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I plan on using this article to help make my argument more sound. My hope is that this article will provide enough supporting information without adding too much "fluff" to the essay. The author's writing style was very clear and concise as well, which provided me with a good example of how I wanted to try to write my paper.

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I plan on using this article to help fill any holes that I find in my paper. Although this isn't an article that I found groundbreaking, I found that a lot of the themes had synergy with the themes I wanted to use. Lastly, I think that the natural progression of the article through multiple years of data will help me make some of my transitions smoother.

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This article talks about the correlation between academic achievement and participation in athletic programs. The authors highlight these correlations from primary to tertiary education and how they compare and contrast. The authors then go a step further and talk about the education level of professional athletes. The authors then talk about the pros and cons of participating in athletics in school. This is finally wrapped together by the discussion of how a balance between the two can lead to great success in one's career path.

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Whitner, Phillip A., and Randall C. Myers. “Academics and an Athelete: A Case Study.” The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 57, no. 6, 1986, pp. 659–72. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1981198. Accessed 12 July 2023. 

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Whitner, Phillip A., and Randall C. Myers. “Academics and an Athelete: A Case Study.” The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 57, no. 6, 1986, pp. 659–72. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1981198. Accessed 12 July 2023. 

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I found this graph to be a very good primary source for my essay. I want to use it to highlight how much the top athletes of different sports are making. Although this is the extreme, this will allow me to also highlight how much the minimum that professional athletes earn amongst their own industry is as well.

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This graph will help connect the argument about how much professional athletes are making with more quantitative data. This graph also helps put into perspective just how much the top athletes are making around the world. I plan on using this data to highlight how these high salaries are not unique to one professional sports industry as well.

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This graph displays the names and salaries of the world's highest-paid athletes between May 1st, 2022, and May 1st, 2023. The infographic is a stacked-bar graph that adds together how much the athletes make on and off the field. The graph also displays what are the countries of origin of the athletes, highlighting how many are from developed countries. The graph also shows what sports the athletes compete in as well. Lastly, the graph contains the numerical value that the athletes earn cumulatively with their combined wages.

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Fleck, Anna, and Felix Richter. “Infographic: The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes.” Statista Daily Data, 2 May 2023, www.statista.com/chart/14130/the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes/. 

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Fleck, Anna, and Felix Richter. “Infographic: The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes.” Statista Daily Data, 2 May 2023, www.statista.com/chart/14130/the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes/. 

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Primary Source

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Miranda-Reyes, Andrés. Survey of Teacher vs. Professional Athlete Wages. July 12, 2023.

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Miranda-Reyes, Andrés. Survey of Teacher vs. Professional Athlete Wages. July 12, 2023.

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This article will be the springboard of which I jump to different points about athletes in my essay. I plan on using this to help draw attention to the amount of effort that it takes for athletes to condition both their minds and bodies to achieve a high level of play. This also will be a staple source to use when I talk about how families invest themselves differently when a child says they want to pursue professional sports versus education as a career path.

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I plan on using this article as the meat of my argument about the pros and cons of pursuing a career in professional sports. The author talks a lot about the smaller investments that many forget athletes must make to achieve and maintain a competitive level of play consistently. I also plan on using it as the primary foundation for the "athletes" side of the points I want to make.

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This article highlights the challenging nature of pursuing a career in professional sports. The author discusses how challenging and competitive the market for professional athletes is, and also how many people don't end up going pro because of this. The author also talks about how pursuing a career can affect the families of these athletes who invest so much into their well-being for a chance to go pro. The rate at which professional athletes leave the profession is also discussed due to the increased chance of career-ending injury. Lastly, the article also talks about how those who end up making it to the big leagues and how they use their newfound influence to either help or hurt, their lives and the lives of those around them.

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I plan on using the data on this survey to help me talk about how people who do or do not watch sports have similar opinions about the salaries given to professional athletes. A whopping 93% of the survey takers believed that teachers deserved more pay and that professional athletes received too much. I believe that this also will help me fill in any holes in my research that the quantitative-nature of the data can help fill.

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I plan on using the results of this survey to help me provide more quantitative data to my research. The results of the survey will help to also reinforce the points I plan on making throughout the essay. I also hope to use the results of the survey to help make the data more relatable to the reader.

