What does "too much" means?

According to the website "soccer training info dot com", soccer players like David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane, earn just with their salaries, something around 32, 23, and 19 million dollars a year, each. It can be associated to the fact that they have a huge repercussion on the media and they play in the most famous soccer teams in the world. According to the theory of relativity, once proposed by Galileu, nothing is absolute unless it is compared with another reference. Comparing with ordinary people’s salaries, I really think that soccer players earn too much.

Some people may fall in love with music, others with theater, others with cinema and many of them fall in love with sports. Among the many kinds of game we have, the most famous one is soccer. That’s why people get trained since childhood to run after a ball – even by their own schools! – Just for fun. That is one of the reasons why the stadiums become so full of people at important events during the seasons, like championships and finals, contributing to the players’ high salaries.

Dedication leads to fame, and fame is the main element to make money in the world of show business. These people sell their image one more time to become the face of big companies as Adidas, Calvin Klein, and Hugo Boss, which makes their salaries higher along the year. Opponents of this idea claim that their salaries are well deserved because, despite the fact that they train hard everyday, the most famous players in the world can even find spare time to take care of their families and make huge advertisements.

On the other hand, people like policemen and firemen give their lives every single day to save others that one day can be us. They do this even don’t knowing who the other person is, that is their job, they are live savers. These people alone, with the big responsibility that they have, can’t earn half of the salaries that famous soccer players earn per month, which is outrageous! Because even not properly prepared, they make the possible and impossible, to keep us safe. They perform a decisive part in each ones lives and don’t receive the credit for it.

I’ve learnt that, nowadays, people prefer to give more value to superficial things, such as running after a ball, so they can run away from the cruel reality that encircles them. I think that the problems we have with violence and political issues make these people (policemen, firemen and alike) heroes, so they should be more recognized and be paid according to it.
on  June 15, 2008  at  4:26 PM

Juliana, thanks for posting your text with the corrections. Your composition is excellent, for you provide many and very relevant arguments to support your point of view. I particularly liked your introduction because you quoted someone famous and you also gave examples of the salaries earned. Congratulations on your excellent job!

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