...Coursework Question – What are the positive and negative impacts of tourism in Malham? Introduction Malham is a small rural village located in Northern England, in the Pennines at the southern base of the Yorkshire Dales. It’s an attractive place with many physical attractions such as Malham Cove. Its Latitude/Longitude: 54°04’29”N02°09’43”W. Malham is around 21 miles from the end of the M65 and the nearest town is Skipton which is 11 miles from Malham. The nearest cities are Leeds and Manchester. This is a map of the British Isles showing that Malham is located in northern England. This is a map of the British Isles showing that Malham is located in northern England. This is a map of Malham (national) it shows the nearest cities to Malham which are Manchester which is 50 miles from Malham and Leeds which is 38 miles from Malham. Manchester has a population of approximately 2.5 million people and Leeds has a population of approximately 700,000. This is a map of Malham (national) it shows the nearest cities to Malham which are Manchester which is 50 miles from Malham and Leeds which is 38 miles from Malham. Manchester has a population of approximately 2.5 million people and Leeds has a population of approximately 700,000. This is an OS map of Malham showing it’s attractions including Malham Cove and Gordale Scar, which are its main attractions. Attractions are shown in blue on an OS map. This is an OS map of Malham showing it’s attractions including Malham Cove and Gordale Scar...
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...Cravens World When you first walk into Cravens World Exhibit the walls and floor are painted white, very simplistic in order to avoid overwhelming the observer. The observers eye is automatically drawn to a circular shelving system, which holds many of the aesthetic artifacts. The center piece is transparent to provide the observer the opportunity to examine objects from every side and perspective. There are no distractions in the exhibit, other than the other marvelous artifacts mounted on the wall and in clear cases. Surrounding the main circle are artifacts in display windows from all around the world. There is close to no description as to what each artifact is on the main display, only an inventory number which the viewer then has to search in a detailed book to find more information on each item. Tucked away in a corner is a touch screen computer that allows you to explore all the tagged items to find out where they came from. Cravens World exhibit is “designed and constructed for visual encounters— you enter a transformative space. Hundreds of objects surround you, human achievements from other places and time”(Cravens World, p.27). The center piece was specifically designed to mimic a globe in real life, and the artifacts are placed strategically placed in relation to their origin on the globe, hence Cravens World. The artist wanted the observer to experience the world of the human aesthetic through artifacts which were created over many generations. Within the...
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...“boyfriend” Steven with the slasher masked on came back to their seating area unbeknownst to her that her boyfriend was a victim of the real killer and is now dead. Upon her hugging him she finds blood on her hands and the real slasher immediately begins stabbing her multiple times. Although this murder happen in public view, the movie goers assumed it was a part of the show and did nothing as Maureen was killed. The Scream 2 film was a horror flick in one of many other Scream series. The artists involved in the production of this film are; the director Wesley Craven, production designer Robert Zimebicki, and the art director Ted Berner. This team worked hand in hand to deliver a phenomenon horror film. The director Wesley Craven is not new to horror film making. He also is also popular for his direction and acting in the well known film series Nightmare on Elm Street. In the movie Scream as the director Mr. Craven was responsible for the proper administering the creative portion of the movie. He created the vision for the film by the writer’s thoughts and vision along with assistance from other production members. Creating the actual vision from book to film require precision and articulate vision. His job was to make the screenplay come to...
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...Wes Craven’s Scream 4 was seen by many viewers as yet another repetitive sequel in a franchise where “there didn’t seem to be much life left” (Whitty). According to reviewers, the opening scene of the film seemed to show this very well. The “flashes of wit in the opening film-within-a-film-within-a-film sequence” (Hale) displays the fact that this is the fourth film in the sequel and that each film is fairly repetitive in basic plot. Most reviewers seemed pretty underwhelmed with the plot but liked all of the murders and chase scenes. They felt that it was very predictable and justifying itself. “Sequels don’t know when to stop” (Schwarzbaum). “Existing in a self-contained universe, Scream 4 is its own remake (Screamake), sequel (shriekquel), parody and critique” (Corliss). Gale Weathers’ book The Woodsboro Murders becomes a film franchise called Stab that is “modeled after Sidney Prescott’s fictional life within the film” (Legel). This franchise and even the original series of Scream films are seen by many reviewers as extremely Meta, or self-referential, within the Scream films. “Scream 4 should be subtitled That's So Meta, so pervasive is the movie's habit of commenting on itself” (Travers). In the Stab franchise in Scream 4 the “new Ghostface is mimicking the sequence of killings in the original series” (O’Hehir). Many reviewers felt these Stab films continued the horror in Woodsboro instead of letting the town, and victims, recover from it. Another aspect that almost all...
