...snowshoeing a mountain and sledding down, to standing below me while I‘m chain sawing 80ft up above you. I have to tell you how I got started and became the guy you share these crazy adventures with. Skydiving one time has changed my perspective on life to be sure. Just starting out in a new job and trying to figure out what life was about and where I was headed. I decided it was time to mix things up, do something I didn’t think I had the guts to actually do. Go jump from a perfectly good plane attached to someone I didn’t know, that is an “expert“ in the area of falling from great heights (more than once!) . I had been in a plane only two or three times sight seeing, without the urge to open the door no less. The sky is a cold, crisp aqua marine with thin wispy clouds. The walls are a cold steel grey. Rivets hold everything together. A faded tan leather seat, cracked from years speed, pitch, heading and Altitude. A small window on my right side above my head provides the only meager view on the ascent to a totally new view on life. It’s dark behind me where the Instructor waits patiently for the call to go. There’s a small poster on the sliding door that says “Humpty Dumpty was pushed” with a picture of him falling (the irony of which, will hit me in a moment). The wind is leaping in and out of the plane as we speed toward our goal of 10,000ft. The man kneeling in front of me is wearing all black. He has a large pack strapped onto his back. My jumpsuit is a very...
Words: 1226 - Pages: 5
...Graeme Sneddon Course code:EDINBIA12 Tutor: Rebecca Muller Case Study 1 Screed – Stopping Smoking Now make yourself comfortable take a nice deep breath, close your eyes and begin to relax……….. Let’s start by concentrating on your breathing……think of each breath as it goes in and think of each breath as it goes out slowly……….think about relaxing every muscle in your body… just let go and relax……inhale and exhale…..notice your breathing…notice the rhythm. Feel the breath going through your body…….be aware of normal sounds going on around you…………..these every day noises start to become irrelevant helping you to relax more deeply than you have felt before….as you breath out release any tension, any stress from any part of your body mind and thought…………just let the stress go… Begin to feel the relaxing sensation spreading from the top of your head .feel the muscles in your scalp relax……feel them relax……..feel any stressful thoughts winding down and disappearing……feel the muscles in your face relax…..around your eyes….your temples … followed by your cheeks and your jaw….let them relax....feel them relax and as you relax feel yourself drifting and floating letting go of all stress and tension…….feel those muscles smooth and relaxed…imagine your eyelids so comfortable and heavy.so relaxed and let all those muscles in your neck and shoulders relax ………let them go….enjoy this feeling of deep relaxation………..more deeply relaxed than...
Words: 1896 - Pages: 8
...Financial Accounting May 16, 2014 Strayer University Dr. Greenfield Week 6 Assignment 2 You Are an Entrepreneur For my Entrepreneurship assignment, I have decided to utilize a florist for creating my business. The business plan will be for Passionate Moments Florist. Passionate Moments Florist is a proposed store front floral business that caters to walk-in customers as well as Internet based customers and telecommunication customers. Passionate Moments Florist will be located in the Time Square shopping center in Charlotte, North Carolina, near the new transit train station where the old Kate’s Roller Skating Rink use to be. It will be next door to the Quizo’s submarine restaurant in a small shopping mall. Passionate Moments Florist will service the residential community of Charlotte along with the many visitors that frequently visit the area for shopping as well as servicing the outlying counties; which are Cabarrus, Iredell, Union, Gaston and York counties. Passionate Moments Florist will also service any Internet based traffic as well as orders that will need to utilize the floral wiring systems such as Teleflora or 1-800-flowers. We will be recognized by the fact that we will offer special prices and arrangement on our novelty flower which will be the lavender rose. To give you a brief history of our novelty flower, the lavender rose has always captured my heart, which lead me to the decision of opening the business. Our colors of the walk-in...
Words: 2612 - Pages: 11
...This week I have to finish my rough draft that I had wrote in week two and turn it in to a final essay. In week two I wrote a rough draft about a particular moment that had a special moaning on my life. A special meaning on my life has been becoming a mother. I was young when I had become a mother for the first time, but even thaw I was young I would not chance it for the world. I was eighteen years old when I become a mother to a healthy, smart and beautiful little girl, her name is Hayley Danielle. Once I had my daughter Hayley she had made me realize that becoming a mother at the age of eighteen was not so bad. Eighteen months later I gave birth to a smart, healthy and handsome baby named Austin Wayne. Having two children by the time I was almost twenty years old, made me realize that they need to grow up and have morals and know that respect, education and that family is everything. When I was twenty-four years old I gave birth to another smart, healthy and beautiful little girl named Kaylan Faith. All three of my children are my world. I teach them all three to not be mean to one another, to respect their elders and to pay attention in school. I tell my children that I want them to grow up and have a great education. I have explained to my children and I will always explain to my children that having a great education will help them be able to take care of them self’s and be able to support their own families when they grow up and have a family. All three of my children...
