...(May) and she is 28. I will be taking you on a detailed journey into my life! I will start with my place of birth and briefly elaborate along the way on each of the points in my young life that I feel are most impactful on my current life situation. Next , I will take you on a rollercoaster ride through my teen years and into my young adulthood, high’s and low’s. I will close by taking you on a journey, as I find out that I am having my first child and making a big move that will impact the rest of my life, as I know it. Let’s begin with the year I was born. I was born in 1981 on December 23rd. My Mother Kris, and my Father Randy were only 18 years young. I was born at Whuestoff Hospital in Rockledge, FL. Rockledge is a proud little city that is about 20 minutes inland from Cocoa Beach. My mom has always had the warm memory of bringing me home from the hospital on Christmas Eve dressed in a red one piece and wrapped in a Christmas stocking. I don’t know what it is about that story but I love to hear my mom talk about it. I guess that’s part of the reason why I have always loved Christmas and the Holiday Season. We will now jump forward to my 6th Christmas when I received my first ever bicycle from Santa Clause. Yes it was the first one ever. It was everything I ever wanted and now it was mine. I can remember it clearly, it was red and blue and had the Smurf’s all over it. I...
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...What I expect in 20 years I expect to be a successful salesman, who works hard to make all of my clients happy while still having a drive to find new accounts to do business with. I want to be able to look back at the past and realize that all of my accomplishments were in direct correlation with my work ethic. I have a big family is very close and I take pride in my home state of Louisiana, which is why I plan on staying local But if offered a great opportunity elsewhere I’m not afraid to pickup and go. I can see myself being a local businessman who is greatly involved in the community. I can see myself coach a little league baseball team. I also would like to be a successful racehorse owner. Vision for the future I see myself developing Relationships with clients in and out of the work place. I see myself being a Well respected employee due to my attitude and work ethic. My vision is that I will have a happy and healthy family. A wife and maybe few kids. I want a dog, my parents never let me get a dog even though I had asked for one for countless Christmases. I can likely see myself staying local, but I will soon be job hunting and you never know where that takes you. Bucket List 1. Attend a World Cup outside of the United States 2. Go Skydiving----check off soon 3. Go on a mission trip to an underprivileged...
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...Persuasive Essay: Young Boys Should Be Involved In Little League Activities (Baseball) COMM/215: Essentials of College English Mrs. Barbara Pleasant, PhD. April 29, 2004 Young Boys Should Be Involved In Little League Activities (Baseball) Young boys should be involved in league sports. Baseball is just one of the sports that little league offers. “Little League Baseball was founded in 1939 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania by Carl Stotz as a baseball program for boys. Little League Baseball is the largest organized youth sports program in the world with 2,900,000 participants on 193,000 teams in 91 countries” (Little League Baseball History). Many professional baseball players started out as a little leaguer in their community. This is where their dream started. Involving young boys in little league baseball would keep the child busy, help the child learn different skills, and help kids that come from single parent homes. Involving young boys in little league baseball would keep them busy in their spare time. Every week the coach schedules practice on different days. This allows the child to prepare for game day. If the parent mentions to the coach that the child is having problems in school, most coaches will tutor the child during practice. If that is more than half the team, then they may even have study time instead of baseball practice. Education is the key to success and it comes first. On game day the child will be ready to show the new skills learned...
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...everyone that is a part of it; I am also very respected by my peers. In recent years as a cadet, I have had the privilege to attend three different summer cadet camps. These cadet camps were the General Training and Basic Leadership courses in Penhold and the Basic Survival course in Cold Lake. Outside of cadets, I attend Miles McDonnell Collegiate. I am a grade 11 honors student in the very demanding International Baccalaureate Program. I maintain a very good reputation with my teachers as well as very good marks. I volunteer as a puppeteer and an actor in my local church for the Kid zone Program and this upcoming spring, I am going to begin coaching flag football for the little leagues. During the past few years, I have played flag football for Football Manitoba and previous to that I played little league baseball where I excelled in many different positions including pitcher. I am also an active member of my high school...
