...It is the time of the year where WWE fans are looking back on the year that was while also looking ahead to the new year with hope that 2015 will be a better year than 2014 was. One of the things that is on a lot of people’s minds is whether or not The Undertaker will wrestle at WrestleMania 31. The latest bit of news about The Undertaker is that WWE wants him to work because he’s making around $1 million per year and they want to get a return on their investment, so to speak. If he does wrestle at WrestleMania 31 then his likely opponent is Bray Wyatt. At this point, nobody really knows if he’ll compete and we probably won’t find out for sure for another month or two. Next year’s WrestleMania could be the time where he decides not to come back. Maybe he can get inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015 or even better in 2016 in his home state of Texas since it’s going to be in Dallas. Whatever he decides, fans should respect him because of all that he’s done in his amazing career. Nobody deserves our respect more than him. What if he doesn’t wrestle, though? He’s at a point in his life where he really doesn’t need to wrestle anymore. He has a wife (Michelle McCool) who he has a daughter with, he has other children from previous marriage and he’s done enough to entertain us. There really is nothing left for him to do. Should he wrestle or should he retire for good? It’s a debate fans will have for several months and then in the years that follow. I’ve been at three of the past...
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...The 40 Year Old IRONMAN Local Pro Wrestler Defies Odds, Slams Critics Robert Evans (40) of Swansea, Massachusetts, better known by his ring name; “Brutal” Bob Evans, has been a professional wrestler for over 20 years. Evans is one of the most respected grapplers on the New England independent circuit; the network of smaller wrestling events which inhabit the local VFW halls and National Guard Armories in several towns across the country that serves as the wrestling fan's fix when the global juggernaut, World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) events are either out of town or just too expensive to attend. The New England region has produced some of the biggest names in the history of the Pro Wrestling and while many wrestlers from the region have climbed the ladder of success over the years, Evans has remained on the "indies": wrestling and promoting his own events with other local WWE hopefuls for over two decades, awaiting his chance at becoming a world-wide superstar. That chance, at least in Evans' case, is something that will likely never come. The WWE is notorious for signing athletes over six feet tall, weighing over two hundred-fifty pounds, with looks and personalities that can be fed into their global marketing machine. The feeling of rejection by the national companies of professional wrestling is one that often leads to bitterness, contempt and most often, wrestlers simply quitting the business. Bob Evans: six feet tall, pale, bald and ginger has taken all of...
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...Seam and Seam Finishes WHAT IS SEAM? * Line of stitching. * Hold two pieces of fabric together. * Basic part of garment construction. * Secured by backstitching. What is a Seam Finish? * Finish applied to raw edge of seam allowance. * Prevents fraying, curling and strengthens fabric. The type of finish you choose for your seams depends on * Type of fabric * How neat you want your seams to look * Durability * Firmly woven fabrics do not need seam finishes. * Loosely-woven and sheer fabrics do require seam finishes. What are the basic seam finishes? * Plain Seam * Pinked seam Finish * Pinked and Stitched * Zigzag Finish * Clean-Finish Seam Finish * Narrow Seam Finish * Flat Felled Seam Finish * French Seam Finish * Serged Seam Finish Plain Seam * The most common type of seam. * Made with one line of stitching, usually with right side of fabric to right side. * Standard seam 5/8 inch Pinked Seam Finish * Used on fabrics that will not ravel. Gives a neat appearance. Pinked and Stitched * Used on fabrics that will ravel slightly. Zigzag finish * Used on fabrics that ravel. May be done either close to the seam edge or over the edge of a seam. Clean-Finish Seam Finish * Also called a turned and stitched seam finish. * The edges of the seam allowance are turned under and stitched. * Suitable for Light to medium weight fabrics. Narrow Seam Finish *...
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..."The shocked look on her face was priceless," the star added on Instagram, where he had a few more characters to describe the same pic showing the megastar casually dressed in a tank top and shorts and hugging an elated Esperanza as they posed next to her wheels. [Related: The Rock Shows Us His Crazy Buff Bod … From When He Was 15!] The sweet new ride is a Ford Edge Limited in Deep Impact Blue, according to a spokesperson for the car company. The midsize SUV is likely a 2013, and ranges in price from about $31,500 to over $40,000. The superstar rose to fame as a wrestler before crossing over to movies, but, despite being known for his brawny bod, he has quite a generous spirit. A quick scroll through his Instagram photos shows him greeting many of his fans, often at the gym, including some with special needs. He does a lot of that through his Dwayne Johnson Rock Foundation, which benefits terminally ill and at-risk children. Last year, he also visited a prison to speak with some inmates about changing their lives. Johnson, who was arrested multiple times as a teen, challenged them to commit themselves to being better. His generosity has also extended to his alma mater, University of Miami. Last year, he was given the school's Edward T. Foote, II Alumnus of distinction award for his numerous donations, which were reportedly the largest even given to Miami's athletic department by a former student. In August, the school dedicated a football locker room to him. ...
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...In ‘The bush undertaker’, Lawson creates distinctive images depicting how the isolated living in the harsh environment of the Australian outback has effected the bushmen. Lawson introduces the harsh environment by alliteration and negative connotations, ‘broiling’ and ‘barren’ ultimately describing the bushmen’s home and suggest the dangers of living in a remote area. The bushmen’s discovery of ‘Brummy’s corpse’ exemplifies one of the danger of the living in the bush. In “shrivelled eyes seemed to peer up at him from under the blackened wrists.” and “the flesh sounded like leather, Lawson establishes a visual and auditory imagery describing the disturbing appearancee of the corpse. The simile further connects the corpse to a daily life highlighting...
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...Jack Saindon English 201-046 Essay #2: Poetry Analysis In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” (154), he talks about his father whom he never appreciated as a child, but looks back now to understand the depth of his love. The story entails the author speaking of his past as a child, where his father would light all the fires in the house, early in the morning after a tough work week. He says, “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather” (154). This went unappreciated by anyone in the family, including the author; “No one ever thanked him” (154). Once the rooms were warm, his father would call him, only for the author to return not the thanks he properly deserved. In his poem, Hayden uses contrast to illustrate the relationship between him and his father. The temperature of the house and outside, symbolize their relationship. His father goes out in the “blueback cold” to make the house warmer, to make “banked fires blaze” so that his child can wake up in a nice warm temperature. He says, “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking”(154). Despite his effort, the author treats his father with just as much coldness as the climate they live in, even at the sight of his shoes cleaned. Hayden writes, “Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well.” (154). His father created literal warmth for him, but he did not warm up his father’s heart emotionally in return with love. In the last two lines...
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...Match #7 - The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) vs. Giant Gonzalez (with Harvey Wippleman) The Giant Gonzales garnered little reaction on his entrance. One child looked worried though. The bodysuit he wore was supremely distracting. Did they need to include the arse crack on there? Why did they dress him in that thing? Was it because underneath he was just a tall guy with a flabby body? Was they trying to create the illusion of strength? At least it was easy to forget during The Undertaker's entrance. He arrived on the top of a sedan carried by several bodybuilders, accompanied by Paul Bearer, a druid, and the flesh-eating vulture. Best .. Entrance .. Ever. And then it went downhill. The Undertaker looked tiny compared to Gonzales, but he was able to move like an athlete while Gonzales hobbled around like The Great Khali. As I started to enjoy the fight, Wippleman gave Gonzales a...
