...Color guard is like a sibling. For the most part, they have an enjoyable presence. But, certain times occur when they become annoying and hard to work with. Aspects of color guard include throwing and tossing flags, prop rifles, and sabres. I learned how to use these items to visually enhance a marching band show at sectional meet-ups and practices. Overall, Color Guard has made a positive impact on my life by creating opportunities to socialize, improving my physical health, and strengthening my emotional wellness. When starting, numerous occasions allowed me to encounter other students. During the summer, sectional meet-ups provide the chance to learn about and talk to other color guard members. In early autumn, band practices gave me the chance to interact with the entire marching band...
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...Color Guard “I love marching band because… I love being part of something greater than I can ever be alone. I love the natural high you get after performing your show. I love that rush you feel after you finished your best performance. I love how without anyone saying anything after we perform, we all know how we did. I love practicing to try to get as close to perfect as I can. I love pushing myself to what I think are my limits and finding out how much I am actually capable of doing. I am and always will be a performer.” During my freshman year, band camp was horrifying and extremely stressful. Band camp is where you learn everything you need to know including; marching fundamentals, flag fundamentals, start learning the flag routine, and also start learning marching sets on the field for the show all in just one week. As a freshman, this was a lot to take in. Now, as a senior, band camp is not so stressful. Currently, I am the captain of the flag core. Being captain means I’m expected to be a leader and help teach the freshman what they need to know. Next comes home football games at the O Zone. As a freshman, I was so terrified that I was going to mess up and everyone would notice. For the first game everything is still new and it is the “first performance”. Now that I am a senior I have realized that everything is somewhat...
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...I want to become a color guard captain because of the new opportunities to teach others and be able to learn more about responsibility and challenge myself. I would also like to help set a good example for the younger grades. Color Guard has been a huge change in my life and has helped me a lot and I would love to show others that they can be apart of a team that can change their life for a very long time. I am going to be captain so that I can help others learn to do stuff they love. Color guard is supposed to be challenging and it is not easy, but I love the idea of watching others grow and become stronger. To me, being a color guard captain means that I can learn to become more responsible while also helping others become a version of themselves they may have not seen before....
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...Hey, my name is Jackson Moncrief, and I’m here to explain why you should consider me for color guard captain. To help you understand why I believe I’m the best candidate, I will be answering the following questions: “What makes me the best pick captain?”. What will I do differently than past captains?” and “How do I plan to appropriately be a program leader?”. For starters, as a guy who isn’t interested in sports or athletics, it was hard trying to find somewhere to fit in. I tried staying in the marching band to see if it was the right fit, and once again, I was let down. I didn’t feel as if I could be myself with my marching section. So, I tried out color guard, and we got off to a rough start. I didn’t have any friends at first, and I wasn’t...
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...System Evaluation Paper Professor Mathew Mower CIS/319 - COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING January 21, 2013 Introduction I have been extended the reward of being employed for Yellow Freight Company (YRC), for over 17 years. YRC Freight is a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc., a Fortune 500 company and one of the internationally. With headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., YRC Worldwide employs 55,000 people. I have witnessed many company changes. Yellow Freight was established in 1924. One of the most remarkable displays of our company is our 18 wheelers that are painted in a bright orange color. In the beginning CEO Harrell hired a chemist to find out what was the safest color on the highways of America. The results of the research led to swamp holly orange; was not only the safest, but the most visible from the greatest distance. On Feb. 1, 2012 YRC took another significant successful step, becoming one of the largest operating freight companies. Much more than a new name and logo, this rebranding signals our intent to focus on our core business, helping less-than-truckload shippers throughout North America increase the dependability and reliability of their supply chains. Today, we remain true to our founders' early dedication to safety and service. Their hard work and determination was the foundation for our success and has contributed to the success of thousands of customers. YRC has continue to prosper from the start. There is no surprise, given the founders'...
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...The Zimbardo Research and its Effect on the Participants Jennifer Ashley Reese PSYCH/620 June 20, 2016 JD Wehrman The Zimbardo Research and its Effect on the Participants A faculty member from Stanford University, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, did an experiments that changed Social Psychology forever. He put an ad in the newspaper in 1971 for participants (students) to study prison life for the amount of 15 dollars a day for two weeks. Back in the early seventies, fifteen dollars was an acceptable amount for the time period for the day. Over the 75 applicants, two dozen were randomly picked by looking at their applicants for normality and healthy lives to begin with. The people were divided into two groups, the ‘prisoners’ and ‘guards’. The ‘guards’ helped set up the prison and picked their outfits to help them ‘get into their role’. The ‘prisoners’ were arrested by real city police to help them get that experience of being arrested. The ‘guards’ blindfolded the ‘prisoners’ to their location, the basement of the police station to start the experiment (Classic, 2007). The guards were to strip search the prisoners, delouse them to get the effect of what real prisons do to their prisoners. The next day, the guards used ‘force with force’ when the prisoners rebelled against obedience. The guards stripped the prisoners and put the prisoners in the hole for rebelling and took everything except air as a privileges such as food, clothes, bed etc. (Classic, 2007). To maintain order and...