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... Two years later Frank is forced to file for chapter 11bankruptcy to protect the team and him during his pending divorce, and dirt hits the fan about the McCourt’s using the money made from the team to buy houses, private jets, etc. Now the Dodgers are looking for a new owner to bring the team back to life and bring the fans back into the seats. This paper will break down the demise of the Los Angeles Dodgers and its owners Frank and Jaime McCourt. Why Frank McCourt Ruined the Los Angeles Dodgers The Dodgers franchise goes all the way back to the late 1800’s. Dodgers.com (2012) breaks down the history of the franchise, which officially started 1890 when Ferdinand Abell started what is now the eighth oldest franchise in Major League Baseball history named the Brooklyn Bridegroom, which later became the well-known Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1958, the owner Walter O’Malley decided to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Walter was the sixth owner of the team. He passed away after owning the team for twenty-seven years. His son Peter took over ownership and kept the team for another nineteen years before selling it. It was under the ownership of the O’Malley’s when the team won all six of their world championships. In 1998 Peter O’Malley sold the team to Rupert Murdoch and the Fox Entertainment Group. It was at this point the team started to decline. Murdoch wanted to take complete ownership by basically getting rid of the team that Peter O’Malley built, by trading away...
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...Media Project: 1911 Dallas Morning Newspaper was sited in Dallas, Texas and was created on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo. He was a news writer who was born in Salem, North Carolina and after civil war moved to Houston; in which begin working with partner Willard Richardson. Willard was a news writer for the Texas Almanac and Galveston Daily and took Belo under his wing to become one of the heroic writers in Texas. The Dallas morning news during Belo’s was primarily focused on the latest technology and exploiting ways on taking advantage of its use. The newspaper was very diverse with its variety of information that was prevalent during 1911. However, during this time period and publication dates of October 10th through the 16th there were many different views within the government politics, women’ suffrage, Negros, sports and a diseases namely tuberculosis and typhoid fever, and the world series of baseball. The Dallas Morning news was a daily paper and the reader’s intended for this newspaper was for middle to higher-class citizens, who were looking for the latest and greatest information about the world. Also, intended for spectators of sports in detail and perhaps who would play that day or who would win a specific game. During 1911 and October 10-16th there was an immense amount of talk about California Election Day and if woman suffrage would be allowed. This was a hard fault battle according to the letter “Relegation to secondary positions by strenuous exponents...
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...20th Century Baseball In 1865 towards the end of the American civil war, U.S. military officer, Abner Doubleday, had decided to draw up a sketch of a diamond shaped field and wrote up some simple rules and a few days later put his ideas to live use. He had just invented the greatest game of all time. Baseball (baseballalmanac.com). Six years later, what was once a game for military men had now started to become the national pastime. On May 4, 1871, the very first professional game was played. At this time, there was only one league, the National Association of Baseball Players. On this day, the Cleveland Forest Citys would take on the Fort Wayne Kekiongas where Fort Wayne would go on to win 2-0 over Cleveland. With only about 500 people in attendance, the game lasted for a little more than two hours as Kekiongas pitcher, Bobby Mathews, would make history as the very first pitcher to have a win on his record throw the first shutout game as Mathews went on later in the year to be tied as one of the league leaders in shutouts. In 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was organized, but today we simplified the name just to the National League (Mckissack 12). Throughout the rest of the late 1800’s, baseball massively grew in popularity as all-stars were being born. Baseball has a long and incredible history, especially in the twentieth- century, with events such as the first night game in 1935, the first World Series in 1903, and Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot?” home...
