Essays on Fan

Advancements in aircraft reciprocating engines

Introduction There is a misconception that because modern aircraft engines built by Lycoming, Continental and other companies have similar look to engines used in general aviation aircrafts of the 1970s, there have been no technological advancements in this field. Even though new engines haven’t changed much by outward appearances, aircraft reciprocating engine technologies have advanced dramatically in past two decades. The overall build quality of engine has greatly improved. Advancements in machining technologies and automatic manufacturing processes made it possible for aircraft engine makers to enhance machine’s durability. Many components of piston engines have been significantly improved, ...

Capstone Project [Phase]

Computer and Information Science Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology Literature Review Introduction The project aims to create a website for a restaurant that is yet to incorporate online applications into its functional operations. It is imperative for the restaurant to have a website for allowing customers to see all the foods and drinks on offer without necessarily going to the stores and also for allowing them to pay for their orders on online platforms using their credit cards. Additional advantages the ability to view pricing of varied items alongside the delivery times and pictures of the varied food items ...

It’s a bright and warm Sunday morning, and as I jog along the park's walking trail, my mind is busy with thoughts of mouth-watering sizzling steak on the grill. They say that, “Exercise helps reduce food cravings,” but that doesn’t work for me. The more I exercise, the more it triggers my appetite and the sheer thought of marvelous succulent, savory steak fueled my cravings. Sundays always give me the blues as it brings back memories of my dear Grandma who cooks the best Salisbury steak that were so good- to- the- last- bite. I grew up ...

Abstract

This paper aims at studying the role of engineers in the society and the industry. It also focuses on appraising the role that engineers play to change human lives and the world. A general definition of the engineering profession helps in understanding them better. The research aims at assessing the ethical and social responsibility that engineers are bound with. This is achieved by studying the education and training criteria set by the governing and accreditation bodies pertaining to the engineering disciplines. With the help of case studies, the paper seeks to explore the sort of ethical and social responsibilities. ...

Three phase induction motors

Introduction The three-phase induction machine is the most widely used among the rotating machines. An induction machine offers an almost constant speed within its normal operating range when operated off a constant-voltage, constant-frequency, and with the electric power source. The cost of purchasing these machines is very low, and they require little maintenance. However, speed control is difficult and very expensive. Therefore, the rotor current of the three phase induction motors is not induced by electrical connections, but rather the rotation of magnetic field.

Squirrel Cage Rotor construction

The rotor type of the motor is made up of a laminated core which is ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014). Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

Levels in Which Government Cannot Participate

There are different types of government's participation in healthcare systems on a global scale. They will be discussed and explained in the following paper. In the less developed countries, there is a possibility of a minimal role played in the regulation of health care by the government. For instance, in Ukraine the government several times failed to provide an efficient healthcare system and this resulted in a decreasing life expectancy (Fan, 2015). Sometimes the state regulates its citizen’s safety and health through licensing healthcare providers and regulating medicine. A prominent example of such policy is Safe Work Australia ...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle first led the discussions on the concept of genre in order to create a distinction between multiple works of text based upon their common characteristics. The word itself is a Latin derivative of genus. It implies a sense of definition that can be stated in common English as ‘the like of’. The word genre has went on to include a vast number of different types of text, music and visual medium since the ancient Greek empire. Specific words such as drama, essay, commentary, news etc. are now used to identify the specific nature of a ...

Management in Sporting Industry

Management in Sporting Industry Sports industry has been prominent in recent years, making it possible for people who are naturally attracted to sports to pursue sports-related courses in various fields that suit them. To make it even more interesting, women have also been involved in internationals sports particularly football, drawing more attention towards international football. The fact that women are also engaging in international football is a positive aspect to all people across the world especially women, to see that they can actually do what they love and what they are most passionate about. On the same note, even ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

Abstract

Living in the era of nano and hi-tech technologies the humanity faced the issue of the impact of social nets on the society. A special focus is made on the attraction of the opinion leaders ¬ people who are the most respectful among the visitors of social nets. As a result, such people have a very active position in life and, therefore, cannot stay apart from any world situation. They fancy being the active participants of the discussions, debates and other forms that let them express what they think. Not only they reveal the world their vision, but also make ...

