...The Panda Have you ever wanted to become something or to achieve a goal, but no one ever believed in you or said that’s a bad idea? Well you would find out and learn how the character “Po,” from Kung Fu Panda overcame this challenged he faced. It is also a very interesting film to inspire the young children and adults that are also facing a similar scenario. Po was a big fat panda that was helping his father at a noodle shop. Po’s father always wanted his son to become famous for making the special noodle soup and to run and carry on his business. Po had different goals and plans in mind; he wanted to become the “Dragon Warrior.” He always saw himself as a failure and cannot achieve what he wanted in the beginning, but he started to believe in himself when Master Ogway talked to him. Po was chosen to defeat Tai Lang if he came to destroy the village. He wanted to leave the Jade Palace after he found out that he had to fight Tai Lang. He started to train harder and to try and prove that he can defeat the evil Tai Lang that escaped from jail. When Po was picked by Master Ogway to become the “Dragon Warrior,” many people saw him as a disgrace that he was chosen instead of Crane, Mantis, Tigeres, Monkey, or Snake. He found strength from his father telling him that there is no secret ingredient in the soup which explained the “Dragon Scroll” he had. Tai Lang also looked at the “Dragon Scroll,” but he did not realize why it was blank, but Po figured out the meeting. But he gained...
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...(Panda) 1. What background information do you need to know? Pandas are endangered, many other animals are also endangered 2. What are the key details that stand out? What are the supporting details? Big tuna wearing a panda mask and other unmasked tuna. 3. What issue does this seem to reference? We as a race try to save the “cute” well publicized animals. The less pretty or tastier animals are ignored. 4. What side of the debate is this visual taking? What perspective does the visual take? If tuna were cute or more publicized people would care and do more to save them. 5. How do we know what side the visual is taking? What specific claims are made? “Would you care if I was a panda?” 6. What does this visual want from its viewers? What message does it convey? To make people think about the fact that if an animal is considered “cute” or beautiful everything possible is done to prevent its extinction, and that people need to think about other animals as well. The picture portrays a school of blue-fin tuna in the ocean, but focuses directly on one wearing a panda mask. The text underneath it states, “Would you care more if I was a panda?” We all know that the panda is an endangered species and is near extinction. This visually argues that the blue-fin tuna is also becoming endangered, but with much less worry over the likelihood of extinction of this species. People care more about the panda than this fish. The reason the blue-fin tuna is...
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...Animals Protection—Red Panda [pic] [pic] Content Page 1) Introduction about red panda 2) Threats that red pandas are facing 3) Open Letter 4) Leaflet 5) T-shirt Design 6) Poster 7) Sources of information 1) Introduction about red panda 1.1 Basic information The red panda is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China that has been classified as Vulnerable by IUCN as its wild population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals. It is Different from giant panda. 1.2 Features of red pandas: 1. soft reddish-brown fur on the upper parts, blackish fur on the lower parts 2. distinctive white facial markings 1.3 Behavior of red pandas Red pandas go out at dawn an dusk, solitary 1.4 Food Red pandas like to eat Bamboo, fruits and insects. 1.5 Life cycle Red pandas grow slowly. Their ages can be up to 15 years old 1.6 Distribution Red pandas mainly live in temperate forests of the Himalayas, and ranges from the foothills of western Nepal to Chinain the east 1.7 Reproduction Red pandas are able to reproduce at around 18 months of age, and are fully mature at two to three years. [pic] (2) Threats that red pandas are facing 2.1 Situation that red pandas facing Red pandas’ population is decreasing. Number of red pandas is now less than 10000. 2.2 Reasons for number of red pandas to decrease It is because home of red pandas (forest) is being...
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...Red pandas can be easily identified by their unique ruddy coat color, which acts like camouflage within the canopy of fir trees where branches are covered with clumps of reddish-brown moss and white lichens. They have large, round heads and short snouts with big, pointed ears. Their faces are white with reddish-brown “tear” marks that extend from the eyes to the corner of the mouth. These markings could have evolved to help keep the sun out of their eyes. Their tails are marked with alternating red and buff rings. Red pandas have a soft, dense woolly undercoat covered by long, coarse guard hairs. Long, bushy tails help these arboreal animals maintain balance and protect them from harsh cold and winds. Dense fur completely covers their feet which have five, widely separated toes and semi-retractable claws....
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...Case Summary Panda has been the low – cost producer of traditional BLUE and BLACK pens. Profit margins were over 20% of sales. Five years earlier, RED pens had been introduced and were sold at 3% premium. Last year, PURPLE pens were sold at 10% premium. RED and PURPLE pens seem more profitable than BLUE and BLACK but overall profitability is down. Jane Mendez was disappointed with the financial results. Jeffrey Donald, the manufacturing manager, said life was simpler when they just produced BLUE and BLACK pens. Difficulties started arising when they started RED pens. They needed to stop production, empty the vats, clean out all remnants of the previous color and start production of red ink. Direct labor cost is 300%, while a few years back it was only 200%. Activity-Based Costing: * Indirect labor * 50% of the indirect labor costs are caused by Production run * 40% of the indirect labor cost were caused by the physical change from one color to another called setup costs * 10% of the time was used to an activity Parts Administration (Book keeping) * Computer Expenses * 20% allocated to support activities (Parts admin.) * 80% of computer resources were used to produce batches and are closely related to handling of production batches ACA No. 3. Eliminate RED and PURPLE pens in the production and go back to the original product line. (use traditional costing only) PROS: * No drastic changes needed since they are...
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...Verne, CA Group Assignment: Panda Express Prepared by 05/21/2014 College of Business and Public Management Department of Business Administration Business overview In 1973, Andrew Cherng opened the first Panda inn in Pasadena, one of America's great ethnic melting pots. In 1983, He realized that Southern California offered an excellent market for fast food. So he launched Panda Express and opening the first Panda Express in a mall in Glendale, California. It proved to be a very successful beginning because the Panda Express was one of the few quick-service restaurants with full-service concept. The early Panda Express was usually located in shopping malls, but eventually they spread into other spots. They first in its home base of Southern California, then eastwardly, to the Western states of Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah and eventually to the East Coast. In 2007, Panda opens its 1000th location in Pasadena and achieves 1 billion in revenue. In 2013, Panda Express achieves with 23,000 employees and over 1600 stores in 51 States and abroad. ("Cherng. A," 2012). Panda’s annual sales is about 9.2 millions. Panda Express Motivation of Expanding Panda Express has already enter into the foreign market-Mexico in 2011. Until now, it has the Canada and Mexico foreign market. Panda Express has the goal that becoming the largest and a leader in the quick-service Asian restaurant and inspire everyone to better their lives. Panda Express wants to seek the new...
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...Guanlin Situ EWS 301.02 Prof Banh 5-14-2013 The Westernized Panda As the melting pot, “the United States has the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia” (Zhou 43). When people choose to step in the melting pot, their original identities will be blurred in some ways, languages, daily habits, religions, and the most important element, which is food. Panda Express, a fast casual restaurant serving American Chinese cuisine, is one of the most popular places that serving orange chicken. The company was founded in 1983 by Andrew Cherng, Peggy Cherng and Ming Tsai Cherng. It is also the largest chain of Asian fast food restaurants in the United States. As of year 2011, the company has approximately 1500 restaurants covering 42 states and Puerto Rico. To a sector that was used to be dominated by American fast food, burgers and fried chicken, the invention of Panda Express found a good market niche. The success of the company relies heavily on its unique concept, quick-service Chinese restaurant, and its locations, shopping mall food courts, supermarkets, key intersections, college campus, airports and casinos (Panda Management Company, Inc. History). Dishes featured in Panda Express are originated from different regions of China. Usually, adjustments have to be made in order to allow the dishes to be more acceptable by Americans. For example, cuisines from Hunan and Sichuan are usually “spicy and oily, often featuring a sophisticated blend of intense flavors” (Coe...
