...As many as 20% of teenagers will suffer from depression by the time they reach adulthood (“Teenage”). That is one in five teenagers. Depression does not discriminate between age, race, or even social class. Actress, singer, and songwriter Demi Lovato has suffered from depression. In 2011, Demi was diagnosed with a specific type of depression called bipolar II disorder (“Demi Lovato Recalls…”). Demi Lovato’s story of depression and very successful recovery has brought a voice to many teenagers across the world suffering with similar issues. Demi’s story lets them know that they are not alone and getting help is okay. Demetria Devonne “Demi” Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Dallas, Texas to parents Patrick and Dianna (DeLaGarza) Lovato (“Biography”). When Demi was 4, her parents divorced and her father is not a really part of her life anymore. Demi participated in beauty pageants, and for the talent portion, she would sing. She began to take singing lessons. To pay for the lessons, Demi began acting at a very young age. Her first role was at the age of six as Angela in “Barney & Friends” (“Biography”). She was still enrolled in public school, but when she was 11 and 12, she was bullied very severely. Students once signed a petition saying, “We hate Demi Lovato,” along with being called fat (“Demi Lovato: Stay…”). It got so bad that she had to drop out of school to be homeschooled by her parents. At age 11, Demi first recalled cutting herself, and at age 12 was when she had...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Analysis of The Walt Disney`s Strategy PESTEL SWOT STRATEGIC ANALYSES “Fiscal 2011 was a great year financially and strategically, demonstrating the strength of our brands and businesses with record revenue, net income and earnings per share,” said Disney President and CEO Robert A. Iger. “We are confident the Company is well-positioned to deliver long-term value for our shareholders with our focus on quality content, compelling uses of technology and global asset growth.” According to the PESTEL analysis, the Walt Disney Company has been shaped mainly with respect to social, economic and political. First, it is politically shaped because the government and lobby groups have an important role in establishing policies, requirements and competition rules. Furthermore, the local governmental rules are crucial in establishing foreign ownership for subsidiaries or business units. Alongside with the political factors, both the economic and social factors influence the group`s profitability and activity because customers and economic conditions are closely related. For instance the financial crisis of 2007 brought serious economic downturns that affected most of the activities at Disney 11 parks. The group is also dependent on oil prices, inflation and interest rates that might affect exchange rates. Social trends influence the company strategic decisions, mainly due to demographic changes, attitudes or certain fashion cycles. According to PESTEL, technological factors...
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...a game and tried to make learning about the past fun and exciting. One of our stops was at South of the Border. Everyone bought a sombrero from the gift shop and then went on the big sombrero ride. I did not know we had to take a paddle boat to the park. I have a fear of boats so I held on to the pole in the middle of the boat. My sister and husband grabbed my son’s hands, so they did not get lost in the crowd. When the paddle boat began to move, I closed my eyes until we arrived at the other side of the lake where the Magic Kingdom was located. It only took about five minutes but it seemed longer to me. The Magic Kingdom was my favorite part of our vacation. As soon as we walked in through the gates, we heard all different Disney songs. While walking on Main Street USA we passed several restaurants and bakeries. The smells coming from the bakeries were so delightful and tempting, we had to stop in and buy some muffins. We spent two days at the Magic Kingdome, riding all the rides and going to most of the shows. One of the days we decided to have dinner at the castle. They had butter shaped like Mickey Mouse and the characters were walking...
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...The Allegory of the Cave and Disney Movies The Allegory of the Cave is one of many vivid and complex stories in Plato’s book entitled “The Republic”. The Allegory of the Cave is a story about the unseen truth of the outside world. The story takes place underground in a cave where prisoners are forced to watch a show that they believe is what life only consists of. There is a blazing fire set back behind them and a wall where puppets are displayed so that it casts images on the wall in front of the prisoners. Their heads are chained so that the only thing that they are able to see is what is being projected on the wall. For the prisoners, this is all that they know about life and all they have ever known. A prisoner later escapes and finds his way out of the cave and into a world that he did not believe existed. He was blinded not only by the light but blinded from what he missed out on for so long. He was so happy of what he has seen but discouraged at the same time of what the cave has made him believe for such a long period. He traveled back to the cave to tell the others of such a beautiful place above them, but to his dismay, the prisoner’s scolded him and didn’t believe a word he said. For the prisoners, the cave was all they knew and they were angry that someone would try and tell them otherwise. The prisoners didn’t want to believe they were being hidden from the truth. Plato used many metaphors in the story, For instance, I believe that the cave is used...
