The Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) is a national‚ nonprofit organization that offers programs and services to encourage the development of boys and girls by empowering a sense of capability‚ helpfulness‚ belonging and encouragement. The mission statement is to “to enable all young people‚ especially those who need us most‚ to reach their full potential as productive‚ caring‚ responsible citizens” and a vision to provide a “world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of
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Rubbish Boys Case Write-Up Discussion Question: Please discuss the following: Does franchising make sense as a way to expand this business? Why do you think Brian has had a difficult time finding potential franchisees for his business (professional franchisees‚ not the initial student model)? If you were a potential franchisee‚ would 1-800-GOT-JUNK be a good choice? Why or why not? Franchising offers many opportunities that could allow it to expand this particular business. Franchising allowed
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VERMICOMPOSTING Vermicomposting is the practice of using worms to break down food scraps. The resulting material is a mix of worm castings and decomposed food scraps. The word "vermi" is Latin for worm. Worms like to feed on slowly decomposing organic materials like fruit and vegetable scraps. The worms produce castings that are full of beneficial microbes and nutrients‚ which makes a great plant fertilizer. Worms are very efficient at breaking down food scraps and can eat over half their body weight
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Jewish philosopher and cultural critic‚ once said‚ “History is created by the victors.” Assuming that this belief is true‚ the question becomes what then happens to the losers? Carlo Ginzburg presents a similar notion in his book “The Cheese and the Worms.” Rather‚ his notion is “history is created by the literate.” Historically‚ the population who could read and write was limited to the well-to-do upper class. This proves to be a problem for historians who seek to know more about the lower class who
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Response So‚ the language these authors use in this situation is really amplifying the feelings in which the character is disliking the food that they are eating. In "The Worm"‚ it says in stanza 4‚ "I didn’t like the taste a bit‚ so I didn’t swallow it." Instead of saying‚ I didn’t like the worm so I spit it out‚ or something like that which would sound blander than what the author really used. And in hatchet Gary Paulsen used figure of speech to describe the feeling of eating a turtle egg. On
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with the community. Therefore‚ they are depicted in a negative light using comedic tactics. Big Worm is a parody of drug dealers. While drug dealers are known to be “tough” looking‚ Big Worm is a fat man either driving a bright colored vehicle with curlers in his hair or driving an ice cream truck with an unusually large perm. There is absolutely nothing threatening when looking at the character of Big Worm yet he is one of the most feared people in the neighborhood. Deebo‚ on the other hand‚ is depicted
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boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz
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millennia: intestinal worms. Parker raises the idea that intestinal worms are beneficial to immune systems in mammals and humans. He argues that intestinal worms‚ or helminths‚ are beneficial in humans‚ and have been for centuries. Through carefully chosen language‚ scientific studies‚ and experimental trials‚ Parker shows the reading audience the beneficial side of certain helminths. Dr. William Parker uses colloquial language and statistics to persuade the reader that intestinal worms should be used
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the phrase‚ “boys will be boys” has had‚ in the American school system. From the truth about why girls seem to thrive more in a structured classroom setting than boys‚ to the effects of bullying and how‚ until the 90’s‚ either a blind eye was turned to it or‚ in the case of many coaches‚ it was practically encouraged for the (supposed) betterment and cohesion of the team or group. I found it very interesting that girls tend to be more successful in school than boys because‚ unlike boys who often
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Cheese and the Worms shows religious conflicts in the sixteenth-century through the court records of a small town miller who used different books to come up with his own view on religion. The fact that a man from a small town with very little education could use his very limited resources to become a target of the Catholic Church shows how much the Church was fighting to hold onto its power and influence. The book draws its information from the inquisition court records‚ which included the testimony
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