...qualities that are most important to me. I have experience leadership through playing on a school basketball team, being part of groups in for class presentations, and being a youth leader in my church. Of the many qualities needed to be a good leader I have learned and now value the most thru these experiences persistence, courage, charisma and patients. Playing sports in school gave me the opportunity to play on both losing and winning teams and taught me the value of persistence. I now realize that even if you fail or lose a good leader does not give up, you still have to get right back up and realize your mistakes and prepare more to benefit the team. When you come back the next time, be mentally and physically prepared, and ready to meet the next challenge. When youths and adults who do not posses this leadership trail and fail at something in their life, they automatically think that they cannot do it, and they give up. They do not possess the trait of persistence and thus they fail as leaders. In the classes where I had to be part of a group to do projects I learned the valuable leadership trait of courage. I try to take the initiative to encourage people to speak up and give ideas to the group and brainstorm to come up with ways that help the group to achieve our goals even if it is against or opposite of what is popular amongst my friends. In these situations I use the valuable trait of charismatic leadership qualities to get to our end goal. Being a youth...
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...and dedication to a sport to be a great. It also requires you to have a lot of love and a big passion for the game. Without love for the game or without some passion for it, you're setting yourself up to not be the best athlete you can be. Shaquille, also known as Shaq, was one of the most dominant NBA centers to ever touch a court. Arguably he’s a top five center of all-time and he is also a Hall Of Famer. Then there's Peyton Manning, who will be in the Hall of Fame soon, is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to throw a football. Both of these players had really...
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...Benefits of Video Games English 223 D 12/5/2012 Intro I have played video games since I was five years old, they have been a huge part of my life. They have made me the person I am today for better or worse, but I believe for the better. They have helped me significantly in my social life. They helped me make friends, and have allowed me to have a common ground with people I would other wise never have anything in common with. It allows me to meet new people and keep in touch with friends in far off places. The challenges that video games have presented me have taught me how to analyze the situation quickly so I can react just as fast. Also I have learned a lot of random facts from video games about the real world. Many of the situations in video games have connections to the real world and thanks to the simulations of real life in video games I know how to react to certain situations or perform certain task appropriately with out actually ever doing them before. I believe video games have many benefits to offer everyone, they have been great to me and I am sure they can help everyone. Video games are deemed as toys with no apparent value but to waste time. This is very untrue, video games can be very beneficial if used properly. They can increase analysis and problem solving skills, they allow people the ability to keep in touch with their friends from all around the world and even make new ones because they have a shared interest, and they can...
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...Nick Saban If Nick Saban were running a company instead of a football program, he would be a top manager. Alabama football is big business, and it will continue to get bigger under Saban. “In 2006, the year before he arrived in Tuscaloosa, the athletic department brought in $67.7 million in revenue, mostly from football, and spent $60.6 million. Last year revenue was $124.5 million and expenditures were $105.1 million -- leaving a $19.4 million profit, according to figures compiled by USA Today. During Saban's tenure, Alabama has expanded the capacity of Bryant-Denny Stadium from 92,000 to 101,000, including the addition of new luxury (i.e., more expensive) seating”(O'Keefe, 2012). It was an obvious decision for the school to give him a two-year contract extension along with a significant raise earlier last year. With a salary package that averages $5.6 million a year over the next eight years, Saban is among the highest paid coaches in college football. “Nick Saban, the undisputed emperor of college football, has everything he could ever want in Tuscaloosa: Three national titles in four seasons; a great shot at another one a year from now; the best players; no static from anyone, including the browbeaten reporters who cover him; and the whole world kissing his feet”(Silver, 2013). Nick Saban is no doubt one of the best college football coaches in America. His passion, work ethic, persistence, and humility have got him to where he is today. These characteristics started when...
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...started communicating through the all channel structure in which each member actively participated clearing all doubts and reaching a unanimous conclusion. In my opinion the group achieved there objective by analyzing all doubts and unanimously agreeing 2. Were communications barriers present during the process? Detail them. During the process there were various barriers that did not permit the jurors to effectively communicate with each other. Some of the most visible barriers were filtering of the information in which some jurors would only use a portion of the facts and not all the available information, selective perception in which they solely based there decision on the race, neighborhood & background of the kid on trial & some jurors even showed personal emotions (the juror who had issues with his son). These barriers initially blocked the communications process making it difficult for them to think outside the box and analyze the facts. 3. State in which instances group members got involved in formal and informal communication. The group member constantly got involved in formal & informal communication,...
