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    Why Do People Get Paid?

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    People use several work to earn money. Some of them want to earn enough money to their life and some want to earn more like athletes and entertainers. Now days, we see athletics and entertainers earn millions of dollar every year. All these people work hard to achieve their goals. Also, some athletics usually face problems like injured on their body then they treat themselves for a long time. Moreover, entertainers face problem as well. On other hand, many people around the world are dying…

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    corporations compete for advertising spots in sponsoring sports events featuring power and performance sports. These corporations spend millions of dollars for thirty and sixty seconds of air time. Major events, such as the Olympics and the National Football League Super Bowl draw viewers worldwide. Such major sports events provide excellent opportunities for major corporations to not only promote their products; but also to deliver their underlying cultural messages. Coca Cola spent millions of…

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    It’s the beginning of the college football season, and with a new year of sports, the annual debate of whether these highly talented athletes should be paid rises along with it. Starting with reasons of why they should be paid, they make thousands of dollars for their school, and uplift it in a way, bringing it popularity and a good reputation yet they don't get remunerated for their hard work. It is also disputed that with the number of grueling hours of work put into practice it makes nearly…

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    College Athlete, James Winston in his, "Heisman Trophy Acceptance Address," delivered December 14, 2013 in New York, receiving this Heisman Trophy will make Winston among the youngest to obtain this award. Winston's purpose was to emphasize those attending and listening his appreciation for the award and his great accomplishment. Winston adopts a gracious tone in order to appeal to his audience through emotions and ethics about his life experiences. The first steps in a great speech is to…

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    led by Larry Merchant, sports editor for Philadelphia’s Daily News. Authors such as Michael Oriard, also credit the rise of sports with newspapers. Oriard is the author of several books about football such as Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle in 1993 and King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press in 2003. He has direct…

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    explains the universities of successful sports teams make millions from selling team products and especially tickets to the games. For football and basketball coaches, the average salary exceeds well over $1 million per year. According to Forbes, “In 40 of the 50 U.S. states, the highest paid public official is currently the head coach of a state university’s football or men’s basketball team” (qtd. in Edelman). The NCAA makes a total of $6 billion every year according to the US News website.…

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    Louis Jenkins’s “Football” serves as a model for this effort. While the poem is about football and difficult choices, it disguises as the internal battles of the speaker as well. A notable take is how Jenkins guides the readers’ attention to the speaker and his confusing decisions he presents as a quarterback. Jenkins has the readers unknowingly focus in on the speaker himself and these odd comparisons and disconnecting ideas within his words. While his readers clearly identify football and the…

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    various ways. Football and basketball differ in ways like: there fitness level, scholarship opportunities, and the equipment they must have to play the sport.. If someone wants to play a sport they must be in good shape but there are different types of shapes that you are required to be in if you want to be successful in an individual sport. Different sports require different fitness levels. If someone is going to dedicate themselves to football they must be strong, fast and quick. In football…

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    Dreams revolved around Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries of high school football athletes. It is something that athletes are all too familiar with on a daily basis. Just one single hit could end up being more fatal than anyone would think about. Concussions are very common with those who play rigorous sports because of the constant person-to-person contact or even contact of the object they play with, like a football. One issue with this is the idea of do the risks outweigh the benefits…

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    have all the power then why is it so hard for us to stop the negligence? In the CBS article which discusses “How Can NFL Fans Not Feel Guilty In Light Of Brain Disease Revelations,” Ryan emphasizes that the first problem that many football fans share is that we see football only as entertainment and nothing more. “It’s easy to forget that behind the facemasks are real people with real families, with children who need functional fathers.” (Ryan Chatelain, CBS) That is where our problems as fans…

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