... Fear of My First Speech in Class When I thought of my first speech class, I was a bit frantic. After reading about professional public speakers stories on fear of public speaking and how they essentially overcame it, I told myself you can do it. The day of presenting my speech finally arrived and I volunteered to be the one to go first in class. I was more apprehensive about my accent than anything else. Would the audience understand me clearly? Would they be bored with what I have to say about my chosen topic? Would I captive them and would I make a good impression? Well, I gave the speech without a hitch. It was helpful to have my outline I created for the perusal of the class. My speech flowed particularly well thanks to the step-by-step key points of the outline. Meanwhile, I dared to glance from time to time at the audience to see if I could pick up cues. Sometime I found myself elevating my pitch, smiling just to capture my audience, and to gain confidence that my topic was an important and resourceful topic. To conclude, after I was done with my speech the class in a jovial expression clapped and smiled. My heart was palpitating so hard I thought I would faint. I had more fear as I was closing my speech. This fear was primarily due to what the critique of my audience would be. The response from the “the love notes” includes positive sayings and great feedback from each classmate, including the professor. As for my second speech in class, I could...
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...important to us especially we as students. We did nothing much on the first day of our english class but i also gain alot of things from my first day in english class. On the first day of class i got to know that my lecturer for english is Miss Yumni Yassin. Firstly we were asked to introduce ourself. Then our lecturer set some rules and regulation for us such as '' no late comers are allowed in the class'' and we can only speak english language in our english class even to our friends. Even though its hard for some students to follow theese instruction but i think setting these rules is very good idea. Because it makes us to be more discpline and punctual. Next we are given a chance to sound out what we aspect from our english class, and how to make our english class interesting for all of us. Besides that we are also required to take out a piece of paper and a pen.Then we are require to write down which part in english are we week in. After that we were asked to send the paper to her without writting our name this is because few of the students might be shy to tell about their weakness in english language because they think they will ''lose face''. Moreover our lecturer also gave us introduction about english and explain to us which part are we going to cover in this trimester for english, she also told us the importance of grammar to us. Finally we were dismiss. Eventhough our class were ''send one packing'' the first day but i really learnt alot and how important grammar is to...
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...for numerous amounts of television shows actually depict a lesson to lure in an audience. Take the television show Scrubs. Written and directed by Ryan Levin, this comical series about a well-renowned hospital and its staff depict the everyday lives of four different characters. In this comical show that allows four friends to comment on their everyday lives about being a doctor, resident intern, and surgeon. A story line based on the comical genius of the producers of both South Park and Weeds. Follow me as I analyze both the good and bad aspects of all four of the characters tell their sides of the story through each others lines. The storyline of many different television shows normally have exactly the same sequence of events. First, the scene is set in a hospital. But as many people do not know, Sacred Heart Hospital is no ordinary hospital. Here, everyone hates everyone in a sarcastic manner. All the employees hate the boss, the chief of medicine; Dr. Bob Kelso because he is some hypocritical, crazed maniac that cannot even once admit that he really needs friends or loves his wife. As for the maintenance staff is concerned, the only person who actually is involved inside the lives of all four friends, the crazed Janitor, known as Janitor, takes all matters into his own hands when he begins his need for chaos with J.D. As for everyone else, they sort of just go along with absolutely everything that happens between the four friends and their crazed adventures. ...
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...Donald Bradman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Bradman" redirects here. For other uses, see Bradman (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Sir Donald Bradman DonaldBradman.jpg Personal information Full name Donald George Bradman Born 27 August 1908 Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia Died 25 February 2001 (aged 92) Kensington Park, South Australia, Australia Nickname The Don, The Boy from Bowral, Braddles Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1] Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm leg break Role Batsman International information National side Australia Test debut (cap 124) 30 November 1928 v England Last Test 18 August 1948 v England Domestic team information Years Team 1927–34 New South Wales 1935–49 South Australia Career statistics Competition Tests FC Matches 52 234 Runs scored 6,996 28,067 Batting average 99.94 95.14 100s/50s 29/13 117/69 Top score 334 452* Balls bowled 160 2114 Wickets 2 36 Bowling average 36.00 37.97 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 1/8 3/35 Catches/stumpings 32/– 131/1 Source: Cricinfo, 16 August 2007 Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsman of all time.[2] Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.[3] ...
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...The Stones Cry Out: Analytical Essay In Hikaru Okuizumi's book, "The Stones Cry Out", we follow a man named Manase through his life after the war. Although this seems like just a look on a mans life, there are many themes that tie us in. Hikaru uses many literary elements to develop those themes. Four of those elements are complication, false assumptions, flashbacks, and foreshadowing. Although there are many key themes, the two I noticed the most were the psychological effects of war and family complications due to the loss of a loved-one. Complications are defined as obstacles that increase tension. In the beginning of the book, the complications would be when Manase is faced with his memories of the time he was in the cave with the captain during the war, "He did not want to remember-Manase understood that very well. Even though he could taste his fear, he needed only to remind himself that he was lying on a soft mattress, not a cold bed of rocks."(28) The effects the war had on him were so immense that every night he would have nightmares of it. As this quote states, he didn't want to remember it. He would imagine those times in the war and the dreams seemed as real to him as the day they happened, that's why he needs to constantly remind himself that the war is over. When something is believed to be true; however is not true. An assumption isn't what's said, it is what is behind the words. This is the definition of false assumptions. Though Hikaru Okuizumi...