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...something like this: Eager to nurture the next A-Rod or Michelle Kwan, parents enroll their 5- or 6-year-olds in a competitive sports league or program. Over the next few years, training intensifies and expands to the off-season, making practice essentially year-round. Youngsters may join more than one league or a traveling team. They may have to sacrifice other interests and give up most of the down time that allows them to just be kids. Soon the stakes get higher because many parents and coaches play to win. Winning means recognition and that could lead to lucrative opportunities -– high school championships then college scholarships and perhaps a shot at the pros. “Kids sports have become much more competitive,” says Dr. Jordan Metzl, medical director of the Sports Medicine Institute for Young Athletes at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. “And in general, high-level competition for young kids is not a great thing,” says Metzl, co-author of “The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor’s Complete Guide for Parents.” With more kids than ever in organized sports, an estimated 30 million of them up through high school, Metzl and other experts in sports medicine and youth athletics say they are increasingly concerned about the pressures put on some children to excel. Not only are these youngsters at risk for emotional burnout, they may also develop injuries that plague them for a lifetime. Some will turn to steroids or other performance-enhancing substances to try...
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...Kristen Smith ORG300 March 28, 2014 Bursting the Leadership Bubble My mother once said to me during a difficult time in my life, “You can’t win any game unless you’re committed to winning”. She may have read that somewhere in Readers Digest or she came up with it herself. The fact was, she shared this with me when I was done playing the game of a dissolving marriage of sixteen years and felt like my lead role in life besides being a mother of two amazing son’s Joe and Jack was gone forever. The game had ended and I was not the leader of my life anymore. I was thrust into the work force after being out of it for over a decade while raising kids and being the one parent around while the other traveled the world building his Engineering career. What struck me most was the word “commitment” and that word has stayed with me in my various news jobs outside the home. I found that at one job especially my role as a student services representative was not only a leader but a good example of being committed to excellence. The company I worked for is a distance learning school and they offer Certificate programs and Associate Degrees. My role was student services and that meant taking calls all day long in a call center setting with a headset strapped to my head and small cubicle space which had no natural light from the outside world. The twenty five of us came in to work day in and day out and had to attain ten calls per hour and note the accounts accurately while collecting on...
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...Power is something that is extremely hard to obtain, but once obtained it can be easily abused. Over time there have been tons of leaders who have lost their minds when given power over all others. On the other hand, there are cases where the newly found leader was just flat out not ready for that prominent role. Some people try to free themselves from the power of others, while the other half seeks to gain power over others. In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the character Jack attempts to gain the role of leadership over all the other kids on the island. First of all, Jack was one of the those leaders who decided that they would enjoy abusing their aspect of leadership. Jack treated the whole island experience as...
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...Vern M. Rotruck Lyndsey Daniel Comp I MWF 12:00 19 November 2014 Why High School Football Shouldn’t Be Banned. Football, ever since it began, has had the constant question of should it be banned. Footballs origins began back in ancient Greece where even then it was known as a very rough and brutal game. When football came to England it was thought to be so rough that kings Henry II and Henry IV both actually banned it. A lot has changed since those times in history. We now have equipment for the game and every year the equipment keeps evolving into a more safety conscious design for the player. Rules for the game also keep changing throughout the years with the player’s safety in mind as well. Because of these changes, it has greatly improved the sport for the player and shouldn’t be banned do to its once rough past. When people think of football one of the first things that comes to one’s mind is injuries that the player may receive. “Dr. R. Dawn Comstock and her staff analyze the data to describe the rates, patterns, and trends of high school sports-related injuries. Such epidemiologic analysis is the necessary first step toward the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based, targeted prevention programs to reduce the number and/or severity of injuries among high school athletes.”(University of Denver Colorado). Each high school has their own programs that is mentioned by Dr. Comstock in place to help alleviate those injuries. Here this year Riddell...
