...Electric Smile Five years ago I took my dentist’s recommendation and switched to an electric toothbrush. After experiencing the difference and electric toothbrush has had on my mouth I wouldn’t switch back for anything. Electric brushes make my mouth feel cleaner and have caused my dental check-ups to go much smoother. I haven’t had a cavity since I switched! Electric toothbrushes are basically like having a mini dental office cleaning every day. Though healthy teeth and gums are important and easily maintainable, many people do not follow the simple, yet sometimes tedious rules. In fact, they are always looking for an easier way to maintain their oral health. The electric toothbrush was invented in 1961 by General Electric. “The use of a powerful, compact motor and rechargeable battery leads to the introduction of an automatic toothbrush and is the forerunner of the development of other handheld appliances such as hair dryers and an electric slicing knife” (Dedicated). Electric toothbrushes come in many shapes and sizes, allowing the user to choose one that is most comfortable, while also providing an easier, more efficient, and affordable way to keep a clean and healthy mouth. Electric toothbrushes come in a wide variety, allowing the user to find one fitting his or her needs. There are basically two types of electric toothbrushes: sonic heads and spinning heads. Sonic heads vibrate from side to side. A spinning head repeatedly and speedily rotates in one direction and then...
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...I stand on the runway with my head held down and my heart racing. Although I have done this many times before, I still get the nervous rush. I can hear my coach, Mr. Hall, telling me to move my hands up on my pole and to drive my legs up. My first attempt out of the three I have. Mr. Hall had asked me if I wanted to try pole vaulting my Sophomore year. I didn’t say no before I tried. That practice, some of the upperclassmen were showing me some drills to grab the concepts and form of pole vault. They made it very clear that once you are at the top, you need to rotate your body to land on the mats. It was hard to learn the form for me because I’m left handed and had to do opposite of what everyone else was doing. Keeping my left hand on the bottom and my right one on top, learning to drive my legs upwards, and to be at...
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...Truck Driving Dilemma During my first five years of living in U.S.A, I was an interstate semi truck driver. With great passion for seeing places, the profession was a perfect match for me. After driving for the first two and half years and gaining some skills, I decided to upgrade my profession to an “owner operator” status. Owner operators buy or lease a semi, and drive as a sub contractor for a trucking companies. This comes with overheads and extra responsibilities such as truck and insurance payments, but at the end of the day when compared to a company driver, one walks away with a better pay by doing the same job in a given time frame. Semi trucks basically comes in two categories either a van or flatbed. Van is the type that conceals the freight being hauled until you open the trailer doors, in contrast to flatbed, which the fright is exposed until the driver covers it with a tarpaulin. I happened to be working for a flatbed company and hauling flatbeds comes with extra work. In one fine summer morning, I picked freight from Los Angeles CA terminal, to Laredo TX. Long distance commercial drivers have safety rules that prohibit them not to drive continuously for more than fourteen hours a day, so for the distance of only 1420 miles, I arrived in Laredo TX the second day with the load. Two days after arriving in Laredo, I was in my truck at the terminal when a dispatcher sent me a message to pick a loaded trailer destined for Ontario Canada. I started the engine drove...
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...Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt 1. Defining the market and understanding your customer (page 1). 2. Focusing on customers want rather than what the company wants (page 10) – Not neglecting marketing 3. Excluding a product from a lineup when it is necessary – reacting to the shift preferences of customers. (page 4) 4. “The view that an industry is a customer satisfying process, not a goods-purchasing process”(page 19) 5. Growing population and mass production is never a guarantee to increase revenue (page 5) Although Ralph Lauren has a solid foundation and understanding of customer’s style and want at the age bracket of 35 and up, he has yet to solidify a lasting name brand for younger age bracket. Through the discontinued brands such as Polo Jeans and Rugby brand, each attempt by Ralph Lauren did not have a lasting impression. The company’s style is greatly influenced by Ralph Lauren himself. At the age of 75, he still has the last say on what is in and what goes out of lines of product. He determines what is in style with his brand and what which style seems uncharacteristic with Ralph Lauren. According to Levitt on “Without a very sophisticated eye on the customer, most of their new products might have been wrong, their sales methods useless.” (page 2). Ralph Lauren’s view of a younger generation’s style may not be inside the “The world of Ralph Lauren”. The distinct preference of someone at the age level of late teens and early twenties might be large that...
