...Mike Tyson Case Study Nie-shia Randolph Colorado Technical University Online Mike Tyson Case Study Michael Gerard Tyson was born on June 30, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Jimmy Kirkpatrick and Lorna Tyson. When Mike was two years old his father left his family, leaving his mother to take care of him and his two siblings Rodney and Denise. Struggling to stay afloat Tyson’s mother moved her family to Brownsville, a section in Brooklyn (Mike Tyson biography, 1996-2013) As a child Tyson was small and shy this cause him to be the target of bullying. Tyson decided to learn how to fight to protect him from the bully’s in his neighborhood. This helped him to develop his own style of street fighting. Tyson stated to indulge in more criminal activities. He ran with a gang called the Jolly stompers. Tyson role with the gang was to clean out cash registers while the older people in the gang held victims at gun point. Tyson was only 11 years old at the time. His involvement with the gang has caused Tyson to develop a criminal background. At the age of 13 Tyson had been arrested more than 30 times. His criminal behavior landed in a reform school in upstate New York. At the reform school Tyson met counselor Bob Stewart. Bob was an amateur boxing champion. Tyson began to show interest in boxing he asked Bob to teach him how to use his fists. Bob agree to teach Tyson what he knew if Mike agreed to stay out of trouble and work harder in school. Mike managed to stay out of trouble...
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...Statistics Real name Michael Gerard Tyson Nationality American Born June 30, 1966 (age 47) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American retired professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Early life Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He has a brother, Rodney, who is five years older than he is.[9] His sister, Denise, died of a heart attack at age 24 in 1990.[10] Tyson's father is listed as "Percell Tyson" on his birth certificate,[11] but the man Tyson had known as his father was Jimmy Kirkpatrick. In 1959, Jimmy Kirkpatrick left his family and moved to Brooklyn, where he met Tyson's mother, Lorna Smith Tyson. Mike Tyson was born in 1966.[13] Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born, leaving Tyson's mother to care for the children on her own.[14] Kirkpatrick died in 1992.[15] The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old.[16] Tyson's mother died six years later, leaving 16-year-old Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian. Tyson later said, "I never saw my mother happy with me...
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...MIKE TYSON PSYCHOANALYTIC REPORT PSYCHOLOGY DR WHITELY QUINISE CAMPBELL August 26, 2014 I chose for my subject Michael Gerard “Mike” Tyson. Mike Tyson is an American retired professional boxer. What attracted me to pick Mike Tyson was that I felt that he was a gentle giant that has been misunderstood in this life. So with this psychoanalytic study we are going to break down the myths that people think about him. I know this is not supposed to be a biography about the life of Mike Tyson; but to give some insight on which of the 7 psychology’s major perspectives I chose you have to know a little about his background. At an early age Tyson’s parent separated, leaving him to be raised by a single mother, he witnessed a horrific and gruesome atmosphere of crime, drugs, and violence. He had never had a physical altercation at that point in his life, but after continually being bullied Tyson finally stood up for himself when another boy grabbed his pet pigeon and broke its neck. Tyson describes that as his first fight, and it was the one that started his continual fighting in the streets and also the development of his criminal behavior. I think that the early stages of his life fall under the Socioculture perspective level. The values and beliefs transmitted from his social and cultural environment played a huge part in all of the trouble that he got into as a child and as adolescent. John Locke once proposed that humans are born with a blank slate (tabula rasa) into the...
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...Jared Dickerson PSYC120-1204A-3 The Mind of A champion: Profile on Mike Tyson November 11, 12 What the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Mike Tyson? The man who once told a reporter he was going to rape him? Or, the man who overcame the odds rose to the top to become champion? I choose to do a psychological sketch on Tyson because he was once the richest and best-known athlete in the world, but still remains one of the hardest people to understand. Mike Tyson was born June 30th 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. By the age of two he was living with his 5 siblings in a single parent household in Brownsville New York, one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city. Having being exposed to domestic violence at an early age, Tyson would build a love for training pigeon as an escape of his reality. At age 9, a 15-year-old gang member decapitated one of Tyson’s beloved pigeons by turning it’s head slowly till it snapped off. Seeing this Tyson attacked the boy like a wild animal and brutally beat him. From that point Tyson reputation began to grow in his neighborhood. Tyson was quoted in an interview stating, “I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something. She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally." If a child doesn’t...
