Dan October 4th 2010 Life Vision Paper How My Characteristics Will Affect My Future Who am I? For starters my name is Dan. Like everyone else in the world I have many positive and negative characteristics. Three positive characteristics that describe me best would be humorous‚ caring‚ and outgoing. Everyone can pinpoint positive characteristics about themselves‚ but it’s the negative ones that are a little harder. Three negative characteristics that I have are stubbornness‚ procrastination
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This internship is a springboard for my professional future. Indeed‚ he strengthened me in my choice of professional career‚ he allowed me to discover a vocation and he give me confidence. I have a solid background in sports‚ I’ve been an athlete my entire life. I played football‚ basketball‚ and handball growing up all the way up through college and now I am a Professional Bodybuilder. I have great skills and can work with
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not good enough it represents someone who did not win and no one idolizes a loser. A loser is lost in the shuffle and will never be remembered by the average sports fan. For this and many other reasons athletes will do just about anything in their power to be considered a winner‚ even if that means cheating. Cheating is displayed in every sport on every level and is performed by an athlete in an attempt to gain an advantage over the competition and ultimately win. Cheating comes in many shapes and
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You think athletes are overpaid well if you really think about it you’re wrong. The reason why athletes gets paid so much is because of what they do for us. Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes don’t deserve what they’re making. Athletes have multiple injuries when they play the sport they play. Most of the time they have to pay medical bills afterwards that are really expensive which therefore they need money to pay those bills. Also they’re
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Introduction Thesis Statement: Professional athletes who perform solely for society’s entertainment are undeservingly overpaid for their talents. These highly skilled athletes contribute relatively little to making society better like many other Samaritan careers which are overlooked and poorly paid. These people are true role models‚ not athletes. Fans contribute highly to the athletes’ salaries. A. Major proposition or premise (before because): Professional athletes who perform solely for
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The length of the recovery period concerns me as Barry may be inclined to return to his sport in less time than set by his physiotherapist. The greatest consequence of this will be an increased recovery time‚ which will have a negative impact on his confidence and enthusiasm to return to competition. Barry has expressed his concerns to me‚ already considering “Giving up golf because (he’ll) never be as good as (he) was before (the) injury.” Frustration will be the biggest factor during Barry’s recovery
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Athletes in modern sport are required to push their bodies past their normal abilities in order to achieve the one goal that all athletes long for: to win. In the past winning did not come at such a high cost as it does in modern sports; in his article “Aretism” And Pharmacological Ergogenic Aids in Sport‚ M. Andrew Holochak states that “we take a greater interest in sport today than perhaps we‚ as fans‚ have ever taken before” (2000‚ p.361)‚ this means that athletes are under more pressure to win
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just entertain. Everyone loves watching the olympics‚ football‚ or basketball‚ but that doesn’t mean that athletes should get paid in the tens of millions of dollars. Maybe that’s why the United States is so in debt is because people care more about sports than their own well being. First and foremost‚ athletes get paid more the military which shouldn’t be happening‚ the military works harder than any athlete. People in the military go away from their families for months at a time while athletes get
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Gary Sailes and originally published in the USA Today Magazine on September 11‚ 2001. The original title was "Professionals Athletes: Cultural Icons or Social Anomalies." This is a newspaper article by the Society for the Advancement of Education. Sailes relies entirely on his education being a sports sociologist and opinion in this article‚ the main point of which is that the professional athletes be morally obligated to take the responsibility of acting as role models. Salies begins
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them that they could be an athlete? So this is my question to you: should kids strive to become an athlete or should they focus on other things? Who should kids idolize: a snobby‚ rich‚ selfish‚ athlete or a noble peace award winner? In my opinion sports should not be pursued by most kids because it could hurt them in the long run. So do the kids even have a chance? Well yes‚ but not a very big one. In almost all of the surveys about kids’ dream job‚ an athlete is almost always in the top 3‚ a lot
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