...Capitalism: A Love Story includes all the above. Even those who count themselves hostile to Moore (and they are legion) would admit he has the courage to tackle big subjects. After railing against America’s gun laws, its healthcare system and the Iraq war, Moore now zeroes in on the capitalist system itself. It’s an unwieldy subject and, predictably, it’s a mixed bag: on the one hand, Moore effectively tells small-scale stories illustrating how the rich and powerful screw the little people, while also indulging in windy, sentimental generalising. Thus he offers poignant scenes of decent people having their homes re-possessed by banks (shockingly, we learn there’s a foreclosure on an American home every seven and a half seconds). He reveals the appalling details of the squalid “dead peasants” insurance scheme, under which large corporations receive sizeable insurance payouts whenever one of their employees dies. And he talks to airline pilots so badly paid that they qualify for food stamps. Yet Moore stumbles in analysing the big picture. He dutifully points his finger at his bad guys: Reagan, Dubya, Alan Greenspan, and, of course, Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. Yet it’s unclear what his remedy would be. He toys with the word “socialism” without quite endorsing it, settling instead for a more woolly option: “democracy”. He seems to forget that, like it or not (and many of us did not), it was a democratic process that saw Bush the younger re-elected as president in 2004...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” was an eye opening look at violence and the causes of it in America. Before watching this film I was already aware that there is a problem in America when it comes to gun related violence and watching it helped to reiterate this fact to me. However, because of the overall confrontational style of this film and all of the facetious undertones implied by Michael Moore, the message it carries with it could have more of a negative than positive effect on the viewer, as it did on me. To start, I would like to focus on what was positive about the film. As a whole, the film focused most on connecting with the audience on an emotional level, the “Pathos” side of things. The most heart-wrenching and pitiful examples are the interviews of victims and those most personally affected by each gun related tragedy. The level of emotion expressed by each victim was enough to make any viewer feel a lump grow in his throat, the most poignant include a realtor choking on his words mid- sentence at the very mention of the Columbine Shooting (:23), live footage of children running and screaming in a cafeteria while listening to distressed 911 calls (:30-:32), and interviews with individuals and victims involved with each of the tragic events focused on, one being the Columbine shooting (:34), the other being the incident in Flint involving the death of a six year old girl (1:23-1:25). Every one of these interviews included...
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...Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Intel is one of the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, based on revenue.[4] It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (the fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate). Intel also makes motherboardchipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneersRobert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Though Intel was originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, its "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it a household name, along with its Pentium processors. Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until 1981. Although Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became its primary business. During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor designs fostering the...
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...Observational Conditions : - Jani was examined daily for checking his vital statistics. - Prahlad Jani was made to stay in a sealed room for 10 days. - He was provided just 100 milliliters of water a day for mouth wash. - The room's toilet was sealed off and Cameras were installed to monitor. - No Food / water (except that 100ml) was provided for 10 days straight. Conclusions drawn from the above Observation : - Some liquid was found in his bladder. - Jani was perfectly healthy after that 10 days of observation. - His weight was reduced slightly and he didn't urinate or defecate. The Moore family consisted of parents Josiah B. (aged 43), Sarah (née Montgomery) (39), and their four children: Herman Montgomery (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur Boyd (7), and Paul Vernon (5). An affluent family, the Moores were well-known and well-liked in their community.[1] On June 9, 1912, Katherine Moore invited Ina Mae (8) and Lena Gertrude...
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...he demonstrates ironclad points with distinguishing examples. He appeals to the emotions and morals of the audience. While tugging on heartstrings and caressing the laws of society, he manipulates the viewers. In fact, every documentary is made to so do, not just Michael Moore’s. In the documentary, Bowling for Columbine, Moore uses the age old documentary techniques to lead each viewers to a more polarized battlefield; he quoted the National Rifle Association. The National Rifle Association struggles to protect the right to bear arms. The NRA gets a little extreme, like most organizations. Associations are polar, life is polarity. You will have the extreme in every one you meet. Peta for example, (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is a great cause solid beliefs that we, as a world, needs to protect the interests of animals. Who wouldn’t want to save puppies from cruel, unnecessary testing? However, when Peta activists line the streets in lettuce bikinis, people begin to see them as extremist. The NRA is the same way. When Charlton Heston expresses his extreme views publicly after the Columbine tragedy with the exclamation, “From my cold, dead hands,” the NRA starts to get a bad reputation as well. Michael Moore used Heston’s mistake of leading a rally right after the tragedy to his advantage. Moore portrayed the NRA as inhumane, cruel people who don’t care about the tragedy at Columbine High School. Viewers who are aware of documentary tricks may catch that it...