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...Closed Captioned Television and Increased Lighting Intervention Sara Robin Bailey Option 3: A Review of Literature Related to Interventions University of Central Florida Page Break Abstract This research paper will explore the CPTED technique of surveillance, examining increased lighting and CCTV; closed captioned television in particular. Baker and Lyons (1978) explained how increased lighting can be a strong deterrent for crime and have many benefits relating to crime prevention. The article explains the different kinds of lighting techniques and how each one is beneficial to a particular property. The second article, Lighting Research & Technology pertaining to increased lighting explains how an LED bulb can enhance visual accessibility, precieved brightness, and better reflect natural colors of objects. Next we go on to discuss both the benefits and issues associated with closed captioned television (CCTV). Augustine...
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...Fashion Marketing and Merchandising Summer 2016 All papers should include a table of contents, citations, bibliography. Number all pages. Single spacing is the preferred method. Include a cover page. Create a creative title for your paper. Case study papers should include the following sections, not necessarily in this particular order. Make the paper your own. The sections highlighted in green are optional; if these sections are executed, then that would qualify for the highest grade. Ensure that within your paper and presentation, you have included your brand’s Marketing Strategy and the 4 Ps of the Marketing Mix: Product, Price, Promotion, Place. In your presentation, include three slides with three separate probing questions to pose to the class, in order to ignite discussion. Corporate history * How did the brand get started? * What was its historic journey to now? * What is your brand’s history of Creative Directors? * Has your brand experienced any controversy? Was it resolved, and how? Product diversification * How widely diversified must a company be to succeed? * What kinds of products or services does your brand offer? * Is the company well diversified? * If not, why not? Brand expression * What are ways in which brands can express themselves? * How does your company express its brand? * House or brand color? * House or brand shape? * House or brand logo? * House or brand scent...
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...Research Paper While traditional Native American dance and the Polynesian dance are both unique to their cultures, a developed comparison reveals they share many similarities in technique and meaning. In this essay, I will evaluate these similarities along with the differences that make each dance unique to its people and their culture. “Dance is a poem in which each movement is a word and is the most hidden language of the soul” this was found searching the web for what others felt the meaning of dance meant to them. An interesting fact about cultures and dance is that dance was used to express how they felt and emit their own expression of themselves. One thing that both Native American and Polynesian both have in common are they both believe in the spirits of their ancestors. When the Polynesian's danced the Hula they thought that if done incorrectly that something would happen and may turn disastrous while Native American dance specifically for a reason and believed if they asked for thanks for necessities they would acquire it. Both dances were created for one reason and one reason only to ask for help spiritually. Native American culture and the way they danced were entirely for their Gods, basically as an offering to show how important they were and how much their Gods were believed in. As the Polynesians too were spiritual and wouldn’t dance until an elder blessed the area in which would be danced upon, they also danced to perform for their people as entertainment...
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...Guns in Schools With the number of mass school shootings and incidents of violence in schools that have been reported since April 20, 1999; the public is crying out for stricter laws to help protect our children. In direct response to the Columbine High School shooting, schools across the country adopted a variety of “safety” measures that included mandatory uniforms to prevent the wearing of gang colors and allowing faculty to more readily identify intruders, installation of metal detectors and security cameras, ID badges to be worn at all times, and the increased presence of armed guards on campuses. While these measures are all intended to protect our children the fact that we are still experiencing violence in our schools say that these measures are not enough. While metal detectors and armed guards in our schools are a step in the right direction, not all school districts can afford to employ them. Palmer ISD, in Palmer, Texas, with its school population of 1,100 students is approaching this dilemma by allowing a select few teachers and staff to be trained and cleared to carry concealed weapons. Only Kevin Noack, school superintendent, and the local Police Department will know who is carrying. (pp3) This policy will go into effect as early as this coming school year. With children being our greatest hope for the future, I support training and arming our teachers to protect this precious resource. Schools are generally viewed by terrorists...
