...Latoya Griffin ENG 125 Instructor Anna Morrison May 28, 2014 The Pool Players The poem “The pool players” outlines the actual reality in which different youth from any diverse tends to face after leaving school. The poems’ content is systematically in a order simply because it opens up with portraying the ultimate scene of seven boys who surrounded a pool hall which was named the Golden Shovel. This line exposes the actual scene which the play had represented certain small gang who were in need of luck in order to achieve certain goal in their lives. Also the content of the play seemingly interested as result of implication whereby it implies the youngness of the players (Brooks, 1959). The poem`s content also exposes the certain illegal activities which were practiced by the boys discussed. What interested me are narrator words when exposing the facts by use of secret word “Lurk late” which shows that, a certain activities were taking place in the dark. The identification shows that, too much exposure to darkness makes somebody to be what he or she ought to be. The narrator uses the word “strike straight” showing that, the boys where seemingly trying to do something menacing. Perhaps, they committed crimes, rapes and murder as well since they were all undergoing through a rite of passage in their development (Brooks, 1959). The form of the poem “the pool players” was identified to have been determined by Colloquial rhythm (Haikus type of poem) the narrator tried...
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...Industry’s Profit Pools | Bus J-411 | | Carl Greeno III | 10/1/2013 | In this article it describes a useful framework for analyzing how profits are distributed among the various activities that form an industry’s value chain. A profit-pool opens a window onto the underlying structure of the industry, helping managers see the economic and competitive forces that are determining the distribution of profits. The strategy of a firm should be informed by an understanding of the sources and distribution of profits generated in an industry. Gadiesh and Gilbert took a value chain perspective to this when developing the profit pool framework. Profitability in different segments and stages of the value chain may vary a lot by product and customer group, by geography, or by channel. Step 1: Define the pool Key is to look at the industry broadly, beyond its traditional boundaries. Include all the activities that are meaningful to influence your organization’s ability to earn profits today and in the future. Examine the industry from three perspectives, your own, your competitors’, and your customers. Take a step back and take a look at your industry through the eyes of the customer. When referring to capsim, one of the most important aspects in the game is the customer survey. In being profitable and achieving a high percent of the market, you must fulfill the customers’ needs and expectations better than the competition. Defining the bounds of a profit pool requires, in short...
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...on “Capitalizing on the Customer as an Asset” is The Pool Room Bar & Billiards out of Lawrence, Kansas. The Pool Room is a locally established, individually owned pool hall that was established in 1988. (4) The Pool Room Bar & Billiards is a “throwback to the pool halls of yore” and neighborhood bar located in the basement of the Hillcrest Shopping Center. (4) The pool hall is moderately priced, offering a “serviceable selection of beer and cocktails.” (4) In addition to cocktails and eight and nine ball pool tables, the establishment has a dance floor, shuffleboard, mega touch games, a couple slot machines, projection and big screen televisions, arcade games, darts, a jukebox and a back room available for rent that has a capacity of 200. (3) The bar has an active Facebook account that was just recently setup in February. (5) The bar currently hosts techno parties in the back room on Friday nights; a deejay featuring hip hop and nineties rock music with dancing on Saturday nights; American Pool Association (APA) pool leagues on Tuesday nights; poker on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights; various music venues throughout the year ranging from local musicians to blue grass to rap to rock-n-roll; and nightly drink specials. (1) In past years, the bar has had other businesses set up within it ranging from a variety of restaurants to recently a brewery. (2) They also used to have nightly pool tournaments and pool leagues running four nights a week. (2) The current...
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...Athletic HISTORY The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition. The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships. The United States also began holding an annual national competition – the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships – first held in 1876 by the New York Athletic Club.[14] Athletics became codified and standardized via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union (founded in the US in 1888) and the Union des sociétésfrançaises de sports athlétiques (founded in France in 1889). An athletics competition was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and it has been as one of the foremost competitions at the quadrennial multi-sport event ever since. Originally for men only, the 1928 Olympics saw the introduction of women's events in the athletics programme. Athletics is part of the Paralympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1960. Athletics has a very high profile during major championships, especially the Olympics, but otherwise is less popular. An international governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), was founded in 1912; it adopted its current...
