...like; do we live on trees, do we dance in the nude around fire and do we have wild animals in our backyards? First, I would like to talk about the belief that we live on trees. I know for a fact that everybody has a roof over their head. It can be hut, brick, or mansion. Generally, people who live in huts are away from civilization in villages. The rest of the population would have a regular modern brick house. About twenty years ago, my dad was surprised when asked the question during a business seminar in Boston. An executive asked him if he still lived on trees. My dad was speechless. And then he explained to him that nobody lived on trees, not even the poorest Congolese. Secondly, do we dance in the nude around fire? The answer to that is no. I have seen pictures of people dancing around fire, but they were never nude. Dancing plays a big part of our culture. We express our emotions through music and dancing. Sometimes for different occasions, people would wear costumes such as raffia or traditional clothing to dance. In the village, people wear traditional clothing versus modern clothing in the city. Finally, do we have wild animals in our backyards? Africa has lots of Safari’s and Exotic Animals. This is a true fact but not to the extent that people outside of Africa perceive. We do not have wild animals in our backyards. The only time we see wild animals is at zoos and national parks. So in summary, many of the Stereotypes of Africa are simply wrong. Others...
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...------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Summary A fair-haired boy lowers himself down some rocks toward a lagoon on a beach. At the lagoon, he encounters another boy, who is chubby, intellectual, and wears thick glasses. The fair-haired boy introduces himself as Ralph and the chubby one introduces himself as Piggy. Through their conversation, we learn that in the midst of a war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys was shot down over the ocean. It crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lost each other and cannot find the pilot. Ralph and Piggy look around the beach, wondering what has become of the other boys from the plane. They discover a large pink and cream-colored conch shell, which Piggy realizes could be used as a kind of makeshift trumpet. He convinces Ralph to blow through the shell to find the other boys. Summoned by the blast of sound from the shell, boys start to straggle onto the beach. The oldest among them are around twelve; the youngest are around six. Among the group is a boys’ choir, dressed in black gowns and led by an older boy named Jack. They march to the beach in two parallel lines, and Jack snaps at them to stand at attention. The boys taunt Piggy and mock his appearance and nickname. The boys decide to elect a leader. The choirboys vote for Jack, but all the other boys vote for Ralph. Ralph wins the vote, although Jack clearly wants the position. To placate Jack, Ralph...
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...MANAGERIAL REPORT Case Study: Motion Picture Industry Assignment 1 Prepared By: Table of Contents Introduction 3 Executive Summary 3 Data and General Analysis 4 CONCLUSIONS 12 Integrity Statement 13 Works Cited 13 Executive Summary In this report we will show, via descriptive statistics, how independent variables appear to contribute to the success of motion pictures. Using data collected from a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005, we utilize the following variables: Opening Weekend Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Total Gross Sales (in millions of dollars); Number of Theaters, and; Weeks in Top 60, to graphically depict their contribution to that success. We will also display the data in both tabular and graphical methods to allow management to make inferences about the data and ultimately enable decision making with reference to the data set. There are more variables and parameters available to determine each depicted variable’s contribution to the success (or lack of success) of the motion picture, but this report only analyzed, interprets and presents with reference to the four variables mentioned. Major highlights include: * 70% of the motion pictures in the sample had Opening Weekend Gross Sales of less than $10 million. * 73% of the motion pictures in the sample had Total Gross Sales of less than $40 million. * 45% of the motion pictures in the sample were shown in 250 or less theaters. * 65% of the...
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...segmentation - Target markets - Brand loyalty - Customer relationship marketing - Need, want, perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, buying cycle, motivations, CRM Customer & Consumer / Influencers Analysis 6. Centers of Influence 7. Collaborators – Analysis of Collaborators. Do they make or break your product? 8. Context * PESTLE (Perceived Lack, Sociological shifts, technological trends overtime, Legal Regulatory, Environmental) Individual Marketing Plan Chapter 2 Page 28-29 1. Executive Summary 2. Situational Analysis 4 P’s Product (what is the solution not the product) Branding Promotion Provides information and incentives, Price is what they see and value is what they see. & Placement really is access to product or service. Relationships with customer’s reason why you have the business. Acquiring and retaining customers. 3. Marketing Goals, Objectives and Summary 4. Strategic Alternatives 5. Tactical Marketing Plan 6. Exhibits (Summarize exhibits in body) Oct 1 minute per slide Write out what your saying in the body. Uses a scoring system 1. Comprehensiveness – Depth to tell a complete story 2. Conciseness- Maximum impact for words and numbers used. 3. Stragic Analytics – Use as many tools as you can show to stragically analysis. FACTS. Reduce on facts and look at strategic insights. INSIGHTS What is the impact of the insight on our business? Strategic Implication. Implementation...