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...Running head: BATTLEFIELD VERSES CALL OF DUTY 1 Battlefield verses Call of Duty Jason Reiter Baker College of Owosso Composition 1 BATTLEFIELD VERSES CALL OF DUTY 2 As long as these games have been out, there are no other games that have come close to rivaling them. Call of Duty and Battlefield are the biggest named first person shooters that is out there today for the Play Station system. With the advances in game design today there might be a rival soon but only by playing the games will one ever be able to tell. Both of the games that were tested are a modern to futuristic first person combat shooter games designed to be played in a verity of scenarios. Battlefield and Call of Duty have been around for the past twenty years and have been in head to head competition on which one is better all this time. In order to find out we must play these games and compare them to each other and our own style of game play. The products that were used are two video games for the PlayStation, Battlefield four and Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. These games were chosen because of their similarities, the controversy of which one of the two is a better game, and how easy each one is to play. These two games can be purchased at any retailer that carries PlayStation and/or Xbox merchandise. If you were looking to buy the games at the cheapest price you can find, Game Stop would be the way you would want to go. At a Wal-Mart...
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...CHAPTER ONE Topic: Why are there so many children living in single parent households? Rationale The community in which the research was done is one of a moderate size. It only has approximately five hundred and fifty (550) people living there. It is located in the Duhaney Park, St. Andrew. The investigator became aware of the situation by way of observations and investigations. The investigator has been living in the community for the past sixteen (16) years and had noticed that most of the children in the community were brought up in a single parent family. This may pose a problem as children could get accustomed to liking one parent more than the other or maybe they just simply don't know their other parents. Being aware of this, the investigator decided to do some research within his community on single parent families. He also investigated some of the possible reasons why the other parent was not around. Method of Investigation The method of investigation used by the investigator was questionnaires. Questionnaires are not only easy to use, but they allow the persons being investigated to remain anonymous as they are not required to write their names. Questionnaires are also efficient in the collection and analysis of data. 1 CHAPTER TWO Design of Study The research was conducted over a 2 week period which the respondents had a maximum of three days to complete the questionnaire and return them to...
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...Have you ever fallen and hit your head? If you answer yes to this question, then you might have endured a concussion. New technology is making the chance of concussion less likely and making contact sports safer for athletes to play. Helmet companies have always been developing helmets in ways to help prevent concussions. With new technology being invented to make sure that concussions are being more preventable. In recent years, the concussion rate has increased severely. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury with causes temporarily loss of the brain’s function. Concussions are graded from one to five according to safety(Shahady and Petrizzi 30). Five being the worst and one being the least severe. A concussion is usually the result from...
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...The Brain The brain is split up into several different parts or structures in order to better understand how things are laid out and how they work. The simplest way to separate the different parts of the brain is into the forebrain and hindbrain, with the forebrain also being called the cerebrum, and the hindbrain being better known as the brain stem. The brainstem is best known to be in charge of involuntary and gross motor functions, such as breathing, muscle control, and digesting food. The cerebral cortex is in charge of more complex things such as thought and memory. Aside from this general way to split up the brain, it can be broken down further into five major structures, each with it’s own physiology and structures within it. These regions are the telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon. The telencephalon sits at the top of the brain and is divided into two hemispheres, often referred to as cerebral hemispheres (Pinel, 2011). It is the biggest of the five major structures, and is in charge of the brain’s most complex functions (2011). Along with housing the structures that are in charge of memory and thought, the telencephalon is also the part of the brain that controls voluntary movement, taking in outside sensory stimuli, and facilitates complex thought processes such as retaining new information, processing language, and problem solving (Pinel, pg. 66, 2011). Within the telencephalon is the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex...
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...THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO DO BUSINESS WITH BRISBANE ROAR CORPORATE HOSPITALITY 2011/12 SEASON 2010/11 HYUNDAI A-LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2010/11 HYUNDAI A-LEAGUE PREMIERS 2010/11 WESTFIELD W-LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2012 AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WHY DO BUSINESS WITH BRISBANE ROAR? The 2011 Hyundai A-League Grand Final was one of the most thrilling sporting events in Australian history. In front of over 50,000 fans at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Roar came from behind to score two goals in the dying minutes of the match, going on to win in a dramatic penalty shootout. Eugénie Buckley Chief Executive Officer Brisbane Roar We Reach Your Community Football is Australia’s largest grassroots participation sport and continues to grow each year. 1.7 million people play football in Australia. That’s 400,000 more people than AFL, Rugby League and Rugby Union combined. Brisbane Roar connects with over 350,000 people each year from Brisbane to Cairns through our community programs. We Reach Women Football is the fastest growing female participation sport in Australia. Westfield W-League matches are broadcast nationally on ABCTV and eight Brisbane Roar players featured in the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Almost 40% of attendees at Brisbane Roar matches are female. In 2011/12, we are aiming to become the first Hyundai A-League club to win back-to-back premierships, however doing business with Brisbane Roar provides more benefits than just being part of a winning team. Football reaches...