Words: 584 - Pages: 3
...The Poem named “baseball” written by Bill zavatsky is about a time when the Author that tells the story is around 10 years old and his team played the little league champs. But he doesn't remember who won or who lost, the only thing he remembers is that there was a pop up ball and he was able to catch that pop up ball over second base. In the poem they state “we were the only farm team not “good enough” to make big little league” which is an oxymoron, means a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear, which is “little league”. This stanza states “felt my body rust in pieces to the ground a baby trying to stand up an ant in the shadow at a house.” This stanza has three metaphors. Metaphor means comparing 2 alike thing by...
Words: 350 - Pages: 2
...While on vacation this summer with my mom, my seven aunts, and several girl cousins on my mom's side of the family, I discovered that one of my aunts brought a special book that I had not looked at in quite some time. The book was a family collaboration written and compiled especially for my grandmother and grandfather. As I flipped through the pages of this book which contained letters and pictures from each and every family member, I realized how important the sentiment of the book was to my family and me. As I continued to glance at its pages, I began to recall the cherished memories of writing my letters to Maw Rose and Popa Fred and the choosing of the pictures, enjoying the Christmas we gave them the book as a present, and glancing at the book in its entirety at my family's vacation this summer. As a young girl about...
Words: 884 - Pages: 4
...and successful in life. One of those challenges is her dad Rex. He is an alcoholic and he was also irresponsible. Even though Rex was irresponsible, Walls wrote about all the best times she spent with her dad. Despite all that Rex put the family through, Jeannette still loved him for two main reasons: first, for his constant ability to make her feel special, and second, because he is a never-ending source of inspiration. One thing Rex puts the family through is all the moving. They moved a total of four times from Arizona to Battle Mountain to Phoenix and then to Welch. At times Rex would just say “‘Okay, kids’ Dad said ‘the civilians are revolting. We better Skedaddle.’” (Walls109). Skedaddle means to get going and move, but in Rex’s language it meant to move to a new city and take whatever you can put in your pockets. He wasn’t a man that would take many things with him when he would move anywhere, and so he made his family do the same. Rex would always reassure Jeannette that everything is okay and he would make her feel comfortable about the situation they are in. She saw her father like a hero, saving them from the bad guys every time they moved, at least when they were younger. Rex’s ability to make Jeannette feel unique is on of the main reasons why she still holds onto him when others give up. An example of when Rex made her feel special was when he gave the kids all a star for Christmas, but he gave Jeannette Venus. She felt very special when her dad gave her it...
Words: 952 - Pages: 4
...American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and political activist, had a negative look on photography and what it means to us. To be honest I see where she is coming from. Nowadays you see people taking selfies, pictures of funny moments, or just something that doesn’t seem to have much meaning. But to a certain person, that one photo could hold so much more than just sentimental value than what we see from an unknowing and non-understanding mind. “Strictly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph. Of course, photographs fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and past…” wrote Sontag in a claim on her opinion of the concept of photography. She then continued with,...
Words: 987 - Pages: 4
...The future is unpredictable and we never know when is the last chance to laugh, hug someone we love, or feel the moment. These thoughts were storming my mind one afternoon this summer when walking down one of the Moscow streets. Earlier that morning, I was expecting to have one more ordinary day spending time in Moscow with my mother, as everything was as usual: the sun was shining; the noisy constructions were going on all around, people were hurrying, and we were having our sweet and sometimes not so sweet conversations. That’s to say, with no special circumstances we were planning to visit a museum-gallery, have a dinner and spend the evening with friends. Nonetheless, in the evening I understood: this day was not usual but a special turning point in my life interpretation and understanding....
Words: 1084 - Pages: 5
...modernity to a new "postmodern" era. Because we are only at the beginning of this shift, it remains clear that God’s purpose is to: fill the earth with His glory (Numbers 14:21, Isaiah 6:3, Isaiah 60:1-4, Habakkuk 2:14 Matthew 6:13, Colossians 1:27), the consummating third day expression of God to the earth. The purported changes will intensify the glory of God and bring the church to full disclosure of divine mystery and revelation. Contemporary theology is therefore the study of lost truth dating back to the mid 18th and 19th century trends in theological thought by prophets and apostles of both the Old and New Testament including but not limited to Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, John, Paul, Peter, with special reference to theological options of the present, third-day Christians. The purpose of contemporary theology is to seek—in language and thought—to reformulate the truths given to us by previous generations, and to articulate and conceive a new vision for the twenty-first century. The overarching thesis of contemporary theology is the need for the revelation of truth by the spirit of God. This truth is the only transforming agent of the New Testament. This truth is revealed by the Holy Spirit. The declaration of this truth therefore will precipitate divine revelation which will lead us to transformation. Peter, the disciple, led by the Holy Spirit penned “I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are...
