professional athletes and actors are paid to much. Professional athletes and actors get paid a substantial amount of money for one game‚ or movie. While our men and women in the United States Military are struggling to feed their families. It is a sad commentary on our societal values that these entertainers are taking in seven million dollars a years or more. While teachers‚ police officers‚ and firefighters make less than one percent of the income of some athletes and actors. Even if an athlete or actor
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Paying College Athletes Money is everything in today’s society. We buy our food with money. We buy our clothes with money. We buy everything with money and people are constantly demanding for more‚ but what about those without a job? What about students in college who have to focus on their education and can’t get a job to make money? What about the student athletes that play sports for the school; bringing in millions of dollars of revenue every year? They get paid nothing while their coaches
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It’s about time: Stipends for College Athletes Imagine being a college football star and finding out that a jersey representing your school with your name and number on the back is not only selling for $110 in stores nationally‚ but it is profiting higher than some professional sports jerseys. Now‚ imagine that you as that student-athlete will not be making a single penny off your institution using your name for monetary profit. Why you ask? Because according to the governing body of collegiate
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Student Athletes: A change to come Here we go again; a stand-out high school athletic star has a choice that will determine the rest of his life. This is what happened to Koby Clemens son of baseball star pitcher Roger Clemens. He intended to play baseball on full scholarship at the University of Texas a NCAA college baseball power house. After graduating high school he was drafted into the MLB‚ an eighth round pick by the team his father played for. Now for the hard part‚ to go to college for free
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Paying College Athletes: The Struggles of Black Student Athletes College athletics provide a way for a lot of students to pay for a college education. These athletes work hard at their selected sport in order to keep the scholarships. Regardless of all this hard work‚ these athletes have nothing to show for it. A percentage of the athletes are black and come from poor inner city community where their families struggle to keep the bills paid and to keep food on the table. These black athletes
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Advertisement/endorsement deals for the athletes College Athletes feel like that they should somewhat get a portion of the money that the colleges are making off of them‚ especially if companies and shoe brands are wanting to use them as the face of their brand. A lot of the athletes come from a background where they may not have a lot of money from their families to support to support the college athlete throughout college. Some of the athletes do not even get a full scholarship and ma only get
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College Should Be Less Expensive Most high school students after graduation will attend a community college for a degree in his or her choice. Some students will have the luxury of their parents to pay for their college expenses. However‚ most students will not have their parents to pay and they will have to rely on student loans. Depending on which degree the student chooses is the deciding factor in the cost of classes. Most credit hours in a community college range from 100-369 dollars per credit
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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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Should College be Free What if college was free? There are so many people that want to go to college. But in this case‚ some people are not able to go because they can’t afford it. Even though some citizens get so much aid from the government‚ with all the stuff they give us. Free college is something we don’t need‚ because if we do get it then there would be alot of stuff that would get out of place “College scholarships are gifts of money that helps students pay for education‚ and there are so
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players. However‚ some people still believe that there are many other professions that should also receive a lot of money in order to motivate more people to work in that profession willingly. The example of the professions are doctors‚ teachers and soldiers. There are both reasons that support and reject the ideas of giving more money to important professions. The two reasons why sports professions should receive more salaries are because of the sponsor and the country’s economy. Sponsor is
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