After a hard days work, nothing satisfies me like going out to play a few friendly games of pool. Pool itself is supposed to be a gentleman’s game, but many of the people I play against taint the image of the game.
The average person I play is just out looking for a good time. It could be someone trying to free his or her mind after a stressful day at work, or a group of friends hanging out for a while. These are the people who normally come in, have a couple drinks, and enjoy a few games of pool before going home for the evening. Although some do clown around a little, they rarely get out of hand.
If you look towards the back of a bar or pool hall, this is where you will often find the better skilled pool players. These people tend to take the game very seriously. Good pool players are generally some of the most nice and courteous people I have ever met. Most of these players play the game in the utmost gentleman-like fashion and cherish their moments at the table, but there are some who try to take advantage of others. These “hustlers” or “sharks” as they are commonly known will act as if they do not know much about the game, but in all actuality are some of the better players around town. I have learned to keep an eye out for certain things, but other people should be aware of who they are playing when money is involved.
One of the most annoying opponents on a pool table is someone who always whines and complains. Every time someone like this misses a shot they have to make some excuse to take the blame off of their own self. I have heard nearly every excuse there is to hear: from the table not being level and someone’s stick being warped to pocket gnomes and earthquakes. One or two remarks here and there is okay, but making an excuse after every shot gets old very quick.
The next category is one you should expect to find quite often: drunks. Just like everywhere else, drunks are by far the loudest and most obnoxious people in the pool hall. I have played many games against them. The thing that really bothers me is when it is their turn to shoot; they are always talking to someone else and will keep talking until you remind them that they are in the middle of a game.
The three groups: the professional players, the blue-collar players, and the teenagers, have forever transformed the atmosphere of the pool hall. While many stereotypes exist concerning what a pool hall is, many are not true. It is not full of "motorcycle people," nor is it a drunken scene as depicted in movies. It is a place of social construct, such as everything in society.
We arrived at 1015 Folsom around 11.45pm. Many people were still lining up to get into the discotheque. I didn't know why people like to go to such a dark and noisy place like that. Anyway, people who were there are mostly dressed up. Some of them looked interesting. My attention went to an old man about 50-60 years old man who were already dressed up and ready to rock his world. I wondered why would the old man go to a nightclub. May be he was lonely or may be he was just looking for fun and excitement. Well, I didn't really know.
The nightclub, is an aged small wood structure in Rhode Island. The club is reported to have a capacity of 182 people. On February 20th 2003, more then 400 fans packed into the small club to see a band. Although there are discrepancies between reports of how many people were in attendance, it is obvious that the number is well over twice the club's capacity.
Fitzgerald highlights Diver's incessant need to control people when describing the Divers' notorious parties. Diver wants "to give a really bad party ... a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going about home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette" (27). To achieve this goal, Diver has perfected the skill of manipulating his guests, so that "he won everyone quickly with an exquisite consideration and a politeness that moved so fast and intuitively that it could be examined only in its effect (27-28). Diver believes he has the power to dictate the behavior of his guests and the outcome of his parties. Playing with people has become a hobby of Diver's, as he must be in control of his guests and the evening at all times.
Ephraim Petty Pool was born March 1756 in Edgecombe, North Carolina. His father, Philip, was 26, while his mother, Mary, was only 16. Over the course of his life he was married only once to Lucretia (last name unknown) in 1781, and with her he fathered 11 children . He was stationed alongside his brother Phillip with the 1st Dragoons during the American Revolutionary War .
... Melendy’s discussion are lightly touched on in the excerpt. The article does explain how some patrons abused alcohol and would “revel in drunkenness and shame,” (Melendy, pg. 76) and even how the saloon wrecked their life. It also expresses the fact that some saloons would display nudeness and play on human lust in order to boost liquor sales. Finally, Melendy in his last sentence of the excerpt states “the youths are here [the saloon] corrupted is too well known…” (Melendy, pg. 79).
On the short story of The Swimmer we see how alcohol symbolizes Neddy’s desire for fun, party life, and social life style. We see how the first few pools that he voyage to, he managed to have an amount of alcohol on his system and not only that but he is welcomed to the upper social circle. In which makes him think that people like him the way he is but in reality it’s the alcohol that they are up accepting. As he swims pool to pool and reaches to Levy’s pool, Neddy has drank his fourth drink by the time he reaches to Levy’s pool. As his moving on to the next pool he has difficulty getting a drink because no one wants to give him any drinks and it makes it difficult to move on to his next adventure. The neighbors and friends they know that
To be a successful lifeguard, you must like to be in the sun and you need to be very patient with pool patrons. They can be very rude to you, especially the older crowd who has trouble dealing with a teenager telling them that they can not throw their child in the air.
