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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“I am not a role model‚ I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball‚ doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” – Charles Barkley. Professional athletes are not the best people to be role models for kids. Steven Ortiz‚ a sociology professor at Oregon State and the author of several published studies on athletes ’ bad behavior says‚ "Spoiled-athlete syndrome begins early in sports socialization. From
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Are professional athletes overpaid? Do they warrant the astronomically high salaries they make each year? The simple answer is no. No one person playing a sport that is meant for entertainment should make more than a whole family working at jobs that contribute to people’s health‚ or make a city safer. Do athletes deserve high salaries? Maybe so‚ but as of right now there is so much separation between the pay of an athlete and the pay of the average american that athletes are quite frankly not worth
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by the term "Professional Behaviors"? “Professional Behaviors” are a sub-classification of human behaviors exhibited in both academic and vocational settings‚ in which they enable one to meet institutional or organizational expectations outlined by supervisors‚ instructors‚ and directors. Also‚ these behaviors formulate one’s competence in a profession. As well‚ these behaviors are expected by those receiving services. 2. Give 5 descriptive examples of how an OT displays professional behaviors. One
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Research Report Student Name: Eric McGee Paper Topic: What results from glorifying professional athletes? SourceTopic(s): Airball: American Education Failed Experiment with Elite athletics Summary of Source (one or two paragraphs): The author feels that kids that are coming out of high school and going to college forgets about academics and just think that athletic ability opposed to take them somewhere. He also feels that some Colleges are taking advantage of some their players. Most of the
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SUBJECT TEACHER’S NAME The Tiger Woods Effect The term “professional athlete” can and is often applied to anyone and everyone who holds a job as an athlete or sports competitor. Often‚ these “professional athletes” are glorified and held to a standard above what an everyday citizen is held at. They are given the best equipment to compete against the best of the best. However‚ a common factor of criticism is the salary that these professional athletes receive to compete in their various sports.
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Toward Professional Ethics in Business J. N. Hooker Graduate School of Industrial Administration Carnegie Mellon University‚ Pittsburgh‚ PA 15213 USA March 1996 Abstract Before a code of professional ethics can be formulated for business managers‚ it must be understood why management should be considered a profession and what should be its central mission. This paper proposes answers to these questions. 1 Introduction There are two kinds of ethical obligation in business. There are
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expectations are set; not everyone can become famous or a professional athlete. Too many teens and kids look up to major athletes so they should not be setting the bad examples that they are setting (Laura K. Egendorf‚ 64). Not only are they setting bad examples but they have bad habits as well. Also‚ as teens grow older they read about their athlete hero and their bad habits. Michael A. Pore states that any law breaking or wrong thing a professional athlete does‚ there is a story posted in newspaper
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The role of professional athletes as role models for the youth is a debatable topic. Should they be the people your children look up to and try to be like? Or are they just popular people who have let fame get to their head and influence them to make poor choices? While there are many people who believe that they should be responsible for setting good examples for the millions of children in the world‚ there are equally as many that believe they should not be put under that kind of pressure on top
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Are Today’s Professional Athletes Good Role Models? Everyday today’s youth are asked what they want to be when they grow up. Some say teachers‚ firemen‚ police officers and a large response to that question is a professional athlete. Something that all these professions have in common is that they are all role models to children. Firemen‚ teachers‚ police officers have an easy job at doing this; they are after all the people that save children‚ teach children and protect children. But professional
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