...My high school career has been centralized around cheerleading for teams at my high school and competition squads. Cheerleading has allowed me opportunities to support my school, community, and peers and encourage others to do the same. Being a member and captain of my high school cheer squad and competition team has had a profound impact on my attitudes and how I present myself in different situations in my life. Cheerleading has taught me different leadership strategies which have enabled me to be a successful leader. I have learned how to identify the talents and strengths of others and use them to help team members feel valued and good about themselves which leads to a strong, united squad. I have gained an understanding of the importance...
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...This paper explores the concept of "Not in My Squad" (NIMS) which is a grassroots concept spearheaded by Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA) Daniel A Daily. This concept originally created to help Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) of the United States Army (Army) better identify Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assaults (SHARP) and counteract it by building a foundation of trust with their junior enlisted Soldiers in their formations. His initial foundation of NIMS was able to set conditions and expand better than he could imagine. Instead of just focusing on SHARP related issues he expanded to teaching better leadership skills, training, and physical fitness. He took a hard line at changing the toxicity of the NCO Corps and created an environment of...
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...My freshman year of high school, I was on the Junior Varsity Cheerleading squad. In the spring, the time came to try-out for the next year's squad. I ended up making it for the Junior Varsity squad again. I was pretty devastated at first, but then I began to be okay with it because many of my friends didn't move up to varsity either. However, not even a week later, my friends started getting called to the office to be told they got moved up to varsity. I started to wonder how this was even possible since the whole tryout process was very strict. Once you make it for a team, you’re stuck on that team till the next try-outs. This never happens. I went to the principal’s office to see what was going on. Turns out, a senior named Ashley tried out and had made it for the Junior Varsity squad and wasn’t satisfied. Her mom went to the school board and complained that her daughter wasn’t on Varsity and they moved her up along with six other girls that had had higher scoring than her. That put twenty-three girls on the varsity squad and seven on the Junior Varsity squad when the Cheer...
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...I have no personal issue with any of the players, or any agenda to push forward. Every assessment made is merely my viewpoint on the squad selected. After the relatively early exit from the World Cup, it was expected that the selectors will push forward with youth, and rightly so. To me its simple – if you’re not going to play in the 2019 World Cup, you shouldn’t be in the squad. And that’s the issue I have with the selection of Saeed Ajmal. I am a huge Ajmal fan; he is a great ambassador for Pakistan cricket and has performed remarkably for us, however I am not in favour of his inclusion at this point. Will Ajmal be representing Pakistan in the 2019 World Cup at 41 years of age? I highly doubt it. I’d rather we focus on backing youth for the premier event. As well as this, who’s to say Ajmal will be as effective as he once was? He hasn’t played competitive cricket in over seven months. I wish him well as he is a great guy, but I don’t agree with his selection. Another thing that is baffling is the exclusion of Ahmed Shehzad from the test and ODI squad. Here we have a youngster who has shown an appetite for big runs, yet the way he is treated is despicable. Shehzad was Pakistans leading run scorer in ODI cricket in 2014, the second highest scorer for Pakistan in the World Cup. He has played eight test matches, scored three hundreds with two fifties at an average close to 48. His last innings was a mammoth 176 against New Zealand, which was ended with a blow to his head...
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...Carolina? I have always had a passion for helping others. I sincerely feel like my life will be complete when I have made a difference in someone else’s life. All my teachers told me that I should be a teacher because I do well in my English and history classes. However, as much as I admire the work that my teachers do, teaching as a career doesn’t call to me the way I feel a potential career should. I enjoy working at my farmer’s markets during the year and for a while I thought majoring in business would be a good option. My mother always tells me that the best job a person can have is the one where they work for themselves. The more I thought about the farmer’s market, the more I realized that it wasn’t the owning my own business aspect that I was attracted to. The part that I loved the most was helping the customers. Countless number of people have thanked me for all my hard work and help that I demonstrate at the market. I always tell them that I do it because I enjoy to do it not because it’s part of the job. I started a service project known as “Farmers Feeding Friends.” The week that I got into Carolina I must have gotten over a hundred genuine congratulations from my loyal customers. I began to think about possible careers that would allow me to utilize the parts of the farmers market that I enjoyed most, helping others and working with people. The birth of my nephew finally helped me to finalize my future career plan: nursing. Nursing seems almost the exact opposite of selling...
