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    Athletes Are Overpaid

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    Athletes Salaries Have you ever thought that athletes are overpaid? Athletes are showing children that they could easily make millions by playing a few games. A majority of people don’t even watch sports but athletes are still paid all of that money. Some athletes are selfish and still‚ think that all of that money isn’t enough. Athletes are paid too much money and people aren’t doing anything about it. Athletes are showing and teaching kids wrong value. Athletes make millions of dollars a

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    Academic Pressure

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    17 Academic Pressure may lead to severe health problems. There are factors that cause academic pressure on students. First are the expectations from our parents. Based from my own experience‚ my mother is a perfectionist person. She always wants me to be on top ever since I was in my prep stage. She serves as my second teacher since I was in elementary until I finish my high school years. She always taught me when I have assignments and help me with my projects because she wants me to have

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    Professional Athletes

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    Professional athletes get paid way too much - by Debate.org Thank you to whoever accepts my debate Let me start off... Professional athletes get paid way too much. Here are some statistics on the salaries of pro athletes. Profession Average salary (per year) Minimum starting salary : Basketball player $2.2 million $220‚000 Baseball player $1.37 million $109‚000 Hockey player $892‚000 $125‚000 Football player $795‚000 $131‚000 In contrast • The average pay for classroom teachers in

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    Academic Pressure

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    Academic Pressure In the movie The Dead Poet Society‚ Neil‚ the protagonist was getting academically pressured by his parents‚ his dad especially. He was told to get all A’s or he would be punished. He was threatened at the beginning to be forced to leave that field he wanted to study‚ but he did not listen to his dad. Academic pressure plays a big role in why some people have anxiety‚ or get really mad at themselves if they do something wrong or even get a bad grade. In my perspective I believe

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    Pro Athletes

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    Sports Literature Salaries & Pro Athletes Most people in America probably have a pretty good argument when they say they are being paid too little to do too much. Professional sports stars‚ on the other hand‚ display a lot of nerve when they use such a phrase. Sports stars are also held to lower standards than are other people. With the high-salary and low-moral standards‚ sports stars are the most overrated and overpaid people on the planet. For example‚ Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics‚ who

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    Peer Pressure

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    alone. Everyone wants to fit in. But you know there can’t be fitting in without peer pressure. Those two are best friends. Peer Pressure only knows one way and that is the way of the world and Peer Pressure will do anything to get you to conform to it. Peer Pressure has the mesmerizing eyes of a snake and a voice a smooth as silk. He will slither like a serpent and whisper right into your ear. Peer Pressure is the one who will convince you to join gangs; the gangs that will provide you with protection

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    Pressure is the feeling that you are being pushed toward making a certain choice—good or bad. A peer is someone in your own age group. Peer pressure is—you guessed it—the feeling that someone your own age is pushing you toward making a certain choice‚ good or bad. Types of Peer Pressure there are only two indirect and direct. indirect is having a song encourging you to take drugs because you don ’t know the song writer diectly and they aren ’t specificly telling you to take drugs it ’s is

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    Body image and Peer pressure The article I chose was about the body image and self-esteem of adolescents‚ along with why they are important. Self-esteem is all about how much you feel you are worth and how much you feel other people value you. Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect your mental health and how you behave. On the other hand Body image is how you view your physical self‚ including whether you feel you are attractive and whether others like your looks

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    Painkillers By Athletes

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    physical pain” (Reardron). Athletes will do anything to keep themselves in the game; this can lead to the overprescribing of painkillers. Athletes will become dependent on these drugs for relief which will lead to addiction. When athletes take these painkillers‚ the drugs are affecting their body in certain ways. Use of painkillers by athletes of all levels needs to be more closely monitored and regulated. Some physicians are quick to prescribe pain medication to athletes for most types of pain‚

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    Parental Pressure

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    Brenner Parental Pressure = Late nights‚ Health risks‚ Confusion Why this may be occurring and strategies for elimination… Some Parents Expectations: ◊ Adolescents should spend all or most of their time studying‚ instead of being able to socialize with their friends ◊ Adolescents should start producing good grades even at an early age of nine (Murphy‚ 2005) ◊ Adolescents should begin building Harvard-quality resumes Risks ⇒ Mental Risks: ◊ Suicide o The constant pressure to succeed leads

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