...outside of Kaiserslaurtern Germany, on Friday the 10th of January 1991. Billeting gave me a two bedroom apartment to reside in until I could find a house off base. Sembach Air Base is located on a hill with views of the beautiful German countryside for miles in all directions. The next Monday I drove to work from my apartment and could not stop looking all around to see all the gorgeous sights off the hill. I arrived to my shop and reported directly to my supervisor, Master Sergeant Roger Williams. A tall, good natured and balding man with over seventeen years of service in the Air Force. He gave me a tour of the entire operation of our organization. We arrived at the office where I was going to work; I noticed that there were two German civilians, three Airmen and one older Technical Sergeant. After my tour of the shop I was then released to in-process the base at the personnel office for the rest of the day. On Tuesday I went directly to my duty section. Master Sergeant Roger Williams and Technical Sergeant Ed Lowe were...
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...When Nell Williams was the director of revenue management responsible for the 400-room Long Wharf Marriott in Boston, there were certain days of the week-Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays-when she could easily sell out the hotel twice over. But on other nights, like Sundays, occupancy rates dipped so dramatically that she would've been lucky to have filled the rooms three times a year. Both situations presented challenges for Williams, whose job was not just to sell rooms but to sell them in such a way that would make the most money for the hotel. She used a combination of pricing and inventory controls to maximize profits. On the high-demand nights, she had to be careful not to sell out early at low rates. She also had to consider lengths of stay. There were plenty of business travelers wanting to stay one night and willing to pay top dollar. But those customers would not help her fill the hotel on less busy days the way a three-night stay might. Meanwhile, on Sundays, she needed enough rooms available at the lower rates to attract customers, but not so many that she might give rooms away to someone willing to pay more. Back then (some 17 years ago), Williams and her counterparts tackled these challenges on an ad hoc basis, with only homegrown statistics and their wits to help them decide what rates to offer to any given customer. Such prognostication took up the better part of her day. Today, Marriott's revenue managers can do the same work in less than an hour thanks...
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...Southern Gothic Literature Southern gothic literature became famous by Edgar Allen Poe in the 1900’s. Then in the 1920’s and 1930’s William Faulkner made it popular again. Southern gothic literature is the writing about the American south such as, the plantations, dusty downtowns, and aging southern belles. Three southern gothic literature authors that have changed and twisted it to make it their own are William Faulkner, Harper Lee, and Eudora Welty. William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”, Eudora Welty’s story “A Worn Path”, and Harper Lee's book To Kill A Mockingbird are three southern gothic books that show southern gothic writing. In “A Worn Path”, “A Rose for Emily”, and To Kill A Mockingbird the authors use the element of horror to scare and surprise the reader. Without a doubt there are many ways to make someone think of what you want them to think of just by using words. Eudora Welty makes you think that someone is going to get killed and that the story will end sad. In “A Worn Path” the main character Phoenix goes on this journey to get her grandson’s medication. Phoenix is an old negro woman, she has hallucinations on her journey and isn’t afraid of anything. This story shows horror being used because on her journey she runs into a young white hunter and his dog. When she is walking, she hears a dog and turns around. The dog then jumps up and pushes her into a ditch. The dog’s owner comes along and helps her up. However,when...
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...The facts of life is written by William Somerset Maugham. Its a sort story. He is a very good storyteller. Its his one of the most popular short story .William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was not only a novelist, but also a one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. He was one of the most popular storytellers.Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965). British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, highest paid author in the world in the 1930s. In spite of his popularity and international fame, Maugham did not receive critical attention for his fiction in Britain. This short story deals with the harsh facts of Garnet’s life. Garnet has been portrayed as a very simple-minded and good individual. We see that he not only undermines his own ability to not be considered someone special but he takes sides with others to hide their mistakes and lack of abilities. Moving on, we find him quite glum and silent, not something that suit him. His friends ask him about the reasons of his not being himself, and then he wants suggestions from his friends about his only son Nicky who goes to Cambridge and is quite good at tennis. Garnet cannot make up his mind on whether he should let him go to play tennis abroad. Because every parents are thinks about their children s safety. He think that it’s abroad anything can append. He just worry about his son. His wife seems...
