Rim

“You wanna be able to dunk and grab the rim by the time you are out of highschool right?” Said my Jv coach Ben Perez from Lakeview Schools. There were 6 hoops in our practice gym at Lakeview Elementary. There were 12 kids total on the team so we picked a partner to go a hoop and do the pelican drill for 1 hard minute. Ben said “ready set GO!“ I start going, I was being lazy because I didn't want to do the drill. About 30 seconds into the drill I was getting lazier my Legs were thriving with…

Grand Canyon Reflective Essay, Research, Sustainability The Grand Canyon is one the seven wonders of the natural world. Every year five million people from around the world visit the Grand Canyon to experience its incredible views and hike its trails (National Parks Service. U.S., 2017). Nearly two billion years of geological history is stored in the horizontal strata on the sides of the canyon. The Grand Canyon not only provides sweeping views, recreational trails, and a habitat for wildlife…

Then go for a Grand Canyon fun time. One of the oldest national park in U.S. That is a heaven on earth. One’s life is half lived if not gone there. You can actually rediscover yourself there. That is a place with endless places to visit. Be it its rims, trails, Grand Canyon skywalk, various points or hotels Grand Canyon. Let’s discover few must go places: 1. Colorado River rafting: Rafting at the Shoe point carved by Colorado River of Grand Canyon is a valuable experience for the visitors.…

Grand Canyon Village Grand Canyon Village is a small town in Northern Arizona, situated on the South rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. Whether you prefer sleeping under the stars or in a hotel, with soft beds and running water, Grand Canyon Village is an ideal hub for all your adventures and practical activities. In addition to various historic landmarks, Grand Canyon Village itself is a National Historic Landmark District. Plus, the practical aspects of traveling are in the village, such…

cultivated a cult following among customers­-so much so that some began to refer to the BlackBerry as a "CrackBerry,""(Burr et al., Make or Break at RIM(in2013):Launching BlackBerry 10). The fact that buyers face low to no switching costs provoke a high threat level, which leads us to the substitutes force of the Porter's…

RIM (Blackberry) What is the status of RIM today? RIM/BlackBerry share of the market has been sliding for several years far from being BlackBerry Nation, as written by Scott Elder in a Washington Post article (Eidler, 2015). Elder also refers to the handheld device as a “Crackberry” that in 2010 nearly 40 percent of the smartphones users owned a Blackberry. However, in 2011 BlackBerry share of the market had fallen to 20 percent while Apple and Android now held 70 percent of the smartphone…

Chapter 5: Shooting Part 1: Overview Shooting is the main goal in the sport of basketball as to win you need to have more points compared to your opponent. There are many different types of shots in basketball but the fundamental type of shots that is applied in all other forms is the jump shot. The jump shot is a method of shooting a basketball, it involves transferring of energy from the lower part of the body (core & legs) into the projectile motion of the basketball. So firstly the main…

Magnesium wheels are a kind of rims that are used for vehicles. These wheels are generally made of magnesium alloy. These wheels were only used for race cars initially, but these the magnesium wheels are used in a wide range of vehicles. In most cases, the rims of car wheels are made using steel, as it gives great strength to the wheel. However, there are rims which are made using other materials that are as strong as steel. Since the weight of vehicles are reduced by the wheels, the wheels’…

“kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop.” The words “kisses” and “helplessly” help me visualize the split second that occurs when a basketball lands on the rim waiting for gravity to pull it down to the ground. At the end of the poem, the author uses the phrase “swiveling back to see an orange blur floating perfectly though the net”…

The book I am going to be discussing is “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Spectacular Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Originally, BlackBerry was named RIM, which stands for Research in Motion and was founded by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin in in 1984. They both created a device where uses could type words that flashed on Television screens and they named it “Budgie”. Usually, the start of a new technological device or website, I…