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    Are Professional Athletes being Paid too Much? An Editorial on the Overlooked Salary Difference Matt Crandall SHS Junior Walking through the halls of Sally High one day‚ my ear caught the words of two young individuals debating over an interesting topic. It was a discussion on the large pay difference between what they thought were hard working Americans and jobs of the entertainment market. As I continued to think more in depth about this current discussion that had just been overheard

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    SAT Practice Essay 1 Many people think that refusing to compromise will ensure you reach your goals. By never backing down and always standing up for what they believe in. Well‚ many people are wrong. If you are more flexible in reaching your goals‚ instead of fighting everything and everyone in the process‚ reaching your goals will prove to be a lot easier. Being flexible helps you in many different ways. Being flexible instead of always refusing to compromise will truly benefit you in the

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    "I like the SAT‚ but I don’t love it. I wish I could find something that was a more fair and accurate measure" (Cloud‚ par.14). The ACT and SAT should not be used as a requirement for college admission. First off‚ there are a plethora of students that are not good test takers and will crack under pressure. Also‚ these tests are unreliable; there are other things like GPA that can measure a student’s performance. Finally‚ these tests are a disadvantage to foreign exchange students and students that

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    explain why SATs should not exist anymore. As we know SAT are tests that juniors and seniors have to take in high school. The higher the score‚ the better chance they have to get accepted into their college of choice. The only problem is that these tests are really hard. They require hours of studying and a lot of sleep. It’s a four hour test that is hard to focus. I think these tests should be banned because they take away a sense personality. As us Americans present students with the SAT‚ students

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    For years the SAT has been used as a key factor in the college admission process. Each school uses a range of scores to help determine whether or not a student will be accepted into their institution. Students are given multiple opportunities to take this test. They then chose their highest score to send to the colleges of their choice. This mode of testing started in 1933 when the SAT was administered to students applying to certain scholarships‚ to set them apart. This I believe was the right

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    Professional sport and film industry are considered to be one of the most profitable activities and nearly everyone dreams to become a famous athlete or a movie star and receive much money for it. These careers are surrounded by numerous legends and myths related with the easiness of the work and the lack of any knowledge and skills. Nearly everyone thinks that it is easy to be an actor and play his role in the film or to be an athlete and run all day long and do nothing special connected with the

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    factoring if you get too focused on the process the result might turn out wrong. To begin with‚ JK Rowling’s Harry Potter displays how Hermione‚ one of Harry’s friends and a great student gets too involved in her process and the outcome is wrong. Hermione was creating Polyjuice Potion. It was a potion that turned you into a different person. Now‚ this potion takes quite a while to brew‚ two months perhaps. Hermione was very careful with each and every ingredient and how much to put in the potion

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    College Board SAT® Program P.O. Box 8056 Mount Vernon‚ IL 62864-0208 USA 1 2013-14 REGISTRATION FORM and SAT® QUESTIONNAIRE Print in CAPITAL LETTERS. Use blue or black ink (no pencil) to fill in all information. All items in red must be completed or your registration will be returned unprocessed. Follow instructions in the Registration Guide to complete both sides of the form. Do not staple anything to this form. 2 PHOTO (REQUIRED) NAME (REQUIRED) LAST NAME (Family Name)

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    Are professional athletes being paid too much? According to Charles Ray‚ athletes are making a lot more then they should be. Some players are making more then a brain surgeon would‚ yet the athletes don’t have to go through the pressure of saving lives. The money they’re getting paid could most definitely go to a different cause‚ instead of paying excessive amounts to hit a ball or shoot a basket. So‚ why do athletes get paid like they do? According to Chris Butterfield‚ it’s somewhat part of

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    “Can Altman Z-score Models Predict Business Failures in Greece?” Nikolaos Gerantonis Department of Management and Business Administration University of Piraeus‚ 4 Ag. Marinas Str‚ Greece Konstantinos Vergos PhD‚ Director of Research Department‚ Cyclos Securities S.A 39 Panepistimiou Str‚10564‚ Athens‚ Greece Apostolos G. Christopoulos Corresponding Author University of Athens‚ Department of Economics 5 Stadiou Str‚ Athens 105 62‚ Greece E-mail: axristop@econ.uoa.gr Abstract This paper

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