...A day at beach Everyone has a place where they go to escape all the pressures and worries of life. There is always that one spot that can soothe all your problems and troubles in times of stress. For me, the beach is the ultimate cure to all of my problems. While I am there, all of my obligations are suddenly erased. The day was warm and muggy; it was the perfect weather to go to the beach. The water was clear and a rich deep blue in color. Not a patch of seaweed in sight. The fine white sand is burning your feet as you hear the sound of the waves crashing and the cool sea breeze brushing by. I take a deep breath of fresh air and look at the surrounding of people soaking in the sun waiting to get in the water. I slapped on the sunscreen and packed up my gear and ran towards the water, little kids were building sandcastles and having sand fights. I dogged through them and at last I was running through the shallows of the water getting nearer to the in coming wave. I dove straight through the dumping wave, the cool water rushing down my body. I popped back up to the surface, relived that I was finally out of the warm weather and cooled off by the beautiful seawater. Later, my friends decided to join me and we played volleyball in the sand. Everyone brought snacks and later that night we also had a barbeque. After a while, we swam in the sea, which was cool and pleasant. I saw sailing boats in the distance and fishermen busy with their catch. Then we sat on the beach and...
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...A DAY AT THE BEACH - QUESTIONS In preparing for the meeting with McDuff and Ms. Hahn, your team has been asked by Ms. Hahn to write a complete and thorough report, addressing at a minimum the following questions: Q. 1. McDuff’s attorney, Ms. Nicole Hahn, decided that it might be helpful to introduce data that would show that accident rates among drivers wearing flip-flops are higher than the accident rates among drivers wearing other types of footwear. Ms. Hahn obtained results of a federal government survey that produced data relating to non-fatal motor vehicle accidents and the nature of footwear that was worn by drivers at the time of the accidents. The data represented the difference between non-fatal accident rates of drivers wearing flip-flops and that of drivers wearing other types of footwear. The survey data is presented in Table 1 below. Ms. Hahn is not sure the results of the survey support the position that the accident rate among drivers wearing flip-flops is higher than the accident rate among drivers not wearing flip-flops. She is uneasy with the survey results, fearing that the survey might reveal the worse case outcome, namely, that drivers who wear flip-flops have lower accident rates than drivers who do not wear flip-flops. In addition, she is unsure how to analyze the data before making a final decision whether or not to use the survey results in settlement negotiations or, if needed, at trial. Ms. Hahn needs help in making sense of the data. ...
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...Day on the Beach English 1301 Description Essay #1 Arriving at the beach my Dad bulldozed through the ever floundering sand as we swayed from side to side from his efforts. Our old car puffed with agony before he finally unearthed a parking spot neighboring the pier. Bolting out of our roadster I hammered the door shut and charged toward the pier. The soft light brown to tanish oven baked sand engulfed my feet as it muscled its way between each toe and quickly heated them. In my struggle to reach the pier I managed to stop beneath it to cool my crisp feet. I strolled along the ocean’s edge as the chilled water revived my warm feet as I felt the sand jittering in the shallow water. Rough concrete pillars each blanketed at base with slimy green and black mold were cool to the touch. Encompassing these pillars were large heavy dark rocks carpeted with gooey moss and a few with sharp pointy edges. Coupled with these pillars and rocks were small skittish sand crabs. With there hard shell, light brown color, eyes floating above their head, and legs spread apart they were very fast. Moving onward, I scrambled up the faded pier with old cracked dry wood that squeaked along the way until I reach the peak. My feet were once again warmed by the scorching wood of the pier. I tip-toed toward an orange heavy duty igloo water cooler yelling with my mouth wide open, OUCH, HOT, HOT, OU, until I cooled them down with the ice cold water. I stood near the cooler feeling the...