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...Jack London, the author of “To Build A Fire,” uses scientific realism in his writing, which was influenced by European writers during the nineteenth century. Emile Zola heavily influenced Jack London for his short story, “To Build A Fire.” Zola explains the meaning of reality through the use of scientific determinism. Jack London worked in the Klondike, Yukon, which inspired him to write not only “To Build A Fire,” but also “The Call of the Wild,” “Martin Eden,” and “White Fang.” Survival plays a major role in “To Build A Fire,” as Jack London tells the story of an inexperienced young man versus extreme weather conditions in the Klondike, Yukon. In “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, there is a continuous conflict of man versus nature, in which...
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... Shortly after arriving at the Grange, he pays a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, a surly, dark man living in a manor called Wuthering Heights—“wuthering” being a local adjective used to describe the fierce and wild winds that blow during storms on the moors. During the visit, Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood, and leaves him alone in a room with a group of snarling dogs. Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff returns, Lockwood is angry, but eventually warms toward his taciturn host, and—though he hardly feels that he has been welcomed at Wuthering Heights—he volunteers to visit again the next day. Summary: Chapter II On a chilly afternoon not long after his first visit, Lockwood plans to lounge before the fire in his study, but he finds a servant dustily sweeping out the fireplace there, so instead he makes the four-mile walk to Wuthering Heights, arriving just as a light snow begins to fall. He knocks, but no one lets him in, and Joseph, an old servant who speaks with a thick Yorkshire accent, calls out from the barn that Heathcliff is not in the house. Eventually a rough-looking young man comes to let him in, and Lockwood goes into a sitting room where he finds a beautiful girl seated beside a fire. Lockwood assumes she is Heathcliff’s wife. He tries to make conversation, but she responds rudely. When Heathcliff arrives, he corrects Lockwood: the young woman is his daughter-in-law. Lockwood then assumes that the...
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...To Build a Fire Summary A man travels in the Yukon (in Alaska) on an extremely cold morning with a husky wolf-dog. The cold does not faze the man, a newcomer to the Yukon, who plans to meet his friends by six o'clock at an old claim. As it grows colder, he realizes his unprotected cheekbones will freeze, but he does not pay it much attention. He walks along a creek trail, mindful of the dangerous, concealed springs; even getting wet feet on such a cold day is extremely dangerous. He stops for lunch and builds a fire. The man continues on and, in a seemingly safe spot, falls through the snow and wets himself up to his shins. He curses his luck; starting a fire and drying his foot-gear will delay him at least an hour. His feet and fingers are numb, but he starts the fire. He remembers the old-timer from Sulphur Creek who had warned him that no man should travel in the Klondike alone when the temperature was fifty degrees below zero. The man unties his icy moccasins, but before he can cut the frozen strings on them, clumps of snow from the spruce tree above fall down and snuff out the fire. Though building a fire in the open would have been wiser, it had been easier for the man to take twigs from the spruce tree and drop them directly below on to the fire. Each time he pulled a twig, he had slightly agitated the tree until, at this point, a bough high up had capsized its load of snow. It capsized lower boughs in turn until a small avalanche had blotted out the fire. The man is...