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...murder took place. It is even written down as rules that “the culprit must be determined by logical deductions” and “the means of detecting it (the murder), must be rational and scientific” (Van Dine, 1928). Through the years, three major forms of reasoning have been frequently used to solve the cases- deductive, inductive and abductive. Although these three methods vary in terms of uncertainty involved, a common intuition that can be inferred about gaining knowledge from the rules is that knowledge is true belief that has been acquired in a non-accidental or non-lucky fashion. However, I will be drawing on specifically three types of luck- evidential epistemic luck, content epistemic luck and pure luck, and how luck is often underestimated as a contributing factor towards solving crimes along with reasoning. The first type of luck I will be discussing is evidential epistemic luck, where the detective is lucky to be able to possess certain knowledge in the first place (Pritchard, 2005). The animated series “Detective Conan” follows the adventures of Kudo Shinichi, a teenage detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child’s body after he was forced to ingest poison fed by members of a criminal syndicate. He took the name Edogawa Conan to hide his true identity and goes to live with his childhood friend Mouri Ran and her father, Mouri Kogoro, and tries to use Kogoro’s running albeit failing detective agency as an avenue to find out the truth of the...
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...very beautiful country Kenya, specifically in a city called Nairobi. May not have been a lucky day but I truly feel I'm lucky. My parents had already been living there for a little over fifteen years until in 2009 when they decided it would be better for my future to move to the United States of America. I was excited at first knowing I was going to settle in a new country that is far advanced than where I live. I have been to copious places like London, Tanzania, Dubai, Mombasa, Uganda, India and much more. But I started to realize I would be leaving my friends, my house that I grew up in and my memories I had made for the past eight years. In America, we arrived in Minnesota at my...
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...described the beauty of the free life he lives and how much he enjoys spending time with his family and earning a living through his many trades. In 1841, he and his family were living in Saratoga Springs New York where he was approached by two men who offered him generous wages as a Violin player in the circus, Solomon didn’t object and left with them immediately thinking he would be back very soon before anyone could miss him. Before leaving New York for the circus show, they insisted he gathered his free papers then travel with them to Washington D.C where those two men gained his trust, took him to a bar to have a few drinks and then drugged his drink which left him staggering, barely coherent, and violently ill. He awoke the next day, shackled in pitch darkness in a slave pen robbed of his free papers. “Alone, in utter darkness, and in chains” “I was able to ascertain - I had not only been robbed of liberty, but my money and free papers were also gone!” (p38) “A slave pen within the very shadow of the capitol.” (p43) Solomon soon discovered that he, along with several others, was sold to a Slave Trader by the name of James H Burch. Solomon protested his bondage insisting he was a free man and in return, he...
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...Clark at the time was serving in the American Military. William Clark had great wildlife abilities and was a great draftsman. Lewis and Clark would find great accomplishments but at the time they didn’t know it yet. But, they will become the most know people in American history. Jefferson really wanted them to find a waterway that would go directly to the west and connect to the pacific ocean. He also wanted Lewis and Clark to document everything they see, hear, smell, and do in the journals. They made specific routes they took and drew it in their journals so when they go back to tell jefferson he know exactly where they went and how they did it. They also drew picture of their surrounding in their journals like sunsets, mountains, and many different plants and animals. They discover over one...
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...The Power of Symbolism Used in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily In 1897, William Faulkner was brought up in Oxford, Mississippi. To be wealthy in those days of the south (or not), meant the difference between whether one was worthy of praise, or not. Faulkner's family was no longer high on the wealth "berth," but it was still respected due to the honor it possessed. Southerners placed a wealth of stock in big positions in life, as well as being a war hero. Faulkner's father and grandfather fit the bill perfectly. His father was treasurer of the university of Mississippi, in oxford. Before this, his grandfather had acquitted himself admirably by becoming a hero of the civil war. The point is made that even though the family no longer occupied...
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...Essay- 12 Years a Slave Rich to poor. Free to imprisoned. Accepted and now treated like a thing. This was the normal routine of black me, who were kidnapped and sold by white people. The movie 12 Years a slave shows in a real way this horrible situation in this difficult time. When someone told me something about slavery, I could hardly understand and feel how slaves felt back during the 1800s. Slaves were brutally beaten and worked all day long. Slave masters had no mercy with the black. They have beaten them sometimes until they were dead. What students are taught in lessons gives only the view of how slaves were treated. Because of this perspective I felt sorry for them and I felt lucky to be born in this century. I think the whole truth must be seen to understand. Born and raised as a free man, Solomon Northup was robbed of his free papers, and then he was sold into slavery. When Northup was brought into slavery, his first master, William Ford, was a kind master. He spoke only good things and encouraged his slaves to do better. But Ford was just one of thousands who treated his slave like, let’s say in a nice way. There were not many masters like him. He never beat them with a whip or humiliated them in front of their peers. So in comparison to other slave holders he was nice. I think this changes the view of the viewers of what slavery was like during this time. There may have been many slave masters who were brutal to their slaves, but slave masters like Ford changes...
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...uniform as soon as we got them. I on the other hand, decided to keep mine off until we got closer. I did not want to because the chainmail was so heavy and wanted to conserve my strength. The Sun was beaming off the water; it was too hot to have it on. I do wish I was on the Mora Ship. The ship is so elegant and a masterpiece that it is just a honor to be in a fleet with it. The ship has a Dragon figure on the prow and screams war. All the men on the boat knew this was not going to be an easy fight. The thing was we all understood what was right. King Harold stole the crown from King Duke. Harold and his lies will not be taken lightly. The cowardly Harold forgets that there were witnesses, like me. I heard him King Edward tell the room that William will be King. While Harold was agreeing to support him just ensures the snake needs to have his head cut off. I know you did not want me to go to this fight. If Harold will lie about this, then we know he will lie about anything and his deceptive actions may include Normandy someday. The Pure Hate in my belly will ensure that I am the one that lays this devil in the dirt. I practice my aim on the fish on...
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...Workouts - There is nothing worse than working out and nothing worse than waking up the next day after a hard workout. Sometimes you feel like the workout sucks more than just not working out. Sometimes I always feel a little dead inside, even though the workout is supposed to help me become healthier. Working out sucks but I am told it is good for me so I will continue doing it. Even if it does kill me a little bit each time. William Penn University - Most people have a very difficult time choosing where they want to go for college and how to figure out which college is the one for them but this choice was very easy and that’s William Penn. The William Penn baseball coach called me and wanted to meet me after seeing me play and knowing my...
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...Gladwell prefers to draw a correlation between these men’s birth dates and their success, “And if you still think that accidents of time and place and birth don’t matter all that much, here are the birthdays of the three other founders of Sun Microsystmens” (68). His readers are convinced that luck is a predominate factor in one’s success. In “The Trouble with Geniuses”, he’ll convince them that intelligence doesn’t matter either. These chapters tell the stories of Chris Langan, a current day genius and J.Robert Oppenheimer, most notably known for his work on the Manhattan Project. Gladwell paints a storied life for Oppenhiemer. He was raised by affluent parents, attended the best schools, and eventually schmoozed his way to lead America’s pursuit of the atomic bomb. Chris Langan’s life is one of disappointment and heartache. His mother had been married four times. The most recent husband abused Chris. His family was extremely poor and they lived in desolate towns. A series of misfortunate events led to the loss of a college education. Despite an IQ of 195, Chris worked in factories and bars. He has not made any notable contributions to science or academia. To tie these two geniuses together, Gladwell cites sociologist Annette...
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...Summary of Silas Marner by George Eliot Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime. After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind. Marner eventually settles at the outskirts of Raveloe, a provincial village in the English Midlands. The villagers appreciate Marner's trade but find him strange and unapproachable. Marner seems to have supernatural powers--he is able to heal a local woman using herbal arts he learned from his mother--but the villagers of Raveloe do not know his background and thus find his knowledge diabolical and threatening. Marner, for his part, is content to live a life of almost total solitude in his simple cottage beside the Stone-pits. Marner has one joy in life: gold. The gold coins that he earns at his loom represent for him all the meaning that he has lost, and the faces printed on the coins serve as his only company. He spends as little as he can in order to save more coins, which he hides in two leather bags in a hole in his cottage floor. Meanwhile, Raveloe is the home of other wealthy citizens. Its...
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...cross-cultural business, how to do business in the African American community. Known African American’s culture and background history is always helps to be success to avoid the mistakes which you shouldn’t do. Directly relating African American History and African American Business leaders, Pharrell Williams would be the perfect example of how the Black history influences the ways of business in the African American community. A lot of people might argue that he is not business man but he is the biggest entertainment business leader. “Every one of us is an amalgamation not only of all our ancestors, but of their decisions, and in 1831, Ambrose Hawkins was contemplating moving his family from America to Africa. Had he done so, his son Joseph would have been raised in Liberia instead of North Carolina and never would have become Pharrell Williams’s third great-grandfather. As it happens, Ambrose did go to Liberia, but opted for a solo round trip, rather than a family migration. If not for this last minute change of plans, the gene pool that would eventually produce Pharrell couldn’t have crystallized. He wouldn’t exist and the rest of us would be considerably less Happy. We wouldn’t Get Lucky and those Blurred Lines would remain clearly demarcated. All because one man changed his mind 183 years ago.” Ambrose Hawkins had a plan. In the early 1830s, the cobbler decided to move his family to...
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