...History: The Miss America Competition began in 1921 as part of an elaborate public festival staged by Atlantic City businessman to extend the summer tourist season. In succeeding years, the Miss America competition evolved into an American tradition with contestants from each of the states competing every September for the coveted title of Miss America. Early on, the talent competition was made part of the competition in addition to the original swimsuit. In 1945, the Organization began supporting women’s education by offering its first scholarship. Today, the Miss America Organization is one of the nation’s leading achievement programs and the world’s largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Each year, the Miss America Organization makes available more than $45 million in cash and tuition scholarship assistance. In 1989, the Miss America Organization founded the platform concept, which requires each contestant to choose an issue about which she cares deeply and that is of relevance to our country. Once chosen, Miss America and the state titleholders use their stature to address community service organizations, business and civic leaders, the media and others about their platform issues. Since 1989, Miss America titleholders have appeared at thousands of public speaking engagements and charitable events to generate awareness for a variety of causes, including homelessness, HIV/AIDS prevention, domestic violence, diabetes awareness, character education, literacy...
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... When I got home from school, 3 days later after she had whispered she hasn’t been doing so well. She cried, “our great grandma had died about 2 hours ago’’,at that point I feel really bad for my grandma because that's her mom. I’m 100% sure that nobody would like it if there mom had died. Later that weekend I had gone to my grandma's house to hangout with all of my family and, go to the funeral. At about 3:00 I went to this church about 8 minutes away from my grandma’s house. What I didn’t like about it is that I don't like dressing up nice because it takes forever to get ready. We got at the funeral and...
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...the war?” “Bloody, painful, and extremely horrific.” “So same as usual. Did you fight for U.S. or Britain?” I said. Brantley was born in England, but he came to the U. S. when he was young so he had dual citizenship and a heavy British accent. “I fought with the Americans on this war,”he said with a sigh. “So do you miss the war?” “No, of course not that would crazy,” he said staring at the ground. Then he mumbled, “Okay maybe a little.” I smiled and said, “There is nothing to be ashamed of. You know what I do for a living. I never went into war for the reason that it ends. I knew I would miss the action packed thrilling sensation of putting your life on the line. The second you feel most alive is the moment before you almost die. Brantley I completely understand missing it. I miss it, and that’s why I keep doing it.” He paced the room. I knew I would probably have to talk him into the next stage of my brilliant plan. “You know.” ”No way. It’s not gonna happen,” he replied sharply. “Okay I’ll just order three...
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...My client is Miss Whitney Greaves. She is an upper-class rheumatologist, and wanted a calm and spacious room. She would use the room for relaxation, to practice art, and to sleep. Miss. Greaves has ample free time. She loves to read, paint, and eat; as well as watch Netflix, and surf Pinterest. Miss Greaves room is a calm shade of turquoise, and all of the other colors are shades of blue and green. Whitney Greaves also wanted to be able to freely play piano, so I added a Grand Piano atop of a navy blue rug. For her relaxation there is a large television with a surrounding speaker systems. Her seat is a giant beanbag, or a LoveSac™. The LoveSac ™ is a creamy off white. Also included in this section of Miss. Greaves room is a stainless steel...
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...I sat straight up in my bed, my back soaked with sweat. This would be the third time this week i've had a nightmare. I ran a hand through my damp hair and slowly turned myself so my feet were touching the hardwood floors. I got up and stretched my arms, trying to loosen my very tight shoulder blades. I rolled my shoulders back and then opened my door to walk down the stairs. The rain was still beating against the rooftop like african drums. It calmed me down as I got to the end of the stairs. I went to the counter and start the coffee maker. While the coffee was brewing and sat on the couch thinking to myself. Wondering why I was having the same dream constantly over the past few weeks. It seemed ever since we moved to this crap town, my dreams have been getting worse and worse. There was something I couldn’t put my finger on. The beeping of the coffee maker brought me back to reality. I got up and pour myself a cup of joe. I added two packets of hot chocolate mix, just the way I like it. I sat on the couch drinking my...