There can be a consensus among literary critics about the fact that poetry provides the utmost scope of exudation of literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal on the part of the literary artist. The literary artist has the liberty to use a number of metaphors that is a type of figure of speech in which a kind of expression is used for the purpose of referring to something that is not literally denoted by the expression. A metaphor thus goes on to suggest a similarity between the signifier and the signified in the literary work. Thus, metaphor can very well ...

Literature Review

In the article, ‘Online Stars and the New Audience: How YouTube Creators Curate and Maintain Communities’, author and researcher Hector Postigo highlights the participatory culture of YouTube and how it manages to capitalize on bringing in valuable funding that is needed to help it not only be more visible but the choice for many successful entrepreneurs and businesses alike . Smith has defined the participatory culture of YouTube by explaining that content creators connect directly with their followers and thus the videos that are shared on the platform are a more personalized communication than mass information broadcast. Not only that, ...

Nashville Predators

Nashville Predators hockey team based in Nashville - the capital of the state of Tennessee. The team entered the NHL in 1998 and since that time show good results as “NHL’s top on-ice performing teams” (Dunkan, 2009). The most important information about the team include the location of home stadium - the Sommet Center, with a capacity of 17,133 and 70 luxury suites, the average ticket price – $45,75 what is a bit lower than average NHL ticket price.

The revenuer per game in 2008/2009 – $600,000.

The financial situation of the team seems to be dramatic. In 2007, the team occupied 23rd place in ...

India’s Economy and Population

Introduction India exists as a peninsula in South Asia and it is surrounded by various water bodies like the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The neighboring countries along the Indian border are China, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, and Bhutan. The land size of the country is approximately 3,287,263 sq.km, and it is ranked 7th among the largest countries in the world (India Location para 2). India’s population is 1.33 billion, and 50% of this population comprises people aged below 25 years. The number of males is slightly higher than females, where sex ratio between males and ...

Review of the article “Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat” by Eugene Cooper

It goes without saying that in today’s globalized world intercultural communication plays a significant role and requires a good knowledge of the culture within which communication happens, and it is not only because it is interesting, it has practical importance. One of the cultures that is worth paying attention to is the Chinese culture, as it differs from other cultures, especially European ones in many ways. Table etiquette can play a crucial role in doing business with a Chinese businessman. The Chinese table etiquette has become the main topic of the article “Chinese Table Manners: You Are How ...

Some can touch the ball with their hands while some cannot. Some can get yellow cards while others can get red. Some always run and are never involved; others cannot cross the line and only wave their flags. What are these words about? Obviously, they are about a wonderful game of soccer. It is truly the Earth's national game. It gathers many millions before their televisions or computers and gets the stadiums full to the rim. It leaves calm very few and can make the most modest and polite people rage and burst the emotions in their support for ...

Literature Review

The paper reviews the existing literature on the efficacy of incarcerating criminals in prisons and the associated expenses that the government incurs to jail them and maintain the prisons. According to Gilgan (2015), the expenses, which are substantial, are funded by the taxes collected from the citizens. His opinion is that a prison sentence for every criminal is neither rational nor an economically viable solution for the U.S. Government. The crucial question that the paper will explore is whether using tax dollars to imprison criminals is the ideal way to utilize the money gathered, and how might they be ...

The Dynastic Cycle in China

As Usher writes, “A dynastic cycle is a periodic alternation of society between despotism and anarchy.” The political theory of a dynastic cycle implies to the idea that each dynasty undergoes four major steps of development: foundation, consolidation, deceleration, and extinction. After its creation, the dynasty reaches its peak giving the country all possible benefits and making it prosperous, and then declines and falls being replaced by the new dynasty. Throughout its history, China was under the reign of lots of dynasties and, hence, experienced lots of repetitive dynastic cycles. All of them had similar structures but different causes ...

The Concept of the Collection: Japanese Warrior

Introduction Nature, the environment and the universe as a whole, provided a huge influence on mankind for a long time. It was particularly pronounced prior to the active development of technical progress. Japanese culture can be considered as one of the brightest representatives of such influence. It is a multi-faceted, surprising and unusual world of images and objects. Everything is living his own life in harmony with the surrounding space. Japanese style evolved over the centuries. Now it is an excellent example of the preservation of a constant shape in combination with the cycle of patterns and colors. The ...

