Boris Becker

In tennis, there are a few movements that are key to winning the match. When someone plays tennis they are looking for the other player to make a mistake, or to make a shot too hard for the other player to hit. The basic movements of a tennis match are serves and rallies. How a player hits the ball with their racket determines what speed, spin, and trajectory of the ball. These actions can be analyzed through the lens of a physicist to find out what exactly happens. Let’s begin with the serve. There are a couple ways an athlete can serve a tennis ball. Most common, however, is the overhand serve. To begin the overhand serve the player will toss the ball over their head. This will increase the ball’s potential energy as the ball rises to its peak height. This potential energy will eventually be converted into kinetic energy, however, this is not the only factor in the speed of the serve. There are a couple different types of spin a player can put on the ball when serving. Any spin they choose to give the ball, whether topspin or backspin, will be created by the friction force of the racket’s strings on the ball. The longer the ball is in contact with the racket the greater the spin. This happens because the friction force is applied for a longer amount of time. When someone tries to hit a tennis ball with a lot of speed there is a small “acceptance window”. The acceptance window is a range of angles where the ball is able to clear the net and remain inside of the service…

Goal 2: Improve physical and mental health Objectives: I will exercise twice a week for 30 minutes and do individual or group based yoga three times a week for 30 minutes Strategies: I will attend yoga sessions at the local YMCA. I will attend my local gym two times a week. I will walk around the track at the gym and do the row machine. I will keep track of this by completing a self-monitoring system and rewarding myself with a new journal or another reinforcer for completing the yoga and…

Leadership Goal 1 Goal Number 1 – Cognitive: “Keep the mind sharp” – Continual Learning Relevant Areas of Growth 1 – Critical and Creative Thinking 1. Personal Impact – Professional development; become more knowledgeable in the fraud prevention and intelligence spheres and have more opportunity for advancement within the Army Reserve and my civilian career. 2. Impact on others – Articulate information to support priority intelligence requirements to a higher headquarters. 3.…

that HRM practices affect performance indirectly through intervening factors referred to as HR outcomes. Beer et al, (1984) propose competence, commitment, congruence and cost effectiveness as an intermediary variables. Becker and Huselid (1998) identified variables such as employee skills, employee motivation, job design and the work structure link to operating performance which in turn influences the profit and the market value. The approach of using intermediary variables is adopted in many…

this journal entry is to discuss the cost/benefit analysis of extending a life, and to consider how it may impact the family financially vs. the expenses of caring for someone who is seriously ill. Examining the cost benefits of extending a life, depends upon many factors. One would have to weigh issues such as, whether or not the person is diagnosed with a terminal illness? Is the person is old and frail? Is this a young person, or someone who has a family to raise, or income to bring…

Ernest Becker once said, “Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” Hayley says there are only two types of people in the world: zombies and freaks. While Hayley’s aphorism was an admirable effort to display her attempt at a doctrine of ontological truth, Ernest Becker’s adage is a neurostorm…

However, perestroika did not occur without consequences. The privatization movement of the perestroika reform allowed for the formation of a new class the oligarchs. The lack of legal safeguards of privatization allowed the mafia, which had the financial means and the political connections, to gain ownership and control over key industries of the Russian economy. “The problem is the economic liberalization in Russia, even in the narrowest sense of legalizing private business activity, is far…

Frankenstein, “…wasn't expected to be a popular film, much less a breakout role for the unknown actor”, Boris Karloff, also known as Frankenstein (Biography.com). James Whale, and starred Colin Clive and Mae Clarke, which is based on the best-selling novel, Frankenstein, written by Shelley, released Frankenstein in 1931. It is a story of a young scientist trying to create life after one has died and the struggles and drama that come along with that. Even after 86 years, Frankenstein is still…

When the Soviet Union officially dissolved in December, 1991, many Westerners, Soviet dissidents, and Russian citizens believed that the feared Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB) would be dismantled forever. Russian and Western observers viewed the toppling of the “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky statue in August 1991 as the symbolic end of the era of Soviet political police repression. Subsequently, Gorbachev appointed Vadim Bakatin to reform the KGB. But what constituted reform? In December…

Ukraine again, but it was too late. Mister Putin won’t backup so easily. Not after the reinforcement of Russian troops and heavy machinery guns. Russian military were able to strangle a revolt less than in a week. Crimea left with no other chances than follow Kremlin’s orders. So why would 96% of population vote for the approval of referendum and 6 month later radically change their desertion? The answer is simple: Putin’s New Soft-power Media Machine, propaganda. In Russia, treads of…