...The movie I choose to write about was Rocky. Rocky was a very good movie and it was a motivational one as well. It shows how a nobody from Philadelphia became one of the toughest and greatest fighters to ever live. Rocky was a boxer who looked like he was going nowhere. One day the champ (Apollo Creed) came along and was looking to stir up the press by fighting a local fighter. Rocky was that fighter, he didn’t believe it at first but realized it was the opportunity of a lifetime. He trained and trained for weeks and he had his doubts but he didn’t back out. Me being from Philadelphia, its kind of funny because you see all the places I’m so familiar with and where was training I have been there many of times. In the process of him getting ready for the fight he meets a girl who he falls in love with (Adrian). She is one of his good friends sister but he treats he like trash. This movie really gets me motivated because in the process of him training there is the music I the background that gets you ready to do something. And while he is in the boxing ring fighting Apollo Creed the music is playing as well and you know that he is going to win the fight or that he’s not going to go down. Apollo Creed never expected to get this type of fight from some average boxer from Philadelphia. He really didn’t train for the fight at least, nowhere near as hard as Rocky did. In the end the fight came to a draw and Apollo Creed did not want to for Rocky again. A good lesson to take from this...
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...The film depicts the main character, Rocky Balboa, in a lower class neighborhood of Philadelphia, highlighting his surrounding environment, occupational value, friends and peers as impoverished. The first important part of the early exposition is the scenes showing Balboa at work, as a loan shark for a larger operation. This job requires Balboa to confront and physically assault debted customers if unable to make their respective payment. This lays the groundwork for the journey of achieving the “American Dream”. Balboa working such a low-end, odd job just to make ends meet symbolizes the working class, more specifically the lower class. This gives insight to the struggles these people face everyday, not only through Balboa’s work as a loan shark, but the dock worker in a dirty environment who is unable to pay his loan in the same scene. Many signs throughout the early exposition align with the reasoning within the rhetorical framework. For example, Rocky attempts to go to the boxing gym but because of his lack of success and low amount of money, Mick gives Rocky’s locker to...
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...Rocky IV “No pain.” is the famous motto that Rocky Balboa-Sylvester Stallone lived by in Rocky IV. In this four part series, released on November 27, 1985, Rocky Balboa battles through the death of his friend, Apollo Creed. In attempt to avenge Apollo Creed, Rocky will brawl in his biggest fight yet. Located in Russia, Rocky will fight against the unstoppable Russian boxer, known as Drago. With Rocky IV having a $127,873,716 revenue, the highest at of all Rocky movies, it can be contributed to Sylvester Stallone’s background and having the perfect role for this movies. Also, because of the action-music that this movie provided and that the way it was choreographed, and for its patriotism towards America. Before Sylvester Stallone became the...
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...Rocky Horror Picture Show This production is based on rather mature themes, and therefore has a dash of provacative display of conduct. Although it does not include any direct nakedness,it is a pretty kinky ensemble. In this bizarre, outlandish performance there is singing and dancing done by aliens, a virtuous young couple, a transvestite from Transylvania , and his muscle man. Both science fiction and horror are correspondingly integrated, creating an unusually entertaining show. The Rocky Horror musical is about an affianced couple (Brad Majors and Jane Weiss) that get stuck in a thunder storm while driving. They then stumble upon the mansion of a peculiar transvestite scientist named Frank N. Furter, where they are addressed...
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...The Rocky Horror Show, in it’s essence is bizarre, flashy, fast-paced, and overall a lot to deal with. It requires people vaulting out of birthing chambers, murder via Saxophone, pole dancing, and a whole lot of fishnets and heels, lets be honest, what could go wrong? With this in mind, it was expected for Rocky tech to take it’s toll not only on it’s Stage Management team, but the cast and crew in general. So, I think we were all impressed when in lieu of a complicated set pieces, flies that kept being added to, a particularly difficult actor, and not enough breathing time between cues, it was a pretty smooth tech. This brings us to our first challenge: the slip stage. When in the rehearsal process, there were so many issue with the usage of the poles, we were guaranteed to struggle with them during tech. The process itself seemed undoable, pull the slip stage out, secure it, tightly...
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...Concluding Case-Rocky Gagnon, General Contractor: 1) It is important to Rocky to assemble a good and qualified team. The team should be able to work together to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce costs. A good team would also be able to enhance speed and be powerful forces for innovation and change. The best team would be a self-managed team. Self-managed teams appear to be more productive, have lower costs, provide better customer service, provide higher quality, have better safety records and are more satisfying for members. These types of teams control decisions about acquiring raw materials, performing operations, quality control, maintenance and shipping. They are fully responsible for the full product. Rocky would still be responsible for hiring and firing team members, and deciding which tasks they should perform. 2) Some problems that the group may encounter include learning the art of diplomacy, tackling “people issues” and finding the right division between encouraging autonomy and rewarding team innovations without letting the team get out of control. In order to prevent this, teams should be empowered, as the benefit of teams is reduced when they are not allowed to make decisions. The management needs to trust teams with important responsibilities regarding innovation, or they will revert to making safe, traditional decisions. The best teams are those that have been given a performance challenge by management and have reached...