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...understand and appreciate her poem and its message. During a public reading Mrs. Brooks is known for saying, “I wrote [We Real Cool] because I was passing by a pool hall in my community one afternoon during school time, and I saw, therein, a little bunch of boys – I say there in this poem, seven – and they were shooting pool. Instead of asking myself, “Why aren’t they in school?” I asked myself, ‘I wonder how they feel about themselves?’ and just perhaps they might have considered themselves contemptuous of the establishment…” (Shmoop Editorial Team) This quote helps the reader understand the thought process of Brooks and helps define the general message of how the boys were wasting their time. “We Real Cool” has astoundingly only a subtitle and eight lines. The first sentence we read which is the subtitle says, “The Pool Players. /Seven at the Golden Shovel.” (860) Brooks starts the poem by introducing seven pool players at a local pool hall called the “Golden Shovel”. (860) I found the name of the pool hall intriguing because it means much more than a shovel that is gold. Gold can imply the positive tone of youth, adventurous and valuable. Shovel, on the flip side, implies a kind of negative tone of hard work, digging, or being dirty. This simple sentence can lead the reader to wonder what is so “Golden” about the pool hall. Most activities are not positive and “Golden”; there are usually a lot of betting, arguing, alcohol, and drugs being passed around. These activities mixed...
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...my life was over. I can tell you that I was the person that took it the hardest. I had to leave my friends, my school, my neighbors, my church and my old house. I had to leave everything to be forced to a place where I knew nothing and no one. It was like leaving your favorite childhood blanket. I was going to a place where no one who knew my name better yet they could not even pronounce it. What a horrible lonely place. And no one even cared! Connecticut held a lot of memories. I had my first birthday party at 9 Rainbow RD, but I can’t remember the party. I remember the large yellow pick-up truck making a lot of noise as it backed up into the back yard. It was one early Saturday morning; they were removing dirt to make the room for the pool. This was...
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...I. Executive Summary: CrossRoads, a partnership ltd. Company manufacturing high quality Billiard and Snooker Accessories in Bangladesh. We are the pioneer in manufacturing Billiard and Snooker Accessories in the country. The products we are manufacturing are Billiard Board, Balls, cue and range. In producing our products we are going to use the raw materials from our country. We will use Shagun wood from Sylhet which will be collected from Savar. Also we are going to use ceramics and plastics from RAK industries. Wood used in the making of table will be highly furnished so that the harsh weather of Bangladesh cannot affect any quality of the Billiard board. Our company is equally partnered. 5 members of our company each has 20% share in it. Our target market is upper and upper middle class people of the society. Our future plan is to export the Billiard board. The specialty of our product is high quality, user friendly. The establishment date of our business is 20-08-2012. Our sources of funds are personal investments and SME Loan. II. Brief Description of the business: 1. Name of the Business: CROSS ROADS Billiard Co. 2. Nature of the Business: Manufacturing 3. Sector/ Industry: Billiard & Snooker Accessories 4. Objectives: Provide quality Billiard board and Accessories to the potential customer. 5. Employment: Types of Employee | Skilled | Semi- Skilled | Unskilled | Permanent | 5 | 8 | 0 | Temporary | 2 | 2 | 3 | Total | 7 | 10...
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...natural gas in the country. Attaining a single benchmark price for natural gas will bring stability in the varying gas price which in turn will bring stability across various projects. A large upsurge in gas demand is foreseen in the future, to meet the unmet and latent demand, as Well as the future energy needs. Gas is necessary not only a clean fuel, but also will make up for the significant shortfalls between demand and supply of energy in the country. The government has made a big leap forward by increasing APM prices directly to USD 4.2/MBtu, creating a reference price representing currently to an estimated two thirds of gas supplies. Additional changes may happen. The idea of pooling gas prices is still under study. Briefing pool pricing mechanism: The Indian gas market needs to...