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...football club you like. Of course many responsibilities come with it. You have to keep the board satisfied with you otherwise you are going to get sucked. You have a transfer budget at the begin of the season and with that you can buy players. You can sell players if you want or loan a player to a team or from a team. You can make your own staff team and get advices from them. You can call a press conference for you new signings. At the match-day you choose the players that you would like to play and who are going to sit at the bench, set the tactic of your team and give the last directives. You can talk to the team before the match starts, at half time and at the end. During the match you can change the tactic if you wish and make substitutes just like a real match. You can even give touchline instructions to your players such as “retain possession” or “get the ball forward” and many others. Football Manager 2010 give you the opportunity to be a manager of a football club and to feel the pressure from the board and the fans and to manage the up and down of the players. Story The story of Football Manager 2010 is all the history of the professional football. It has history for all the teams, all the managers and all the players of the world. Lets take Lionel Messi for example. Full Name: Lionel Andres Messi Born: 24/6/1987 Place of birth: Rosario (Argentina) Lionel Messi is truly one of world football's global super stars. Having made his Argentina debut against Hungary in...
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...working at the Alexandria Police department, I was a team leader in the United States Army at the rank of Corporal. After leaving the Army I worked as an Emergency Medical Technician, responding to life threatening emergencies. Following this, I was hired at the Alexandria Police Department, where I currently work. I have had many job functions during this time, to include being a Defensive Tactics Instructor, Taser Instructor, Patrol Training Officer (PTO) and a member of the Community Orientated Policing Section (COPS) where I currently serve. These different jobs have given me vast amounts of experience in many different areas that will help me to excel at being a Sergeant in the Alexandria Police Department. Professional Experience United States Army November 2003- September 2008 Team...
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...Comminication Theory Nastahsia Howell HCS/320 June, 14, 2012 Matt Dennis Communication Theory The communication process that is utilized in my workplace is like many other organizations, through the different levels of chain of commands. The employees deal with the debtors which would be the clients majority of the time. The debtor is the person that you call to collect a debt from over the phone everything is done solely over the dialer pole. As collection representatives we collect debt for many different companies. There are many different teams within the company, it just depends on where you are seated what team you will be a part of. The team that I was assigned to was the Tuesday crew. On the Tuesday crew we came in later than everybody that day and left later. This group consisted of fourteen employees, two squad leaders, and a manager. On the other days you was regular work days and you communicated with everybody from the squad leaders, manager, to the boss, and other employees that was not a part of your crew. It was a small net family not a big cooperation. The communication between the employees was limited, just because most of your time was spent on the phone taking or making calls. In our organization gender was not a big factor. The two owners of the company were male and a female, so labor was balanced. The job is not hard labor so everybody has the same task. Depending on your position did you do different jobs, and these were filled by both male and female...
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...get product and services to the market as quickly as possible. Triple Bottom Line (planet, people, profit) - Efforts to reduce carbon imprint and utilize renewable resources are realized through effective project management. Corporate Downsizing - Downsizing (or rightsizing if you are still employed) and sticking to core competencies have become necessary for survival for many firms. Companies outsource significant segments of project work, and project managers have to manage not only their own people but also their counterparts in different organizations. Small Projects Represent Big Problems - Small projects typically carry the same or more risk as do large projects. Small projects are perceived as having little impact on the bottom line because they do not demand large amounts of scarce resources and/or money. I feel that project management is becoming more important in business today being that all businesses want to be successful. The project life cycle incorporates all the business aspects into a plan that can be executed. I and my squad were tasked to set up the security perimeter around the fob while the rest of the company set up...
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...strong influence on people’s behavior. It is addicting. Most people who have power seek to gain more power. Look at Adolf Hitler. He grew to power in Germany and decided he wanted more so he made a plan to take over the world. He was a powerful man but a ruthless leader which made people fear him instead of respect him. A good leader gains power through the respect of others. A great leader is an effective leader who uses his power to encourage and he gains the respect of others by being respectful toward those below him. There is a connection between power and leadership. If a manager is power hungry and treating others as his slave for his own gain then he is a bad leader. If a manager uses his power of authority to encourage his team to increase productivity so that they all look good then he is a great leader. There is not a way to be an effective leader if you do not have the power to “control” those around you. When I say “control” I am not speaking in terms of a “puppet master” or someone that makes people submit to their needs but as a large influence. Emotions are a large influence on the use of power. People with more power are more likely to have a...
