...There is of course one side opposing this and another agreeing to this change. MLB needs to change the Wild Card system so it is a three game series instead of one game. People view the MLB season as being too long. Many people have lauded the idea of going back to a 154 game season, but continuing to keep the single game wild card format. This idea can make sense because if MLB does take out eight games from...
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...restoration program. That along with other projects could help bring back the red wolf from the brink of extinction. The red wolf is one of two wolves native to North America, the other one being the gray wolf. They get their name from the reddish tint they have in their fur mostly behind the ears and on the legs and neck. Their size is in between the coyote and the gray wolf. The average adult is around 4 feet long from the end of their tail to the tip of the nose, and 26 to 31 inches tall at shoulder height. Average weight is between 50 to 80 pounds. They tend to hunt alone or in small packs of 5 to 8 individuals; often the individuals are the pups from the breeding pair. The breeding pair or alpha male and female are likely to mate for life. The gestation period for the red wolves is 60 to 63 days, mating season is late winter and the litter size varies from 2 to 8 pups. Only having one litter a year could be seen as a problem but there is nothing that can be done to change that. Their diet consists mainly of small animals such as raccoons, rabbits, rodents, and at times they are also known to eat deer, insects and berries. The lack of food supply is a major contributor for why they are endangered. With hunting season in many of the states that were once the home of the red wolves, of the majority of the animals that they feed on, at the same time as their mating season; the lack of food hinders the ability for them to...
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...Real Madrid Summary Company: Real Madrid Strategy: 1. “Professionalize” the management team 2. Exploit the enormous value of the Real Madrid brand and players’ images to increase revenues. 3. Impose financial discipline to ensure that the team did not become overextended. Key to this discipline was limiting the players’ expense. With the new strategy of Zidanes & Pavones, Real Madrid would sign one star player per year and focus on the development of players through the farm system or cantera. Issues: 1. On the brink of bankruptcy. 1990’s Crisis: (Growth in revenues from TV rights; Greater investment of private personal fortunes; free-agent market) 2. Clean the debt by selling a training ground 3. Key to transformation would be modernization of its management. * Restructured the organization into four main units. * Implementing a variable pay structure. 4. Leveraging the Brand * Widen the scope of the brand by targeting international markets * New code of conduct promoted the values of honesty, transparency, and concurrence. * Three ways to exploit the brand:1. Sponsorship, image rights, advertising; distribution, merchandising, and licensing; and internationalization and new technologies. * Zidanes & Pavones 5. The Budgetary Process * Annual plan& midterm plan * Guidance of the strategic objectives and the assumptions provided by the corporate manager. * Revenue: Real Madrid transformed some areas...
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...bring about fruitfulness. Additionally, on the surface the poem seems like a mere description of the main characteristics of autumn’s human and animal activities, but can be interpreted as much more than that. Keats “To Autumn” consists of three stanzas corresponding to the classical divisions of strophe, antistrophe and epode. Each of the stanzas has eleven lines with variable rhyme scheme. The first stanza has a pattern of ABABCDEDCCE, while the second and third stanzas have a pattern of, ABABCDECDDE. However, there is uniformity in the first four lines of each stanza, because they all share the same rhyme scheme of ABAB. Additionally, the poem is metered in a relatively precise iambic pentameter and describes the progression through the season of autumn, from the last maturation of the crops or early autumn, “For summer has o’er brimm’d”, to the harvest or mid-autumn and to the last days of autumn where the birds are headed south and winter is...
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...Marcus Brink December 8, 2014 Mrs. Misra ENOC 1101 The History of the Daytona 500 The Daytona 500 has been a world-famous tradition of Daytona Beach for decades, creating the road to fame for divers such as Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. The Daytona 500 attracts tourists and NASCAR fans alike to Daytona Beach every year. Ever since the original Daytona 500 was held in 1959, the Daytona 500 has inspired the dreams of drivers and race enthusiasts across the country. However, the tradition of racing in Daytona Beach began in 1903, over half a century before the first official race took place. Around this time, early racing enthusiasts discovered that Daytona Beach’s smooth, hard packed sand was perfect for testing and racing automobiles. Over the next couple of decades, the beach’s reputation grew as ambitious racers broke world records that were once thought to be impossible to achieve, and in 1936, the Daytona Road Course began to host races. Daytona Beach’s fame caught the attention of a driver named Bill France. In 1948, France met with other drivers and race enthusiasts in Daytona Beach and organized a racing committee that would be in charge of managing the races, creating a set of official rules, and planning the schedule for each season. This organization would become known as NASCAR, or the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. Funded by NASCAR, the Daytona International Speedway was built in 1959, replacing the Daytona Road Course and establishing...
