...Assignment 5.1: Course Project—Interactional Dimensions of Conflict Dontay L. Fortune Jones International University February 7, 2015 BC465: Managing Conflict in Organizations To begin this assignment I began to explore Theme 2 of the Jones International University database and an EHow website to get a better understanding of the style of conflict experienced between the Lockheed Martin Corporation and the Pentagon. I began to get a better understanding of the conflict styles by reading Theme 2; coincidentally I looked for the specific one that I thought fit the conflict style read in the article from the Washington Post—it just so happened to be 5 categories of conflict styles present. Next, I focused my attention toward the article were the conflict was first contacted by discovery and read the article entirely. I then used the EHow website to locate and read the five categories of conflict and chose “compromising style” because I remember in the article that the Pentagon asked the Lockheed-Martin Corporation to remove potential conflicts of interest within government contractors. The Lockheed-Martin Corporation did so by divesting most of two units -- in part to head off conflict-of-interest concerns. Furthermore, assertive efforts to rename the two divested units and Lockheed will also form a new business unit called Global Training and Logistics under its Electronic Systems business by combining two information systems units -- Readiness & Stability Operations and...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers – Steven Spielberg and Pina Bausch PHL/458 August 4, 2014 Professor Leon Hallingquest Famous Creative Thinkers Famous thinkers all have things in common that help them accomplish greatness during their lives. Creative ideas are the foundation of the creative process. When creative individuals run across a problem that needs to be resolved - this is when they start coming up with their ideas. Problems can have a variety of options for resolution. This paper will cover how film mogul Steven Spielberg and dancer Pina Bausch used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Famous Creative Thinkers In this paper specific problems and ideas that these individuals sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems will be discussed. Each person’s social, personal, or political environments will be reviewed on how they contributed to their creativity. Additionally, the creative process of each person, including obstacles they faced and a comparison of their creative processes underlying each individual’s work will be reviewed. Lastly, a critique of their ideas will be reviewed answering the questions if they could have done anything differently and if their bodies of work fit into the existing framework of understanding in their respective fields and how their work advanced further understanding in their respective fields. Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg has been a pivotal force...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation Doreen Carranza PHL/485 April 13, 2015 Noel Sherry Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation This paper will look into why Steven Spielberg and Shiego Shingo are considered creative thinkers in society today. They both have made names for themselves with their creativeness all over the world. One in the movie world and the other in the manufacturing world. These two men had visions they followed making a difference on the people surrounding them following their artistic, creative thinking and vision. Steven Spielberg is one of history's most influential Hollywood film directors, as well as a producer, writer, and movie mogul (Feldman, 2014). He has a reputation of being of the most successful figures in the film industry. Spielberg’s vision has brought us some of the most iconic moments in our recent pop culture history all the while pushing boundaries on style, special effects, and storytelling (Yates, 2015). He is considered a creative genius because of his creative pioneering in the film industry especially by covering very controversial topics (Bio, 2014). His idea to focus on melodramas is a tactic that focuses on young people and can be appreciated by both adults and children (McBride, 2011). All these factors, personal, social, and political environments have affected his creativity in his movies. Today he continues to amaze audiences worldwide with his films. Dr. Shingo Shigeo was perhaps the greatest contributor to modern...
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...how if a film is done correctly and isn’t over done with special features but actually “taps into our dreams” it will be a great film. Also “The Nightmare World,” by Stanley J. Solomon states that horror films keeps us protected from our nightmares and he also states the traits of a horror film. The Poltergeist is a film about the Freeling family who moves into a new home because of the dad’s new work but something unexpectedly happens to them but especially their daughter. The characteristic of gradual suspense in Poltergeist can be clearly be seen. For instance, in “The Nightmare World,” Stanley J. Solomon states that horror films are made up of our nightmares, our “abstract fears of destruction and death”. For example, at the beginning of the movie Carol Anne who is the smallest child in the Freeling family, kneels in front of the television and talks to it while the television is gray and frizzy. Carol Anne parents leave it alone thinking she is talking to an imaginary friend or that she just has a very imaginative imagination. Later on into the film we discover that the television was the “monster” way of communicating with Carol Anne. Also, Robbie Carol Anne’s brother has a clown that shows up multiple times in the film. It is seen that later on the clown… Addition, another example would be, Steven who is the dad of the Freeling family goes to look at new land on top of a...
