...My Michigan Hero CJ Weiss My Michigan hero is my dad. Dad has always been a giver. From baseball games to doctors’ visits. Dad always makes time for us kids. From the biggest problem to (in our minds) the biggest. The first memory I want to share is Father’s Day, 2014. Some will say that he took me so he had company, but if he had couldn’t he have taken Mom, an Uncle or a buddy from work ? He took me for my first Tigers game at Tigers Stadium. It’s 7a.m. it’s a bit crisp from last night but, hey, I’m not complaining. I’m in my Tigers t-shirt, phone in shorts. I’m a little tired but it’s completely over whelmed by the excitement. We just pulled out of the driveway and I turn and ask “Hey dad? Do you have the tickets…” I was met with silence as he pulled back into the driveway. I hear him mutter as he gets out “Knew I forgot something!”...
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...My personal Michigan hero is a girl of only thirteen. She is just an average girl with an extraordinary attitude and personality. She's nice, funny,does so much,and makes any experience enjoyable. 8th grade camp is an experience I will never forget especially of a living memory with my Michigan hero. Kate Goodman and I got a cabin together and over the corse of five day we became close friends. Eating together,canoeing together,dancing, and overall fun. We have a strange friendship,she knows a lot about me and I know a lot about her, she knows me better than some of my long term friends. Another thing we did at camp was blobbing and I blobbed Kate and she went up so high. Kate and I went sailing for the first time and we didn't tip the boat...
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...My personal Michigan hero is my older sister, Gracie Ann. To begin with, she’s my hero because whenever I’m stuck on something she will always be there to help me. Also Gracie takes time out of her busy schedule to give me piano lessons. Lastly, she cares for me a lot. These are some of the reasons she’s my hero. To begin with, why Gracie is my hero is because whenever I’m stuck on something she’s always there to help me. For example, if get stuck on homework she will put everything down that she’s doing and help me. Another example is if I have any trouble making my bed, she will stop making hers to come and help me. These are two examples of how she helps me. Also she’s my hero because she takes time out of her busy schedule to give me piano...
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...Hero Speech Outline Example I. Introduction (Attention getter – Hook) - Never go to bed angry, always tell the people you love that you love them, and do not be afraid to speak your mind. a. Introduce your hero to the class - My hero is my grandpa Gene Erickson, born May 13th 1919 in Michigan. One of three boys in his family. Born of Finnish heritage, grew up speaking English and Finnish. Married in his early twenties to Marian Beaudry. With her they had 5 children over the span of 19 years, 2 boys and three girls, my mother being the youngest of all five. From those five children he was blessed with 8 grandchildren, one boy and seven girls. I am the second youngest grandchild, my sister is the youngest. b. Tell why this person is your hero (thesis) - Gene Erickson is my hero for many reasons, he always put his family first, he was hard working and dedicated, and he was not afraid to speak his mind. II. Body (Elaborate on the three reasons) a. Reason #1: He always put his family first b. Elaborate on reason: Whenever my Grandpa’s kids or grandkids needed him he was always there. When I was a junior in high school I had to interview someone on videotape with an interesting story to tell. The first person to pop into my mind for that assignment was my grandpa. I was not sure if he would want to do it or not, but when I asked he was quick to tell me that he would love to, and the interview turned out great! Transition between reasons (giving reason #2): Along with always putting...
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...MYTHOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIETY [pic] [pic] [pic] |Mythology is everywhere! Daily you run across instances of words, city names, companies, | |literary allusions - and even planets and constellations - that take their name or borrow | |their theme from myths. Because of your many requests, I've provided a couple of thousand | |excellent examples to help you get started in your research. Remember, you're surrounded | |by mythology in today's society, whether you realize it or not! | Mythological Influence on Modern... |[pic]Companies & Groups |[pic]Planets & Constellations | |[pic] Words & Expressions |[pic]Literary & Pop Culture | [pic]American Cities Named From Mythology [pic] COMPANIES & GROUPS |Mythology is everywhere! There are hundreds of companies, groups and corporations that take their name, logo or theme from ancient mythology. | |I've provided a variety of examples to help you in starting your research. Some are well-known international companies, others are of a more | |local nature. | |Aegis - Zeus and Athena's protective shield; modern group of insurance companies (The Aegis Group). | |Ajax - Greek warrior in the Trojan War, who "cleaned up" in...
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...To What Extent is Eddie Carbone the Tragic hero of the Play ? ‘A view from the bridge’, an intriguing play written by a graduated journalist named Arthur Miller. Miller was born in New York, 1915. He started to write plays while he was at University of Michigan, and even carried on after graduating. Miller grew up in Brooklyn; this was where the play was set. As Miller was trying to make a name for himself, he worked at a shipyard for two years. He heard stories form his Italian friends he works alongside about how some men coming over to work illegally and being betrayed. This is where ‘A View from the Bridge’ was first inspired. Tragedy: it is a dramatic event where the main character is tested in certain circumstances in which the characters real form becomes unmasked. Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher and writer, who defined the word tragedy. He said it should represent ‘terrible and piteous’ and lead the audience to experience ‘catharsis’ or feel sorrow. Miller used this technique to create a modern equivalent of a Greek tragedy. In addition, Aristotle also said that every tragedy must have a tragic hero; the protagonist of the play. Aristotle also talks about how a “Tragic Hero” This essay will be exploring how Eddie could be the “Tragic Hero” of the play – “A View from the Bridge”. Aristotle’s definition of a “Tragic Hero” should be good at the beginning but not entirely as this unrealistic. The character should be “appropriate” – meaning men should be manly...
