...To most people, failure is all bad and in most cases a tragedy that haunts them for an extended period of time. However, all failures have successes and tell us what we need to accomplish to be successful: a beauty of failure. While I have failed at various things in life such as not getting an A on a test, breaking my phone, and other instances; the failure I worked my hardest at to overcome was winning the State tournament in wrestling. I started wrestling when I was five, but didn't start competing till I was six. I would train twice a week for an hour, this lcontinued for four years. My first and second year wrestling I made it to the MYWAY(Michigan Youth Wresting Association) regional wrestling tournament; a tournament where...
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...James Ronca Final Paper Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world. No one is sure who invented the sport but it was first implemented as a real sport in the first Olympics in the year 776 B.C. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France; Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. More modern day wrestling has weight classes implemented so participants will wrestle people that weigh the same as them, thus starting a trend known in the wrestling world as cutting weight. Weight classes in wrestling were implemented in order to insure the optimal amount of fairness for each wrestler before they step out onto the mat. I believe that weight classes are positive to the sport but also negative. Positive in the fact that you don’t have a kid who weighs 103 wrestling someone who is 185, that just wouldn’t make sense. It makes it so everyone that goes out there are roughly the same weight so size doesn’t play a roll. But, this causes many issues as well. I know from experience the side effects of cutting weight. You feel weak, tired, and hungry; you get cotton mouth, and extremely aggravated over little things, everything pisses you off, it’s just an awful mood to be in. Cutting weight often is misconstrued and everyone believes that you just starve yourself to make weight. In some occasions this is true, but that is the wrong way to do it. There is a right way to cut...
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...Examining a Business Failure University of Phoenix Organizational Leadership LDR/531 Kenya King January 25, 2010 Examining a Business Failure Seven years ago a very successful business man named Vince McMahon wanted to expand his business but in an innovative way. Mr. McMahon was and still is President of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). He has successfully taken a product and marketed it worldwide. His primary demographic is 12-24yr olds but WWE has hooked a much broader crowd. The irony in the success is the wrestling matches are scripted and a winner is pre-determined. The fans, though they know this, don’t seem to care. After all, it’s called WWE. In 2000, Mr. McMahon set his sights on buying the Canadian Football League but was thwarted when the governors of the CFL didn’t support the buyout. Thus, the XFL was born as a joint venture between the XFL and NBC. The XFL was a single entity league meaning that all teams were owned by the XFL. There were 8 teams total, games were played on Sat nights and televised on NBC, and players were made up of former NFL players and athletes from all over the world. The XFL would play immediately after the NFL Super Bowl and play 10 games over a 2 month period. Player salaries were structured based on position played with bonuses going to winning teams. Since this was a football league Mr. McMahon knew he had to have a strategic change to differ his league from the NFL. For example, there was no longer...
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...Project is a research paper and should address the following: Provide a quick definition of marketing plans using your text. Include the following: Using an article from the library’s full-text databases, discuss an example of how a marketing plan helped make a product or service successful. On the other hand (using an article from the library’s full-text databases), discuss an example of how decisions in a marketing plan led to failure. Analyze what was different in the 2 examples. Abstract With marketing management, the marketing plan is one of the key factors to the success or failure of any type of product. This paper will define what a market plan is and give examples of how marketing plans has helped make a product or service successful and how they market plan has become a failure. This paper will also provide a quick overview of why some movies are considered a failure and extrapolate what could have gone wrong in the studio's plan with regard to forecasting demand for the project. Marketing Plan Successes and Failures Introduction Planning to market a product and how the plan is written can make or break the success of any product. Coca-Cola is definitely a product that has an outstanding marketing plan will be XFL may have had potential, but the plan in which this sport was marketed led to its downfall. Definition of Marketing Plan A marketing plan is a document that is written within a business for purposes of describing types of current market...
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...last home wrestling meet of my Sophomore year and Senior Night nonetheless. There I was, in the middle of my high school’s gymnasium. My feet resting on the blue, thick, and hardened foam wrestling mat; it gave off a rubber-musky scent. All the lights within the spacious room were off, all but the one resting just ten feet above my opponent and I, casting ominous shadows alongside the walls and bleachers. I positioned my feet at the designated starting points and waited anxiously for the referee’s signal. I eyed my opponent, a varsity Sandy wrestler. He was smaller height wise, his frame somewhat smaller than I, my mind was racing trying to ease my worries. My stomach was tight with nervousness, “Are you both ready?” the referee...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs...
