Essays on Booster

Question 1. Give the name of the film, producer and the year. The name of the chosen film is Hoop Dreams. It was produced in 1994 by Steve James, Peter Gilbert, and Frederick Marx.

Question 2. Why did you select this film for your review?

There are few reasons to select this film. The first one is that I have an interest in basketball, so a documentary related to basketball players is attractive for me. Then, the other reason is that this film helped me know more about the social behaviors and psychology of people. Being a neurobiology student at UC Irvine, I believe that this film helps me to ...

Virtue Ethics

The essence of Virtue Ethics is based in its antiquity and the fact that almost all ancient civilizations having endorsed some form of this principle. This is one form of Ethics that can directly be applied to professional and managerial situations. The reason for this is the ‘character-based’ nature of Virtue Ethics, wherein one evaluates an action in terms of specific ethical goals. In a sense, Virtue Ethics answers questions for managers better as compared to the Teleological or Deontological Ethical thoughts that are more consequence or duty based respectively. This essay would proceed to describe Virtue Ethics and ...

Introduction

The report is based on the ways wherein I plan to manage my personal resources. The paper is structured into different parts each dealing with a separate consideration. Initially, there is a detailed summary of results of the self-assessment test recently undertaken by me, which is followed by the description of future aims and objectives i.e. where I expect to see myself in ten years from now. In the next section to that, I have provided the details with regard to my plan of building my personal network that will be a source of support and information for me. ...

A brake is a device that produces artificial resistance to the moving part of a machine to stop or slow down its motion. Any machine or its part that is in motion possesses kinetic energy. As per physical laws, energy cannot be destroyed; its form can only be transformed. The brake system converts the kinetic energy of the moving machine or part into thermal, potential or chemical energy. Brake systems are of various types utilized in different applications in industries, home appliances, vehicles, railway trains, and other sectors. This paper has focused on the brake systems used in vehicles, ...

Question 1

Virgin Galactic is the first space line in the world that owns and runs privately built spaceships. The company plans to be the pioneer in commercializing space travel and offering ordinary people a unique opportunity of going into history as the first ever non-professional astronauts. Its main competitor is the Blue Origin, which has already attained a spectacular achievement in pioneering the first rocket booster to make a safe trip back to earth from space (The Economist, 2015). Virgin Galactic plans to use its massive resources and synergistic effects from the Virgin Group umbrella to beat its competitor in ...

The Institutional Affiliation

Entering a foreign market is an important step in every company’s experience. International market expansion benefits the business in many ways. It is also challenging and requires thought out strategy supported by a successful local market performance. The Canadian based company, the Booster Juice, is a good example of difficulties and opportunities a business can face when expanding into international markets. Indian market is quite different from the specificity of conducting a business in the United States, Canada, even Europe. Therefore, a company must consider the specifics of Indian culture, customs and traditions in order to win the ...

A Case Study

Introduction Sports Tourism or Sport Tourism in general is the activity of traveling to different locations around the world to witness or take part on a sporting event. This activity is all about sports participation and is reinforced by leisure. In the late 1990s, information published connected to this topic is about Sports and Tourism. The role of sports to promote holiday tourism, meaning sports only played a minor role to attract travelers into a certain area in the world (Bull & Weed, 2011). So it is clear that Sports Tourism right now, doesn’t have the certain factors to ...

It has been learned that waste is a cost to any organization (sunk cost) that cannot be recovered and should be avoided. Waste is classified into three key categories like waste gases, liquid waste, and solid waste that can be hazardous wastes. In turn, risk to human health and environment increases. The EPA under the Resource and Recovery Act regulates the hazardous wastes. One type of waste is e-waste like computers, TVs, cell phones, re-chargeable batteries and stereos, etc. These wastes are extremely dangerous to health and environment. Ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, and toxicity are the characteristics of the hazardous ...

Branding of Booster Energy Drink

It is really important to the success of an energy drink to give it a brand name which makes it stand out from the crowd. The brand name for our selected energy drink Booster indicates that the drink comes with fresh and natural ingredients which are aimed at lifting up the energy levels during times of extreme physical activities such as sports. Building a brand image in the mind of customers holds prime importance. It can also be linked to positioning where a firm is able to establish the brand name of a product or service in the mind ...

Introduction

We have chosen energy drink for the purpose of identifying the marketing and branding strategy. The energy drink is newly launched by a renowned beverage company. Ever since people all around the globe become aware of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, the concept of energy drinks has started gaining popularity. The first type of energy drinks were introduced in Europe some twenty five years ago. Many popular beverage brands came up with their versions of energy drinks. People preferred consuming energy drinks over soda as they possessed less number of calories, little or no preservatives and leave the ...

