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Norton Field Guide

                                                       Norton field guide (revised)

 

            This short story in the Norton field guide on the zombie craze, that is going on using the walking dead the AMC TV show as an example the author Torie Bosch discusses how over 7 million people tune into watch a week and get pulled into the TV show. 

        She later states that the people that live throughout the Walking Dead TV show are regular people, blue collar folks. Not so much high businessmen or lawyers. Those folks with too much book smart and not enough street smarts would die out easily cause of the lack of practical resources they have always having their head in a book. 

        I find this to be a true concept, and Bosch later gives an example in her short story of how plumbing not being fixed can lead to a disaster for those unable to manage without it (mostly everyone). This is interesting concept that I never realized watching the Walking Dead, those real world abilities are important to understand, something the higher class tends to look over.

   The author actually states that once the economy recovers itself these end of the world plots will cease to be popular, makes me wonder if its human nature to turn to the negative first, or the negative intrigue us more once things tend to go down south.

The 3 photos that define you

 

 

 

 

 

"The hidden ace"



 

 

People kind of get the wrong impression of me initially and I usually know a lot more then people are aware of, not really big on "outing" (putting people in there place) I'm quiet and calculating, and I've caught people off guard.

 

 

 

 

"Knight on the chessboard"

I see the world and my goals as me being a knight on a chessboard and the only way to ascend is to get across the table (the obstacles in front of me) in order to ascend.

 

 

 

"Thoughts of the future"

 

this a scene from Neil McCauley from the movie Heat, a professional bank robber. In this scene he reflects on having better for his life and searches for something more that can move him in his friends house "Chris" played by Val Kilmer. I do think of the future often and can relate such reflection like most people I have a lot I want to accomplish.

Nervousness on Presentations

     There's many different ways to present a presentation whether, its a classroom, to a small group or too a major meeting in the workplace. The most important other then the content you deliver your audience is t the delivery, the confidence, your mannerism and how you speak can effect your message and many people that aren't use to presenting get a bit nervous, but luckily there's a list of thinks to prevent that from happening.

     A lot of great presentations are accompanied with visual aids so that less focus is on you the reader of the presentations and more so on the message. Don't be afraid to use images, PowerPoint slides, even examples or recorded interview tape, whatever the case may be these can all be helped to relax your anxiousness for the presentation.

     Other ways to combat your nervousness is to speak to someone separately in the audience or group, if in a small group, take your time looking at each member and discussing one point of your presentation, take the audience out of the equation for a minute and surely just speak to one person in your mind, remember all that tension and nervousness is all mental confidence in your message will ultimately give off a positive result. Don't end up like Robin here in the following video!

 
     Most important, don't forget to practice, practice, practice, its the most important thing to remember in conducting a presentation, its part of work of going through with making it. The more known the content and of what your speaking, the easier it will flow, and you can always practice in front of friends or family. Anything can be accomplished with the right work ethic involved.

Indecent Proposal

                                                   

                    Gambling in general has been around for years even before the revolution of sports team, in ancient times humans learned about risk in some way or another, its been a long last entertainment where the clever and people that pay close attention to detail thrive off watching professionals playing, unlike the average sports fan, gambling and playing with there heart and not really there head. Advantage gambling the only true way to gamble in my opinion, not the silly slots, or your unyielding chances at rolling the dice and roulette. Wager your own hard earn money in order to get some back, high risk, high reward. But sadly there are many numerous laws that prohibit such things, and put the clamps on sports betting from being a natural past time for the US citizens that love to participate in it.

  For years I've been a big fan of sports betting, I'm an avid sports fan to the fullest, and when i finally turned 18 I was of legal age to gamble off-shore with a company called "Bodog" ran by a man named Calvin Ayre who is making millions off of taking bookmaking from tons of players with various types of betting options any gambler from beginner to expert would be fond of, I feel like this is a hobby or for some entertainment shouldn't be so hard to come across with having to create an off-shore account in order to do it.

My argument is to share the perspectives on both sides of the issue. whether to keep sports betting legal or illegal, As of right now its being pushed towards being legal in new jersey, the citizens are very pro-gambling in this day and age as numerous articles are being published about it possibility being approved in just a couple of years. As of right now only Vegas holds the keys to sports betting, and they make a hefty profit on it, especially during thee Superbowl, the heavily favored broncos were destroyed by the Seahawks..but the main reason of my essay to explain the essentials of sports betting, how you can push the odds in your favor and the secrets to betting unfavorable wagers and winning, theirs various systems out there and the advantage is truly yours if you know the sports, and you know the teams.

Lots of lawmakers and especially the leaders of the 4 major sports groups, the commissioner of baseball, basketball, football, etc. they feel as if allowing sports betting to be nationwide would be disastrous, and would corrupt the sport, young and impressionable men with great skills would falter to bribes and other such offers to swing games in there favor for a large sum of money or another form of payment, the flip side to that coin is that this all could be avoided if the players were paid better, and if the sports betting decided to be legal they could always put certain limits on how much one can wager.

One of the best sources anywhere for sports betting is SBRforums.com where they have an immaculate display of the "how to" of gambling along with which off shore sportsbooks are legal and which sports betting sites are flaky and will try to con you out of your money.

