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19 year old Bjorn Halvard said on Thursday when he won the World Monopoly championship that
he could not believe it that he just won the tournament. On one hand, he was not able to make ends meet. One the other hand now, he can pay his rent for a good two years with the money he won. He won around 21,000 dollars on Thursday. You would think that monopoly is a game played with family and friends for fun but in Las Vegas, it is played for some real money instead of the fake one you use in the game. All he had to bring to the tournament was 1500 dollars for the admission fee and go to his table and he ended up winning the tournament. This event took place in Las Vegas and on 10/22/09.
This is news because it is oddity. Because of this event, a teenager has something to put on his resume and won 21,000 dollars. This is going to affect Bjorn or the person who won the weirdest tournament which is based on a board game. I don't believe that this will affect a large population because it is a tournament and tournaments only affect the people who won them. What makes this event important is that someone who knew how to play one board game really well ended up winning the real deal in las Vegas with what ever little money he had.
I believe that this tournament was a fun and creative idea because when i play monopoly with my family, i always wonder whether it could be played for real money and that is what happened in this case. I never imagined that people could actually do this and make monopoly into an actual betting game in Las Vegas. I think that it is a fantastic idea and they should do that with more board games like scrabble or yahztee.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
1.Write about the following: In your recent reading, what has your author/main character said that has stood out to you. Something they did or said, A quote, an experience they had that you had a reaction to?
2. Talk about someone you know who either lives by the characteristics or traits your author talks about or lives like the subject of your book. Someone who you believe does what the author says to do/or lives by.
3. Is it important for us to study leadership? Is it important for us to look at what others say or do as inspiration or as an example of how to live or lead? Why or why not?
In my recent readings, something the main character has said that has stood out by setting a goal and getting help for her employees who desperately needed to go and get help in order to create a well functioning work force. She has stood out because before at the beginning of the novel, she wasn't that confident of her employees and once she started to slowly take command of that floor of her office, she began to run the office more like a manager and less like a chimpanzee.
I believe that i hold some of these traits because last year during tennis season, the team was a total mess until coach asked me and Nate Smith to help him out and to practice with them more often. I think that i hold the traits i have said in the other blogs o have written regarding this book.
I believe that it is important for us to study leadership because it also teaches us a valuable trait everyone needs to have about taking charge in life and becoming a leader no matter what trype of person you are.
2. Talk about someone you know who either lives by the characteristics or traits your author talks about or lives like the subject of your book. Someone who you believe does what the author says to do/or lives by.
3. Is it important for us to study leadership? Is it important for us to look at what others say or do as inspiration or as an example of how to live or lead? Why or why not?
In my recent readings, something the main character has said that has stood out by setting a goal and getting help for her employees who desperately needed to go and get help in order to create a well functioning work force. She has stood out because before at the beginning of the novel, she wasn't that confident of her employees and once she started to slowly take command of that floor of her office, she began to run the office more like a manager and less like a chimpanzee.
I believe that i hold some of these traits because last year during tennis season, the team was a total mess until coach asked me and Nate Smith to help him out and to practice with them more often. I think that i hold the traits i have said in the other blogs o have written regarding this book.
I believe that it is important for us to study leadership because it also teaches us a valuable trait everyone needs to have about taking charge in life and becoming a leader no matter what trype of person you are.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Good Morning...Please respond to the following questions on your blog site. REMINDER: After today you should have responded to at least 6 people. Most of you only have around two so I don't want to hear a lot of I am done or people on facebook...make sure ALL of your assignments are done 1st!
1. Reactions to the latest pages you have read. What have you found interesting so far? What do you agree/disagree with?
2. What leadership traits has the subject of your book shown? Or what leadership traits has your author talked about being important? Use specific examples from the book including page number.
3. Talk about a specific quote or passage that has stood out to you so far. What is it? Why do you feel it is important?
4. Give me an example of a time that you had to make an ethical decision. What was the situation? Who (no names necessary) was involved? What was the ethical dilemma? Ultimately what did you decide to do and why?
My reactions to what i have read so far is wow. I really enjoyed reading this novel because it has taught me some things about being a leader and how in a situation like what the main character faced, i do have some sort of game plan in order to make my team into a winning, positive, tennis team in the upcoming season. It also gave me an inspiration in working with my team members to build the team i want to build.
Some leadership traits the main character has shown is the courage to change(p.40) and having faith in her employees(p.44). She has shown courage to change by accepting the fact that one of her groups who she managed was terrible at getting their work done and she desperately wanted them to change in a positive which was the outcome of the novel basically. Throughout this process of which her employees had been transformed into a workable bunch of people, she had faith in her employees.
"Life is too precious to spend any time at all, much less half of my waking hours, in a toxic energy dump." This quote is important to the novel because this is what the main character said in the beginning of the novel when she had the meeting with Lonnie, who runs the fish market. At the beginning of the novel, she felt that her company was hopeless with the third floor not being functional but her views about the third floor changed when she noticed change later in the novel. This is important to the novel because this novel basically built around this fact that the third floor was like a toxic energy dump and needed to change.