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...select Mike Tyson as my subject. It is my belief that his troubled childhood, meteoric rise to fame and fortune, and his often-controversial behavior in and out of the ring makes for an interesting character worthy of analysis. Michael Gerard Tyson was born June 30, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He was only two years old when his father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick abandoned the family, leaving his mother, Lorna Tyson to take care of Mike and his two siblings, Rodney and Denise. She had a great deal of financial difficulty in supporting her family, and eight years later, she was forced to move her family into the tough, crime-ridden Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tyson, small and shy, was often the target of bullying. To combat this, young Michael began developing his own style of street fighting, and graduated from this to criminal activity. His gang, known as the Jolly Stompers, assigned him to clean out cash registers while older members held victims at gunpoint. He was only 11 at the time. He frequently ran into trouble with police over his petty criminal activities, and by the age of 13 he had been arrested more than 30 times. (Biography, 2012) His behavior eventually landed him in Tryon School for Boys, a tough reform school in upstate New York. It was here that he was introduced to boxing through counselor Bob Stewart, a former amateur champion. In exchange for Tyson staying out of trouble and working harder in school, Stewart agreed to teach him how to box. Tyson learned...
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...Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American retired professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them. In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks after 91 seconds. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. In 1990, he lost his titles to underdog James "Buster" Douglas, by a knockout in round 10. Attempting to regain the titles, he defeated Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991, but he pulled out of a fight with undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield due to injury. In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington and sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving three years. After his release, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. In 1996, he won the WBC and WBA titles after defeating Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon by knockout. With his defeat of...
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...Page 1 In the words of Mike Tyson, he quotes, “Discipline is doing what you have to do, but doing it like you love it.” As for me, I definitely agree with this saying. Being raised in a stereotypical and strict Asian family, discipline played a big role. No matter how small or big the situation was, discipline, manners and morals always mattered. For example, as a small child, my mom gave me little chores and responsibilities such as cleaning my room, throwing out the trash, and wiping down the table after every meal. As much as I hated doing these tasks, I had no choice but to finish the job well and diligently. As I grew older, I learned that it’s easier to finish my work if I looked at it in a positive manner and at the same time, not expecting a reward after. Doing something because you have to is totally different from doing something from your heart. This is something I learned at church. Doing things with a happy heart improves myself and shapes my personality. Not only does it make me a better person, but it sets a good example to the other people in my environment which was a great example done by Jesus. Being disciplined also reflects on the people who raised me. Discipline comes with respect. Discipline also comes along with loyalty to yourself and others, duty, honor, selfless service, integrity, and personal courage. Without discipline, you have none of those traits. This is what I mean when I say that discipline shapes my personality. Now what exactly...
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...Review Of the Movie “The Help” “The Help”, it is a movie based on the book which contain testimonials on the experiences of African-American maids. I remembered I read the book before I watched the movie. The thing I know about the book, it was written and published by a white woman and it was told by the black women who were maids in the 1960s. It gave me some assumptions to go with. Before I start, everything that I will bring up are tightly about the movie and the book. It is like a little summary however the reviews I read are really good concerning the movie and the book. The movie was produced in a small town Jackson, Mississippi. Racial tension was so high at that time. The Black women worked not only as maids in that town, but they practically raised white people’s children too. So far, they were seen as “HELP” and were treated inappropriately and poorly. Skeeter, is a young woman who were living in that town. She gets the idea to write a story about these women who were maids, because of her good experience with the black woman who raised her and took really good care of her when her mother was not around. I really liked and enjoyed this movie. It got my attention and made me cry couple of times while watching some parts. What was so interesting and good about this movie? At the beginning of the movie, the acting was excellent. Viola Davis who played a maid named (Aibileen), she is an amazing woman who was one of the central characters in the movie...
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...8 A CPP Report TITLED ‘GODREJ FOOD LTD’ For fulfilling the requirement of the award of degree of BBA Subject: CPP (IMS-206) Under the supervision of Dr. RAJAN SHARMA Assistant professor Submitted to: - Submitted by:- The Director RAVINDER SINGH MBA 5 Year 3rdSeM Roll No. 12 Registration No.14UIM6 Institute of Management Studies Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra Sept.2015 DECLARATION I, Ravindersingh hereby declare that I have completed the report entitled assigned to me by the Institute, to be submitted in the partial fulfillment of the MBA 5 Year Degree from Kurukshetra University. Further, I declared that this is original work done by me and the information provided in the study is authentic to the best of my knowledge and belief. Signature RAVINDER SINGH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In this project, I have made an honest and dedicated attempt to make the Project Report so easy to understand for a person who is willing to get knowledge about the ‘HOMESHOP18’. I am deeply indebted to my esteemed teacher & our chairman Prof. , K.U.K., because he gave me opportunity of making project report. I am also thankful to my lecturer as well as my supervisor (Guide) Dr. RAJAN SHARMA...
