... In Memento Mori by Nathan Nolan, at the beginning of the story, the protagonist wakes up in a mental hospital with little known information about him , other than that his wife is dead and he is diagnosed with Amnesia and can not remember anything past 10 minutes, remarking himself as the “ten-minute man”. He leaves numbers of notes and pictures around the room to remind him that the daily activities such as brushing his teeth, also often reminding him that he went to his wife’s funeral and that his brain has been damaged. Earl is also the first person narrator within the short story; the notes are him philosophically explaining what happened with his condition and how his memory is so fresh that he can never forget his wife’s rape and murder. These series of notes later during the story become more motivational and congratulatory. Nathan Nolan also shows an interesting way of Earl’s character development alternating between the both first person and third person perspective of how Earl looks at himself and his “backwards amnesia”. The writer leads the reader to go into his position of having amnesia and creating a sense of us having his short term memory loss. His physical body consists of tattoos of information, instructions, and a sketch of a man’s face which we assume is murderer of Earl’s wife. One tattoo has the words “I RAPED AND KILLED YOUR WIFE”. The short story tells us other little info about his physical details, they state that...
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...Past lovers Dawson Cole (James Marsden) and Amanda Collier (Michelle Monaghan) are taken down memory lane in The Best of Me when they return home after the passing of a dear friend. They are forced to face not only each other but their past demons. I consider The Best of Me to be the most pragmatic movie I have seen. The film does use the common rich girl falls in love with a poor boy approach, but the events that take place after they meet aren't your classic Hollywood love story scenario, they allow the film to be relatable to a broad audience. The film transitions from the present to the past using flashbacks. You see the memories of Young Dawson (Luke Bracey) and Young Amanda (Liana Liberato). The flashbacks help show the audience how each character became the present version of themselves in detail. For many people, it would have been easier to understand if they had started the film with the younger characters then progressed to the older characters. I suspect the way the movie altered back and forth was to help maintain the audience interest in the film, by disabling their ability to know what was going to happen next like in many other popular love stories. The timeline of the movie is only one of my favorite things. I mostly enjoyed all the different lessons you can learn all in two hours. The first lesson I thought was very useful involved Tommy, Dawson's Father (Sean Bridgers) and his two brothers, Ted (Rob Mello) and Abee (Hunter Burke) Cole. The three perceive the...
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...In the history of film there has never been a movie quite like Memento. Some people may simply see an average, but confusing film here. But you must dig deeper, and you must go beyond Memento’s surface to see the pure genius. Once you see the genius of Memento I want you to keep digging deeper to discover one of the most inventive modern masterpieces of today. This is one of those films in which it will often be imitated, but will never be duplicated. When is the last time you saw a film that challenges everything you know, but only to have it all stripped away in the end? Director Chris Nolan takes away everything you thought you knew of the traditional sense of film, and supplies you with a completely new fresh take on things. Memento is all about Leonard aka Lenny (played by Guy Pearce). Leonard suffers from short-term memory loss. His memory loss is so frequent he can never remember anything he has just learned. Add this to the fact he is searching for his wife’s killer, and you have a recipe for something unsettling. The story is so deeply layered, and intertwined, you must pay full attention, because every moment you will discover something new. Add to the facts, every scene of the movie is played in reverse chronological order. Imagine your favorite movie, and now imagine seeing the last 10 minutes 1st, then after the last 10 minutes is played you’re taken back to see the events 10 minutes before it. This cycle keeps repeating throughout the whole entire movie....
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...and starts believing that he was chasing Dodd. I liked it because of the humor which was build into the situation. The part that I didn’t like was the ending of the film which turns the protagonist into a murderer and the antagonist of the film. This because as an audience I felt connected with the lead character but when suddenly his pursuit ended at himself and that he was guilty of killing his wife and creating fake stories of Sammy Jankis to protect himself made me as an audience felt cheated by a character whose shoes I was walking in for past 2 hours. This also somewhere breaks the trust with which the audience was following the lead character. Answer 2 Memento as a film had many underlying messages and themes of human psychology and behaviors. Some key themes and their underlying message that Memento covered were memory, perception, revenge, self deception and grief. The first take of film was on the theme of memory....