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...stands out: the giant panda. The pandas live a peaceful and harmless life high in the remote mountainous regions of central China. The bamboo forests grow high, and are cool and wet—just the way the pandas prefer them to be. Pandas will climb upwards to 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) to feed on the bamboo that grows in their habitat; during the summer seasons, they will venture even higher. Pandas mainly feed on bamboo, but will eat birds or rodents as well. It is in this peaceful bamboo jungle habitat that the giant panda gives birth to and nurtures its young. The Giant Panda is one of the rarest and most exotic animals this world has given birth to. Pandas are mammals; they’re omnivores. The average lifespan in the wild for a healthy Panda is twenty years. The sizes they grow to are four to five feet (one to one and a half meters) tall and weigh upwards to 300 pounds (136 kilograms). In the past few decades the Chinese Giant Pandas have been added to the endangered species list because of their decreasing numbers. The Pandas made the list due to false pregnancies, poachers, poor nurturing, and lack of bamboo growth. First, pandas are slowly decreasing in numbers because of lack of reproduction. Pandas in the wild and zoos (artificial habitats) are losing interest in one another because of loss of habitat, food, and freedom. Over the decades there has been human contact with the pandas’ habitat, which is disturbing the mating rituals of the pandas. The lack of food...
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...Is there ethical treatment for animals in captivity? The term “ethical” implies the moral basis of treatment towards animals while “captivity” denotes confinement or lack of freedom. The unmistakable contrast in these two words itself creates the argument whether ethical treatment is possible for animals in captivity. Humans had often been overly considerate about moral principles while dealing with its own kind. Whenever ethics were encroached upon, man stood up against it, questioned it and regained it. But unfortunately, lacking advanced communication like humans, animals are unable to. Human intervention in wildlife has bereaved animals of total control over their own lives. Man may reason out his intrusion, yet, the animals in captivity, being deprived of their natural habitats and having bred in man-made enclosures for generations, tend to misperceive their animality. It is indispensable to have an insight into what causes the bereavement of animals and how it is caused, before looking into its moral principles. Among the contrastive places that I came across in which animal captivity is proceeded, wildlife preservation zoos are the most popular, and least considered as a confinement of animal freedom. Thousands of people visit zoos daily but rarely give a thought to the miserable lives that animals have to spend stagnating and sleeping, due to the less spacious and artificial residences provided. Some present enclosures in zoos have been changed to natural barriers...
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...become a fat person at one time, during this process we can call the accumulation, but when children accumulate the experience, the parents might be a teacher, they told their children what them should to do, or if they did not do something they should be what a bad ending. Even sometime parents ask their children to do something even if their children do not want to do so. Maybe it is why children going to be young and would like to be rebel. However, the children always listen to their parents while they would lose some creation for themselves. In other words, human beings are animals who stand on the top. For instance, a pet has had breed by his mother, the pet will lose his nature skill. Such as tiger waits for food at the zoo and the Panda stands for country’s cute pet. Children follow the parents’ plan therefore lose the creation away liking a...
