Essays Tagged: "pool"

Billiards

and 'bille'. These two words mean 'stick' and 'ball'. Put them together, and you get stick-ball or pool as it's called these days. At first the game was played outside, but during the winter it got t ... nd, Denise).After the break is done, it really doesn't matter what shot is used next. The object of pool or billiards is to make balls in the pockets so the shots taken should be thought through well. ...

(3 pages) 33 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Is Your Child Safe at Home? What parents do not know. . .

IS YOUR CHILD SAFE IN YOUR OWN HOMEWhat Parents do not know.By Laetitia LavieThe pool gate is shut, the doors locked and your child is inside safely playing in your line of sight. O ... Pediatrician. Many parents/guardians do not realize there is more to watching your child around the pool, you have to watcher her 24 hours a day seven days a week, especially at home. A parent/guardia ... to keep an eye out for water when infants are around because what seems like a sip to an adult is a pool to a baby.Pets, dogs particularly, have tendencies to turn on young children either due to aggr ...

(6 pages) 155 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.

ee the media how she likes, as fascist dictators of the imagination or as an anarchic self governed pool of imagery to add to and take from as they want. Both are useful points of view and not the onl ...

(5 pages) 233 2 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Antigone: A Tragic Hero

y to be born in the House that she is born into. As Antigone defies Creon's law, she is cast into a pool of danger between what she believes is right and what the state's law decrees is right. As Anti ...

(4 pages) 107 0 3.0 Sep/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Vegetarianism

period has come technological advancements which have both caused and been an effect of the growing pool of information available to the world. Communities more fully understand and are changing the w ...

(5 pages) 146 0 2.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Women's roles prior to and during the evolution of the industrial revolution in England.

ssible source of income. There was an abundant supply of unemployed women who became an exploitable pool of cheap labor. So women in need of income were subject to take low paying jobs in order to mak ... marriage of convenience. Their was an abundant supply of unemployed women who became an exploitable pool of cheap labor. The cottage industry became associated with impoverished circumstances, and wom ...

(12 pages) 231 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Asset-Backed Securities. Belenus Securities PLC

1. What are the main features of the underlying assets?The underlying assets is a pool of 427 fixed (71%) - and floating (29%) -rate loans which are generally secured by diverse comm ... .000 to Ffr 213 million with an weighted average amount owed of Ffr 3.6 million.Property Type : The pool is fairly diversified.44% Offices / 25% Retail / 12% Hotels / 7% Multifamily / 11% Industrial & ... decreased.Majority of A Class mortgages arrived at maturityà impact on overall rating of the pool : the ratings are adjusted compensating this,à decrease of the total amount secured&agra ...

(5 pages) 112 0 4.1 Oct/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

El Nino

satellites, tracking shifting patterns of sea-surface temperatures can be made easier. Normally, a 'pool' of warm water in the western Pacific waters exists. Under El Nino conditions, this 'pool' drif ...

(5 pages) 77 0 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Why golf isn't a sport.

, has one objective you have to meet, and one obvious way of getting to it. Golf is very similar to pool, which is a game where you try to hit as many balls into any of the six holes that are on the s ... as many balls into any of the six holes that are on the sides of the table. The difference between pool and golf is that a large amount of strategy is required in pool in order to hit the balls so th ...

(4 pages) 121 7 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

This essay has a table of how many watts certain electrical appliances use up and how we can save money and enerygy in the kitchen and so on.

COSTLamp6010$0.59Lamp6010$0.59Electric blanket double344$0.23Pedestal Fan7010$0.69Roof light603$0.18PoolAPPLIANCEWATTAGEHOURS USED PER DAYWEEKLY COSTPool Pump7502$1.46Pool Chlorinator2502$0.37Security ...

(3 pages) 33 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The Physics of Pool.

The game of pool may not be as relaxing as one may think. Rather than just aimlessly hitting the cue ball around ...

(1 pages) 39 0 4.9 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Personal achievement essay.

Cross and his mother signed up for 16 private swim lessons. I wondered why he was so scared of the pool. This little tan boy had nothing but fear in his eyes. So I pulled his mother to the side and a ... im lessons here at Philadelphia Sports Clubs before.She said "No he hasn't, he has only been in the pool once when he was five and he nearly drowned to death."The first lesson I couldn't even get him ...

(2 pages) 103 4 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

This essay is about why and how one would go about becoming a general manager of a large company or resort. My teacher for intro. to hospitality gave us this assignment and it turned out pretty good.

estaurant and it exceeds their wildest expectations. To see a child walk onto a deck looking over a pool that is larger and more beautiful than anything he or she has ever seen is a reward in itself. ...

(8 pages) 141 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Where is the dollar headed?

eing the currency hurdle from 62 cents (U.S.) to 76 cents is similar to throwing the economy into a pool with a live wire feed. The benefits of free trade with the Americans are a rise in our job oppo ...

(3 pages) 77 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"Between the Pool and the Gardenias"

Between the Pool and the GardeniasThe sad, shocking story, "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" by Edwidge Danic ...

(2 pages) 19 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Based on the works of Frederick Douglas and his strugle to get an education

Fighting For DestinyImagine what it would be like being beaten almost everyday. Forced to lie in a pool of your own blood, blood so fresh from the vein that its warmth took away the chill of the cold ...

(10 pages) 109 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Medieval Trades & Skills

beer or ale when it was produced, but he wasn't a chemist. He would take a wooden bench put a small pool of ale on it, and sit on the puddle of ale. After about half an hour, he would stand up. If his ...

(6 pages) 52 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Case Study for Student Analysis

s. His primary management dilemma continues to be on a yearly basis of having a dependable constant pool of summer replacement workers. Somehow, he has to find a method to handle his vacationing and s ... ems here, but I want to focus on the replacement or temporary worker issue. Arthur can hire a small pool of temporary workers; and include in their base pay the cost for union dues; and the cost of ne ...

(4 pages) 354 1 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Swimmer by John Cheever

his little swimming journey down the stream Lucinda after his wife.After jumping in the Westerhazys pool. Neddy thought " in the back of his mind the one-two,one-two of a flutter kick". This could mea ... ems alittle funny and weird an elder man running barefoot Eight miles and swimming througheveryones pool on the way and not only doing all this but naming it the Lucinda Riverafter his wife. The signs ...

(3 pages) 82 0 2.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Position paper on Affirmative Action

the statement made in reference to affirmative action, if properly implemented, not only widens the pool of qualified candidates to minorities but also to the white male, who would have otherwise been ...

(3 pages) 98 0 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology