Essays on Marathon

On November 5, 2009, the son of Palestinian immigrants, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan randomly fired into a crowd at a processing center at Fort Hood, the largest active-duty military post in the country (Army Major kills, n.d.). One would be hard pressed to find a larger military stage to conduct such blatant murder. Despite the Major shouting ‘God is great’ in Arabic, “Allahu Akbar”, just before he opened fire on soldiers who were either returning from deployment, or getting ready to be deployed, there was a denial by the government to officially label the shooting as an act ...

Assignment 1

PART ONE Consequence management is the ability of the government to respond to and recover from a devastating terrorist attack or natural disaster. Response and recovery includes saving lives and diminishing property damage. The National Response Framework (“NRF”) sets forth America’s response doctrine, responsibilities and structures. The NRF provides a detailed guide as to how to respond to disasters, either natural, industrial, biological or civil unrest and terrorist attacks. Describing the manner in which communities are to respond to disasters, it sets forth the way in which a coordinated response can and should occur between first responders, decision ...

MPM 346

Abstract Congenial Garments Co. Ltd is a renowned maker of attire of the highest quality and a wide variety. Fabrics of unmatched quality are carefully and expertly stitched together to give out the best designs as per the client’s specifications. The products conform to the “fit all” concept and the prices suit both retailers and wholesalers concurrently. Recently, Congenial Garments struck a deal with Standard Chartered Bank in light of the annual StanChart marathon scheduled to take place in December. Standard Chartered signed a two-year contract with Congenial Garments to be their supplier of marathon kits for the ...

Evolution from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Society

The Neolithic Revolution is also known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Data indicate that this began about 12,500 years ago. People formed communities and they developed settlements as they began to domesticate certain species of plants (Tignor, 23). This “revolution” occurred in several places around the world. The earliest revolution occurred in the Fertile Crescent area of Mesopotamia between 10,000 to 8,000 BC, in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia at about 8000 BC, and in Subsaharan Africa at about 2500 BC. One theory that is used to explain this phenomenon is that agriculture was ...

Introduction

Domestic terrorist acts in the United States have been committed by a combination of native ideological sects, individuals representing what are considered to be extremist ideologies, and internationally-based terrorist organizations, such as Al-Qaeda. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2011 Al-Qaeda sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was implemented (Furlow, 2005). The primary objective of the Department of Homeland Security can be seen as terrorism prevention. Although prevention of terrorism does not eradicate its ideological causes per se, the act of prevention can aid in the identification and ...

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

Introduction

Belfast is one of the world’s most ancient cities, its location at the mouth of the River Lagan having been continuously occupied since about 2,000 years BCE. There are good reasons for this. Courtesy of the Gulf Stream, the site has a mild climate that seldom gets above 65 degrees F. or below 35 degrees F. Its northern latitude gives it one of the world’s shortest winter, and longest summer, days at the biannual solstices. It rarely snows. The city is ringed by low mountains that create a microclimate to ...

I first became aware of Bruce Lee as a child. At that time, for some reason, several of my friends and I had become interested in martial arts. Our interests included reading, watching and playing martial arts related comic books, video games, television series and movies. While I had heard of Bruce Lee, during that initial phase of interest, I did not have the chance to actually see him in action. That opportunity came a few months later during a holiday Bruce Lee movie marathon on TV. The first of his film’s that I saw was Enter the ...

How Nike+ Application Works The Nike+ running app has become rapidly recognized fitness tool as it acts as a comprehensive coach for everyday runners. The application lets runners keep track of their essential daily statistics along the exercising period. The Nike+ software comes with various other simple things that can be done using it, which makes the application suitable for persons training for upcoming races to those who just want to be fit. The Nike+ app lets users listen to music as they undertake their training sessions or running. Music powers are exercising activities. Running while listening to favorite ...

