Chapter 4 QuikTrip: Staffed by Passionate and Compassionate People After graduating from the University of Oklahoma and then completing a tour of duty with the Air Force, Chester Cadieux "endured what he describes as '10 months of frustration' as a printing salesman. He had no clear plan of how to escape from the printing business, but he knew he wanted to own and operate his own company. "1 To scratch his entrepreneurial itch, Cadieux, in collaboration with a long-time friend from junior high school, opened a small convenience grocery store in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 25, 1958. Cadieux and his partner offered little product selection and had high prices—just like their competitors—and they barely eked out a profit during their first few years in business.2 For the next several years QuikTrip expanded the number of stores in its chain but continued with limited product selection and high prices. Meanwhile, competitors were springing up everywhere.
Hoosiers Jennifer Lee-Ross Baker College of Auburn Hills Tuesday, December 2, 2014 The Hoosiers movie is based upon a true story about a small-town Indiana team located in Hickory that made it to the states’ basketball finals in 1954. Norman Dale who has a spotty past was hired by his friend and principal Cletus Summers to become a high school teacher and head coach of the basketball coach. This story is of redemption, friendship and individuals become a team. Most of us in life has watched a film about teamwork or participated in teamwork. Coach Norman Dale faced optimization as soon as he entered the halls of Milan High School by Myra Fleener who became a thorn in his side throughout most of the movie.
The officials at the NBA club expected him to be a future star even before his first official match as a national player. He made it to the news when he was eighteen and was detected for the use of cocaine after his first game. After a few years the star again became a scandal for the news when he confessed to an audience of millions that he had again failed to come clear
James J. Braddock was one of those hundred men trying to get the job. He is denied numerous times but eventually gets a job there. The movie shows how important jobs were back then to have, when James’s work buddy states that he needs this job and that James’s broken hand will get them behind on their work and get them both fired. He threatens to tell the boss about his broken hand. The movie Cinderella Man shows many examples of how the Great Depression affected unemployment.
The movie inspired by the life of legendary athlete Jim Braddock, once a never knocked out light heavy weight boxer forced into retirement after repeated losses. All takes place during the great depression, between the 1930’s and mid 1940’s. Braddock starts to work in dead end jobs to support his wife Mae and their children. Still not totally forgetting about his dream of boxing and thanks to last minute cancellation, he finds himself back in the right against the second rank world contender. To everyone’s amazement, Braddock wins in the third round.
A seventeen year old, just made the winning goals for his basketball team. As his team members picked him up and carried him around on their shoulders, there was disbelief from the crowd but triumph smeared across the seventeen-year-old boy’s face. Jason McElwain has had autism since he was a young boy, possessing all of the signs including speech impairment by not being able to talk till he was five years old. Jason was the manager on his High School basketball team, consisting of filling up water for his teammates and sitting on the bench watching this favorite sport pass by him. His coach Jim Johnson told him to play near the end of a game giving him an opportunity he hasn’t been able to uphold.
John “Jack” Kennedy was born the second of nine children on May 29th, 1917. At the time, the Kennedys lived on 83rd Beaks Street of Brookline Massachusetts. But the Kennedys would move several times before buying the house in Cape Cod Massachusetts that they would call home. As a boy, Jack was often sick, he was nearly killed by Scarlett Fever at the age of 4. Growing up in his older brother’s shadow, Jack would compete with his brother in sports, but not so much in education.
Hazy balls of sweat, plummeting towards the wooden floor, I am tired. Thirty sprints of the court, as a warm up, I look at the coach, with a ‘put me on the court’ kind of look. He takes no notice of me, turns away and continued watching the other players. The clock reads twenty minutes to go. The 1963 State Basketball team tryouts, I am the first coloured boy to be allowed to even try out, only an exception because I am tall, 6’6” to be exact, mum measured before I came.
July 26, 2012 Phi Delta Kappan Article Friday Night Rites Written by Perry A Zirkel This article was about a very successful football coach, Marcus Borden, in a town in central New Jersey being told he could not pray anymore before, during and after the games. Coach Borden was the football coach at this high school for 23 years. He had his tradition as far as what he did before, during and after games. All that changed in 2005 when a parent of a cheerleader complained about the prayer that he gave before a pre-game dinner. The following week there were more complaints sent in to the superintendent of that district.
John gets off the city bus, and he totters towards the courthouse with his head down. He reflects on his past, and wishes he never go into trouble. John thinks about his teammates from his high school football and ponders about their college football careers. About a year ago, John dropped out of high school at the end of his junior year because high school wasn’t exciting enough. Once a star football player, he is now facing five years in prison for sells and possession of crack cocaine.