...Jamie Turner, competent but capricious James Kim & Abbey McDowell Texas A&M University MGMT 372 Dr. Chiaburu 04/20/2014 Modern Lighting Industries, Inc., MLI is a family owned organization that sells lighting units and bulbs to office and warehouse. It has recently been acquired by Specialty Support Services (Triple S) from several financial setbacks due to the death of its founder. It is based outside of Chicago, with fabrication and systems assembly facilities in Illinois, Missouri, and Mexico, and sales and distribution centers in Kansas City and Chicago. There are four departments in this company which are Directing, Controlling, Marketing/Sales and Operations. The company was desperately needed for its vice president position to be filled. So, its new president followed by founder, Pat Cardullo offers to recent unemployed, Jamie Turner with bonuses and possibility of promotion. Turner accepts the offer carelessly, and problems arise. (Intro ends) Jamie Turner, 32 with MBA, started his first job at Wolf River which sellspaper products. He soon became product manager and then senior product manager in three years. He was really successful in Wolf River, but applying same procedures repeatedly made him feel like stagnating and Turner started wanting to challenge himself with autonomy. Looking for a challenge, Turner finds a position at Lambowland.com, a new Internet-based sports shop company. Blinded by new challenges that he sought and benefits such...
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...4254 FEBRUARY 9, 2011 JOHN J. GABARRO COLLEEN KAFTAN Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc. “Had I known how hard this job would be, I might have thought twice about leaving the one at Wolf River,” Jamie Turner reflected as he waited for his boss, Pat Cardullo, to arrive at the office on a blustery September morning. At 32, Turner was struggling in his third marketing management position since completing his MBA six years earlier. Only six months into his current assignment at Modern Lighting Industries, Inc. (MLI), he was starting to worry that his string of previous successes had hit a serious snag. Working for Cardullo had become as confusing, unpredictable, and frustrating as anything he’d ever experienced. When Cardullo, president of MLI, had interviewed Turner and invited him to join the company as vice president for marketing and sales, Turner had found the older man smart, friendly, even charismatic. Cardullo had offered him a free hand in reorganizing the marketing area, and had all but guaranteed that Turner would take over as president within two years. Before long, however, things began to go wrong: Cardullo started to seem distant and critical, and he intervened frequently in marketing decisions, sometimes undermining or even reversing Turner’s decisions. The turnaround Cardullo was attempting to engineer at MLI had stalled, sales were again declining, and things in general were rapidly deteriorating. Turner didn’t know whether to be happy or anxious—or...
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...road lying cold and lifeless was Jamie’s mother. This sent Jamie into a tail spin, saddened and dismayed, Jamie ran off back into the woods. Muffin, realizing what happened tried to follow her new friend through the thick brush but to no avail. The little black cat just couldn’t keep up with the long legs of the agile fawn. Desperate to find her friend muffin climbs the nearest tree to get a better vantage point but the forest was too dense to see more than a few feet beyond her...
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...a play about a couple name Jamie and Cathy and their five year relationships. At the start of the play you see the couple embrace and kiss each other, one of three interactions between the couple in the play and other being when he proposes and the wedding. Jamie who is an up and coming novelist tells the couple relationship from the beginning to the end and Cathy who is a struggling actress tells the story from the end to the beginning. Cathy begins telling her side of the story while sitting alone and singing the song “Still Hurting” due to their marriage being over. We then switch to Jamie where he is telling the story from the beginning of the relationship to the end of the relationship. He is telling us how he and Cathy first met and that he calls her his Shiksa Goddess which means non-Jewish women. They are both in Ohio for her birthday and to see her perform in a show. She then gets mad at Jamie when he tells her that he has to go back to New York early. Next we see Jamie sitting on the floor and talking on the telephone to his agent about his book. Next scene Jamie informs a friend about his plans to move in with Cathy, which the friend does not agree with. Then we see Cathy on the phone at work talking to her agent about her career which is not going well at the moment. Jamie and Cathy attend his book release party and there she accuses Jamie of choosing his writing over her. They celebrate their first Christmas together as a couple and Jamie shares his new story with...
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...his journey back he kills a goat, not knowing the meaning of “property”. He is put in jail where a man that used to be in his tribe saves him. He and his buddy then save Kate (the school teacher) from some guerillas and continue his journey to ”the end of the world”. He later gets to a cliff that may seem to him like the end of the world where he chucks the bottle and returns to his tribe. This movie not only makes the tribal people seem ridiculous unintelligent it makes them seem clueless in a sense. They find a bottle and al of a sudden start to go mad. I did enjoy how dim some scenes are in this but this as about all I enjoyed. The lack of realism that the movie shows is a part that makes it seem as if it could never happen. Overall Jamie Uys (director, producer and writer) do not do a good job making the plot and story realistic enough for any of this to be...
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...The gods must be crazy Introduction The film, The Gods must be crazy directed by Jamie Uys, contrasts two distinctly different societies: the “Bushmen” of the Kalahari desert and the civilian urbanities of post colonial Africa. Bushmen in the Kalahari desert lived with peace and unity until a bottle of coca-cola came in to their tribe and had started the commotion of the people living in Kalahari. The bottle was used by the people living in the said tribe, they make use of it as an instrument, patternmaker, utensils and many more which caused the people to be greedy, and even exposed the tribe to anger and violence they want the bottle for themselves only. They won’t stop until they have the bottle in their own hands. It’s like they are willing to kill and fight for the bottle. Plot One day something fell from the sky. Xi had never seen anything like this in his life. It was clear and hard. He wondered why the gods sent him something like this. They thought of it as a wonderful thing they have ever seen. Theme The theme of this movie is that way of living in a rural and urban life is so much different. In the rural side there is no need of technology because a simple and peaceful life will do. In a urban side, there are already technologies introduced and people keep fighting of what they want, no unity at all. Visual Elements The movie was made to watch by everyone. It is one good movie that I think everyone will like. From the first to the last scene...
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...My First Day at School After a patience of six years to become the known phenomenon as a student, I suddenly felt nervousness scatter my entire body. I was lost in my own thoughts and there were nowhere to escape. The excitement and enthusiasm that had been grown since last year where my parents told me the very unknowing thing school disappeared. I didn’t want that the school should be replaced by the comfortable kindergarten with the safely settings where my friends were. I became afraid of the unconscious, afraid of the strange and I began crying. I wanted that my father immediately turned the car and drove back home, but it was too late. We were only few metres from the school. My parents told me that it would be great and that I would meet new people, and get new friends to know. I would no longer be a little boy, but instead a big boy that went to school with own schoolbag with books in it. I knew that all the things my parents told me were just for to get me more comfortable in the situation. Actually it helped especially the last thing they told me and therefore I saw a ray of hope even though the circumstances. Was it so terrible as I predicted? Maybe it was just me who was too exaggerated. I was dressed in my finest clothes and my hair was weird done with help by some sticky trash, fashionable my mother told me. N. Zahle’s School was the name of the school where I began and spent my next ten years. It was a school of good reputation where my sister already...
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...Chris Abernathy Block 1 5/19/13 Gran Torino ECR In the movie Gran Torino, by Clint Eastwood, Eastwood plays a racially bitter and lonely war veteran that doesn't really have a soft side at first for anyone after his wife dead. He treated everyone the same, with a grumpy attitude. He would keep to himself cause he felt it was the best thing of him to recover from his lost. He wouldn't take any hand outs or help from anyone cause he believed he could do it all by himself and didn't need anyone. The movie shows great examples of how he went from a stuck up grumpy old man to a kind hearted caring man in the end. In the movie when Walt (Clint Eastwood) catches Thao trying to steal his car late at night for the initiation because his crazy cousin and friends were trying to get him to be more of a man and be apart of the gang. After Thao was caught and held up by gun point by Walt, he manages to get away. After that the next day his cousin and friends came back around causing problems and Walt comes out and holds them up by gun point to scare them off. Thao's mom felt that Thao had a debt to Walt now for helping him out, so he had to come work for Walt for a little. Thao would be given tasks that would get him dirty and really have to put a lot of energy into. Walt started to ease up on him towards the end because he saw something different in Thao then all the other bad kids in the neighborhood. Another example from the movie is when Sue invites Walt over to a family...
