I Don’t Like Mondays On Monday, January 29, 1976, Brenda Ann Spencer decided to act upon her desire to “do something big to get on TV”. The then sixteen year old got her .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle, and shot for 15 minutes at San Diego’s busy Cleveland Elementary School schoolyard just across the street. Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Michael Suchar were both shot to death, and nine others were wounded, including eight school children. After Spencer barricaded herself in her home for…
For some reason, many people dread Mondays. From full-time employees to students, statuses are posted on Facebook to express one’s dislike for Mondays. By setting several alarms, drinking tons of coffee and exercising before they start their busy workweek, many students and workers pull themselves out of bed on Mondays cursing that the day arrived so soon. Every Monday, 21-year old exercise major Nyisha McNeil said she snoozes her alarm at least three times. By 8:35 a.m. the third alarm…
its times, “Brian’s Song” was the most iconic made-for-TV movie. ABC strategically placed its premier, utilizing the concept of “flow” to cross-over their normal, stereotypical male Monday Night Football audience, towards the broad audience they were striving for their prime-time football games. Doing this allowed Monday Night Football to become a “consensual space”, thanks to the high viewing rates of the connecting film. These ideas worked with the themes of the movie to construct a positive…
online has became a new popular tradition for many. Each year “Cyber Monday”, as the public refers too, attracts the interest of many newcomers because of its simplicity. Cyber Monday is a shopping holiday similar to Black Friday but the deals are on online instead of physically going to the store. Cyber Monday of course is on the monday after Black Friday weekend sales but you can start shopping as early as sunday. Now that Cyber Monday is known for being convenient, Black…
couple hundred dollars is not exactly ideal. The best way to find great holiday deals while still being able to enjoy the actual holiday is to take advantage of Cyber Monday deals. In recent years, Cyber Monday has become the largest online shopping day in America. So, what exactly is Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday falls on the Monday after Thanksgiving. What started with just a few online retailers trying to capture some of the Black Friday dollars being thrown around by the masses has grown into…
the year 2009. The returns were high (0.636) on Tuesday in 2012 and low return of (-.712) on Thursday in 2008. The Negative Monday returns were recorded in 2006, 2008,2011,2012,2013 and 2015. Negative Friday returns were recorded for only two years i.e., in 2008 and 2011. Maximum return was recorded in Monday in the year 2009 and minimum return was recorded day is also Monday in the year 2009. This shows some significance to the Monday’s return distribution. High standard deviations are seen in…
Monday Properties Chairman and CEO Anthony Westreich A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Anthony E Westreich holds a bachelor of arts in history. He also completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Anthony E Westreich established New York City’s Monday Properties in 2004, when he acquired the private investment fund Max Capital Corporation and its entire 4-million-square-foot portfolio. Under Anthony…
like having a long weekend and prefer not to work on Friday or Monday. I asked 15 of my coworkers who work the same shift as me, to pick their favorite day to work on a weekday (Monday-Friday) to see my chances of getting Monday and Friday off and have a long weekend. None of my coworkers picked Monday. 8 of my coworkers picked Tuesday. 6 of my coworkers picked Wednesday. 5 picked Thursday,…
It is eight o’clock on Monday morning and for most the daily grind of the weekdays has begun. We get in our cars and drive to the job that we have had for years or we drive to our school and attend classes for what seems like years but it is really only a couple of months. For most of us the latter of the two scenarios describes us as college students. The only thing that needs to be added is the countless hours outside of class studying and also the part time or full time jobs that some of us…
The movie’s, “What Happened to Monday?”, exposition begins with a family being torn apart and the Narrator voicing over the rules of the futuristic world. Which, in sort, families are allowed one child, and the family the movie is about has seven. This represents the exposition because the rules of the futuristic world are explained and sets the stage. The main rising action is the disappearance of one of the siblings, named “Monday”. The Deaths of the rest of the siblings, other…