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...Jackson Moore November 1, 15 MKTG 3433 TLAM 9 This week’s resource is a video of Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonalds, speaking on McDonalds’ needs to reconsider its business strategy and turn the company around. This video directly relates to chapter 15 of our textbook in many ways. The most obvious relationships are on target markets and customer service. One of these examples can be seen near the start of the video when Steve says that McDonalds needs to refocus and get closer to its target markets. This directly relates to the section title “Selecting Target Market” on page 493 of our textbook where it claims that, “A retailer starts to define its strategy by selecting a target market”. This is one of the most important things to consider when it comes to a company. If the company does not have a good grasp on its target market then it has no way of knowing how to tend to the demand of that market. Another connection between our reading and the video is that they both have a section devoted to customer service. Steve says that they are going to put more time and effort into focusing on the customer. He says that the company will develop a “sharper focus on the customer… a sharper focus on what they want”. On page 494, the book claims that all of this customer service is done to increase sales by attracting the target customer. Through this week’s video and reading, I have learned about many different marketing strategies...
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...LEGAL ANALYSIS Negligence The plaintiff, McDuff, is suing Jetson for liability in a negligence case. In order to prevail in a claim for negligence, the plaintiff must establish six points, referred to the law as a prima facie case. They are the following: 1. Conduct; 2. duty; 3. breach of duty; 4. actual cause; 5. proximate cause; and 6. damages Conduct and Duty In order to establish duty, there are three factors in determining whether to impose a duty at common law. They are the following: 1. The relationship between the parties; 2. the reasonable foreseeable harm to the person injured; and 3. public policy concerns The existence of any of these factors is sufficient for the court to impose a duty and although conduct is mentioned as a factor, generally, it is not discussed as an element in the prima facie case. In this case, there was no relationship between Jetson and McDuff. The next factor would be aligning the reasonable foreseeable harm to the person injured. As a general principal, a defendant owes a duty of care to all persons who are foreseeably endangered by his/her conduct, with respect to all risks which make his/her conduct unreasonably dangerous. In this case, there is reasonable foreseeable harm to the person injured because the defendant, Jetson, owed a duty of care. She had to make sure that by driving; she would pay attention to the road and make sure that she is wearing appropriate shoes for driving. We know...
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...The crisp night air, still roosting in the treetops, fleeting away with the birth of dawn, gives way to the faint morning breeze flowing up from the mountains feet. The birds in their frosty night slumber begin to welcome the day with a heart warming chorus as the radiant beams break through the red and yellow leaves, spreading across the rocky peak. The sound of a waterfall echoes through the mountain as the water runs over the ancient rocks. Nature at its finest, waiting to be seen, hiding away in the peaks and gullies, preparing for the Arkansas winter. As I look down from the cliff, a dizzying height, I admire the stunning view. With every day comes difficulties, some old and some new, and it is up to each of us the outcome of our choices....
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...Monkey Beach's Role in Highlighting Native Canadian Issues European dominance over Aboriginals has ended however the negative effects of colonization continue to impact Natives to this day. Although many efforts have been made to reverse the damage done, Native Canadians still face many drawbacks and issues to this day as a result of colonization. Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach is the story of Lisamarie Hill and her search for her brother, Jimmy, who is missing at sea in northern British Columbia. During Lisa's search for Jimmy, she reflects upon her childhood and the different hardships she faced growing up. Monkey Beach depicts the real life struggles of indigenous people in a modern, euro-centric society through taking a close look at the story of Lisa and her family. Lisa and other Aboriginal characters in the novel act as an example of the issues faced by Aboriginals by showing society's treatment of Aboriginals, Lisa's difficulty in connecting with her spirituality, and the many instances of sexual abuse towards Aboriginals. Monkey Beach highlights issues faced by Native Canadians by showing numerous instances of society's mistreatment to this particular group. The first example is the government's treatment of Lisa's grandfather after he loses a leg in World War II. Lisa explains the disorganization of the government when it comes to her grandfather's compensation, “when he came home, he couldn't get a job or get the money he thought he should get from Veteran Affairs because...
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...writting 09-07-13 The Beach Everyone needs a break in life. Chores, school, and work are all daily duties that people want to escape from. The beach releases me from all my responsibilities, so I try to visit the beach every summer at least once. I feel that all work and no play can be socially unhealthy. There should always be time for letup. Everyone needs to get out of work mode once in a while. My cousins enjoy the beach as much as I do, and my cousins always invite me to tag along with them. When I visit the beach, I can personally say that I always create new memories. This past summer, I only got the chance to go to the beach one time, but I still had an amazing time at the beach. The day I went to the beach was perfect. The sun was high in the sky, and the clouds provided just enough shade. The weather for the whole day was beautiful. The sand on the beach was warm to the skin. It felt as if I was walking on a bunch of pillows. As soon as I sat on the beach I completely buried my feet in the sand. The waves where flowing in because of the boat traffic in the distance. The sound of the waves were almost putting me to sleep as I laid on the shore. Many people play recordings of wave sounds to put themselves asleep at night, but the real sound of waves in person is extremely move effective. The water, the sand, and the sky was just exceptional. I could not dream up a better day. The setting of the beach was just right. The great part of the beach is people give off...