Introduction

Literary appropriation may be defined as the legal beneficial and creative art of borrowing from literary work of another author to come up with a completely different work from the original (Adeney 2013). It is simply the unoriginal, imitative or different perspective of the original work as seen and created by the ‘new’ author. It is different from plagiarism, which is essentially copying, direct lifting of an author’s words without acknowledgement, stealing of another’s work or pirating. These borrowed ideas are geared towards achieving certain literary objectives such as to criticize, ridicule, create new literary work, prepare ...

In the article, "Why Game of Thrones is taking over the world," writer Charlotte Runcie considers the popularity of the HBO television series noting that it is one of most popular shows of all time and is broadcast in roughly 170 countries. The series, which is based on a series of books by George R R Martin, is packed abundantly with everything from poisonous murders to beheadings, fights and dragons. The appeal is intricate and intense among fans. The show is recognized as exploring the topic of power, weaving in the comic and harsh realities of what is means ...

Japan is a country full of ancient secrets and wonders. Weapons from ancient times have been carried on to this day. When we go back in the days the first thing that we will probably think of is the famous Japanese samurai warriors. There were also others like warrior monks, ninja’s and ruffians. All of these were great warriors of ancient Japan that to this day bring a history of amazing weapons such as swords, spears, the art of archery and many other items and techniques used then and made as well as mastered to this day. Japanese ...

(Class Information) Mike Tyson became a celebrity in his own right. He earned a big name in boxing, not to mention the wealth that he gained from the same sport. However, his fame waned when the front pages of the tabloids and newspapers feasted on his conviction story for allegedly raping one of the aspirants in the Miss Black America beauty contest. The Daily News read, “Mike Tyson, the world heavyweight champion at 19, last night became a convicted rapist at 25, after a jury found he attacked an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant in his hotel room here last ...

Part one

Personal computers have now become not just used for computation but also, a source of entertainment inform of PC games. The personal computing industry is now in growing at unprecedented levels regarding the hardware and software components. Hardware and software sales are up, and the challenge that computer consumers face now is identifying the computer model they need that will fit their requirements. Especially for the hardware components, the users will need to consider their hardware choice combination than include, graphics card, processors, storage, memory and power consumption. To do this, computer users will require determining whether the product ...

Summary of the main themes of the field study

Violence in sports-sports is often marred by violence and other forms of hooliganism. Sports fans in most cases take their passion for the game to extreme heights where they turn a blind eye to the sensibility and decorum. The numerous fights are a clear demonstration of violence in sports. Qualitative research offers firsthand information regarding field incidences (Corbin & Strauss, 2014). Intolerance in the game-while sports acts as a uniting factor in the society. It is often full of intolerance. Fans normally find it too hard to withstand contentious decisions that go against them. As a result, the referees are ...

Introduction - what is a subculture?

One particular term which is quite commonly used these days is ‘sub-culture’. One need to understand what is exactly meant by a subculture and how does the same have an impact on the socio-cultural frameworks in today’s world. A subculture is defined to be a specific group of people with specific behavioral traits who exist within a larger and more common culture . The subculture can be identified on the basis of ethnic, economic, social or regional characteristics and it needs to be highlighted that it is not always necessary that it will be formally enlisted or categorized by ...

Phone encryption is a temporary way of securing the data on a mobile device. Data can be lost or tampered with when the phone is lost, damaged or stolen. When the phone gets into the wrong hands, the data and information can be transferred and wrongly used. When a phone is encrypted, the contents and information are turned into cipher text. Anybody trying to read the information cannot read it (Ciriani, et al. 6) When the phone is returned to the owner, the same method that was used to encrypt the phone can be used for unlocking the phone ...

Introduction

The conversion of gas into liquid fuels is an innovative technology that is well-known to many people. This technique is so promising and enhancing new options for environmentally friendly manufacturing of fuels and chemicals as well as other natural gases. Looking into the large natural gas and coal reserves and deteriorating petroleum reserves all over the world, it is anticipated to play an important role in the future. Cobalt-based chemical agents are the ideal catalysts for hydrogen synthesis since they have a high FTS functionality, discernment for long-chain paraffin as well as a low process for the water-gas change ...

