...“Nothing in the collegiate sporting world is guaranteed, and many players thrive on that uncertainty” (Cassavaugh). Athletes can lose scholarship money because of an injury, poor play or misconduct. There has been controversy that student athletes should be paid. How does one determine who should be paid, how much and where does this money come from? Athletes are amateurs who should concentrate on their education. How does one determine if an athlete is an amateur or a professional? An amateur is one who cannot receive money in the form of salaries or endorsements. They play a sport for the love and desire of it. A professional on the other hand gets paid a salary or money for endorsements. Professionals are also more skilled and concentrate one hundred percent on their sport. Amateurs do not have the time to only commit to a sport since they have to attend classes or work to support themselves. If student Athletes did get paid, college sports would lose their competitive hype. Let’s look at football on a college level compared to the pros. Athletes playing on a college level (amateur) give every play their all trying to do whatever it takes to win with hopes of someday be picked to go pro. Pro football players on the other hand, do not give every play one hundred percent. They are afraid of being hurt and know regardless of the game’s outcome they will still get paid. What if the athlete does not make it to the professional level? These student athletes need to make sure...
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...The literary era of this poetry love ushered in a gentler period which placed greater emphasis on humility, courtesy and the elevation of womanhood into a source of reverence and inspiration. Leading to enrichment between men and women which had an uplifting effect on the society around them. In this era, it was established as a the formal means of expressing reverence of romance and love that was entirely new in Europe. There was no tradition of passionate love literature in the European middle ages before the twelfth century with the exception of Spain and Sicily where there was exposure to Arabic love poetry, to which a lot of our modern ideas about romantic love can be traced back. But this time show or tell that they expressed more complaints about their unfaithful lovers than happiness. I’m not really surprise. Woman always find something to complain about when they don’t get what they want. There is difficulty in labeling the trobairitz as either amateurs or professionals. The distinction between these two roles was complicated in the medieval era, since professionals were generally lower class, and amateurs had as much time as professionals to devote to their craft. The poem written by the Contessa de Dia is a canso. When discussing troubadour and trobairitz poetry, it is important to realize that they were a piece of entertainment .These poems were largely of political or moral nature. The troubadour would sing or recite poetry while playing harp during the Medieval...
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...their lives, and right now you’re probably thinking, “Where is this kid going with this?” Well, I excel in two things, being pro, and being a boss. Being pro is the ability to be more than amateur, and being a boss is better than being an employee. People like to say that they are a boss with no real reasoning behind it, but I’m here to tell you I’m no sham, I am indeed, a boss. I run things around here, when people need something done they come up to me and say, “Hey boss, I need something done” and I just say “What’s up, or what’s that? Sounds like I already finished it.” That’s how expediently I tend to matters of importance. Another boos like quality I have obtained over the years is the ability to build things. Not just material buildings, but social pyramids can be constructed at my will. I run my lunch table and the order that they go about their business, where they’re located and even who gets to talk in what order. Also I can build an elevator, BAM. I would like to close my boss qualities with the fact that I’m a boss because all my b*tches love me, you aint f*cking with my dougie. I am a pro. What am I pro at? “Everything” so say Mrs. Trotter of Hays High School. I’m a pro at all things ranging from sports to Pokémon, and face it, who doesn’t love Pokémon? I’m so pro that people often times ask me how I can possibly maintain my pro status. It’s quite a trivial question for you see, I was born a pro. Talent like mine can’t be made or...
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...1. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: “To thine own self be true”, says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | Student Answer: | | “To thine own self be true” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true”, Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | Instructor Explanation: | For information on how to correct a mechanical error with a quotation, visit the Ashford Writing Center https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-punctuation-quotation-marks.html | | | | Points Received: | 0 of 1 | | Comments: | | | | Question 2. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” (p. 121). | | | Student Answer: | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes (p. 121).” | | | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989; p. 121) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” | | | | In The Writer...
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...and recording industry YUXIN GONG 2014.4.6 Excusive summary Introduction 1.0 Automation effects amateur music player 2.0 Automation highly influences Professional music industry 2.1 Auto-tune 2.2 Low Frequency Oscillation Conclusion References 2 Executive summary People from all ages and races love music. Since everything is under rapid development, music industry has a huge improvement with the use of technology. It is still controversial whether the high-tech used in music is good. Some music fans are no longer satisfied with the music industry while some people become more enthusiastic than before. Artists also have contrasting views in the innovation of technology, especially automation of knowledge works. I did some research both online and in the library and did interviews with different music players to support this background report. The interviewees are from different levels and working on distinguished styles of music. Thus, I can get enough information from various aspects. Here, I am going to divide music players into two groups: amateur and professional. It will be easier to evaluate the automation’s effects. At the end of this report, there is an expectation of how automation will influence the music industry more in the future and whether humans’ talent will be replaced by these automation works someday. For amateur music player, automation gives them an easier access to professional music. • Easier for them to do a nice...
