...Personal Narrative- Track Competition The moment of truth was upon me. The official times, this includes whom qualified for finals, for the 400m relay had been posted. My eyes scanned the page for the bold letters that spell ANDERSON. As I ran my finger across the page to where the times were posted, my ears began to shut out all outside noises, leaving me alone with the thump of my heart and the inhale and exhale of my lungs. Both began to increase in speed as my eyes narrowed in on the time. My sophomore year had begun and I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to do track this year. Last year I played football in the fall and soccer in the spring. Not really enjoying it, the decision was made to play " real futbol" (soccer) in the fall, leaving the spring sports season open. My friend kept telling me how fun track was, so I decided to give it a try. As the first meet neared, things were going well. I made it onto the 4x100 team making me the third fastest kid on the team. The other members of the relay were Jason Schmidt, Jeremy Willard and Rodney Schmidt. Jason and Jeremy were both the top dogs and Rodney and I were second from the bottom of the barrel. The 400 relay was my best event. We placed in every meet and even took home some medals as the season progressed. As the track year rounded for the home stretch, we had only three more meets to compete in: the Tiger Invitational, regionals, and state. As the Tiger rolled around, there arose a question...
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...How to get back on track You don’t know this about me but I was 14 years old and won 2nd place in the regional Chess competition along with 3rd place in the state and 8th place in nationals (that’s 8th in 100 competitors). What I learned (beside that I am awesome) was that everything in life if a chess game and should be treated as such. Along the way I learned project managing and learned that everything in life requires management and a manager for it. So combining those concepts you get that everything in life needs to be managed with grace, foresight, risk and timing. Below is what my Thesis was for my BS called “Playing the Game Called Management” Got an “A” by the way and inducted into the tech honors society. But that’s another story. The Question There are things we need to establish to try to fix things. One was recognizing the causes of which we already mentioned in the email. In chess that’s viewing the board and the player the environment all causes to the end games all potentially harmful and none of it on your side. This is handled in PM by openly set the goals and make sure that they are understood. In chess that is to yourself in PM that is to the group. This would not be to re-write the project by this date. That’s not a goal, that’s a want/need. It means to lay out what are the real goals for each party (to look good, make money, do the job and go home, do a good job, learn etc.). This is kind of dirty but so is detoxing after a bad drug habit...
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...identify change requirements for an organisation. Assessment description Using the scenario information supplied, the candidate will identify strategic change needs, review existing policy, monitor trends in the external environment that impact on organisation’s objectives, identify operational change objectives, prioritise change requirements and consult experts or specialists to assist in identification of change requirements and opportunities. The candidate will then write a report to management outlining the change requirements. Procedure 1. Review the scenario information provided (in the Appendix of this task) for Fast Track Couriers. 2. Prepare to write a report on change requirements for Fast Track by following steps 3–10 below. 3. Analyse the organisational objectives provided in the scenario to identify the change requirements for Fast Track Couriers: a. Identify requirements for change b. prepare an explanation of how your identified change needs link to the organisation’s strategic plan goal/s. 4. Review the organisation’s current state to understand how the current policies, practices and operations deliver against the organisation’s strategic goals. Review the organisation’s performance against objectives with regards to its: a. people b. processes c. technology d. structure. 5. Monitor external...
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...Back on Track My brother is 16 years old, which makes him one year younger than me. He has always been a bit of a bully, but I’ve never thought, that it would come this far. It all started about one year ago, when my mom, dad, little brother and I moved to a new town. Me and my brother started at the same school, and my brother had a hard time, at start. He was a bit overweight, so he had problems with making friend. But a long last he met a group of boys, there was just one problem. They were bad company to him. They stole, they smoked (in my family, smoking is banned) and they hated the school. My brother became unfortunately one of them, and started to be like them. He started to steal and smoke and he didn’t care about the school anymore. My parents knew about it, and they had told ham to keep away from those boys, but he didn’t care. My parents decided to find another school, so they moved him to a secondary school, men he met a lot worse guys and they were doing drugs. My brother started talking to them, and after a pair of month, he got very close to them. They started to offer him drugs, and the first couple of times he would do it. But they pushed him to do it, and me and my family’s worst nightmare, started. My brother got turned into a sort of a monster. He started to skip classes, and because of that, he got kicked out of the school. After that he didn’t do anything in a long time, and when he finally was awake, he was yelling at me, my mom and my dad. It was so horrible...
