Essays on Skating

The purpose of a marketing audit report is to enable an organization to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing department relative to the use of alignment skills, processes, and systems because these processes affect the return on investment. Information revealed from this process can disclose the need for opportunities that can improvement the present marketing processes. As an example, if a company desires to achieve a higher performance level in its business, there will be the need to increase effectiveness while also improving the return on investment (Patterson, 2009). This could mean that the organization needs to ...

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1. Explain how tourism can contribute towards socio-cultural conservation Tourists are generally interested, apart from sight-seeing, in exploring the social and cultural peculiarities of the locations they visit. They are interested in the local food habits, dance and cultural forms. In many parts of the world cultural forms have been resurrected and revived mainly for entertaining tourists. Tourists are willing to pay good money to watch dance, rituals and other performing arts which are unique to the town or village that they are visiting and this creates a demand for the local artists who can ...

1. Introduction Bulgaria is located between the Turkey and Romania in the Southeastern Europe and has a variety of different sports practiced by its citizens. The country of more than seven million citizens has been part of the summer and winter Olympics game from their early start. In the country the most popular sports are football - soccer, volleyball, various different gymnastics, wrestling, weight lifting and others. There are various different sport figures popular in the country, but they do not fully address the international sporting achievements of Bulgaria on the international level. The paper will present the country’ ...

When I was eight years old, I tried skating for the very first time. I had never imagined that I would be able to skate, but my sister changed everything when she asked me to join her. These were unforgettable memories for me that I will forever cherish. My sister has always been my role model, because she does everything well. When I was eight, she was sixteen years old and she could dance, play the piano, but also excelled at skating. As a teenager, she was a very popular girl. She was confident, but also kind. It was ...

Real men don’t want to be seen watching figure skating. While figure skating seems to have a dominantly female fan base, it is possible that many men may be watching the sport in the privacy of their homes (Moore). The typical audience at a figure skating event comprises of two-thirds female and only one-third male, a majority of who seem to have reluctantly accompanied their wives to the event. Men feign disinterest in this sport primarily because of the controversies associated with male figure skating fans. These controversies question the masculinity and sexuality of the men who participate ...

Abstract

Figure skaters graciously glide over ice and perform intricate aerobatics, speed skaters achieve incredible velocities over ice, and thousands of persons each year stumble in ice as they first try out this practice for leisure. This paper reviews the scientific concepts and laws that make ice skating possible, as well as the factors that influence performance and ice skates design.

Introduction

Ice skating, gliding along an ice surface using keel-like runners known as ice skates [1], is a sport practiced by many solely for recreational purposes, while others engage in it as an inherent part of other sports, such as ...

A company’s culture according to Melisa Agnes is tangible in that outsiders, and customers can sense a real difference between one company’s employee and those of another organization. For instance, one company may have a culture that is characterized by innovation, excitement and collaboration, motivating employees to disregard the regular work hours and do anything necessary to get a job done regardless of the time of day. Conversely, another company may have a conservative culture with the clock –watching employees, doing only what is required and only if it is written in their job description. According to ...

Introduction

In the today’s competitive business, many companies strive to grow with various kinds of strategies. The success and failure in merging and acquiring other companies have been one of the strongest indicators of the business in the competitive business world. The history shows that many companies have outperformed the industry after successful merger and acquisition. The companies have experienced the upsurge in the business volume and profits after the merger and acquisition of the companies within the industry. Beyond the benefits measured in dollars, the companies will get other benefits from the merger that is well planned and ...

Abstract

The current paper presents a summary of the article “The Cold War on Ice: Constructivism and Politics of Olympic Figure Skating Judging” by Sala, Scott and Spriggs II. The article addresses the issues of the international political rivalries that took place at the time of the Cold War as well as the inherent rivalries after the Cold War was over. The rivalry between different nations seemed unusual depending on the data obtained by the researchers. Particularly, the authors of the article present a quantitative analysis of constructivist approach allied to international relations. It is worth noting that the researchers ...

Fiske brings for an argument for a strategy that would assist in checking the popular cultures from a broad perspective. He thus suggests that those individuals consuming the products coming from mass culture practice such in a manner that resists the meaning that has been offered by those who have produced the mass culture. They, therefore, term the product as a popular culture of that society. There is a constant struggle for practicing the control over various meanings, pleasures and also behaviors of one. This is fundamental especially in the case where the body has an enormous representation of ...

1. An alien on Mars can be able to detect life on the planet earth. The earth’s atmosphere contains plenty of oxygen and methane that exists naturally there. These gases can be detected by spectroscopy whereby the light reflected off the earth is split into the different colors that it is composed of. Then the elements present on the planet earth are established according to the colors that the elements emit and absorb. These elements present enable scientists to know the existence of life on earth. This unique method of detecting life on earth is according to the ...

OBJECTIVE/THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW

Lucy looked through her windscreen at the snow-covered road. She noticed the tracks of other cars as she turned the ignition. Driving carefully, she eased her way down the steep hill to make her usual turn into Main Street. As she put her foot on the brakes to steady the car downwards she noticed something was wrong. Lucy was pressing the brakes, but instead of slowing down the car was picking up speed. She slammed the brakes, but the car just moved faster. The tyres had no grip on the road. The car was skating. She had lost ...