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...are entertaining, to say the least. With just a few sprays of this female attractant in a can, women no longer have control of themselves, they are hungry and you’re for dinner. Now there’s a new line of shower gels for the guy who women can’t resist. It makes sense because, dealing with the countless hordes of women does tend to make one sweaty. So the creators of Axe have created a product that the modern day chick magnet can’t do without. The extended uncut ad has a guy waking up face down on his front lawn. He then proceeds to groggily get up and hit the shower, seemingly not remembering a thing about the night before. And then, all of a sudden, after using Axe Shower Gel, he has a flashback to a pool party. After waking from the pool party, he heads to the shower, gets cleaned up and is ready for more excitement. This time around, he ends up at what looks like a wanna be honky tonk, where of course the hottest girl in the place has her eye on him alone. They proceed to get away in either a motel room or her place, and end up doing what any young guy and girl do when alone in a room. Which is try on these huge animal heads one after another, and then act out certain scenarios such as whoever had the horse head on got to be rode as one. Page 1 Once again, he wakes up and has no recollection of the previous night. He washes with Axe Shower Gel and gets ready for yet more excitement. This time he finds himself in what looks like a cantina...
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...faster) and External (flexible with more options) recruitment. The next methods are taken from humanresources.hrvinet.com • Recruitment by the campus method. This is usually used to bolster the lower positions of the organization, and at the same time invest in future employees. This method is cheap, time efficient and usually has many candidates. Drawbacks of this method is that the people that are being acquired usually has close to zero work experience. • Internal recruitment, career development. What makes this method valuable is that the organization can gear and steer the employee towards the very specialized need the organization requires. He will take the position with full knowledge of the company. Drawbacks include a smaller pool of candidates and needs long term planning and involvement, and could prove to require considerable company resources (specialized personal that handle this program). • Head hunting. This method is mainly used as a recruitment tool for management and specialized positions that are hard to acquire. This method also entails (for better...
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...community’s activity program. Recently, Acre Woods added a pool to its rehabilitation center to facilitate resident exercise and aquatic therapy. The residents’ monthly rent was raised to help finance the pool. After the pool was constructed, Sarah immediately contacted the director of Acre Woods, Mark Adams, with concerns that the pool did not meet some important specifications included in the original design, such as nonslip treads on the stairs and improved wheelchair access to the pool area. Mark advised Sarah that the residents would be happy to have a pool, even if it did not incorporate all the requested special features. When Sarah asked why the new ramp and stair treads were not provided even though they were included in the budget, the director remarked that Sarah’s job was to provide physical therapy, not to worry about the budget. Over the next month, four Acre Woods residents had minor falls using the pool stairs. While the accidents were not serious, other residents began to express fears about using the pool. Sarah contacted Mark again to relate resident complaints and to stress the need for pool accessibility and safety improvements. Mark informed Sarah that she was the only member of the Acre Woods staff who was complaining or concerned about the pool; therefore, there was no issue. Mark said that he had a report from another Acre Woods physical therapist, Gene Levy, reporting that residents enjoy the pool and that it has expanded opportunities for physical therapy...
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...Product OverviewCoracle is a water clarifier for small recreational and personal pools. The product is priced little higher than the competitive products, but the advantage of the Coracle clarifier is the quantity that has to be used, thus bringing down the annual expenditure on the clarifier.Company overviewSoren chemical’s was basically a B2B concentrated business, which include more than 350 products, basically serving the large recreational water bodies and drinking and waste water.Being a B-to-B enterprise Soren never concentrated on branding of its products and creatingthe customer awareness, however they tried developing brands for products that had potential in consumer market, but had little success. Distribution Network of SorenSoren generally sold its products to the customers through three sources. 1) Through Formulators, who produced other pool products and delivered it to customers with added services. 2) Through wholesale distributors, who distributed the products to pool services professionals, pool speciality retailers, who served the residential pool owners. 3) Through Mass retailers, who directly served the Pool Owners? Competing products (In-house and external)Kailan MV: In house product, and is mainly used in large water bodies and it is not suitable for the smaller water bodies and personal pool. It is distributed through Formulators, who produce or source other pool chemicals.How Kailan MV is a threat to Coracle: Few formulators were producing a diluted...
