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    Three Unique Places to Get Scholarships Are you are looking to further your education, yet dont have to mean to pay for college? Then a scholarship could be for you. Scholarships help fill the void between the money you have to pay and the overall tuition bills. There are several hundred to several thousand scholarship available for students to apply for. You may find looking for scholarship an overwhelming task. Well no worries there should be several people at your school who can help you with

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    Paragraph 1 – summarize the author(s) points The authors of this article discuss if the student-athletes would need start getting paid for their talents on the field and how that would affect the sports in college universities. One of the main arguments was that some universities in certain states where income taxes are low would have an advantage over other universities located in states where are high income taxes. Another implication is that NCAA considers all of the athletes’ as amateurs and

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    I am very grateful to be able to use this scholarship you awarded me towards my higher education at Idaho State University. I was very thrilled when finding out about being a recipient for your scholarship. Anything that helps towards my college costs is greatly appreciated leading me to be a step closer to my goal in college. Being able to receive this scholarship is going to make a great difference in my career. One of the reasons is because it will give me an opportunity to focus in my college

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    Gilman Scholarship

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    I created a PowerPoint that was broken into three sections; before Korea, during Korea, and after Korea. I talked about the important of applying to scholarships and of course the Gilman Scholarship. I showed them my budget and how everything was paid for thanks to the scholarships I had applied to and I then proceeded to show them the Gilman website so they could get familiar with it. It was shocking how many of them hadn’t even thought of the possibility of studying

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    Title IX Slowly Killing Men’s Athletics This past June marked the 40th anniversary of Title IX, a United States law stating that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Although the wide spectrum in which Title IX covers includes many educational issues, its application to NCAA athletics has especially

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    Student Athletes Should Not Receive Additional Money When a student athlete signs a letter of intent to play at a division one school, he or she is generally happy for the opportunity to perform at the highest level of college competition. Like all good things though, they eventually come to an end. After awhile athletes soon begin to realize not all of their expenses are paid for. Because some of the extra costs in college are put on student athletes, some suggest the NCAA and other sources

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    just a scholarship to pay for expenses outside of tuition, room, and board. A scholarship is strictly limited to these, but what about the expenses outside of those? It is time to start paying college athletes to play sports to cover the expenses that occur outside of a scholarship and the sport. With the growing costs of living, more and more athletes are looking for ways to get more money than

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    to put in their opinion of how they should receive a salary. Did they forget that they are still students at an institution? Most of the big time college athletes, such as basketball and football players, are at the school with a full athletic scholarship, which is already worth thousands of dollars. Everyday students pay to be a part of the school, and athletes receive the benefits of going to school for free, and enjoy all the extra benefits that come with the tough work as an athlete. These athletes

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    Bleeding Green and White

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    The history of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte started back on September 23, 1946. A woman by the name of Bonnie Ethel Cone founded UNCC on that date. The size of the school has grown since 1946 and there is no religious affiliation to this college, students may practice what they please, and when. UNCC does have a mascot, his name is Norm the Niner. UNCC has a pleasant environment. Typical classes are not an intimidating size, being usually a 19:1 student-faculty ratio and a 48%

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    College Athletes Should be Compensated Essay

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    a payment would further complicate the issue, but others say that it would end all of the problems. College athletes should receive some form of compensation for participation in collegiate sports due to the hardships they endure, a failure of scholarships to cover all expenses , the exploitation of college athletes by the colleges and universities they play for, a disparity between coaches’ and players’ compensation, and the hypocrisy of National Collegiate Athletic Association’s rules. A

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