Gabriel Amer & Kaylee Apicella Mr. Held Economics Period 2 May 25th, 2017 PNC Park Do you ever feel like a lonesome baseball, flying through the wind wanting to be caught again?- Katy Perry./ Have you ever thought,for some odd reason about PNC Park’s Financial standings? How much the park generates on Merchandise? Or how much the Pittsburgh Pirates get paid in salary, Renovation expenses, and Advertising? As far as Merchandise and costs goes, PNC Park sells tickets for around $18.36 so…
Does Money Actually Bring Happiness? In the Forbes article “Why Winning Powerball Won’t Make You Happy”, journalist Susan Adams explores the relationship between coming into fortune and happiness. More specifically, Adams speaks of how winning the lottery can negatively and positively affect the “lucky” winner. Adams writes, “Though there are stories of people whose lives improved after landing a big lottery pay-out, there are seemingly as many winners whose lives got worse” (Adams). After…
When someone blurts out the word “high school”, what’s your first initial thought? I don’t know about you, but “cliques” are the first thought to my mind. The media is drowning in films that portray the idea of “cliques”, but personally, I believe the film Mean Girls is the best representation of the world of cliques. Means Girls is a teen classic, and I can almost bet the majority of my generation has seen or at least heard of it. It is American teen comedy film that manifests the harsh…
My body jolted, my skin became hot, and my heartbeat skipped; once I realized what happened, my heart dropped. A few years ago, my dad hit a deer who wandered into the road on our way to a club soccer tournament in South Dakota. We took a back road, as we heard that it was a shortcut and we’d have a little more time to sleep before my big game in the morning. My mom shrieked as she looked back to check on me and my little brother. Although my dad attempted to swerve to miss the deer, he didn’t…
Title: Semi-Autonomous Tesla Involved in First Fatality Category: News & Opinion Tags: tesla fatality, tesla accident, semi-autonomous fatality Teaser: The first reported death involving Tesla's autopilot feature raises troubling questions about the future of self-driving cars. Article: Can computers really drive better than humans can? That may not be the case after a Tesla Model S, with its self-driving mode enabled, failed to apply the brakes, and crashed killing the driver. Witness watched…
most significant challenges I’ve experienced in my seventeen years. On September 16, 2016, Fort Collins High School lost one of our own. Not only a teacher, but a figure of positivity, a mentor. I’ve read the news article a few hundred times, the Lexus SUV was…
Spas are a growing market, but a luxury that not many can afford regularly. However, opening one in the right market can lead to a profitable business venture. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a spa is a commercial establishment providing facilities devoted especially to health, fitness, weight loss, beauty, and relaxation (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2016). Since the great recession, the number of spa locations in the United States has increased steadily to about twenty thousand in…
Toyota became multinational company which includes 333,498 employees all over the world. Company produces econom and business class cars as well.. Furthermore most recognizable is Prado, Camry, Land Cruiser. For business class Toyota have developed Lexus elite class…
It’s a bright autumn morning that consists of brilliant colors, crisp leaves that crunch beneath my feet and the air just cool enough for a light jacket. The holidays are finally here and saying that I am absolutely thrilled would be an understatement. It is my favorite time of year! My stomach begins to growl with hunger in anticipation of what tomorrow will bring. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I realize a feast is in store for me. The air mattress I have been sleeping on is very…
Christopher Chabris and Danile Simones documented some of their real life experiments in The Invisible Gorilla How Our Intuition Deceive Us. This book explains how and why these events took place and connects to our everyday lives. These studies portray mental blindness. In addition, it contains six key illusions: attention, knowledge, memory, cause, potential and illusion. The books open up with the first research project the men did. This included two groups of kids wearing black or white…