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...Involuntarily I'm glad Seaward and distinguished nothing except the single green light a minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock have been the end of a dock. when I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. When Gatsby talks about the green light he's talking about Daisy because he said Daisy lives with Tom by the green light and that like gives them hope that he will see her one day again. Green represents wealth or hope the greenlight by Daisy meant that there will still be hope that Gatsby and Daisy will be...
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...and out of the education system trying to find a place to sleep every night. As he was walking in the pouring rain shivering, Leigh Anne and her family drove past. Their family pulled over and Leigh Anne discovered that Michael intended to sleep outside of the school gym. She soon convinced him to come stay the night on their couch instead of in the pouring rain. The next morning after Michaels stay, he was gone. Leigh Anne was determined to change Michaels life and help him find a home. Slowly Michael becomes a part of the Tuohy family. Leigh Anne and Sean's son,...
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...National Tourist Park, NT I sit up and look around me, everyone else is still asleep besides Mrs Fitton and Miss Barr. Emma starts to stir and wakes up looking confused. We both sit for a while before deciding to go jump on Lauren and Georgia. We sneak into their room to find that they are already awake. We jump on them anyway. After a few morning giggles, Emma and I grab ourselves a bowl of cereal and sit down on the couch. I wash my bowl and get dressed into my t-shirt and shorts. We have the choice of either going back to some of the falls or going straight to Darwin and relax at Free Spirit Resort. Only Pine Creek choose to stay and swim while the rest of us are going to Darwin. Before starting...
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...There I was, as one of the “big kids” in this vibrant colored preschool classroom.I was about four years olds simply happy to be there with my friends . We were just getting our own very first books to read by our teacher, Miss Julie. All of the other students were simply throwing their books and doing Lord knows what with their guided reading books when they got the books handed to them . But if you looked closely, you would see a blond-haired, blue-eyed little girl in the corner of the classroom actually holding her book and attempting to read. I was always trying to be like my older sister growing up, so , if I wanted to be like her that meant that I would have to get smart, really fast . There I was as a tiny preschooler actually attempting...
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...upbringing, through his years at Wingate Christian School (a representation of Briarcrest Christian School in the Suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee), his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuophy, and on to his position as one of the most highly popular prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film itself also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. For 17 years, Michael Oher) has been in foster care with different families. Every time he is sent to a new home, he runs away. One of his friend's fathers, whose couch Mike had been sleeping on, enrolls him into a Christian school, after the father convinces the coach that "Big Mike" is a natural athlete, yet he refuses to beat people to the ground. The coach convinces the school principal to enroll him in the school. After school one day, Michael(Quinton Aaron) meets Sean "SJ" Jr. (Jae Head), who quickly make friends with Michael. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) is a interior designer, mother to SJ and Collins (Lily Collins), and wife to Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw). After a pre- holiday Thanksgiving school festival, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road, shivering in the freezing cold; she pities his situation and offers him a place to spend the night. The next morning, much to...
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...Promises Today I was thinking about what a soldier would look like on paper and this is where it brought me.A Soldier's Promise ...I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, every hardship. In truth, I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. I may miss the births of our children. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever life we have built together for months and years at a time. And will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat and your tears and your heartache to keep together and try to take it back as I knew it before. I will shut you out at times because it will be the best way for me to hold it together at that moment. I will lie to you. I will tell you I don't know things when I do. I will not always tell you where I am going, when I will be back, or who I am with. I may not call you for weeks and months and you will not be able to call me. You will ask questions that I won't answer. You will know answers to questions that you will hope you never need. I will share things with my brothers that you will never understand. They will know things about me that you never will. They will be a support to me in some things that you cannot be. I will miss birthdays. I will miss anniversaries. I will have to get to know our children over and over...