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...The domain name info is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation. The info TLD was a response to ICANN's highly publicized announcement[citation needed], in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains. The event was the first addition of major gTLDs since the Domain Name System was developed in the 1980s. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the com domain.[1] The info domain has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 5.2 million domain names in the registry as of April 2008. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York switched to the easier to remember mta.info website to lead users to latest information on schedules and route changes on the area's transportation services. Even in 2013, a website, Current Score info, was formed to provide current score of Football and Cricket across India. ICANN and Afilias have also sealed an agreement for country names to be reserved by ICANN under resolution 01.92.[2] info is an unrestricted domain, meaning that anyone can obtain a second-level domain under info for any purpose, similar to the com, net or org domains. This is in contrast...
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...In the movie Memento the protagonist, Lenny, has one major goal that he is trying to accomplish, find the killer of his wife. There are a few things that stand in his way. For starters he has short term memory lost and this slows him down because every five minutes he forgets whatever he was just doing, thinking, or saying. In the movie Natalie takes advantage of Lenny countless times for her own reasons. She gets the idea in his head that some men are the killer when they probably are not. She just wants them dead because of issues she has with them. One scene she starts screaming and insulting Lenny to the point where he hits her. Then she walks out of the room and comes back in the time it takes Lenny to forget what just happened, which...
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...The conceptual possibilities I have chosen to explore is the decaying of animal- the life cycle, particularly human skulls with The Day of the Dead as my inspiration. I have never really explored the theme of a human skull but I have always been highly fascinated with the shape of the skull. I will use the Day of the Dead to understand a different way of looking at death and I will most likely interpret ‘Memento Mori’ into my work this means in Latin ‘Remember you will die’. Popular belief says the phrase originated in ancient Rome: as a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, tasked with reminding the general that, although at his peak today, tomorrow he could fall, or — more likely — be brought down. The servant is thought to have conveyed this with the warning, "Memento mori". I want to know what the skull means to people and even interpret that into my artwork. I want to show the beauty within the skull or even the horror. Using The Day of the Dead interpretation I don’t believe I will stick to the traditional colours and patterns, I want to interpret flowers and other little bits and pieces. My priority focus throughout my design process will be the human skull, but I will be looking into the traditional patterns and colours on the skull. For my mediums I will include etching, grey led, fine liner, paper layering, possibly sculptures, charcoal and pastels. I hope to explore each in minor detail otherwise...
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...Lesson 04 Decision Making Solutions Solved Problem #1: see text book Solved Problem #2: see textbook Solved Problem #3: see textbook Solved Problem #6: (costs) see textbook #1: A small building contractor has recently experienced two successive years in which work opportunities exceeded the firm’s capacity. The contractor must now make a decision on capacity for the next year. Estimated profits under each of the two possible states of nature are shown in the table below. The units are in $ thousands. Next Year’s Demand Low High 50 60 20 80 40 70 -AlternativesDo nothing Expand Subcontract a. Calculate the regret table. -AlternativesDo nothing Expand Subcontract Low High 0 30 10 20 0 10 Determine the alternative and payoff /regret which should be selected for the decision criteria in each of the following questions. b. Maximax (best of all possible alternatives)? Expand – payoff $80 thousand c. Maximin (best of all the worst alternatives)? Do nothing – payoff $50 thousand d. Laplace (best of the expected payoffs for all alternatives)? Tie between Do nothing and Subcontract – Payoff $55 thousand e. Minimax regret (least of all the maximum regrets for each alternative)? Subcontract – Regret $10 thousand #2: Refer to problem 1. Suppose after a certain amount of discussion, the contractor is able to subjectively assess the probabilities of low and high demand: P(Low) = .3, P(High) = .7. a. Determine the expected profit fore each alternative? Do nothing - $57 thousand...