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...The Powers of Democracy Darius Jones-Craven October 27, 2014 Savannah State University Soft power is the persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence. This concept was developed by Joseph Nye of Harvard University and is used the term has also been used in changing and influencing social and public opinion through relatively less transparent channels and lobbying through powerful political and non-political organizations. Soft power lies in the ability to attract and persuade. Over the past decade, China’s economic and military might has grown impressively, and this has frightened its neighbors into looking for allies to balance rising Chinese hard power. But if a country can also increase its soft power, its neighbors feel less need to seek balancing alliances. China has always had an attractive traditional culture, and now it has created several hundred Confucius Institutes around the world to teach its language and culture. There is one being implemented here at Savannah state University on October 28th 2014. China is not known for their soft powers but for their hard powers which consist of their money and military strength. Hard power is the use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. This form of power is much more aggressive approach than the soft power where the soft power is more of a cultural influence rather than a forceful power. India which...
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...At a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society’s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry and to the audience. Freddy Krueger took the center stage and with him a new era of horror films began. This horribly scarred man who wore a ragged slouch hat, dirty red-and-green striped sweater, and a glove outfitted with knives at the fingers reinvented the stalker genre like no other film had. Fred Krueger breathed new life into the dying horror genre of the early 1980’s. Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly...
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...Introduction The purpose of this paper is to give and provide detailed information about the reason why Craven Books was having issues on the implementation of the new information technology system which should help to improve the performance of the business. Other than that, the implementation of this new information technology system nearly makes Craven Books face bankruptcy and lost many customers. In this paper, 3 issues that lead Craven Books faced failure in the implementation of the new information technology system will be chosen to discuss in detailed. Each issue will be discuss in detailed together with any related case studies that can take as reference and recommendations to eliminate and cope each issue. Company’s Background Craven Books is a distributor of comics and magazines and books. The company was founded and evolves in the market place in the late 1960 as it founder, Peter Craven started to distribute sci-fi and horror books through direct mail. In 1970’s, the business began to be known in the market place by buying comics in bulk from both the American publishers and the second hand comic market and sell this on their customers in the United Kingdom by using a mail order catalogue. This had helped the company to grow in the market place and be known by many other customers. Because of this the company had been able to encounter growth both in profit and in the number of their regular customers. In this regard, the company decided to use a new...
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...chain strategies. Bezos’ wants Amazon to deal with the technical and logistics using the same method which he implemented within his own company at one time (Cravens & Piercy, 2013). The technology is now able to play a vital role in expansion of new business areas as well as enabling organizations in minimizing its cost and work in a more precise and effective manner. Amazon offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services by renting just about everything it uses to run its own business. From rack space to its 10 million square feet warehouse as well as its computer infrastructures that includes servers, data storage to software code (Cravens & Piercy, 2013). Bezos’s new and improved innovations seem to have many on the edge as to whether his new ideas will make profit. With Amazon spending at least $2 billion dollars in the past 12 years to perfect the pieces (Cravens & Piercy, 2013). Amazon main target are smaller companies and startups, without having to incur the additional cost and for many this is a great way to start a company. But also bigger companies such as Microsoft Corp. are using Amazon’s storages services (Cravens & Piercy, 2013). Others companies such as Powersets, finds that by utilizing the services from Amazon this cut back its first year capital cost by at least half(Cravens & Piercy). Amazon’s business model is to design so the customers are satisfied through a comfortable process. One of the key benefits is the opportunity to replace...