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... Everyday people all over are dealing with conflicts and their so called enemies. An instance where I dealt with a conflict is when the swimmers at prospect high school were judging me based on my speed. They created their opinions with out meeting me or finding out who I was. This was a conflict I had to deal with and many of the girl who were judgmental became my enemies.This is a topic that affects many, not only fictional characters in a book. This is why it is worth reading. Some may understand that dealing with these conflicts or enemies can be difficult and troublesome, others may have not had to face conflicts head on. Conflicts can be found everyday with in our society from our political leaders arguing to little things like children fighting over a toy. Just like many, the characters of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee had to experience what is like to have enemies and conflicts in the book.Throughout the book Jem and scout have crossed many paths with conflicts and enemies all involving them being judgemental. Jem and Scout’s curiosity can get the best of them in some situations and cause them to become involved with conflicts.An example is, Jem and Scout wanted to find out what Boo Radley looked like because all they have heard is stories. They decide to sneak into the Radley’s backyard and look into the windows. During the middle of their adventure it was brought to a abrupt stop. Scout explained, “Halfway through the collards I tripped; as I tripped the roar...
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... Entering high school, I was a stranger to the gym. I rarely even set foot around gyms until my swimming career required it. I never felt the need or the motivation to lift weights or sweat around other people, but as I joined the high school swim team, I was greeted by many strongly built guys that truly knew their ways around the gym. The only thing that startled me was how short they were. I was quite taller than many seniors who seemed to be much stronger than me. Most importantly, my good friend Cole had inches on his brother who was 3 years older than him, but Cole had half the muscle. Also, many of these guys sported ice packs all around their body and seemed to be constantly injured. The constant strain of swimming and lifting weights had truly taken it’s toll on these guys, resulting in some worn down swimmers. Weightlifting in teens is risky business. Improper technique or lack of adult supervision can lead to stunted growth, countless injuries, chipped bones, and lower back pain, leading many concerned adults and coaches to avoid this training. Twice in my life already, I witnessed heavy weights being dropped on fingers and splitting them right open. This horrific injury personally happened to me freshman year of swimming, taking me out of the water for 2 weeks and hurting my season. Due to a simple, careless mistake, the weight dropped directly onto my finger, injuring me instantly. In an article written by the Strength and Conditioning Journal, people typically...
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...the addition of recreational resources and opportunities, helps to establish it as a welcoming place for people to learn, work and play. We regard this project as an opportunity to develop a concept for a community-based resource, with our goal being to enhance the community’s growth and development. We plan to do this via the construction of a brand new aquatic center in the heart of the Waldorf, Maryland quarter of the Southern Prince George’s County. To honor and identify the region of its location, the center will be called “Southern Maryland Aquatics Center”. Many aquatic centers exist throughout the Maryland Area. These include facilities such as the Prince George’s County Sports and Learning Complex, The Theresa Banks Swimming Pool, and Greenbelt Aquatic and Fitness. These facilities have met much success over the course of their operation, and provide numerous aquatic-based activities to the local community. The aforementioned PG Sports and Learning has been home to various swimming competitions and has served as a place of practice for many local, scholastic swim teams. One of the great benefits of these facilities, is the employment opportunities they provide to members of the community in which they are located. It is these benefits that we wish to transfer and subsequently impart upon residents of the Southern Maryland area. Although this area is currently undergoing pivotal changes such as housing growth, the major component of recreation is missing. These...
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