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...compromised of all amateur players. Since then rules have changed and now the use of professional athletes is allowed in Olympic competition. It is my belief that the use of professional athletes in Olympic competition ruins the pride and glory of the games. Prior to 1952 only amateur athletes were allowed in the Olympic Games, both winter and summer. Then the Soviet Union and its 14 Communist allies entered the games. They trained 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. They won most of the gold, silver and bronze during the 1970s and 1980s. None of these athletes were amateur, and yet they were allowed to compete in the Olympics because the communist athletes were not definable as “pros” It was unfair, so in 1986 the International Olympic Committee changed its rule book to allow "all the world's great male and female athletes to participate." This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of NBA stars, which won Olympic gold metal in 92, 96, and 2000. The U.S. basketball team dominated the sport until 2004 where they only got bronze in Athens. The U.S. dominated because all their playeres were professional NBA stars. This takes hope away from other countries who want a chance to win and even Americans who would like a chance to play for their country but can’t because it is being dominated by professionals. If you bring in professional athletes in basketball, you are going to be in a situation where one country dominates the sport. Using amateur athletes makes...
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...Knuckleheadz Boxing Gym is one of Ventura County’s most talented gyms for amateur and professional fighters. Four years ago, a man named Haz, opened up his own gym named Hostility and trained amateur boxers become professional. Later, he met a young man named Joseph Soltero who specialized in training amateur and professional MMA fighters. Shortly after becoming friends, both men opened up a gym called Knuckleheadz in Ventura, California. Here, they expanded their cliental and have over one hundred members including Ultimate Fighter Winner Tony Ferguson and professional boxer Victor Ortiz. Every day, the gym is open from 7am-9pm. They offer classes in weight lifting, MMA, wrestling, boxing, kick boxing, jujitsu and basic conditioning. All the trainers are former fighters and are extremely knowledgeable with the fighting world. There’s such a wide variety of fighters from different weight classes, ethnicities, body types, ages, fighting techniques and much more. Furthermore, when one walks into this gym, there’s a certain attitude all possess. Fight mode must be on when entering the gym and all worries and problems are left behind the door. Although there are many different individuals specializing in different areas of fighting, they all come for the same purpose and that is to better themselves as a fighter or condition their bodies, but most important to have more discipline and focus their careers as a future professional athlete. For...
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...Title: Author: Grant Allen [More Titles by Allen] "He was a mere amateur; but still, he did some good work in science." Increasingly of late years I have heard these condescending words uttered, in the fatherland of Bacon, of Newton, of Darwin, when some Bates or Spottiswoode has been gathered to his fathers. It was not so once. Time was when all English science was the work of amateurs--and very well indeed the amateurs did it. I don't think anybody who does me the honour to cognise my humble individuality at all will ever be likely to mistake me for a _laudator temporis acti_. On the contrary, so far as I can see, the past seems generally to have been such a distinct failure all along the line that the one lesson we have to learn from it is, to go and do otherwise. I am one on that point with Shelley and Rousseau. But it does not follow, because most old things are bad, that all new things and rising things are necessarily and indisputably in their own nature excellent. Novelties, too, may be retrograde. And even our great-grandfathers occasionally blundered upon something good in which we should do well to imitate them. The amateurishness of old English science was one of these good things now in course of abolition by the fashionable process of Germanisation. Don't imagine it was only for France that 1870 was fatal. The sad successes of that deadly year sent a wave of triumphant Teutonism over the face of Europe. I suppose it is natural to man to worship success;...
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...Logical Argument Essay: Paying College Athletes College athletes juggle busy academic in addition to practice schedules throughout their week. Team sports like basketball and football, as well as individual sports, are extremely popular worldwide, especially in the United States. Pro athletes have statuses similar to Hollywood celebrities, and wages that match. However, no matter how well they currently play, all of them once were amateurs. In this perspective, college athletes are not much different from professionals, yet college athletes have never been financially compensated for their efforts in sports. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) prohibits college athletes to be monetarily compensated for their effort. College athletes should be fiscally compensated for a number of reasons. Playing a college sport is like a full time job, except for no financial benefits. A typical 1st division college football player trains approximately 43 hours per week. To put that into perspective, a typical American works 40 hours per week. In addition to the 40+ hours per week of training, college athletes also need to dedicate time to studying. With an intense schedule like this, college athletes are left with no time to make a living. Additionally, NCAA tournament rules often require college athletes to skip classes in favor of nationally televised games that bring in revenue, going to the NCAA, not the athlete who is possibly sacrificing their grades. Based...