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I made this survey to get some immediate opinions from a stratified sample of people about Teacher and Professional Athlete Wages. I asked 15 employees at the Kroger Marketplace on Coventry Road five questions regarding the subject. The questions discussed if they watched professional sports often, if they believed that professional athletes deserve the amount of money they are paid, and if teachers are getting paid enough amongst other questions. The object was to retrieve a primary source that I could use for the project to help support my points. Overall, the sample provided me with a lot of interesting information that I look forward to using in my essay.

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I plan on using this book to help connect the quantitative data from my primary sources to the qualitative data from the articles. This also will help me shed light on how simple, or complex, the professional sports industry is. Lastly, I plan on using this to help support the argument for why athletes get paid as much as they do.

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I found this book to be very informative; especially about how the professional sports industry works. I felt that this book helped me understand how the industry generates as much money as it does every year. I also found it very insightful and felt that it helped me eliminate a bit of my bias towards educator wages because of how "over the table" the sports industry is.

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This book talks about how the machine that is the professional sports industry operates. The author talks about how the industry has grown exponentially over the course of the past 50 years and how it has affected American culture. The author also discusses how the large amounts of money that the industry makes is generates through ticket sales, food sales, and various other means. A comparison is also made of how different countries operate their industries in slightly different ways. Lastly, the author talks about how the increasing popularity of specific sports, such as soccer (fútbol) can positively or negatively affect a country's economy.

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I plan on using this article as a springboard for other subtopics such as wage discrepancies, working conditions, public opinion, and other themes. This article will serve as the juxtaposing source to the book by Frankl. Both that book and this article will help me talk about the challenges of pursuing both career paths respectively.

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I plan on using this article to help me establish my foundation for the “education” side of my research question. I want to use this as a way to compare and contrast the challenges that teachers face to those that athletes face in their day-to-day workplace. This will also help me round out the edges of my argument about how insufficient pay to school districts as a whole contribute to a decline in teachers willing to teach in those districts.

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This article, by Eric Hanushek, talks a lot about the challenges of being a teacher. The author talks a lot about how there is a lot of insufficient support for educators. Lower salaries than they deserve, improper working conditions, and also the general education level of the teacher contribute to some of the arguments made in the article. The author then uses these points to highlight some of the rewards for "sticking with teaching" despite many of these challenges. All the while highlighting how those challenges cost the American education system so many good teachers so often.

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This article talks about what would happen if the American sports industry didn't have as much money as it currently has. The author then takes this idea and uses it to talk about what would happen if that money were allocated into education or health care. The arguments made by the author very passionately talk about the education and public health crisis that America is currently in. The author then takes that idea and asks why we spend so much money on professional sports if such a pressing matter exists. The author finalizes the article with a call to action that leaves the reader questioning where they are spending their money.

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This article will help me connect my thoughts about the educational crisis to the flourishing of the professional sports industry and what would happen if we relocated some of those funds. The author's highlighting of the benefits this could pose to public health will also allow for another example outside of education to be examined briefly. This will ultimately help me discuss just how much the professional sports industry makes comparably to industries that many would argue need it more.

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I thought that this article paired so nicely with my topic. The author's arguments about the education and public health crisis really helped me think about how I wanted to structure my paper around those same issues. Lastly, the fact that the author highlighted the issue and used professional sports as a comparison led me to choose this article without a second thought.

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I plan on using this article to help solidify the ethos side of my essay. The data that the author uses in this really helps make their argument appear credible, which I want to mimic as best as I can. I plan on using this to help talk about the amount of focus on education that student athletes display over the course of their college careers if they choose to complete their degree.

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I believe that I can use this article to help me further my credibility on my topic. I also hope that the logos-driven data that is used here will help me to eliminate any form of bias that I may develop by using the hard facts that this article provides. Lastly, I think that this can be very good material to use to transition from the educational performance of collegiate athletes to the performance of professional athletes.

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This article talks about the academic performance levels of student athletes. The author talks about the well-known topic of if student athletes are performing well academically or not. The author highlights how many student athletes also do well in school, but many also just scrape by academically. The author also uses some quantitative data to highlight how many college athletes are not exceeding academically and eventually drop out of college. Lastly, the author discusses how the lack of academic performance becomes a detriment to student athletes not just in school, but also in various social situations outside of school.