Re: How to increase membership, community participation, and revenue

Recommendations: Short term (immediately to one month) - Investigate hiring a marketing consultant to develop a Marketing Plan. - Clear any unused equipment such as the Bingo Machine from the public spaces. - Contact the Charity Casino of Thunder Bay, Royal Canadian Legion, Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Elks regarding joint events at the large LOWB Family Centre. - Contact the former Knights of Columbus to see if they would like to use the hall for meeting and partner with the LOWB on events such as the Fish Fry.

Medium term (one month to three months)

- Create an Internet presence including a ...

The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting event that is usually held once in every four calendar year. These games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The first original sports of this event included curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, military patrol, Nordic skiing, and skating. Following the Second World War, the Olympics games were interrupted and later returned in 1948 under the management of the International Olympic Committee. This paper gives detailed information about iceberg skating, and specifically ice dancing as a Winter Olympic Sport. However, the Olympic Games have undergone stages of evolution, and has currently ...

Millennium park is a park located in Chicago whose establishment plans were initiated in the last one decade by then Chicago mayor Richard .M. Daley. People never believed those plans by the mayor because they seemed to be non-practicable. This park is well known in the United States and also in the entire world because of its attractive features. The park occupies a large area of Chicago in Illinois the United States land. It is an urban landscape which has attracted millions of people since it was built .It is one of the prominent architectural sites in America that created a lot ...

Humankind throughout its existence, has sought ways to promote health and prolong active life. There were tried countless ways to rejuvenate: spells and appeals to the gods, healing balms and elixirs of youth, turpentine and milk baths, procaine infusion transplant gonads of animals taken from the surface of the body of excessive static electricity on the other hand, the induced magnetic fields, etc. These searches are continuing today. But it has long been well known that a versatile and absolutely reliable way to promote health and increase longevity is sports, the method, requiring no expensive drugs and technical devices, but ...

Procedures.

Warm Up (5 minutes). The teacher asks students about differents kind of sports they know: - what kind of sports do you like? - have you tried all those sports? - do you enjoy watching championships? - do you know some kind of weird sports from other countries? - are there some kinds of sports you would like to try? - why haven't you tried it yet?

Development.

The teachers tells about national sports of different countries. A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be ...

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Business Plan for Skating Company

1. Products and Services a) Description

The product list is as follows:

- Speed skates- For experienced skaters - Ice skates- For people who want to skate on the snow - Roller skates- For starting skating; for novices only - Children skates- For kids, a major customer base the company is trying to create - Artistic skates- For dance and freestyle skating Each of these products is designed for a specific customer base. The aim is to brand the right product to the right group. Besides service of 24/7 is given via phone calls and emails. The customer care has ...

Introduction

Every successful company once started with a ‘Big Idea’ which transformed an industry, sector and people in general, the story of Under Armour (UA) is a testament to the fact that an idea and a persistent effort will bear fruits in terms of recognition and revenues. The company is the brainchild of Kevin Plank who during his playing days at the University of Maryland got the ‘big idea’ to make a T-shirt which helps the players in providing compression and perspiration off the skin rather than absorb it which in essence helped the players in regulating the body temperature and also enhance ...

Effectiveness of Innovation Policies

Reference. 13 Abstract Dubai is currently the leading country in the world in innovation and technological development, thanks to the innovation policies put in place by the leadership of the country. When the Markhtum family took over the leadership of Dubai, the country was a tiny desolate state in the desert with no blissful future ahead. However, the leadership of the country adopted an innovation strategy to the development and expansion of their country. The passion to transform Dubai from a little desert state to a developed world economy drove the leadership to adopt innovation policies that enabled as well ...

Evolution of Baseball

The National League was founded in the year 1876. That is when organized baseball began.

Practices to limit unrestrained competition for players and stabilize the market emerged.

The success of company sponsored teams led to the transformation of businessmen attitudes towards baseball and was a source of company pride (Lomax). Henry Chadwick is a pioneer of what we know today as baseball. He influenced the changes in the game, introduced the modern box score, statistics, and wrote instructional manuals. He made baseball popular during those early days of establishment. He wrote a book on baseball in 1868. He promoted the game as a journalist. Alexander Cartwright is yet another person often referred to ...

Introduction

First, I would explain the importance of wearing protective gears while undertaking such risky and injury prone games. Then, I will approach the problem at hand by presenting ideas from health education philosophies that best address the issues. These philosophies are discussed below: Behavior Change Philosophy: This involves the victims in the accident to set their own goals in protecting themselves. It will awaken them from the unhealthy and risky life they live and persuade them to change their unprotected skating then evaluate the instances and severity of the injuries before and after use of protective gears. ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

1. Please explain your interest in sending your son/daughter to Greenhill School. Generally, Joyce is doing very well in the current school. However, I feel the overall environment in public school does not motivate kids to compete. I think we need to prepare kids to be more competitive in this global economy. I think a prestige school like Greenhill School can provide more challenges to her academically. I feel that Greenhill will give my daughter opportunities that would not have been available of receiving if he had attended a public school. Because I understand that private schools like Greenhill School ...

The National Sports Complex: Business plan

I. Executive summary The National Sports Complex is going to be a full serviced sporting center with world facilities for various indoor games and sports located in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently there are no such kinds of sporting facilities within this African region. This business plan will therefore outline the feasibility study for the National Sports Complex in addition to providing the means or marketing plan for the facility. The business plan shall also form the basis upon which the goals and objectives of the National Sports Complex shall continuously be evaluated. The National Sports Complex can ...