The 700 Club

Even if it's not the season for outdoor walking in your area, there are places you can walk to stay healthy. The local gym is one choice, of course, but you can also get creative with your walking workouts. Years ago, there were tapes where women would walk in place in the comfort of their own home. There's a tendency to throw on a pair of ratty old sneakers if you aren't going outside, but that would be a mistake. You need cushioning and support in your walking shoe. You can also walk at…

Wal-Mart is known as the world’s largest discount retailer which started its business as a small chain of stores in Bentonville, Arkansas. Samuel Walton founded this store on July 2, 1962. Wal-Mart is estimated to have had more than 11,000 stores and clubs in 27 countries, under a total of 72 banners. (Wikipedia, 2016) According to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2014, Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world based on revenue earned, as well as private companies in the world with hiring 2.2…

Fight Club and Lullaby: Qualitative Differences in the Nature of Transgression" It can be stated that a transgression is born from a person’s past, something that we humans are victims of. The past is unforgivable, inevitable and difficult to get away from and though we are the captains of our own ships, there are certain moments in our lives that we can’t escape. It is when the antecedent events press on our comfort zones that transgressions seem to manifest. This is the case with Chuck…

The health behavior that I am choosing to modify is to increase the time I spend engaging in physical activity, daily. In doing so I plan to monitor the days out of the week and amount of time per day that I will engage in a form of exercise. As a first course of action, I am setting a realistic goal. I want to engage in physical activities for a minimum of 30 minutes per day. One of steps of the health behavior model is perceived susceptibility, which means understanding my attitude regarding…

I am reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and I am on page 180. Fight Club follows the story of a nameless narrator and his newfound insane friend, Tyler Durden. Our narrator lives a life of regularity and routine. Day in and day out at a desk job, making just enough for basic necessities. Tyler inspires him to break free from this chain and experience cold, true life. Life in the freest sense. They do so by starting an illegal underground boxing organization, or, Fight Club. Where men of all…

Components of a Hybrid Golf Club Often referred to as utility clubs, hybrid golf clubs have been popular for years and are continually becoming more important in the sport of golf. They are widely used by PGA Tour pros. Even amateurs of all skill levels are already using hybrids in order to enhance their performance. Hybrid clubs offer various features that can easily improve your game. It is one of the most celebrated innovations in this sport in the recent years. Golfers substitute them…

Friday. These daily promotion have helped increase the number of returning customers, which has strengthened customer loyalty, in turn boosted overall sales. Mentos Monday: The first daily promotion takes place on Mondays. It features one of the most popular products that the store sells, Mentos. During this event customers are incentivized to purchase Mentos with a raffle ticket. Whenever a customer buys a pack of Mentos on “Mentos Monday”, they get to write their name on a ticket. A ticket is…

experiment In my assumption, there are 4 points where the energy loss occurs. 1. The air resistance when the golf club is swinging. 2. The air resistance when the ball is flying 3. At the pivot point, due to friction with the pivot 4. Energy loss due to an inelastic collision between the golf ball and the golf club In the assumption, I supposed that the air resistnace when golf club is swinging and the air resistance when the ball is flying are negligible. Because in the experiment, the distance…

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace Located in middle of an African coconut plantation, the world largest basilica of the world seems to be the monument towering the horizon. This article written by Tim McDonnel will give an insight on the history and describe the edifice. From the first paragraph, we can clearly see the purpose of the author to show the location of the largest church in the world and some details about what make it so special. He began by giving a description of the landscape…

Would National Park exist without John Muir? Throughout his life John Muir stood up for the environment in three ways. He wrote letters to politicians, books that defended the wilderness, and he founded the Sierra Club. All of these motivated people, such as Theodore Roosevelt to enjoy and preserve nature.  Historical Context John Muir was born on April 21st 1838. He grew up in Dunbar, Scotland until the age 11 when his family moved to the United States. His family bought a farm in Portage,…