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...Dust Tracks on a Road Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road depicts the struggle and journey of growing up in a predominately African American society. She displays how African Americans were curtailed to nothing after the Civil War and how it was quite difficult to commence a town on their own of there own race. Her autobiography entails the very candid moments of the Harlem Renaissance. As the novel is exposed in the opening chapter the subject matter is revealed and it entails Zora Neale Hurston’s life. “So you will have to know something about the time and place where I came from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life” (Hurston 1). The setting appears to be one of the developing subjects in the novel because her atmosphere depicted many of the events in her life. The town’s locations also foreshadowed many of her life events. “Eatonville is what you might call hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick. The town was not in the original plan. It is a by-product of something else” (1). The town setting is very symbolic in Huston’s life because she lived amongst one of the only all black towns in the state of Florida. This coincides with the possible theme of the individual in society. Living in this society had many effects on Hurston’s life. She reveals these frank moments with the reader. The setting sets up the forthcoming of the rest of the novel by demonstrating that living in the predominately black town will come with many hardships...
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...* What challenges do you anticipate having to face that may make it difficult for you to stay on track? Consider all sorts of challenges, including your own habits and attitudes. * What tools and strategies do you plan to use to meet the challenges you anticipate? Who can you enlist to help support your efforts, and in what ways will you ask them to assist you? Describe why you think the tools, strategies, or individuals will be particularly helpful, and provide examples of how you will use them or enlist their support. u01d1 Staying on Track Some challenges I anticipate that may make it difficult for me to stay on track would be allocating time between work, family, and school. I have formulated my strategy by making sure I involve and communicate my desire to go back to school for my MBA to close family members, my peers at work, and manager. I believe each one of them will influence me to succeed and complete my degree. I will enlist their support by communicating my deadlines, projects, and tasks throughout my education at Capella to obtain my MBA. My primary strengths are being deadline driven, self-motivator, and taking initiative to getting projects or task assigned to me. I have learned over the years how to effectively communicate my status on projects or reports that are assigned to me or my team. I am able to discuss deadlines with managers and assess if they are reasonable deadlines. Once I have set those deadlines, I create a calendar that keeps my progress...
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...IT426-1303A-02 System Integration and Organization Deployment Keeping Track Josh. Falwell August 12, 2013 Some of this paper has been recited from IT426-1303A DB 2-3 Table of Contents Project Outline 3 Integration Model and Tasks 4 Standards and Regulations 10 Support Strategies 9 Best Practices 13 Cultural Implications 16 Project Outline For this project it has been brought up by The National Transportation Safety Board that there needs to be a better way of keeping an accurate count on passengers. The reason for this in 2011 an Amtrak passenger train was struck by a semi-truck. When this happen it took Amtrak two full days to account all the passengers that where on the train, then after they had their final count they come to realize that there were two people missing from the train. With this project the integrated software for security will track all passengers at all times during the travel on Amtrak trains. With this when a customer will purchase a ticket from Amtrak all there information will be encoded on the ticket. With this ticket it will be the only way that passengers will be able to open any door within the railcar. When a passenger has to go from one passenger car to another they must use their ticket with the encoded information in the barcode to open the door. Also with this Amtrak will be able to store all this data on their serves also be able to pull this data at any given time. Now for instants if there was a derailment, like...
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...Segregation of low-track students Since many years ago, Education has been considered as one of the most complex fields in which human beings are involved. Nowadays, This field is subject of many researches because of the importance and the effects it has in society, that is why many schools have decided to use a mechanism which is been proposed to improve the learning process of students called “Tracking”. The term Tracking refers to the separation schools make of students according to their overall achievements, which can be above average, normal or below average.This process in very common in English speaking countries. However, this is also practised in many countries of Sudamerica in which the concern about the influence of this separation causes long discussions and as teachers we need to know what to do in these cases. In the mayority of the cases, Tracking causes the segregation of students with low-track since it produces an impact in the way teachers think about their students and the way students think about themselves. This is really important to take into consideration when we talk about classroom management. In schools where tracking is used, it is supposed teachers have a special training to work with students who are slow-learners in order to get the best of them and help them to feel as important as their classmates who are over their achievements, but, in the majority of the cases, this kind of students are left away and this has affects tremendously...
