Jeremy Reuben Tang Choon Yang U1480059A SS1003 Assignment 1 Topic: Are professional athletes overpaid? Introduction There has been an incessant debate about whether professional athletes genuinely deserve the extravagant salaries that are transacted to their bank accounts throughout the lifespan of their contracts. Professional athletes are physically gifted human beings who excel at a certain sport and receive an income through their hard work and determination. These individuals are the cream
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Athletes Are Overpaid What/who are athletes really playing for? Professional athletes are getting overpaid‚ but no one is really stopping and thinking about it. I think that Professional athletes shouldn’t get paid as much money.But on the other hand‚ many professional athletes may disagree and say that it’s the right amount of money and not too much. However I think that the facts that support my opinion overshadow the counter statement because there is a bundle of information that exists to support
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basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball‚ doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” – Charles Barkley. Professional athletes are not the best people to be role models for kids. Steven Ortiz‚ a sociology professor at Oregon State and the author of several published studies on athletes ’ bad behavior says‚ "Spoiled-athlete syndrome begins early in sports socialization. From the time they could be picked out of a lineup because of their exceptional athletic ability
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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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Research Report Student Name: Eric McGee Paper Topic: What results from glorifying professional athletes? SourceTopic(s): Airball: American Education Failed Experiment with Elite athletics Summary of Source (one or two paragraphs): The author feels that kids that are coming out of high school and going to college forgets about academics and just think that athletic ability opposed to take them somewhere. He also feels that some Colleges are taking advantage of some their players. Most of the
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Wouldn’t it be amazing to be paid nearly $111 million a year just because you played a game? Many athletes are being paid big bucks just like famous quarterback Andrew Luck. But do these famous athletes really deserve all those millions of dollars? In my opinion‚ they are definitely being paid an excessive amount of money. Professional athletes are paid too much money in an unfair way because they are paid more than the people who “perform more valuable services”‚ and the money they earn could be
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Are Today’s Professional Athletes Good Role Models? Everyday today’s youth are asked what they want to be when they grow up. Some say teachers‚ firemen‚ police officers and a large response to that question is a professional athlete. Something that all these professions have in common is that they are all role models to children. Firemen‚ teachers‚ police officers have an easy job at doing this; they are after all the people that save children‚ teach children and protect children. But professional
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Essay Are Professional Actors and Athletes Overpaid? In this essay I will explore a much debated topic in this country pertaining to the undeniable fact that professional actors and athletes overwhelmingly get paid much higher than the average American. As any highly debated topic‚ there are always arguments and viewpoints from both sides of the spectrum. Like many Americans‚ for entertainment I thoroughly enjoy watching both film and professional sporting events. Even though‚ I have always maintained
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girl throwing a ball in the air‚ being a professional athlete‚ but as you can see my point of view of my future has changed. Now I want to be doctor because I want to cure cancer and do the impossible by helping people and not just work out and play my whole life. A question could be asked like why choose to be a doctor and not a professional athlete‚ well I believe a doctor can make a change‚ inspire people‚ be a leader and etc. Being a doctor you have to be able to be a directive‚ supportive‚
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sports. The only problem is these children’s dreams of becoming professional athletes are destroyed by their parents and piers at an early age. Everyone always tells children to think of a more realistic job than becoming an athlete because the odds are against them. But why can’t they become professional athletes? How do parents know at such a young age that their child won’t be a stud on the field? The answer is they don’t. This is why I have compiled a list to teach children and adults the art of shooting
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