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...In this appendix i will be writing about the changes of the British Airways management process that occur in 2009-2011 In the 2009 British Airways facing a major financial problems, the British Airways has lost £466.9m in July 2009. factors that cause this financial problems are: - Significant increase in fuel price - British Airways staff salary is above the industry average - Sharp fall in the frequency of business class and first class passengers So in order to overcome the problems British Airways management come out with a few methods. As stated above. The BA staff salary are above the average. By doing that BA losing about £1.6m a day. So the management decide that average pay would be brought in line with staff at Virgin Atlantic, who are paid half as much as their BA counterparts. And hope it will cut down £140m a year off cabin crew costs and also reductions in its 40,000-strong workforce, in addition to the 2,500 recent job losses at the company. But it didn’t went well. In December 2009, a strike ballot was held by Unite the Union among its British Airways members concerned about job losses, a pay freeze and changes to the work practices of cabin crew. The proposed strikes were supported by Unite members. The second ballot was held in February 2010, and a series of industrial actions by Unite against BA followed in March 2010. After a long dispute between British Airways and the union finally in the April-May 2011 the Airways and the Union came to an agreement...
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...importance of carbon offset fee added to the ticket price. There are four types of market segmentation: geographic, demographic, and psychographic and behavior. Nowadays, the airlines do not segment anymore on geographic, but on demographic, psychographic and behavior criteria. (1) The airlines divide first their customers with variables such as age, income, social class and life style. Those are variables that consumer wants, preferences and usage rates are often associated with. Demographic variables are popular for segmenting market because they are common and easily identified consumer characteristics. Further segmentation could be done through various behavior criteria such as purpose of travel, price and time, service orientation. Thus, the better an airline does the segmentation the better it will know and serve its customer needs. They also can manage their competitive by entering the market where only a limited number of competitors are active or where their most powerful rivals are not competing. Aviation industry has a clear basic market segmentation system which three segmentation parts named economic, business and first class. Economic class takes up the...
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...In the production of “A Few Good Men” two marines, Lance Corporal Dawson and Private Downey, are accused of murdering another marine, Private Santiago, at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Both men a suggesting that they are not guilty of murdering Private Santiago. Downey and Dawson said they were ordered by their platoon leader Lieutenant Kendrick to give Private Santiago a “Code Red”. A term used to describe physical and emotional abuse inflicted on a recruit who is seen lazy or violates marine code. Santiago could never keep up with his fellow marines and broke the “marine code” by writing to a higher ranking marine asking for a transfer off the naval base in Guantanamo Bay. Kendrick ordered Dawson and Downey to shave Private Santiago’s head and shove a rag in the Privates mouth, while doing so Santiago died of a heart attack. And the two marines Dawson and Downey were charged with murder and conduct unbecoming of an officer. At the beginning of the film one of the defense attorneys JoAnne Galloway is asking to defend these two young marines. The only problem is she has no experience in the courtroom. Galloway is given two other attorneys to work with, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Lieutenant Sam Weinberg. When presented with the case Kaffee was hesitant because he believed he would never be able to prove there was a code red ordered. Commander Galloway insisted that he treated this case serious as for two young men naval records were in his hands. Once it was time...
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...1. using System; 2. 3. class AirlineResevationSystem 4. { 5. static void Main() 6. { 7. int seatsFirst, seatsEconomy, reserve, i = 0, j = 6; 8. bool[] seats = { false, false, false, false, false, 9. false, false, false, false, false }; // seating chart 10. Console.WriteLine("Welcome to Airline Reservation System."); // greet the user 11. 12. while (true) 13. { 14. Console.WriteLine("There are " + checkFirstClass(out seatsFirst, seats) + " first class seats and " + checkEconomy(out seatsEconomy, seats) + " economy seats."); // check available seats 15. Console.WriteLine("Please enter 1 to reserve a first class seat or enter 2 to reserve an economy class seat or 0 to exit"); // promt user for input 16. reserve = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine()); // input from user 17. if (reserve == 1) 18. { 19. if (i > 5 || i == 5) 20. { 21. Console.WriteLine("There are no first class seats available. Would you like an economy class seat? Type 2 for yes and 0 to exit."); 22. reserve = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine()); // RIGHT HERE I WOULD LIKE THE PROGRAM TO GO BACK TO THE INITIAL IF STATEMENT AND CHECK THE CONDITIONS. ANY ADVICE? 23. } 24. else reserveFirstSeat(ref...
