...The Arena – Analysis The undoubtedly worst nightmare of any parent luckily remains just that in most instances. However, every once in a while the nightmare becomes shockingly brutal reality and someone loses their child. A grief, completely unimaginable for anyone who has never experienced it, is laid upon one as if it was a carpet of lead. For many people it is the sole aim that they have built their life around and with the blink of an eye it is gone. How does a parent cope with this unparalleled pain? And is it possible to repress the memories and start a new life after an absolute lowpoint? It is exactly this issue the short story ”The Arena” by Martin Golan provides an insight to. The short story was written in 2008 and the setting is a father, who is also the first person narrator, driving his son to the local New Jersey suburb sports arena early in the morning. His son is attending an away game with his lacrosse team and is being dropped off at the team bus waiting outside the large ”structure of steel and cinder block” locally known as the Arena. On his way there, the narrator’s mind starts wandering due to a mixture of early morning clarity and the deserted suburbian roads and it is soon made clear what his thoughts are surrounding. The father lives with his wife and their son, whom he is in the car with, but his thoughts keep circling around his previous life with another woman and their adopted, now deceased, son Willie. The traumatic event of losing his...
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...The Philips Arena Brandon Rabon One of my favorite events was when I went to the Philips Arena to watch the Hawks and the Heat play. My friend and I went on a trip to Atlanta to go see our first NBA game. This was very exciting to go watch the most exciting team in the NBA play. We really didn’t know what to expect but assumed it would be like any other venue just like the Colonial Life Arena. The drive there was nice and it was pretty easy to spot the venue in the middle of the city. Parking was a different story all together. It took us probably 30 minutes to try to find a spot. They had a few police officers trying to direct traffic but there could have been more. We ended up having to parking like three or four blocks away from the venue and just walked there. They could have improved parking by using some of the parking garages around the venue. While we were walking back I saw at least two or three garages that were not being used and just shut down for the night. Arriving to the venue, the size of the Philips Arena was amazing. They haven’t opened the doors yet so there were a lot of people waiting to get in and seated. The crowd management up to this point is handled well because everyone got into lines fairly quickly once the doors opened. The tickets were scanned easy and quickly to get everyone in. We got into the lobby and then upstairs to the concessions portion of the arena. The signage in the arena could have been a lot better. It took me 10- 15 minutes to just...
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...chariot races and killing fugitives for the use of others amusement. Another thing that they used the buildings for where; dinner theater shows for the upper class and emperors and empresses. The structure of these buildings where really important because they had to hold a lot of people due to the fact of that was usually the only means of entertainment. The building that I chose that I feel as though portrayed this is the first mariner arena. The first mariner arena is built as if it was a coliseum but in particular the pantheon; and it is used to host plays as well as the circus and other forms of entertainment in Baltimore. Although it does use arches the inside of the building uses the same structure which is kind the bowl shape. I feel as though they use this shape to fit as many people inside as possible. Another thing that I have noticed the structure for the hallways or tunnels used for the entertainment to enter in has not changed much either. Also whoever the entertainment is for that particular event is usually put in the center of the arena or coliseum so that everyone can see even if you are sitting up high. So in conclusion a lot of our buildings used for entertainment where derived from...
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...The Arena The short story ”The Arena”, written in 2008 by Martin Golan, circles around an unnamed protagonist and narrator, who is driving his son to the Arena, where he is to make his bus for the lacrosse trip. The themes of the story involve the strong bond between child and parent, escaping ones past and self-acknowledgement. The assignment partly focuses on the way the story is structured and on the use of contrasts as well as an interpretation and analysis of the story. “The Arena” is written with a special focus on the protagonist, who is the father of two children, one with his current wife, and one who suffered an early death with his last wife. It takes place in the suburbs of New Jersey and the protagonist has been living there for some time. The story is of little dialogue as the story wanders and dwells in the mind of the protagonist, as an inner dialogue of questioning his self-realization: “… the smell of toast, of longing itself, or is it of memory?”. In the start of the story, he describes a Arena in town, in which he is going to with his son: “It’s a circular, roughly built structure of steel and cinder block that houses an ice-skating rink… I could never relax… The Arena somehow manages to be too cold and too hot at the same time….”. He seems quite discomforted and ambivalent by the surroundings of the Arena, which is somehow connected to his past. The drive he and his son is on to the Arena starts out early in the morning, and as the story proceeds, the...
