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    Paying College Athletes Basketball legend‚ Michael Jordan once said‚ “in college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people‚ to travel and expand my financial capabilities‚ to get ideas and learn about life‚ to create a world apart from basketball.” College players still do not have the same amenities that professional athletes have. Why not give the college athlete a portion of what professionals get since they are working

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    The Pros and Cons of Entrepreneurship In America today‚ as of August 2013‚ the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent. Many students graduating from college are faced with many challenges with one of them being whether to work for corporate America or to start their own personal business. The opportunity to become an entrepreneur is a freedom that each individual has the option to pursue within America. It is a well known fact that becoming an entrepreneur has its advantages and disadvantages. Both

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    Should College Athletes Get Paid? Should college athletes be paid? It is a question that most of us have heard before. Many people might say they are getting paid by getting scholarships but many people might say scholarships are not enough. It is an argument that has been going on for decades. It was even mentioned in June 1905 issue of McClure’s. There are a lot of reasons to why they should get paid. According to researches the fifteen highest paid college football coaches’ salary is $53.4

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    perceive myself as schematic towards athleticism because I am a softball player and have played for fifteen years‚ making it a very prominent aspect of my life. As an athlete‚ there are many prejudice thoughts people hold on a person and many that are seen to define a softball player. A negative behavior I have about being an athlete is the action of self- concept bias where I relate and identify others as either a softball

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    There is no greater support system in the United States than a universities athletic department. With records to be broken‚ championships to be won and legacies to be created‚ college athletes are given special priorities. No college athlete is given more special treatment than college football players. They are given special buildings and receive thousands of dollars in scholarships and equipment and are treated as celebrities when they walk around campus. At universities across the country‚ coaches

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    with regards to college programs compensating players and players accepting compensation from universities and outside sources‚ one question has understandably been brought up. It is a question that was bound to be asked sooner or later‚ and one without an obvious answer: should college athletes be paid? It is one of the biggest‚ if not the biggest‚ question that surrounds the world of college sports. The answer‚ quite simply put‚ is no. Allowing universities to pay students athletes to participate

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    now I want to be a bigger impact on America. As a Democratic candidate‚ I have my objectives set. My plan is to grow economy‚ provide free education‚ and make healthcare more affordable. Those main points have pros and con‚ but as a president I would minimize the cons and brings the out pros. Before I became a governor‚ I went to Harvard and Princeton to study major in mathematics‚ politics‚ business‚ and economy. From there I got my master and Phd degree. When I finish school‚ I knew that I

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    First‚ Censorship should not be used because censorship takes away the freedom of speech. This is supported by the article titled “Pro/Con: Should Higher Education Come with a Warning Label?” when it states “Formalizing trigger warnings would further empower the higher-ed sensitivity bureaucracies that are often as voracious and omnipresent as they are ignorant of basic academic freedom principles.” (McClatchy‚ Angus Johnson‚ Donald A. Downs). This piece of evidence explains that legalizing trigger

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    Pros and Cons of Vaccination In 1796‚ Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine‚ which was for the smallpox virus. (Google timeline) Centuries later‚ we now have a very large amount of vaccines that have been created with the purpose of protecting the human race from infectious diseases. The question is‚ how effective are these vaccines? Are they more beneficial or harmful to us? Are they serving their purpose? Could a person survive in this world without ever being immunized? In this small research

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    1) Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little. Between mining the uranium‚ refining and enriching fuel‚ and finally to building and operating the plant‚ a big 1‚250 250-megawatt nuclear facility produces an estimated 250‚000 tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. In contrast‚ coal-fired plants produce close to 2 billion

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