Professional Bowlers Association

a sport because they see it as something you do on a Friday night with a bunch of friends while drinking alcoholic beverages. Although these people do not see many of the youth and adult bowlers getting up early on Saturday morning and traveling out of state to different tournaments every weekend. This sport has so much to offer, if people would actually take the time to look into it they could actually start winning scholarship money or even cash money. This sport provides an outlet for the youth to meet new friends and become more confident in themselves after they improve their average every month. This sport can allow the adult bowlers to make this a job every weekend, so they can bring home some extra…

Have you ever been paintballing and running from the other team and wishing that you didn’t have to carry a big gun while running? Well thanks to the wrist slinger, these problems have been solved. Introducing the Wrist Slinger. It’s a wrist held paintball gun. You wear it on your wrist and fire using a pressured trigger. It shoots up to 250-300 fps, and for a paintball gun, that's a really good gun. It makes your fire rate lower, but makes your accuracy and damage so much higher in…

The Catcher in the Rye illustrates within its masterful pages the gradual maturation of an immature boy into a self-reliant young man. It is the unorthodox story of seventeen year-old Holden Caulfield, who is growing up in the decadent world of New York. He has thus far been unable to come terms with the fact that eventually, he must grow up, and that the world will never be pure. Holden has profound difficulty in accepting the inevitable, which in turn delays any form of progression towards…

Are we there yet? What’s your name? How old are you? Why? These are all common questions that a young child would ask his/her parents. Young children are usually more susceptible to new things because they have no other beliefs on how things should be. A child is always on the go, exploring new things taking interest in learning everything he/she can. As a child gets old he/she is always on the go but for different reasons. Most children go with the flow relatively easy, but adults don’t. Adults…

Rafael Nadal is a professional tennis player. He is a twenty nine year Spaniard. At this time, Nadal is ranked number eight in the world. Since turning pro in 2001, he has won countless tournaments. A few of these tournaments include: the French Open, the US Open, and Wimbledon. After watching the US Open these past two weeks, I decided to write this paper on him because he a very well-known athlete due to a particular set of rituals that he performs before and during his matches. Rafael…

star once she hit the court. Misty was a 16-year-old high school superstar (“Dynamic Duo 79”). All of her friends admired her talents. She went to high school at Newport Harbor High School, were she helped her team win two state championships (indoor) in 1992 and 1994 (“Misty May-Treanor”). She gave that school the reputation it has today. Misty played against Kerri Walsh for the first time when she was 16 (“Dynamic Duo 79”). They met, and instantly hit it off. Misty and Kerri became friends at…

adult. This includes things like paying bills, grocery shopping, working, and taking care of a family. Being a professional can help you with some of them especially when you are working. Professionalism is defined as the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person. A profession is defined as a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation. Being a professional and having professionalism can help you…

Prior to starting medical school, I had only thought of being professional in vague terms: being courteous to others, setting a good example, etc. Now that I am approaching the completion of my first term in medical school, I can see that professionalism is much more than I had previously thought. Being a professional requires a continual hunger for knowledge, realizing one’s limits and weaknesses and working to improve them, accepting responsibility for one’s actions, working well with others…

I wasn’t equipped to take on the challenge of dedication to the humanity and technology. However, I learned my lesson and now I have more motivation to pursue this profession. The 3rd element I explored was professionalism. I knew this was important in any profession even before going into the interview, but I learned more about the application of professionalism in engineering from the advice I received from professor Hynes. He told me that that entering the professional workplace from school…

profession reflecting an organization’s set of values while creating positive customer experiences. Basic characteristics of a profession include institutionalized training, autonomy, and professional principles that subsequently leads to special power and prestige within the society. Affiliates of a profession have a strong…