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...however due to the changing climate and new environmental pressures that humans have highly contributed to, now reside within 50 kilometres of one another. The Scientific names for the two frogs are Pseudophryne Corroboree (southern) and the Pseudophyrne Pengilleyeis (northern). These frogs inhabit numerous sections of the Kosciuszko National Park, However mainly occur in the Snowy Mountain regions and nearby state forests. This is between 950 and 1750 meters above sea level. It is usual for the frogs to reside in cavities In vegetation and soil that have dominant substrates. Corroboree frogs during breeding season live in pools within sphagnum bogs wet tussock grasslands and wet heaths. As a whole they generally prefer shallow pools with low water flow and large surface area. However around mid-summer these pools dry up, which puts the tadpoles at risk during drought season. Due to the pools drying up it allows for the tadpoles to have little predators such as fish as there isn’t enough water left to sustain much larger life. Sadly, based on current climate models of their ecosystem, winter and spring precipitation and snow fall are likely to decrease reducing the water table resulting in earlier pool drying in future...
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...A Tale of Two Cities, is a novel that contrasts from any work of literature because it establishes itself as a fictional work weaved in with the historical happenings of the French Revolution , thus making it to a certain extent true. Dickens captures a crippling society that is on the brink of collapsing in the novel. This is apparent in the novels opening scene in 1775 because it instantaneously compares England with pre-revolutionary France. Take into account the introductory lines, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,...
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...raising the Stanley Cup. But the next six seasons didn't quite work out that way. Even after very strong regular seasons from 2009-2015, the hockey demons haunted the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and they were ousted each year before reaching the Finals. Pittsburgh’s playoff struggles culminated after another disappointing...
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...The American Civil War defined the future of America’s framework, but the various causes of the war also defined the outcome of the battle. From economic differences, to political disagreements, as well as friction from the northern and southern views on slavery put the nation to the brink of war. And growing sectionalism also caused problems within the two sides, until a fever pitch was inevitably hit. With the difference in economy, the growing sectionalism between the north and south, and the political disagreements, war was all but preventable. The economic differences between the north and the south were a major factor in the Civil War’s tension starting to build. Tariffs on imported good gave the north an economic advantage, as their exports were faster to make and more desired. While the south’s exports, mostly cotton, took time because of how...
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...Steve Jobs is what we as a society can define as one of a kind. Jobs revolutionized the technology business through his innovative ideas and narcissistic leadership style. Although many critics described Jobs as a harsh leader, he built the world’s most valuable technology company. When compared to the sports industry, a similar personality to Jobs would be Bobby Knight, Indiana’s all-time winning basketball coach. Knight has won over nine hundred collegiate games in his career and won the NCAA Championship three times. Knight’s leadership and management had a similar style to Jobs, often associated with the words harsh, demanding, successful, and cruel. Both leaders had similar styles due to pushing the boundaries and demanding hard work and success. Steve Jobs’ critics often tend to point out the harshness in his personality. In reality, it was his personality that brought Apple to life as a company. Without Jobs’ vision, desire for perfection, and persistence, Apple could have died out or been overtaken by another technology firm. Jobs’ led with high emotion and intensity, often leading to confrontation and verbal abuse. However Jobs put it best, saying “these are all smart people I work with, and any of them could get a top job at another place if they were truly feeling brutalized. But they don’t “(Isaacson 4). People working for Jobs saw his vision and experienced the results. It was no coincidence Apple became the largest technology company in the world under...
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...Satisfying service experience Company service profile Virgin Atlantic (established in 1984) is the second largest and the third largest airline in the UK and Europe respectively (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). Its headquarters is based in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport in London, in the UK. Its route network includes destinations in the US, Africa, India, Far East and the Caribbean (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). The carrier's main competitors are British Airways, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific and South African Airlines (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). Virgin Atlantic’s core tangible service is passenger transportation (Lovelock, 1983). This is because the airline has incorporated its service system into its customers’ minds by giving added customer’s values (Essay UK, 2013). Although there are no formal relationships with its customers, the carrier has been able to develop the culture of repeat businesses with its clients. In this case, the carrier rewards customers with purchase incentives for their repetitive purchases as well as adding value to their (carrier’s) core products (Rai, 2013). For instance, the carrier has VIP lounges that stimulate repeat business (Essay UK, 2013). For example, it has a wide range of services for younger passengers and caters for passengers with special needs (Virgin Atlantic, 2014). The normative goal is to enhance formal relationships so as to ensure repeat business (Lovelock, 1983; Oh & Pizam, 2008, p. 78). Although the airline is standardized in design...