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...全球化传播中电影的新文化塑造 ——以《功夫熊猫》中的融合文化为例 【摘要】 随着《功夫熊猫》的上映，国内学者对于电影所带来的文化现象展开了激烈的讨论。本文通过分析美国电影的文化表达，电影的消费观念和全球化背景下的媒介文化传播与特征，探讨在电影中两种具有明显差异性的文化走向平衡与配合，使得电影所营造出的一种浅层化，拼接的亦东亦西的“新”融合性文化，并探讨全球化媒介文化是否存在对于民族传统文化的威胁。 【关键词】 功夫熊猫 媒介文化 全球化 浅层化 文化拼接 《功夫熊猫》一登陆中国就曾遭到艺术家赵半狄的抵制，如今《熊猫2》的抵制队伍中还出现了北大教授孔庆东、北京电影学院动画学院院长孙立军的身影，理由是好莱坞电影用中国的符号在中国掘金并进行文化侵略。然而，《功夫熊猫2》依然继续前一部的票房佳绩。虽然这部动画片突出好莱坞电影一贯主张的美国个人主义价值观，但作为一个媒介文化产品，其在中国的传播影响力和传播效果都是值得称赞和肯定的。 由《功夫熊猫》被抵制现象和最终票房的成功，不禁让人联想到电影所带来的媒介文化全球化。我认为，大众媒介和消费经济介入文化传播之中，使电影所营造的文化不单纯只是中国文化，或者单纯的美国文化。在全球化的趋势下，在商品经济的背景下，具有明显差异性的两种文化在电影中走向平衡与配合，使得电影所营造出的媒介文化在浅层化和混杂化的过程中，形成了一种既非东方、又非西方的、“超国界的、调和着不同国家之间”的“第三种文化”[1]。 一、从美国电影中的文化表达说起 纵观美国好莱坞电影，其中的几个经典的角色比如超人、蜘蛛侠、西部牛仔，无一例外地出现在一个公式化的高效生产模式之中：他们的出生或许高贵或许卑微，但都在自己的努力下成为了拯救大局的英雄。这些围绕人物而展开的电影，主角总是占据不可替代的地位，而旁人多扮演着辅佐或提点的角色，“个人”的地位故事中被夸张性地放大，最后的胜利也归功于主人公的选择和努力。这次，连中国的熊猫也难免落入了这种好莱坞电影的套路之中。 这种“好莱坞”电影套路可以从文化根源和传播介质两方面分析。首先，在文化方面，美国作为一个典型的基督教国家，“新教精神”渗透到美国人生活的方方面面，成为人们日常的道德规范。它认为上帝创造每一个个体都有其意义，每一个生命无论是高贵还是卑微，都极为宝贵。这就是为什么在很多好莱坞灾难片里，拯救地球往往都是意想不到的小人物[2]。另外，由新教精神与资本主义经济体制所融合产生的“个人主义”也是美国文化价值的核心。它强调人是具有独立精神的个体，应该在政权和宗教之外保持一种人格上的独立与自尊，在文化上强调个人独立性、创造性，强调个人自由发展。可以看出，这种电影套路正是美国精神的一种表现，它源于美国的文化并反映美国的价值观。 在传播介质方面，电影作为大众传播媒介之一，是文化的产物也是文化的载体，在美国好莱坞它更是一种商业产品。作为世界经济大国和传媒大国，美国自然不会忽略“电影”这样一个重要的媒介方式，好莱坞的电影作为一种文化商品被销售到本国及其全球市场，电影的商品属性使它的内容意义便于复制和接受理解。在消费电影的同时，观众能够通过电影作品的人物形象和故事情节直接感触到的是一种感性的、直观的力量，理解出的是关于人性的、道德的、伦理的文化内容，甚至是一种普遍认同的文化核心价值观，进而通过电影在目标市场上确立一种大众共同信守的文化秩序。 正因如此，相比于其他国家的电影作品，好莱坞电影在文化价值观表现和商业性这两个方面做得尤为突出。...
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...Extinction . As Dead as a Dodo! For every species that is alive today, perhaps a thousand more have lived previously and become extinct. Most of these extinctions occurred before humans evolved, and the species are known to us only through fossils The Dodo The dodo was a large (50 lb) flightless bird that lived on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. It lived undisturbed for so long that it lost its need and ability to fly. It lived and nested on the ground and ate fruits that had fallen from trees. The island was uninhabited and the dodo had no natural predators. Then Mauritius was colonised in 1638. Dodos were hunted for food and easy to catch because they were not afraid of people. New competitors were brought onto the island (including pigs, cats and rats). These competitors ate the dodos' eggs in their ground nests and also ate the dodo’s young. The last dodo was killed in 1681. Answer the following questions using information from the text: 1. What was the dodo? 2. Out of the four causes of extinction we have learnt about, which two caused the extinction of the dodo and why? 3. When did the last dodo die? Dinosaurs There are many theories as to how the dinosaurs became extinct. Keep in mind that there is no absolutely proven theory. Asteroid Theory According to this theory a large asteroid or comet collided with Earth about 65 million years ago. Scientists think that such a large collision would throw so much dust into the air that sunlight would not...