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...Short Summary Two men are out in the wild of the north. Their dogs disappear as they are lured by a she-wolf and eaten by the pack. They only have three bullets left and Bill, one of the men, uses them to try to save one of their dogs; he misses and is eaten with the dog. Only Henry and two dogs are left; he makes a fire, trying to drive away the wolves. They draw in close, and he is almost eaten, saved only by a company of men who were traveling nearby. The wolves are in the midst of a famine. They continue on, lead by several wolves alongside the she-wolf, and when they finally find food the pack starts to split up. The she-wolf mates with one of the wolves and has a litter of pups. Only one survives after several more famines, and he grows strong and is a feisty pup. They come to an Indian village where the she-wolf's (who is actually half-wolf, half-dog) master is. He catches her again and White Fang, her pup, stays nearby. Soon, she is sold to another Indian, while White Fang stays with Gray Beaver, her master. The other dogs of the village terrorize White Fang, especially one named Lip-lip. White Fang becomes more and more vicious, encouraged by his master. He kills other dogs. Gray Beaver goes to Fort Yukon to trade and discovers whiskey. White Fang is passed into the hands of Beauty Smith, a monster of a man. He fights other dogs until he meets his match in a bulldog and is saved only by a man named Scott. Scott tames White Fang and takes him back to California with...
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... The swoop and dive with wild abandon, but then will return home to fix up their nests. In my past, I would burst outside to play in the sunshine whenever I got the chance. I would live a hundred different stories all at once, much like a swallow seems to do. For instance, my friend and I would often pretend we were dragons, or birds, and would swoop about on the swings and jump off, learning how to ‘fly’. It usually resulted in several bruises and a sore ankle. However, it was the spirit of the flight that counted. During the winter, the swings became too slippery to safely swing on, so we had to use tall snow banks to drop off of. We would slip our way to the top, make a nest of broken sticks and snow, then ‘fly’ away to find more materials. This, too, resulted in bruises and sore ankles. When at home, I would do ‘such important jobs’, as my Mum put it, such as bringing wood in for our fireplaces, filling the cat food, and shoveling away snow. My parents always explained why we did each job, which I am grateful for. It was easier to do a chore when I knew exactly why I was doing it. For instance, my Dad and I where hauling wood one day, and he asked me if I knew why we had to do this so often. I told him that I didn’t really understand why we needed this much wood; it was an awful lot, after all. He explained that the reason our house was always so nice and warm was that we kept the fireplaces burning, and that it took lots of wood to keep the fire hot. He said to imagine the...
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...Summary The woods in the forests grow old and their leaves fall to the ground. Man is born, works the earth, and then dies and is buried underground. Yet the speaker, Tithonus, is cursed to live forever. Tithonus tells Aurora, goddess of the dawn, that he grows old slowly in her arms like a “white-hair’d shadow” roaming in the east. Tithonus laments that while he is now a “gray shadow” he was once a beautiful man chosen as Aurora’s lover. He remembers that he long ago asked Aurora to grant him eternal life: “Give me immortality!” Aurora granted his wish generously, like a rich philanthropist who has so much money that he gives charity without thinking twice. However, the Hours, the goddesses who accompany Aurora, were angry that Tithonus was able to resist death, so they took their revenge by battering him until he grew old and withered. Now, though he cannot die, he remains forever old; and he must dwell in the presence of Aurora, who renews herself each morning and is thus forever young. Tithonus appeals to Aurora to take back the gift of immortality while the “silver star” of Venus rises in the morning. He now realizes the ruin in desiring to be different from all the rest of mankind and in living beyond the “goal of ordinance,” the normal human lifespan. Just before the sun rises, Tithonus catches sight of the “dark world” where he was born a mortal. He witnesses the coming of Aurora, the dawn: her cheek begins to turn red and her eyes grow so bright that they...
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...hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death. At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting. When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice, to their horror, that the signal fire—which had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain—has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack, but the hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance. Piggy criticizes Jack, who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch shell and reprimands the...
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...Hong Kong Disneyland – Case Discussion MSBC650 – Integrated Marketing Communication Hong Kong Disneyland Outline of Discussion Plan I. Overview a. Hong Kong 1997 – 1999 b. Disneyland i. America ii. France iii. Japan c. Disneyland in Hong Kong II. SWOT Analysis a. Strengths i. Appeal to Chinese culture ii. Communications conducted in three different languages b. Weaknesses i. Crowd control problem ii. Replaced chief in less than five months after opening iii. Poor working conditions c. Opportunities i. Growing population of youth and growth of middle class ii. Hong Kong economy had a notable rebound in 2004 d. Threats i. Ocean Park competition ii. 2,000 theme parks built in China between 1994 and 1999 III. Questions a. HKD had mechanisms in place to adapt to local Hong Kong culture, yet these means appeared to be ineffective. Why? What areas, in terms of Cultural adaptation, still need further improvement? b. What can HKD do to alleviate the problem of Chinese guests often not knowing the norms of international behavior when traveling abroad? c. Identify two issues challenging HKD’s current operations, and propose corresponding solutions. d. What would be some foreseeable challenges if Disney...
