...overcome not being able to play outside in the summer. It was when I was 8 at a day camp at the beginning of summer. This obstacle prevented me from doing what I liked to do best. What happened was I sprained my ankle by jumping out a window, causing me a few weeks of resting until it was better. What I learned from this was not to make stupid decisions that could harm me, and to not injure myself right when summer starts. It all started at lunch on a hot summer day when right before lunch ended the counselors told us to use the restroom before we finished out the day at camp. So I went with someone in my group to the two story building with the bathrooms. Once we got there I went into the top and bottom bathrooms realizing they were both full, and instead of waiting I decided to go into the upstairs adult bathroom. After using the restroom I wash my hands and unlock the door, but as I try and open it I realized it wasn't opening so I relocked it and unlocked hoping it would fix the problem, but it didn’t. As I paced the small bathroom trying to figure a way out of there I notice a window is slightly open and an idea sparks into my head, “Why don’t I jump out!”....
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...Play Time Toy faces a highly seasonal pattern of sales. In the past, Play Time has used a seasonal production schedule, where the amount produced each month matches the sales for that month. Under this production plan, inventory is maintained at a constant level. The production manager, Thomas Lindop, is proposing a switch to a level, or constant, production schedule. This schedule would result in significant savings in production costs but would have higher storage and handling costs, fluctuating levels of inventories, and would also have implications for financing. Jonathan King, president of Play Time Toy, has been reviewing pro forma income statements, cash budgets, and balance sheets for the coming year under the two production scenarios. Table 1 shows the pro forma analysis under seasonal production, and Table 2 shows the pro forma analysis under level production. Greg Cole, chief financial officer of Play Time, prepared the two tables. He explained that the pro forma analyses in Tables 1 and 2 take fully into account the 11% interest payments on the unsecured loan from Bay Trust Company and the 3% interest received from its cash account. An interest charge of 11%/12 on the balance of the loan at the end of a month must be paid the next month. Similarly, an interest payment of 3%/12 on the cash balance at the end of a month is received in the next month. The inventory available at the end of December 1990 is $530,000 (measured in terms of cost to produce). Mr. Cole assumed...
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...I. Background Play Time Toy Company is a manufacturer of plastic toys for children that include toy cars, military toys, trucks, guns, animals, robots, action figures and such. These product categories are produced in a wide range of designs, colors and sizes. Play Time Toy Company was founded in 1973 by Henry Richards and Jonathan King. Manufacturing business for plastic toys was considered to be highly competitive due to the fact that this industry was populated by large number of companies. Though this kind of industry makes company experience a short on capital and management talent, it was easy for new competitors to start due to its minimal capital requirements and required technology (as compared with other business industry). Play Time Toy Company has experienced a rapid growth from the time it was founded. Accordingly, from 1973 until the early 1990’s, this toy company has specialized in seasonal manufacture, where they respond directly to the orders of their customers. However, there were a lot of problems that arose from this method of scheduling production. II. Problem Statement In order to provide the Play Time Toy Company with a more profitable operation, the production manager needs a scheduling production method that would help the company incur the smallest cost of goods sold, at equal level of sales, without jeopardizing the quality of the products. III. Objectives 1. To employ a scheduling production method that would: *...
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...The main importance of plays is to inform and to entertain your audience. Most plays will only show their audience one of those through the sitting of the performance. When writing short plays, the play writer has to inform and entertain the audience in 5-10 minutes to get their point across. There are challenges for short play writers like developing characters as well as trying to develop the plot in such a small amount of time. There are also benefits of writing short plays like keeping the audience’s attention throughout the whole play rather then the audience sitting bored through a full play, they also take less time to write, so the play writer could get more than one story done a year for their publisher. In the plays Sure Thing and The Philadelphia in David Ives’, All In The Timing, David Ives demonstrates how he succeeds as a short play writer. Ives uses techniques like repetition and rhythm in both of these plays to inform and entertain his audience....
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...Play is of an enormous importance in a young child’s life. Through play the child’s social and motor skills develop greatly. Three forms of social play have been identified as parallel play, associative play, and cooperative play (Belkin & Faw, 1980, p. 340). The child starts out at a young age enjoying their play with themselves rather than people (Gibson, J.T., 1978, p. 300). Toddlers then play house with their dolls and stuffed animals. When the child engages human peers instead of toy objects in play this is the start of social play (Gibson, J.T., 1978, p. 300). Through this development comes aspect of parallel play. Here this child may play alongside a fellow peer, but they may be engaging in two completely different activities (Belkin & Faw, 1980, p. 340). Side by side the children play, observing each other and enjoying the fact that they are present with that peer, while not directly interacting with them. At two years of age a child with participate in parallel play (Gibson, J.T., 1978, p. 300). Associative play proceeds parallel play starting at age three. The children play in groups with the same toys as their peers, but each child uses the materials in very different ways (Belkin & Faw, 1980, p. 340). When asking a child engaged in associative play to describe his activity, he often times describes a totally different activity then the other children (Belkin & Faw, 1980, p. 341). A major part of associative play is imitation. A younger...
