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The video is a documentary who lives among the one percent. He has lived around wealth his entire life and has decided to document the wealth gap. He goes around interviewing people on both side of the spectrum to get their point of view on things. He gets into clubs using his family’s name and tries to interview his father various times but he declines even though he himself made a film about the poverty in Africa when he was younger. What stood out to me was that the average one percenter…

As a person who comes from a country with less developed sport industry, I can say that I had no idea about the different opportunities and various career paths I can pursue. With each chapter we covered during the semester, I have discovered another career path that I can follow with desire therefore I first want to talk about the other sport related career opportunities I had an interest before deciding my ultimate goal. The sport agency is one of those options which I don’t have interest…

In today’s society, colleges are being faced with a controversial topic on whether or not student-athletes should be paid. Student-athletes and some fans are suggesting that student-athlete’s efforts are profiting colleges, and the student-athletes should be compensated for their hard work. The N.C.A.A. restricts colleges from paying athletes beyond attendance costs (Tracy, Marc, and Ben Strauss). Attendance costs includes financial costs that a scholarship does not; such as, transportation to…

Do you ever wonder what the Universities does with all the money they get from selling tickets, jersey/ fan apparel, or signing lucrative contracts? The NCAA and Universities have been treating college athletes poorly. College athletes are not classified as employees but they do all the work an employe would do. College athletes do not get paid, only receive a scholarship to the university, and they receive all of the stresses and hardly any of the benefits of being a college. Athletes deserve…

Greek life on college campuses is an effective way to ensure that students get the most out of college, and all that it has to offer. Greek organizations actively challenge students to be a well educated, and active part of the surrounding community. However, some view fraternities and sororities on college campuses in more of a negative light due to stereotypes and generalizations, influenced by the media. Many of these stereotypes are untrue, and often over exaggerated. Greek life has many…

I think it’s a good idea because we have all the football players that think there better than everybody. The coaches think there a lot better than everyone and can do whatever they want and no one can say anything about it. The basketball players are always on the same team in gym class and that is not fair. I think all the players would get mad and the fans would to but then everyone might work instead of sitting and watching sports. If all sports were gone there might be more fights. The…

I play on the women's collegiate softball team at St. Thomas University. I have been playing softball since I could walk and, along with every other athlete, my dream is to play on the biggest and brightest stage possible. For softball that is the NCAA College World Series. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to make millions of dollars playing professional softball like many other professional athletes. This is it for me because college is the highest level of softball I will play in my…

Does everyone get a trophy Have you ever played in a league that gives away participation trophies. Many youth sports are giving them away for money. Even though people play to get a trophy, you have to win it. These trophies make parents angry and send back the trophy, they are not necessary, you have to win a trophy not get one. On the flip side they make people come back so they get money. Trophies do not make room for mistakes to be made and learn from them. For example , you have to…

Today, surgeons of any profession only make about $295,000 per year throughout their whole career. While entertainers like Katy Perry and Adele are making around $135 million dollars a year to stand up on a stage and lip sing for an hour or two and attend Red Carpet events. Why is that? Surgeons save lives every single day, they put in eight or more years just for college; And that's before becoming a resident, and they work on life changing surgeries that can go on for over 18 hours or…

The average sports star gets paid an average of $4 million dollars per year (ESPN). Sports stars generally get paid more than a person who has an average job. By examining highest paid athletes, the average American citizen budget, and how much the salary cap is going up, sports stars are getting paid too much money. The highest paid athlete’s salary has increased greatly in the past 25 years. Jason Alsher, a sports writer for a website called The Cheat Sheet, said that Floyd Mayweather was the…