Do you think that a group of more than 460‚000 people would go out and volunteer to work for a company bringing in about 1 billion dollars a year‚ make that company more and more money‚ and sacrifice all of their time for them? And‚ the company doesn’t pay them‚ but claim that they do pay them‚ when the money just goes back to the company anyway. Do you think that someone would do that? No because that would be foolish‚ right? Then why do the college athletes do it? The answer is simply because the
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Effects of too much TV Discoveries and invention of new devices are always embraced‚ until we humans find a way to abuse its advantages and be negatively affected by it. TV was also invented with positive thoughts in mind. However watching TV is one of the major sociological issues of this century. Too much TV causes many effects on the physiology and psychology of people. One of the physiological effects of watching TV in excessive amounts is eye-strain. It is true that there are guidelines
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Hundreds of Millions of dollars all around the world are being used to pay our athletes. My question is should they be paid this astronomical amount of money. Certain athletes earn millions while various people all around the world can barely afford the necessities‚ such as food‚ water and shelter. This is a problem that desperately needs to be addressed. To achieve this we should employ taxes‚ but the money made off this should go to charity‚ also we should lower salary caps‚ thus we restrict the
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A Call for College Athletes to Be Paid The NCAA makes an estimate of nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars annually. The NCAA is able to make this gigantic profit while paying its employees absolutely nothing. If this situation would happen with a large employer paying its employees nothing‚ the company would get into serious legal trouble. However‚ since they are college athletes‚ society thinks it is okay. While many people say that receiving an education is enough of a privilege and paying
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September 23‚ 2013 Who Talk Too Much The essay “Women Talk Too Much” by Janet Holmes begins by showing many proverbs that point out that women are too talkative. She is trying to prove her points through the use of her research from talk show‚ seminars‚ and many other areas. Holmes does all she can to demonstrate that women in fact talk less than men. From most of her investigations‚ we can know that women do not talk too much‚ and it is men more than women who tend to insist
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Being a student in school can be an excellent experience but it can also be stressful. Students have school work and preparation to get ready for bigger things in life like college and a profession. A student has to deal with the amount of school work they’re given which can be hours of work. A school environment consists of many kids‚ but there are some problems at some schools between students and that can be hectic. School kids and the school itself can cause a person to be stressed because
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Why Should Scholarship Athletes Be Paid? Recently in the news‚ there was a report on the five University of Kentucky basketball players that decided to enter the NBA draft after only their freshmen season. Sure‚ they were told of the millions of dollars they could make in professional sports‚ but were they given the odds of them even reaching that big payday? From picks 5-10 in the draft‚ the success rate of the player becoming a league average starter is about 30%‚ then for the rest of the first
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Watching Too Much Television Watching television is a very popular recreational activity in our days. When television was first brought to the public‚ it had an idea of entertaining education. However‚ throughout the decades TV has transformed from entertaining education to just entertainment. Today‚ TV has very few educational programs in comparison to the number of purely inane entertainment programs on the majority of channels. I’ve done own my research and found out that TV has several negative
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Should kids get paid to do chores? By:Trinity Weaver Do you think kids should get paid to do chores? I say No‚ I don’t think we should get paid to help around the house‚ our parents do so much for us‚ why do they have to pays us to? They give us food‚ clothes‚ and a roof over our heads and we don’t have to pay rent or anything. Plus they don’t get money when they make us food or do the dishes‚ so why should we? I have lots of experience with chores and honestly they are not that
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Trying to Get That Paper According to the NCAA‚ student-athletes are students first and athletes second. However over the last decade there have been many questions raised about what the actual definition of what a student-athlete really is. This is because of the millions of dollars generated by institutions that broadcasting and promoting these “student-first” athletes. The main question that arises from this is should the NCAA and or institutions/ conferences be paying athletes for their services
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