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...“Magic Kingdom” in Orlando, California, or any of the other now international theme parks people become entranced and reborn from the magic and spectacle that has been a trademark of Disney for many years and generations. Reality is that customers seeking audience with “Mickey Mouse” have no interest in the financial aspects that make Disney a major company and probably never review the company’s financials or examine their ethics and compliance functions. Team C in this paper will examine, asses, and conclude in its review of Disney and how they utilize ethics and compliance in their daily operations. “Large corporations are managed by a team separate from the firm’s owners. Though management is expected to make ethical decisions that reflect the best interest of the firms owners, this is not always the case. Indeed managers often face situations where their own personal interests differ from the interest of the shareholders. Some of these situations can be viewed as a straightforward test of the financial manager’s ethics.” (Titman, Keown, Martin 2011) In all businesses whether they be large companies as we are examining here are of course all different in structure as well as corporate beliefs. In the case of Disney as in any large company it is invaluable to view the policies and mission statements that the company pursues and trains its staff as well as “Cast...
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...CASE 4-2 Disney Learns to "Act Local" on the Global Stage The Walt Disney Company, home to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other iconic characters, has a stellar reputation in many parts of the world for its family-friendly entertainment offerings. The company's parks and resorts division operates theme parks in five global locations, including a recent $1.8 billion park in Hong Kong. Disney's fabled studio entertainment unit has an illustrious history in both animation and live-action features. The Lion King, released in 1994, is the highest grossing animated film of all time. More recently, Disney has enjoyed massive hits with live-action features. These include Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels as well as classic American fare such as the TV show High School Musical. However, despite high worldwide awareness levels of the Disney brand, as of 2006 only 25 percent of the company's revenues came from outside the United States. Historically, the Disney team has created products at its headquarters in Burbank, California, and then exported them to the rest of the world. Now, as the company targets China, India, South Korea, and other emerging markets, it is departing from its "one size fits all" approach. One factor driving the strategy change: the first-year visitor count in Hong Kong fell short of the target figure of 5.6 million people. This prompted company executives to step up efforts to educate the Chinese about Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other Disney characters...
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...University of Phoenix Material The Fabulous Fifties Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1950s: |The Mickey Mouse Club |Ozzie and Harriett | |Interstate highways |I Love Lucy | |Dishwashers |Persistent poverty | |Automobiles |Black urban migration | |Hi-Fis and stereos |Urban renewal | |Poodle skirts |Beatniks (beats) | |Drive-in theaters |American Bandstand | |Levittown |Elvis Presley | |Dr. Spock |James Dean | |Event |Significance ...
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...High School Graduation Speech Now that we are graduating I believe this time that we, class of 2014 fine tell all the people cheering on tonight but most importantly our parents three words we swore we will never say you were right. Now today, class of 2014 I challenge you to reflect on your past four years, remember who you are, where you are from, and what you represent. There’s this rumor that high school changes who you are and truth is I agree. Four years can really change a person just as Miley Cyrus because when we are freshmen she was a Disney star who was Hannah Montana riding horses and singing hoe down throw down, but now she rides wrecking balls. Although were change has been a drastic we are the naïve freshmen we once were when we first walked in as 15 year olds very awkward looking forward for the best years of our life. However, we seem realize that high school was not like High School Musical and all these singing and dancing and laughter usually ended as with crying on the way that IBCA everyday and trying to hide behind the bleachers to avoid the dreaded mile on PE. And not even next to classified school survival guide can prepare us for the horror of math excel. Since freshmen year we even change our styles and let’s take a moment to apologize to our parents for having to walk to that headache trap we called abracrombi freshmen over year. And now it’s instagram, twitter, and snapchat and if you don’t update each of them daily people will question your...