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...Automatic Train Track Switching System This system is a great idea for the rail road world because there is nobody operation the system meaning there cant be no human errors. And this system is also backed up with a lot of electrical safety standards like the sensing unit photodode that ensures the reliable detection of oncoming trains. And a low power DC motor is what the track switching devise uses, connected to a communication line for the main monitoring room and the switching devise, to put the train on the tracks it has to be in. the system is also a economical and beneficial switch with a micro-controller that is easy and has a less cost to maintain. What I personally like about the system is that is can also be controlled manually from the main control room to give the system a expansion of operation. Also how the system detects a train that is head towards the switching system amuses me as well. It has track circuits to detect the train and to see the condition of the train, all in a central room. I agree that this system is a great devise to put on the rail road system due to the fact that it is precise, reliable, low cost, no human error, low cost maintenance. Authors: Md. Reya Shad Azim Khizir Mahmud C. K. Das Source: International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology, 02/28/2014, Vol. 7, Issue 1, p. 201-212 Publisher Information: 보안공학연구지원센터(IJUNESST) Publication Year: 2014 Subject Terms: 공학>컴퓨터학 microcontroller rail track switching ...
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...TRUE LIGHT MISSIONARY HIGH SCHOOL AWOYAYA-LEKKI, LAGOS TOPIC: A REPORT ON AN EXCURSION TO THE NIGERIA RAILWAY COOPORATION {NRC} {a trip from IDDO to IJOKO} COMPILED & PRESENTED BY: AJIBORISHA WAHAB OMOTOYOSI CLASS: SSS1 TO BE SUBMITTED TO TRUE LIGHT MISSIONARY SCHOOL Started on 2nd November 2012 Completed on 5th November 2012. CERTIFICATION I certify that this study was carried out by Ajiborisha Wahab Toyosi of SSS1 class of True Light Missionary School, Awoyaya-Lekki, Lagos under the supervision of Mr. Obinna for the 2012/2013 academic session. ______________ _____________ Mr. Obinna Date [II] DEDICATION This project is dedicated to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ajiborisha. May the Almighty God be with them and guide them through his power and guidance. Amen! [III] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the name of GOD, the Merciful, the Compassionate. I give praise to God the Lord of all Being, the Master of the Day of Doom for giving me the opportunity, wisdom, knowledge, strength and commitment to write this report and also for taken me up to this stage in my academic pursuits. In the process of completing this report I owe a debt of gratitude to many people, too numerous to mention. My immense gratitude goes to the proprietress of my school Dr. (Mrs.) Ladele for her spiritual and educational support and I’m proud to be counted among those that...
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...Strategies Lab 1 Mod 3 Well there’s always several good questions People are always wondering where good ideas come from how did the good ideas that reshape Americas future in the 1800’s come from? In the past before the Rise of Coffee and Tea was Beer and Wine where the idea processing was bad and always drunk all the time so when America went from a depressant to a stimulant ideas started rolling on the right track. Like a train track when the people relied on beer and wine for ideas was like adding Tons of butter to the railroad tracks the train always kept falling off topic. But when America switched to Tea and coffee the train tracks stayed on target and never fell of the track once. So what I’m saying is that America should have started drinking coffee sooner to help develop good water to eventually rely on the stuff for sources of good knowledge. But another most important thing about the ideas overall is the space the surroundings you finds yourself in like go to a coffee house talk with other people with different kinds of expertise. Eventually after talking with those people regardless of where you meet them just tossing a few ideas around eventually generates a good idea. But on the flip side of the coin they could also generate bad ideas as well as good ones. Sometimes hteres idea processes like the slow hunch where I person heard of an idea and puts it together like a mentally long puzzle and uses logic to put the puzzle pieces together. They happen in mere moments...