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...Overlord. The invasion was scheduled to take place on June 5th 1944; weather would push the date back to June 6th 1944, on the beaches of Normandy. The British and Canadian forces would hit Juno, Sword, and Gold while the American forces hit Utah and Omaha. Of all the beaches one would stand out among the rest as the bloodiest, hardest, and most remembered of them all, Omaha beach also know as “bloody Omaha”(Visions from A T.C. abroad pg online). Omaha beach was the beach second from the right in the proposed landing places. (Omaha beach June 6th 1944 pg online) Omaha was the only place to land in a 20 mile stretch of land between Utah and British beaches”(The Second Front WWII ). It was a 6 miles stretch of beach that had an inward curve making it even easier to defend as positions on either end could cover more of the beach and concentrate fire towards the center. Overlooking the entire beach was a cliff one hundred feet high (Visions from A T.C. abroad pg online). On top of these cliffs where concert bunkers that had been concealed from view but could still cover the entire beach (A General’s life pg250). The beach was made up of sand and a type shingle like rocks that made parts of it in passable for any type of vehicles. “It was 200 yards wide at low tide [the time of the invasion] with no cover for advancing troops” (A...
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...Omaha beach was the biggest D-Day invasion site at six miles wide. The attack began on June 6, 1944. The German forces protecting the beach were the 352nd division. They were under the command Erwin Rommel. Omaha Beach was divided into sections. The 116th Regiment of the 29th Division attacked the three Dog sections and the Easy Green section of the beach. The 16th Regiment of the 1st Division attacked the Fox Green and Easy Red sections of the beach. The U.S. forces were commanded by Omar Bradley. They were trying to take over the beach and then the towns to the south and west of the beach. When it came time to attack, it seemed to go off the rails. The Sherman Tanks that were sent to accompany the troops failed to cross the Channel. The strong winds that day blew the landing ships offcourse. Around 8:30 the U.S. stopped sending in troops and started bombarded the Germans. At the end of the day, the U.S. had sustained 2,400 casualties, and the Germans had sustained 1,200 casualties. The U.S. had managed...
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...Michelle Rissman My Love For The Beach Strayer University PSY 105 July 26, 2012 Psychology plays a role in each persons life. Liking or disliking something is based on each person. The reasons we like or dislike something have psychological reasons. I will discuss my love for family beach days and why I love family beach days. Through this explanation it will be easy to determine how psychology plays a role in how and why. The amazing smell of salt, wetness, and greasy food. The sounds of crashing waves, seagulls and children's cachinnation. On a hot sunny day, there is absolutely nothing better to do, then spend a day on the beach with family. As a child, my most unrivaled memories are days chasing waves. It is both exciting and scary being swept up by a wave to be taken out just a little bit farther. As a parent, I see on my own children's faces, the same emotional struggle; is it safe? Should I go back? No way, its so much fun!!! A day on the beach is never the same as the last. There are endless possibilities, as long as you have an imagination. I adore going to the beach. My fondness for the beach is foremost reasoned by cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology focuses on cognitive processes, every aspect of our mental life, our thoughts, memories, dreams, fantasies, and reasoning (Baron & Kalsher, 2008) . Cognition means “knowing”. Cognitive psychology focuses on the way humans process information. There for, cognitive psychology is the understanding...
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...Turquoise water, white sandy beach, being watched by a beautiful sunny sky, on a cloudless day. White sandy beach stretching as far as the eyes can see, lined by the turquoise water in different shades. This describes a visit to the beach, which is clean and pristine at Treasure Cay, Abaco in The Bahamas. Viewing the beach located at Treasure Cay is one of the most breathtaking experiences of any human being, weather natives to The Bahamas or Tourist from all over the world. Bursting with beauty, the last shade of turquoise out into the deep water is awesome to say the least. To make it all more breathtaking is the fact that you can see the bottom of the water to sand because of the clearness of the water. The water is not dirty or muddy at all but as clean as see through glass. Treasure Cays beach if filled with glorious beauty. Even though I was born in The Bahamas, each time I visit the beach at Treasure Cay, its beauty energizes me. Treasure beach is rated as one of the world’s top ten most beautiful beaches. The Treasure Cay beach has lured many tourist and investors alike to this Island over the years. Treasure Cay can boast of a striving economy and many foreign homeowners from around the world because of the beach there. Second homeowners visit for at least six month out the year, calling Treasure Cay their second home because of the beach. The beach at Treasure Cay welcomes natives as well as tourist to its destination. The beach host picnics, parties, weddings...
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...D-Day Throughout World War II there were many big turning points in the war, in my opinion I think that D-Day was the biggest turning point of them all. Two of the major points of D-Day were the invasion of Omaha beach, and the invasion of Utah beach. Omaha beach is definitely the most well-known battle of D-day. Being able to land the 1st and 29th Infantry divisions and Army Rangers on Omaha Beach was way tougher than we expected. When we finally were able to get troops on the beach they soon discovered that although they had put down naval gun fire and pre landing air bombardments it had not helped much. Because of the fact that the Germans had many enemy positions including positions looking down from bluffs as high as 90 to 120 feet, to lower positions they were able to stop our attack at the shore. Things eventually got so bad that we almost pulled all troops off the beach and moving them elsewhere along the coast. But just as things looked the worst, our troops slowly started gaining ground and eventually gained heights and beach exits and were able to drive the enemy inland eventually giving us the victory. Second we have the Invasion of Utah Beach. On June 6, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were air dropped behind UTAH Beach to secure four causeways across a flooded area this was performed to protect the invasion's western flank. We dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines, however numerous factors caused...
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...The Beach Carrier is a new product concept developed by Mary Ricci. It is a large, lightweight, durable bag that is designed to carry everything required for a day at the beach, including a chair. The Beach Carrier can be folded down to a 12-inch by 12-inch square for easy storage when not in use. It comes with an adjustable strap and various-sized pockets for carrying all types of items to the beach or other outdoor activities (i.e. concerts, picnics, and barbecues). Currently Mary Ricci does not have the capital to produce her newly designed beach carrier bag and has decided not to lease or sell the design to a manufacture for a flat fee. The Beach Carrier possesses several strengths relative to competitive products in the market, including the following: 1. The overall product concept differentiates itself by being the only single bag that can carry all of the things needed for a day at the beach. 2. The Beach Carrier can be easily used and stored when not in use and it can be folded down to a 12-inch by 12-inch square. 3. The Beach Carrier is large and roomy and contains multiple compartments and different-sized pockets. It can accommodate carrying items varying in size from a bottle of sunscreen to a beach chair or ski boots. 4. It is manufactured in a lightweight, tear-resistant, fade-proof fabric that dries quickly and is suitable for various outdoor activities. 5. The Beach Carrier will be offered in a variety of fluorescent and conservative colors, where competitive products...
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...Rex and Agnes Harrell purchased a beach house at Duck, North Carolina, in early 2012. Although they intended to use the beach house occasionally for recreational purposes, they also planned to rent it through the realty agency that had handled the purchase to help pay the mortgage payments, property taxes, and maintenance costs. Rex is a surgeon, and Agnes is a counselor. The beach house was in need of substantial repairs. Rather than hiring a contractor, Rex and Agnes decided they would make the repairs themselves. During both high school and college, Rex had worked summers in construction. In addition, he had taken an advanced course in woodworking and related subjects from a local community college several years ago. During 2012, according to a log maintained by the Harrells, they occupied the beach house 38 days and rented it 49 days. The log also indicated that on 24 of the 38 days they occupied the beach house, one or both of them were engaged in work on the beach house. Their two teenage children were with them on all of these days but did not help with the work being done. On their 2012 income tax return, Rex and Agnes, who filed a joint return, treated the beach house as a rental property and deducted a pro rata share of the property taxes, mortgage interest, utilities, maintenance and repairs, and depreciation in determining their net loss from the beach home. In the current year, after examining their return, an IRS agent has limited the...
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