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...Even with prior knowledge of the American healthcare system and the corruptness of insurance companies, the documentary Sicko by Michael Moore was still able to shock me about the harsh realities people actually endure concerning their health and well being. I was so blown away with the stories that I actually imagining myself in those people’s situations. C. Wright Mills would say I was using the sociological imagination, which is the ability to see how individual experiences are connected to the larger society. In America we are raised to believe that our nation is the best in the world in every category. This documentary serves to tell otherwise. “People who like to avoid shocking discoveries, who prefer to believe that society is just what they were taught in Sunday school, who like the safety of the rules and the maxims of what Alfred Schuetz has called the “world-taken-for-granted,” should stay away from sociology” (Macionis and Benokraitis, 7) That quote can also be used to describe this film. We need to think outside of our own experiences in life, to truly understand society as a whole. Otherwise we will remain ignorant and heartless as most of health insurance companies in America. The U.S. healthcare system is ranked 37 out of 191 countries in the world. We need to use our sociological imagination to understand the different people affected, especially people like me who have had good enough insurance to cover my medical needs thus far in my life, of course nothing...
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...The setting of the movie, “Bowling for Columbine” takes place in a little town country. Two boys are having a game of bowling when suddenly a pretty faced girl appears wielding an M-16 type of assault weapon. It is just a normal typical morning in America. Even though, the scenery is bombarded with ruins of buildings demolished after the bombing approval by the president. The USA is recording high numbers of people killed by small firearms and yet there is no civil war at present. Michael Moore then sets out to explore this phenomenon and why it is in play. Within our society today, media and stereotyping takes over human loves, people fear different ethnic races, children are growing to be more violent and America is growing to be more corrupt. His answers reveal strange and shocking findings, there is a very easy availability of shotguns and light firearms, which results to a rampant all over the States. America’s national history also proves to contain and entail a violent form of culture-imprinted into people’s way of thinking. Forms of entertainment are also partly to blame as they give the viewer a certain incitement including poverty levels, they are also to blame for this way of living but all these factors are not...
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...Bowling for Columbine This movie is a documentary of what the narrator Michael Moore believes is the cause for the Massacre in Columbine high school in 1999. This movie was written and released in 2002. The Massacre in Columbine high school was committed by two students: Dyan Klebold and Eric Harris. These two students attended classes for bowling and were absent from school the day they murdered 12 students and a teacher. This also left 21 people injured at the scene. The narrator Moore starts off the documentary talking about “bowling” in Massachusetts could be a big factor in these two seniors’ students committing this crime. “Bowling” is when shooters use bowling pins as their targets and helps target vital points on the human body in case you ever had to shoot one. Furthermore, Moore went through out the documentary assuming that anger and being in the suburban environment when bomb making etc. is very popular could have caused the very shocking murder act. Therefore, Moore believes the problem in America’s society is that guns and weapons are too easy assessable, shown early on in the documentary by the use of a skit from Chris Rocks standup comedy saying “the price of bullets should be increased because there would be a smaller killing rate and less innocent by standers”. This quote reveals that Moore agrees with Chris rocks point and it conveys messages that if you are going to keep guns so easily accessed then at least have the decent to increase the prices. Although...
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...Capitalism: A Love Story is a movie made by Michael Moore in 2009. The film starts off with a man reading off of a screen not seen by the camera. He urges that people who have a heart condition or who get upset easily, not to watch the upcoming film. I think this is a little over exaggeration, saying that the government and politics are so ridiculous that they will make you feel so fired up while watching. After the little advisory, there are various clips of robberies and burglaries that were caught on camera showing people stealing money. At first, I wondered how these clips have a connection with a movie about capitalism. Then it came to me that maybe these people have to resort to stealing because the government is not helping them....
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...[pic] AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH – AIUB ‘ Business to Business marketing’ Report on: Intel Submitted to: Khan tahsina nimmi Lecturer Department of Marketing School of Business Submitted By: |Rased Abdur |09-14501-2 | |Anoy Md Shakib Ahamed |09-14497-2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Executive Summary The internal complexity of the personal computer has grown to a staggering level. Today’s most advanced processors and chipsets incorporate millions of transistors, and must be compatible with dozens of operating systems, hundreds of platform components and thousands of hardware devices and software applications. To ensure leading performance, reliability...
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...known as the world’s largest chip manufacturer, based on revenues. The company mainly influenced the development of personal computers due to their invention of the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Michael Moore, the cofounder of Intel, established Moore's Law which says that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This builds the basis for the semiconductor industry of setting up their future development plan. Over the years, Intel fulfilled this rule and did not stop to improve its microprocessors all the time. Intel developed further over the years from just manufacturing microprocessors to providing platform solutions. One main customer of Intel is Hewlett-Packard, a major operating IT company in the world which produces computers as well as smartphones. Their buying centre consists of a team of 16 representatives from event marketing, procurement, and executive management. This team is considered as... Intel is known as the world’s largest chip manufacturer, based on revenues. The company mainly influenced the development of personal computers due to their invention of the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Michael Moore, the cofounder of Intel, established Moore's Law which says that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This builds the basis for the semiconductor industry of setting up their...
