someone of this standard should be handed millions of dollars for playing games? Athletes jobs pay them enormous amounts of money. Some people argue that these athletes deserve their high paying salaries‚ even so others disagree saying that they are overpaid. These men and women are great sources for entertainment‚ but they’re paid way too much to play games for a living! After athletes retire from playing sports they still often pursue jobs which earn them huge sums of money. The text Athletes Make
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WHY SOME CELEBRITIES ARE OVER-PAID. 75 million dollars a year – Tom Cruise. 80 thousand dollars per episode – Kim Kardashain 125 thousand dollars a year – Madonna. Now when you walk into a newsagents or a shop‚ what do you see? Books‚ magazines‚ newspapers which all have the news and the latest dramas of celebrities’ lives. People think that celebrities’ work hard and are great‚ whether they are good or bad‚ fake or true. But I’m here to tell you why I think different. Firstly‚ some celebrities’
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“While the uncanny dismantles narrative conventions of realism and replaces them with uncertainty‚ its emotional force demands the listener attend to the teller with the same openness demanded by the genres of any personal narrative.” (Lepselter‚ 2016‚ p.22) The author reasons that an empathetic audience is more likely to follow along with the story due to strong‚ explicit emotional reactions to the subject
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and they serve this country (Nurses make 71‚000 dollars‚ doctors make 189‚000 dollars‚ construction workers make about from 20‚230 and 59‚900 dollars‚ and military fighters make 76‚841 dollars). A numerous amount of people believe that athletes are overpaid. Compared to people who work and dedicate their entire life‚ their income added up all these years still does not add up to how much an athlete makes per year (Averagely‚ people make around 50‚000 dollars per year.) This is all the more why athletes
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Do you have a role model? Have you ever tried so hard to do something? Well‚ that’s what athletes’ do for a living. Many people say that athletes’ are overpaid but I disagree. An athlete like LeBron James deserves a good salary for all the work he has done and the self-image he creates. The sports industry contains many jobs from cheerleading to coaching and if players were terrible why would anyone work for them? Jobs‚ they pay for our necessities. There are many jobs that are involved with
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The Last Storyteller Before the Europeans colonized America different tribes of Native Americas appointed storytellers to keep the tribes history alive. In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie an odd boy named Thomas Builds-the-Fire holds the title of storyteller. This short story is about a journey Thomas takes with his old friend Victor to claim Victor’s father’s ashes from Phoenix‚ Arizona and bring them back to their reservation in Spokane. The story ultimately
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Overpaid professional athletes The topic I chose for my essay is overpaid professional athletes. I chose this topic because I think athletes are getting paid way too much money. Athletes get paid way too much for what they contribute to society. They contribute very little compared to other careers that give so much to society but make very little salaries. The professional athletes that people look up too are most of the time bad role models and the ones who are the real heros don’t get
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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too many zeros in it‚ I believe that these individuals are dedicating themselves so fully to their occupation‚ purely for our entertainment I might add‚ should not be villainized for the amount of their reimbursement.” (Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? 1). Professional athletes are put on a pedestal and they come out and perform when their sport
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“Professional athletes are extremely overpaid for the jobs they do.” The issue of overpaid pro athletes has been around for numerous years. The fact that a man that plays football and plays on a regular basis‚ plays for about 15-16 weeks. That man gets paid over a million dollars at least! I mean if you think about the fact that these players get paid more than the president in most situations‚ It seems hugely absurd! To think that that man plays for such a small amount of time and gets paid so
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