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...To: Steven Spielberg Date: February 1, 2015 RE: Best time of year to launch a movie Mr. Spielberg, I have identified some opportunities for you to produce a film and deliver it at the optimal time to maximize revenue. This data has been sourced for 15 years from 1994 to 2008. I will outline my findings in the following 10 bullet points: Embedded Excel Data File: 1. Total Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #1 (All tabs and graphs in embedded excel file) b. Total revenue has increased year over year in the period 2. Average Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #2 b. Average revenue has also increased 3. Average Revenue Per Month over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #3 b. June, July, November, and December are the months with the largest average revenue over the period. July is the month with the highest average revenue. 4. Average Revenue Per Week over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #4 b. Weeks 51 and 52 were the highest average over the 15-year period (December) c. Weeks 26 through 31 (July) were also among the higher average weeks over the 15-year period. 5. Which movies were #1 for the longest period each year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #5 b. There were several films that were #1 for the same amount of time 6. The months and the weeks for the movies that were #1: 1994-2008 a. See tab #6 b. Because of the ties that resulted in the data, in each year the chosen #1 film’s opening weekend had the highest revenue...
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...The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Patricia Dean Strayer University SOC 200 Professor Gwendolyn.Royal-Smith May 5, 2014 Abstract This paper assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country Sierra Leone. Next I will analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected Sierra Leone has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare. Lastly I will discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in Sierra Leone. The country that I decided to write about is Sierra Leone because it is one of the developing country in West Africa. They had a ten year civil war that ended in 2002. In May 2002 Sierra Leone voted for a government that would rebuild and restore order to their country which laid in ruins. With peace came foreign aid experts (Book Reviews, 2006). The positives of this civil war is that Sierra Leone developing democracy that has made notable economic gains. It now contributes significantly to United Nations peacekeeping operations, including the UN Mission to Darfur (UNAMID). It also is emerging as one of the most stable countries in a volatile region. The government also has passed one of Africa’s toughest anti-corruption laws, made high-profile arrests, and secured convictions...
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...is the mode, superhuman. (Christy Turlington, for the record, needs the least help.) In the March issue of Vogue Dangin tweaked a hundred and forty-four images: a hundred and seven advertisements (Estée Lauder, Gucci, Dior, etc.), thirty-six fashion pictures, and the cover, featuring Drew Barrymore. To keep track of his clients, he assigns three-letter rubrics, like airport codes. Click on the current-jobs menu on his computer: AFR (Air France), AMX (American Express), BAL (Balenciaga), DSN (Disney), LUV (Louis Vuitton), TFY (Tiffany & Co.), VIC (Victoria’s Secret). Vanity Fair, W, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, V, and the Times Magazine, among others, also use Dangin. Many photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel,...
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...MIGUEL, Karl Ann D. INTSOCI C33 Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything There are several things required to understand the world through economics: first, knowing the incentives of all parties; second, realizing that conventional wisdom is usually wrong; third, understanding that most effects have subtle and distant causes and the most obvious is often the wrong one; fourth, specialists like salesman and lawyers use obscure knowledge to achieve their own ends and the internet helps to erode this advantage by making knowledge more freely available to people; lastly, data is invaluable to understanding the world. Chapter 1: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? People all learn to respond to incentives, whether positive or negative from the outset of life. An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social and moral. Economic incentive is something material or tangible; moral is based of self-judgments; social is terribly powerful as it depicts what other people think of you resulting from your own actions or choices. Any incentive is inherently a trade-off; whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Cheating is a natural act getting more for less. The government required the High-Stakes Testing as part of...
