Are Professional Athletes being Paid too Much? An Editorial on the Overlooked Salary Difference Matt Crandall SHS Junior Walking through the halls of Sally High one day‚ my ear caught the words of two young individuals debating over an interesting topic. It was a discussion on the large pay difference between what they thought were hard working Americans and jobs of the entertainment market. As I continued to think more in depth about this current discussion that had just been overheard
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been a popular topic in American sports. In some cases‚ professional athletes use steroids. Barry Bonds‚ a Major League Baseball (MLB) player‚ admitted that he used steroids while playing in the MLB. Steeper penalties should be implemented in professional sports leagues for those who use performance enhancing drugs‚ because they give athletes an unfair advantage. What does PED stand for? PED means “performance enhancing drugs” that athletes can use to get better. Most steroids are injected into the
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Pay to Play Are athletes at Division 1-A colleges amateurs or are they really professionals? This question is argued by many people throughout the nation. Some say it’s unfair to others but some also say that it is a necessity for these athletes. With these athletes being full time students while playing sports‚ they don’t have any opportunities to make money. There are three specific reasons on why college athletes should get paid: It will pay for more than just textbooks‚ players give up their
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Thursday 20th‚ November 2014 Qualities of Life Wealth and fame are two qualities that are often hard to differentiate; yet they are very often intertwined. Therefore‚ we ask ourselves this: is it money or fame that makes a person? Both elements are desired by almost all humanity. Fame and wealth differ and are similar in many ways. Fame is easier to achieve than wealth‚ fame doesn’t mean necessarily being rich‚ and money is more desired than fame. People that are well known for what they did are famous
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forces namely wealth or fame. He has to fix his aim on either of them to get both of them as very difficult if not impossible. We can enjoy ourselves dainty dishes put on fashionable clothes reside in palatial buildings get best entertainments visit foreign countries and have numbers other luxuries with the help of wealth. If we have money we can help our friends and relative in distress. Gold gives us everything we want. From this point of view fame is surpassed by wealth Fame cannot produce any
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20 September‚ 2014 Tycoons “Big business is not about making money.” With reference to the context of Hong Kong‚ write an article for your school magazine using this comment as a title. Give three reasons to support your views on the comment. Big business is not about making money This is the image promoted by most of the enterprises established in Hong Kong and a statement reiterated by our Chief Executive Officer for many times in the public. In fact‚ companies of public
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Professional athletes get paid over a million ¬¬dollars each year just to compete and advertise for companies while teachers get paid $40k- $158k per year. Boxer Floyd Mayweather‚ Jr. is the highest paid athlete of 2015-2016 making $150 million yearly with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain coming in a close second with a yearly salary of $80 million. Teachers and professors in Luxembourg are paid the highest amount in the world with a starting salary of $79k that can reach over $138k. The
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opinion‚ professional athletes deserve their salaries because of their talent‚ the huge revenue they draw‚ the demands of their job‚ and society’s emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine tune those abilities to become professional; those
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Professional athletes are role models for many young children & adolescents. If for example a young child hears about an athlete using drugs‚ he might think that using drugs is all right for him as well. Similarly‚ if the athlete is not severely punished then the child will think he can get off easy too. However if a child sees that the sport wants to remediate any and all situations involving professional athletes taking drugs‚ he will be helped to understand that taking drugs is socially unacceptable
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The Price of Fame Almost everybody dreams about being famous sport star or a great actor. But does everybody know how hard it is to have such kind of job? In my opinion being famous is very difficult and people who are famous deserve all the money they earn. A star should be polite and kind because he or she is an example to be followed for many young people. Famous people work hard long hours every day and do their best for their fans. Also I think that famous people don’t have private lives‚
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