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...The article I’m writing about is “The Rise of Beefcake Yoga” by Alex French, which explores the progressively popular DDP Yoga program, which the name is derived from the former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page. I chose this article because it was something far different than any subject that I would have normally pick. I found it both interesting and unique as a human story and from a business perspective I could see its positive potential. Before reading the article I was only vaguely familiar with wrestling and the entertainment side of it through my step-dad and brother. French described in the article that wrestling is the world’s most widespread fake-sport association (French). I had no idea that so many former professional wrestlers had such broken down bodies and tended to die at such a young age. In a 2003 survey of news reports showed that between 1983 and 2009, 64 wresters died of mostly heart failure and a medical examiner found that 40 years old and younger in this industry has seven times greater risk of dying. (French) The DDP Yoga program has been a godsend to many former injured wrestlers by...
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...Levi’s versus Lululemon: Combat-sports championship bouts as an analogy for hostile displacement in monopolistic competition In this paper I describe the analogous correlation between the case of Levi’s Strauss & Co. versus Lululemon Athletica Inc. and a similar phenomenon in combat sports, such as boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA), where a participant rises to dominance, becomes a champion, holds the title for some time and is then unseated by an unlikely contender. The most recent and arguably infamous example is of Ronda Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm in the UFC (other examples include Tyson vs. Douglas (boxing) and Silva vs. Weidman (UFC)). For the purposes of this paper, Rousey represents Levi’s (traditional market dominance) and Holm represents Lululemon (disruptive innovation). UFC fighters typically prepare for a fight on two fronts. The first is a general technique and conditioning program tailored to their particular strengths and weaknesses. The second is a specific strategy outlined by their coaching staff to deal with the precise tactics they believe the opponent will utilize. With this in mind, one concept that contributed to the demise of both Rousey and Levi’s is that of “tape”. A fighter’s coaching staff will watch as much footage – tape – of the opposing fighter as possible. There tends to be more tape on long-term champions than challengers for two reasons. First, simply, champions tend to have had longer careers and therefore more fights on tape...
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...but he pulled through. He made it seem like as normal of an outfit as Babette was wearing. He was still charismatic and managed to never seem uncomfortable in his own skin (and skintight costume). He did a good job embodying the character and seemed confident and kind of dangerous the whole show. He also really played up the "innocence" when talking Babette into not kicking him out while still being funny to the audience. The last role I'll be talking about today is the costume designer. I feel like this role is one that had a lot of success but also a lot of failure. I'll first start with what I saw as failures. I did not like the costume for Schmitz. I thought the wrestling uniform was kind of distracting from rest of play, considering how normal everyone else was dressed. Other things in the design that threw me off were the dark lipstick, nose ring, and striped shirt. None of it felt cohesive with the tight black wrestling uniform, let alone the suits and dresses the rest of the cast were wearing. Maybe that was what Joe Anderson was trying to achieve, but to me, it just felt disjointed and sloppy. After the play I looked up other costumes this character had worn, and I felt like I didn't understand the artistic approach Anderson was going for. Although, it did make me sympathize with Mr. Biedermann, I wouldn't want someone wearing that in my home either. The costume for Babette did not fit the actress well which seemed out of place, because we were supposed to think Biedermann...
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...Adolescent Nick Mathis BSHS361 January 5, 2012 Marty Mendenhall, Ph.D Adolescent “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” This quote from Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach is obviously derived from the stance of a wise adult past the impetuous years of youth. One might argue that our mental development seems quite backward when relating it to teenage perceptions, if viewed in hindsight as an adult armed with knowledge gleaned from the ever-patient teachings of experience. It seemed like the less I knew as a callow youth, the smarter I thought I was. In contrast, as the years have passed and the more I actually have learned, the more convinced I am of how little I know. Along these same lines of thought, it would seem to many, when dealing with teenagers as an adult, they listen the least when it would benefit them the most; and in turn, talk the most when it benefits them the least. Each generation of teenagers seems to feel its generation is unique, and even superior, in its experiences and perceptions. Especially in this age of incredible technology, on many levels this may be true. However, on a developmental level, wisdom can only be acquired through the rigors of experience and time. This paper will detail an interview I had with one such teenager, a sixteen-year-old male named Dylan. This interview’s focus was to garner some thoughts, perceptions, and feelings about some of his experiences, both past and present, as well as some insight into his future. I will...