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...Omar Hamid Mrs. Marks English 11-2 27 August 2013 Summer Reading Project The first person that I would meet in Heaven if I died would be my mom. My mother would teach me the lesson of sacrifice for the greater good. This goes along with my mother because as a single mom to a family of four she has to support not only herself but also my 12 year old brother, my 20 year old sister, and of course me. As a result of this heavy workload she has to work non-stop to support our family as a Clinical Pharmacy Manager at the Cancer Center of DCH Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. My mom barely ever hangs out with her friends or she does for herself because she is usually overworking to support her family or doing certain things for her kids. The setting in Heaven that would encompass my mother and me and allow her to teach her message of sacrifice is the DCH Hospital Cancer Center. This would be a perfect setting for her message because this is where she spends most of her life working and trying to support her family. The second person that I would meet in Heaven if I died would be my dad. The lesson that my father would teach me is love. Even though he has been deceased for 6 years, I still remember the amount of love that he gave me. Our connection was beyond a friendship it was a relationship between a loving father and a playful child. Even though my father worked the nightshift as a Medical Technologist and arrived home early in the morning he never forgot to play with me and...
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...Persuasive Memo on Fitness Center at Rocky Mountain Mutual To: Mr. Zachary Evans, Vice President of Operations From: Joseph Mirola JM Date: November 13, 2011 Subject: Company Fitness Center makes a profit Thank you for allowing me to explain to you the benefits of having the company fitness center. Company reports indicate that the Fitness Center has led to an overall decrease in employee absenteeism, reduction in employee medical costs, and an increase in productivity. Employees who have taken advantage of the Fitness Center miss half the amount of work days than employees who do not use the fitness center. This claim can be substantiated by the following data: * Employees who used the Company Fitness Center missed on average 6 days of work in a year. * Employees who did not use the fitness center missed an average of 12 days of work per year. There are three category of medical costs effected by use of the Fitness Center: * Frequent users (10% of all employees,...
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...Rocky Mountain Advanced Genome Case Study 2: Rocky Mountain Advanced Genome This paper provides an objective valuation of Rocky Mountain Advanced Genome (RMAG) to be adopted by Big Sur regarding the purchase of a 90% equity stake for $46 million. Forecast Horizon: The forecast horizon was lengthened to 15 years, as RMAG is a young, “highly promising, high risk” firm, only established 15 months prior, it should reach maturity in 2010 as sales, expenses and free cash flows stabilise (Fig.1). RMAG exhibits characteristics of a high growth firm with no dividends, high risk, high CAPEX expenditures and no leverage. Furthermore, it would be inadequate to adopt the forecast horizon dictated by RMAG and Big Sur of 10 years as cash flows only breakeven in Year 8 (Fig.2). Ohlson & Zhang (1999) affirmed that “Casual observation suggests that the horizon rarely exceeds 15 years” yet a planning period of 15 years is appropriate as RMAG has heavy R&D expenses that generate products with lengthy development stages and greater time until profit realisation. Cash flow forecasts provided by RMAG management and Big Sur analysts for the next ten years were analysed and accounts over the 1995 to 2005 were averaged as, “cash flows can be biased as a result of managers being either too conservative or too optimistic” (Titman et al. 2011). RMAG’s forecast was biased upwards whilst Big Sur’s forecast was relatively conservative. Hence, a hybrid of the two forecasts was adopted to negate bias...
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...Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc.— Preparing Financial Statements – Solution Adapted a. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory manufactures the inventory it sells at stores it owns and sells product to franchisees. The company is a manufacturer/retailer; and thus one can predict that the balance sheet will include inventories and property and equipment on the asset side. As the company is a retailer, we would not expect a large accounts receivable balance (their sales are for cash or on credit cards, which are the same as cash from their perspective). However, their franchisees may owe substantial royalty payments which would be included as receivables as well as amounts due to Rocky Mountain for supplies and advertising. The liability side of the balance sheet likely includes a number of current liabilities (for payments due to suppliers and employees) and long-term debt if the company has borrowed or uses capital leases to finance store purchases. b. See the solutions toward the end of the document. General journal entries are NOT covered or used in the course – shown here FYI. 1. Dr. Inventories (CurA) 7,500,000 Cr. Accounts payable (CurL) 7,500,000 To record purchase of inventory on account 2. Dr. Inventories (CurA) 6,000,000 Cr. Accrued salaries and wages (CurL) 6,000,000 To record factory wages incurred 3. Dr. Cash and cash equivalents (CurA) 17,000,000 ...
