and professional athletes With the development of economy‚ people are satisfied with the physical needs. Thus people began to chase the spiritual needs. Entertainment and sports became an important way to do so. So there are many actors and professional athletes appeared. And they usually can get much money from their job‚ which many people cannot understand. Because people think actors and professional athletes are not worthy to get high salary. However‚ I think that actors and professional athletes
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For Professional Athletes to Receive Such High Salaries? Professional athletes are persons who do sports for a living. These are people who earn on the average $48‚ 310 per year‚ though top athletes can earn millions even in just one game. The topmost earner is Tiger Woods who earns $80.3 million per year (Forbes 2004) and Michael Schumacher who earns $80 million (Forbes 2004). Because of the exuberant salaries that high-ranking professional athletes receive and the above-average salary that
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Professional vs. College Athletes Professional athletes and college athletes are two amazing groups of people. Professional athletes and college athletes have so much in common yet many things that are different as well. They both have an elaborate amount of detail in their life including: lifestyle‚ work ethics‚ self-motivation and many more that describe them as who they are as a player and as a human in every-day life. College athletes (student athletes) are some of the most astounding
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Essay I think professional athletes should have to take drug test‚ for the sake of the sport that they play and those who look up to them as a role model. If they didn’t have to‚ it would make the game unfair and may draw attention away from the game because using illegal drugs to enhance your performance is cheating. So many children and teenagers look up to athletes and idol them. As a professional athlete‚ they should set a good example and be a role model. If professional athletes are abusing
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Professional athletes‚ specifically in the NFL‚ NBA‚ and MLB‚ often are rewarded extremely substantial contracts and lucrative endorsement deals and it has been argued that their salaries should be reduced to smaller wages but they are paid in the way that they are for good reason. There merchandise is sold for more money than their salary is worth‚ the risk getting injured is high and they can only do for their job for a short amount of time. Athletes are not overpaid because the Teams make much
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country at the highest level” -Terri McKeever (bustle.com). Whether you are a professional athlete or an amateur athlete it has always been a dream to represent your country at the Olympics. The Question is should professional athletes be able to compete? Some think they shouldn’t but professional athletes have worked just as hard or maybe even harder than anyone else to get to that level. Professional athletes are the top athletes in the world which would create more revenue for the Olympics‚ a sense of
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Why is a professional athlete able to get away with certain crimes that a normal everyday person couldn’t get away with? There isn’t a good enough answer to that question today. Some judges and law enforcement seem to look passed the wrong doing of a professional athlete because of their social status or importance to the league or association. Obviously this is unjust‚ athletes can’t get away with what whatever they want just because of the status they hold. One definition of the judicial system
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which you answer the following question: Should professional athletes use their status to protest the events taking place today? Be sure to state a claim and address an opposing viewpoint using evidence presented in both passages. Type your final‚ completed essay below: If you’re a professional athlete then is it wrong to share your opinion? Some say that professional athletes are supposed to keep their political views to themselves. Professional athletes are still human and therefore are entitled to
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Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? There’s a great deal of controversy over the topic of whether professional athletes are overpaid or not‚ as compared to teachers‚ police officers‚ and firefighters. Jennifer Fontaine‚ a sports promoter‚ clearly states that she believes professional athletes are not over paid‚ due to their careers being short lived due to any serious injury‚ or injuries‚ that could end that highly paid career. On the other hand‚ Roberto Hinojosa‚ a high school math teacher‚ disagrees
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controversy regarding professional athletes and their salaries. People think that many athletes receive obscene salaries‚ but I think that they deserve that money. They work incredibly hard‚ they are part of the advancement of the human race‚ and they generate large sums of revenue for their organizations. I do not think that talented‚ well deserving athletes are overpaid. Athletes put in years of hard work to develop their skills which earn them these large salaries. If professional athletes weren’t exceptionally
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