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The NBA Finals begin on Thursday, and this represents the culmination of 11 months of hype. The Golden State Warriors signed Kevin Durant last July after their storybook season collapsed in six days at the hands of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Since then, this third straight meeting with a championship on the line has seemed close to inevitable, even when Cleveland was struggling. This is the greatest player of his generation against the most absurd collection of talent the league…

Do you know what a sonic boom is? Do you know how a sonic boom is created? After you read this paper you will be able to answer yes to both questions. A sonic boom is a thunder like sound that can only be heard on the ground. A sonic boom is a shock wave created by an airplane or another aerospace object flying equal to or greater than the speed of sound. A physicist named Ernst Mach established a way to measure airspeed to the speed of sound. (Wonderpolis pg.2). Mach 1 is when you are flying at…

health care providers of the quality of care taught and provided by the health care system. Following my analyzation of the hospitals, its services and organizational structures I choose the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) located in Seattle, Washington. It opened on May 5, 1959 and grew out of the medical school that the university opened on October 2, 1946. It is home to the world 's first pain center and was the location of the world 's first…

Reported in 2015, Seattle, Washington’s population is 684,451 people (Census Bureau, n/d). Amongst the 684,451 residents who live in Seattle approximately 333,878 are males and 334,464 are females, which accounts for the population to be split to 50/50 of its genders (City-Data, 2016). Percentages of age and sex recorded from 2010-2015: under five years of age 5.3%, under eighteen years old 15.4%, sixty five years and older 10.8% (Census Bureau, n/d). According to the data that was reported to…

In 1865, the Duwamish people were the subject of a law banning them from living within city limits - despite the fact that their chief gave the city of Seattle its name. Between 1855 and 1904, ninety four Duwamish longhouses were destroyed. In 2009, the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center was opened - the first longhouse to be built in Seattle in 115 years. The center is designed, funded and managed by the Duwamish, for the Duwamish. Located across from the site of an ancestral Duwamish…

The leader that encompasses my leadership style is Howard Schultz. He is the founder and CEO of Starbucks Corporation. Starbucks was started in 1971 and Howard Schultz acquired the brand from the prior owners in 1986 and launched it into the company as we know it today. “In 2014, the company’s revenue was US$ 16.45 billion, net income – US$ 2.07 billion. The total headcount network comprised over 149 thousand people. According to the data of 2014, there were 20737 Starbucks stores opened in…

those words? I bet it was the Seattle Seahawks… What if I told you that the Seattle Seahawks did not start the saying ‘The 12th Man’, in fact the Seattle Seahawks do not even own the rights to the name. Could you guess who owns the rights to name? I’ll let you think about it…Today I will discuss the trademark incident involving the Seahawks and why it is important to them, how the Seahawks market the ‘12th Man’, and how they market ‘12th Man’ products. The Seattle Seahawks are forced to pay out…

Economics case analysis report on “Cafe Coffee Report” BY Nikhil Gunda Bharath R Heena Manjusha Ankur kumar Abhilash INTRODUCTION The case proclaims about the coffee war between café coffee day and starbucks. Cafe coffee day: It was started by V.G.Siddhartha in 1996. Initially it had opened 20 stores in south Indian cities like Bangalore and Chennai under the brand name of café coffee fresh and café coffee ground. By April 2013, cafe coffee day was ranked No. 2 in food and…

“Why Rap Rules and Rock Is in a Rutt,” by Robin Davey, expresses a common view among youth today: Rap music is in and Rock N’ Roll is out. Davey believes that Rock music has lost its gusto and should make way for the more relevant genre of Rap. Although I agree that Rap music is more popular and culturally relevant to our current society, I strongly disagree with Davey in regards to Rock’s inevitable demise. One of Davey’s attitudes towards Rock throughout his editorial expresses that it is…

Starbucks holiday cups are a signature to Starbucks during the holiday season. The public adores the creative of the cups every year. Behind all the excitement of the cups, there has been a national debate on weather the cups are just a cup or more. Thinking about it and putting side the fact that it is creative and pretty for the holiday season, in the end, it's just a cup. Yes, agreeing that it does make the public more excited, but in reality what is it's purpose? To hold a drink, right? So,…