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...Problem: Car Services Ltd (CSL) rends motor vehicle breakdown recovery service to its members. It attracts new members through a television advertising campaign that encourages potential clients to telephone a free call number for further information and the opportunity to immediately enroll with a credit card. Members are offered the choice of three levels of annual service contract in descending order of coverage and price: Gold, Silver and Standard. The telephone inquiries come through to a call centre staffed by CSL employees at the company’s premises who are paid a basic salary and a bonus of each new member that they successfully enroll. Located in the same building on another floor is the Car Hospital (CH) team who take the calls from the stranded motorists and arrange for a franchised garage to deal with the breakdown. These garages are independently owned and CSL pay them a fee for every callout that they undertake. CSL has recently (after January 2004) commenced employing trained mechanics on enhanced salaries to dispense technical advice to members on the telephone in the hope that a proportion of the call-outs to franchised garages will be avoided. Detailed information on costs, revenues, business activity and staff is displayed in the following tables. Table 1 Cost, Revenue and business Activity data for 2004 | |Gold |Silver |Standard | |Annual...
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...The Architecture Company An architecture company was invited to submit, until the end of February, two proposals regarding two new university buildings. The preparation of a proposal for the first building involves a cost of forty (40) thousand Euros. Preparing a proposal for the second building costs twenty (20) thousand Euros. If the proposal for the first building is accepted, the company will earn one hundred and twenty (120) thousand Euros. If the proposal for the second building is accepted the earnings will be seventy (70) thousand Euros. The final profit is given by the total earnings (resulting from the accepted proposals) minus the total costs of preparation of the proposals. The architecture company has the option to submit no proposal, to submit a proposal for only one of the buildings, or to submit proposals for the two buildings. Any of the submitted proposals may be accepted or rejected. If two proposals are submitted, it is possible that none is accepted, only one is accepted, or both are accepted. In the particular case that both proposals are submitted and both are accepted then there will be severe problems implementing both projects simultaneously implying an extra cost of fifty (50) thousand Euros (to be deducted from profits). There is a 50% probability that a proposal for the first building is accepted. The probability that a proposal for the second building is accepted is 50%. The acceptance of one proposal is independent of the acceptance...
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...Name: Directions: * The following software may be used: * Excel->Data Analysis * Excel QM * QM for Windows (PC only) * Please make sure to insert your answers, including any charts, graphs, or output, on this document. You may be required to also upload original files from Excel or QM for Windows. * The calculations are not your final answer. A summary/explanation in your own word for each question posed should be included. * Question 6 requires the use of the States Data File. The States Data file is located in Doc Sharing->Instructor Graded Projects. * Be sure to put your name on this document and save it to your computer. Upload this Word document as your Unit 7 submission in the course Drop Box. Submitting Your Project: * Save your project in a location that you will remember and with your full name. When you are ready to submit your project, click on the Dropbox and complete the steps below: * Click the link that says, “Submit an Assignment.” * In the “Submit to Basket” menu, select Unit 7 Project. * In the “Comments” field include your name. * Click the “Add Attachments” button. * Follow the steps listed to attach your Word Document. * You should revisit the Dropbox to view any helpful feedback your instructor has and to retrieve your graded project. * Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted project. 1. Even though independent gasoline stations have been having a difficult...
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...6. Is it advisable to purchase any of the available 100,000 lbs of grade A tomatoes? (use the sensitivity report from question 2). If so, (a) how much should we buy? (b) How will the additional tomatoes be used? In order to figure out if we should buy and by how much we should purchase, we made some modifications associated with our model. First of all, we need to add one more decision variable, Additional A, which is the amount of extra grade A tomatoes we decide to purchase. Then we need to change the profit formula to subtract additional purchase cost, which is $0.15*Additional A, the deal Gordon had to purchase up to 100,000 lbs. grade A tomatoes. Also, we need to change the constraint for A grade tomatoes from 600,000 lbs. to (600,000+Additional A) lbs. The last step is to add another constraint to make the decision variable Additional A can be no more than 100,000 lbs. When we ran sensitivity analysis, the shadow price for grade A tomatoes is $0.27, which means when the company increases 1 lb. of grade A tomatoes available in production process, the total profit will increase by $0.27. So as long as the purchase price less than the shadow price, company should purchase extra grade A tomatoes. Moreover, the allowable increase for constraint of amount of grade A tomatoes available is 1,400,000. It means any amount of additional grade A tomatoes under 1,400,000 lbs. will be feasible to purchase to increase profit. Thus it is a good idea to purchase whole 100,000 lbs...