The purpose of the conceptual metaphor, as Lakoff and Johnson (1980) described it, is that conceptual metaphors use concrete experiences to help explain abstract concepts. In a conceptual metaphor, as they posit the concept, there is the source domain and the target domain. The source domain is what we use to form a meaningful comparison, while the target domain is the concept that we are trying to explain with the metaphor. Let’s take the comparison “Marriage is a marathon, not a sprint.” A lot of people enter marriage not fully aware of the work that lies ahead of ...

Question One: Quarantine and Isolation

In the early stages of the emergence of infectious diseases, isolation and quarantine are in most cases the only and last resort used to control effectively and manage the conditions (Al-Ateeg, 2004). These methods are usually handy when there is a limited knowledge of a newly identified or an occurrence of a previously contagious disease that poses a serious public threat. While these methods are used to respond to emerging and re-emerging public health threats and protecting the public by preventing the exposure of the population who have or may not have contracted a contagious disease, there are significant ...

Introduction

Wen highly trained, motivated and talented athletes meet for competition there is a very small margin of defeat and victory. When everything else is on a level platform, nutrition becomes the determinant between losing and winning. Many athletes ignore key dietary issues and only focus on supplementing their diet with vitamins, minerals and proteins. Any professional athlete knows the value of nutritional support when it comes to performance(Perez-Schindler, Hamilton, Moore, Baar, & Philp, 2015). There is a lot that is involved including energy requirements, body mass, the type of foods, the sport involved and much more. All these factors ...

Introduction

The Boston Marathon is one of the oldest running marathons in United States history. Many people participate in the race which was established in the memory of two battles in history that started what we know now as the revolutionary war. In 2013 this marathon ran as scheduled however, at the end of the marathon something happened that would change the history of the event as we know it. As the marathon concluded and racers reached the finish line two explosions were detonated which resulted in the injury of 260 people and the death of three others. The bombing ...

Part A

Marathon County resides in the State of Wisconsin and it is the community of focus in this paper. Having worked briefly in this region with a community health promotion program for up to three months I developed a special interest on health matters within the region. The survey was conducted on the afternoon and early evening of Friday 26th February. The survey was accomplished via a road trip that lasted for up to 7 hours.

Part B

Housing and commercial buildings The majority of the buildings in this region in both the residential and commercial areas are made of bricks. Apparently, ...

Tasks of the finance function in a business

The finance function is tasked with both internal and external functions in a business. The major functions include budgeting and forecasting, recording financial transactions in both the ledgers and books of original entries, financial reporting of statements and to adhere to regulatory rules and to meet the business tax obligation. The finance function also has a role in the management of business accounts such as costing records, budget and pricing. The management accounts are usually used by managers for decision-making purposes when making critical business decisions such as pricing strategies and the amount of money to be allocated to ...

Executive Summary

Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

In the article of Lankford (2012), suicidal mass killers, the author stated that suicide terrorists are motivated by the following causes including fighting for a cause such as antigovernment revolution, masculine supremacy, neo-Nazism, eugenics, and other personal reasons.

According to Martin (2010), the theory of suicide terrorism states that the terrorist bomber come from a group of people who occupy a democratic power have the tendency to be involved in suicidal attacks resulted from a difference in the religion among these which made them decide to commit altruistic suicide. There are several factors that induce the suicide attackers to commit the act but ...

'Radioactive' is a half-hour mini-series that shows the life of a radio station. The main characters are in their mid-20's, so the targeted audience is not only teenagers but adults too. In each episode we see the background of one of the characters as well as the development of the main plot. The cast should be diversed so that anyone can relate to one character or another on different levels. The main plot is based on the humour-filled situations involving the producer of the station. Some of the characters live together, even though they can not stand each other. Some of ...