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...various details within the compound. Cable approaches the morgue and notices the large neon clock on display. He realizes the irony of a location filled with corpses, and remarks, “What the hell, mortuaries are concerned with time too”. Then, the door gently creeks open, as if it were “inviting” him inside. Cable steps inside and surveys the waiting room. He finds the room adequate for comfort but outdated in style. The undertaker silently enters the room and tells Cable he uses the outdated look to create a more welcome feel for the family of the deceased. Cable takes note of the undertaker’s creepy features, with pale white scaly skin, large slanted forehead, and boney structure, Cable humorously compares him to Death. The undertaker then guides him deeper into the morgue. Cable follows the undertaker down a dim hallway where various “unpleasant” smells fill his nostrils. They eventually pass by a brightly lit, luxurious room filled with coffins. Cable takes a minute to inspect the assortment of coffins ranging in price from $400 to $5000. The undertaker notes these are becoming less common due to the cheaper decision of cremation. Cable ponders this conflict of money vs. traditional means, and then they continue on. They stop to meet the undertaker’s mortician who is currently embalming a body. The mortician gives his view of the financial dilemma of burials. He claims a traditional burial will bring closure to a family, while a cremation will not. Cable notes that a...
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...HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY In the Philippines, the funeral service industry is relatively new. Until the 20th century, funerals were organized by family and neighbors and held at home. People were often buried on family property. As communities became larger and more established common cemeteries began to be used. Funeral homes were later established to relieve the family of the logistical problems presented by a death. The term “undertaker” refers to the person who “under took” responsibility for funeral arrangements. Many of the early undertakers were furniture makers because building caskets was a logical extension of their business. For them, undertaking was a second business rather than a primary profession. Embalming began during the Civil War when it became necessary to preserve the bodies of dead soldiers for the trip home. As embalming gained favor, the skills that it required helped to turn undertaking into a real profession. On the other hand, casket making also evolved from the early days when the undertakers made the coffins. By 1950, there are a lot of manufacturing caskets in the Philippines. At that time, over 50% of the caskets sold were made of cloth-covered wood or cardboard. However, metal caskets were gaining favor and they required a more sophisticated manufacturing process that could only be provided by larger companies. Merging of the casket manufacturers occurred during the same time as merging of the funeral homes and cemeteries. Consumer preferences...
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...This is a character analysis on the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) by Flannery O’Connor. The story is about a family, including the grandmother, Bailey the father, the mother who is unnamed and their two kids named John Wesley and June Star, that is about to take a family vacation. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida like the rest of the family. To try to convince them she tells them about a newspaper article about an escaped convict named the Misfit that is going towards Florida. Nobody pays her any mind and the next morning they are all in the car and on the road going from Atlanta to Florida. The grandmother convinces Bailey to take the kids to see an old plantation she once visited. As they are going down a winding dirt road to get there, the grandmother is so startled by the realization that the plantation is actually in Tennessee that she bumps the basket containing her cat which jumps out on to Bailey’s shoulder. They have a terrible accident but everyone is alright. Soon after the Misfit and his two lackeys come along. The family initially thinks they are going to help them until the grandmother recognizes the Misfit as the escaped convict. The Misfit talks with the grandmother while his lackeys take first, the son and father to the woods to kill them and then the mother, daughter and the baby. After a comment the grandmother makes, the Misfit shoots her three times in the chest in a boil of emotion which is quite striking from...
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...How the funeral industry is being impacted and changed by the Global Recession? Benjamin Franklin’s old adage “in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes” has never been truer. However, if he was around today he might change his spelling of “death” to “debt”. Taxes in Ireland have increased recently and the forthcoming emergency budget looks certain to bring further misery to the population. So while governments are busy collecting whatever taxes they can, people are still dying! You are born and then you die, it is a simple fact of life. In fact the portion in between we call life is the uncertain part. When you die you will require the services of an undertaker / funeral director. They are there to tax you one final time and put the proverbial last nail in your coffin, with a bill attached! With the exception of a huge natural disaster, accident or war, the funeral industry can quite accurately predict its number of customers for the forthcoming year using the country’s population statistics and current death rates. With such detailed statistics to hand this has to be one of the easiest industries to forecast. Figure 1.1 shows the death rate falling in recent years as population increases. Each customer is new (although dead!) but new business can only be achieved by taking from a competitor and not by a sudden jump in demand for the product. Andrew Loos explains “You’re battling for current customers (of other funeral homes), many of them with deep...