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...”Sorry for the loss” By Bridget Keehan One mistake can change your life forever. The wrong choice in the wrong situation can have big consequences for a person. It had to Victor. They took away his life and his freedom for a one mistake. Most people take freedom and their life for granted. It is just something we have, but some people are willing to die for that opportunity. To live free again. In “Sorry for the loss” we follow Evie the chaplain, who is going to tell the young criminal, Victor, about his grandmother’s death, and we get an insight into what freedom means to a human being. Evie is the catholic chaplain, who works for the prison. It is her job to deliver good or bad news to the prisoners. She also helps with the Enhanced Thinking Skills. Evie has worked there for a while. About a year. She knows the building and some of the staff. Even though she has been there for a while, it doesn’t mean that she likes it. The prisoners scare her; “is he going to be all right?” Evie ask tentatively. The officer looks round with a perplexed… but realizes how nervous she is and that her question is really about whether Victor is the dangerous, unpredictable type who might want to throw a punch at news of his loss” (page 3 lines 63-65). Her intentions to help are good, but it is difficult for her to get a real break through to the prisoner’s minds, because she is afraid of them. Evie has a ritual before delivering the bad news. On a spot at five floor across the window. She stands...
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...Does Edmonton Need a New Hockey Arena? Just mention the words hockey and arena in one sentence in Edmonton and all of a sudden a heated debate ensues. Whether Edmonton needs a new hockey arena for the Edmonton Oilers hockey team has been a heated public issue for the past six years. Back in the beginning of 2006, the owner of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team, Katz, proposed to build a new arena for the hockey team and asked for the city to contribute towards the cost of the project. The $450 million dollar project would be split 3 ways between the city of Edmonton, Katz, and a ticket tax which would still result in a $100 million short fall. According to the city Mayor, Mandel, a new arena downtown would bring more activity back to the core of Edmonton and make downtown a desirable place to live. This would encourage the development of other businesses and projects to relocate to the downtown core. He argues that even if the government does not participate in the funding of the project, he is confident in finding the $100 million dollar shortfall. On the other hand, according to the authors of taxpayer.com, every new NHL arena that has been built in Canada over the past twenty years was built with almost one hundred percent private funds and this is why Edmonton should do the same. The authors cite that numerous polls indicate that taxpayers oppose using taxpayer cash for the arena. According to an article in the Edmonton Journal, studies reveal that new sports complexes built...
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...Such events were used to “elevate status” and to create “interaction between the ruler and the ruled”, highlighting the importance the Romans placed on rank and hierarchy. The ludi represented Rome’s dominance over its enemies but at what cost? It celebrated the fearlessness and power of the warriors and the state but also revealed their viciousness and disregard for the living. The act of killing, the crowd’s behavior, and even the arena itself all demonstrate how the Roman games devalue life, which is what this essay will explore. Human beings have an unusual fascination with violence but the idea of watching people die for sport is still shocking. The practice of watching deaths actually originates from the Christian ‘good death’, wherein friends and family gather to witness a loved one’s departure to a better place. “Death by public execution was an echo, even a mirror, of the Christian ‘good death’” in that it was a public event and was presided over by clergymen. However, the religious and solemn atmosphere cannot be found in a Roman arena. Le Bon suggests that in a crowd “a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilization. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian – that is, a creature acting by instinct”. Essentially, crowd mentality transforms the sacred ceremony into a boorish and vulgar event because in a crowd, people lose their individual identities and sense of personal responsibility, allowing them to act in an uncivilized...
