Do Footballers get paid too much? Do Footballers get paid too much? Cons Off-season there is no pay Get money for making mistakes Sports over lives Could go for a better cause Does not contribute to society Only pro-athletes are overpaid Fans and TV watchers pay for their salary Structure of discursive essay: * Introduction to topic‚ comparison to other jobs and why there is an outrage * Put forward the supporting argument(Sports over lives) * Back up with supporting evidence
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Walter Lippmann‚ an American writer‚ reporter‚ and political commentator‚ once said‚ “Where all think alike‚ no one thinks very much”. Groupthink is the process of thinking as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility. Arthur Miller‚ an American playwright‚ essayist‚ and prominent figure in the twentieth century‚ wrote The Crucible to warn the American people of groupthink and the abuse of its power. Groupthink has its benefits which allows groups to come to a conclusion
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anything‚ there are baseball‚ football‚ basketball players that get paid millions for just playing a game. Some of the people that make so much money donate to charities. Others just use the money to make themselves feel good. Some of the players sit on the bench all year long and still get paid millions. First and foremost‚ athletes shouldn’t get paid so much because of all the homeless children in the world. Athletes are paid millions each year to just play a game or sit on the bench and watch
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Negative Effects of Media on Children The media evidently has a noticeable impact on our lives and behaviours and especially the immature‚ impressionable and weak-minded people in our society. In a short span of time‚ most children can imitate a movie character‚ sing an advertising song‚ or show other impressions of what they learn from media. These examples may include posing indecently or expressing violent behaviour. Children only have to put a movie into a DVD player‚ open a magazine‚
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The cotton gin had many effects. I believe that the cotton gin effected people in a negative and positive way and it also helped pave way for many other important inventions we use today. The cotton gin was a machine that basically made collecting cotton much easier the way the cotton gin worked was cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton
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get to his goal he made a 5 year plan that resulted in many positives and negatives. A few of the positives that came out of his plan were‚ in 1928 and 1939‚ the large factories and industrial complexes rising up against the Soviet Union‚ new railroads were built and put in and oil‚ coal‚ and steel production expanded (5 year plan results notes). A few of negatives that came
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century. This epidemic has deteriorated many individuals’ well-being and still is. Therefore‚ in order to stop it and try to reduce it significantly‚ stigmatizing overeating might be helpful but it is only a simple solution for a much more complex problem. In his essay “too much of a good thing”‚ Greg Crister discusses that issue‚ citing statistics on the frightening increase in the rates of childhood obesity in particular‚ especially in the industrialized West. He argues that parents can help prevent
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Imperialism has had long lasting negative effects on the countries in Africa. The reason European nations colonized Africa was for economic purposes and to spread their culture because they thought it was superior. By colonizing Africa‚ they did not do any good for the natives. The Europeans only concern was to benefit themselves‚ not to benefit Africa. The nations were not prepared for independence by their European power which lead to unstable governments and dictatorships. Their economies were
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The Positive and Negative Effects of Globalization Is Globalization ultimately positive or negative‚ or somewhere in between? I believe it depends on who you ask the question‚ and how it affects their life. For myself‚ I can’t get passed the negative way it has impacted my life and others around me in the same situation. Those of us who have lost our jobs and livelihood and are now labeled as “the long term unemployed” have seen our jobs eliminated and outsourced overseas; find it hard to
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thinks about how much water is used for fracking.The problem may not be the amount wasted but the amount that contaminates our oceans and drinking water‚ filed reports have been made but no action has been taken about the situation.”Fracking uses huge amounts of water that must be transported to the fracking site‚ at a significant environment cost” (Why is it controversial‚ BBC News).Not just water is wasted but also time and money from the government. However‚ the true effect of fracking does
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