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I plan on using this article to help connect my points about education amongst professional athletes. This will also help me make my essay seem a little less antagonizing towards professional athletes. I found that this made very good points about how talent and hard work can also bring an individual a long way even without a lot of education.

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I plan on using this article as a way to help my transitions appear more smooth to the reader. This article does a really good job of talking about education using sports analogies, which I think makes the article much easier to read. I plan on using that as a way to have the reader hopefully connect with the article more personally by using some of those analogies.

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This article uses sports as a way to discuss how education affects other areas of people's lives. The author talks about how various professions, such as professional sports, can see varying levels of pay in correlation to the education received by the individual. The author also delves into how this phenomena can affect different social circles and scenarios such as how one would address a person who earns more than them, but has less education. This also highlights how an education isn't always necessary for a high-wage job if you work hard to develop your craft, like professional athletes do. Lastly, this article highlights the correlation between education levels in various professional organizations and how those affect members within the organizations while they work and also after they retire.

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This research connects fluidly with my discussion of teacher's wages. This will help me also transition into a discussion of how professional athletes earn their salaries from sources other than their base pay from their organizations. This article will also help me transition into a discussion of how each profession doesn't solely get their wages from their main job alone.

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This article discusses how teacher wages can affect student performance in schools. The author discusses how teacher pay has become insufficient in sustaining day-to-day life. This reasoning is why many teachers are finding other ways to add to their income on top of teaching classes. Due to this, many teachers are not giving their full attention to their students, affecting how they perform in the classroom. This, among other reasons discussed in the article, have attributed to an inconsistency between school performance levels as viewed by the government, which then cut spending more because of the inconsistencies.

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I plan on using this article as a way to talk how teacher's aren't devoting all of their time to their students due to the unsustainable nature of their salaries. I also plan on using this to help shed light on various organizations created by teachers to support each other financially such as the Teachers Pay Teachers organization. This will then help me develop my point discussing why increasing teacher pay could benefit students who aren't getting the attention they need.

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Ridpath, David B. Alternative Models of Sports Development in America : Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health. Ohio University Press, 2018. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1698119&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 

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Ridpath, David B. Alternative Models of Sports Development in America : Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health. Ohio University Press, 2018. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1698119&site=ehost-live&scope=site. 

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Book

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Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. “Pay, Working Conditions, and Teacher Quality.” The Future of Children, vol. 17, no. 1, 2007, pp. 69–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4150020. Accessed 21 June 2023.

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Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. “Pay, Working Conditions, and Teacher Quality.” The Future of Children, vol. 17, no. 1, 2007, pp. 69–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4150020. Accessed 21 June 2023.

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Journal Article

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Purdy, Dean A., et al. “Are Athletes Also Students? The Educational Attainment of College Athletes.” Social Problems, vol. 29, no. 4, 1982, pp. 439–48. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/800032. Accessed 12 July 2023. 

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Purdy, Dean A., et al. “Are Athletes Also Students? The Educational Attainment of College Athletes.” Social Problems, vol. 29, no. 4, 1982, pp. 439–48. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/800032. Accessed 12 July 2023. 

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Journal Article

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Loeb, Susanna, and Marianne E. Page. “Examining the Link between Teacher Wages and Student Outcomes: The Importance of Alternative Labor Market Opportunities and Non-Pecuniary Variation.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 82, no. 3, 2000, pp. 393–408. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2646800. Accessed 12 July 2023.

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Loeb, Susanna, and Marianne E. Page. “Examining the Link between Teacher Wages and Student Outcomes: The Importance of Alternative Labor Market Opportunities and Non-Pecuniary Variation.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 82, no. 3, 2000, pp. 393–408. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2646800. Accessed 12 July 2023.

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Journal Article

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Afacan, Ersin, and Meltem Isik Afacan. “A Psychosocial Analysis on the Relationship of Education and Other Areas of Life with Sports.” International Online Journal of Education and Teaching 9, no. 4 (January 1, 2022): 1741–51. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.bsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1353882&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

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Afacan, Ersin, and Meltem Isik Afacan. “A Psychosocial Analysis on the Relationship of Education and Other Areas of Life with Sports.” International Online Journal of Education and Teaching 9, no. 4 (January 1, 2022): 1741–51. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.bsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1353882&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

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Journal Article

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