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...Allegations of the use of excessive force by U.S. police departments continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots brought the issue to mass public attention and spurred some law enforcement reforms. On Staten Island, N.Y., the July 2014 death of Eric Garner because of the apparent use of a “chokehold” by an officer sparked outrage. A month later in Ferguson, Mo., the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson ignited protests, and a grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson triggered further unrest. In November, Tamir Rice was shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 12 years old and playing with a toy pistol. On April 4, 2015, Walter L. Scott was shot by a police officer after a routine traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C. The same month, Freddie Gray died while in police custody in Baltimore, setting off widespread unrest. The policeman in the South Carolina case, Michael T. Slager, was charged with murder based on a cellphone video. In Baltimore, the driver of the police van in which Gray died, Caesar Goodson, was charged with second-degree murder, with lesser charges for five other officers. There have been no indictments in the earlier cases. These follow other recent incidents and controversies, including an April 2014 finding by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), following a two-year investigation, that the Albuquerque, N.M., police department “engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive...
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...Prison culture has taken a life of its own, so much so, that now the general public has become exposed to the integrate and sometimes brutal culture that has been methodically developed since the early days of imprisonment. Time goes hand in hand with the evolution of this culture, refinement through inmate “research and development” has allowed generations of culture, adapt and survive even through staff struggles to stop them. Firstly I would like to discuss the progression of prison culture, where it started, how it evolved, what influenced caused this evolution, and where it is now. Although prison culture dates back to the early 13th centuries, there is very little actually known about their culture and would probably not be seen as the same “jailing” that takes place now. The earliest credible information I was able to find dated back to the 1940’s which was a time of great racism, oppression and violence. I had hoped to set back the clock further, but I feel that before the 1900’s, prison would not be relevant to today’s meaning of what a prison is. Prison culture was what you would expect it to be in the 40’s, before any sort of attempt to abolish public racism, colors were...
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...Student Name Instructor Course 7th October 2015 Net Neutrality The purpose of this research paper is to discuss how net-neutrality regulations will hinder competition and innovative growth. The research paper starts with an introduction of net neutrality then proceeds to the main argument of the topic. The paper will examine how net neutrality regulations have posed threats to internet use while reviewing some the work done different scholars. At the end of this part, an argument will be presented to show how threat to internet use will hinder competition and innovation growth. To strengthen the argument and stand of this paper, the paper will also examine the importance of net neutrality in businesses and communities which are core for development and show how this regulations will hinder innovation and competition to businesses and communities due to lack of information. The paper shall close with a conclusion part that will sum up the ideas discussed in the paper and bring to light how net neutrality will hinder competition and innovation. A research done by Bauer, Johannes, and Woohyun on "Regulation and innovation in Telecommunications" revealed that more than any other innovation or invention of our time, the Internet has opened potential outcomes we could barely imagine of a generation ago (Bauer 9). The research provided major reasons we have seen such extraordinary development and advancement as most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic in an equal manner...
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...This topic was explored in Craig Haney’s paper “From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities”. In it, Haney discusses various aspects of psychological impact including dependence on the institution, hypervigilance, distrust and suspicion, emotional over-control, alienation, and more (Haney 2001). Some of those released carry the traumatic effects with them into society thereby affecting the broader community. For instance, Mika’il DeVeaux, previously incarcerated in New York State’s maximum-security prisons describes, “I remain haunted by the memories and images of violence … I can still see the murders I witnessed” (DeVeaux 2013). It is important to note that some policies result in long-term effects on some prisoners and that changes to those policies can have a positive impact on both the prisoner and the broader...
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...family only to find out that he is too late. As he grieves over there death, he is captured and is sold as a slave for combat. Reduced to slavery, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his father and his Emperor. The movie “Gladiator” is fairly accurate according to the three areas that are focused on in this essay, weapons and military strategy, clothing and architecture. This paper will explore these aspects that were portrayed in the film pertaining whether or not it was accurate or inaccurate according to its time period. The area of weapons and military strategy was accurate. The film opens up with a horrific fight scene that is about to take place against the Germanic barbarians. Before the battle begins, it is shown that the Romans take their time to set up the weaponry. The Roman army and gladiator’s battle stance and weapons were accurately portrayed, many of them were shown. Also, Roman General Maximus and his family are shown in a field of wheat and animals suggesting that before he was a farmer. Research states that the Roman army developed fighting techniques that was harsh and very effective. Romans took their time to set up their weaponry because they wanted to wipe out their enemy in one blow, they did...
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