Essays on Extreme Sports

In the world where we live, we exist with the perceptions that there are limitations to the feats that the human body could perform. This is why we presume that people who are disabled cannot take part in sports or any athletic event which requires the use of the body when one part or the other is not functioning at its best. People who have become disabled through one or the other unfortunate occurrence of fate think so otherwise because they have proven to us time and again that their limitations will not hold them back from going after ...

Introduction

Capital budgeting assists sports organisation in assessing the viability of their proposed long-term investments (Chandra, 2014). Sports organisations also need to invest in capital projects for expansion as well as to improve the efficiency of their operations. Extreme Sports Company operates a sports training complex with a fitness centre, motorsport cars for hire, among other services. The company has some money to invest in the expansion of either the fitness centre or the motorsport unit. This paper highlights how the company can use capital budgeting techniques to evaluate the two investment options.

Details of the two projects

The motorsport car will cost $200,000 ...

Introducing

Begun in 1987, Red Bull is a Thai-Austrian company that currently sells the world-famous Red Bull energy drink. The company itself was founded by the Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz, who was inspired by the drinks that are common in places like Thailand (Red Bull 2016). The first Red Bull energy drink—that is, the drink that is commonly recognized today, rather than the earlier iterations of the drink—was first sold in 1987. Red Bull is commonly considered to be the world’s first real targeted “energy drink,” and remains a powerful figurehead in the market to this day. According ...

Question 1

The design that has been described by the case study is the casual design of marketing research. In this type of design, the marketer basically tries to ascertain whether the manipulation of a variable i.e. the independent variable would have an impact on the dependent variable. As a casual design, the extreme manager is tasked to determine which of the ad banners will have the potential of inviting browsers to the website. The casual design as has been described would be used by the extreme Manager in the analysis of the hypothetical scenario presented by the two ad banners. ...

Extreme sport influence

Extreme sport is a kind of sport that is associated with high risk, peril or danger. This type of sport started to emerge relatively not long time ago. Before, humankind did not have such industrial and technological progress as we do nowadays; humans had to procure food and shelter constantly in their everyday life. It was all about danger and tension that embodied in the form of wild animals, natural disasters or other perilous things that surrounded humans. Nowadays, however, the world became much safer in the terms of nature. People can control many things yet sometimes it is ...

More and more people are trying to save up some money in order to travel and see the world. There are hardly any people whose dream is not connected with traveling and exploring new and exotic places. Seeing the world is a dream of every individual. Our planet is an amazing source of distant roads, untouched nature and endangered species of animals. Many people prefer travelling to mega polis with skyscrapers and amazing architecture while others enjoy visiting and opening the enigmas of past times, which created amazing castles and palaces. Another part of travelers cannot imagine their life ...

The quest for overachievement is one which has become central to current U.S. culture. Driven by a growing sense of beating peers, parents and children stretch limits to outperform and win. Probably, sports, particularly so called "dangerous sports", represent one most notable area in which (helicopter) parents and children compete to achieve excellence. In pursuing an eternal dream of overachievement, children (self motivated or, more commonly, pushed by parents and coaches) are subject to a host of risks in contacting one another during physical activity, a concern which only highlights growing debate over whether dangerous sports particularly football and ...

Energy drinks contain high levels of sugar and little nutritional value just like soft drinks. For instance, every 250 ml can of Red Bull drink comprises of approximately five teaspoons of sugar. The most significant difference that exists between energy drinks and soft drinks is the substantial amount of doses of caffeine contained in energy drinks. Every 500 ml of every energy drink has approximatively 160-300mg of caffeine. This is too high because a cup of tea contains 20-60mg of caffeine while a cup of coffee contains 40-80mg of caffeine. A tablet of No-Dose contains 100mg of caffeine and ...

1. A key challenge, facing the firm Frontier Adventure Racing (FAR) is a Canada-based company, whose activities are aimed at providing people with an opportunity to test their limits with the help of 36 hour races or five days Extreme races. The company has existed since 1998, and managed to get recognized as establishing the most important races across Canada. Moreover, the company’s president’s passion for races and dedication to his work helped FAR’s products to develop good reputation, and many of FAR races were extensively covered in the media. Nevertheless, already fourth year in the ...

Middle Adulthood

In the article Skin-Care Recommendations for Middle-Aged Women, Blair (2014) provides tips on how middle aged women can take care of their skin and keep them looking youthful. In particular, she advises that these women use gentle cleansers to cleanse the skin; moisturizers with antioxidants to keep the skin from becoming dry; sunscreens to protect the skin from ultraviolet rays; and retinol products to soften fine lines and wrinkles. The article provides detailed descriptions of the types of skin-care products that middle-aged women should use and why they would be good for the skin. This article is relevant ...

The role of microcredit in alleviating poverty has not been understood and realized by various economic planners of various nations, starting with the understanding on the reasons for microcredit and its scope. Microcredit refers to small borrowing by unsalaried people and in microcredit loaning collateral requirement is usually little or at times it is not even required. The impact of microcredit has attracted attention of economists, scholars and national planners more than any other form of microfinance. This is so because micro credit provides a wide list of benefits to poor people. Generally, microcredit provides financial support, business advice in ...

Essay

Nestle – is a Swiss company and the largest world producer of foodstuffs ( coffee, breakfast cereals, snacks etc). It also specializes in the production of pet food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as one of the main shareholders of L'Oréal. Nestle is divided into seven worldwide major strategic business units. These units make the high level strategic decisions on a worldwide basis regarding each business unit. One sector of the merket is controlled be at least one business unit. The strategic business units are the global insturments to define and control the strategic development of the firm. Nestle also has the company ...