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...LIT2480 Prof. de Benedictis 16. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the philosophies of Brooks and Tesich toward marriage. With what points did you most agree or disagree. As a young, single male, the concept of marriage is still somewhat distant and unclear to me. However, marrying a fine young lady and starting a successful family feels like the ideal lifestyle to have one day. After reading “The power of marriage” by David Brooks and “An amateur marriage” by Steve Tesich, it was interesting to see the idea of marriage from different perspectives and how these gentlemen’s ideals differ from each other. David Brooks and Steve Tesich both make valid points about the matter and introduce their own philosophies, some of which I partly agree and partly disagree with. Brooks immediately declares what side of the debate he is on by stating a more traditional approach to the subject. He believes that marriage is a lifelong sacred bond between two people and that by having several sexual partners you are committing “spiritual suicide”. This mentality is almost completely opposite to what Tesich believes. Tesich would probably see this as a myth; in fact, he says that marriage is full of myths that are made up by society. Tesich instead talks about his experience the day he got married to a girl that used the same ring from her previous marriage on her current one, and he adds, “It did the job”. Tesich and his wife Becky have been married for 13 years...
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...concentrate on the sport itself and players without exploring other ulterior factors that influence the development of a sport such as the emotional, economic and social environment. The book, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is one of the few that have managed to avoid this perennial mistake. This paper is a review of the book, its content, author, objectives and ideas. The book traces the roots and development of baseball. It explains how it began with the culture of organized baseball in 1850's and later graduated from an amateur sport to a professional one a few decades later, thereafter developing into a business. The book not only traces the sport’s linear development, explaining the chronological events that marked its evolution, but also the constant and recurrent elements that have characterized it through different generations, the cyclical history. The writer shows how the game was an amateur club-based sport when it began around 1857. At the time, the main players were clerks, artisans and shopkeepers; there was nothing professional about the sport. Around twenty years later, the face of baseball had changed with businessmen taking advantage of it for profit-making purposes and having club managers to run their operations. The book’s author is Professor Warren Goldstein, PhD, an expert in American history, and an author of multiple books and publications. He holds Bachelor of Arts degree and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University...
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...the TV , tickets, and merchandising then that is wrong. They should, at least, have 10% of what they sell that has the player's last name on it .I am on the pro side why I am is because If a person buys an item that has something to do with them, then they should be paid a little amount of what the regular price is of the item. I am going to tell you a few Pros about college players getting paid. First of all, in the text it says, “ Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year.” My question is how does the franchise make billions a year. They make billions a year from the players who, when the games and consistently bowl games and don't even bring a little bit poor because people consider they are amateurs and they will do something poor with the money like use it on things that...
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...as the number one television show for the 2010 to 2011 season. However, American Idol would not have been able to do this if it weren’t for its influences and factors that came before it. American Idol has many cultural antecedents that have helped make the television show as big as it is today. American Idol is not the first singing/talent show competition to ever hit the television screen or be heard of by America. “Talent shows were popular even before the invention of television and were used as the basis for many of the first TV shows ever made.” (www.life123.com) Long before American Idol became a mega-hit, there was one radio series in the 30’s and 40’s that started the talent competition craze. It was called: "Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour." It was first started on the radio and then later turned into a television series. It was hosted by Major Edward Bowes. Many stars including Frank Sinatra and Nick Carter were discovered on this show. It was one of the best known radio talent shows. Bowes would talk to the contestants, listen to their performances, and give feedback. He was impatient and quick to let contestants know if they were bad. He was a lot like American Idol’s Simon Cowell except that Bowes would sound a Bell or a gong to stop the contestants. The idea of American Idol was developed a long time ago and continues to be a part of popular culture over the years. An aspect of American Idol that is important in the results of the show is that they let the audience...
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...When asked when college athletes should turn pro, the late, famous actor, Will Rogers, said, “Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.” Whether we like to admit it or not, the student-athletes attending a university are indeed amateurs. With their future coming near, it is important that the students get the most out of school as they can and that they not rush the process. Although many critics believe that college athletes are being exploited by not being financially compensated, not paying athletes will allow them to benefit from their additional advantages, gain from the learning experience of college, and allow all college athletes to be treated more fairly. College athletes should not be paid because they already receive fair compensation through several additional benefits in...
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...Sarah Lois Vaughn was born on March 27, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, to her parents Asbury Jake a carpenter, and Ada Vaughn. Sarah developed an early love for popular music on records and on the radio. In the 1930’s Newark had a very active live music scene and Vaughn frequently sawed local and touring bands in the city and at venues like the Montgomery Street Skating rink, by her mid teens Vaughn began venturing illegally into Newark nightclubs performing as a pianist and occasionally a singer at the Piccadilly Club and the Newark Airport USO; Vaughn was thrust immediately into stardom after a winning amateur night performance at the Harlem Zeus, Theater; she was frequently accompanied by a friend Doris Robinson on her trip into New York City. In the fall of 1942, Vaughn suggested...
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