Rock music has evolved over the ages and can be traced back to the years of the 1940s. Rock music emerged after fusion of different music genres like country music, jazz, blues western swing, rhythm and blues amongst other (Covach 3). The early rock musicians are like Little Richard, Bill Haley, and Chuck Berry. They are credited with the popularization of rock music in the world as they presented unique fashion styles, dance moves and even integrated pop culture in their music. Though this genre of music was in existence in early 1940, it came to acquire its name ...

RAID Hard Drive Configuration

“RAID which stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks” is nothing but a configuration where a logical unit of large storage space is created by putting together a number of different hard disk drives. The purpose of doing this is that it is very robust and can be fault free with higher efficiencies that a single or various individual hard disk drives. RAID is a very good and tested technology across platforms and geographies which help the users in a fast access of data with a lot of reliability. RAID is now commonly becoming a part of every network ...

Impact of Smartphones in the Society

Introduction Smartphones are a type of mobile phones that have many advanced features as compared to other mobile phones. These features include wireless networks, voice communication, and play videos, built-in camera, ability to receive and send an email and play games. Smartphones were originally designed to target the business class of people but over years, they have gained popularity among people from all walks of lives. They have both positive and negative impacts on the society as a whole. These impacts are not only to the users but also to the non-users in a direct or indirect manner.

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Chinese Fan Dance

The Chinese traditional dance has existed for over two thousand years. It has been part of their heritage for all these years and is believed to be an ancient type of folk dance, and the Chinese people highly value the festival event, and it is seen as a symbol of national identity (Tamara, 2016). Purposely, the fan dance is a significant form of art and plays many roles in China. First, it is used a means of passing down traditions and stories of Chinese culture. Promote their rich historical roots. During the fan dancing, brightly colored costumes were used ...

Introduction

The NFL is an interesting game for both the fans and the players. The game attracts many people across America due to its competitiveness. The NFL thus acts as one of the factors that contribute to tourism in the United States since people move from different continents to feel the experience. A visit to the Moscone Center presents a person with an attention getter through the photos of NFL players displayed showing through the history of the game. An NFL fan would automatically captured attention through the photo set up at the top of the NFL site visited. I ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

Ethnography: Fans of “The Walking Dead”

In order to fully understand the scale of the phenomenon that is “The Walking Dead”, the critically acclaimed and widely beloved television series that continues to break rating records with each new season, one would have to conduct a bit of a research on the very people, who keep tuning into the show and supporting it over the years. The fans of “The Walking Dead” are made up of quite a diverse crowd, encompassing television lovers of all ages, genders, ethnicities, races, and sexualities represented in the U.S. Therefore, researching them gives one insight not only into the intricacies ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world the use of new media, and in particular social media, has become an essential need in the society. Social media include Web sites that allow social interaction such as social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook; gaming sites such as Second Life and Club Penguin; video sites such as Vimeo and YouTube; and blogs. Such sites have provided a fertile ground for communication and entertainment especially for the teenagers and the young adults. According to the prevailing studies, 75 percent of the teenagers are in possession of cell phones, and 25 percent utilizes them on ...

DIGITAL MARKETIN CAMPAINGN PLAN REPORT

Digital Marketin Campaingn Plan Formed in 1887, Wycombe Wanderers (WWFC) is the biggest football club in High Wycombe. After spending a few years in the lower levels of English football, the 90’s saw the club promoted into the top-flight football. It currently plays in the third tier of English football, commonly referred to as the league 2. The club plays at the Adams Park, which has a capacity of close to 10,000 spectators. In an average day, however, the club’s stadium is usually half-full, with the number going lower if the weather is not conducive for ...

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Introduction

The history of football may be traced back to China in second century B.C. The sport was introduced in England in 1170 and was banned a couple of times between the 1400s and 1600s because it was associated with peasants and was thought to promote violence and immorality (FIFA, 2000). However, the sport later re-emerged and transcended social divide to become England’s favourite sport. The English have been considered to be very influential in popularizing football across the world. In 1867, the first football match outside Europe was recorded; the idea was initiated by several ...