Words: 1983 - Pages: 8
...General Arangmenrt plan Hydrostatic calculation Route Objective Limitation Crosscuve of stability process Scantling When a new ship is designed, one of the primary steps involved in the development of the concept, is designing its General Arrangement and allocating proper spaces according to the requirements of the owner and functionality of the ship. It is up to the naval architect to decide on the ship’s general arrangement, depending on many design constraints that are mentioned in the technical specifications of the contract. Since almost all ships have something unique in their general arrangement, there is no specific procedure with rules stated for the same. But in spite of that, a naval architect needs to know the basic procedure to follow in order to come down to an optimum design. In this article, we shall discuss a general procedure that is followed in the ship designing industry. The General Arrangement, or GA as it is commonly called, is a drawing created by a naval architect. The purpose of this drawing is for space allocation, to ensure that everything that an owner wants in a vessel will actually fit. The GA consists of (at a minimum) a plan view of each major deck of the vessel, shows all of the watertight and structural bulkheads, as well as joiner bulkheads. All of the furniture is typically shown or in early stages the furniture and large items to be on the vessel are roughly blocked in. Passageways, stairwells and all equipment vital to the ships...
Words: 973 - Pages: 4
...Midnight Special auditions were in the late August of 2016, and the pressure was monumental. Those who made it into Midnight Special were the best of all singers in the school. Therefore, I saw these auditions as a way to prove to myself and others that I possessed a talent for singing. I thought of the auditions as a self-discovery, but instead the audition ended up ripping my soul out -- for a while. My thoughts varied in the spectrum from moderate confidence to torturous worry and fear. The most prominent fear I was facing during this early start of 6th grade was the fear of failure. I had rarely failed at anything, which I thought was successful at first. However, when I failed my audition, it led me to believe that failure is never the...
Words: 1528 - Pages: 7
...Strategic Plan BUS 475 April 21, 2014 Strategic Plan Photography companies allow people, families, friends, and organizations to capture memorable moments that will be seen for years to come. Megan Elizabeth Portraits is an individually owned photography studio based in Dallas, Texas. The studio specializes in newborn, maternity, and family portraits using natural light to enhance the portraits. Each photography session is centered around the type of picture the client wants. There are guidelines that each client must follow in order for each photo session to be successful and each client to be satisfied. Megan Elizabeth Portraits wants to make each experience a lifelong memory and an experience that will capture the essence of each client. The vision of Megan Elizabeth Portraits is to capture the beauty of the environment and nature (Elizabeth, 2014). The studio wants to give the client unique portraits that will last a long time and give the client something to share with others. The vision of this studio will help to make clients feel comfortable and make them feel like their decision to have Megan Elizabeth Portraits as the photographer was the best decision to make. Clients are able to do photo shoots with nature as a backdrop and other different kind of backdrops that will bring a fresh view of the environment through the picture. The type of pictures that this studio wants to produce and the kind of experience each client should have further exemplifies...
Words: 1611 - Pages: 7
...To put you in the picture, imagine you’re a teenage prodigy. Ever since birth, you’ve made everyone around you feel inferior, due to your own special qualities and superior intelligence. When you were four you read a book about Archimedes, and while other little boys might have longed for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, you desperately wanted to matter, to be in the history books, to be able to scream “Eureka!” and run through the streets naked. Colin Singleton has made his way through life relying only on his smarts…And his girlfriend’s, named Katherine, all nineteen of them. After being dumped for the nineteenth time, by Katherine XIX of course, he’d had enough. He says his goodbyes to his parents and takes off with his overweight, Jewish best friend. Although the expedition started off as a road trip, with no set direction (besides away from his doomed relationships), it ends up...
Words: 861 - Pages: 4
...CALIMLIM, Jally Anne N. Marketing 14; 11:30 – 1:30 TTS GLOCALIZATION: The Chronicle of Coca-Cola A Global Business Entering the last quarter of the 20th century, the deep emotional bond between Coca-Cola and its consumers grew even more powerful and more global. In 1971, young people from around the world gathered on a hilltop in Italy to sing "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke," a counterpoint to turbulent times. This was also a glimpse into the Company's future: an expanding global presence and an even closer attachment to the world's most cherished trademark. The power and prestige of Coca-Cola were exemplified in 1988, when three independent worldwide surveys conducted by Landor & Associates confirmed Coca-Cola as the best-known, most-admired trademark in the world. Perhaps a more human assessment of consumers' loyalty to Coca-Cola had come in 1985. The Company startled the American public by announcing a new taste for Coke, the first change in the secret formula since Coca-Cola was created in 1886. The new taste was overwhelmingly preferred in taste tests, but all the testing and research could not measure the emotional attachment Americans had for the original formula. That original taste had become more than just a soft drink, and consumers' deep feelings, memories and loyalties to it came alive. The Company listened to its consumers and quickly responded by returning the original formula to the market as Coca-Cola classic®. The Company's global strategy during the 1980s...
Words: 719 - Pages: 3
