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    Salary Caps For Professional Athletes There are numerous laws that already exists in witch to prevent similar business to restrict pays and limit the command for their companies. This allows employees to not be bribed or feel obliged to work for one company over another. The same concept is included in professional sports in the idea of a salary cap. A salary cap is a mechanism that allows owners of companies to control and quash an athletes wages. Very wealthy owners of companies with

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    April 13‚ 2014 English Composition 2 Argument Essay Are Professional Actors and Athletes Overpaid? In this essay I will explore a much debated topic in this country pertaining to the undeniable fact that professional actors and athletes overwhelmingly get paid much higher than the average American. As any highly debated topic‚ there are always arguments and viewpoints from both sides of the spectrum. Like many Americans‚ for entertainment I thoroughly enjoy watching both film and professional

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    The poem that I analyzed is called “To An Athlete Dying Young”. The author of this poem is A.E. Housman. This poem is Non-Fiction. The purpose of this poem is to inform. The audience of this text is students (young adults). This poem is written in second person. The main idea of this poem is that your family will always support you. In this poem one of the metaphors is “And the name died before the man”. This metaphor means that he was once well known‚ but now people have forgotten who he is

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    pays to participate the money everyone pays can be gathered up and used to help the team succeed. Students should pay to play a school sport because the money can be used to buy good equipment‚ they can also use the money to pay the coach‚ and the athletes could use the money to benifit the team. First of all‚ equipment costs money and it isn’t cheap. If you have to pay to participate the money can be used to buy amazng equipment for the athelets to use. Where would the money come from to buy the

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    foot more narrow than it is now. The ball used to be made of pigskin‚ and players were essentially slower‚ weaker‚ and less talented than the super-athletes of todays game (Peterson 16).

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    dreams of five year olds. My picture showed a girl throwing a ball in the air‚ being a professional athlete‚ but as you can see my point of view of my future has changed. Now I want to be doctor because I want to cure cancer and do the impossible by helping people and not just work out and play my whole life. A question could be asked like why choose to be a doctor and not a professional athlete‚ well I believe a doctor can make a change‚ inspire people‚ be a leader and etc. Being a doctor you have

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    The College Athlete Controversy Tyus Jones was a basketball player at the University of Minnesota who was extremely talented on and off the court. In just his freshman year he won The University Of Minnesota their first national championship in 94 long years. Despite of Tyus’s on court abilities even with a full ride college scholarship Tyus was not able to afford the basic college life needs. To help out with the expenses Tyus got a job at the nearby Burger King‚ but after two short weeks he was

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    Mateo Magallon English 98 11 September 2013 Essay 1 From Athlete to Account Major According to Lynn O’Shaughnessy‚ a college blogger‚ that about 2% of seniors win sports scholarships every year to a NCAA institution. I strongly believe that everyone has had a dream that drastically changed throughout the course of his or her lifetime. Most of us have dreamt about being a famous actor‚ singer‚ or even a athlete. Due to life circumstances those dreams were taken away or have changed. I realized

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    Why do Athletes get hurt? Athletes everywhere suffer from injuries‚ it happens to everyone. There is no hiding from an injury. As you may know there is a ton of ways to be injured and many things to injure. To avoid injuries‚ there is many things you can do but it doesn’t mean you will never get hurt. There is also many reasons why injuries don’t heal as fast as they should. In this essay I will be answering these questions and giving you information to help you if you ever become hurt or need

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    As a kid everyone grows up watching sports. The only problem is these children’s dreams of becoming professional athletes are destroyed by their parents and piers at an early age. Everyone always tells children to think of a more realistic job than becoming an athlete because the odds are against them. But why can’t they become professional athletes? How do parents know at such a young age that their child won’t be a stud on the field? The answer is they don’t. This is why I have compiled a list

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