Essays on Scouts

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world has found itself with more waste material from production than in any other time since time in memorial. The need to conserve the environment and ensure that these waste products do not deter the quality of resources, like air and soil has grown in the last two decades a great deal. More companies have come up with green initiatives to ensure that the waste material that is realised from consumer markets and producers are recycled. Recycling can be defined as the act of converting waste and otherwise harmful by-products to ...

Part A

Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs and Herzberg Two-Factor theory are some of the motivation theories that underlie the switch to the new scheduling system at Montego Bay. Abraham Maslow Hierarchy of needs postulates that human beings have a set of five needs arranged in a definite order with three low-level level needs (physiological needs, safety needs, and social needs) and two high-level needs (esteem needs and self actualization needs) (Griffin, 2016). The scheduling system generates work schedules based on the daily performance metrics. Consequently, employees like Sylvia find themselves with lesser hours with which they are not able to ...

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Lt. James Eugene Cobb, second in command of the entire southwest region for the Army National Guard (during the late 90s) taught me what it was to be a leader. From his title he renders a perceived characteristic of being an expert in the skill. He grew in ranks from both the U.S. Military as well as California Highway Patrol. Because he interacted with various groups of people in various situations his style of leadership changed to fit the specific need of the group. I learned quite young that to be a leader there were a few traits ...

“Cheburashka”, an outstanding Soviet movie made by Roman Kachanov in 1971 is a bright representation of Soviet culture. In order to understand the main idea of the movie it is important to consider some particular scenes. The Cheburashka Soviet cartoon explained the shortcomings of the Soviet society in a subtle way; human traits of acquisitiveness and trickery were satirized and shown in a negative way. The role of the Soviet government could not be discussed by ordinary people. The Cheburashka cartoon promoted the idea of humility before the Soviet government. In other words, the main heroes never dared to ...

Yao Ming

National Basketball Association is a very elite closed society for the best of the best only. NBA is all about the high jumps, three-pointers, dribbling, rebounding, two teams and one winner. However, one pattern distinguishes it from most American professional sports – racial dominance. According to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, the NBA in 2015 consisted of 74,4 % black players, 23, 3% white players, 1,8 % Latinos and only 0,2 % of Asians (Lapchik, Guiao). Yao Ming, a boy born in Chinese family of two basketball players. In Shanghai, the biggest city in China he could ...

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency in the United States is steadily increasing at an alarming rate. The age pool of offenders keeps on decreasing even for violent crimes such as homicide and rape. It is unclear on how the society deteriorated in successive decades since the 1970s crack cocaine epidemic. Street gangs took over droves of students into their establishments while promising acceptance. The programs that came to the aid of the criminal justice system were two pronged. The primary program is prevention. This program holds the potential to safeguard schoolchildren who are yet to succumb to the pressures and circumstances around ...

Boy’s Life is a monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America for the young generation. It primarily targets teenage boys who are constantly on the look out for something exciting. The magazine boasts of several activities and workshops to keep the young minds inquisitive and exploring. The activities and projects mentioned in the magazine are exciting and very practical. The good thing about these activities is that they consist of step-by-step instructions and tips to effortlessly guide the young mind through the use of animations, photos and inspiring images, makes the magazine more attractive and readable. Boy’ ...

Abstract

Talent identification is one of the most important and difficult tasks for football coaches across the world. Even years of research could not provide objective criteria for talent identification in the field of football. Coaches and scouts across the globe use subjective criteria to select talents at an early age. Though most of the old school youth programs still use technical skills and physical skills to select talents, superior physical skills exhibited at an early age were found to have no correlation with the later year performance. More modern youth football programs consider cognitive skills, such as tactical ability ...

Curriculum Strategy

Poor children have been faced with poverty as a risk factor in their success academically. Some children who come from poor backgrounds are affected in their school readiness. The poverty should not be an obstacle to the normal learning of a child from an early age. Children come from diverse backgrounds, with diverse cultures, this makes them unique and hence when performing an assessment to them one should be acknowledged. The adequate assessment and analysis of the activity of the child, the right chosen method for the child’s learning will help to avoid the problems in the future ...