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...Walt Disney Case Analysis Corporate Strategy The Disney brand is extremely well known, but most may not realize how diversified the company actually is. The company is made up of media networks, theme parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products, and interactive media. Walt Disney Company’s corporate strategy involves three aspects; creating high-quality family content, exploiting technological innovations to make entertainment experiences more memorable, and internal expansion. Disney wants the whole family to be involved. Much of their success is due to targeting not just children, but the entire family. The movies and shows they release are done with family in mind. Theme parks and resorts, Disney Cruises, live performances and interactive media are all aimed at creating high quality family content. Disney acquired Pixar, Marvel, and Playdom in order to satisfy their second corporate strategy. The acquisition of Marvel and Pixar was intended to enhance Disney’s animation abilities to make experiences more memorable. Playdom gave the company new online gaming capacities that Disney hoped would help to improve its struggling interactive media division. UTV was acquired to facilitate its international expansion efforts. Disney’s international expansion strategy mainly focused on opportunities in emerging overseas markets. As of 2012 The Disney Channel was available in more than 100 countries and reached 75 percent of viewers in China and Russia. This was...
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...“Miley has everything a girl could want, she has millions of dollars.” After Hannah Montana was over, she started to do drugs. Now, she doesn’t make the greatest decisions. She also grosses everyone out by sticking her tongue out all the time. Miley wears weird clothes, does drugs, goes to parties, and she’s pretty much out of control now. Miley Cyrus is even like this when she’s on stage. Miley is totally out of control. Miley does drugs, wears really weird expensive clothes, goes to big parties, and she can be a little weird and crazy at times. One reason Miley is out of control is she always has chose the wrong path. Her fans, family, and some friends are mad at her because of it. Miley’s dad is not the only one upset with her. “Many of...
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...ensure that all issues positive or negative can be identified. The results of the analysis should identify the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. While Disney boasts many areas of strength for the purpose of this paper we will discuss three of them. The first strength of the Disney Corporation is its brand. The Disney brand is by far one of the most recognizable brands in the world. They have utilized characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Cinderella, and many other loving characters in order to attract children and adults alike. I myself have a love for Mickey mouse. I own an old fashioned Mickey Mouse telephone and waffle iron, just to name a few things. My five year old daughter doesn’t know many brands but she knows her Disney. I believe this is its’ greatest strength because the brand actually grows with many generations from birth on up. Secondly their cable networks are a dependable source of steady income. Cable networks bring in the largest portion of the company’s profits. Owning networks such as ESPN that definitely bring in the ratings is one of Disney main cash cows besides the actual Disney channel. Last year Disney made a distribution deal with Comcast which will all but guarantee more money for Disney over life of the contract. Lastly Disney has an excellent cash flow. One look at their annual report will leave a lasting impression on any business...
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...United Kingdom, the Middle east and Mauritius . In order to sustain the ambitious project of the firm they were looking for strategic investors that could boost the expansion in new countries . The principal global aim of the company might be to improve growth thanks to the 25 million non-resident Indians that pulled demand for Indian content, thus Indian channels were telecast and movies were distributed abroad. At that time the first opportunity of the firm was given by the possibility to establish a partnership that could give to the company an edge to expand itself all over the world. Even though UTV had this important opportunity it should not underestimate the possibility of future growth given by the local market, in fact that market is considered one of the most important from a growth perspective. Again the company had to balance the possibility of expansion in foreign market between the chance of enlarging the base of UTV thinking, for example, to an acquisition of other local companies. In 2006 the firm was put in front of important decision, UTV was evaluating the proposal for an alliance with The Walt Disney Company that proposed to acquire Hungama TV and made a significant investment in UTV(14,9%), this offer signed a turning point for UTV that had to choose the best...
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...Shobhit Devi COM/530 07/07/2014 Peter Ioveno Abstract Walt Disney Company “Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.” Walt Disney. Taking a step back into Walt Disney’s history reveals its humble beginnings accompanied by its share of controversies. The young workforce of 1940s described Walt Disney as an unfair leader as they felt he was an authoritative leader. It was evident at that time as Walt Disney did not want to budge from his formed idea of how to run the company and this led to tension. Yet there were loyalist who felt he was doing this to channel the talent in right direction to get maximum productiveness out of employees. Walt Disney did seem to have an influential effect on a certain group of employees as despite the troubles brewing this group was hard at work being creative. Today authoritarian leadership would spell disaster for Walt Disney Company if used by the management. Workers have the tendency to view this style as “being bossed around “and regard this very unprofessional in today’s era. With so many changes in law throughout the years workers are more aware of their rights as employee as well and this has created a more feeling of freedom in a workplace. Current Walt Disney prides itself on the ideas and imagination of its employees and also its customers. In doing so participative leadership quality seems to be used at the organization. In this style...
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