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...would be fun to do a play and force everyone in the eighth grade class participate in it. At first, I didn’t see it as a big deal; I had figured I would just be a background character anyway. It took what seemed like forever for her to decide what play to put on, but she finally pronounced we were doing The Wizard of Oz. We all had tryout, but we couldn’t audition for a certain character because she knew none of us wanted to be one of the primary characters. A week after we auditioned, she gave us our roles. This had to be one of the worst moments of my entire life because I had obtained the part I absolutely did not want. She decided to make me the Lion....
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...The Doctor in Spite of Himself: The Doctor in Spite of Himself is a play that I had previously studied in France like many of Molière’s plays. I thought that it was ironic for me to go see the play for the first time in theatre in the United States. I was really looking forward to hear how the actors would pronounce the characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a little makes it easier to relate to the characters. However, mostly I think due to language barrier, I found the play really hard to follow which made it less enjoyable for me. When it comes to acting, I thought that, overall, all the actors did a great job playing their characters. None of them ever looked at specific members of the audience while performing. I liked the way they used hand gestures or lowering their voice to address the audience. I particularly liked the acting skills of the actors playing Géronte, Lucinde and Léandre. I thought that they had the best elocution compared to other actors; they were speaking in a loud and clear way, articulating each word which made it easier for me to understand. To me the other actors’ enunciations...
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...PLAY: It’s the way young children learn A special supplement to the Children’s Advocate, based on a policy brief from the Bay Area Early Childhood Funders (References at www.4children.org/play.htm) generation ago, kindergarten was supposed to get kids ready for school. But now everyone is talking about the importance of “school readiness” before kids get to kindergarten. That’s why many parents, anxious for their children to succeed in school, want early care and education programs to have children sit at tables using work sheets, drills, and flash cards to learn letters and numbers and even starting to read, add, and subtract. But preschoolers learn differently from school-age children: play is essential to early learning. Play is the main way children learn and develop ideas about the world. It helps them build the skills necessary for critical thinking and leadership. It’s how they learn to solve problems and to feel good about their ability to learn. Children learn the most from play when they have skilled teachers who are well-trained in understanding how play contributes to learning. Most child development experts agree that play is an essential part of a high-quality early learning program. Play is not a break from learning—it’s the way young children learn. A time following teachers’ instructions. Several studies have shown that children learn more from educational activities that support their own interests and ideas. Some researchers have found evidence that...
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...sociable and is very attentive. He loves to play games and play with all kinds of technology such as an ipod, ipad or computer, but he plays with these technology only because he has no one to play with at home because his brother is to small to do anything. My sister-in-law and brother work long shifts and are usually worn out by the time they get home. My nephew lacks attention and people to play with at home; which is why he plays on gadgets all the time. However, when he comes over to our house for the weekend, We go all over with him such as go the park, fun factory, and we go out to eat when ever he’s at my house and I love eating so it works out perfectly for the both of us right there. La’akea comes over to my house almost every weekend. This past weekend I took time aside to observe his actions and put into play what I learned while in this class. When I got home from the practice La’akea was already upstairs playing games. Friday’s are usually my family’s day to catch up. When I get home on Fridays, my mom is usually making dinner, my brothers and their girlfriends are usually watching T.V. or playing card games with La’akea in the kitchen talking story, and my mom is usually always on his way back from work. My house is very clam but yet active a the same time. It is very opposite then what La’akea normal household environment is used too; however it doesn’t seem to bother him one bit. He loves to play games and play on his PsP; however, we noticed that if you...
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...useful and the use of electronics is crucial in society, children should play outside more than inside because of the many health benefits. Children who tend to play outside more have less health and development issues. Over the last two decades childhood obesity rates have more than double (National Wildlife Federation, 2011). Children tune out and stress out because they are missing a connection to the natural world. Parents are afraid their children will be abducted by strangers, which is one of the main reasons that children do not play outdoors unattended. Strangers exist in every town and city in the world, anytime someone acts out by abducting or harming a child, the result is tragic. Statistics show the sad and frightening story that children are more at risk from people they know. Busy schedules of parents do not permit supervised outdoor play; however, parental responsibility includes managing time to watch or play with his or her children when needed. Parents have the responsibility to limit their children to the amount of time allowed using electronics, and encouraging them to enjoy activities that connect them with nature. Doing so will help the child use his or her imagination in the real world, instead of playing in a virtual world. Many health benefits occur when a child plays outdoors more often than staying inside watching television or playing video games. Outdoor play increases fitness levels and helps build healthy active bodies; an important...