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...Under Armour: New Kid on the Block Marketing Newcomer Under Armour, founded in 1996 has made its mark on the world of sports apparel and accessories. They have achieved what could be called “overnight success” when comparing them with the longevity and profits, that until recently, their competitors Nike and Adidas maintained within the industry. “Under Amour’s $3 billion in annual global sales pales in comparison with Nike's $28 billion, but Under Armour is increasingly growing its share of the sector, recently overtaking Adidas to become the second-largest athletics brand in the US”.(O’Reilly, 2015). Their various campaign commercials prove they are on a mission to appeal to customers of all demographics and athletes of all sports to remain a mainstay in athletic wear and gear. Rule Yourself- You are the Sum of All Your Training1 Under Armour’s newest campaign, Rule Yourself, showcases and market apparel to the younger athletes of different sports, both female and male. Their commercial titled “You are the Sum of All Your Training features three athletes in their younger twenties; basketball player Stephen Curry, ballet dancer Misty Copeland and golfer Jordan Speif. At the start of the each athlete is surrounded by thousands of their own “clones” training for their particular sport. As the commercial continues the clones gradually decrease right down to only one remaining. The end is the most intriguing and unique part of the commercial that appears with the...
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...Torres, Stacy. "Aging, Gran Torino-Style." Contexts (2010): n. pag. Print. In this article the author, Stacy Torres begins with highlighting the aging issues that are presented in the film. She points out that in this film; Walt defies the stereotypes of the old and from a physically helpless victim of these stereotypes to a doting old man enjoying a worry-free retirement. He turns out to be a man of heroic deeds by helping helpless victims of violence, Thao and his sister, Sue. The author of this article terms the star, Walt as a man who can be graded under a different generation of his own because of the raw language that he does use; it makes one to flinch. It gets worse for such kind of man to live with neighbors that he cannot befriend: the Hmong brother and sister who live next door. But, out of the confrontation with Thao, who was trying to steal his Gran Torino car he becomes friend with this teenager and later on with his sister. The true friendship goes on as he shifts from spending all day involving himself with physical labor of mowing the lawn and fixing his neighbors’ car, sink, or washing machine. One of the things that the writer of this article notes is the deteriorating physique of Walt and the uncaring family members. She suggests that they either should take the responsibility or arrange for someone to come and take care of him, instead. The writer notes how Walt further changes to helping the street families together with Thao who has developed a positive...
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...“I have been called a lot of things but I have never been called funny”. This story is about a war torn Vietnam veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), who has been living in the same neighborhood a majority of his life and he is watching it change and be immigrated with Hmong people and it's becoming a popular place for gang activity. Gran Torino is destined to become a classic film because of the great acting that Clint displays, the story can relate to some people and places today. It's a very simple yet amazing story that you can take to heart. It is a movie that everyone should see at least once. I believe that the acting is a good reason to why this movie should be a classic film. Clint Eastwood displays one of the best acting seen from him in this movie Then seen in awhile. Also from Thao (Bee Vang) he did a phenomenal acting job. He played the innocent teen caught up in the wrong group, not trying to cause trouble. All in all the acting was really good, they were nominated for many awards but I don't think they won one. Along with the acting I think that the story also plays a big role in why I think this film should be a classic film. The story i think can fit into today's society in some parts of the U.S. It seems just like a simple story about a Vietnam veteran who is living in a neighborhood that is being migrated by Hmong people and he is the only Caucasian left in his neighborhood. He doesn't like the changes going on but but he refuses to move out of the neighborhood...