A time when i had to make an ethical decision was when my best friend was sick. I had to choose whether to get him medicine or go to an Iowa football game. By the way, this happened a few years ago. My friend's parents were out of town for the weekend and so were mine. I had to choose either to help him and get his medicine he needed and to get him food and all of that stuff or go to the Iowa football game with my other friends. My decision was to help my best friend out who has been my friend ever since i was four years old. I felt good about this ethical decision because i told myself that the hawkeyes had a tougher game the next week so i will go to that instead and i ened up doing that.
1. Reactions to the latest pages you have read. What have you found interesting so far? What do you agree/disagree with?
2. What leadership traits has the subject of your book shown? Or what leadership traits has your author talked about being important? Use specific examples from the book including page number.
3. Talk about a specific quote or passage that has stood out to you so far. What is it? Why do you feel it is important?
4. Give me an example of a time that you had to make an ethical decision. What was the situation? Who (no names necessary) was involved? What was the ethical dilemma? Ultimately what did you decide to do and why?
My reactions to what i have read so far is wow. I really enjoyed reading this novel because it has taught me some things about being a leader and how in a situation like what the main character faced, i do have some sort of game plan in order to make my team into a winning, positive, tennis team in the upcoming season. It also gave me an inspiration in working with my team members to build the team i want to build.
Some leadership traits the main character has shown is the courage to change(p.40) and having faith in her employees(p.44). She has shown courage to change by accepting the fact that one of her groups who she managed was terrible at getting their work done and she desperately wanted them to change in a positive which was the outcome of the novel basically. Throughout this process of which her employees had been transformed into a workable bunch of people, she had faith in her employees.
"Life is too precious to spend any time at all, much less half of my waking hours, in a toxic energy dump." This quote is important to the novel because this is what the main character said in the beginning of the novel when she had the meeting with Lonnie, who runs the fish market. At the beginning of the novel, she felt that her company was hopeless with the third floor not being functional but her views about the third floor changed when she noticed change later in the novel. This is important to the novel because this novel basically built around this fact that the third floor was like a toxic energy dump and needed to change.
A time when i had to make an ethical decision was when my best friend was sick. I had to choose whether to get him medicine or go to an Iowa football game. By the way, this happened a few years ago. My friend's parents were out of town for the weekend and so were mine. I had to choose either to help him and get his medicine he needed and to get him food and all of that stuff or go to the Iowa football game with my other friends. My decision was to help my best friend out who has been my friend ever since i was four years old. I felt good about this ethical decision because i told myself that the hawkeyes had a tougher game the next week so i will go to that instead and i ened up doing that.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Fish blog 2
So far, what i have read would be the entire book and i think that it was really good because it spoke of how a person can turn a slummy business into a positive, enthusiastic one. My thoughts about the novel haven't changed. I agree with the various steps the book gave in order to be a good leader. My views of what i thought leadership was haven't changed. This book does a fantastic job of laying out steps to become a good leader. A time when i was placed in a position where i had to make a leadership decision was when i had my conference meet in tennis and i had to make a choice when i was in my semifinal round in doubles whether to come up when the opponent served his second serve and cream the guy there next to the net or hit it to the opposite side of the court and let him survive the match. Well, knowing me, I chose to cream the guy at the net and we ended up getting the runner up position in doubles and i ended up getting runner up in singles as well. "If you're on the edge, try to make the logical decision or choice." I think that this represents what i will be implementing in my tennis matches next year when i play doubles. The author used this when Lonnie was being hounded down by the employees with negative language but he made the right choice and told them to stop saying those things and Ramirez fired those who were oppesed to Lonnie's plans to make them better.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
FISH
The novel I read was Fish by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen. It was about Mary Jane Ramirez whose husband died recently due to a health problem. She not only had to deal with the tragic loss but also had to deal with the third floor of the financial company which she manages. One day, she squanders upon the famous Pike Place Fish Market where she meets Lonnie who helps her make the third floor a Productive, resourceful and enthusiastic environment. What I found surprising is that this fish market functions like a fast food joint or like our Jimmy Johns sub place here or even like coldstone. I really enjoyed reading this novel because I believe that all places should function like this in order to have a successful business. The two quotes which will stay with me are "Things won't get better until you make them better" and "Life is too precious to be passing through retirement." Those two quotes will stay with me because the seconde quote is something my father realized when he turned 50 because he started to ramble that he can't work all the time. He too needs to have a little fun so he bought a motorcycle. The first quote is important to me because that is what i had to deal with my sophmore year of high school. I didn't do any math work what so ever and that laned me an ineligeblility last year. I learnt a valuable lesson that I have to fess up to things and to deal with those things in a appropiate manner.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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