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...by drug addiction, alcohol abuse, or even just the unstoppable turning of the clock is also a tale as old as time. You probably don’t want to hear it, but there’s a pretty good chance that your childhood crush is today a fallen star, carrying wrinkles, rolls of flab, and a whole lot of baggage. In this video, we’re going to be looking at ten childhood crushes who are currently ugly AF. You’ll probably wanna look away, but we both know you’re not going to be able to. Intro Section VISUALS/SOURCES Everybody has that one celebrity that they were absolutely obsessed with during their childhood. That one first crush for whom they still have a soft spot today. Maybe your first crush came in the form of the original diva of professional wrestling. Or maybe you fell for a pot smoking badass from the 1970s. Whoever captured your pre-pubescent heart, you can bet that they aged less like a fine wine and more like a cheap can of beer that was left sitting next to a radiator. Here are ten childhood crushes who are currently ugly. And they’re not just ugly. They’re ugly AF! Merch Section Oh, why hey there bogglers? Looking for new swag? Here’s the new (name of t-shirt) t-shirt guaranteed to make you the coolest gent or lady around the block. It’s made with the highest quality 100% cotton material, it’s delivered fast and if you're not happy with your new t-shirt, you’ll get a fast and painless replacement or your money back guaranteed. You can get it in different styles including...
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...How Failure Breeds Success Even heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after ‘New Coke’ became nearly synonymous with innovation failure, these products joined Coca-Cola Co.’s graveyard of beverage busts. Given that history, failure hardly seems like a subject CEO E, Neville Isdell would want to trot out in front of investors. But Isdell did just that, deliberately airing the topic at Coke’s annual meeting in April. “You will see some failures,” he told the crowd. “As we take more risks, this is something we must accept as part of the regeneration process.” Warning Coke investors that the company might experience some flops is a little like warning Atlantans they might experience afternoon thunderstorms in July. But Isdell thinks it’s vital. He wants Coke to take bigger risks, and to do the, he knows he needs to convince employees and shareholders that he will tolerate the failures that will inevitably result. That’s the only way to change Coke’s traditionally risk averse culture. And given the importance of this goal, there’s no podium too big for sending the signal. While few CEOs are as candid about the potential for failure as Isdell, many are wrestling with the same problem, trying to get their organizations to cozy up to the risk-taking that innovation requires. A warning: it’s not going to be an easy shift. After years of cost-cutting initiatives and growing job insecurity, most employees don’t exactly feel like putting themselves on the line. Add to...
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...exterior for his true feelings. The reader’s privileged vantage position reveals many puzzling inward emotions. Achebe repeatedly frames Okonkwo’s thoughts with the condition, ‘inwardly’. His ‘slight stammer’ reveals much more of his “Chi” than his father’s skillful speech ever would. All of this contradiction drives the reader to investigate the truth of Okonkwo. To understand a man’s Chi, one must understand where his story begins. Just as Okonkwo’s fall begins in Umuofia, it is the same story of his father, Unoka, framed within Okonkwo’s life. The reader first learns that Okonkwo’s father was a creative and loving man, with a great potential for happiness. In the environment of the Igbo culture, however, he struggled; he was considered a failure. And so Unoka retained his passion for beauty and joy, but became familiar with sadness and pain. Through it all, the man never let the scorn of others control his behavior. Unoka literally takes his flute to his humiliating grave. Okonkwo’s pride makes him vulnerable where his father was not. He vividly remembers a playmate call his father a name, bringing shame upon Okonkwo. This part of his story hints at not only the psychological origin, but the cultural significance behind Okonkwo’s “Chi”. Okonkwo’s pride makes him vulnerable to succumb to his great consuming fear of rejection and disapproval. He then turns his fear into a motivation: to become all that his father is not, and reject his father’s most treasured values. Okonkwo believes...
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...Every person has faced fear at least once in their life. Fear of death, rejection, and the worst, failure. This fear is plainly shown in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through Okonkwo’s hamartia that moves him towards his eventual demise. Achebe proves that living solely by fear of failure will create the very thing one’s life is motivated to destroy. Okonkwo’s fear of failure manifests itself in five distinct ways: Fear of following in his father’s footsteps, fear of becoming feminine, fear of losing religion, fear of discrediting his family name, and fear of disgracing the Ibo gods. These fears accumulate under the fear of failure that acts as Okonkwo’s hamartia, motivating him to commit suicide at the conclusion of the book. Achebe begins Things Fall Apart with a lengthy description of Okonkwo’s past, including his lazy...
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...about this project is controversial issues such as beam cracks on the Kepong Flyover. The Kepong Flyover was reported to be faulty because 31 of 33 pillars supporting the flyover were reported to have obvious cracks. Next, the safety issues. Public concern about the safety issues at Kepong Flyover was due to the risks faced by at least 4,300 motorists using the flyover at a time. Lastly, due to incompletion of MRR2 for second closure has rose the traffic jammed. Without the lessons learned from previous projects, future projects will fall into the same routines and pitfalls that occurred in previous projects. II. Learning from Project Failures. Whether the entire project failed, or part of it failed, or even if the project succeeded in spite of a big failure on the part of the higher team, there is something to be learned from a failure. And the best part of learning from a bad experience is that it is very hard to forget the lesson. No matter what happened though, it is important to keep things in perspective and be able to...
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