Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair. Discuss both these views and give your opinion

Essay topics:

Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair. Discuss both these views and give your opinion

The world of sports is a multimillion dollar industry. Around the globe, people flock to sporting events or watch their favourite teams faithfully each week on television. As a result, professional sports athletes receive huge salaries – well above, for example, those of doctors, lawyers, teachers or social workers. There is some debate about whether such outrageously high salaries are justified.

On the one hand, sport is viewed as a professional career, in which the top players should rightly earn high salaries. Athletes train rigorously from an early age to become peak performers in their field. They face tremendous pressure in each and every game, match or competition. Their personal lives are compromised and they lose all privacy. At the same time, their strong achievements bring honour and attention, not only to themselves, but also to their teams, schools, cities or countries.

On the other hand, various professions contribute to making our world run smoothly. Doctors put in at least ten years of grueling study and internship; their work saves lives. Teachers educate and inspire young people to be responsible citizens: their efforts produce the citizens of tomorrow. Social workers rescue individuals facing physical, mental and psychological challenges: their intervention creates safer societies.

Yet, professionals in the fields above usually struggle to get by, despite their meaningful and critical contribution to the world.

In my view, paying enormous salaries to sportspeople is unnecessary. We need to reconsider our social priorities and eliminate the great disparity in income received by diverse professionals. By doing so, we can build societies in which each one feels valued, appreciated and appropriately compensated for their own vocation or specialization.
<!--break-->

Votes
Average: 7.5 (2 votes)
This essay topic by users
Post date Users Rates Link to Content
2014-01-08 marzieh 53 view
2013-11-24 Chingiz Agasiyev 75 view
2013-10-24 fialka 77 view
2013-10-17 fuady 60 view
2013-09-17 ariel1984 85 view
Essay Categories

Comments

There is some debate
There are some debates

flaws:
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.569 7.5
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.038 0.07

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 273 350
No. of Characters: 1482 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.065 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.429 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.944 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.569 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.353 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.262 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.523 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.038 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5