The Weakest Link

circumstances. The film Million Dollar Arm, directed by Craig Gillespie and the novel, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, written by Michael Lewis, demonstrate that a team does not need a high payroll to sign good players, and reveal that the weakest links on a team often prove to be the strongest. When it comes to signing players in a market, one does not need a high payroll to do so as shown in Moneyball and The Million Dollar Arm. In…

As many of you already know the United States has the highest percentage of its population behind bars compared to any other country. This may be related to the fact that a majority of petty crimes require mandatory sentencing. Politicians such as District Attorney Dan Conley believe that mandatory sentencing is an efficient way to protect the population from corrupt individuals as well as decreasing crime rates. However, housing all of these individuals is not cheap, the funding for this…

learning and spiritual development. Several responsibilities fall to the minister, and the church is watching. As Maxwell mentioned, if leadership is at a five- effectiveness will also be at a five. The phrase "you 're only as strong as your weakest link" depends greatly on the minister. Indeed, if the minister was to leave would the church close? No! Ideally we 're following Christ not men. For the minister to be effective with and through the members, he needs to transfer the vision.…

surely one of the weakest arguments against homosexuality (Davies, 2012:617). The most charitable form of the argument is as follows. When an act causes wider society to feel disgust, typically on a level fundamental to humanity, that act is wrong (the clause of it being fundamental to humanity pre-emptively negates the subjectivity rebuttal) (Leiser, 1997:263). When the argument is clearly explicated, it evidently has no persuasive power. This is due to the lack of a clear link…

Political Juggernauts: Power vs. Freedom The environment around us has a profound effect as we age from adolescents to adulthood because of the subtle lessons we learn in life. Two historical figures almost everyone has heard of, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, were both early American political figures that wanted to make the country distinguished, but in remarkably different ways. These two individuals were differing fundamentalists of government which instigated them to form the…

By immunizing every person in a society in and around the world we prevent widespread disease, which is a huge concern and public safety matter. Of course we are only as strong as our weakest link, some underdeveloped nations around the world have little access to vaccines and unfortunately suffer the fate of that inevitably illness. This has been a concern because of the influx of foreigners entering well developed nation, who can potentially…

requiring the extensive use of many systems of the body. It is important for an athlete to properly train and develop these energy systems to perform to their highest potential. I have constructed a training program in order to develop upon my two weakest areas, muscular power and the combination of speed and agility. The average to poor results I received during fitness testing reflected my performance in the vertical jump test, 40m sprint, and the Illinois agility test. "Muscular power is the…

The three main influences on Western political thought were the Greeks and Romans, the Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the Enlightenment; these influences were pertaining to the ideas of the government and individualism. Western political thought is a subject most U.S. Americans don’t consciously ask themselves: “why do I think this way?” The U.S. Americans just usually shrug it off and continue doing what comes so naturally to them. The western political thought is complex, filled with rich and…

Nurse Witte and the Critical Pathway Dilemma Have you ever meet someone that could sell you swamp land in Florida? Communication is vital to all humans, and is a key ingredient in healthcare. As a leader we must learn how to cast big visons to others that will inspire them to want to get involved rather than simply dedicate to others what you want. I will discuss a critical thinking assignment about a nurse attempting to create a program for a patient and was meeting much…

Autobiography Assignment My life had been a journey ever since I existed in this world. I did not have a traditional childhood growing up, it all started when I was baby where I was found by the police in Suzhou, China and taken to a local Chinese orphanage. Here I would spend my first 18 months before I was adopted by my mom Frankie, and moved across the world to Calgary, AB, Canada. Here I made my roots and started forming family traditions with my other aunts and uncles in my family. Some…