I have found a lot on information on my topic dealing with college athletes and their scholarships. I can understand both arguments for if college athletes should be paid or not. Both sides have great supporting arguments.
Pros: College athletics is a billion dollar industry
Crazy money is going to college coaches
Over half of college athletes come from the lowest income families
Endorsements would cause athletes to behave and have clean image
Cons: Only two sports contribute to the net gain of a university (football and basketball)
Other Programs will need to be cut
Only 12 FBS schools broke even or made income last year
Free or less expensive education
Includes tutors and help from many people whenever needed
Questions: Do collegiate athletes have enough support and tools around them to help them succeed without needing money?
Is there a viable plan to pay athletes and not crush the university?
Should college athletes be forced to take a money management or financial help class?
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Synthesis & Plan
1. I have researched both sides of my topic. Whether or not professional athletes make to much money. I researched people who say that they are paid too much and those who say they deserve the pay.
2. What is the maximum salary a player can get paid for each sport? What is the minimum salary a player can get paid for each sport? What is the average salary of athletes? What sport pays athletes the most? How much Revenue do sports bring in each year? How much are athletes paid for product endorsements?
2. What is the maximum salary a player can get paid for each sport? What is the minimum salary a player can get paid for each sport? What is the average salary of athletes? What sport pays athletes the most? How much Revenue do sports bring in each year? How much are athletes paid for product endorsements?
Halloween and child labor, hand in hand
Halloween has always been a scary holiday between the scary movies and storys of killers but now theres a whole new thing to fear, child labor. Child labor is being used to grow and harvest the cocoa beans on the ivory coast of africa, where candy companies such as Nestle and Hersheys begin their choclate producing process. This year alone around halloween americans spent an estimated 2.4 billion dollars on candy.
One of the aforementioned companies, Hershey's, is now facing legal action for their child labor law violations. Why are these companies allowed to use child labor overseas with such little restriction? How were these crimes able to be concealed fro m the public for so long? Something needs to be done, luckily some companies agree, the company in charge of producing kit kat bar's has recently been commended for using only chocolate that has been produced legally and without child labor. How can we get othe companies to do so as well?
Source:http://theithacan.org/27273
Trustworthiness: this source appears to be trustworthy, it is a small newspaper operated in Ithica, New York. It's articles are well written and the website is regularly updated leading me to beleive that it's a trustworthy source.
This specific article was posted on Halloween of this year, so it is very recent
One of the aforementioned companies, Hershey's, is now facing legal action for their child labor law violations. Why are these companies allowed to use child labor overseas with such little restriction? How were these crimes able to be concealed fro m the public for so long? Something needs to be done, luckily some companies agree, the company in charge of producing kit kat bar's has recently been commended for using only chocolate that has been produced legally and without child labor. How can we get othe companies to do so as well?
Source:http://theithacan.org/27273
Trustworthiness: this source appears to be trustworthy, it is a small newspaper operated in Ithica, New York. It's articles are well written and the website is regularly updated leading me to beleive that it's a trustworthy source.
This specific article was posted on Halloween of this year, so it is very recent
Should Marijuana be legal?
Marijuana prohibition cost tax payers billions of dollars a year to enforce, and accomplishes little or nothing beneficial in terms of economic benefit. Legalization of marijuana would not only save tax payers billions of dollars a year in unnecessary costs, but would jump start the economy to 100 billion dollars a year. Reports states that legalizing, taxing, and regulating marijuana would do wonders to reduce inflated budgets and generate new revenue streams.
"[R]eplacing prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation [...] would save $7.7 billion per year in state and federal expenditures on prohibition enforcement and produce tax revenues of at least $2.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed like most consumer goods," say the economists. "If, however, marijuana were taxed similarly to alcohol or tobacco, it might generate as much as $6.2 billion annually."
Synthesis & Plan
Generally when a person logs onto their computer for research, they are not thinking of all the apps and how surrounded they are by their search engine. With Google being the #1 search engine for the past decade, the company has branched out in many directions to not only help the population, but to generate as much revenue as possible. Through these little applets, Google partners with companies and creates space for advertisements on both their search engine and willing websites. Along with these modes for outreach, Google has infiltrated the cell phone industry through Android and many others. The innovative technology and business strategies displayed are moves of stealth and creativity among the growing possibilities of the internet.
Questions I plan on answering:
Questions I plan on answering:
- How did Google rise to where it is today?
- What technology does Google use for its search engine?
- What does the future look like for Google?
- What are the smart moves the Google has made to make the company rise to the top?
should guns be illegal?
Just after midnight, police say a lone gunman walked into a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and opened fire. Police say the suspect, James Holmes, shot 70 people. As of July 20th, 12 of those people had died.
Beverly Ann M. said making guns illegal would have a worse impact. “That would only leave decent people unarmed and unprotected while only criminals would still be packing.”
“If only one of those victims had a legally concealed gun, they could have taken the gunman down and saved lives,” Samantha C. wrote. “We have to be able to protect ourselves.”
The release went on to say, “Firearms industry
members were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase
in jobs between 2008 and 2011, a 66.5 percent increase in economic impact and a
66.5 percent increase in federal taxes paid by industry companies….
UPDATED Chart of sports salaries
Regular season salary
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Per game
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MLB
162 games
30,352 spg
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max
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$30,000,000
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$185,185
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avg
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$3,310,000
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$20,432
|
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min
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$480,000
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$2,962
|
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NFL
16 games
67,509 spg
|
max
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$19,035,000
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$1,189,687
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avg
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$1,900,000
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$118,750
|
|
min
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$390,000
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$24,375
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NHL
82 games
17,460 spg
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max
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$14,000,000
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$170,731
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avg
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$2,400,000
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$29,268
|
|
min
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$525,000
|
$6,402
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NBA
82 games
15,860 spg
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max
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$68,700,000
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$837,804
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avg
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$5,150,000
|
$62,804
|
|
min
|
$480,000
|
$5,853
|
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I have updated the chart adding the spectators per game (spg)
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