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...Simone Smith Essay #1 My Hero November 3, 2012 Humanities 1301 Ms. Alexander I had never really thought about who was my hero until now and I had to reflect on my past. Looking back over the years I guess I must have taken a lot for granted. I have been lucky because I have a lot of people around me that have helped to enrich my life. The one person, who stands out to me, is my grandmother she really was and still is my hero. As I reflect on good times and bad times, she always seem to be there with words of encouragement and with words I may have not wanted to hear, but she always steered me in the right direction. My grandmother was a woman who wise and good natured and so full of energy, willing to help anyone who needed help. My grandmother believed in family. My grandmother was the seventh of fourteen children, born in Brookhaven Mississippi, in 1926. This was a time when people gave birth at home, so she was born on a farm, where she helped raise and care for her brothers and sisters. The children went to school and helped work the land for the family. In later years, she attended high school where she played basketball, when they only played half court, she was very good and well-liked by her class her classmates. After graduating from high school and having three children of her own, she needed to more income. The cotton fields that she worked, wasn’t providing enough money to sustain a good life. My grandmother knew she would have...
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...good enough cause people may even begin to follow you. This is what happened with the anti-war movement. It was a domino affect that quickly spread all over the country. I do not agree with some logic behind the movements ideas or even some actions. However I believe any individual who stood up for the value of human life and spoke out against Vietnam was a hero. The U.S. war in Vietnam triggered the most tenacious anti-war movement in U.S. history, beginning with the bombing of North Vietnam in 1964. Over the next decade, hundreds of thousands of young people become radicalized in a largely sometimes nonviolent and sometimes violent demonstrations.This anti-war movement started mostly on college campuses. At these campuses “teach-ins” were being held by the SDS, or commonly known as the Students for a Democratic Society. The first “teach-in” was at University of Michigan. This “teach-in” was the first major university-based anti-war demonstration in the United States. Soon after that the first large-scale student movement, Students for a...
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...Yaniris Tavera 0520335 TESC November 2012 Enc-101 OL WA-9 Should sex and violence on television be restricted? The debate over sex and violence on television has been going on for several years. Many researchers have supported, while a few are against restrictions. There are various negative factors of sex and violence on television, such as creating fear, aggressive, crimes and many more. This essay is going to discuss the reasons why sex and violence on television should be restricted. Some television programs, like guns, murders, shooting, explosions, punching, screaming stabbing, car chases, disasters, death and smashes create a great fear to the viewers. Sex and violence on television is able to persuade people to commit offenses and become aggressive. This can be caused by watching a single violent program more frequently. Those children watch programs in which violence is more realistic and frequently repeated are more likely to imitate whatever they have seen. On the other hand, pornography is now mostly available on television to children all over the world. Watching of pornography adds no value especially to the children, because this can be lead to rapes, adultery, sexual molestation and other illicit acts. Children from the United States of America spend most of their time watching television. The act against violence project, state that an average children use two to...
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...tragic hero is defined by Aristotle’s Poetics as the protagonist in the story to whom something happens that elicits pity from the audience. For the most part, a tragic hero is a “virtuous” person whose life changes from being prosperous to being a life full of misfortune (Aristotle, Poetics). In other words, the tragic hero is someone of great social standing who begins the story at a very high point, but suffers their downfall because of a tragic flaw. In Sophocles’ Antigone the central theme of this play is the struggle between Antigone and her uncle Creon. The issue of burying Antigone’s brother Polynices is based on the ancient Greek philosophy of death, where any unburied body condemns its soul to torment. Basically, it was the duty of the family to bury their dead. Yet, this issue extended beyond family loyalty to a decree of piety by the gods. However, in the play, Creon goes against this celestial decree because he sees Polynices as a traitor for warring against him as a member of another army. As a means to set an example about the repercussions of disloyalty, Creon issues an edict to leave him unburied. As a man who starts the drama in as the respected king of Thebes, he gradually loses his family, his objectivity, and his power to his stubbornness and hubris that ultimately results in his downfall. Hence, Creon is a tragic hero in the Sophocles’ Antigone because his unbending pride results in tragic downfall as king of Thebes. One way Creon is a tragic hero is through...