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...Logan Stafford Johnny Bragg Interpersonal Communication 7 October 2013 We're Going To Need a Bigger Park For this paper, I chose Steven Spielberg, and chose the movies; Jurassic Park, and Jaws. The movies are very different, but they are very similar in their own way. The beginning of both movies are actually extremely similar. In the opening of Jaws, we see nothing, but ultimately the music starts playing, and to start things off, the girl (not sure if she had a name) was killed by Jaws to open up the film. However, Jurassic Park started off with pretty much the same thing. We couldn't see the raptor that they were trying to put in the holding fence, but we did see one of the park employee's get dragged into the cage with the raptor. That is what gave me the idea to write this on similarities. Both movies result in the deaths of five people by a(n) animal(s), I found that kind of interesting. Both Jaws and Jurassic Park use the element of surprise and suspension, because you don't always see the creatures, but you know that they are there. Both movies were huge successes and the special effects were revolutionary for their times. For the characters, I'm not comparing their personalities, just the roles they played in their movie. Martin Brody, the main character in Jaws, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, from Jurassic Park, are both characters that warn what is going to happen in the film, but are ignored and eventually proven right. John Hammond, the man behind the cloning of dinosaurs...
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...distinct enough to shine through all kinds of studio interference and through the collective process.” Auteur is a french word meaning ‘ Author’ Arising in France in the late 1940s, the auteur theory it was dubbed by the American film critic Andrew Sarris was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories. The features of being an auteur include; 1 having a recognizable style, 2 repeatedly returning to the same subject mater, 3 habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, 4 employ a reoccurring visual and aesthetic style, 5 constantly work with the same actors or cinametogarphers or editors…ect , or demonstrate any combination of the above. Steven Spielberg is an auteur and today I am going to prove it. I will show you through his use of themes, subject matter, visual style, Collaborations, and Institutions. Steven Allan Spielberg was born to parents Arnold and Leahanni Spielberg. The older brother to three younger sisters, Spielberg began experimenting with film in his early teens making movies he would show at his family house. At 13, Spielberg was already showing glimpses of future greatness, even winning a prize for his 40-minute war film 'Escape to Nowhere'. The family often moved with his father's job and it was at Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona that he produced his first feature-length film, 'Firelight', a science fiction movie with a budget of $400. Foreshadowing his future success, the film turned a tidy $100 profit after it was shown at a local...
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...Crusades were war-pilgrimages proclaimed by the Popes, striving for the recovery and defense of Christian territories as well as the defense of the Christian people whom made up these territories. There is a modern belief that the Medieval Crusades were “a classic example of the evil that organized religions can do”. Furthering this absurd depiction of Crusades, they are modernly viewed as insidious, cynical, and provokers of aggression against the peaceful, prosperous, and sophisticated Muslim world. According Sir Steven Runciman, the author of the three-volume work, A History of the Crusades, the Crusades were morally regnant acts of intolerance in the name of God. In contrast to Sir Steven Runciman as well as the modern belief that the Crusades were a black mark on the history of the Western civilization but more particularly on the Catholic Church, the scholars whom lied out good histories in the past twenty years have come to the conclusion that many of these myths of the Crusades are as wrong as wrong can be. One of the many myths, the Crusades were said to be the wars of unprovoked aggression against the peaceful Muslim world. This irrational proclamation of the Crusades is wrong firstly because of mass success that the Islamic conquest of the newly unified muslims under the rule of Muhammad that conquered two thirds of the Medieval Christian world. If anything the Muslims were the ones that were out for blood and instigated these wars against the Christian world. Thus...
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...Steven Spielberg wrote in Time Magazine that at the core of Zhang Yimou’s filmography “was the idea that the conflict of man foretells the desire for inner peace”. Spielberg’s statement precisely embodies the underlying meaning in both films “To Live” and “Hero” (Person of the Year). Both films reinforce the idea that humanity conquers all. Humility and benevolence are hard to come by, easily trotted upon, and often taken advantage of. However, it is only through personal strife that we often embody these qualities and begin to develop inner piece. Both films employ powerful and sad events to help expose political shortcomings and ailments that have a direct and real result on society. I believe that at the heart of Yimou’s cinematography is the idea that, after all is said and done, goodwill humanity will prevail. In “To Live”, a Chinese family experiences more misfortunes than blessings. Because of gambling, unfortunate circumstances, and political instability and change, we see Fugui and his family go through a traumatic transformation from riches to rags. But what’s captivating to watch is that as life becomes more difficult and situations worsen, Fugui begins to appreciate the finer things in life. He soul wakes up to morality and purpose when for so long it was bogged down by selfishness, power, and earthly desires. Through cultural symbolism, we are reminded of the important values perpetuated by this film. From the puppet shows to an eclectic mix of Chinese instrumentation...