Pacino and McConaughey From the film "Two for the Money" a sports betting film based on a true story (2003) 

A journalist named Rob Throne wrote an article on NJ Sportsbetting  and why it should be legal for citizens to gamble on sports just like in Vegas and exercises numbers proving that eventually as the state gets more liberal laws will have to be pass to approve that Gambling will be acceptable to the public and soon other states will follow suit. Lots of money is at stake for both sides of the argument and with the economy the way it is, even in a somehwat low grade issue especially in today's economy its a subject worth learning about, for the pro-handicappers and the curious.

The Industry of Gambling and What it takes to win

             One of my biggest hobbies is gambling for quite a few years, even as a teenager I would play for hours with my brother or even my mom anyone who wanted to play I was game, whether it was blackjack or Texas holdem I was into it heavy. I use to watch the world series of poker religiously and check out player’s tips and strategy, thinking someday I use them, and then one day I turned 21 and hit the casino and put my talents to work feeling like I was already a veteran at the sport. it was long before a couple strings of bad luck hit me and I reformed my game and as I got better I learned about sports betting, which I  thought was illegal in the US in every part except Vegas and some new jersey areas, but actually that’s quite the opposite.

         Thus my gambling talents found a way to mix themselves with my love of basketball, and other sports, and after a year or so I finally got a hang of what direction to go when making wagers on teams, players, props etc.

        Now at the age of 24, gambling is still a hobby i like to engage in, and there many outlets that people can jump into to better themselves in the industry. For gamblers like myself there’s websites that offer to take your bets and make bets off shore, so that everything you bet is legal and with the help of SBR.COM its easier than ever to find a good internet bookmaker.

The working poor essay

                                                WORKING POOR PAPER

           With popularity of Shipler’s book many reviews of his work have come of it mostly positive two of which I will compare and contrast as they both show insight and accurately detail on what Shipler’s main goal Is.  

           David Shipler notes on the back of his book “No one that works hard in America should be poor” and the Pulitzer Prize winning writer does set the tone chapter by chapter, and case by case in his work from 2003 “The working poor, Invisible in America.” In this book, Shipler goes around the country to the unfortunate individuals that are caught in a never ending cycle of struggling to make ends meet having to rely on paycheck to paycheck on the lowest of wages in order to keep their head above the water of bankruptcy, keeping a roof over their heads and bad credit that would surely doom them later down the road. A young girl said to her mother in the 1^st chapter “You know, Mom, being poor is very expensive.” (Sandy Brash, at age twelve) (p.13)   quotes like these are a common theme in the moving book, of just how bad some people have it on the low end of America. 

          Both reviews I’m analyzing were created in the year 2004 just briefly after the book itself was published, one of the reviewers Alfred Knopf was more or a less of synopsis of the book itself, Knopf writes, “it would seem preposterous that those who have full-time jobs could be impoverished, yet The Working Poor provides numerous examples of many such instance” referring to a case study done by Shipler on page 40 as an example, a woman name Debra Hall dropped out of college got pregnant and had to find a decent job to keep her and her child off the streets and whenever there was a chance and finding something better she was never taken up the offer because she didn’t have enough experience or even because she was a minority as well (African-American woman) she never found a decent job and for 19 years was getting help from the government any little bit that she could from food stamps and more,, nevertheless she made the minimum wage standards at 6.25 an hour and even a little more than that in some jobs she was able to make 7.50 an hr. but that still was way below what she needed to make a living even remotely comfortably.

        In the 2^nd review of the working poor the author’s name is Stacy Lewis, who unlike Knopf’s review was much more detailed with how she conducted her book review, she goes into far more throughout commenting on Shipler’s opinion on the situation, with the main theme somewhat being low wages and not making ends meet one of the main points in Lewis’ review was the education the children receive along with an educational program for adult as she wrote “ The government should boost the minimum wage, expand Head Start and the Earned Income Tax Credit, fund job-training programs and apprenticeships for low-skilled workers, and do more to get all who are eligible for food stamps and the State Children's Health Insurance Program to use them. He also recommends dumping employer-based health insurance in favor of a federal single-payer system.”  

         Lewis then in her review shifts to how Shipler states that the poor should take advantage and make their voice be heard and vote in elections, especially those of which in the city and state area, the people have dictation if they want to really use. Too many of the poor stay too idle in these situations and if they want to a way they will have to take charge. Lewis ends her review reitarting the Shipler’s goal to show the ugly and cold side of corporate America and in this quote he says “In the house of the poor … the walls are thin and fragile, and troubles seep into one another.” (p.76)  As cold an unyielding is that sounds its very true and very much a reality that must be changed.

     Overall I feel both reviews did a great job of capturing Shipler’s main goal and that was awareness, awareness of what’s really going behind the big corporations, the low wages the government issues out for the people and a viewpoint the middle and high class American families are unable to see, or even think amidst the lifestyle and career they have. Shipler made indeed get more attention of the years as more people look into the Pulitzer prize winner’s work, poverty for the employed is more than just a crime, it’s a tragedy that we are placing on our own people, the Americans of the United States.