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...Research Paper Final Draft October 12, 2014 How does video games affect youth negatively? One of the main concerns that have constantly been raised against video games is that most of the games feature aggressive elements. This has led many people to assert that this may have a detrimental effect on individuals who play such games. Despite continuing controversy for over 15 years, there has been little in the way of systematic research. The one consistent finding is that the majority of the studies on very young children - as opposed to those in their teens upwards - tend to show that children do become more aggressive after either playing or watching a violent video game. Research suggests that children and teens that playing and watching video games over an extended period of time tend to be more aggressive, are more prone to struggle in school, and more prone to be obese or overweight. One of the ways that the videogames affect children and teens that play and watch for an extended period of time is that they tend to be more aggressive. In “Children, Adolescents, and Television,” it has been stated that even more important than the amount of time spent playing video games is the content of games played (2001). Research shows that up to 90% of all video games contain some sort of violent content and in a survey of 213 adolescents, 99% of boys and 84% of girls said that at least one of their current video games has violent content. Some experts assert that there is...
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...Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs We are missing the opportunity to find kids who show traits of entrepreneurship and Groom / show them that being an entrepreneur is a cool thing. Kids have dream and passions and visions, they are crushed. Told they should study harder, be more focused, or get a tutor. Instead of furthering what they are good at, they get them a tutor in what they suck at. School system is Kids to be a lawyer or doctor instead of looking for and grooming traits that would make them an excellent entrepreneur. Have ideas and passion or see needs in the world, they stand up and do it and they put everything on the line to see these things happen. Getting kids to embrace being an entrepreneur at a young age we could change the problems in the world to. Obligation to teach our children to teach our kids to be entrepreneurial, spreading businesses instead Teaching kids to go after good jobs, or what's cool, MBA programs do not teach our kids to be entrepreneurial. They teach them to go work in corporations, but who is starting these companies? Popular literature: Atlas shrugged makes entrepreneur into the hero, but everything else looks at entrepreneurs as bad people. All entrepreneurs have struggled with school, ADD, bipolar (CEO disease, Ted turner, Steve jobs, 3 founders of netscape.) We see these signs in kids and give them ritalin, and tell them not to be an entrepreneurial type, but to fit into the system and become...
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...want to be an engineer, so I try extra hard in math and science. I do well in group projects and I have been best in class in a couple of public speeches. I also was tested and had one of the best reading levels in my school family/team. Reaching 270 AR points in first grade may not earn me any scholarships, but it shows that I’m a self motivated hard working kid. Participation & Leadership...
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...various kinds of diseases and viruses. In order to maintain health and fitness one must do physical fitness and should take care of their intake food (Jowett 2007). The use of fast food has become more often these days and the extra amount of calories they intake are making them more expose to germs, diseases and various heart issues. In order to tackle this situation, people must carry out physical activities and should involve themselves in sports and games. Sports and different kinds of games are very important; they not only keep healthy but also fit with a sound mind in a sound body. Sports and games let us to change our daily routine and it is considered as a useful mean of entertainment. Not only sports are entertaining but it also helps us in character building, team playing and builds skills of leadership. Sports may help us in building stamina, gaining more energy and helps in mental and physical growth. Moreover, sports help in improving our capabilities, efficiency and physical looks. Sports and different games help us to grow in life and in mentality (Rosner & Shropshire 2004) In order to tackle such a situation HE Xingzhang has organized a "The Basket Ball Camp". The Basket Ball Camp has a tagline which reads "Come on! With your Brotherhood". He Xingzhang has...
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...It’s true that people can change your way of thinking, and can direct you in the right direction. I am writing an essay on someone who genuinely influenced me with their leadership skills. Specifically for me, Miriam Donovan exuberated the best leadership and helped keep the group focused on the task we were trying to complete. During the week of Impact, we had the opportunity to serve different organizations around Atlanta and show the love of Jesus. The first day, our leaders Andrew and Mary-Beth helped us get ready for the week to come. Later in the day, we were given the opportunity to go a commercial kitchen and prepare healthy home-cooked meals for Coach Jenny and her family. Tuesday, our group woke up super early and traveled to the...
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...I think Gerry Bertier demonstrated the best leadership in the film. One time Gerry demonstrated the best leadership was at camp after he approached Julius so they could get to know each other at Coach Boone’s request. They have a verbal fight and then slowly start to become friends. After the argument between them, Gerry calls out some of the white players who weren’t playing fair with their black teammates. Gerry even went so far as to personally kick his best friend Ray off the team for not being a team player and purposely ruining plays, just because of their black teammates. A second time Gerry showed the best leadership was when some black and white students got into a fight in the hallway at school, Gerry jumped in to help his teammates...
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