Assignment Six

The commercial is for a skin- and body-care company, advertising its new deodorant. The specific feature of the product is that it is developed for active people with sensitive skin. Therefore, the product has two significant advantages. In the first place, it contains components which help you feel freshness and make your skin dry for all day long. Secondly, the deodorant contains no alcohol and other irritant components, which makes the deodorant perfect for sensitive skin. At this moment, the presumptive name of the product is "Stainless", although it still may be changed or modified in the event of any ...

Executive Summary

Athletic drink market is continuously growing. Currently, this market is worth $7 billion, and it is expected to grow into a $20 billion market by 2020. The products available in the market are of “one size fits all” type with Pepsi and Coca-Cola dominating the market share. Since the nutritional requirements vary from one person to another on the basis of size, weight, height and type of sports, the “one size fits all” type of products fail to fulfill all the bodily needs of a sports person. Customade is a product that has been designed to provide customized nutrition solution to people ...

Everyone in life sets goals and targets to accomplish them within a specific time target. People set goals for the future in the thought that within six months or less, they will have already achieved their goals. Objectives make a person to view oneself in the position one would like to be in a few years or months’ time. Goals also serve as motivators and strengthening factors. There are the reasons why people act in determined ways. Life is gigantic, and if anyone wants to achieve outstanding achievements in their lives one is required to set goals accordingly so that in life ...

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The Famous Event Organizer, George Washington, Brings to you the Biggest Annual HIV Marathon Event

Annual HIV Marathon Set for Dec 1 in New York City, Features a Forty Two Kilometer Run to Raise Money for HIV Research NEW YORK, March 10, 2014- The creating leaders in the New York’s mayor’s office announce that the annual HIV marathon event will be held in the city on December 1, 2014. George Washington organized the event. He has headed organizatio of the event since its inception 8 years ago. Washington, while advancing his prospects of reducing HIV and AIDS infections and creating the biggest marathon event, hopes to raise money ...

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Opening Hi Michael, this is Alfred Stevens calling from National Kidney Foundation. You have been one of our best supporters in our bid to continue helping people with kidney problems by making donations. I recognize that you are a really busy man especially during these hours of the day, have you got a minute?

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Digital Strategy for Marathon Petroleum Founded in the year 1887, Marathon Petroleum Corporation is the fifth largest fuel company in the United States. The firm has approximately 1490 Speedway fuel stations in 7 different states across the United States and more than 5300 gas stations across 18 states of the United States. The primary goal of the company is creation of a greener environment while becoming the preferred global choice for oil. The digital strategy of Marathon Petroleum has a budget of USD 1, 000, 000, 000 used for creation of digital relations and ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

Memory Olympics is a set of mental games that aims at exercising the mind and showing how well an individual may recall certain numbers of elements. The games are psychological tools useful in defining the memory of an individual. I undertook the speed cards, Numbers Marathon, and mental additions in the competition. The games were equally challenging but a reliable test for the soberness of the mind. The speed cards were extremely challenging, and I could not easily recall the 52-card deck. I could only recall 7 of the cards in the game. It was a challenging game, and I had a ...

Introduction

Since its inception, internet has affected society in several ways. Internet connects people to the world and makes our life easy. It facilitates people in using, sharing and communicating ideas. People can send and receive ideas, documents, pictures and videos from anywhere to different parts of the world. Due to all these features, internet has emerged as one effective medium of committing crimes because they can operate from any part of the world without revealing their identity. If internet is useful for criminals, it is also very useful for different law enforcement agencies. Police and other law enforcement agencies ...

Risk is an integral element of sporting events. In the context of major sporting events, risk management can be defined as “a proactive process that involves assessing all possible risks to the events and its stakeholders by strategically anticipating, preventing, minimizing, and planning responses to mitigate those identified risks” (Leopkey and Parent, 2009). Being an annual sporting event attracting thousands of fans and athletes from across the world, Boston Marathon needs a risk management strategy for its smooth execution. Different kinds of risk control techniques can be applied for sporting events. There are several ways in which organizers of sporting ...

What is Terrorism?

