WHY ATLETES ARE GOOD ROLE MODELS!
Ever since the ancient years, we have admired athletes and the hard work that they do to
achieve their goal of winning. We idolize them and wish we were more like them. What
happens though when the realization sinks in that they are human too and that some of them do
get greedy and selfish? A lot of athletes are model citizens that you should really look up to, but
there are also some bad apples in the bunch that ruin it for everyone. Athletes can inspire young
people to work hard so that their efforts can pay off, but no one is pure and flawless. Greed
does take a hold of some players, but they shouldn't be the ones we devote all of our attention
to. We should look at the positive things that people do. The media does not go around
reporting all of the good things that these people do, just the bad things and their mistakes.
They
are only human just like the rest of us. Are these people safe for our children to idolize to look
up to? I think that the answer is YES!
If you were watching the news, would you really want to hear about all of the charities
that an athlete has donated money to? It would be interesting at first, but you would get tired of
it afterwards. That is why the media never covers anything like this. We all know that they really
don't care about anything else except for a hot topic. The truth really does not mean anything to
them. This we notice in all the cases that the media jumps to wrongful conclusions, such as the
Richard Jewel case and the Olympic bombing and the TWA flight 800 that blew...
Great essay
I do not understand why the essay was graded at a 71%, but this was a superb essay. Very informative and captures the athletes as humans.
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