playing‚ they would just worry about the paycheck that comes with playing. If anything all of the athletes are paid already with scholarships and the free things they get to use. Not playing for money in college
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College players need to get paid for what they do. When college players do not get paid‚ they do not get paid for the great things that they do on national TV. College players make more money for school playing their sport than people’s salaries. Did you know that just if you make it to the NCAA BCS game‚ you get at least six million dollars. That’s not even if you win. Sure student athletes get free things like free tuition‚ board‚ room fees‚ and food‚ but paying players would give them money for
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Professional athletes get paid over a million ¬¬dollars each year just to compete and advertise for companies while teachers get paid $40k- $158k per year. Boxer Floyd Mayweather‚ Jr. is the highest paid athlete of 2015-2016 making $150 million yearly with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain coming in a close second with a yearly salary of $80 million. Teachers and professors in Luxembourg are paid the highest amount in the world with a starting salary of $79k that can reach over $138k. The
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industry and everyone gets paid except for the players the ones that actually play in the games. Although the players are not employees they should get paid. Imagine you’re a full time student and you’re working at a full time job and for all of your hard work and dedication you help your company make lots of money but out of all that money that you help make you get none of it. But your boss and all the people with higher positions than you gets paid. Now for a student athlete in college a famous sport
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now an all year type of thing‚ a famous quote said i“there is no off-season”. Athletes are being pushed to be in one sport all year long‚ instead of multiple sports per year. Pushing one sport is taking place so skills can be practiced continuously. This is a problem for the athletes during the summer. Summers should be for summer jobs and lake days‚ if we have sports constantly then athletes have no time off. Athletes need time to recover and just
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