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...The Knife Thrower – An essay The story ‘’The Knife Thrower’’ is an American short story published in 1997, and written by Steven Millhauser. The text is an obvious criticism to the postmodern society, in which we are living. It mainly deals with the divided minds of society, which are dazzlingly confused. The minds are confused in condition of dividing up what good and bad thoughts and lusts are. Throughout the story, we are presented to the relatively disturbing, but yet relatable theme ‘’Moral Duality’’. The theme shines through by the main setting of the story, which happens to be in a circus, during an immensely thrilling performance. The theme ‘’Moral Duality’’ is for instance seen when the main person is watching the knife thrower’s show: ‘’ The knife struck beside her neck. He had missed – had he missed? – and we felt a sharp tug of disappointment, which changed at once to shame, deep shame, for we hadn’t come for blood, only for – well, something else;…’’ (ll. 58-61 P.2). forklar citatet Theme characterization support Firstly, it’s important to mention, that the theme ‘’Moral Duality’’ is supported several times in the main quote: ‘’ The knife struck beside her neck. He had missed – had he missed? – and we felt a sharp tug of disappointment, which changed at once to shame, deep shame, for we hadn’t come for blood, only for – well, something else;…’’ (ll. 58-61 P.2). Apart from the divided minds, the fact that the main persons are described in plural is really interesting...
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...Name Professor Course Date The Beast Below” episode 2 by Moffat The Beast below is perceived as the second episode of the series concerning a British science narrative called “Doctor who.” It is an incident complete with choices as well as the political implications (“Odoni”). Consequently, this paper will consider Moffat’s film, “The Beast Below” where the author uses the science fiction to explore the theme of technology and child development. The impact of science fiction with a child is used in the series through the Doctor, whose show was principally intended for the kids as well as for educational purposes. But over the period the science fiction as well as revulsion basics proposed by its time voyage origins took over the objectives that were extensively acknowledged. The shows educational association to the kids closely informs the presence of science fiction through the use of the “beast” also, one of the series feeble achievements. Starting with what emerges to be a town suspended in space garlanded with the unification of Jack flag as well as alternate strong “tall buildings” designed with the names of British towns. The school going kids in certain a small boy is explained about the outcomes of the latest assessment from a robot in place of an instructor. Thus, this was also to demonstrate the presence of technology to the children whereby the robots replaced the tutors in class. The use of technology through the robot makes the...
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...Saving Private Ryan 1998, dir. Steven Spielberg, Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom War movies often rely on the visual to communicate the events and emotion of each scene. This works up to a point, but viewers cannot fully relive battle in this way. Background music and limited sound effects make war movies generic, predictable, and sometimes historically inaccurate. In contrast, Gary Rydstrom uses sound to communicate emotion and portray realistic battle scenes in a way that makes the viewers feel as though they are actually part of Saving Private Ryan. One unique aspect of this movie, as opposed to other war movies, is that there is no background music in the battle scenes. Music in movies tends to make viewers realize they are watching the movie, but without it, the experience is so much more authentic. The battle scenes are shot with a handheld camera, giving them a shaky and chaotic feel. Because of this, the viewer does not really get the chance to experience the full breadth of the battle through the shot. Humans experience sound at all angles, as opposed to the one angle at which we experience sight. The dynamic sound effects of the battle scenes can completely engulf the viewer, helping them to have the full experience of trauma. Rydstrom paid particularly close attention to certain sound effects in these battle scenes to help them be as historically correct as possible. A variety of gunshot noises appear in each battle scene, each one corresponding to a different weapon...
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