Trophies And Plaques: Incentives You Can Give Your Employees ...

by Anne Harris

No business can ignore the idea of distributing corporate gifts. Trophies and plaques uplift the self-esteem of employees by recognizing their value, and thus help in their retention as they feel that they are getting the accolades they warrant from the company. Other employees feel the urge to display noteworthy performance to be at par with the best performing employees, when they see the appreciation that it can bring. Their immense importance attached to it means that you have to be very cautious when picking a corporate gift.

A corporate gift must be celebratory, so that the possessor can cherish the memories and achievements associated with it. This is the reason why trophies and plaques have long been regarded as excellent gift items, which always remind people of their success. Everyone likes to exhibit them in the drawing room and they can be a source of pride as well as inspiration.

Plaques have been one of the first choices as gift items for organizations all over the world since ages. Various materials such as stone, plastic, metal etc. can be used to make plaques. Wooden plaques, but, are the most classy of all and are normally preferred. There can be as several types of wooden plaques as there are varieties of wood, but among them oak and cedar always rank high in popularity.

During corporate occasions, trophies and plaques engraved with your company logo are the best means to recognize staffs. They also make perfect corporate gifts. You can personalize trophies and plaques particularly for your company.

A shiny trophy given as a corporate gift, with the employee’s name carved on it, can have a lasting effect too. Trophies can be made of various metals and they are found in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The size of a trophy depends on your budget, but do not go for a too small or a too big one.

There are several different varieties of corporate gifts that you can opt for, but remember that the lasting impression that trophies and plaques develop remains unmatched.

Give your employees the best. Acknowledge their achievements and efforts with trophies and plaques packages online.

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What do you think of the novel I am writing?

Jul 17, 2009 by SomeGuy83749303 | Posted in Words & Wordplay

Here is chapter 2 of the young adult novel I am writing. I would love to read your feedback and or corrections (grammar, punctuation, etc...) and if you message me your name I will put you in the acknowledgments. Thanks so much! The book is about an affluent, unpopular, insecure, Caucasian kid (Jonathan) who goes to summer camp and has a rivalry, which turns into a lifelong friendship, with a poor, popular, charismatic, African-America boy (AJ) Note that the format is wonky because it is pasted form word.


CHAPTER 2
Camp Northern Lights




The paved road became dirt as the bus drove under a carved wooden sign suspended by totem poles that read, Camp Northern Lights for Boys.
The camp was beautiful, with big open fields, courts, and log cabins, all bordered by pine and oak forests. Carefully placed gardens added to the natural beauty. The camp also had extensive shoreline on a chain of fishing lakes; I saw sailboats tethered in the bay where they bobbed lazily.
Counselors outside were cheering and banging on the sides of the bus before it came to a complete stop. When it did, I grabbed my backpack and exited with everyone else onboard. One hundred and eighty or so campers had arrived to camp that day in various buses and vans. Outside, counselors greeted me and introduced themselves. They asked me how my trip went, and where I was from.
I recognized the camp director, Greg, from the promotional video he sent me. He was casually dressed and in his early thirties. He called everyone to gather around the flagpole; the stars and stripes flapped in the breeze. When we had all circled up, he welcomed us to Camp Northern Lights, introduced himself, and announced our cabin assignments for the summer.
I was in cabin Intermediate Six with four other boys close to my age and two counselors. For the rest of the summer, the seven of us would share a log cabin, shaded by maple trees, on the shore of Musky Lake. Inside, we picked beds and shelves and unpacked.
We ate dinner that evening with the rest of the Northern Lights campers and staff in the Lodge, a big log building decorated on the inside with camp plaques and photographs. Streamers and balloons had been hung from the ceiling to welcome our arrival. Before we sat down to eat, Greg said grace:

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers
None goes his way alone
All that we give into the lives of others
Comes back into our own
I care not what his caste or creed
One thing holds firm and fast
That into the days and deeds gone by
The soul of a man is cast”

Our counselors brought dinner to our tables – hamburgers and French fries with fruit punch (affectionately called bug juice) to drink. It was good.

