...Serving in the Army When reading these three texts about serving in the US Army, it gives three different views on how it is. In the first text by Sarah Palin, it is her son who enlist, to protect and serve his country, or ad she say in the text, he did it because of the younger generation in our family … he wanted them to grow up in a safe world. The most important statement she wants to give to us, is that we should not allow our kids to go in to war, and risk their lives, never knowing if they will be coming home alive or in a casket. On the other hand se can´t seem to understand why those kids chose to enlist in the first place, why not stay home and get a collage degree and take care of your family. Then if we take a look at text number two by David Zucchino, he talks about a man who have come home from service, and no longer is the same as before…..today he sufferers from PTSD which he will never recover completely from, the main focus of this text is to tell us that the soldiers who do service in the US Army and who has been sent in to war, never becomes the same when they come home, there are almost no offers for them, no treatment. It is also the story about a father that allowed his son to go in to war, and risk his life… as the father says in the end of the text…..”I wish he had never gone in”. Last but not least we got text number 3 written by, Joel Pitney, this time it is about the making of a marine officer, the main character in this text is lieutenant Fick...
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...A 1. Give an outline of the various views on serving in the army presented in the three texts. The one thing, that the three texts have in common is the theme; serving in the army. In text one, Why they serve, Sarah Palin tells her own story about her son, Track, serving in the army, and she tells about the feelings she has. She sees serving as a way to protect the idea of America, not just geographically. Sarah Palin is proud of her country and the unity, and she is proud of her son. She wonders for what reason some young men and women want to risk their lives to defend their country. For her son, the reason is family. He has young members of the family, and he wants a safe world for them to grow up in. For Track his family is the motivation. As a contrast to Palins positive view on serving in the army, we have the article A soldier’s story: War affects whole family written by David Zucchino. The article is about the Kahlers family who’s son, Ryan Kahler, suffers from a stress disorder. Ryan’s disorder has had a bad influence on the parents, who now also suffer from a less serious stress disorder. In the article the parents complain about the help their son, and all the other soldiers, who has returned from war, have or have not gotten. Ryan’s parents regret that they were supportive about Ryan getting into the war. Joel Pitney is the author of the article The Making of a Marine Officer. The article is about Lieutenant Fick – Nathaniel Fick – who is a former marine...
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...Even at a young age, Coltrane’s talent stood out. Coltrane was able to play various wind instruments such as clarinet and the alto horn before high school, and by the age of 18, he was already working professionally as a musician. However, Coltrane’s musical career took a new turn when he enlisted in the Navy in 1945, where he joined the Navy band “Melody Masters”. Although Coltrane was not initially granted the musicians rating when he joined the Navy, his remarkable talent made it possible for him to serve as a musician. Despite of his talent, Coltrane still suffered discrimination from being a black man, due to the fact that Melody Masters was an all-white band and they had to avoid having a black man on the band, which is the reason why...
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...people are obligated to elect the right leaders for each position to serve for the greater good and also leave an example for the future generations. As Americans we can not leave this corrupt government for our sons and daughter to fix later on, it here and now we take a stand. Our country needs to change because if we keep having career politicians the damage will already be done. Our country has so many career politicians going for fame and wealth that is is affecting the prosperity for our country’s future. Active representation from our politicians is what our country needs to be more successful. If we elect congressmen and women that will represent our stand in the government there will be less corruption and more laws passed that help us. We as Americans will never get the real...
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...1. Why is it important for a company to have a well written mission statement? Well written mission statements provide employees with a shared sense of purpose, direction, and opportunity. They focus on a limited number of goals, stress the company’s major policies and values, and define the company’s major competitive scopes. In addition, good mission will have long term view. 2. What key points do you think need to be included in the mission statement? The range of products and applications that a company will supply. The type of market or customers a company will serve. The range of regions or countries in which a company will operate. 3. Should a mission statement also be a marketing tool? Yes, the mission statement should be a marketing tool. The mission statement is like a brand and branding makes the object more memorable. Words that should speak clarity over cleverness and meaning over beauty. 1. Why is it important for a company to have a well written mission statement? Well written mission statements provide employees with a shared sense of purpose, direction, and opportunity. They focus on a limited number of goals, stress the company’s major policies and values, and define the company’s major competitive scopes. In addition, good mission will have long term view. 2. What key points do you think need to be included in the mission statement? The range of products and applications that a company will supply. The type of market or customers a company will...