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...Andrew Snyder Bea Stikkoile English 130 9/8/2014 Pollution It’s hard to navigate our world today without seeing an illuminated screen; we have graduated from the living room tube TV to a relationship with technology that often seems like a dependency. With each new great release of some sort of electronic, we cast aside our second hand technology. People tend to think of these electronics as not harmful to themselves or the environment. However the electronic waste that comes from these outdated electronics are a growing pollution that needs to be addressed. There is a reason why there are so many electronics in this world. It is because there is a demand for new cheap electronics. Companies are able to produce these electronics for way cheaper than what they actually cost. I think that there should tariffs on these cheap electronics to drive the price up, and the demand down. But since there are no tariffs, everyone these days seam to have some sort of smart phone. Most of my friends have a iPhone. Since there are two different kinds of iPhone chargers my friends all have different cords and no one can borrow from one another unless you have the right charger port. I have always thought this to be a very smart business move by apple, it gets new or old customers to buy more products from them that they need to run their new iPhone. Leonard writes about this same idea in her article “The Story of Stuff: Electronics”. Annie writes about this business move saying “Designed...
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...they are part of. Intel Corporation is one of these companies. Intel was “founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory, while in 1971 produced the first microprocessor” (Intel Corporation, 2005). Being that Intel needs to keep up with the constant change of microprocessors, motherboards, and other computer and communication products, they need to have a management team that adapts to this fast-paced environment. For Intel Corporation, the three factors that influence management most in the company is the rapid change of the industry Intel is part of, the technology that is always being updated, as well as the innovation that needs imagined. Rapid Change In 1965, Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel Corp. made the observation that processing power would double every 18 months. This is now called Moore’s law, and the implications of it are that Intel has to plan, organize, lead, and control rapid change at least every 18 months, or otherwise they will be left in the dust of their competitors. A look on Intel’s web page will show that Intel is not sitting idle. Intel has several plans for the future that not only includes new processors, but chips for wireless technology, higher security technology, and several others. A check of Intel’s on line job search indicated that there are no less than 20 openings in the Untied States for research and development engineering positions. This indicates that Intel is currently in the process organizing the resources required to meet the challenging...
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...sections: overview, analysis and conclusion. 1-Overview In 2013, Intel spent more than 10.6 billion in Research and Development (R&D), and became the third biggest spender in R&D. Intel invests in R&D to get on with Moore’s Law, an observation by company co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that computing power doubles every two years. As the company works to cram more transistors onto its circuits, development eats most of the company’s R&D spending. “It’s getting more expensive to do the development piece of it because wafers get more expensive over time as more steps get added to the process,” says Michael Mayberry, vice president and director of components research at Intel. “Complexity drives cost.” One recent example of the company’s R&D efforts includes the 14nm Intel Core M processor, which is half the size of the previous generation of chips with 20% longer battery life and 60% less energy expenditure [2]. In late 1999, Intel Research was formed to perform a new model of conducting information technology (IT) research. At that time Intel already had a process for research in new product development (Figure 1). In this research approach, the approximate feature capabilities of a new product can be predict by Moore’s Law. Then the technical barriers to achieve these capabilities identify and alternative approaches to overcome the barriers will evaluate. At the end the most effective alternative will implement [1]. Figure 1. “Roadmap” research to support...
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...facilities in nearly fifty countries. Intel produces processors, motherboards, chipsets, network adapters, flash memory, software, storage devices, and wireless products. Many of us are the end-users of a wide variety of Intel’s products, but the Intel’s numerous other customers are primarily OEM manufacturers who utilize Intel’s components, end-user consumers (which includes individuals, large and small businesses, and service providers), and “other manufacturers, including makers of a wide range of industrial and communications equipment.” Intel has capitalized on its ability to lead the semiconductor industry by continuous innovation. Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s founders, introduced a principle that continues to guide Intel which states that “the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years.” In keeping with Moore’s Law, Intel’s key to success in the semiconductor industry has been constant innovation. Such a strategy has allowed Intel to remain a leader among competitors such as Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices, International Business Machines, and Freescale Semiconductor, among others. The semiconductor industry is extremely competitive, but Intel seems to have the most sure-footing of all the major competitors. By offering a diverse product lineup that calls upon nearly fifty years of expertise and continuous innovation, Intel has become and will continue to be a leader in its field. No competitor has come close to replicating the competitive...
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