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    Stereotyping is a controversy today all over the world. Stereotyping is also extremely common and is heard everyday. Although there are bad points to stereotyping‚ there are also some good points in stereotyping. The Eric Berne’s Article "Can People Be Judged by Their Appearance?" and the film Breakfast Club will be used for resources and examples. Understanding other people’s emotions or feelings because that is just the way they act can be used as a good thing for stereotyping‚ but when used incorrectly

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    Paid Maternity Leave

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    Question: Australia has to date not legislated for paid maternity leave‚ unlike most other countries. Assess who should take responsibility for paid maternity leave. Explain the reasons for your response. Paid maternity leave is defined as income replacement to compensate for the leave from paid employment necessary around child-birth (Baird‚ 2002a:2). In the developed world today‚ many western countries have designed a legislated for paid maternity leave such as Sweden‚ Germany‚ United Kingdom

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    Athletes Taking PEDs

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    Major/National league athletes are well known and well paid. Are they being paid for their natural talent? Or power the performance enhancing drugs give them? Fan are all talking about the latest athletes getting accused of using these performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). This is a very controversial topic‚ some believe this is okay and others think it is unethical. In my opinion athletes do not have the right to take PEDs with no consequence‚ they are breaking laws and using an unfair advantage in

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    Are We Handing Out Paychecks for Hobbies? We often look at college athletes as miniature stars. The question is‚ why should student’s athlete get a paycheck for playing amateur level sports? Athletes complain about how they do not get enough for playing a sport. They are forgetting that they are being rewarded with a half or full scholarship. The main goal for these athletes is being academically successful. Not who has the best jump shot or who fumbled a ball‚ that does not matter. The essence of

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    Basketball Athlete Essay

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    Perfect Basketball Athlete” During the past years‚ basketball coaches have begun to put more effort into working closely with their athletes to maximise their skill development. There are many important components essential to becoming the elite basketballer. Some of the major components that are critical to building the perfect basketball athlete include the athlete’s nutrition intake‚ the knowledge and experience of the athlete’s game‚ a positive public profile and the athletes training program/fitness

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    pride and bragging rights amongst other teams. Over the years‚ the popularity of college sports (especially basketball and football) has brought in incredible amounts of money for their respective universities. These sports are currently multi-million dollar businesses that are branded‚ marketed‚ and sold in the same way that any other product is. In the middle of this fanatical marketplace are the people who compete in the sports‚ the student-athletes‚ who are sometimes overlooked as mere objects

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    Paid Maternity Leave

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    Women play an essential role in the economy and in their families. Despite that‚ the United States is the only high income country without paid maternity leave (Messer). Maternity leave is the vital time a mother takes off of work to take care of herself and her newborn after childbirth. However‚ eighty-eight percent of women in America do not have access to paid maternity leave (Shortall). American women are forced to put their careers and financial stability at risk simply because they want to have

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    Paying College Athletes Year after year‚ they put the madness in March. They bring traditions unlike any others to the network every Saturday of fall. They make millions upon millions of dollars for their respective universities. Yet‚ today’s college athletes see absolutely none of that money. Rod Gilmore‚ a football analyst for ESPN‚ in the article‚ “College Football Players Deserve Pay for Play‚” claims that athletes should have a share in money in this multibillion-dollar entertainment

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    Paying Student-Athletes Paying Student-Athletes           Imagine this; Mr. Perfect‚ a highly successful college football student-athlete‚ is shattering every record once held in the sport. He is on the cover of ESPN and SI magazine. His face is plastered on televisions nationwide. Everyone knows his face and name. He has all the fame that he dreamed of‚ but he has no money. NCAA rules state that no student-athlete can obtain a job. His full ride scholarship‚ after classes and books‚ barely

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    College basketball players get a free education while playing the sport they love. Being able to get graduate with a degree as well as playing basketball is great thing. Having a degree to fall back on if a professional career does not workout is worth more than any amount of money colleges would be able to provide. Though many people believe that this is just not enough and believe that players deserve more. It could be that people just do not realize the value of an education and degree. These

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