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...Simulation with Arena Assignment G2: a multi-echelon inventory policy Christopoulou Evdoxia Kuodzevicius Bernardas 101283 534893 10/12/2012 Preliminaries The given Arena model is a steady-state model, because there is no clear event that could indicate the end of model run and actually we are interested in the long run behavior of the system represented by the given model. Before we start to do the main parts of the assignment, that is design of experiments and optimization, we conduct some preliminary experiments to check if the model could be modified in order to get better results. First we set the number of replications to 30 and we choose the length of each replication be 730 days (two years), which we think should be enough to reach the steady-state. When we run the model with these settings, we get that the mean of the main response variable - average cost - is 568.4 and the half width is equal to 2.37. Although the confidence interval is not extremely wide taking into account the relatively high value of mean, we still perform a check whether it is possible to get more precise results by using common random numbers. To figure out if the model would benefit from the use of CRN we perform a pilot study. In this study we need to have two different scenarios and then we can decide whether it is useful to use CRN by checking the following inequality: { } { } { } and if this inequality holds, then it is worth using CRN in the model. In our case the scenarios differ in three...
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...Ryan Blatz Mt.Prospect, IL. 60056 1224-305-3245 rblatz3036@stu.D214.org December 3, 2012 620 Manheim Road Marketing Advisor Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL. 60018 Dear Mr.Garms/Mr.Hammerstrom I am responding with a great deal of interest to your recent posting for the Marketing Coordinator position. My qualifications, as outlined in the enclosed resume, appear to be an excellent match with the requirements listed for this position. I would be a great fit for the Marketing Coordinator position because I recently graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in sports entertainment marketing. involving situations that would come up while working with the Allstate Arena and the Chicago Wolves organization. My first one and a half years at Western I also worked here at the Allstate as a assistant for the former Marketing Coordinator. During that time, I created proposals, presentations, formatted/edited materials, and managed the direct-mail and email public relation mailer process for the AHL and NHL main offices. Currently, I am the Receptionist for the Allstate Arena office, but continue to assist the marketing department by completing my Marketing Coordinator duties on an as needed basis. I can effectively manage time to balance short-term deadlines and assist with long-term goals. I demonstrate a strong and clear business professional communication style to work with multiple people in a persistent and enthusiastic manner. I also have experience maintaining...
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...ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS This section will present your identification of the firm's strengths and weaknesses, which emanate from your value chain and functional analyses. There is a maximum of five strengths and five weaknesses and your presentation of them should be prioritized. Exhibits are effective tools to provide strong support for each strength and weakness. Please be as specific as possible and quantify your analysis where appropriate. This section will provide the first part of the foundation for your identification of strategic issues and related recommendations through your analysis of the organization's core competencies, competitive advantages and organizational weaknesses. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS This section will present your identification of the major external threats and opportunities currently facing the organization. These will be generated from your analysis of the industry and general environmental factors in light of the organization's strengths and weaknesses. A maximum of five threats and five opportunities should be identified and should be presented in a prioritized order. Use power point exhibits to support your analysis, be specific and quantify your analysis where possible. This section will provide the second part of the foundation for your identification of a strategic issue and the formulation of related recommendations through your analysis of driving forces, key success factors and industry attractiveness. STRATEGIC ISSUES AND...
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...The Romans created urban centers that looked and functioned much like our urban centers do today. Pick an example of an actual coliseum, arena, or civic center in your area. Describe its style and function as if it were a Roman building in a Roman city. I would compare Atlanta’s local coliseum to the Roman urban center, the name is Philips Arena. The Philips Arena is a multipurpose indoor arena. It is home for the Atlanta Hawks, National Basketball Association and Atlanta Dream, of the Women’s National Basketball Association. It also is home to the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers from 1999-2011. In addition the Philips Arena host concerts, plays, evangelistic events, musicals, comedy shows, NBA All-Star game and US Figure Skating Championship. Philips Arena which is located in Atlanta, GA could be compared to the Roman basilicas. These buildings were large, served many functions, and it demonstrated the practicality of the Romans. Philips Arena maximum capacity is 21,000 people for concerts and other entertainment events. The arena seats a little over 18,000 for basketball and a little over 17,000 for ice hockey. It has 92 luxury suites, and 1,866 club seats. I have attended several events at the Philips Arena and I hold many memories. If Philips Arena were a Roman basilica, it would serve many purposes. When people wanted to do inside group activities this is where they could go. When you enter you would be in a long hall which would have variety shows and...
