Tony Blair

The Day in the Close I stare at the four pucks below me resting innocently on the plexiglass. Feeling the bottom-heavy stick in my hands through the old rough gloves I’m wearing. Rylan watches expectantly. I breathe in. He’s been trying too but it’s all on me now, four shots. I breathe out. It was anything but your average Monday. The last day of school had been last Wednesday and I was enjoying the fact that I didn’t have anything to do. I take my time waking up enjoying the feelings of…

I was in the Under Armour store in the Mall of America shopping for the new limited edition Steph Curry 3 shoes. Then I left after I had paid for them and I saw some guy wearing the same shoes I had just bought. I thought well that is a coincidence since I was the only one I had ever saw with these shoes. I was pretty wealthy since I had won the grand prize in lottery about 1 year ago. I also noticed he was wearing Virginia Cavalier sweatpants and a black sweatshirt with a terrapin on it. So I…

Zappos goal is to have happy employees and happy customers. Tony Hsieh, himself studied a lot about what make people happy. Hsieh says it all comes down to four key attributers. The number one attributer is to make sure not to make people feel like they’ve lost control. Another contributor is perceived progress…

Sexism and misogyny in Theater There are plenty of women who produce, direct, design sets and act in theatrical productions, however they did not always have these opportunities. “Women’s parts were played by men until the late 1700’s. When women did get the chance to perform in the United States, actresses were often seen as fallen or disgraced women because respectable women were not supposed to engage in public activity” (Matthews, 315). Examples of sexism in theatric productions include,…

Zappos’ has been around since 1998, and was founded by Nick Swinmurn in San Francisco when he was looking for a certain pair of shoes. Nick walked the mall the entire day with no luck. He was so upset that he starting an online store selling shoes called Shoesite.com. The name was changed to Zappos’ around 1999, after Nick felt like the name needed to be changed to attract customers. Zappos’ ten core values were created and provided on Valentine’s Day in 2016. The 10 core values are used to…

Altruism and Egotism in Love: Comparing Doubt and Angels in America The plays Doubt by J. P. Shanley and Angels in America by Tony Kushner challenge interpretations surrounding the politics of love. Both plays tangle matters of the heart and mind, which figuratively interplay in character relationships to relay precepts of love. In spite of this similarity, the plays differ in how love is essentially attitudinally defined and perceived. Doubt depicts love as a static entity that is grounded in…

In the horrific and altered world of the novels called “the year of the flood” by Margaret Atwood and “the walking dead” by Robert Kirkman, both authors show many faces of femininity through different characters and different atmospheres. Both novels are dealing with end of the world crisis as in Margaret Atwood’s book the humans are dying from virus and power is going to the wrong hands and the laws begin to change, effecting the norm. While in Kirkman’s novel zombies are wiping out the human…

For Colored Girls/When the Rainbow is Enuf, a play which challenged the constraints of conventional theater, ran for 747 performances on Broadway. In addition to receiving Obie and outer Circle Awards in 1977, the American theater Wing’ Tony Awards (which celebrate excellence in live American theater) honored the play with nominations for the best play and best performance by a featured actress in a…

On Thursday November 19th, I went to the King’s College theatre production “The Illusion” by Tony Kushner. During the week of the play, I did not know what to expect, because this was actually the first play I have ever been too before. Also, I never heard of the Illusion by Tony Kushner before, and I had absolutely no idea what the play I was about to see was actually about. When I was thinking about going to the play, I was actually very excited about seeing a live performance for the first…

As a new chief executive officer, Tony Hayward was recruited in June 2007 and he took over for BP's highly-respected former CEO Lord Browne. The new CEO of BP may be able to use his own leadership or management style to change the culture of the organization and also try to help the business to grow and improve better. However, the extent to which the effectiveness of his way of leading the business and how quickly it can be for change to eh business culture are depends upon different…