Hamm, Mia. "Mia Hamm Writes of Athlete Obligation to Community." Who Gives?. Athletes For Hope, 27 Nov. 2009. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
Mia Hamm, a successful professional soccer player for the United States, tries to encourage other celebrity athletes and non-athletes to give back to their community whether it's through funds or simply volunteering. She tells a story about how her borther was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and had to watch her hero gracefully leave this earth. Mia Hamm tries to urge other athletes to come up with their own foundations like she did with The Mia Hamm Foundation. Mia Hamm's main intent was to persuade others to give back to the less fortunate and those who need extreme attention in the medical area. Also, her main audience is everyone who is more fortunate than most others, basically all of mankind but mostly other pro athletes like herself. There aren't any fallacies or biases in this article because it should be everyone's civic duty to volunteer when they can. The article showed how important it is for people to participate. Also, it shows that pro athletes aren't just millionaires with so much money they can't even spend it all, they are responsible people who can show who they really are through actions rather than words. I think this would be an okay topic to write about, however, a lot of people don't necessarily think of pro athletes as bums. It may be a good topic for people who enjoy sports or reading how they impact others' lives with foundations they create on their own.
This seems like it would be a tough topic to write about. Athletes should give more money to the less fortunate - and this would be a good example of that - but I don't see this becoming a paper easily.
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