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...SUNYIT Human Resource Management MGT 318 Professor N. Laino Leadership Jeff Albright April 30, 2014 In the waning seconds of Game 6 during the 1998 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan found himself with the ball after stealing it from Karl Malone. Down by one, and with just 5.2 seconds left on the clock, Jordan rose up for a jumper that would end up being the winning points of the game. This win would earn Michael Jordan his sixth NBA championship. With every successful championship win, there is a leader who helped lead the franchise. Just as experienced leadership translates to success on the playing field, experienced leadership is essential in the business world. Leadership is defined as “the use of power and influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement. That direction can affect followers’ interpretation of events, the organization of their work activities, their commitment to key goals, their relationship with other followers, and their access to cooperation and support from other work units” (McGraw 418). Often times, people who are leaders are people of power; it’s how these leaders use their power to get followers to achieve goals. Someone who is powerful is often known for their ability to influence the behavior of others. In the workforce, most leaders are managers. There are three organizational forms of power that managers can use to influence employees: legitimate power, reward power, and coercive power. Legitimate power...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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...Colin Fisher Nature in the City: Urban Environmental History and Central Park E very year, thirty-five million growing population that was people visit Manhattan’s deeply divided along lines of Central Park, a vast island of class, ethnicity, and race. It is green situated in the midst of one within this historical context that of the world’s largest cities. For a group of merchants, politicians, many of these visitors, walking and middle-class reformers began through one of the park gates pushing for the creation of a large means leaving the artifice of the urban park (2). city behind and entering into an innocent green world, a vestige of A Cleansing Landscape the original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green space would not only cleanse the landscape is very much a product the air of dangerous smoke and of the mid nineteenth-century city. miasmas, it would convince the As such, Manhattan’s “front lawn” overworked sons and daughters of can be read as a primary source, a Puritans to leave their homes and unique window...
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...1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Brief History History of Pepsi:- Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was later labeled Pepsi Cola, named after the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy. In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore to a rented warehouse. That year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next year, Pepsi was sold in six-ounce bottles, and sales increased to 19,848 gallons. In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as "A bully drink...refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race." The advertising theme "Delicious and Healthful" was then used over the next two decades. In 1926, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the original design of 1905. In 1929, the logo was changed again. In 1931, at the depth of the Great Depression, the Pepsi-Cola Company entered bankruptcy – in large part due to financial losses incurred by speculating on wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War I. Assets were sold and Roy C. Megargel bought the Pepsi trademark. Megargel was unsuccessful, and soon Pepsi's assets were purchased by Charles Guth, the President of Loft Inc. Loft was a candy manufacturer with retail...
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...Factors Influencing Visitor's Choices to Visit Urban Destinations Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation Canadian Tourism Commission Canadian Heritage Parks Canada PREPARED BY: PREPARED FOR: Global Insight, Inc. June 2004 Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................. 1 Highlights................................................................................................................................ 1 Study Summary........................................................................................................................ 1 Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 2 Next Steps................................................................................................................................ 3 II. III. IV. A. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 4 STUDY OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................... 4 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................... 5 LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................................... 6 Introduction............................................
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...stages through which a firm may go as it becomes increasingly involved across borders. A purely domestic firm focuses only on its home market, has no current ambitions of expanding abroad, and does not perceive any significant competitive threat from abroad. Such a firm may eventually get some orders from abroad, which are seen either as an irritation (for small orders, there may be a great deal of effort and cost involved in obtaining relatively modest revenue) or as "icing on the cake." As the firm begins to export more, it enters the export stage, where little effort is made to market the product abroad, although an increasing number of foreign orders are filled. In the international stage, as certain country markets begin to appear especially attractive with more foreign orders originating there, the firm may go into countries on an ad hoc basis—that is, each country may be entered sequentially, but with relatively little learning and marketing efforts being...
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...fourth EDItION fourth EDItION This clear, learner-friendly text helps today’s students bridge the gap between Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in an exceptionally versatile text. Highlights of the Fourth Edition: Additional readings and essays in a new Appendix as well as in Chapters 7 and 8 nearly double the number of readings available for critical analysis and classroom discussion. An online chapter, available on the instructor portion of the book’s Web site, addresses critical reading, a vital skill for success in college and beyond. Visit www.mhhe.com/bassham4e for a wealth of additional student and instructor resources. Bassham I Irwin Nardone I Wallace New and updated exercises and examples throughout the text allow students to practice and apply what they learn. MD DALIM #1062017 12/13/09 CYAN MAG YELO BLK Chapter 12 features an expanded and reorganized discussion of evaluating Internet sources. Critical Thinking thinking, using real-world examples and a proven step-by-step approach. A student ' s Introduction A student's Introduction everyday culture and critical thinking. It covers all the basics of critical Critical Thinking Ba ssha m I Irwin I Nardone I Wall ace CRITICAL THINKING A STUDENT’S INTRODUCTION FOURTH EDITION Gregory Bassham William Irwin Henry Nardone James M. Wallace King’s College TM bas07437_fm_i-xvi.indd i 11/24/09 9:53:56 AM TM Published by McGraw-Hill...
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