The NCAA does not allow college athletes to be payed for being on a college sports team. There has been big a debate between the universities and players whether or not they should be paid. College athletes should be paid because they don’t have time to have a jobs and a scholarship isn’t enough to pay for certain needs.
Some college athletes don’t have time to get jobs and come from struggling families. According to a twitter feed in the article, “BCS: Player Round Table: Should Athletes be Paid,” contributor, Ishaq Williams says, “ You can struggle because you don’t have time to work, to have a job.” Between practices and 2-3 hour games, sometimes late at night, college athletes don’t have time to have jobs. Furthermore, another contributor, Michael Williams, Alabama tight end said, “You have people coming in whose families’ situation is not good at all.” Some families pay so much money for their kids to attend big Universities such as Alabama ($33,781 per semester without a scholarship), Oregon ($26,415 per semester without a scholarship) and Notre Dame ($40,910 per semester without a scholarship) to be successful. Some players need to be paid to support their struggling families.
Athlete should be paid because a scholarship isn’t enough to support their needs. More specifically, in the article, “Why College Athletes Should be Paid,” “Most Athletes don’t last for a whole four years,” some players don’t even use the full four year scholarship. Sometimes players get cut off the team and move to different colleges. In addition to the same article and the fact that a scholarship isn’t enough, “A scholarship doesn’t equal cash in a players pocket.” a scholarship may be able to pay for books and tuition but it doesn’t pay for laundry, and food.
Some may say college athletes shouldn’t be paid because they’re being paid in other ways. One reason is because in the article, “Why College Athletes Should Not be Paid,” “College athletes today have never had it better, with major universities like Ohio State, Auburn, Georgia, and Michigan.” College athletes should be grateful that they get to play for major universities and very good teams. Secondly, “[universities] investing millions of dollars into new student-athlete centers and facilities to pamper these 18-22 years old with a lifestyle once reserved only for royalty.” These college players are very rich in other ways. They make so much money for their universities but don’t get a dime. On the contrary, in the article, “ Should NCAA pay college players?,” Johnny Manziel, a heisman winning quarterback for Texas A&M has an autograph worth lots of money but is not being payed for it. Manziel makes millions of dollars for the Texas A&M football team but receives nothing. Also, Oregon spends lots of money on a sports complex. For example, this complex had couches from italy, a fuzzball table from Barcelona, and a rug from Nepal. All that money wasted on this sports complex can be given to the players. College players should be paid for the hard work they put on the field and the money should not be wasted on an expensive sports complex.
This topic is important because college athletes are working hard everyday, during games and practices and not receiving any money. Most players do get free, books, tuition, and food but, they don’t receive laundry money, gas for their cars and cash in their pocket. They work too hard to not be paid.
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonneblick is about a 13 year old boy named Steven that has a 5 year old brother named Jeffrey who is diagnosed with leukemia. As Jeffrey's sickness kept getting worse, the more Steven realized how much he realized how much he loves his brother and couldn't live without him. He realizes that there's more things to life than drums, girls and dangerous pie.
In the beginning of the story Steven says, "Having a brother is horrible... having my particular brother , Jeffrey is an relenting nightmare." Steven is saying that Jeffrey is annoying and preventing him from doing certain things. Steven also says, "He may not play the drums, he may not pretend the symbols are shields and he is a knight." Steven does not let Jeffrey go anywhere near his drums. Its like Steven cares about the drums more than Jeffrey. Towards the end of the book, Steven invites renne Albert, the hottest girl in school, to his house to tutor him in math. When he opens the door to let her in she tells him that she has a cold. Steven slams the door and refuses to let her in. He can't risk Jeffrey getting any more sick than he already is.
In conclusion, this message relates to many teenagers in the real world. Many teenagers having younger siblings hat annoy them and can't do certain things because of them. But that doesn't mean you stop loving them. It's their Job to annoy the old sibling. That's what little siblings do. Family is family, no matter what.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney is about how Greg Heffley's best friend ditched for a new girlfriend named Abigail. Every time Greg tries to hang out with Rowley, Abigail is always there. Since Rowley has a girlfriend he has no time for Greg. He struggles to find new friends in a tough year in middle school. I think that Rowley's girlfriend shouldn't get in the way of his friendship with Greg.
In the book Greg says, "Back in the good old days, it was just me and Rowley, and we hung out and did whatever we wanted. If we felt like blowing bubbles in our chocolate milk at lunch, then that's exactly what we did. But now that there's a in the picture, things are totally different." Now that Rowley has a girlfriend Greg and Rowley can't do the fun things they used to do. In the book Greg also says, "Wherever Rowley is, his girlfriend Abigail is too. And even if isn't there, it seems like she is. I invited Rowley to my house for a sleepover last weekend so the two of us could spend some time together, but after about two hours I gave up trying to have any fun." This means that Greg and Rowley can't spend any fun time together because Rowley is caught up with his girlfriend. Another thing that Greg says in the book is, " When the two of them are in same place, its even worse. Ever since Rowley and Abigail got together, its's like Rowley got together, it's like Rowley doesn't even have his own opinions anymore." Rowley isn't the same as when he didn't have a girl friend.
This connected to teenagers because it shows how relationships can take over your life and stop ditch your best friends.Having a girlfriend shouldn't get in the way of your friendships. You can't let a girl change you as a person. You can let a girl mess up your friendships.A girl isn't as important as your friendships.