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...Professional athletes face the recurring dilemma of negotiating or renegotiating their contracts and according to Alvin Grier, the director of the midwest operations for Elite Sports Agency, “don’t know anything about NFL negotiating strategies”. He strongly recommends that all pro athletes hire an agent or attorney to perform the tedious negotiations citing it is their money and their livelihood on the line. He compiled seven strategies to negotiating a contract that helps athletes maximize their salaries: (1) be careful of the incentive laden contract, (2) know exactly how much of the contract is deferred, (3) only the signing bonus is guaranteed, (4) attempt to get a large signing bonus, (5) front-load your salary, (6) get a roster bonus after the third contract year, and (7) put off guaranteed base-salary until the last years. His strategies seem to be common sense but the average professional athlete entering the professional ranks is only 20 years old and has had little to no college education. The foundation for many successful renegotiated contracts is the athlete’s past performance and the team’s “what have you done for me lately” attitude. A productive player currently on the team’s roster has a better chance of signing a lucrative deal than one who has yet to prove himself. Contradictory to this is the player(s) selected in the annual sporting draft. The players selected highest in the draft are in a better position to negotiate a great deal than those drafted in lower...
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...often thought of as a gradual action that is marked by physical growth and age. However, as one ends their journey to maturity, such a change is realized to be circuitous; adulthood is not marked by the steady change in seniority or corporeal growth but instead, by the rollercoaster of experiences one undergoes. Such experiences often carry deeper meaning and are representations of lessons and themes that one may carry with themselves for the rest of their life. In literature, incidents like these are referred to as symbols. Symbolism, in real life and fictional coming-of-age, is integral in the development of youth to adulthood. In the book, A Seperate Peace, author John Knowles skillfully weaves the symbols of the tree, the change in season, and the war to capture the complicated and harrowing advancement from boy to man. Though the Suicide tree is significant in many ways, it’s symbolism as loss of fear is integral in the development of the book’s coming-of-age theme. Before Finny’s fall, Gene was fearful of jumping from the tree like most young children would be. For instance, when Finny persuades Gene to jump, Gene’s apprehensiveness is still evident when he tells the reader, “with the sensation I was throwing my life away, I jumped into space” (17). Gene’s innocent mind perceives the tree as massive and scary - so much so that he is fearful it will be the end of him - despite Finny showing him that he'd be safe. Stubborn doubt and inability to see past fear were traits...
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...Boxing vs. Mixed Martial Arts Although the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) is relatively new compared to professional boxing, MMA has evolved into a very entertaining and increasingly more popular combat sport. MMA continues to cement its footprint in the world of sports entertainment while also causing more and more people to see that it is much more difficult to be a mixed martial artist than it is to be a professional boxer. For thousands of years combat has been a way for humanity to settle different disputes. Whether it be a dispute between two individual people or a dispute between entire nations. The world and its inhabitants have experienced their fair share of violence and war. Even today America is at war with individuals who are fighting for what they believe to be the right cause. Combat throughout the centuries has evolved. From huge armies marching on one another on a large battlefield to missiles being fired at a target from half way across the world, the way people fight has changed. Now, in today's society, combat has evolved into something else; a sport. The world of combat sports is vast and diverse. Individuals from all different disciplines of martial arts compete against one another to decide who amongst them the best fighter is. Two of the most popular combat sports in the world today are boxing and mixed martial arts. Ever since the emergence of mixed martial arts, it has been compared with boxing. Which sport is more entertaining and which...
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...A drought can be described as being an ecosystem disturbance meteorologically, however hydro logically it’s portrayal misleading (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). A universal definition for a drought is not known but a meteorological drought can be defined as a lack of rainfall for an extended period of time whether it is several years or a season relative to the arithmetic mean for that region (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). As a drought is able to have a substantial impact on the natural marine ecosystems, the outcomes that come with it are aggravated both by indirect and direct anthropogenic adjustments to hydro areas such as rivers and the catchments (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). Major impacts in rivers are generally the decline of the amount of water and habitation accessibility for the surrounding animals (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). Droughts are a frequently occurring matter in Australia with it being a regular element on the climate with most said to have had an affect by the El Nino phase (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). As a drought is classified as a natural hazard it’s able to cause a great amount of destruction socially and economically (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). The millennium drought is sought to be one of the biggest to leave an impact on the environment (Bond, Lake & Arthington 2008). The millennium drought has had a severe impact on most of the South-Eastern Australia region with most of the rivers undergoing a record low water capacity during this...
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