Long John Silver

China really only started coming to the Olympics in the early 90’s and wasn 't really known for anything athletic before then. In 2008 China ranked #1 overall in the Olympics finishing with 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals, and 28 bronze medals. China 's best sports at the Summer Olympics are badminton, diving, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis, and weightlifting. China is known for soaring in table tennis and has won 23 of 27 gold medals for table tennis in…

there would be a tow truck coming to get my car in about an hour. I was very annoyed that it was going to take that long, so I threw a fit and just lay my chair back and was scowling. At this time Stef says “hey at least the radio still works”, and she hooked her iphone up to it and started playing relaxing music, which instantly flipped my mood. I think that her ability to see the silver lining in situations is one of the main reasons that I find it so enjoyable to be around…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…

Counterfactual thinking and living in imagination is another aspect of life that distracts adults and children from their realities. These individuals get captured in their thoughts of how life should be or how things should go. By adults and children carefully planning out their future’s and how certain things should happen, it causes misery when their “blueprint” does not go as planned. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay “The World and Other Places”, she introduces characters who live their lives…

WW stands for werewolf. it whispered quietly. One foot. Timothy bashed the bottle onto the werewolf's head, leaving a big bruise, but smashing a hole in the bottle. The thick, chunky liquid dribbled onto the werewolf and into its mouth. The werewolf howled in pain as all of the hair began growing inward and its tail was sucked into its body. They returned home with a kick in their step. The werewolf was gone for good, Gurbo had Timothy back and all was well after Dandra died. Timothy had made a…

Populism was a movement for farmers to increase their political power and to work for legislation in their own interest. They joined this movement because they were in a midst of an economic crisis. When the lack of success in the Farmers Alliance started a debate, members of the Kansas Alliance formed the People’s Party which is also known as the Populists. The Populists nominated candidates to run for Congress and state legislature. Soon after other alliances in other states began to follow…

Weeping that her baby is a girl, Daisy is dependent on men to make her key decisions for her (133, 151): secure in and yet remote from male ownership and ardor, "making only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained" (12-13), she radiates a carefully girlish charm of irrationality and whimsy: "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" (14). Woman, it appears, is presented only as romance, in the restless world of glamour where there are only the pursued and the pursuing. As…

well nourished and are therefore fit to remain in the tribe. This display of dominance is increased by the way they eat their food. Rather than picking it up with their hands, they use small silver bits…

ignoring the cultural component can be quite costly, if not devastating, for any organization. Imagine a major deployment or product launch met with an embarrassing and consequent backlash resulting in the effectual elimination from future efforts in the long run. At the same time there is an internal aspect to organizations commonly referred to as the company or corporate culture that possess a special significance. And although they generally share similar characteristics to the surrounding…

Oh man, what a year, full of many roller coaster rides. My first day on campus felt amazing, I couldn’t believe I had completed a goal of mine after so long. Walking around on campus admiring so many amazing features before having to stay in a classroom for so long was the best time I had my first week on campus. After that first week of admiring the campus, it was time to hit the books and start my path for my future. The first semester on campus seemed to be going so smooth, being able to…