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...Lab 2 Analysis Sheila Mejia BIAM 500 Prof. Bruning Keller March 13, 2016 Explain the Solver results you obtained for both the initial problem and your sensitivity analysis. The solver results in the initial analysis in my workbook showed that 333 units of the cc7 and 200 units of the cc8 should be produced in order to obtain the maximum of a little over $5 million in profit while still remaining within the given constraints. The constraints included that that MBI Corporation cannot produce more than 200,000 units in its plant and must remain under an $8million dollar budget. MBI Corp. must also meet marketing constraints of at least producing 100 units of cc7 and 200 units of cc8. In the sensitivity analysis we increases the constraints by ten percent and Solver determined that the optimal units MBI should produce is 110 of cc7 and 46 of cc8. Increasing the constraints decreased the number of units produced and decreased the profit by 31%. Thus, the sensitivity analysis helped determine that the current constraints made for a bigger profit while making staying within budget and satisfying other needs within the corporation. Based on the solver results MDI should not increase the parameters of their constraints, at least not by ten percent. What did you learn from the exercise and how is it important to businesses? The lab showed me how analyze a word problem and interpret the numbers using a spreadsheet. It also taught me...
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...Assignment No.2 Production Operations Management Decision Making Under Certainty, Uncertainty, Environment is effect on the decisions which are making undercertainty.Certainty and undercertainty are reciprocal to each other,the degree will be vary certainty to uncertainty Decisions making associate with different kinds of risks. Certainty situation refer to who people think they are making reasonable decisions and what will be next in future and they predict analysis and make decisions . The reliable information will help to considered the cause and effect the matter is come to know about relationship for both uncertainty and certainty. Uncertainty situation reffer to people have data base which is not sufficient and reliable data which base brings sure accurate result so this becomes a not sure able result which tells neither good nor bad results. Evaluation of different variables for interaction is so difficult,For example if i start to expand the business in Chinese market but I have nominal and not sufficient information About china culture,climate,political situation ,Govt laws,policies,norms,values etc. It will be more difficult in situation to start business. Founder of Pakistan Quid-E_Azam says”I don’t like to take Right Decisions….!!!!! “I take decisions and make them Right. Correct Pay off table Alternative Low(125dozen) Medium(800dozen) High (1750 dozen) Small facility 15625 15625 15625 Medium facility...
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...Administrative Unit: Business Administration Department Course Prefix and Number: BUSI 508 Course Title: Decision Science for Business Number of: Credit Hours 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0 Catalog Description: Examination of quantitative skills useful to managers. Discussions focus on selected algebra topics, mathematics for finance and descriptive statistics and probability. Prerequisite: Knowledge of college algebra, Excel, or other computer spreadsheet applications is important. Prerequisite(s) / Corequisite(s): Knowledge of college algebra, Excel, or other computer spreadsheet applications is important. Text(s): Most current editions of the following: Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis By Cliff T. Ragsdale, Ed. (Thomson Southwestern) Recommended Course Objectives To understand a variety of quantitative methods. To emphasize presentations, peer review and application of quantitative methods. Measurable Learning Outcomes: Use linear programming for optimization and modeling business applications. Apply the concept of sensitivity analysis. Apply regression analysis for problem solving in business applications. Explain queuing theory. Evaluate risk assessment and project management. Topical Outline: • Optimization linear programming • Modeling LP problems • Sensitivity analysis • Network modeling • Regression analysis • Integer linear programming • Project management Culminating Experience...
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