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...Allowed to Serve or Not? The question of whether women should be allowed to serve in military combat has always been a contentious issue with some of the people claiming that women should be allowed to serve in military combat positions while others insisting that military combat positions are meant for men. This paper is going to give an in-depth analysis of the reasons why people claim women should be allowed to serve in military combat positions or not and come up with a conclusion on the matter. 1. Why Women should be Allowed to Serve in Military Combat Positions The first reason why women should be allowed to serve in combat positions is to promote gender equality. The main reason is, the military gives a clear picture of how the society is and having gender equality improves the military’s public image. Although women have been allowed to support in military operations since 1901, women are still excluded from some combat positions and promoting gender equality would improve the military’s public reputation by promoting gender equality. A perfect example is the ancient structure of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army which allowed women to serve in combat positions as well and in leadership roles as generals (Xiaolin, 1993). Second, women should be allowed to serve in military combat positions due to their physical ability. Although most women do not have the physical ability that men serving in military combat positions have, some women have the ability to serve in those...
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...Can Women Serve In Combat? The Military Leadership Diversity Commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units, breathing new life into a debate that really should never have developed in the first place. Let’s take a look at the reasons for the current ban, and the reasons why some may be trying to lift the ban that keeps women from serving in direct combat roles. First, Let Me Be Clear Let me be clear in efforts to head off any “you hate women” ignorance. This article is not about whether women should be allowed to serve in the military in general. This is specifically about why I personally believe women (female or trans-gendered) should not be allowed to, forced into, pressured, or even given the option to serve in direct combat roles such as Infantry, Sniper, Special Forces, Recon, Ranger, SEAL, Combat Diver, or Delta units. In my opinion, this is a common sense issue… but to no surprise, the “well-educated” people that have done studies and compiled reports commissioned by the government seem to be incapable of utilizing a commodity such as common sense. And trust me, I have seen many women, especially in the Marine Corps, that were highly capable, willing and able to serve in infantry and combat-related roles. There’s more to it than that. Reasons Why Women Should Not Serve In Direct Combat Roles Strength, equality, logistics, safety and emotions are a few main areas that I would like to discuss...
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...REI What is a data warehouse and why is REI building one? A data warehouse is a database used for reporting and data analysis. REI is building a data warehouse so that they will precisely know what the customer uses indoors and outdoors. What are some of the disadvantages of consumer cooperatives compared to ‘traditional’ firms? Cooperatives firm have member ownership, benefits, and control models, which put power in the hands of the consumer. Describe some of the marketing strategies that REI’s data warehouses will all them to use. Would these have been possible before the data warehouse was built? They will use a marketing campaigns so that the site will recognize its members when the log in, allowing them to serve up content customized towards individual users. No, this would not have been possible without the data warehouse. What are some of the risks or concerns surrounding the creation of a data warehouse? REI What is a data warehouse and why is REI building one? A data warehouse is a database used for reporting and data analysis. REI is building a data warehouse so that they will precisely know what the customer uses indoors and outdoors. What are some of the disadvantages of consumer cooperatives compared to ‘traditional’ firms? Cooperatives firm have member ownership, benefits, and control models, which put power in the hands of the consumer. Describe some of the marketing strategies that REI’s data warehouses will all them to use. Would these have been possible...
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...The Tennis Serve By: Brayden Bennell Harloff 7/8 5/18/2015 What do you need to do to make sure you have a successful tennis serve? Sure practice will help, but truly the secret lies in different muscles in your arms, abs, and most importantly legs. Legs? Why Legs? In this presentation I will show you why and how you can maximize your ability in your serve. To begin with a successful serve, look for a racquet that has a grip that fits the size of your hand, this will maximize grip as well as momentum through the swing of your stroke. The serve is a full body motion, not just an upper body move, if one thing is off the whole serve will be different than expected. I suggest the Babolat Aero Drive tennis racquet for powerful serves, as being one of the heavier performance racquets on the market it will provide more power and control to your shots. You will be amazed with what 10.9 ounces can do for your game. To start I would lift small weights of 5-10 pounds daily in the swing of the serve, this will help strengthen all the muscles you actually use when you serve the ball. Believe it or not, the main muscles in your arm don’t take a part in what makes a powerful serve, it’s the muscles that are hidden and are significantly smaller than the bicep, and tricep. But enough about that, now that you know some tips lets move on to the knowledge and mental aspect of the serve. Your mental game in tennis is more important than anything else, if you don’t believe and get down on yourself...
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...arguments on whether women should be ordained to work in the clergy. Over the years, some religions have embraced the idea while some still cling to the past idea that women should not be ordained to serve in the clergy. Taking an example of Christianity, one of the churches that have embraced the ordination of women is the Anglican Church. On the other hand, the Catholic Church has maintained its stand by not ordaining women to priesthood. There are scholars who have argued in biblical view on why it is vital for women to be ordained as priests. This paper expounds on the importance of ordaining women to serve in the clergy. Discussion The controversy regarding on whether women should be ordained to serve in the clergy is still going on to date. While others feel that it should not be so, there are people who strongly feel that women should participate fully in the church...
