WHAT MAKES A GREAT DRIVER

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What makes a great driver?

Richard N. Ornelas
Le Cordon Bleu Online

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Abstract

The author that wrote this article works for onedirt.com. He discusses what makes a great driver in this article. He writes about three different drivers that all hail from Orange, CA. and the things that they have accomplished to tag them as great drivers. I am writing about one of the drivers in his article. "Robby Gordon"

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The target audience in this article is the race fan, by giving only headline news on the appointed driver chosen for this article (Robby Gordon). I think the writer could have dipped in a slightly different direction, maybe go into the past a little bit more. Dietzsch, C. onedirt.com (Robby grew up in Orange, CA. By age 8, he was racing motorbikes, and as soon as he turned 16, he jumped behind the wheel of a car. He has won in almost everything he has driven.) However, I understand why he did not when you are writing about two other drivers the information needs to be to the point. All he mentioned was all the wins; he never really touched on the names of the tracks at which he spent most of his time. In my opinion, this would have changed the direction to appease his hometown friends and family only. The author in the beginning of the story lost me for about five sentences, but picked me back up and I was entertained for the rest of the article. The author was a little bias, in the area of choosing drivers from his hometown, which in my opinion does not lay out the true great drivers. There are many great drivers in the US and abroad, that would better fit the mold of the greatest driver. There was information I would have liked to see that was not in the article. I know that this particular driver had some real bad accidents and I would have liked to read about those as well. I do not feel the author left this information out intentionally, because it was a very well written story, with the content he shared.

 

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The language was very understandable, and it has to be because of the target audience. His sentence structure was fine. However, he did miss a few commas and semi colons.

Overall, it was a great read. He did not compare drivers much he did mention Dale Earnhardt in one paragraph; (Every race fan remembers Earnhardt's "pass in the grass.) However if he really wanted to make a great story he would have researched allot more similarities between the driver

he chose and other great drivers of the same caliber, however, the author did depict the drivers he chose very well. There was no real cause and effect, however one could say the cause is all the press those particular diver gained over the years, and the effect would be the article I'm-reading right now, because if the drivers never had all the press they have had over the years this writer would be writing about someone else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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References

Curtis Dietzsch

What Makes A Great Driver

Pictures in this project were from the article I have written about onedirt.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Running head: KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY 1




The hospitality industry’s past trends, current trends,


and why? It is important to keep up with the needs of the


modern consumer.


Richard N. Ornelas


Le Cordon Bleu Online








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Abstract

* In the paper, Why it is important, to keep up with the

* current trends in tourism?

* What the current trends are in the lodging industry?

* In addition, how has it affected the tourism industry?

* I will be discussing a change in the hospitality

* industry that I have seen in the past 2 years, that

* has improved the lodging experience for a specific

* group of travelers, and explain what the change was

and how it benefited these travelers.



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Keeping up with the current trends is of the utmost importance, when

dealing with the current consumer. I have found that the modern traveler wants to

have experiences built around their personal needs. Several trends have changed

over the years but the currents trends are more of an electronic and social media

age of trends. What I mean by this, you might ask? There a many social networking

websites out today like, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and many others. Without

utilizing these resources, the hospitality and tourism industry would fail in their

attempts to succeed in attracting the current traveler. If the hospitality and

tourism industry uses the social networks properly by communicating with the

consumer on a personal platform, they will be more likely to use that particular

company for their next travel experience.

Looking at some of them on these sites, it looks as if they just make the account

and walk away, that will not work; in the current market to attract the modern

consumer. The industry has to keep a close relationship with the traveler to gain

their business. On these social networks the hospitality and tourism industry has

to keep their dealing with the consumer on the positive side or the traveler will

effect there business buy posting on these social networks the negative things that

they experienced when staying at that particular establishment. Too many of these,

will drastically affect the bottom line for that business. There was a massive

change in the way travelers booked their vacations in the start of (2007) and

(2008). Today’s traveler is very impatient they do not want to dig through tons of

brochures and search a million websites. What they want is someone or something to

provide them with easy information for the dining lodging fun things to do ECT.

According to TIA’s (Ideal American Vacation Report) released in (February of 2007)

(the ideal vacation destinations for American vacation travelers are those that

offer an easy travel experience,)






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References


Here are a couple websites I have found to set up

everything you could want to do,

while on vacation.

·         Easy Travel Experience:

·         Easy Escapes Travel:

·         Luxury Cruises, All Inclusive Vacations,:

·         All Inclusive Vacation Deals | Expedia.com:

·         All Inclusive Vacations,:

Author Note


Here are a few different types of vacation made easy websites, as well as a couple

different types of vacation sites.

Since 2007, many of these websites have popped up all over the internet to make

your life a lot easier when making your travel plans.

This concludes my paper on Keeping up with trends in the hospitality industry

Dirt Track Racing/Online Gaming

Running head: DIRT TRACK RACING AND ONLINE GAMING 1

Dirt Track Racing and Online Gamin

Richard N. Ornelas
Le Cordon Bleu Online

DIRT TRACK RACING AND ONLINE GAMING 2

Abstract

I will be talking about Dirt track racing from a driver's point of view,

In addition, I will be talking about online gaming from a gamers' point of view.

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Dirt track racing is the adrenaline junkies dream, as well as the ultimate test of courage.

People across the United States and abroad enjoy the sport of Dirt track racing.

As a driver of a race car there is many things to do before race day, so it stays together on the track.

When driving one of these cars you will experience many emotions.

One of those emotions is fear, but not the kind of fear you would think.

When you are sitting on the front strait waiting for the officials to let you on the track,

your stomach is in knots. When the green flag drops, every driver knows if you make it first through turn one,

you will most likely win the race. When you go into a turn, you are so close to the car next to you,

that your door if on the outside lane, is rubbing the cars door on the inside lane,

and at that time you are so close to that car; you could reach out and give him a high five.

When you enter a turn your going about sixty five to seventy miles per hour,

and on a dirt track if your tires don't have the right amount of air, your car will push,

which means it won't turn, or it could be very loose, and you will slide off the track.

When you are flying around turn four to the finish line, the feelings you get are indescribable.

I believe it would compare to waking up Christmas morning as a child.

I would have to say that I have had more fun driving a racecar, more than anything else I have ever done.





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The online gaming market is worth over 15 Billion dollars. With this kind of

money who buys these games? I have found that the income demographic is around 27,000 –

70,000 average income of the gamer. How much time does the average gamer spend playing

video games? According to the online MBA, gamers spend more than 17

Billion hours playing Xbox live, and as much or more on the pc; this is more than 2 hours for

every person on the planet. The average age of an online gamer is, 25-44 years of age, equally

split between genders. Fantasy RPG's (Roll Playing Games) rank highest for the most

players snagging over 92% of all gamers.

Combat arms has been said to be the biggest free online FPS

(First Person Shooter) game by far. To date call of duty modern warfare 2 has had over 4.1

Million down loads since its inception on November 10 2009 with the Sims falling in second

at, 3.2 million since its release date on June 2 2009. The resources I have found, show

that aggressive behavior in children can be attributed to the repeated violence in the games they

play. With all this information, I have found that more Americans play video games, more than

any other entertainment.

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