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...grocery store owner, which also leaves two black men dead, and although he was not responsible for the shooting Jefferson makes the mistake of deciding to help himself to the contents of the cash register. He is caught in the act, and wrongly accused of the murders. During his trial, his white attorney uses a defence typical of the period whereby he equates the boy with a lowly hog, in an attempt to show that he would not have had the intellect to know what he was doing in other words, that Jefferson is not even worthy of conviction. This depressing defence fails, and Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die. Although accepting that he is facing the death penalty, his outraged mother Miss Emma (Irma P Hall) and his aunt Tante Lou (Cicely Tyson) want him to go to his death like a man, and not still thinking of himself as a hog. To this end they recruit local schoolteacher Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) to visit Jefferson in his cell. He is the only educated black man that they know, and they hope that he will be able to convince Jefferson that he is indeed a man. Wiggins is reluctant, uncertain what good it will do, but eventually agrees. When he meets Jefferson, he will find that it changes his views on everything not only must Jefferson learn that he is a man and find a way to die with dignity, but Wiggins will learn some lessons about himself also. One of the main picture of the screenplay A Lesson Before Dying. When Jefferson was in jail or in holding until his...
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...國立暨南國際大學102學年度第1學期 國際策略管理 【Term Project - Proposal】 一、研究動機－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.2 二、公司簡介－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.2 三、公司願景與使命－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.3 四、目標客群定位－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.3 五. 公司名稱由來－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.3 六、品牌歷史與塑造－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.4 七、產品和服務－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.4 八、財報分析－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.5 九、未來方向－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.6 十、結論－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.6 十一、附錄－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－P.7 一、研究動機 在世界成衣業的發展動向中，美國成衣市場扮演了一席之地。自2008年金融風暴之後，世界經濟進入不景氣的狀況，消費者對於消費方式的改變，使得成衣市場受到相當大的衝擊。以往採取大量製造、降低成本的生產模式，已不再合乎現代消費者的需求。 有別於其他業者，Abercrombie & Fitch (以下簡稱A&F)的目標客群鎖定「18歲到22歲，外貌與身材出眾的白人」，也堅持不賣大尺碼的衣服。商品定位在「休閒奢華」的運動服飾。此外，其廣告模特兒甚至店員全都是外貌出眾的年輕男女，一方面雖然成功的建立獨特的品牌文化，卻也招來許多批評和糾紛，其中包括種族歧視和員工待遇等問題，同為美國服飾品牌的Tommy Hilfiger就曾因為歧視華人而吃上官司，而2005年以前的蘋果也是強調市場區隔的經典個案。 但近年來，A&F積極在美國以外的地方開拓市場，甚至在亞洲開設分店。原先的品牌定位和市場區隔，似乎有了新的定位。而轉變背後的原因和過程以及未來的市場策略，包括消費者心態對於商品定位的影響等，成了我們主要研究的動機和方向。 二、公司簡介 A&F，美國休閒第一大牌，是當今年輕人最青睐的品牌，也是風靡美國大學生的品牌之一。1892年創立于美國紐約的A&F，已是美國本土的百年品牌，目前旗下共有Abercrombie & Fitch、Abercrombie Kids、Hollister、Gilly Hicks四個子品牌。 A&F的服裝在簡約的款式中做出有趣的創意設計，以高格調、高質量及超清新的美國街頭休閒風格為出發點，並站在年輕人的喜好角度，用音樂、運動及簡約款式來表現服裝的內涵，這樣的潮流由美加各地不斷漫延開來，深受歐美和亞洲青少年喜愛，其標誌性十足、誘惑力十足的美式形象風行全球，成為全球時尚的新指標。 Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (簡稱：A&F) | 創立時間及國家 | 1892年6月4日成立於美國紐約曼哈頓 | 代表人物 | David Abercrombie (大衛·亞伯克隆畢)─創立者Ezra Fitch (埃茲拉·費區)─共同創立者Michael Jeffries (麥克·傑佛瑞斯)─CEO兼總裁 | A&F公司總部 | 美國俄亥俄州新奧爾巴尼市 | 股票代號 | NYSE：ANF；為上市公司 | 產品類別 | 男、女休閒裝、運動裝、內衣 | 旗下四大品牌 | Abercrombie &...
