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    Westlake Lanes Case Essay

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    Problem Identification Shelby Givens, general manager of Westlake Bowling Lanes has worked over a 9 month period to try and get the company back on its feet. Although Westlake generated its first month of profit in over 2 years, they still weren’t close to paying back the loan from the board members. Shelby has come up with 2 ideas she thinks will revive the business and attract new customers and she is ready to present them to the board. Ultimately, the board members will be the ones to decide

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    The History of Bowling

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    The sport of bowling has a lengthy history packed with an evolution that has comprehensive rules; and is an indoor activity that has become one of the most popular sports in the world. It can easily be said that over 50% of Americans have bowled once in their lifetime, whether it was for a birthday party or on a date. However, many people bowl routinely without knowing anything about the interesting history of the game. Oddly, one of the newest of professional sports, bowling is one of the most ancient

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    Gutterballs and The Dude 's desire for comfortableness with the reality of female genitalia, but remains inaccessible due the fear of castration that comes with the confrontation of a woman 's lack of a phallus. Thus, The Dude requires the fetishizing of bowling in order to access Maude and her symbolic meaning. The manifest content of the dream, the physical images of the dream, are highly overdetermined from an original source: "multiple determination must be of importance in choosing what particular

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    Competitors Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, hereinafter referred to as Pleasant Valley, is an old family bowling alley that introduced the sport of bowling to the blue ocean community of Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to the plaque and picture on the wall, Pleasant Valley opened in 1945 with just six bowling lanes. Under the ownership of Robert Di Ventura Sr., Pleasant Valley expanded its bowling alley to 32 lanes, installed automatic pin setting machines, innovated to computerized scoring, added

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    INTRODUCTION: I. OBJECTIVE The objective of ABC Bowling Alley is to provide top of the line customer satisfaction. This will be the op priority of the company because we want our customers to keep coming back. This objective will seek to provide families with a fun experience while bringing them closer together. Another objective is to be a part of our local community for years to come. ABC wants to become the premier bowling alley in the Laredo area in 2 years and continue to be so for years

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    important?” Well, hooking the bowling ball is a technique where the bowling ball turns from its path down the lane. When the hook procedure gets executed correctly, it allows the ball a better angle of entry into your target, also identified as the pocket. When the ball enters the pocket at a different degree, as opposed to straight on, the ball hits the pins with more force, causing better pin carry. There are a few steps you can exercise to improve your skills at hooking a bowling ball. Although it can

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    I was practically raised in the bowling alley. Considering my mother started bowling around the time I was born, I was practically born into one. For as long as I can remember Friday nights were known as bowling night. Over the years 30 Lanes had become a second home to me. While I did attend other bowling alleys with my mom. Such as Leisure Lanes on Tuesday’s, Miller Time on Wednesdays or Thursdays at the old Town & Country that burned down in ‘10. 30 Lanes is where I feel especially nostalgic

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    It is the year of 2013 and my bowling career is starting to kick off. In that year, I bowled in a Saturday morning league that started in the late summer time and ended in early Spring. Approaching towards the last week of League, I received a letter in the mail stating that I have qualified for the Illinois State Bowling Tournament. Ever since I have bowled this league, I have made State every single year, but never performed as well as I should have. Hopefully, this will be the year that I make

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    certainly not just cosmic bowling under black lights. It’s not just a cliche birthday party planned for a five year old. It’s not just a Monday night league where your father comes late after a few beers. No, not at all. To some it may seem that’s all it is, but I am here to prove to anyone who says otherwise that is not the case. Anyone can have an idea towards whatever they’d like, and that happens like clockwork. Most of my friends and family know how I feel about bowling and the way it has shaped

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    With the development of every aspects in the society, to use multiple medias as a storytelling method gradually become a tendency nowadays. In order to gain various consumption, we need to market the product effectively and to make it appeal to varying type of consumers. Due to the successful and popularity of Inside Out, which is an animated feature film in 2015, the film can articulately make use of several transmedia to narrative the storytelling. The using across multiple platforms and formats

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