Women's Tennis Association

While most people believe that non-profit are doing great public work, these organizations are often contributing to the increase of elitism and capitalist forms through corporate influence. Non-profit industrial complex (NPIC) is as a “set of symbolic relationships that link political and financial technologies of state and owning class control with surveillance over public political ideology, including and especially emergent progressive and leftist social movement” (Smith 8). This simply…

I have been playing soccer since I was three years old, and throughout the years I have learned all the basics that need to be known about soccer. I have been practicing my skills in order to become good at what I do. I can honestly say that I have become really good at what I do. Soccer is not just a sport to me; it is a sport I have been playing for years, a sport I grew up playing with close friends, a sport where not only boys could play but girls could play as well and sometimes girls and…

A Mistaken Burden As the dark begins to encompass the world around her, the hairs on the back of her neck begin to stand up straight. The night used to be her favorite time of the day, but lately it has become a frightening enemy. When the sun goes down, the worst parts of the earth come out; the frightful nocturnal animals, the people that resemble monsters, the crawling chill of the weather, all of the things that make her heart beat faster, all of the things that used to excite her now make…

In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls talked about her struggles in life, and I would like to explain some of the things I have endured in my life. I haven’t had the hardest life, but it hasn’t been the easiest either. I will be enlightening the readers about how I got through alcoholism in my life, and learning how to be an adult at a really young age. I will also be explaining what effect each person in my family has had on my life. My life relates to The Glass Castle because of what I have…

The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa, Texas. The film follows Coach Gary Gaines, portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton, and his talented group of football players as they try to navigate through the season with the goal of winning the State championship. The pressure is on for the boys in the film, where they receive stressors from not only their sport and coaches, but also the townspeople and their parents as well.…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

Game day. I wake up and that is my first thought. Although it is not the first game of the season, so many emotions are running through me. Western Dubuque is a great team. There is crappy weather coming our way.I need to eat breakfast. Their leading scorer is 2nd in the state for goals. All of these toxic thoughts flooded my mind. One thing I did not know that morning is that I would take the biggest emotional and physical blow later that day. The feeling I get whenever I step on to the field…

When you look back on life you will have traveled to many places, seen many things, and met many people, however there are some places you go along the way that will impact you forever, and leave you with many stories to tell for all your friends, and family to hear. I know I am still young and have not experienced nearly half of the journey’s that I will go on later in life, nonetheless there is one place that I will truly remember for eternity, and most certainly tell my children about. That…

Nonprofit organizations collect almost two trillion dollars in annual donations. Among these many entities, which provide services for people in need, some operate in noteworthy fashion. The most successful institutions elect competent leadership, practice full transparency and use technology to operate more efficiently. Nonprofit Organizations in the United States The Internal Revenue Service acknowledges 26 various nonprofit formations. Well-known organizations such as the United Way, the…

My daughter and I took our annual trip to the soccer specialty store to buy goalie gloves. This trip is necessary every year because pre-teen girls grow out of gloves quickly, goalie gloves do not really last that long and old goalie gloves smell something awful. My daughter is the full-time starting goalie for an outstanding U12 team. The team plays in a regional league and top tournaments. It's some serious soccer, so I wanted to get her some serious gloves. Before we went to the store, I…