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...How will the MBA program fit with my career plans? My career at IBM has taken a seemingly planned path to bring me where I am today with the corporation. In reality, my career has been a mix of exact choices, hard work, and a bit of surprise. I began my career at IBM in May of 2004 after receiving my Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. I was hired into a technical role as a circuit design engineer working on microprocessor design for IBM’s mainframe System Z servers. The opportunity to design and contribute as a member of a world-class design team was both extremely exciting and intimidating. The engineers at IBM are the best in the industry and many have made IBM their home for entire careers; I immediately set a goal to become a key contributor to the team while striving to learn as much as possible from my mentors and colleagues. My first mentor within the company gave me a piece of advice, he said: “Take every opportunity presented to you, large or small, and also be a team player” I took this to heart and made this a driving force in my career. This led me very quickly from an entry-level engineer in my first project to a unit and team lead a couple of years later. New pathways continued to present themselves and I jumped at each challenge with enthusiasm as my mentor’s advice echoed in my mind. I was afforded the opportunity to not only deliver on known work assignments, but also the opportunity...
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...Literary Biography December 13, 2013 Ernest Hemingway led a life one can only imagine in stories, but started from a rather boring town called Oak Park in Illinois. This life began on July 21, 1899. Perhaps his own stories are a place you can get an idea of this author’s life. Many critics say that he mirrored a lot of stories from his own life, and knowing a little about his real life, you can draw the parallels from fact to fiction. Hemingway spent his summers in Michigan, in a small cabin in the woods next to the Ojibway Indians, whom he was very good friends with. His father, Clarence, taught him the way of nature, including how to identify plants, hunt and fish, among other things. Ernest liked his father, who committed suicide in his mid-fifties. Two of his siblings also committed suicide (he was one of six). His mother was “cold and domineering,” and some say she emasculated his father. In his adult life, he was married four times, but “When I saw my wife again standing at the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” This quote, which I think gives a testament to how beautifully he could write, is speaking of his first wife, Hadley, whom he met and married within a year. They had a son together, but after Hadley was at fault in getting his collection of stories stolen, their relationship wouldn’t recover. When in high school, Hemingway’s love for writing started to show. He wrote for...
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...What is internal control? Why is internal control important in organizations? Internal controls are processes established by a business or organizations board of directors, management and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance for that businesses objectives in effectiveness and efficiency, reliability of financial reports and compliance with laws and regulations. Internal controls are used to safeguard businesses assets. They help a to establish guidelines within a business and makes sure that everyone within that business follows those guidelines and procedures. Internal controls are important because without them a business would be more susceptible to fraud. Internal controls are used to prevent people from stealing from a business and to make sure all the rules are followed. Feedback: Internal control is a system of policies and procedures designed to help an organization run more efficiently and effectively. Without strong internal control, an organization is much more susceptible to various forms of risk which can compromise its operations and its financial reporting. What are the four basic purposes of internal control? Give an example of each one. The first purpose of internal controls is to safeguard assets. Internal controls should protect your assets such as cash. One internal control that helps with protection of assets is the segregation of duties, another is sequential numbering of checks or locking checks in a safe place. The second purpose is to ensure...
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...Nicholas K. Marich 2B Malcolm little also known as Malcolm X, was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Earl and Louis little, his parents, worked hard to support their children of eight. Malcolm’s mother was a homemaker and his father was a Baptist minister and a supporter of the Black National leader. As a result Malcolm’s father received many death threats from white supremacist. They were forced to move to many different places. In 1929 the Littles’ house was burned to the ground due to their strong support of African American advancement. Two years later the body of Earl little was found mutilated lying across the towns railroad track. The police ruled it an accident but the Littles were certain that it was a member of the Black Legion. After Earl’s death Malcolm’s mother had an emotional breakdown and was sent to a mental institution. Her children were separated and sent to different foster homes. Malcolm was smart and had a dream of becoming a lawyer, but he lost his interest in school when his favorite teacher told him, “A lawyer is no realistic goal for a nigger.” Malcolm dropped out of school and spent time in Boston finding different jobs to earn money. By 1942 Malcolm was affiliated with narcotics, prostitution and gambling. Malcolm and his best friend Malcolm Jarvis, also known as Shorty, were arrested and convicted on burglary charges in 1946 and having affairs with white women. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. Malcolm’s whole life changed. His...
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...resolving complex problems, particularly if the aggressor is the hero” (Facts and TV Statistics, 2011). Batman and Robin, for instance, use crime and violence to stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from taking over Gotham City. The children watching are dressing up at Halloween to pretend to be a villain. Who is to say that children are trying to reenact the Hero’s? Children approximately spend four hours a day watching television. Children are spending more time watching television than doing any other activity. According to research, violence on TV has influenced children to become more violent, but who is responsible? Eli Routh, director of Hostel says, “Kids that age have seen enough TV and real-life violence by then that they understand the difference.” Eli Routh is an actor and is out to make money. Children do not know the difference unless the authorities teach them the difference. Child development is the most important part of a child’s life. “The first two years of life are considered a critical time for brain development”. (The Nemours Foundation, 2011). The four hours of television that was indicated in the above paragraph does not include other activities on a screen. Children also use computers and videos or DVDs not included in the four hours. Different studies have shown that TV can cause obesity, alcohol use, drug abuse, smoking, and aggressive behaviors (Regents of the University of Michigan, 2011). Throughout my research, I decided to do a poll on Facebook to see what...
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