Emery Worldwide

beginning of this short saga; or at least, the beginning of how my vision of the next ten years was born. Ten years ago I was a homeowner in Modesto, California, driving for a company called Viking Transportation. It had recently been purchased by FedEx and were in the process of changing their name to FedEx Freight. I was really happy about the fact that my drive to work was now only twenty-eight miles one way to Stockton every day, instead of the eighty miles I had been traveling to San Jose five days a week when I was a driver for a now defunct air freight forwarding company called Emery Worldwide, a company that had been in business longer than UPS. A combination of events had sealed the fate of Emery. They had a freight plane crash in Rancho Cordova, California in 2000, killing all four crew members onboard. One year later 9/11 occurred and all air traffic was grounded for over a week. Emery was poorly managed and approximately three years later, they shut their doors, forcing me to leave a job that I was positive I would retire from. This in turn led me to FedEx Freight in Stockton. For the first time in years, I actually enjoyed driving a truck again. In fact, I enjoyed it right up to the time in 2006 when I shattered my right wrist at work. I was off work for two years and had to have more than one surgery to have a plate, pins, screws, and anchors put into my forearm. While I was off with my injury, the economy took a serious nosedive, financially devastating…

It was December 18th, seven days until Christmas, and an ordinary day so far in New York City. Amber was on her way to work, shoving her way through the busy streets. Christmas cheer filled the air, lights hung on the rooftops of buildings, stores blasted Christmas songs, and snowflakes danced down from the grey cloudy sky. Amber swung the office door behind her and was greeted by her cheerful employees. The office was decorated with lights and garland hanging around the cubicles, paper…

It was a cold winter day in December when this tragic day happened. I was twelve years old when this tragic day happened. Not only was this event unexpected, but was event was burned into my mind forever. It was a cold December day, and I was in my house in Dierks, Arkansas. I was in my room playing Minecraft with my friend Brenden. It was fine, but then we heard a loud noise. It was all fine, until we got hungry so I went and got us something to eat and drink. when I got to the kitchen my…

We have had a good winter for Winter Club activities. Mother Nature has only caused us to close down a few times and we had a good run of snow for sledding. We still have a bit of winter left in front us and lots of activities happening at the WC. We kick off March with our WC Family Skate Night. WC Family Skate Night is the last big party of winter and has become a great showcase event for prospective member families. This allows families looking to join the Club through our Summer…

The Real Meaning of Christmas Do you remember the holidays as a little kid? Your class always had a yearly Christmas party, you helped your parents decorate the tree. Constantly you heard “Look how much you’ve grown!” from visiting relatives, and waited anxiously on Christmas Eve for Santa to make his stop at your house. As a little kid there was no greater feeling than ripping open presents on Christmas morning to find the toy you had begged your parents for who would only respond with a…

For Jeremiah prom is only four weeks away but he has not yet been able to decide on what he is going to wear for that glamorous night. His date for the night, which is also his girlfriend (Grace), has already decided what type of dress she will wear. The problem Jeremiah is having is that it is very difficult to find a suit that matches Grace’s dress. Therefore, he has to improvise on what he is going to wear the night of prom all the while having some sort of similar scheme as Grace. Jeremiah…

While both structure and agency played a key role in the replacing of the Liberal party with Labour it could be said that structure worked more as a catalyst while agency played a direct part in the replacement of the Liberal party; it could be argued “structure and agency [cannot] be divorced” (McHugh, 2001, p.6). While values giving way to class and an electorate tripling in size does create some convincing arguments that structure is the best explanation for Labour replacing the Liberal party…

Shalimar Hotels is a chain of 4 star hotels which has hotels in Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Peshawar. This is a Pakistani, family owned business and is the leader in terms of market share in the 4 star hotel segment in the country. Typically, the chain’s hotels have >90 % occupancy in lean months and 100% occupancy in the holiday season with heavy advance bookings. Shalimar Hotels are appreciated by customers for their affordable room rates, excellent food (recently won The Asian Hotel Food…

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how…

The City Lights Theatre Company presents Handle with Care written by Jason Odell Williams, with Hebrew by Charlotte Cohn , directed by Kit Wilder, created a perfect Jewish Christmas story. The story takes place in a motel room in Goodview, Virginia on Christmas Eve. In the beginning of the play, a young Israeli woman, Ayellet, is arguing in Hebrew with the delivery man, Terrence, who called his childhood friend, Josh, to help him. Ayellet uses her body language to show how she was frantic…