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...expensive lesson. The decision to sell its 85 stores to German retoiler Metro AG will result in a $1 billion pretax loss during the second quarter, but the move is in keeping with WaIMart's renewed focus on achieving higher rates of return on its invested capital. Successful execution of that strategy, even if it means shedding pieces of its business, is viewed as a key to helping the company's long-suffering stock price break out of its six-year slump. "As we focus our efforts on where we can have the greatest impact on our growth and return-on-investment strategies, it has become increasingly clear that in Germany's business environment it would be difficult for us to obtain the scale and results we desire," said WalMart vice chairman Mike Duke in reference to the decision to exit Germany. Those comments are nearly identical to a statement in late May when Wal-Mart announced the sale of its 16 stores in South Korea. "As we continue to focus our efforts where we can have the greatest impact on our growth strategy, it became increasingly clear that in South Korea's current environment it would be difficult for us to reach the scale we desired," Duke said. Both decisions were viewed positively by financial analysts who saw the moves as evidence that Wal-Mart is serious about improving its returns and a possible indication of an eventual slowdown of square-footage growth in the United States. The decisions to exit Germany and South Korea are part of a major reshuffling...
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...(RIM) is a multi-award-winning company that designs and produces hardware, software, and service solutions for wireless communications used by worldwide business and consumer markets. These state-of-the-art products and services provide customers with immediate access to information in order to make sound business decisions 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Whether you use the Blackberry device or the Pearl “smart” phone, you can be assured that you have purchased a quality product connecting people either at work or at play, designed and built by one of the most innovative Canadian companies of all time. Background RIM is a Waterloo-based company founded in 1984 by two University of Waterloo engineering students, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin. Today, Mike Lazaradis and Jim Balsillie, who joined the company in 1992, share the leadership role in the company as co-CEOs. The first Blackberry device came to market in 1999. Since then, RIM has consistently introduced many new and innovative products and services that are used by businesses and consumers around the world. The wireless solutions industry is an extremely competitive one, and, in 2002, RIM was sued for patent infringement by an American company, NTP. The case was finally settled in 2006, with RIM paying NTP $612.5 million.1 RIM has offices in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. It is traded on the NASDAQ stock market and the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 2006, RIM had revenues of over $2 billion and a...
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...Coach Knight and Coach K [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institute] Coach Knight and Coach K Introduction Robert Montgomery Knight or Coach Knight and his student Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach Knight and Coach K, are the 2 top celebrated coaches in the history of American college basketball. They share a number of records that remained unbeatable for a long time and even now it is considered as a huge achievement. Following is a brief account of their leadership styles and how effective they were so that one can understand the list achievements they share for a period of 30 years. Discussion Coach Knight began his career in the Army as coach to west point team. Later on his career took him to Indiana where at Indiana University; he coached his way to stardom. His recorf of 31-1 wins-losses was a straight record for the 1975 and in 1976, his team won every game of the season. What made him such a successful coach were his principles on discipline and hard work. He had a reputation of cursing and shouting at his players and even man-handle them at few occasions which landed him into trouble as well. In February 2003, he earned his 800th victory and that placed him in the hall of fame for best coaches of all times. If we look at his leadership style, his ability to handle stress as well as to instil it in his players was a factor that put him on the top. He was task oriented according to the fielder’s contingency model and derived success out of players...
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...A Team's Purpose Whether it’s in academia, in business, in sports or in family, teams can play a significant role in the success of a purpose. In academia, teams come together to complete learning projects. In sports, teams are formed to win championships. In business, teams may be created to meet a specific objective. Men and women marry, have children and become teams within their community with goals specific to their core values. One common denominator that all these teams require for success is effective communication. In business, the benefits of a successful team are many. Projects gain the benefit of expertise and strength of several instead of one. Teams can come together and offer brainstorming solutions – something a single individual cannot provide. Flaws in ideas and design are more likely to be discovered in groups. Teams can bond workers together in a common goal, thereby improving loyalty and moral for a company. According to best selling authors Peters and Waterman (2004) In Search of Excellence the true power of small groups in business lie in their flexibility. Teams can be formed for specific purposes and do not need to fit into any one specific division, and this lack of formality allows them to become an effective problem-solving tool. They have the empowerment necessary to make change and provide implementation without the bureaucratic overhead found elsewhere. Men and women come together with a common purpose, but rather than using words like...
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