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...murdered in their homes. Andrew Borden, the richest man in Fall River, was found dead by his daughter Lizzie Borden, on a couch in the sitting area. Lizzie called to the household maid, Bridget Sullivan, to come down from the attic to inform her that Mr. Borden was dead. When Bridget came down, she found Lizzie at the back door and told Bridget to go get Dr. Bowen, who lived across the street. Dr. Bowen wasn’t home so Bridget told Mrs. Bowen that Mr. Borden had been murdered. When Bridget arrived back at the house she was sent to get Lizzie’s friend, Miss Alice Russell. While Bridget was going to get Miss. Russell, another neighbor, Mrs. Adelaide Churchill saw some commotion at the Borden house and went over to check it out. When she arrived at the house Lizzie told her that her father had been killed. Mrs. Churchill asked where Lizzie’s mother was and Lizzie informed her that her mother received a note asking her to attend to a sick friend. Mrs. Churchill then sent her handyman to search for the Doctor, since Bridget was unable to find him and to contact the police. Mrs. Churchill and Bridget, in hopes Mrs. Borden had arrived home again, went upstairs to look for her, only to find her dead on the floor in her room. The police received the call at 11:15 a.m., only about five minutes after Mr. Borden was found dead. At 11:30 a.m. Dr. Bowen, Bridget, and Miss. Russell arrived back at the house....
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...Marketing Theories & Practices Assignment # 1 TiVo in 2002: Consumer Behavior Submitted to Mr. Abid R. Khawaja Submitted By Muhammad Bin Zaheer 2011-NUST-EMBA-17 1. According to Keast, “there is a mystery in the sharp contrast between the inertia of prospects and the evangelical zeal of TiVo users.” As an emerging expert in consumer behavior how would you tackle that mystery? What do you think could be going on? Beyond your pet hypothesis, try to be creative and list a large number of conflicting hypotheses by taking multiple points of view. What might “evangelists” mention as a cause of their failure to sell TiVo to their friends? What might a “couch potato” say about his reluctance to buy TiVo? What would you expect a top executive at NBC to say about the situation? What explanation would the founder of TiVo love to hear? Hate to hear? For an emerging expert in consumer behavior, research is very important. This can include surveys and feedbacks from both current and potential customers. These surveys help develop not all but a little understanding of the consumer and consumer behavior while at the same time, they also help identify changing needs of the consumers and so these results can be analyzed, quantified and evaluated to make your product and consumer needs meet at a common point where both the marketer and consumer are satisfied. To sum up: * Identify potential customers and understand their needs based on their past practices and from interactive...
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...Is Not Enough Dear Doctor Pritchard, I am sad to inform you that these are my final hours. I believe it my duty to tell you, my most loyal doctor—and though it may not be appropriate—I dare to call you my dear friend. I have come to conclusion that my life must end today. This may come as a surprise to you, I’m sure, but there is nothing left for me now. I suppose you would be wondering why? I fear I have not been entirely truthful with you, though, I assure you my dishonesty was not always on purpose, as you will see. You see, there are parts of my life’s story I have left out of our sessions and I believe it is time you learned the truth, as have I. My name is not John Hatchet but rather Julio Antonio Hernandez-Bulkeley de a Villa Llorando Tortuga. My mother, born Mary Marie Bulkeley, a woman of Welsh descent, met my father Marceliano Estévan Hernandez, an Argentinean, in Peru. My father was on business and my mother was said to be on a church trip to help the homeless. My mother had been wandering through the market place when she quite literally ran into my father. As my father tells it, “I felt her sweet hand brush against my wrist, just below my gold watch, and I knew at that moment I never wanted her to leave my sight again.” My father took her back to live with him on his cattle ranch and that is where I raised, knee deep in manure, from the day I was born until the age of thirteen. This you know to be true, in part. I told you I had lived on my own since puberty, though...
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...stop before the front door, a heavily garbed man stepped forth, opening the door for Catherine. Though she tried to thank the man in the howling wind, his response, even mumbled, died away on the wind as he led her up the small set of steps to the front door, and the warmth that awaited her... The vestibule was warm, it's floors marbled. A man in a plain white livery offered to take her coat, that she declined, as she proceeded into the great hall. Hans Berger, Attorney A man waited for her at a small table, standing proud in his short stature with a kindly smile upon his face. “Ah.” He said in a polite, cheerful way. “Our first guest has arrived. Your name, Miss?” “Catherine.” She said. “Catherine Grant.” “Ah, yes.” The man said, nodding his head. “Miss Grant. It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance. I am Mr. Hans Berger, Mr. Schmidt's attorney.” His hand was offered. “Did you have a pleasant journey?” Catherine looked to the hand for a moment before giving it a polite shake. “It's been interesting to say the...
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