often don’t understand what student athletes go through on a daily basis. Some will even stereotype believing they do not excel in academics and will focus more on sports. I interviewed Jesus Flores‚ an eighteen year old student athlete who was recently awarded the scholar of the week and is a part of a playoff bound football team‚ the C.C Winn Mavericks. Jesus‚ who is one of my teammates in this football team‚ states that in order to balance academics and sports it takes: discipline‚ excellent time
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Should athletes use performance enhancing drugs ? Man has been trying to improve themselves physically through training and eating healthy for years but the discovery of performance enhancing drugs changed the game for everyone. One after another new ways of improving an athlete’s straight and injuries with minimal training and maximal improvement. Some athletes and trainers looked to drugs to give them the upper hand on their opposition. Some people look at using drugs to build bigger and better
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Imagine how you felt when you realized that your son and daughter were taking drugs just because they saw one of the athletes in the olympics doing it‚ what would you do? I know how I would feel and the answer is not happy at all. I don’t understand why athletes are taking drugs so that they can be able to win. It doesn’t make sense. This is telling us that you need drugs to be able to win in a competition. I find it very sad because there are young kids that look up to those big stars. Yes I know
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)‚ and the athletes involved. The NCAA defines itself as a non for profit‚ voluntary association that regulates the organization and wellbeing of college student-athletes‚ made up of over 1‚200 colleges and universities (McCormick.‚ McCormick‚ 2006). I will later argue that the NCAA does not accurately fit this definition as they do not care for the wellbeing of their ‘student-athletes’ as much as they care for the revenue and profit that college
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Paying Student-Athletes Paying Student-Athletes Imagine this; Mr. Perfect‚ a highly successful college football student-athlete‚ is shattering every record once held in the sport. He is on the cover of ESPN and SI magazine. His face is plastered on televisions nationwide. Everyone knows his face and name. He has all the fame that he dreamed of‚ but he has no money. NCAA rules state that no student-athlete can obtain a job. His full ride scholarship‚ after classes and books‚ barely
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dorm rooms that they have tailored to help a student with their schooling and with their transition to college‚ dining for people to live in to help with the change‚ which is two major reasons why the requirement for the first year students should be required to live on campus. Dorm rooms are a necessity for first-year students because they give you a lot of options to expand a student’s activity base while providing support to the student so the student will be successful within their field of studies
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Should SAT/ACT not be a requirement for the College Application Process? The ACT and SAT are standardized test that are supposed to test how well a student did in high school. The ACT is a national college admissions examination that consists of subject area tests in English‚ mathematics‚ reading‚ and science. The writing part is optional‚ if the student decides to take the writing part‚ it costs more. The SAT is a similar test that test a student’s academic skills used for admission to United States’
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Rachel Mello Ms. Miller AP English Language‚ 3rd 19 September 2011 Should Students Be Required To Read Huck Finn? Very many people argue on whether or not ninth graders in English should be required to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This novel was written during slavery and when racism was a big problem. Many of the people argue that this book isn’t appropriate for students to be reading because of the language‚ racism‚ and slavery that is portrayed in the book. Even
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free education should be enough for a teenager who wants to make something of their future. Parents will greatly appreciate the fact they don’t have to pay for school or take out grants and loans for their children. Graduating from college with no debt is amazing. Students should not be paid because they are receiving a free education/degree. School is not a job‚ it’s an institution for educating. Children in Africa pray for the chance at an education. Even foreign exchange students come to the United
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College admissions tests have existed for over 100 years now. Recently‚ there has been much more investigation and debate on the requirement of standardized testing. In recent years‚ there has been much research and discussion over the use of standardized testing in regards to the likelihood of admission to colleges. Due to the new information the research has produced‚ some schools have made it so that students don’t have to submit SAT or ACT scores‚ and offer an optional test policy instead. The
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