The Prompt: A well-known football coach once said‚ “Winning isn’t everything‚ it’s the only thing.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Write an essay in which you state your position and support it with convincing reasons. The Model Essay: The Sport in Losing The buzzer sounded‚ and the opposing team began to cheer. A young girl stood behind the serving line‚ volleyball still in hand‚ and allowed her anger to swell. Her team had just lost—and by almost ten points. She had tried to save
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Case: BRITA- In search of a winning strategy Some of the challenges that Brita faces are as follows: • Decline in sales since 1998. As company’s flagship brand‚ Brita was expected to contribute double digit top line growth. But in reality‚ there was approximately a 5% decline in sales every year since 1998 and this decline continued until 2006. • Faced the problem of losing customer faith in the Brita brand. Brita had slowed established a string brand position among consumers over the ten year
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discussed in this paper are the basic leadership skills need to succeed‚ methods used to build effective relationships with superiors and peers‚ and figuring out what type of role one play in regards to participatory management in the business. My team and I want to make sure that this company gets through this downfall. Leadership Skills First‚ we want to brainstorm and try to discover basic leadership skills in order for one to succeed with this position. As a valuable leader of a business‚ one
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Winning Isn’t The Most Important Thing Vince Lombardi’s famous saying "Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s the only thing" is unfortunately the motto of too many athletes today. Although winning is important and sports are‚ and should be taken seriously‚ by far‚ winning isn’t the only thing. Putting everything you have and giving one hundred percent to the effort is also very important to competition. A team that puts everything they have into a game and comes out the losers‚ has
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Title: The A Team Artist: Ed Sheeran Text Type: Oral Text I find lyrics to “The A Team” by Ed Sheeran very deep and emotional and although I am not able to relate to them personally I am able to understand what this person has been or is going through. The song is about is about a woman with a drug addiction and the things she has to go through on a daily basis. The song tells us she “Hopes for a better life” but is too far into her addiction to change. The song says “And in her pipe she
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participation. Key Terms for this topic: Winning: Can be defined as relating to the act of being successful; victorious. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/winning) Participation: Can be defined as taking part of‚ or engagement: the act of sharing in the activities of a group. (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=participation) Sport: Can be defined as an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment
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IHG’s corporate strategy: ‘The winning ways’ IHG’s mission statement is: ‘to become the greatest company in the world through creating great hotels guests love’. IHG’s road map for growth is dependent on engagement and high performance from the entire workforce. In order to achieve this‚ IHG designed a set of values‚ known as ‘the winning ways’. The winning ways serve as ‘a road map’‚ which enables IHG to reach their long-term vision. IHG’s winning ways will act as the foundation for how
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MY SPEECH AT IB AWARDS 2012‚ LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY A SPEECH DELIVERED BY OSUNRINDE TEMIDAYO JOHN (OVERALL BEST POET IN THE IB POETRY AWARDS 2011) AT THE THIRD EDITION OF THE IB POETRY AWARDS ADELINE HALL LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY The Royal father of the day‚ OBA SAMUEL OSUNDINA ODULANA ODUGADE 1‚ the Olubadan of Ibadan land‚ the president federal republic of Nigeria‚ honorable minister for education‚ the Executive Governor of Oyo state‚ Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi‚ Oyo state first lady‚ Mrs. Florence
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Are we winning the war on terrorism? There are two different views on how we should deal with terrorism in the long term. The first view being that we should destroy everything and everyone in that terrorist group or anyone working with them. The second view being that we should eliminate the root causes of terrorism on a global level. Even if you can decide on which view to choose‚ how do know if you are winning the war or not? Is it how many terrorist attacks have arisen since 9/11 or do you go
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THE FIVE STEPS OF THE WRITING PROCESS STEP 1: PREWRITING THINK Decide on a topic to write about. Consider who will read or listen to your written work. Brainstorm ideas about the subject. List places where you can research information. Do your research. STEP 2: DRAFTING WRITE Put the information you researched into your own words. Write sentences and paragraphs even if they
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