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...enabling multi-modal teaching, changing curricula and spawning rich forms of online research and collaboration. Nearly 60% of survey respondents say that professors will soon teach in more than one medium. When asked to compare different communications technologies, 52% of survey respondents state that online collaboration tools would make the greatest contribution in terms of improving educational quality over the next five years—the top response—while 48% point to the dynamic delivery of content and software that supports individually paced learning. Sophisticated learning-management systems and enhanced video and presentation tools are among other innovations that respondents say are likely to have a profound effect on the academic experience. It is interesting to note that despite the growing array of technology-enabled teaching tools available, nearly three-quarters of participants say that the greatest potential benefit of technology is something far more straightforward—namely, the expanded access to educational and reference resources that it provides. According to the survey results, online-collaboration tools, software that supports individually paced learning and learning-management systems are among the communications technologies most expected to improve academics over the next five years. Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, instant messaging and social networking—which have been influential in improving connectivity in many settings and are in use now at a large number...
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...Concussions are the most common type of brain injury and the least serious type of injury to the brain. Concussions are caused by a blow to the head that causes damage to the soft tissue to the brain. The brain is surrounded by a layer of spinal fluid inside the skull that acts like a cushion during normal movement. When you receive a hard hit, it causes the brain to move around inside the skull. The result is bruising to the brain and damage to the blood vessels and nerves inside the brain. This causes the brain to not be able to function normally. It can disturb the vision, resulting in sensitivity to light or blurred vision, and may cause the injured person to lose their balance. In short, the brain becomes confused and cannot function...
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...pitcher’s mound waiting for the batter to approach, I stared at the light to my left as it flickered on and off. I looked to my right into the Bakersfield Bombers dugout, only to see Laurie Bianca Friedman, a incompetent softball player who always thought she was better than everyone else, glaring at me with an evil smile. Since we were five, Laurie always tried to be better than me. When we were six, Laurie ripped a bleach blonde Barbie doll from my feeble hands and yanked the head off of the doll. Since then, we both played on opposing softball teams, the Bakersfield Bombers and Worcester Warriors, who had always been...
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...Running Head: EXTERN LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW 1 MASTER IN LEADERSHIP EXTERN LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SHANTE WARREN MID-AMERICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY October 30, 2012 Running Head: EXTERN LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW 2 In this extern leadership interview I have completed an interview from my former supervisor Roderick Brown. Roderick has been the Technical support supervisor at my former employer Calyx Software for two years now. Roderick brings over ten years experience as a supervisor or a team leader to the company. Before conducting this interview I emailed Roderick and asked him if he had time to answer a few questions for a class assignment. He replied with a yes and I set a time up that was best for him and he booked a conference room in the office. Through this interview, I will show how Roderick displays the qualities of a good leader, because he has an open door policy for his team, he leads by example and he acts more like a mentor than a manager. The environment of the interview was in a small conference room in his office. The conference room had a round table that sits 6 people. The conference room was in a clear glass room. I scheduled the time on a Friday September 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm. I sat across from Roderick with a note pad and a pen. As I asked the questions I made notes. Before I met with Roderick I had written down a series...
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...The plan is crazy, but it’s also good. We take a somewhat of a direct approach. The building is surrounded by monsters. So we have to sneak in from the outside. If we tried staying inside the building until everyone left, we would be done for because the monsters would know where we are. We sneak on a taller building the one that Marco and Lily used to scout out the area. All we see are normal people, though we have eyes of demigods that allow us to look into the godly side of the world. When we look in we see hideous monsters like Cyclops, chimera, empusa, more shadow lurkers, and lastly a Minotaur. Great I truly think Philoctetes is underestimating the importance of the artifact. At least there aren’t Hydra. “Are you sure you want...
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...| Muscatine, IA | Local Politics | | | 2/24/2013 | I chose to investigate Muscatine, Iowa. Muscatine has a population of 22,886 residents and it is slowly growing. The Census Bureau found that in 2010 Muscatine has grown .83%. (WMG, 2010) Greg Mandsager describes Muscatine as a Municipality, or a city to which people travel to for work or leisure. (Tiesman, 2009) It is a great community to be a part of and a rather simple form of government. The demographics have primarily stayed the same for the past 50 years and it hasn’t been impacted by migration. Nothing has come to Muscatine to attract a specific group of people or change the generic makeup of the city. Seven percent of Muscatine’s residence was foreign born and Caucasians make up 90% of the population as of 2010. As mentioned earlier The City Administrator thinks of Muscatine as a municipality that people travel to for work and leisure. I would say that is true, Muscatine is a rural community within driving distance to Iowa City and Davenport, IA. As a growing city of its own, Muscatine is beginning to have more and more attractions. With a new movie theatre recently built on the bypass of highway 61 and other local businesses growing and coming to the community Muscatine is on its way to be quite the catch. The location is perfect; sitting right on the Mississippi River it easily attracts people when the weather is nice. Although, the population is only slowly growing, the town itself is evolving...
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