Drew Stearman
Mr. Chapman
Eng. 106
2 February, 2016
The Clash of Helmets The men and women in the military fight hard to protect our country. Countless lives are lost and families torn apart. These people are seen as heros to our country, men and women that will sacrifice anything and everything to keep their loved ones safe. However, once these heros come back from overseas, they are often greeted with no job opportunities, and sometimes no income. These people, these heros, are living a lower class life than someone else who wears a different helmet on their head; professional football players. It is a fact that professional football players earn far more money than our military. (Claim of fact) On a moral ground, people will often agree
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It is practically absurd that our country is willing to pay the NFL players more money than the people who are making it possible for them to get paid in the first place. Without our military force, our country may not even be in the state where these football players get paid as much as they do, yet the soldiers are the ones suffering from this. A quick look online can find hundreds of people talking about how sickening it is for our veterans and current active duty soldiers to be paid so little, yet almost nothing is done about this. Although, how could something truly be done, our country is centered around business and the economy, and our military simply does not fit into that. Our country was built around the idea of business, and with that comes a price, which is that our military cannot receive as much of an income, no matter how immoral it is. Even though our soldiers are getting paid less, that does not mean that actions can not be taken to help this. People should be putting forward an effort to help these soldiers, such as many Americans across the country are doing. There are many small organizations across this country that are helping veterans with financial aid, something that they should not need in the first place. Soldiers who risk their lives to protect a country should not have to struggle to find a job or income, they should be rewarded for the services they already gave this country; our
Have you ever wondered how much a NFL player gets paid? Well, he at least gets paid more than a firefighter, a cop, and a soldier! They don’t even save lives. Every time a cop saves a live the barely get paid.
Could you imagine working 80 plus hours a week and only earning around $26,000 in salary per year as a flat rate, but there’s a catch. The average enlisted soldier with four years or less of service makes roughly $2300 a month and that’s with 65 hours plus a week. An average day consists from working from 5:00 AM to 6:00 PM or later with no say in the matter. $27,600 a year before taxes before paying your benefits and retirement. Breaking this down to a 65-hour workweek enlisted soldiers are making less then Minimum wage. Soldiers protect our freedoms our way of life and our country, regardless of the physical or emotional cost, even with the risk of ones life. Congress should enact a law increasing pay and closing the gap between the civilian pay scale and the military pay scale.
Imagine being one of the best employees working for a billion dollar industry, but despite that, you aren’t paid. That is the reality for college athletes, who should be paid for their athletic ability. In the United States, four hundred thousand athletes are part of the NCAA. Yet, none of the athletes are paid. College athletes should be paid because they make the events possible, and those events generate billions of dollars in profit.
Our country is supplied with veterans that are out on the streets and don’t have homes, even though they fought for you, me, your family, friends, and the whole country. Athletes get paid more than veterans do. Without the veterans we wouldn't have any freedom to have our country secure and protected with the hearts of troops
NCAA College Football Makes Money then so should the college players. The NCAA and its most well-known teams make a profit along with The University of Texas made over $100 million in profit in just a year of 2011. With so much money coming in you would think at least 25% would go to the players, the players are expected to do slave labor without a cut? This whole debate is coming down to fairness. The logical reason why the college football athletes don't get paid is that most of them got full ride scholarships to college, I understand that they are there for education, not money and the sport doesn't have enough money to pay the college athletes but even a small percentage of some kind of income would be generous. There are athletes that get their jersey sold for mounts of money but get nothing from it. The jersey they bleed, sweat and cried on gets sold to the
Imagine what we could do with hat money, people like nurses, doctors, firefighters, and policemen and women could get the money they deserve. My first and most important reason that college athletes should be paid to play is that they make more money than people who serve and risk their lives for our country. Lebron James made more money than your local firefighter. Also, sports
The topic of paying college football players is not a very difficult one to side with. There are lots of logical reasons as to why they should or shouldn't be paid. The scholarships they receive seem like a payment to them all its own, but does it really compensate them what they deserve? The strongest sided opinion of the matter is that they should be paid to play. This opinion makes a little more sense because they work harder than the average college student, they bring in tons of money for their school, if something happens they are out, and the NCAA isn't really concerned about treating them well ethically.
There are many reasons why people argue over if to pay football players, but one thing can 't be denied and that 's that these athletes make a lot of money for colleges. The
Do you know someone who receives Veterans Benefits? Do you know how long for them to get their benefits or if they received them at all? Contemplate that and reach out to your family member or friend that is a veteran and see what kind of answers you get.
Life during the Civil War was not a pleasant time. There was basically utter chaos
From the Halls of Montezuma to the mountains of Afghanistan, the men and women of our nation's armed forces have been literally putting their lives on the line in defense of our nation for over 225 years. In recognition of their brave and patriotic service to the nation, enlisted service members should be better compensated for their courage to serve.Good thesis
First of all, I think that athletes and entertainers don’t deserve as much money as they do make. This is very important to me, I think people who risk their own lives or another person’s life as a career deserves more money. Someone who can play a sport or sing and has a talent deserves to paid, but not millions. Police officers, nurses, and especially soldiers deserve as much if not more money. There
Should soldiers be paid more money ? There is 9 levels of enlisted pay in the military. There are a lot of people that enter the service. Cash of $38734.44 For three years of service after taxes the soldier makes a this may help soldiers for a little while, but this amount of pay cann’t fully support a family greater of the army diagnosed 76,176 soldiers with PTSD between 2000 - 2011.
Your key challenge in a leadership position is taking care of the Soldiers entrusted to your care. Soldiers are our nation’s most important military asset. The Leader who sends the message that Soldiers don’t really matter will generally not be as successful in the long-run as the Leader who is genuinely serious about taking care of his/her Soldiers.
This information gained through my interview allows me to understand why the employees get paid so little compared to other companies. Many of my fellow co-workers have complained to me about their pay. Some have even quit their job because they felt they were not being compensated enough. While I agreed with this, I now understand why the Western Family YMCA cannot afford to pay the employees more. The funding provided is not enough to increase staff salaries. Since there are 340 children enrolled in the program a higher amount of staff needs to be hired. Although at the beginning of the year there was staff placed at each site accordingly, staff members have begun to leave the company. During an interview, I had with Sophia Giannetta, a