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...been major threats to the survival of wild pandas. In the 1950s, a panda’s habitat was estimated to cover around 5.1 million hectares. Logging over the next few decades peaked in the early 1990s, shrinking the habitat to 1.3 million hectares. It wasn’t until a 1998 government ban on logging in panda ranges and a new State Natural Forest Protection Project that habitat loss began to slow. Today, about 5.7 million acres (2.3 million hectares) of panda habitat are known to exist. The increase is attributed to real forest re-growth, the discovery of new areas where pandas live, as well as scientific improvements in measuring habitat size. Protected areas that exist now are not providing adequate protection of healthy panda populations. Nature reserves contain less than half (1 million hectares) of known panda habitat. That means more than half the world’s wild pandas aren’t protected. More than 300,000 people live within panda ranges, putting unprecedented pressure on the wild panda population. Climate change also threatens remaining panda habitat, bringing new weather patterns that could significantly affect future availability of shelter and food. Fragmented forest cover limits the panda’s range and could have a devastating impact on the overall population. The information in these pages has been taken from: Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, DC CI-Shanshui Center for Nature and Society, Beijing, China The Giant Panda in the Wild Species Report authored by Dr...
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...According to the WWF 2012 financial statements, WWF received over $24.2 million dollars in revenue in the 2012 financial year through various sources. The largest source of income being individual supporters (61%). followed by legacies and corporations (22%),. The WWF uses many fundraising techniques in order to promote the organisation and realise funds from individuals. These include community events, supporter status offered for monthly donations, endangered animal adoption programs, bequests,workplace giving and Business partnerships. WWF engages with various corporations to develop integrated marketing campaigns that enable companies and their customers to show their support and to contribute actively to conservation. These collaborations are specifically designed to increase public awareness about WWF and to generate revenue for WWF’s global conservation efforts. The WWF states that "We establish company partnerships to improve the sustainability of supply chains and promote sector-wide action, whilst also promoting sustainable commodity investment within the finance sector." The WFF is in partnership with many well-known brands such as AVON and Coca-Cola and has recently established an alliance with CARE. Bureau of statistics concludes that 53% of Australian adults are concerned about the environment, yet only 14% made donations to an environmental cause. This leaves opportunity for WWF to increase its marketing strategy and improve its public message. In support of this...
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...Evidence of False Thumb Evolution Roughly 75% of all the types of mammals that have ever lived are now extinct. We tend to think of extant organisms as all there is. We know dinosaurs once lived and are now extinct. An article explored the routes of diversification taken by early mammals, only those lineages in the far right based on figure 1, in Cenozoic Era have survived to the modern day. Each era group showed how common it was in various time period. The multituberculates were very common until the early Paleocene. In history, they were the dominant group of mammals, existing in the largest numbers for the longest time and are now extinct. Their generations, the spalacotheriods and eutriconodonts, were successful in the Early Creataceous but its population declined by the end of that Period. At the root of the tree showed (figure 1) the groups of mammaliaforms, not true mammals, but have some similarities. This group first appeared in the Jurassic era and didn’t survive the Cretaceous era. The Cretaceous ended with a global extinction that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, and several stem-mammals suffered the same fate. Others lingered into the Paleocene Epoch only to become extinct, possibly outcompeted in the rapid radiation of the therians. We tend to think of extinct groups as more “primitive” than extant groups, but the mammals radiated rapidly and many niches occupied today were occupied by now-extinct forms in the past. In the phylogentic tree some show niches available...
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