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...of Darkness is about police homicide detective Thomas Craven, who picks up his daughter Emma at the Boston station, as she is coming home for a visit. While Emma is getting into the car before heading home she starts to vomit. While they are at home and Craven is preparing them dinner, Emma’s nose starts to bleed, she vomits again, and becomes worried. Emma starts telling her father that she needs to go see a doctor right away, and she needs to tell Craven something. On their way out the front door to go to the hospital, a gunman, fires and hits Emma and she passes away in her father’s arms. Craven first appear to have been the target, however, the more he learns and uncovers it starts to lead him to rethink that. He learns that his daughter led a life that not too many people knew about that lead to her murder. He also uncovers a corporate cover-up and government conspiracy, that Emma became aware of that Northmoor was manufacturing nuclear weapons. After Craven started uncovering more and more evidence and revealing that they know almost everything that happened, the head of Northmoor orders Craven to be poisoned just as his daughter Emma was. Craven is now very ill and goes to Bennett’s house, who is the head of Northmoor, he kills one of the people at Bennett’s house who Craven comes to realize he is the man that shot his daughter. Bennett tries to kill Craven by shooting him, which ends up wounding him, Craven is able to get a hold of Bennett and forces Bennett to...
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...mark | 2 marks | 3 marks | 4 marks | | Completeness of case chart | Case chart is incomplete | Some of the case chart requirements are met satisfactorily. | Most of the case chart requirements are met satisfactorily. | All case chart requirements is met satisfactorily. | | Submission | On-time submission | N/A | N/A | N/A | | TOTAL | | Synopsis This story of Craven Books tells us about how a computer project, an IT implementation drove one company almost to bankruptcy. Craven Books is a distributor of comics and magazines, and books. The company was founded in 1960 by Peter Craven as he started to distribute sci-fi and horror books through direct mail. In 1970s, the business began well known in the marketplace by buying comics in bulk from both the American publishers and the second hand comic market and sell this on their customers in the United Kingdom by using a mail order catalogue. In the 1990s, the company was at the peak of it success and was looking to expand their business; to do so, it was decided the company should have an efficient distribution system, and that’s why Craven Books invest in new integrated information systems that will include all business operations of the company, from ordering, to processing, accounting and warehousing. All in one information system which aims to ensure that they will provide better quality service to their customers and to make their logistics be more dependable. However, upon implementation of such project, the...
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...Target Market and Positioning Strategy Identification Loretta Menchaca MKT/575 May 11, 2015 Professor Delynn Byars Target Market and Positioning Strategy Identification The environment for the marketing strategy should be set in the atmosphere of the overall corporate strategy. Once the general direction of the organization has been determined with applicable contribution from all required stakeholders, the marketing strategy should be aligned to guarantee that the direction is established (Hooley et al, 2008). Companies that are market-driven display inventive skills in interpreting, collecting, and using information to guide their business and marketing strategies and to achieve competitive advantage (Cravens & Piercy, 2009). The following analysis will focus on Ikea’s target market, the effectiveness of their positioning strategy, and recommended for changes to their targeting and positioning strategy. Ikea Ikea is worldwide home furnishing store that specializes in ready to assemble furniture, home accessories, and appliances. Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea in 1943, and opened his first store in in Almhult Sweden. Today Ikea operates two hundred twenty six stores globally and hosts four hundred and ten million shoppers a year. Ikea believes in hard work to produce products that meet quality standards at prices that are affordable. These standards are accomplished by building long term relationships with suppliers, investing in highly automated products, and producing...