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...profession’s jargon serves a variety of purposes. For example, their common terminology serves to make for more precise communication. It allows ideas to be communicated clearly and exactly. This exactness and clarity of terminology serves society by allowing economists to discuss economics with each other and with society with clarity so that other economists have a better understanding of what an economist is saying. A common terminology also serves to divide insiders from outsiders. For outsiders, for example economic students, who do not have a clue what these terms mean, economists’ terminology is exclusionary. It makes economists the gatekeepers of economic ideas. Economists’ terminology serves as a barrier to entry, restricting the supply of economists, and increasing the value of the services provided by existing economists. Which of these two reasons is the strongest? To answer that question let us consider two examples given by Amanda Bennett, the author of The Wall Street Journal article, “Economists + Meeting = A Zillion Causes and Effects” [The Wall Street Journal, January 10, 1995]. The two examples are the concepts of externality and utility, Why do economists use these terms? Based on her article, and on my classroom experience, I would judge that, of the two reasons, the self-serving reason is the stronger. Essentially, economists create their terminology primarily to make life difficult for students. Consider the first example: externality. Why no simple call externalities...
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...outside of school. I will do this to get the students involved early. 3 minutes > Good morning guys. Today we are going to work on our fitness using Volleyball. (Introduce volleyball and origin) then tell them the focus of the day. We will first go through a station of stretching together. This is important when starting all physical activity. After stretching, we will go through four stations which we will learn the 4 types of serves. You will each have volleyball and I will say go to begin the each station and stop to end. 6 minutes > Now we will begin our stretching. Does anyone know why it is important to stretch? (Correct answer) to prevent injury and to ensure that all our muscles are loose and ready for performance. (Go through a full stretch with the kids.) Underhand serve 5 minutes> Now we are going to work on serves the first one I will to teach is the Underhand serve. This is a serve in which the player strikes the ball below the waist instead of tossing it up and striking it with an overhand throwing motion. Underhand serves are considered very easy to receive and are rarely employed in high-level...
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...match games are won or lost on the effectiveness of the serve. The serve acts as the start of each point and when utilised correctly can provide the offensive advantage, making the serve one of the most important skills a tennis player can acquire. The foremost purpose of the serve is to successfully hit the ball into the opponents serve box. In terms of offence the serve lets the player assert control of the ball, dictating as to how their opponents must counteract while minimising the reaction time due to the immense amounts of velocity delivered behind the ball if done correctly. There are many different variations of the serve such has utilising a slice technique in order to cause the ball have topspin which adds to the...
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...At this time the United States of America does not required men to serve in the military like other countries? Well I have wondered why myself to. But I am going to point out three reasons on why I think men should have to serve in this essay. One being men need to learn discipline. Two we need to keep this country that we live in safe and secured. And lastly to boost our economy and put more people to work. Men should serve in the military to lean discipline. Men these day have no respect for there parents let alone the cops. The military will help train them to respect people above them. Not only that it will help them with work ethic from the discipline point of view to be able to do their job and work hard at doing it. They will break you down and build you back up through training and physical training. If you screw up they will teach you how to act and then make you do some kind of physical training so it will sink you to your head. It is vital in our country to keep it protected to keep our freedoms that our fore fathers fought for and all the men and women before us. There for all men should be required to serve in the military. We are in a world of terrorism in this day and age, for example September 11, 2001 automatically comes to mind when I think of terrorism. Therefore men shouldn’t have to be asked to join they should just want to join if they want to keep their freedoms that they have. Where are the jobs in this country? Where is the money in this country...
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...Essay II A The following paper is an analysis of the three texts “Why They Serve”, “A soldier’s story: War affects whole family” and “The Making of a Marine Officer”. In the paper will be discussed the different opinions and views on the military and serving the army. Why people are willing to risk their lives to serve their country and what motivates people to join the army despite the consequences and the hazardous drawbacks. Give an outline of the various views on serving the army presented in the three texts. There are a lot of different opinions on serving the army. People are different; have different values, norms and we all have a diverse view on our nation and on war. Some of these views and opinions are expressed in the three texts. Sarah Palin describes her son’s deployment with the army and career as a soldier with great pride: “That day I was just one of thousands of proud but wary American women. I was the mom of a young soldier being sent overseas to defend our country.” She was proud to have a son who was eager to fight for his country. I believe she was even prouder because she was vice-presidential running mate – she was in the running to become one of the highest ranked females in America. She was very patriotic and believed in America as the greatest nation. This is shown in the text “Why they serve”: “But America isn’t just another country, it’s an exceptional country. We are the only country in the history of the world that was founded not on...
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