Trivial Pursuit

The following paper analyzes Under Armour; a footwear, apparel and accessories firm launched in 1996. Having witnessed an impressive growth recorded since 2005, the company has grown to rival some of the biggest names in the industry including Nike. This has been largely in part to different financial management strategies, which have focused on aggressive growth plans and accelerated revenue income plans. The paper takes a look at the company’s short and long term financial management plan,…

children. Carson’s stance on abortion is a pro-life stance. The pro-life stance is the stance that abortions are wrong and that it is murder. They interpret the constitution literally when it says that all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness(Gordon, Abortion). Those who oppose this stance claim that the baby is not considered alive, or a person for that matter, and therefore has no human rights to deny to it(Gordon, Abortion). However, those who agree with the…

this dream. Many illegal immigrants currently reside in the US strictly for the reason that they want to be here, but to be here “legitimately” is too difficult or too expensive, and the current government does nothing aid these individuals in their pursuit of citizenship. One of the biggest complaints regarding illegal residence in America is that these individuals do not work, do not pay taxes, and live off of government programs funded by these taxes exclusively. Studies have found thought…

Trighton Warren Mrs. Grilli AP Lang Period 3 3 August 2015 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” Summer Assignment When writing any novel, the first chapter is extremely important because it must be written in such a way that it gives the reader a reason to read the book. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” by Neil Postman, Postman effectively uses different rhetorical devices to get his message across. In Postman’s first chapter, “The Medium is the Metaphor”,…

The Trojan Sofa: Ideology is a luminous halo ‘Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad [of] impressions – trivial, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant show of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday...[but] life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the…

I was told throughout my childhood that I was inquisitive, as I would seek beyond face value and the simplistic explanations often given to children my age. My mother relates an anecdote when I was merely four years old, which illustrates this curiosity; she recalls a specific episode from the television show Animal Planet that left a profound effect on me. It documented the cheetah’s evolving maternity of her newborn cubs, and her eventual need to separate from them when they reached the tender…

the enslaved and learning how their everyday life affected them emotionally and physically, and ultimately learning how the people of Williamsburg transformed from loyal British subjects to the American people who stood for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. History comes alive during the trying times of the Revolutionary War from the moment your sensory system registers where you actually are. Visitors are able to partake in the events that foreshadowed the Revolutionary War that…

In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author writes about a collection of characters and their pursual of desires, which reveal the flaws in each character and inevitable tragedy. The story follows the protagonist, Nick Carraway, a middle class outsider who travels to West Egg seeking wealth, prosperity and gratification in order to fulfill his ambition of becoming a successful business man of bonds; all the while, he covertly observes the conflict between aspiring…

As young girls come of age, beginning to have sex and wanting to “show some skin”, becomes the mark of a true woman amongst peers. This leads to a relentless pursuit, by these same girls, to become the epitome of sexual allure and sensuality that they feel the world wants them to be. These types of unrealistic expectations of oneself can lead to a tremendous drop in self-esteem and confidence due to these girls…

This group, and another that was unprimed, played Trivial Pursuit. The primed group was able to outscore the group of people who were unprimed. Though this study was unclear on the mechanism of why - it was clear that when priming a trait of intelligence into someone that they may perform better than someone…