English II PreAP 4th February 2014 Current Event Article Analysis – Overpaid Entertainers I. Ryan. “Overpaid Entertainers.” Ryans Portfolio 2013. Web. II. Athletes‚ people who add nothing to our society and are terrible influences on children‚ are grossly overpaid‚ while people like teachers‚ policemen and firemen‚ who actually improve society and are necessary to our life‚ are seriously underpaid. III. Fact/opinion A. Fact: “High school teachers earn about $43‚944.” B. Opinion: “They [entertainers]
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15 April 2013 An Overpaid Profession The salaries of athletes in professional sports are becoming increasingly high. A salary cap should be instituted in Major League Baseball because it would level out the playing field‚ lower salaries would increase revenue‚ and because of this athlete’s personas are becoming inflated. Alex Rodriguez makes $29.5 million dollars a year (Ozanian 26); should a 37 year old who has had hip surgery make that much money playing professional baseball? With the establishment
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Steve Marshall Are American corporate CEO’s overpaid? I believe that CEO’s are paid to much because it does not seem to matter just how well the company does while they are running it they still seem to make a ridiculous amount of money. This is wrong because they are supposed to be paid according to how well that the company does but even when it does poorly they are still paid exceedingly well. While this is not a surprise on top of being paid exceedingly well they are also given stock options
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Are Athletes Overpaid? It gets the wheels turning in your head when you hear that the budget is falling apart and people are losing their jobs on the news. Following that is the sports news where athletes are signing several million dollar contracts and debating player’s performances. We all know that there is a lot of talent out there but should we paying millions of dollars for someone that plays a sport for a living? Can someone that can run fast or throw a ball so good that they deserve
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year. Endorsements mean athletes are making even more money than just their salary. * Miami Heat NBA Star Lebron James is making an estimated $33 million annually through partnerships with Nike‚ Coca-Cola‚ McDonald’s‚ State Farm and Upper Deck. His empire expanded in April when he became a minority owner in soccer club Liverpool after a marketing agreement with Liverpool’s owner‚ Fenway Sports Group. This will mean he will make even more money‚ benefiting from the success of club. * No matter
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Are Footballers overpaid and if so should a salary cap be introduced. Footballers in the premier league receive huge amounts of money every year with the likes of Wayne Rooney getting £17.09 million every year‚ but are they overpaid? One way that we can tell if footballers are overpaid is by seeing how much revenue that a certain footballer will bring to a club. One way we can find this out is by looking at Sergio Aguero. Sergio Aguero is paid £16.6 million a year and at the end of last season
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Are NBA players overpaid? The subject of money can be very controversial when it comes to sports in general. Whether it is the NFL‚ NBA‚ or MLB‚ they all exist because of large sums money. The NBA in particular produces billions of dollars of revenue each year in advertisements‚ ticket sales‚ apparel‚ and other forms. Through these different forms of revenue‚ a portion of this money goes to all 30 teams in the NBA. In the millions of dollars that each team receives‚ parts of it go to the owners
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Are Athletes Overpaid? Many people in today’s society say that athletes make too much money and they are paid just for playing a game. What people often forget is how difficult it is to make it into professional sports and that ultimately sports is a business and like any other business athletes receive a salary for a service they provide. Many people believe athletes are being paid for little work‚ but in fact they work at the same level or even a higher level as other workers do. Making it into
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and help and that they should get paid millions. Then people like me saying that no they are not overpaid and that they are the best at what they can do. The odds of making the NFL is about 1.6% and that 1 injury may be the end of all of that‚ Not to blame the players but more like the people and the organizations themselves‚ without these players and without the youth that follow behind these big stars and NFL players there would be no Nike no Underarmour. NFL players are not paid too much because
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Are Athletes Overpaid The average athlete can make more than the President of the United States; how is that fair? Athletes‚ like Tom Brady‚ are overpaid and make more that the average families that work till they are 70 years old. Do athletes really deserve to make that much? The answer is no‚ they do no. First‚ athletes make way over a million dollars in one year. The average income of an American family is about 54‚000 dollars a year. A nurse only makes 70‚000 dollars a year. Compare that to
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