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A Dissertation

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(Keywords: cognitive booster, face naming, object naming cognitive psychology, lexical retrieval, semantic executive functions)

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Overview of Problem 4 Problem Statement 9 Purpose of the Study 10 Research Questions and Objectives 10 Research Question 11 Objectives 11 Definition of Terms 12 Methodology 13 Significance of the Research 15

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION An investigation was undertaken to try to identify an executive function that acts as a type of mechanism resulting in a “cognitive booster” (Oppenheim, Dell, & Schwartz 2010). The ...

Vaccinations

Part 1: Vaccinations are mandatory for most babies and school-aged children as they build the body’s immune response. What are some pros and cons of vaccines? Despite some reported risks of vaccines, for many medical professionals, these risks outweigh the benefits children get from them. Vaccines are believed to be responsible for the decline and prevention of infectious childhood diseases. However, vaccines do not guarantee 100% protection from illnesses. If a child contracts (who has been vaccinated) a particular disease, he or she experiences milder symptoms and complications (“Pro & Con Arguments,”2014), making it a lot easier to treat and ...

The article seeks to explain the disaster that occurred in 1986 following three approaches. It was during the launch that the space challenger exploded killing a teacher and six astronauts, a disaster that if carefully looked into could have been prevented following the application of preventative ethics. The author explains that a disaster occurs when certain standards are not observed. In his first explanation for why the challenger failed, the problem was in engineering whereby certain engineering standards were violated citing the flaws in the design of the field joints, in the booster. The second problem lied in management practices of NASA ...

Abstract

Medication errors are still experienced in clinical settings in spite of the current technological advancements. Nurses play a crucial role in the provision of care including medical therapy to patients. In line with this, they ought to be trained on how to avoid medication errors. In this paper, a case scenario in which a nurse administers wrong vaccines to two patients with similar names is assessed. In addition, it gives strategies that can be used to prevent the occurrence of such a medication error. Nursing leadership, minimization of communication barriers between patients and nurses, a decent duty delegation process and the championship of patients’ ...

What is it?

The Keystone Pipeline consists of a nearly 2,000-mile oil pipeline. Built in four phases, the last of which awaits presidential approval and perhaps, the most divisive, the Keystone XL built from Alberta, Canada to a hub in Nebraska, that would send the oil to be refined to the Gulf coast of Texas by Canadian company, TransCanada. The prized Alberta oil sands holds roughly 168 billion recoverable barrels of heavy crude called bitumen. This project would traverse across six states.

What are the PROS and CONS of the Keystone Pipeline?

In this paper, the pros and cons of the Keystone Pipeline would be analyzed, a topic that has become a divisive issue for ...

Practitioners of engineering help the community by creating solutions for a future that is sustainable. The Code of Ethics provides principles and values that create the decisions made while in the practice of engineering. Lately, because of the recession in 2008, construction projects spring up with engineers lacking regard for the Code of Ethics. Monetary needs sometimes blind them from doing what is proper and ethical. (Lewis, 2007, p. 35). Members of Engineers Australia are committed to practice according to the Code of Ethics and accept the fact that they will be held responsible for their conduct regulated by ...

Introduction

This case study reviews the loss of the NASA Space Shuttle “Challenger” STS Mission 51-L in 1986, when it exploded shortly after launch, resulting in the deaths of all seven astronauts on board. The research looks at the causes of the accident, the structural and mechanical factors involved, other contributory factors, and the findings of the Investigation Board.

The Research Causes of the Accident. The main cause was found to be a failed O-ring seal in the right side Solid Rocket Booster (SRB), resulting from exceptionally low ambient temperatures at launch (“Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster”, updated Feb 2013). ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Prior to the first space missions that enabled the world to see beyond the planet, the public had many misconceptions over what is out there in the universe. There were a few mentions of space people that are bent in destroying mankind or even technologies that could only be seen in the future. Some also speculated that there is a different kind of world out there that is waiting to be discovered, and there were also a few who believed that once man sees the world outside Earth, a lot of unanswered questions would be brought to light such as the beginning of ...

The incidents that led to the reported explosion and deaths of seven astronauts in the Space Shuttle Challenger were evaluated comprehensively in the article written by Ferraris and Carveth (2003) whose findings clearly revealed that groupthink evidently contributed to the disaster . On the other hand, another article written by Wells (2005) contested the allegation and instead, asserted that using the disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger as an ironic example of groupthink which evidently falls in the same framework where the scenario was evaluated using the components and elements of groupthink (Wells, 2005, par. 3). Groupthink was ...