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    Pros And Cons Of Cliques

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    The first clique i’m going to talk about is the popular girls. Aka the plastics, the girls that manage to somehow hit puberty in the 7th grade and thus are the objects of every boy who also hit puberty in middle school attention. The Gothes Ohh the rebels, those that love to stick their noses up at the blond haired, cardigan wearing girls who want to fit in. The irony is their decision to wear black eyeliner, keep their hair in front of their eyes and…

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    To pay or not to pay? College athletics brings in a lot of money for colleges, but the topic of whether college athletes should be paid or not is quite controversial. There are many reasons that people are against college athletes being paid. College athletes should not be paid because they get compensation for their time, the money to pay them is not there, and college athletes are amateurs, not professionals. College athletes are given scholarships to participate in intercollegiate athletics.…

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    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…

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    Due to football and basketball teams generating more money in revenue for the college, they would be paid more than the other sports teams; such as, volleyball, cheerleading, and soccer (Mendelson, Joel). Depending on what sport a student plays, he/she will be paid…

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    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…

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    College athletes dedicate on average 43 hours per week to their sport. This is not counting personal time, time spent on class, and time spent studying and/or doing homework. An average student spends 15 hours in class each week and spend 3.5 hours on assignments. With all this time spent on their sport, there is no time for a job. Also, many colleges don’t allow athletes to even get a job. Therefore, this leaves them with no money, or parents having to support their child even more. I think…

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    The documentary ‘Schooled: The Price of College Sports” directed by Ross Finkel, analyzes the perspective of the players in the argument of whether student-athletes should be paid for their services and performances in sport at the collegiate level. Throughout the film, the history of the NCAA is discussed along with its creation and reign to become a wealthy corporation. The documentary analyzes people such as Walter Buyers (Founder of the NCAA), Jonathan Franklin (Former University of North…

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    Greed In Sports

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    trade with any other franchise unless the player has enough power to put stipulation in their personal contract” (Witt, 2017, NFL Trading Rules). All college athletes when getting drafted into the NFL have no say as to what team pics them. A college football athlete has one of two options. Either they can play for the team that picks them or they don’t play at all. This too shows how not even in the sport of basketball but any sport that there is an ongoing plantation metaphor that still exists.…

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    After more than 20 years of education, a very well paid doctor makes average of a little bit fewer than 400,000 U.S dollars a year. Now imagine that, a man who saves the lives of people all the time, but yet only making that amount. The United States President only makes roughly 400,000 U.S dollars a year. A person with the responsibilities of an entire nation and another who is continuously saving the lives of many, yet the combined total of their salaries is about 800,000 US dollars.…

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    Jose Hernandez Mrs. Lozares English II 15 February 2017 The pursuing of my dream of becoming a pro soccer player 1. I am going to be talking about what I have been researching about the last week. In this research paper, I will be talking about my future career as an adult. The career I have been researching about has been a soccer player. Being a soccer player has always been my dream, ever since I was a little kid. As a kid whenever I would watch the games, I would always try to imagine…

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