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...Kermit and the Keyboard Three years ago, Kermit decided that he wanted to learn to play the keyboard. Many years ago, he studied music formally, and he enrolled as a music performance major at a local university. He became proficient at clarinet and saxophone and played in both the community symphony and a five- piece dance band. However, the repetitive nature of concerts— playing the same pieces time and again—eventually bored Kermit, and he dropped out of school before earning a degree. Kermit became attracted to the keyboard because he liked the idea of a one-man band. The electronic capabilities of these instruments are truly amazing. One person at the controls can indeed sound like many instruments playing in harmony. The instrument Kermit bought had many built-in features (e.g., prerecorded backgrounds and accompaniments, different voices and rhythms, the ability to play and record multiple tracks, the ability to slow down or speed up the accompaniments). As one might imagine, the instrument also came with a lengthy manual illustrating and describing all its various features and how to use them. Although Kermit learned to read a musical score when he was taking formal lessons, he has never played a keyboard before, so he spends time hunting and pecking on the keys to familiarize himself with the layout. He hauls out some old music instruction books with simple exercises in them, and he buys a couple of fake books that contain familiar popular songs. Fake books show what...
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...diversity of play through the stick and how this is supported by the curriculum and how it is also supported by theory. According to The National Toy Hall Of Fame, the stick may be the world’s oldest toy. Animals play with sticks; our dogs play fetch with them. Children have an endless source of make believe and fun with sticks. A child’s imagination can turn sticks into magic wands, fishing poles, swords, light sabres, majorette batons and ores for an imaginary boat and so on. Children cultivate their creativity and develop their imaginations when they pretend with sticks. Children build and walk with sticks, bat balls with them; they explore the outdoors as they search for the best one. Sticks promote free play, the freedom to invent and discover; they are the original building blocks for creative play. Playing with sticks encourages outside play which incorporates fresh air and exercise. Sticks are not only the oldest toys around they are simply the best. A stick can come in all shapes and sizes. They are not carefully made or presented like a manufactured resource. They are natural and rustic looking and that makes them appealing to children and wanting to engage with it. Like the old saying goes, you can spend a lot of money on a new state of the art toy, but the child gets more fun out of playing with the card board packaging it was delivered in. I think this is because it is like a blank canvas which they can mould however their imagination feels like at the time. I have...
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...Children do not know how to play Annotation by Jane Prince, associate professor in psychology at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. The economical problems for the toy vendors are the consequence of a disturbing childhood development. There is less need for toys, because most of the children do not know how to play anymore. Instead of the traditional toy world, that has earlier been filled with toy soldiers, ball games, cars and dolls, children now surround themselves with electronic games and impression in pictures and sound from television. Children, even toddlers, have lost the ability to invent a play world for themselves. Several factors have grown to within the last 20 years. Firstly, there is the way children now get affected in the kindergarten or preschool classes: they get evaluated all the time, even on the playground. Secondly, there has also come more pressure from the parents. They are starting to buy educational toys. They forget, that kids can learn through play with toys, which apparently are without any educational purpose. Many parents think, that kids have to be capable users of computers from an early moment in their lives. They have to navigate between the icons on the screen and develop coordination between eye and hand. But ball games have always done the last thing, and while there are advantages with coming to grips with computers, there are many advantages for kids by playing with toys. Furthermore, television decides what toys kids...
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...Nora’s Journey to Independence In the play of “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, you will see as characters are introduced throughout the play their true personas are defined by their actions, not so much by what they say, but what they do. The characters are very contradictive throughout the whole play. The gap between appearance and reality is the reason the characters take part in the many types of deception in the play. The play takes you on a journey and explores the role of women in society during that time. There is a definitive moment which occurs in the play, which begins once the masquerade party is over and the Helmer’s are alone together. During this moment, I was able to truly grasp the true meaning of the poem. When Torvald and Nora are together after the masquerade party, this was a conclusive moment as how this story was going to end. In Act III Nora said, “No, that’s it exactly. You don’t understand me, and I’ve never understood you either, until tonight. No, don’t interrupt me. I want you to listen to what I have to say. Torvald, I’m settling accounts with you.” (Ibsen, 2011, Act 3, p. 590) When Nora speaks of “settling accounts”, she’s really implying that she can’t deal with being in the marriage any longer and it’s time to clear the air. The moment delivers a shocking development where you begin to see Nora shed away her seemingly child-like behaviors and begin her maturation process. At this point Nora is fed up with the whole relationship. Nora now...
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...0n the DOTA’s, All-stars, forum, users can be post ideas, for new heroes or items, some of which are added to the map. Ice frog recently added anew hero based off submission for a “Model to hero” context or his site. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The foregoing study is about the influence of playing computer games to the students above 16 yrs. old, specifically the researchers tried to find out the answers to the following problems: 1. Is there a positive effect in playing DOTA? 2. How does DOTA affect the performance of a student? 3. Are they aware of what it can do to them? SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Nowadays, DOTA game is one of the most popular games here in our country. Millions of youth and children really want to play their favorite games at the computer shops. Because of the large number of youth who patronize the mentioned computer games, the researchers conducted a study on how computer games affect the lives, particularly the studies, of a regular college student. Aside from that, last NQCI Foundation Week, a DOTA competition was held and we were curious of the reason why it was permitted by the institution. We were thinking that maybe DOTA contributes positive effect to the students and this made us conclude that this study must be conducted. SCOPE...
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