...Critical Analysis # 10 “Who Killed the Electric Car?” From the movie I watched, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” 2006 year by the director Chris Paine, is impressed me very much. The truth that coming out of this movie is leaving in the audience’s mind exclamation, contradiction, and questions. This is not just a film about a car, it is film about us. But more than that, it is an uplifting film about us. About the nation that could be prosper in the future life with amazing life conditions. The plot of this movie is about the electric car in 90-s which was very popular and was becoming very high on demand among U.S. consumers. However, for the big monopolies and for the government was unprofitably to multiply and distribute these electric cars. In fact, the electric cars were much cheaper in use for consumers, because of the several aspects. The first and the most important aspect was petroleum. For the petroleum company the electric car could cause their bankruptcy, and therefore it is not profitably to distribute on the market the electric car. Second, electric cars were much cheaper than gas/petroleum cars; in fact, they did not need the expensive repair like gas/petroleum cars needed. This means that enormous car and dealer shops will no longer need for E.C. Also, no longer need for E.C. expensive spare parts, therefore no more spending on car parts. The big pressure was coming from the petroleum companies and government; however, the biggest reason to terminate...
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...Is Bilbo a leader whenever Gandalf is away? The dwarves would never have made it to the Lonely Mountain without Bilbo. Bilbo is the one who killed the spiders and freed the dwarves from their webs. He is the one who led their escape from the Elven palace. The hobbit shows creativity and confidence throughout the journey. Both of those are characteristics of a leader. Bilbo is definitely a leader when Gandalf is away. Bilbo killed the spiders and freed the dwarves from their webs. The dwarves would never have made it to the Lonely Mountain if Bilbo had lacked the courage to fight the spiders. The group would have been eaten by the spiders. Bilbo demonstrates confidence while fighting and killing the spiders. Bilbo also exhibits creativity....
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...being able to forgive. About mutual sympathy and respect despite age and cultural differences. He made it he’s purpose to look for people who tell their story well (without sounding "professional” in any way) people whose stories can provide a different view on aspect of the overall story we have taken for granted. Base on the article Beyer is writing to Holocaust survivors, and anyone who’ve had their lives affected in any way cause of the Holocaust. He’s purpose was to get their stories out there, because those stories made a big impression on he’s life. Children during the Holocaust. “United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”. Web. May 8 2014. “Children during the holocaust” (2013), prove that children were especially vulnerable doing the holocaust because the Nazis advocate killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups in accordance with their ideological views, either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children. The fate of Jewish and non-Jewish children can be categorized in the following way: 1) children killed when they arrived in killing centers; 2) children killed immediately after birth or in institutions; 3) children born in ghettos and camps who survived because prisoners hid them; 4) children, usually over age 12, who were used as laborers and...
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...SOCIAL INNOVATION IN SPAIN Introduction Social innovation is defined as a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. The results of social innovation - new ideas that meet the unmet needs- are all around us. The results include hospices and kindergartens, fair trade and restorative justices, distance learning and congestion charging. Social innovation is different from innovation or creativity in general because it covers very wide boundaries of impact from gay partnership to new ways of using mobile phone texting and from new lifestyles to new products and services. Why Social Innovation? The financial and economic crisis makes creativity and innovation in general and social innovation in particular more important to foster sustainable growth, secure jobs and boost household health in micro level. The reason social innovation has moved center stage over the last decade is that existing structures and policies have found it impossible to crack some of the most pressing issues of our times – such as climate change, the worldwide epidemic of chronic disease, and widening inequality. History of Social Innovation The last two centuries have seen innumerable social innovations that have moved from margins to mainstream. These include the invention and spread of trade unions and cooperatives, which...
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...Organizational innovation “But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.” So said Steve Jobs when asked about the roots of innovation. One of the most important reasons behind the unprecedented success of Apple has been its constant innovations under the leadership of visionary Steve Jobs, escalated primarily after 1996 when Jobs rejoined the company. Within short time, Apple has become the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012. Peter Drucker believed that “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship, the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” In its broadest sense, innovation, or the development of new business ideas, is at the core of many successful businesses. Innovative organizations are able to spot and respond to market opportunities. They identify consumer needs, and then develop appropriate products. Innovation need not be revolutionary inventing a brilliant brand new product all the time. Innovation can be evolutionary, a number of small step changes that allow a business to adapt to developing marketplace or economic...
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...amount and variety of the fakes. Chinese people name this counterfeit production in a ironic way- “Shan Zhai Culture” where the words “Shan Zhai” original means “mountain village”. Shan Zhai is to describes those electronic products, like cell phone, MP3 that have the similar names or appearance of famous brands but were made in the village. 1 Because of this, many people blame Chinese industries for copying the original products without approvals. Some people even concluded that China is a nation lacking of innovation. But how can a national rapidly developed in 30 years without spirit of innovation and creativity? Shan zhai is different from simply counterfeiting; it means more to China. Some people believe that the thriving Shan Zhai culture is because of the Chinese Styled Education System where teacher centered classes and text-based education killed the creativity of Chinese kids 3. Some says counterfeiting and following the developed countries is a characteristic of emerging world 2. From the cultural to economic reasons, the fact that Shan Zhai is badly needed in China cannot be denied. In other words, China is not a country without innovations, but it has to have the Shan Zhai that imitating others as a process of development4. Shan Zhai on one hand is a good strategy for marketing 2. It fits needs for a broader range of customers, especially in developing countries. People buy the Shan Zhai products not because they are convinced that the product is original,...
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...Ishmael Beah on C-span Ishmael Beah, who wrote A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, published in 2007 and interviewed in C-span by, Brian Lamb (2007) explains that he was a boy soldier living a brutal life and had little to no hope for himself because of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Ishmael was not the only that was impacted but also by millions of the world wanting to stop child brutality and it explains to the first world countries how life is not pleasant everywhere. Although, Ishmael Beah talks to the interviewer, Brian Lamb and intonating in a miserable and gloomy but journalistic tone. The war has impacted him today and has unlocked his creativity in how own comfortable way, talking to someone about his miserable life in such an smooth and incredibly controlling way. It has made me believe that he’s overcome his harsh life challenges. Ishmael was so...
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...In William Shakespeare’s last comedic play Twelfth Night or What You Will the concept of creativity and imagination is an essential element to the plot as it is intertwined with love and identity. Few parts of the play are not in some way affected by imagination and creativity. This Shakespearean play depicts situations of deception, love and most prominently foolery all of which are fueled by the creativity and imagination of the cast. Throughout the play the source of a character’s love for another is challenged by how creativity and imagination play a role in their devotion. Characters use creative ploys to manipulate the imaginations of their targets causing foolery and chaos to ensue. Creativity and imagination spark love, and create clouds of confusion. It is only when events caused by works of creativity and imagination are revealed to all that the play can come to a close. In the opening scene of the play Orsino, detailing the extent of his lovesickness, says “So full of shapes is fancy / That it alone is high fantastical” (1.1.14-15). Orsino speaks of fancy as meaning love and that his love creates intense...
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...Better yet, give him none”(Bradbury). Providing the public with only one side of the story allows the government to decide what society thinks, and whenever their ideas are challenged, those who are challenging are suppressed and their beliefs are censored. During the holocaust, Nazi soldiers would burn books that challenged their beliefs in order to convince the public to support their totalitarian agenda. Outlets for creativity are silenced in societies where censorship is prevalent, and realizing what creativity is pushes Montag to fight censorship. Once he began reading the books rather than burning them, Montag starts to see humanity in the books. Rather than seeing them as materials he destroys, Montag begins to see the books as humans, stating that, “a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper”(Bradbury). When Montag is seen contemplating his actions it reflects onto how the rest of society would also react. With access to new information, Montag breaks free from his oppression, and it is safe to assume that...
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...nightmare. Individual’s private and public lives were dominated by the government and the tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin. Stalin controlled the economy, the people, the military and everything associated with the country. The population’s individual rights became limited, almost as if the whole country were slaves. People were forced to do as the government instructed, working eating and doing however informed to. This lack of individualism lead to the loss of creativity and uniqueness, other European countries possessed. “[There is] no room in our ranks for whimpers and cowards, people must [be] selfless…” (Document 6). No longer did one person matters, but each individual was just another Soviet, working for the government. Through the loss of individualism, there was also the loss of religion. Religion focuses on the individual, which communism and the Soviets wanted nothing to do with. Stalin forced the population to abandon religion, proposing it was fake and unworthy of people’s belief. Soviets tore down churches, killed church clergymen and religious leaders and commanded the church officials to elucidate everything the church taught was wrong. “[People] cannot be neutral towards religion...religion is opposed to science. The party cannot be neutral...
