which you answer the following question: Should professional athletes use their status to protest the events taking place today? Be sure to state a claim and address an opposing viewpoint using evidence presented in both passages. Type your final‚ completed essay below: If you’re a professional athlete then is it wrong to share your opinion? Some say that professional athletes are supposed to keep their political views to themselves. Professional athletes are still human and therefore are entitled to
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The role of professional athletes as role models for the youth is a debatable topic. Should they be the people your children look up to and try to be like? Or are they just popular people who have let fame get to their head and influence them to make poor choices? While there are many people who believe that they should be responsible for setting good examples for the millions of children in the world‚ there are equally as many that believe they should not be put under that kind of pressure on top
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Essay I think professional athletes should have to take drug test‚ for the sake of the sport that they play and those who look up to them as a role model. If they didn’t have to‚ it would make the game unfair and may draw attention away from the game because using illegal drugs to enhance your performance is cheating. So many children and teenagers look up to athletes and idol them. As a professional athlete‚ they should set a good example and be a role model. If professional athletes are abusing
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Professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to play a game. Do you think they really deserve that much money for tossing a ball around? The money that pays the athletes for a game we all play competitively can be used for someone who actually shapes the future and fights for our country. For instance‚ Floyd Mayweather is the top paid athlete in the world for boxing‚ earning a total of three hundred million dollars. Do we really need to promote a dangerous sport by paying someone three hundred
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President of the United States makes roughly $200‚000 a year” (Cambridge) to oversee that the world is secure and formulates time –consuming decisions that will affect over millions of peoples lives. He is responsible for the rise and fall of our economy yet his salary still does not equate to that of any professional athlete. However‚ I’ve seen a few presidents on television and despite their powers‚ authority‚ and admiration‚ I wouldn’t pay to go see them make legislative decisions and pass papers
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the choice of costume texture in a live production or the silent dull remarks of a character in a film‚ visual language forces the viewers to get into the head of the artist‚ actor or character and take mental notes. As I view the clip from Million Dollar Baby I can’t help but wonder how my perspective may vary from the next person’s perspective. After having viewed Rory Scanlon’s Visual Language presentation I realize that there are so many elements that play an important role in the way each
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people see professional sport players refusing to stand for the national anthem or not setting a good example of their country‚ they end up hurt and in disbelief. In the minds of some people‚ it is all right for athletes to express their opposal publicly using their state of position. Professional athletes should not use their status to protest the events taking place. Knowing professional athletes refusing to do what’s right‚ hurts the hearts of the nation’s people. For example‚ professional athletes
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States‚ transforming into a superhero‚ or playing alongside professional athletes. These were all big ideas and aspirations that fueled our carefree childhoods‚ and were appropriate practice for shaping the paths to our true passions we discover later on in our lives; particularly in high school. High school is where teenagers are able experiment and begin to understand themselves as individuals‚ rather than what everybody else likes to do. Of course there are exceptions to those who are the “followers”
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Justifies Professional Athletes Pay “The sports market in North America was worth $60.5 billion in 2014. It is expected to reach $73.5 billion by 2019” (Heitner). Sports in America is a culture in itself with millions of fans turning out or tuning in to games and sporting events all year round. Professional athletes are notorious for the amount of money they make for their occupation. Whether you are a sports fan or not‚ there is no escaping the debate regarding professional athlete’s salaries. Although
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it and player salaries are no exception. Teams of different sport like basketball‚ baseball‚ soccer and football spend a lot of money on their players which is ridiculous not just for the fact that they paying that amount of money but the fact that millions of money which can be minimize are being paid to a player that if he decide not to play‚ no one will harm player‚ which brings me to saying that reduce the ability of the richest teams to bid up the price of players and‚ salaries are sure to fall
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