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...Gun B. Modern firearms C. Why We Use Them Now D. Defending Yourself > Body I. History of Guns in our Country A. First firearms 1364 First recorded use of a firearm Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside Heavy, inaccurate, slow to reload B. By 1892 1. Marks the making of automatic handguns The first automatic pistol was created by Joseph Laumann in 1892. The Borchardt pistol of 1893 was the first automatic with a separate magazine in the grip, and this remains the defining feature of the breed. > II.Main Point 2: Modern Firearms Automatic rifle allows belt-fed machine guns the capability to take down targets with an amazing rain of fire, and accuracy squeeze and hold finger standard for Military > III.Main Point 3: Why We Use Firearms Today 1.Defence From intruders, According to “ Gorden Witkin...
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...Summary: This paper discusses the ending of Jane Eyre, discussing whether it is a “good” ending. The paper draws on three criticisms of both the novel and Romantic literature in general to conclude that, yes, it is indeed a good ending because it both fits the prevailing realism of the main character’s worldview, and conforms to the predominant literary trends of the period. A Romantic Ending In An Anti-Romantic Novel: Does Jane Eyre End Well? This paper discusses the ending of Jane Eyre, discussing whether it is a “good” ending. The paper draws on three criticisms of both the novel and Romantic literature in general to conclude that, yes, it is indeed a good ending because it both fits the prevailing realism of the main character’s worldview, and conforms to the predominant literary trends of the period. The climate in which Charlotte Bronte wrote her magnum opus was one that had almost fully recovered from the rationalist excesses of the Enlightenment. The existing climate had replaced ‘scientific’ realism with Romanticism of the Byronic sort, drawing on the ancient ideals of chivalry and the new ideals of individual freedom to craft a literature in which suffering does not end with the last romantic sunset. Ultimately, concepts such as happiness cannot be guaranteed to skeptics like Jane Eyre and “hideous” men like Rochester -- only the divine union of passion can be guaranteed. Yet, for Bronte’s characters, this is sufficient reward and an appropriate...
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...CASE STUDIES ON ATTACHMENT By Dr. Mark Beischel CONTENTS Introduction Case 1 Secure vs. Insecure Attachment: the Story of the Boy and the Crow Case 2 Signs and Symptoms of the Insecurely Attached: the birth of a Giraffe Case 3 Continuous Lies: the Peanut Butter Boy Case 4 Curiosity and the Setting of Fires: Burn, Baby, Burn Case 5 Avoidant Attachment: Run for Your Life Case 6 Attachment and Security: a Death Row Tale Case 7 Brain Development and A ffect Regulation: Classroom Back Stabbing Case 8 Parenting at Night: “2 x 10” Tale Case 9 Disorganized Attachment: Confusion in the Kitchen Case 10 Eating Problems: the First Supper Case 11 Regulating Stimulation: Disneyland, Here We Come Case 12 Executive Function Deficits: the Paper Clip and Fire Tale Case 13 Inhibitory Control of Responses: Jelly, Jelly, All Over the Wall Case 14 It is All about Survival: Gang Pressure and destruction Case 15 Working Memory Deficits: the TV Thief Case 16 Ado lescent Brain Development: the Cell Phone Caper Case 17 Adolescent Identity and Escape Behavior: a Fantasy from the Wild, Wild West Case 18 Resilience and Temperament: No Free Drugs Case 19 Reasoning and Affect Regulation: the Orphan Card Case 20 Families Evolve Slowly: How Many Babies? Case 21 Changing the Meaning of a Stimulus: the “Dorky” shoes boy Case 22 Displacing the Rage: Slipping into Psychosis Case 23 Distract Yourself with Other Things: Playing with Mud Case 24 Paranoid Belief Systems: the Tree...
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