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...(HEAVY HAUL TRAIN OPERATIONS) RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (MBCQ 721) Submitted to: Dr. NEERAJ ANAND Associate Professor& HOD – QT/RM/Operations CMES Submitted by : Name: AmolKhare Roll No: R600212004 Name: Ruchika Sahu Roll No: R600212039 Name: Rahul Kushwah Roll No: R600212031 MBA (LSCM)Sem II Batch 2012-14 Railway Logistics (Heavy Haul Train Operations). Page 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our deepest thanks to, Dr Neeraj Anand, Associate Professor & HOD–QT/RM/Operations for College of Management and Economic Studies, as a guiding hand for us. He has taken pain to go through the project and also had spent time in giving necessary suggestions as and when needed. We would like to express our gratitude towards Mr R K Khare, Assistant Design Engineer, Track Department, of Research Design and Standard Organisation, Lucknow. Thereby our parents & classmates for their kind co-operation and encouragement which helped us in the completion of this project framework. We would like to express our special gratitude and thanks to industry persons for giving us such attention and time. Our thanks and appreciation also goes to the colleagues in developing the project and people who have helped us out with the different aspects of this Project. Date: 23, April 2013 Names: Amol Khare Rahul Kushwah Ruchika Sahu Railway Logistics (Heavy Haul Train Operations). Page 2 INDEX Sr. No. Topic Page No. 1. Introduction 5 5 5 6 7 12 16 16 16 17 17 18 18 18 19 20 20 22 23 24 24 24 25 28 1...
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...out these plans. 2.) The company recognizes good employees and work well done but lacks in the reinforcing rules and guidelines across the board. Kenco has some very well written policies but needs to reinforce them. 3.) New ideas need to be sought from and used in all parts of Kenco. 4.) The upper management needs to get feedback and suggestions on decisions from people that are affected by the decisions. For example a new rule on being late or absent was implemented without any input from employees who it affected. The new rule on being absent did not bother employees that much but the rule on being late met lots of resistance from employees. Our facility is located in between two railroad tracks so in any direction you come in you have to cross a railroad track. This is a big problem with getting to work on time in the mornings and getting back to work from lunch. 5.) Teamwork could...
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...A/ The Stadium Velodrome of the Parc des Princes is inaugurated on July 18th, 1897. On the occasion of this inauguration, the access to stands is forbidden made hastily, these stands worry the authorities which will grant their approval only after works of intensification. These prefabricated stands were brought on the spot Installed in a dozen days, in the style of a huge construction set. Stands were 32 meters long weigh each 4 tons. This stadium counted 3200 places and is encircled by a cycle track of 666,66 meters in length with no lanes. The realization of this track was made according to the rate of clay in the ground. If there is an average rate of clay, the ground is moistened until become a thick mud which is spread. If there is a strong rate of clay, the ground is used such as removed from the ground and compacted with feet. If there is a low rate of clay, we add straw and droppings. For the lawn, they used the lawn of the ancient park. Before the construction of the stadium, this space was a place of hunting for the bourgeoisie, where the name of Park des Princes. Then they just added cage metallic. B/ On this picture, the first knocks of excavators. They needed to dig 8 meters in the ground, an immense pit of more than 120 meters in length for 80 meters wide to welcome the lawn. The walls of this hole are sloping of 8 meters to put the lower ring of the stadium there. After that, the phase of construction now could begin. The installation...
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...coming into contact with the indigenous blacks immediately stirs up an entire spectrum of emotion and phrases. In the article “Sound and Silence in Narrative and Non-Narrative Film” written by Fred Camper, Camper mentions that Kubelka’s technique is to marry “an image with a sound that derives from elsewhere”. In the film, Kubelka has employed a classic sound tactic: the laugh track. Not in a conventional sense, though. Kubelka’s laugh track is a much more realistically captured one, using one particularly raucous instance of guffawing, one the part of his European subjects, multiple times throughout the film. However, we do not see specifically where this laughter comes from, or if it is just one track of sound or even several loops of laughter played over each other; all we know is that at some point or points on this trip our Europeans were having a chuckle and Kubelka recorded it for use in this film. The track is played several times throughout the film, the most notable being in a depiction of the native people’s everyday lifeKubelka, in his use of quick, timeless cuts and a carefully used “laugh track”, very neatly does away with our preconceived notions of either the native Africans or the European bourgeoisie interlopers and...
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