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...professional areas of expertise were formalization is minimum. Positions throughout the organization are trained in a particular skill set. Every task is performed with specific rules and procedures according to their profession (Griffin & Moorehead, 2009). The characteristics of a divisionalized form operate in a relative very large and simple environment with several different divisions (Griffin & Moorehead, 2009). Decisions are made between both the department head and the division with the output being standard. Let’s narrow this to an example of a naval vessel structure. On a ship it is broken down into several different departments which are divided into divisions within the departments, depending on the task of the department. First, we would have to start with the organizational charts which consist of: The Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Department Head, Division Officer, Leading Chief Petty Officer, Leading Petty Officer and Work Center Supervisor. The Commanding Officer, who is often referred to as the CO, is overall responsible for the entire ship. The CO establishes the policies and guide lines for the ship and has final approval on all documents and programs implemented at the command. The responsibility is absolute...
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...broke my ankle the night before orientation and missed the first two days of school. The third day of school was my first day of highschool but it wasn’t the best especially because I was on crutches and in pain most of the day. The first day I went to school without my crutches I felt my true initiation into Saint Louis University High School. After the first day without crutches everything got better, especially class. I wiped the sweat off my face as I checked the ball to my friend, Frank, it was tied nineteen to nineteen. Frank breathing heavily started to drive towards the basket after some ball maneuvers. He went up for the layup and I tipped the ball,...
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...studying, writing essays, and soccer practice. It was seven thirty in the morning on the first day of school, which was the earliest I had been up in 3 months and I was already working on an assignment. I never would have guessed my first day of classes would involve graded assignments and homework. I assumed it would be full of listening to the teacher explain the ten page long syllabus that only comes in use during the first week of school, while I daydream about my summer, trying to fight my eyelids from closing. But the assumption I made about the typical first day of high school was completely wrong and it changed my outlook on high school for the rest of the year. It’s seven thirty in the morning, the sun is barely out and I’m already sweating through my t-shirt. Luckily I am not the only one, as I look around the classroom everyone looks miserable and fatigued. You could tell everyone wanted to be anywhere but at Anderson High School. The bell had just rung and our English teacher introduced himself and it seemed like it was going to be a fun year. Mr. Ger was dressed professional, wearing an Anderson golf team polo with khaki pants. I expected him to hand out a syllabus for the class to go over but instead he gave us the rubric for our first paper. He mentioned that the essay was due within the next week, which made the whole class simultaneously shrug. No one could believe that on the first day of high school we were...
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...that I want to try and learn one time in my life. It is an art that most of people want to discover and experience. I used to try some kind of dance like aerobic, or zumba. However, this was the first time I tried in modern dance that gave me strong expression. I have done the first modern dance class in my life. During the class, I have seen some changes in my body. They are just small changes, but I can fell it. I still remembered the first days of class; I felt down a lot because I could not flexible with the directions. I just kept in mind that I had to turn right to the left or to the right. It made my steps hard and not flexible. However, now I realized that I just needed to let my body move the way it wants to. I should not care a lot about moving right or wrong. As well as so, I feel my body is more flexible and dynamic now. Every part in my body can move almost exactly the way I want them to be like leg, foot, arm, belly, etc. Especially, I really loved the way the professor let us have free dance between the exercises. I was not a good dance person. However, I learnt a lot. I learnt from the professor, and I also learnt was from my classmates. I often looked at the way they danced. From that, I repeated them by my own style and creating. Free dance time was my favorite time of class because I could learn a lot and express myself most. I think it was really a good way to learn new thing and create something new. Overall, my body changed somehow, maybe I could not tell...
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...This class has helped me learned many things about what to expect in college. The first thing I learned in class was the location of the Writing Center. When I moved to college, I did not have a clue where any of the buildings were located. However, I soon learned where the Writing Center is located because we had a class there. It is important for me to know where the Writing Center is located because it is likely I will need to go there while I am in college. Another thing I learned in class was how to form an appropriate email. In class we had an etiquette email assignment. I always knew how to write an email, but I never knew how I should address a professor in college. I learned that for this class I could say “Dear Kate”, but if I emailed...
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...Chinese English training school, New Oriental, worked as a head teacher of the GRE class. This class was a closed class during the winter vacation which was lasting one month. During this month, all the students would live in a school campus together, and the class room was also in that campus, students cannot leave this campus during that month unless. My job was take charge of all the 20 students in my class, studied with them and lived with them. If they had any problem, I would help them to solve problems and keep in touch with their parents. At the first day of the GRE winter class, all the teachers and students met at New Oriental school campus and we went to our closed campus all together by bus. All this way was like a short road trip, at this little journey I first meet all the students who would spent the coming month with me. All the students is strange to me, at the same time, me also strange to them, so the first and the most important thing I was going to do was let we getting to know each other. Then I made a self introduction to them, and we played a game called pass ball in order to know each other. The rooms of all students was already arranged, so after we arrived at our campus what I had to do is just gave them their room’s key, show them where is the dining hall and class room for our class, then let them went to their rooms and took a rest. Then my first challenge was come. My 20 students they are the same age with me and I am not more knowledge than them...
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