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...The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview about my experience attending the Philadelphia Art Museum on March 15, 2013. The museum is Located in Philadelphia, PA and the exhibition that caught my attention was Journeys to New Worlds it explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. Philadelphia Art Museum). A journey to New Worlds originates The exhibition is magnificent and two pieces that I enjoyed were Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints, and Our Lady of Pomata, a coquera. It is extremely quite as people stop in different areas to look around at so much art. I personally found some place to sit and absorb as much information as I could. My fiancé came along with me only because it is a long drive from where I live and I do not like driving far by myself. He enjoyed it as much as I did; we both sat there and studied different pieces for quite a while. Although Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints interested me you seem to understand the comparison while looking at it after being there, I feel that this picture focuses on the child because he is the center of this image, and the mother's love and caring that is expressed in her face and in the way that she is holding the kid. Looking for some reference about the painting I found that it is Roberta and Richard Huber’s collection reflects the arts at continuing...
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...Written Analysis and Communication Rocky Mountain Mutual: Promoting Fun or Fitness? Submitted to: Submitted by: Prof. Manaswini Acharya Roll No. : 15PGDM005 Section- A Date of Submission: 10th July 2015 ` MEMORANDUM From : Joseph Mirola, Claims Manager To : Mr. Zachary Evans, Vice President Operations Date : 10th July 2015 Subject : Benefits of Fitness Center This report includes a detailed analysis of the situation at hand and the different options available. The major criteria used to evaluate the case are Employee benefits and Cost to Company. After much analysis my recommendation would be to utilize the space used for fitness center in the optimized way wherein half of the space can be used for Corporate Information Systems and the other half can be used for fitness center. Executive Summary Rocky Mountain Mutual is a growing insurance company which had built a new headquarters complex in remote area in Utah. The complex was included with the fitness center featuring an indoor walking/running track, a swimming pool and an exercise room. As per the reports of the last two years, the medical costs and the absenteeism rates of 35 percent of employees who used the fitness center has reduced. Zachary Evans, the Vice President of Operations, who is profit centric, wanted the fitness center to shut down as it is expensive to maintain and run. Joe Mirola...
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...Mimi Zycherman James DeRogatis Review of the Arts: Honors 12/9/13 The Obstacles of Life A Greek, a fighter, and a poet walk into a bar. The Greek says, “I’ll think I’ll have a craft-made IPA, but only if it’s from Greece.” The fighter says, “I’ll have a warm PBR in a can.” The poet says, “I’ll have whatever hops is on tap, but put it in a broken wine glass.” So many stipulations just to get a beer! Why struggle when all you need to do is order a cold one? Man vs. Self has its roots in Greek mythology, and has been a common theme in modern-day media. Man’s inner struggle is as common today as it was in the past. In the Greek epic, “The Odyssey” by Homer, the movie “Rocky” starring and written by Sylvester Stallone, and “Just Kids” by Patti Smith, each main character pursues an improbable goal with pitfalls along the way. However, he or she who overcomes so many obstacles becomes the person they want to be. “The Odyssey,” tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and his 20-year journey home after the fall of Troy. The epic poem begins with Odysseus trapped on the island of Ogygia by the nymph Calypso. After escaping he attempts his journey home, telling people along the way of his adventures. After ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, it takes him another ten years to get home to his kingdom of Ithaca. Since it takes Odysseus so long to get home, his family believes he is dead. This ancient narrative poem and its theme, Man vs. Self, is one of the oldest known written...
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...trying to eat the snow that was being thrown. The smoke coming from the chimney next door with the aroma from the pumpkin pie, pot roast, and cheesy mashed potatoes being made in the kitchen. Then, the family across the street decorating their 10 feet Christmas tree through the window with ornaments as colorful as the rainbow and lights as bright as the sun. With that being said, you would see Christmas lights on each house and everyone in the neighborhood singing Christmas carols. You wouldn’t even be able to drive your lifted 2013 Chevrolet due to how much snow would be on the roads. The only way you could see people getting around are the teenagers on their bright blue or bright pink snowmobiles. If you were to also go down to the Southern Rocky Mountains, you would see kids of all ages and adults snowboarding or skiing. Swishing from side to side and doing tricks like no other down this ginormous mountain. Many people don’t see the joy in the freezing cold, but I choose thirty degrees over ninety degrees any...
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...Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc.— Preparing Financial Statements Teaching Notes: This case introduces students to the preparation of financial statements. Students are required, first, to consider the industry in which Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory operates and determine the kinds of line items that would appear on the company’s balance sheet. Thus, the case encourages students to consider the broader business environment in which the company operates. The case gets students to use a spreadsheet to capture a series of chronological transactions. Students are required to record journal entries for both transactions and accounting adjustments. Students use the information from the spreadsheet to prepare a balance sheet and an income statement. The case provides guidance on how a spreadsheet should be set up so that students get immediate feedback about their progress. The case includes a suggested spreadsheet and recommends that income statement transactions NOT be posted directly to Retained earnings. The spreadsheet has subtotals for the unadjusted and pre- and post-closing trial balances. Facility with spreadsheets is a must for business professionals. Acquiring those skills takes time and practice. Thus, students ought to be discouraged, in our opinion, from photocopying the casebook spreadsheet and writing in the journal entries by hand in lieu of using a computerized spreadsheet. We use this case to reinforce the difference between cash-basis and accrual accounting...
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