In the cabin that evening, after the sun had set, my counselor asked us to sit in a circle on the wood floor. He turned off the lights and lit a candle. When the candle was passed to us we were to introduce ourselves and say what we wanted to accomplish that summer. He started with himself.
Alex Blumenthal was the oldest counselor of cabin I-6. He was twenty-three-years-old and instructed water skiing, swimming, and sailing. He said that he was looking forward to getting to know all of us, and to having an awesome summer. He passed the candle to the counselor seated to his right.
Jake Doyle was an enthusiastic, 6 foot 3 inch, twenty-two-year-old from England who taught climbing and tennis. He said that he was looked forward to making sure that we had the best summer possible, and to playing baseball for the first time because “they don’t play it in England.”
Kyle Schacter held the candle next, a soft-spoken camper in Spiderman pajamas. It was his first summer at camp. He had brought his new guitar with him, and he was hoping there was someone who could help him learn to play. Jake asked Kyle what his greatest talent was, prior to rock superstardom, and Kyle showed us how he could dislocate his fingers.
“Cool,” Alex said.
A heavyset boy named Tommy Hayner held the candle next. It was his third summer at camp, and he said that he was going to be a famous comedian one day.
"Famous comedian? I think that might be the funniest thing you've ever said," one of my cabin-mates joked.
"As funny as your mom trying to squeeze into her ’79 Ford Bronco, Isaac?" Tommy shot back. “Cause I heard she carries around a stick of butter just to lube up the frame... Or is that for when she gets hungry walking between her two chairs, one for each cheek, and the buffet table?”
"Please," Isaac laughed.
"You won't be laughing when you see me on Comedy Central one day, after you’re through with your shift at McDonald’s."
"You're right,” Isaac replied. “I won't be laughing, ‘cause you're not funny!"
Tommy rolled his eyes and passed the candle to Isaac. I learned later that despite their trash-talk, Isaac and Tommy were best friends.
Isaac Cohen was spending his second summer at camp. He had the muscular look of an at
HA!!!! Oh man, you are great. My story isn't really that boring, it just builds up slowly. It has a really great ending. It makes me want to cry every time I read it.

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To me it seems you're struggling a bit with keeping consistency and boundaries between your point of view and narration as the author and your character's point of view and narration...

At points I feel your character's point of view is chopped off a little too short whereby it could have been elaborated.

Basically, this story needs to be told from your character...with no room to guess at whether everything being described is coming from your character or some other source, you!

I think what might help you out to make it clearer that this is your main character speaking...would be to include his reactions to other people's reactions of him.

Also. I didn't seem to notice many emotions within Jonathan. He seemed to simply be describing and observing, NOT participating. And feelings and participation are key to making him seem real.

Will you help edit a chapter from my novel?

Jul 17, 2009 by SomeGuy83749303 | Posted in Books & Authors

Thank you so much!!!!!! It's a story about a rivalry that turns into an unexpected friendship at a summer camp. Note that the format is wonky because it is pasted from Word.


CHAPTER 2
Camp Northern Lights




The paved road became dirt as the bus drove under a carved wooden sign suspended by totem poles that read, Camp Northern Lights for Boys.
The camp was beautiful, with big open fields, courts, and log cabins, all bordered by pine and oak forests. Carefully placed gardens added to the natural beauty. The camp also had extensive shoreline on a chain of fishing lakes; I saw sailboats tethered in the bay where they bobbed lazily.
Counselors outside were cheering and banging on the sides of the bus before it came to a complete stop. When it did, I grabbed my backpack and exited with everyone else onboard. One hundred and eighty or so campers had arrived to camp that day in various buses and vans. Outside, counselors greeted me and introduced themselves. They asked me how my trip went, and where I was from.
I recognized the camp director, Greg, from the promotional video he sent me. He was casually dressed and in his early thirties. He called everyone to gather around the flagpole; the stars and stripes flapped in the breeze. When we had all circled up, he welcomed us to Camp Northern Lights, introduced himself, and announced our cabin assignments for the summer.
I was in cabin Intermediate Six with four other boys close to my age and two counselors. For the rest of the summer, the seven of us would share a log cabin, shaded by maple trees, on the shore of Musky Lake.
We ate dinner that evening with the rest of the Northern Lights campers and staff in the Lodge, a big log building decorated on the inside with camp plaques and photographs. Streamers and balloons had been hung from the ceiling to welcome our arrival. Before we sat down to eat, Greg said grace:

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers
None goes his way alone
All that we give into the lives of others
Comes back into our own
I care not what his caste or creed
One thing holds firm and fast
That into the days and deeds gone by
The soul of a man is cast”

Our counselors brought dinner to our tables – hamburgers and French fries with fruit punch (affectionately called bug juice) to drink. It was good.

In the cabin that evening, after the sun had set, my counselor asked us to sit in a circle on the wood floor. He turned off the lights and lit a candle. When the candle was passed to us we were to introduce ourselves and say what we wanted to accomplish that summer. He started with himself.
Alex Blumenthal was the oldest counselor of cabin I-6. He was twenty-three-years-old and instructed water skiing, swimming, and sailing. He said that he was looking forward to getting to know all of us, and to having an awesome summer. He passed the candle to the counselor seated to his right.
Jake Doyle was an enthusiastic, 6 foot 3 inch, twenty-two-year-old from England who taught climbing and tennis. He said that he was looked forward to giving us the best summer possible, and to playing baseball for the first time because “they don’t play it in England.”
Kyle Schacter held the candle next, a soft-spoken camper in Spiderman pajamas. It was his first summer at camp. He had brought his new guitar with him, and he was hoping there was someone who could help him learn to play. Jake asked Kyle what his greatest talent was, prior to rock superstardom, and Kyle showed us how he could dislocate his fingers.
“Cool,” Alex said.
A heavyset boy named Tommy Hayner held the candle next. It was his third summer at camp, and he said that he was going to be a famous comedian one day.
"Famous comedian? I think that might be the funniest thing you've ever said," one of my cabin-mates joked.
"As funny as your mom trying to squeeze into her ’79 Ford Bronco, Isaac?" Tommy shot back. “Cause I heard she carries around a stick of butter just to lube up the frame... Or is that for when she gets hungry walking between her two chairs, one for each cheek, and the buffet table?”
"Please," Isaac laughed.
"You won't be laughing when you see me on Comedy Central one day, after you’re through with your shift at McDonald’s."
"You're right,” Isaac replied. “I won't be laughing, ‘cause you're not funny!"
Tommy rolled his eyes and passed the candle to Isaac. I learned later that despite their trash-talk, Isaac and Tommy were best friends.
Isaac Cohen was spending his second summer at camp. He had the muscular look of an athlete. In his husky voice he told us that he was "obviously a Packers fan," as he pointed to his Packers pajamas, and that summer he wanted to "stay in shape for football."
He passed me the candle. I said that my name was Jonathan Dreyfus, it was my first summer at camp, and I wanted to learn to water ski and sail.
I passed the candle to the boy on my right who introduced himself as Hector C

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I'm going to refer you to this Yahoo! group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/critical_w riting/

and recommend that you don't ask others to edit from Answers because A: you're not going to get enough replies to fill an eggcup (and if you do, those replies will hardly help your writing, if at all) & B: if you're considering serious writing, then I'd recommend posting at an actual group that's guaranteed to review your work, and no one's going to steal it either. Not only that--you'll get line-by-line crits (critiques) and not just a two-sentence conclusion that hardly helps you.

And no, I'm not advertising this group--I'm just a lowly member. But there are a couple spectacular writers in this group, *published* writers who know their stuff. For myself, writing is both a passion and a blessing--I suggest joining a writing group of any kind, whether online or at your library.

I've trawled the web for years, always searching for a good group. Then I found Critical Writing, and after realizing the latent potential in my wriring thanks to some insightful critiques, the rejection letters for my short stories became acceptances. I *strongly* urge any writer to seek professional counsel from other writers, and to never forget: you're a writer.

cheers,

kylie m

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/critical_w riting/

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