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...Activity 4 For my personal choice book I have chosen Helen Keller: The Story of My Life. I chose this book because it was very interesting to read about how her education developed throughout her life. It was also fascinating to know how she learned to understand what people were saying because she wrote how sometimes she would place her fingers on their lips and would discover what they were saying from the movements of their lips. At other times people would spell into her hand what they were saying. I also found it inspiring the way her friends helped her in her life, and not be quarrelsome to her just because she is different. In her story she mentioned how her teacher, who is also her friend, Miss Sullivan, helped her overcome her difficulties. She helped her by introducing Keller to a new sense to feel and make a conscious picture of what it would actually look like if she was not blind, and she described this sense as a soul- sense. My favorite part of this book was when Helen Keller wrote a story called ‘The Frost King’ and it was published in one of the Perkins Institution records. Then soon after it was published someone informed her that there was a woman named Margaret T. Canby who wrote a story long before Helen Keller was born called ‘The Frost Fairies’ that was similar to her story. After that 12-year-old Helen Keller was taken to court after being accused of her story being a plagiarism by Michael Anagnos. Mr. Anagnos was the director of the Perkins Institute...
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...Groupe D1 - b TD1 – Craven Books Question 1 Whose biggest fault it is? Peter Craven founded the company Craven Books in 1963-1964. The aim was delivering horror and science-fiction books. At the beginning orders were given individually, , but when the firm extended its activities , they needed new IT system to simplify the process. The main objective of the IT system was to simplify all the processes of orders preparation. The company installed a new computerized system to facilitate order delivery . However, it happened to be a disaster: the whole process lost efficiency and quality because nobody knew how to use it , consecuently it was a loss of time and money for the company and its employees. We can’t blame only one person, in fact, we think that 3 actors share the blame for this failure. * The IT consultants: It seemed that they failed to transmit their know-how to all the employees of the company and only cared about what they would end in the end . * Peter Craven and the managers: They seemed to be sure enough that they took the best decision , to implement a new IT system. However they probably failed to manage the relationship between their employees and the IT consultants . Moreover , we could ask ourselves if they managed to target successfully the company’s needs for this new IT system and what were the risk of its implementation. * The company employees: Employees also have to share the responsibility as in the video it seems...
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...Cal State San Marcos Essay On Tuesday, September 29, myself and a large group of AVID students went to San Marcos for a tour. The tour we went on was a college tour of Cal State San Marcos. I actually found it very intriguing. The bus ride was not too bad for I slept through most of it. When I got off the bus, I immediately went to find my friend, Corbin Loyaa. After I found Corbin, we went Craven Hall which was the first building at Cal State San Marcos programmed to house all of the administrative functions for the whole campus. Craven Hall is, basically, the first place you will see after you climb the first set of stairs. Craven Hall was named after one of it’s founders. His name was Senator William Craven. After we all met up at Craven Hall, we got into groups and began our tour. We first went around the store and bookstore. After that, we went to the student lounge. We also went to the food court. After that we went to the Founders’ Seal. To conclude our tour,we visited the Kellogg Library. I loved the library. That thing was huge. It was five stories tall if you include the dungeon. The dungeon is the bottom floor that happens to be underground. After the tour was over, they let us walk around the campus a little bit. The first thing I did was go get food. After that I just explored the campus. Overall, it was a great trip, and I had a lot of...
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...where it initially began. Bezo’s aim is to transform Amazon.com into a digital utility for the 21st century, where it runs the messy technical and logistical parts of other businesses, using the same technology and operations that power Amazon.com. Amazon’s quietly launched new business, are unrelated to its core retail stores and include; computing, crowd sourcing, Media, search, Distribution and Web Measurement. Amazons strategy is to make available its capabilities and resources for rent to all, suppliers, outsiders and retailers. The resources for rent include its many square feet of warehouse spaces worldwide to spare computer capacity, data storage on its disk drives and software codes written to coordinate all of the operations (Cravens& Piercy). Even though skeptics have claimed that Amazon is on the path to destruction, the organizations is focused to the big price, that one day all the investments and planning will pay off. Bezo’s’ reassures, that the company has in the past been misunderstood, which is something it is comfortable with. Amazon’s ability to innovate and to stay aware of its customers’ needs and preferences will keep them at the forefront of other competitors and retailers worldwide. Amazon is re-inventing the wheel by offering value chain options to consumers, retailers and even competitors. Its strategy is that, by offering a wide range of services, and turning itself inside out to suppliers, retailers and even competitors, it will be able to access...
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