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...track, football, and basketball. This sport can give people courage and can bring out the best in you and it can make you feel great inside and make you want to work together with people and as a team just like any other sport. Teamwork is the dream work. Cheerleaders are commonly seen on the sidelines at football and basketball games supporting their teams. Fans just see them as other people supporting their team. However, the cheerleaders have to go through rigorous training and practice all the time to perfect the routines displayed at games. Along with cheering on the sidelines at games, most cheerleading squads participate in heated competitions to show their athleticism. Although it is not officially defined as a sport by the NCAA, it obviously should be for many different reasons. Dictionary.com defines a sport as "an athletic activity that requires physical prowess or skill and often a competitive nature. Cheerleading is defined as” the action and skill of a cheerleader.” So what is a cheerleader? A cheerleader is’ a person who leads spectators in traditional or formal cheering at a pep rally and athletic events. Cheerleading definitely fulfills this criteria maybe even better than other activities commonly called sports. I interviewed a young lady named Schae who used to cheer for Kenmore High School. She is now a senior and attends a different school. When she cheered for Kenmore she thought that the team was a wonderful team and cheerleading was something that...
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...played sports with the boys in the neighborhood. She couldn't play sports in high school because there were no girls' teams. She decided to try out for the cheerleading squad. She was cut from the team because of her race. She sued the school for denying her a position because she was black, and she won the case. She was given a spot on the cheerleading squad and became the first African American cheerleader in her town. She showed her desire to excel and succeed and was the best member on the squad. This was the first of many accomplishments to come. Vivian has been National Coach of the Year and has taken many teams into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Her husband died in 1992, and since then she has been a single parent working full time. She has two sons and her daughter is in a wheelchair. Stringer survived breast cancer. However, in her opinion her biggest accomplishment is touching the lives of young women and helping them become the best they can be. For her, winning is second to enriching the lives of her student athletes. Vivian makes them work together as a team. If two players don't like each other, nobody is able to tell. On the floor, during practice, and games they work together with no problems. It lets them know that even if they have a problem with one another that they are still going to have to get along with each other. This prepares them for real life. C. Vivian Stringer is still creating history. There are many stories in the book...
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...How will the MBA program fit with my career plans? My career at IBM has taken a seemingly planned path to bring me where I am today with the corporation. In reality, my career has been a mix of exact choices, hard work, and a bit of surprise. I began my career at IBM in May of 2004 after receiving my Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. I was hired into a technical role as a circuit design engineer working on microprocessor design for IBM’s mainframe System Z servers. The opportunity to design and contribute as a member of a world-class design team was both extremely exciting and intimidating. The engineers at IBM are the best in the industry and many have made IBM their home for entire careers; I immediately set a goal to become a key contributor to the team while striving to learn as much as possible from my mentors and colleagues. My first mentor within the company gave me a piece of advice, he said: “Take every opportunity presented to you, large or small, and also be a team player” I took this to heart and made this a driving force in my career. This led me very quickly from an entry-level engineer in my first project to a unit and team lead a couple of years later. New pathways continued to present themselves and I jumped at each challenge with enthusiasm as my mentor’s advice echoed in my mind. I was afforded the opportunity to not only deliver on known work assignments, but also the opportunity...
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...November 4, 2012 Intro. To Grammar Is Cheerleading a Sport? Black eyes, busted lips and just plain pain, may you ask from what? You may not believe it, but yes this is from the sport cheerleading. I did not go one day at cheerleading practice without getting hurt. Practice after practice to make sure that we got everything we needed to be done, done. There are many arguments made regarding whether or not cheerleading is a sport. In addition, many people distinguish between a “yell” leader, versus a cheerleader who does stunting versus the competitive all-star cheerleader. You can say that some cheerleading is a sport while other cheerleading is not? That all depends on who you ask, and their definition of sports. Some say cheerleading is not a sport but experience tells me that cheerleading is the most dangerous sport out there. In general, one definition of sports is that they require some type of physical ability or skill that has to be learned and practiced. While no one would argue that cheerleaders practice, it can be argued that cheerleading, when it simply yelling into the crowds, does not require a great deal of skill. Anyone can learn routines and yell into the crowd as long as they smile and do their job. The sport of cheerleading is more than just pompoms and smiles. In my opinion cheerleading is a sport because it requires strength, balance, and coordination. There are many magazines and articles that claim that cheerleading is a sport, plain and...
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...have learned to do just that. At my high school there are two main types of groups. The agriculture group (FFA – Future Farmers of America) and the sports group. The third group is everybody else. For me, I am a little bit of all three. Consequently, I tend not to fit into any mold that our high school tries to put a person in. Throughout high school I participated in football, basketball and baseball. However, that does not mean I was on the varsity team. In fact, other than baseball, I was on the junior varsity squad in both football and basketball for three years. Of course, I wanted to be on varsity, but other athletes were more talented than I was. Knowing this,...
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