The private residence built by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in San Simeon, California is quite a site to behold. Originally named La Cuesta Encantada it is now often referred to as Hearst Castle. It is located on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Lucia Mountains. The estate took 28 years to build and includes the main house, guest houses, two pools, and acres of gardens, terraces and walkways. Its rooms and gardens are decorated with an impressive collection of antiques from around the world. One particularly interesting building is the Roman Pool.
Others to see if you’re better than them. If you don’t allow a certain group of people to play
You are launching a ball from the lower-left corner of a pool table at a 45 degree angle. Both the height and the width of the table are whole number dimensions and the pool table is always a rectangle. The only pockets are those in the four corners. Which pocket does the ball hit? How many times does it bounce before it hits the pocket?
Beirut, Pong, Quarters, Flip Cup, the Name Game, and 7-11 doubles are just a few of the names given to what is quickly becoming the new great American past-time for young people, drinking to excess. College-age students across the country have taken to channeling their energies into the creation of drinking games like these, without perhaps looking at the consequences of such creatively destructive behavior.
Psychology covers a huge field and one interesting aspect of it is personality. Personality by itself involves various issues. Some aspects are Psychoanalytic, Ego, Biological, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Trait, and Humanistic. Different types of behaviors are amazing to learn about, mainly the behavior therapy, collective behavior, crime and punishment, and Social behavior and peer acceptance in children. I chose Behaviorism over the other aspects because I believe behavior determines human personality and is very interesting. You can tell what one is by his behavior, and one behaves according to what place he has in society. By doing this paper on Behavior, I hope to get a better understanding of, if behavior develops a personality or if personality guides behavior. I also see behaviorism helping me in the future with my personal and professional career by understanding human personality and behavior better than I do. No matter what your major is, if you can determine one's personality by his behavior you can really get your work done from that person and understand the better than you would otherwise. This person could be your employee or your employer. Behavior Therapy Behavior therapy is the application of experimentally derived principles of learning to the treatment of psychological disorders. The concept derives primarily from work of Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. Behavior-therapy techniques differ from psychiatric methods, particularly psychoanalysis, in that they are predominately symptom (behavior) oriented and shows little or no concern for unconscious processes, achieving new insight, or effecting fundamental personality change. The U.S. psychologist B.F. Skinner, who worked with mental patients in a Massachusetts State hospital, popularized behavior therapy. From his work in animal learning, Skinner found that the establishment and extinction of responses can be determined by the way reinforces, or rewards, are given. The pattern of reward giving, both in time and frequency, is known as a schedule of reinforcement. The gradual change in behavior in approximation of the desired result is known as shaping. More recent developments in behavior therapy emphasize the adaptive nature of cognitive processes. Behavior-therapy techniques have been applied with some success to such disturbances as enuresis (bed-wetting), tics, phobias, stutteri...
The 16 Personalities quiz accurately reveals that I find it difficult to focus and that I also overthink things. The 16 Personalities quiz declares that one of the weaknesses of the campaigner type is that they have a really, really hard time focusing. “It’s hard for ENFPs to maintain interest as tasks drift towards routine, administrative matters, and away from broader concepts.” When it comes to school or any other important concepts, it can be almost impossible to focus. Even when doing something simple, it can be a burden to stay on task. A primary example is when a teacher is explaining something, sometimes I may be drifting off, or thinking of other things, or just plain unfocused! As I see it, this trait has a major impact on pretty
At a minuscule 1/16 of an inch long, you would think that a springtail is such a tiny creature that you wouldn't even notice him. Unfortunately, springtails travel in packs, creating bio-masses large enough to disturb you; especially when clumps of them are floating in your pool. These small insects huddle together in moist areas, eating decaying materials and jumping high into the air when disturbed. They are attracted to moisture, and as such often find their way into swimming pools where they float on top of the water like small oil slicks. Skimming your pool will remove them. To prevent them you'll need to turn off your pool lights, soap up pool surfaces and remove mulch and other wet materials from around your pool.