The word “terrorism” is often heard on the television news report, read in newspapers, and even present in some of the most popular movies that are shown in the theaters, often with large explosions and a known “bad guy.” However, is this an accurate representation of the definition of terrorism? According to Munson (2008), the term “terrorism” has been around since the French Revolution, however, when the term was used during the late 1700s, it had a different meaning than it does currently. Back then, the term referred to “defending new notions of justice and democracy against an old order perceived ...

Abstract

The benefits of engaging in Physical activity are outlined in this paper. The dangers associated with it are also elaborated. Emphasis is put on the core advantages to the health and the fitness of an individual who is involved in physical activity. The contribution of Physical activity to the wholeness of an individual is examined by detail. Finally, the solutions to the shortcomings of physical activity are explained in detail. Keywords: Physical activity, fitness, intensity, respiration, health, diet, range of motion.

Physical activity is defined as any form of motion of the body that contributes to the overall ...

John Wyse

Entrepreneural Psychology European School of Economics What motivates Entrepreneurs? Introduction I have chosen this topic because I was curious to know what actually is behind the mind of entrepreneurs. What is it that leads them to be leaders in the world? What made Mark Zuckerberg create a thing called Facebook which people are crazy of and have actually integrated it in their lifestyles? In order to answer all my queries, I carried out a short research on the motivational factors and the driving forces that actually lead entrepreneurs to a totally new world of innovation. It is ...

This paper will reflect if the United States Patriot Act adequately balances people rights with national security. It will reflect over cons and pros with this act. It will explain how the safety and security and well-being of America and America citizens are because of the United States Patriot Act. It will explain about sacrifice needed and why this is needed. Last it will explain why this is important. The US Patriot Act was signed into law after 911 Tragedy. This act entails for law enforcement officials the ability to spy for the purpose of possible terrorist attack. ...

Abstract

Instance of countries introducing restrictions on the amount of harmful gases released to the atmosphere is on the rise. Countries like the United States have introduced policies which govern motor vehicle pollution. Gasoline is the main component of debate. As a result several studies have been done to determine the components of gasoline. In this experiment, components of gasoline are determine by an analysis process called gas chromatogram. Samples of gasoline used in the experiment are collected from four stations BP, Marathon, Moto-Mart and Sunoco from Ashland. The samples are then analyzed using a gas chromatogram. 10 ml was used ...

Some of the greatest television moments include; news about the death of Osama, news about the bombing of Boston marathon, and news about the inauguration of Obama as the 44th President of the united states of America. The BBC Television broadcast Osama’s, death on May 3, 2011 after Osama was killed. Osama was the founder of Al-Qaeda. He was killed in Abbottabad Pakistan, after an attack that was launched by the U.S Special Forces. Osama died in May 2, 2011 at 1.00 am. The news about the bombing of Boston marathon was aired by the CNN television ...

Introduction

As a hoplite, we were the Greek citizen soldiers who were basically the strongest, bravest and able-bodied adults who were middle aged. Our obligation was to do anything to protect our geographic coverage. The general types of weapons we use are spears, shields and arrows. During the Battle of Marathon which took place in 490 BC, we the Athens and Persians met under the intensive culmination of the first and only attempts from the Persians to subjugate the our land under their king who was named king Darius l (Hanson 69). Despite our minority in numbers, we decisively defeated the ...

The Boston Marathon 2013

The Boston Marathon is an annual event and is celebrated by thousands of people from the city and across the nation. This is hosted by cities within the greater Boston area and is always held during Patriot’s Day on the third week of April. This started in the year 1897 which was inspired by the first modern-day marathon in the summer Olympics. During this particular race on April 15, 2013, three people were killed and an estimated two hundred and sixty four victims were injured during two pressure cooker bomb blasts exploded. These were done thirteen seconds ...