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...Characters in the Minority Georgiana and Eliza Reed are described as "feeling without judgement"(Georgiana) and "Judgement without feeling" (Eliza) - both are used to differentiate what happens when one takes one side to the extreme of both types of behaviours. In effect, Jane finds she has to fight to preserve the balance in her character between judgement and feeling - the Reed sisters therefore provide a strong example as to what happens if the balance between the two is upset. Blanche Ingram is a woman without scruples or morality, she is haughty and proud, very beautiful and priveleged too, but is nevertheless shallow and intellectually inferior. She is a warning Jane, who is soon to be faced with the temptation to give in to her passions and embrace the shallow life of a courtesan, when Rochester pleads with her to go to the continent with him after the "wedding". The more virtuous minor characters serve the same function, standing as moral or spiritual beacons to which Jane may aspire, but may not ever reach. Maria Temple - the charitable schoolteacher is both an example and a warning. She can and does serve as a role-model for Jane but is also powerless, having to answer for her independence to a wrathful Mr Brocklehurst, and having no real authority when he is on the premises. Her position is inferior and she submits too. Jane later will break this pattern at Thornfield, in her dealings with her employer, but ironically her habit of submissiveness is gained as a...
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...#4 The Romans created urban centers that looked and functioned much like our urban centers do today. Pick an example of an actual coliseum, arena, or civic center in your area. Describe its style and function as if it were a Roman building in a Roman city. Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia could be compared to the Roman basilicas. These buildings were large, served many functions, and demonstrated the practicality of the Romans. Philips Arena opened in 1999 and is one of the top multi-use facilities in the world. Its maximum capacity is 21,000 people. It serves as the home of the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, Atlanta dream of the WNBA, and then easily transforms into an ice rink used by the Atlanta Thrashers. In addition to sports, many other types of events are held at Philips Arena, such as musicals, plays, concerts, comedy shows, and evangelistic events. I have attended all of these events and Philips Arena is a part of many of my childhood memories. If Philips Arena were a Roman basilica, it would serve many purposes. This is where people would go when they wanted to do inside group activities. When you enter you would be in a long hall with a large variety of shops and booths on each side of you. People would be buying and selling products and services. It would also be one of the city’s main meeting places. People would be standing in groups having conversations. As you walk through the hall with the shops, you would see doors every few feet on either side. These doors...
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...Swan’s Ice Arena Case Swan’s Ice Arena is the only regulation sized hockey ice-skating rink in a city whose population is 450,000 and located in the Northern U.S. where hockey is a popular pastime. The owner, David Swan, has a successful business strictly renting the rink to hockey leagues and charging admissions to games along with concession sales. David wants to expand his business and include skating for the public as he sees a very high profit potential with that. He has made investments in making his rink more into a skating environment and the results are dismal, so he is questioning his choices and wants to know is options going forward. One thing Mr. Swan can look at is how he segmented his market. His bread and butter is hockey and alienating a core group such as this does nothing for his loyalty factor. This could lead to other arenas being built that support maybe more than one hockey rink specifically for hockey and he would lose that part of his business. In Mr. Swan’s business 25% of his customers on a weekend skating night are under fourteen. In the United States, 20% of the population is from age 0-14 ("The World Factbook," 2014). This represents a good chunk of his business during that time and also should not be alienated. Children 14 and under and the parents of these kids would value the public skating a lot more than young adults 14 and older simply because in this generation, young adults have so many more entertainment options available to...
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