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...PROVIDED BY TEACHER ADVERTISING COPY SHEET EXAMPLE Client: Kitchen Stuff Plus Product: T-FAL® Mosaic Grill Pan Media: The Globe & Mail Ad size: 600 lines Date: October 18, 2011 Main Message: Come to Kitchen Stuff Plus for the T-fal Mosaic Grill Pan with thermospot technology which makes cooking a perfect meal easy and foolproof. Target group: Working urban females age 25 to 35 with an income of $35K - $50K. They have their own place, may be newly married, are eager novices at cooking and like to have friends over for dinner parties. They enjoy well-prepared food and watch cooking shows such as The Naked Chef. Heading: Create perfect meals on the spot. Sub-head: It’s easy with T-FAL’s® unique Thermo-Spot® technology. Body Copy: Imagine perfect results every time you cook. No guesswork, guaranteed. The secret is Thermo-Spot® by T-FAL®, a unique technology that signals when the pan is ready for you to start cooking. The Thermo-Spot® is a red pattern in the center of the pan that turns bright red when the pan is ready. It’s that simple. Adding food to a properly preheated pan will seal in the natural juices of meat, poultry and fish for moist, delicious results. And with a non-stick surface, the T-FAL® mosaic grill pan is easy-to-use and quick to clean making it the perfect choice for novice and seasoned cooks alike. Come to Kitchen Stuff Plus and discover how easy it is to be the cook you want to be. 122 words Price: ...
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...Film Critique: STEALTH Cheri Adams ENG225 Instructor: Matthew Norsworthy May 15, 2011 Film Critique: Stealth Stealth was made in 2005 and is presented by Columbia Pictures, directed by Rob Cohen, Produced by Mike Medavoy. The Executive Producer was Arnold Messer. The movie starts out with wording and music, similar to Star Wars, giving the prologue of the movie. I feel that the Director’s vision is that he is trying to warn us about what the future is capable of happening, if we put “brains” in computers. In this thesis I will be telling you about the movie so you will be able to understand what is happening. I will also be telling you who is in the movie and what their roles are, the style and directing of the movie. I will also Critique the film regarding the flaws that was done, the editing to the style and the acting. The Original music was done by BT. Music plays throughout the movie; the colors are neutral at the beginning of the movie with certain key items showing full color, in one scene a United States flag is flying on a building. Dean Semler does the Cinematography’s work. His work includes Secretariat (2010) and Mad Max: Fury Road (pre-production) (2012). Stephen Rivhin did the film editing. His most recent work was Avatar (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). Making a movie is a genuinely collaborative effort...
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...E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions By Teri Buhl Jan 25 2011, 1:01 AM ET Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear. According to e-mails and internal audits, JPMorgan had known about this fraud since the spring of 2008, but hid it from the public eye through legal maneuvering. Last week a lawsuit filed in 2008 by mortgage insurer Ambac Assurance Corp against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan was unsealed. The lawsuit's supporting e-mails, going back as far as 2005, highlight Bear traders telling their superiors they were selling investors like Ambac a "sack of shit." They were selling investors like Ambac a "sack of shit." News of internal whistleblowers coming forward from Bear's mortgage servicing division, EMC, was first reported by The Atlantic in May of last year. Ex-EMC analysts admitted they were sometimes told to falsify loan-level performance data provided to the ratings agencies who blessed Bear's billion-dollar deals. But according to depositions and documents in the Ambac lawsuit, Bear's misdeeds went even deeper. They say senior traders under Tom Marano, who was a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Mortgages for Bear and...
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...Unit 2 DB RE: Teen Pregnancy Teen Pregnancy Growing up Too Fast by people Magazine. Between the ages of 15-19 females tend to get pregnant each year. One of the youngest pop teens found out she was pregnant at the age 16 Jamie Lynn Spears (sister of Britney Spears). Once America was aware that this, they soon realized she wasn’t the only one that was 16 and pregnant. There over 790 thousand girls between the ages of 15 through 20 who are going through the same situation as the rest of these young mom. Majority of American agree on that no teenage mother is ready for the responsibilities of parenthood and as every parent knows, the challenges really begin once the baby is born. Only one-third of teen moms ever finish high school. People magazine interviewed at least six different girls that are pregnant and are going through realities of an unplanned pregnancy. A girl from Kentwood says “for girls her age, getting pregnant is the “IN” thing to do.” There is no shame in these young adults that are either trying to get pregnant or is already pregnant. Another 17 year old girl says “she felt alone, and felt like she was up against the world” This girl had no support from the baby’s father and she also dropped out of high school. With all the negative feedback contacted an adoption attorney. The adoptive pair funded for her living and health costs during her pregnancy and also provided her emotional support during her pregnancy so she wouldn't feel so alone, which is not good...
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