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...service when the human dissection is complete. His piece lacks humor, but paints a vivid picture that describes something that most people never have the chance of seeing firsthand. There is a great deal of respect and understanding for the dead in this piece. “The Last Stop” by Brian Cable uses a lot more humorous elements, but isn’t offensive or too over-the-top. One of the first humorous remarks I noticed was, “What the hell, I though, mortuaries are concerned with time, too.” As I read the piece, I could tell that Cable was uneasy because early in the story he mentions that “mortality reminds us all too vividly of our own.” He uses very visual descriptions, music like Holman’s “Their First Patient.” His preconceptions about what an undertaker looked like were accurate and funny, “Indeed, he looked like death on two legs.” The way he described the...
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...Microinsurance delivery channels Insurance culture can be developed by two important elements, understanding and trust. To be able to be aware of the positive effects of MI people need to be able to understand the product and to identify the need for it .As Michal Matul of MI innovations facility clearly explains some of the barriers,’ In most of the developing countries , low income clients think they do not need insurance they do not trust insurance , they do not understand fully the risk pooling concept and strongly believe that the insurance is just for the rich and they do not have enough resources to pay for it’ A variety of channels are needed to reach the target groups largely depending on the literacy levels of our future customers. Religious institutions: Many religious institutions have been in the market specially in sub-Saharan Africa for funeral insurance and South Asia for savings services.A few examples are as follows: Takaful/Indonesia: An Islamic insurance system:Takaful meaning joint guarantee in Arabic complies with the Arabic law. Interest rates, gambling, uncertainty of profits and losses are avoided as they are deemed unislamic.Growth rate was 5% 2004-2007 according to Swiss Re.Allianz Indonesia ‘Payung Keluarga’(family umbrella) offers a microtakaful life insurance which is distributed through MFI’s to its lenders which provides coverage in case of the death of a bread winner. According to the study done by the insurance provisions in the world’s...
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...Guerline Donisvitch “Introduction to Literature” Ann Rasmussen April 23, 2009 Barbie Doll The poem begins in a fairy-tale vein, the archaic term “girl-child” being used to underscore the mythic quality of the story. The dolls, stove, iron and lipstick are all traditional play things for young girls, but they are also markers of an identity in the making, the things that young girls grow to identify with their own social roles. The doll presents an idealized image of the body, and stove and irons tell them what kind of work is expected of them as adults. The lipstick perhaps is the most sexualized cosmetic for women, signals to young girls that they will be valued for their physical appearance. The “magic of puberty” introduces the theme of growth. It is a magical time because the body changes rapidly. She also refers to the pain that comes with puberty. When girls are growing older they are really cruel to each other. The “girl child” is told she has “a great big nose and fat legs” even though she is smart, healthy and strong. The girl was made to feel guilty for who she was, for her intelligence and abilities, and also for not being slim and “beautiful.” She apologized to everyone for not being the person they wanted her to be, but all they could see was her body and how it did not match their idea of what a woman should look like. They tried to help her be more of an idealized woman by suggesting how to compensate for her unfeminine qualities. “girl-child”...
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...The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Cultural Viability (Case 25) The following is a general environmental analysis of the ultimate fighting championship the business sector of the mixed martial art industry, with an analysis of UFC. The first section of this report will cover an overview of the trends in technology demographics, economics, political/legal, and social/cultural-global. Political/ Legal From the government side there always have been concerns for UFC for the safety of those who are involved in the sports because the first six UFC events had no time limits, no mandatory safety equipment and very few rules and also many observers assumed that “you’d have to have a death wish or at least be a little unhinged-to put yourself in that arena.” Which lead Senator John McCain started a campaign to ban the UFC; many agreed that the sport is too violent. Result of that the UFC is still illegal in the USA state for example New York, and lawsuits blocked it in other areas as well. Socio-cultural and Global UFC is becoming increasingly popular in many parts of the worlds. Many people around the world watching wrestling, and showing interest to this extreme form of sport. UFC start holding event globally, and “UFC programming reaches more than 416 million household worldwide via channels in Europe, Australia, South America, in Asia, middle east and also in North Africa.” which is why UFC is becoming popular around the world. The increasing number of audience around...
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