The USA faces permanent threat of terrorist attacks at the hands of ideological radical zealots driven by dictatorial masterminds like any peacemaking nation that will not have people mistreated or human rights abused, whatever criminal opposition. To eliminate the possibility of the USA citizens’ welfare being affected by radical perpetrators America has counterterrorism system performing protective functions. Being the set of deterrent tools and measures, the system mentioned does misfire. The 2011 saw bin Laden eliminated; however, far from being eliminated, terrorist organization Al Qaeda seems to still be showing unhealthy signs of life, which may call for some ...

Background information

The Boston Marathon is an event that is held annually in April’s every third Monday. Actually, it is a very prestigious marathon race since it is one of the oldest having existed since 1897 (Kelvin, 2013). Athletes from many parts of the world look forward to participating in this race and it is an honor when one wins. Actually, it is one of the most covered sporting events worldwide as it has won the heart of the media (Elizabeth, 2013). The conclusive media coverage did not come overnight. This is a result of the effort from the Boston Marathon Association ...

The peaceful, rather cheerful Boston Marathon completely transformed itself whilst the end when two deadly bombs blasted close to the finish line of the marathon. Three, including an eight year old boy were spontaneous dead, while more than a hundred got injured who were immediately taken to nearest hospitals. The devices which were detonated at about 2.50 pm ET were full of gun powder explosive and ball bearings. The Boylston Street was filled with emergency workers and security officials, who were gratifying those who got injured in the attacks, as they put them into ambulances and gave first aid. The ...

Marathon petroleum Corp is a multi- national company that deals with exploration, refining, transportation and sale of petroleum products and gas. The company whose main offices are located in Findlay, Ohio has been in business since 1998 after its formation from Ashland Inc. and marathon Oil Company. It operates and owns over eight thousand miles of pipeline used to transport its refined products (Plunkett, 2008). The fact that marathon petroleum Corp has invested in operations in all aspects of petroleum production adds value to its finished products and gives is a comparative advantage over its competitors who mainly specializes in specific ...

No civilization in history can claim to have had a more powerful, resilient and disciplined army than the Romans; few have had a force so pointedly fashioned as a tool of statecraft and imperial expansion. The ingeniously imitative Romans borrowed the most effective elements of Greek/Macedonian warfare, adding their own innovations and relying upon the almost superhuman endurance of the Roman foot soldier to create the greatest empire in history. The peerless Roman soldier made a navy seem superfluous and, most of all, un-Roman. Nonetheless, in typically inventive Roman fashion, and in the interest of safeguarding commerce and protecting its citizens, Rome created a ...

Skeletal muscles are complex and highly specialized group of cells that are not isomorphic but can be categorized in a heterogeneous group with different qualities. This heterogeneity of the skeletal muscles is important because ensures different sets of functions that skeletal muscles perform in the human body. This heterogeneity also enables a significant ability of the human organism to adapt to different conditions in life (Pette and Staron 2000). In addition of this heterogeneity, skeletal muscles also posses the ability of plasticity. This means that muscle cells can evolve and adapt to different stimuli and change their characteristics (Tavi and Westerblad ...

A. SCREENWRITING

In the writing of this script, I used quite a few influences from other films and genres that I very much enjoy. First and foremost was Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind, as I wanted to be able to imply that the main character was slowly but surely losing his mind over the course of the short film. Given that I only have three minutes of film in which to accomplish this task, I took the route of keeping it open-ended as to whether or not the events in the film were taking place strictly in Vincent's head, or if it ...

Introduction:

The father of history’ of history as called him, Herodotus was an ancient writer who was among the pioneers towards the approach of the reporting of history in skeptical and more logical way. He endeavored to identify myths and events as well as separate them and after identifying his sources, made points out of them by realizing his trust or not realizing. His article the ‘Histories’ is among the widely read accounts of ancient realities, legends and in particular, among the ancient Greece’s Persian invasion.

Dubbed as the ‘father of scientific history’, Thucydides, a Greek historian author is also a ...