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...was very loud very strong in very concise in it's message upon viewing such works I found myself question the narratives that of been fed to us also found myself inbuwed in the sense of amazement as always works we're alive and had great soul in them hence the name. Of course no words I can put on paper could ever come close to experiencing it or experience in the thing that inspired them which was the Complete dehumanization and destruction of the entire peoples rights culture history pretty much everything was stripped from them and yet their resilience and their resolve and their creativity always a thorn in the side of the oppressor trying to keep them down....
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...Yuhang Sun College writing 1102 Christen Enos 9/19/2013 Ways of teaching Nowadays education becomes very important and significant issue in the world since people started getting wealth, because families believe good education can bring bright future to their children and countries needs education to cultivate their talents which helping push forward the development of the countries. Parents and government spends a lot of money on tuition and school construction, respectively, in order to providing best education to the kids. But sometimes it doesn’t help. Thus, most of educators are trying to find a best way of teaching. In the passage “The “Banking” Concept of Education”, author Paulo Freire summarized two ways of education which are Banking education, and problem posing, and they are totally opposite to each other. Banking education method is like action of deposing that students are depositories and teachers are depositors which make education such more efficient. In contrast, problem posing is like teacher promote and encourage students to be creative. Both of them have their drawbacks and benefits. So, which one of them is the best way of teaching? Based on my own experiences, I think problem posing is best way to help studying in the earlier studying life, because children needs to open their mind and being more creative, but in the further life of studying banking education seems more suitable for them...
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...“Lady or the Tiger” Alternate Ending (Please type your alternate ending in this document. Your ending is expected to be 1 page typed at no larger than 12 pt font. You’ll be graded on organization and producing text (creativity, believability, and relevant details) I look forward to reading your ending =) please delete these instructions before you complete your final copy.) The day had come which door would he choose. Then final he makes up his mind and opens the right door and out come the… Lady. Once they got married the princess set a letter to her boyfriend and it said, “ Do you still want want to murder her?” 10 days later the boy responds with, “ YES” That night the guy acted like he was going to take her somewhere to...
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...between parent and child will hugely attribute to an uneasiness within the child (1). To test the effects of isolation on animals, he separated baby rhesus macaque monkeys from their mothers, which had enormous implications on the the mental state of both; most of the babies eventually developed depression and killed themselves, while the mothers were described as ‘emotionally disturbed’. Since these animals are closely related to humans, this is one of the closest forms of unethical human experimentation that we can do to fully analyze the bond between a human mother and human child and the effect that isolation has on the child. Harry was separated by his mother after she was killed. He had to live in an enclosed space for years with virtually no freedom with his abusive Aunt and Uncle. As a result of this upbringing, he did not have a bond with anybody, and is greatly misunderstood. The first sign of mental illness is often creativity; he is able to create intricate worlds with a magical explanation for every possible event. The more creative someone is, the more likely they are to be mentally disabled (2). This functions as a positive feedback loop -- isolation and creativity causes causes unfriendly feelings towards those around someone and more positive feelings when they are alone, which results in further isolation. “Harry Potter not knowin’ his own story when every kid in our world knows his name!” (Rowling, J. K., and Jim Dale. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York:...
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...HOW TO MAKE CREATIVITY CONTAGIOUS Stefan Stern. Management Today. London: Mar 2004. pg. 52, 4 pgs Abstract (Summary) Companies may identify fresh thinking as a core value, but this doesn't square with a corporate strategy in which minimising risk is seen as a virtue. How can an organisation adapt its culture to embrace innovation? If only the good Lord could look down as kindly on the creative efforts of us mere mortals. But that is the trouble with creativity and the Creationist mythology that underpins it: we are constantly waiting for the next miracle. In business, you will wait a long time for miracles. Coming up with new and successful ideas requires effective management and hard work -perspiration as much as inspiration. What are the real challenges that businesses and organisations face if they are ever going to unleash the creative genius lurking within their walls? 'Every company I meet has identified innovation and creativity as core values,' says David Walker of international creativity consultancy Synectics, 'but around 90% of them do nothing about it. Their behaviour just doesn't allow creativity to emerge.' The problem here is fundamental. The processes that businesses have traditionally wanted to hone and develop on the path to operational excellence run counter to creativity itself. » Jump to indexing (document details) Full Text (2612 words) Copyright Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. Mar 2004 [Headnote] Companies may identify fresh thinking...
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