Compare how schools and colleges in the USA help prepare young people for participation in professional sport to those in the UK. Evaluate the effectiveness of both systems. In the USA the main aim in sport‚ even from a young age‚ is winning and they heavily adopt the ‘Lombardian’ ethic‚ meaning in general they strive much more greatly for excellence rather than mass participation. This is dissimilar to the UK‚ who is in general much more concentrated on mass participation than they are on elitism
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Should we pay professional athletes more? The problem is are Professional athletes paid too much? There are many opinions on this issue. The owners should pay the professional athletes more money to counter the fact that they can be injured and the time spent away from their family. The skill of the players is undoubtedly the best in the world. Job security with the athletes doesn’t exist. The injuries that the athletes can endure can ruin their career and also their life after the sport. To conclude
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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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Do professional athletes get paid enough? Yes‚ they do‚ and for many different reasons. Athletes have to deal with large commitments‚ the danger of playing sports‚ and common life expenses. Often‚ professional athletes are offered contracts by a certain team or sponsor. Some of these contracts can be for a long period of time too. Next‚ playing sports has a very large risk for injury. These athletes never know when they will have a career ending injury. Lastly‚ athletes still have to pay for common
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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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Many claim that professional jobs should get paid more money than normal jobs. They say that they do more work‚ and that they deserve more money for having jobs that require more training and skills. Although having a professional job should get paid high ‚ normal jobs such as a teacher shouldn’t get paid any less; therefore wages are not fair. First of all‚ some people have very dangerous jobs and don’t get paid enough. For example the military people. The military put their life on the line to
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Are professional athletes overpaid? This question continues to permeate conversations from the board rooms to locker rooms; to street corners and beyond. How much is too much money for an athlete to earn. Folks will argue that the money could be spent on increasing teachers salaries as they are responsible for sculpting the minds of the American youth. Athletes make more money in one day than most Americans will make in a lifetime. New York Times best selling author David Epstein posed the following
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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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Key Philosophies and Professional Identity: The Counseling Profession Rachel A Johnston COUN5004-205 Survey of Research in Human Development for Professional Counselors 108 Twin Lakes Road Port Deposit‚ MD 21904 Telephone: 443-993-6817 Email: rachelannjohnston05@gmail.com Instructor: Dr. Barbara Cooper Abstract When attempting to identify as a professional counselor‚ it is important to understand the basic elements of counseling as it pertains to individual specializations. The wellness
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“Social networking sites have brought more harms than benefits.” Do you agree? Social networking sites such as Friendster‚ Twitter and Facebook all vary slightly‚ yet one of the main feature they have is that they enable users to create a profile within the website to represent themselves and interact with other users using emails‚ instant messaging and other integrated communication channels within the site. The popularity and growth of social networking sites over the years has been colossal.
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