One of the most imminent threats of the 21st century is the growth and expansion of extremist organizations. Extremist organizations threaten the peace, security and economy of the entire world because of the sophisticated manner in which they carry out attacks anywhere in the world. One of the impacts of the continued growth of extremism has been the Syrian refugee crisis that bugs the Middle East and the European regions. The continued attacks on European cities by terrorists have however thrown the refugee problem into a whole new dimension. Attacks such as those experienced in Brussels and Paris heavily ...

Sport is a very interactive activity; there is a need for two-way communication between the athletes for a better understanding of each other, and also the game. The main aim of the athletes or the teams involved is to emerge the victors. And due to the tension built up during such competitions, it is important to take a close look at sporting activities between different kinds of sportsmen. In this case, we are going to look at the relationship between the sporting event in a high school and tertiary level, in this instance, a college. The human body tends ...

Introduction

The article “Get a life” by Jenkins talks about two major issues that artist go through in their lives with their fans who see them through their live performances and also through reading. The fans who watch the plays performed by the artists do at times get addicted to the fantasy created through the plays. The addiction at times gets to a new level where the fans feel that they deserve to get emotionally attached to the artists as opposed to just remaining as passive fanatics (Lawrence and Jewett, 1977, p. 5-6). Apart from that, there are those fans ...

Human beings as fans of outside work is nothing new: although modern society has the technology that allows large groups of these fans to gather, there is no doubt that fandom has been around a very long time. In fact, in Don Quixote—a novel written in two separately-published parts—the author had to write in a character who was initially created by a fan of the first part of the novel (Harris and Alexander 1998). This fan-made character then denounced his claim to being the true Don Quixote, and the novel meanders on—however, this is just one ...

Uncountable similarities, as well as differences, are evident in the world of sports across boundaries of states of culture, violence, and gender. An example of “self-difference” is that sport can have different names in different countries, for instance, in the United States, football is popularly referred to like soccer, different from the name “football” in the rest of the world, but all the same, it is a similar sport. In Europe, football is the most popular sporting activity where several leagues are played under several Federations, for example, Barclays Premier League in England, Serie A in Italia, Ligue 1 ...

Sports play an essential role in any society considering the impact it has on the public, the economy of the country, mass media and even at an individual level. Many are the times when sports coincide with communal values that every society in every country holds. This and more can be said about football because it has turned to be a symbol of unity in the world because it can change things, people and life in itself. Many fans from all over the world display almost similar qualities when it comes to their love for the game in as ...

The analysis of friendship as a life concept and universal phenomenon is evident in Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics. According to the philosopher, for one to declare another his or her friend, they have to meet certain conditions. For illustration purposes, one can consider the love of famous musicians that an individual may choose to monitor via different social media platforms. The decision to like them on Facebook or to follow them on Twitter does not mean that the fan and the famous person are friends. On the contrary, in Aristotle’s views, such a situation does not even ...

People tend to come together forming groups and societies that are linked by a common interest. The groups and societies are normally oriented towards achieving similar goals and objectives. They can then be classified as a discourse community. According to John Swales, a professor of linguistics at the Michigan corpus academy of spoken English at the University of Michigan, a discourse community can be referred to as the continuously increasing assumption that there exists a discourse operating within conventions that are defined by communities or social groups (Swales 217). He classifies the characteristics of a real discourse community into ...

China is a huge country located in Asia with the population over 1 billion people. It occupies a large territory, on which the population consisting 56 ethnic groups lives. As any other country, China has its own history, traditions and unique culture. Culture includes such elements of society’s life as language, food, clothing, religion, morals and norms and etc. Some of these elements will be briefly described and discovered in this essay in order to provide a better understanding of Chinese culture. According to the Chinese culture, there are four main necessities of a daily life: clothing, food, ...

There are different approaches to define small economies. Besides usual quantitative ways to measure country’s smallness by its population, territory, GDP and other criteria, there some qualitative factors that are used to define the economy’s scale. Some economists state that small economies are those that adopt “price taking” policies as they cannot dictate their rules in the market, neither significantly influence trade rules. This peculiarity of small economies mainly lies in the fact that such countries have limited resources. Hereby, small countries are more dependent on imports and are forced to accept trade agreements offered by large ...