...period and create memorable narratives that speculate about human behavior and interactions. The first show this essay will look at is the generation defining classic The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), and the second show is a modern cult hit from the United Kingdom Utopia (2013-2014). //Through a comparative analysis of the episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) and “Episode 5” of the British cult hit, Utopia (2013-2014) this essay illustrates how the science fiction genre can be and has been used generation after generation to highlight certain social issues. Whereas The Twilight Zone uses America’s anxieties of communism and consumer culture to cause paranoia in the early sixties, Utopia uses big business, government conspiracies, and overpopulation in a plot that stirs up concern for the environment. Ultimately this essay will illustrate how social issues lay the foundation for a compelling science fiction narrative. \\ Shortly after WWII ended US soldiers returned home to a country very different than the one they had left. Jobs and wages were plentiful and young adults were eager to spend. After WWII people were not just buying things out of necessity, they were buying things for material desire. Televisions, washing machines, cars, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners were all machines...
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...International Business CEC Project, Focus: China Timeframe: February 18th to April 7th February 14th- China Shadow Banking: 6 Trusts Linked To Debt-Ridden Coal Company, Liansheng Group, Facing Default Risk Shadow banking can be seen as institutions that are not under the same regulations as traditional banks, primarily because they do not accept traditional deposits. This allows for banks to work with and sell higher yield products that also carry varying degree of risk without undergoing the regulations put forth by a government. In China, this has been problem as over the years many of these firms in the shadow banking industry has had trouble repaying the debts they owed on the instruments they sold. One such firm, Jilin Trust, is about to default on the loan given to the Liansheng Group, which will be the fifth time the firm has defaulted on paying products that have matured. Five other trust firms also invested in the Liansheng coal mining Group, even though it has been in debt for a considerable amount of time. Jilin Trust has made news primarily from the fact that it has already failed to pay 763 million yuan in maturing high-yield investments it sold to China's second largest lender. This is very problematic for China, as it can lower the faith investors have in the nation. If some of the largest trust firms have been unable to pay back investments they were selling, there is some sense of avoidance to not buy their products or further invest if there is no guarantee...
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...Chinese Culture(中国传统文化) Ghulam Abbas Kan (3115999115) Email id:abbasalmani591@hotmail.com School of Electronic and information Xi’an Jiaotong University. INTRODUCTION: Culture itself is a relatively large concept. Generally speaking, culture is a kind of social phenomenon, and it is the product of people's long-term creation. At the same time, it is a historical accumulation of social history. The general culture is the sum of all the material and spiritual wealth created by human beings. Exactly speaking, culture refers to a country or a nation's history, geographical conditions, traditions, customs, way of life, literature, art, normative behavior, ways of thinking, values, and so on. According to the definition of British anthropologist Edward teller, culture "includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and as a member of the society the ability and habits that complex whole". Its core is as spiritual products of all kinds of knowledge, this matter is spread. Culture is a phenomenon peculiar to human beings. Culture is created by people, being unique.The culture is the product of human social practice. Chinese traditional culture is the civilization evolution and exchange integrated a reflect the national character and style of the national culture is nation in the history of all kinds of thoughts and ideology of the overall characterization, refers to the living in the area of Chinese nation and the ancestors created and inherited from generation to generation...
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...Philip Lee Joor Baruah Monday- 11:15-12:30 Film 20A 30 October 2014 Citizen Kane Sequence Analysis Essay Mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing are visual elements in film that create meaning in the shots/sequences of the film. Ultimately it is these factors that can establish narrative agents and their relations, drive the narrative and place the view in a certain point of view of the narrative. Orson Welle’s 1941 film, Citizen Kane, is considered significant for its technical innovations with its use of deep focus lenses, low angles, high contrast lighting, long takes and dissolves. In my essay I will be analyzing the sequence depicting Kane’s “Declaration of Principles.” I will show how the elements of mise-en-scene, the cinematography and editing choices help to visually depict Kane as a powerful subject, establish narrative conflict and create perspective within the sequence. Through sequence of Kane’s “Declaration of Principles” Kane is depicted as a powerful narrative agent through social blocking in the sequence’s mise-en- scene. Throughout the long third shot, Kane is placed centrally and stands the tallest compared to Leland and Bernstein. Through the cinematic use of deep focus lenses that manages to capture Leland, Kane and Bernstein positioned in the background, mid ground and foreground all in focus at the same time. This allows for Kane to dominate the mise-en-scene in spatial relations to his friends. His physical relations to his friends and the surrounding...
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...plays JacobTV Arno Bornkamp “Buku of Horn, Arno B plays JacobTV” is Arno Bornkamp´s first cd dedicated to the composer Jacob ter Veldhuis. ´Buku of Horn´ in summary means ´lots of saxophone´, and that describes a large part of ter Veldhuis’ compositions and business over the past 15 years. The first track starts out with the infamous Tallahatchie Concerto. According to the composer, the word ‘tallahatchie’ occurred to him spontaneously. It appeared to be a native American word, meaning ‘river of rocks’, which was in his opinion an apt metaphor for this concerto. The Tallahatchie Concerto is a stretched out crescendo/accelerando in which the saxophone gradually leads the audience “from celestial atmospheres into terrestrial ones.” “This is the reason why pink shadows of heavenly orange clouds hang over the opening adagietto of the piece.” I regard this concerto as an abstract piece of music, which is quite exceptional in ter Veldhuis’ work. He’s connecting an anecdote to this composition which makes the interpretation of it so much more unique and beautiful at the same time. Anyways, at the very beginning of the piece, Bornkamp starts in unison with the strings and changes to a perfect fourth then to a fifth while each voice perfectly compliments and balances to each other. The song goes on with moments of brief tension and accompanying resolution. Also, as the song progresses, the saxophone line transitions from a lyrical to a technical melody. This transition occurs...
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...“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” When I walked onto the campus at Virginia Tech in 2011 failure wasn’t even on my mind. I had finished high school with honors and the dream of becoming a pharmacist. I had a plan (the same one since fifth grade) and knew that nothing was going to change. Little did I know that pharmacy was far from my passion, medical based chemistry and biology were some of the most difficult courses I had ever been faced with and I came to realize that I had a lot of thinking to do. I left Virginia Tech with an abysmal GPA and decided a year at home working and going to community college were my best options. I had to immediately get over my pride and accept the fact that I had hit the road running and fell flat on my face. The year I spent at home I went to J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and John Tyler Community...
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...tandfonline.com/loi/rbec20 Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a tax morale approach Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic To cite this article: Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic (2015) Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a tax morale approach, Baltic Journal of Economics, 15:2, 81-98, DOI: 10.1080/1406099X.2015.1114714 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2015.1114714 © 2015 The author(s). Published by Routledge Published online: 12 Nov 2015. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 1004 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rbec20 Download by: [95.158.49.18] Date: 20 April 2016, At: 09:43 Baltic Journal of Economics, 2015 Vol. 15, No. 2, 81–98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2015.1114714 Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a tax morale approach Colin C. Williamsa* a and Ioana A. Horodnicb Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; bFaculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iași, Romania Downloaded by [95.158.49.18] at 09:43 20 April 2016 (Received 26 November 2014; accepted 28 October 2015) To explain the shadow economy in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia...
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...James “Jamie” Dimon, JPMorgan Chase's CEO, is one of America's most powerful and outspoken bankers. Dimon's career in the brokerage business seemed preordained by his lineage. His grandfather, a Greek immigrant from Smyrna, was a broker and passed on his knowledge of the business to his son and partner, Theodore Dimon. Jamie Dimon's father and grandfather worked together for 19 years, and Dimon worked summers in their New York office. In 1978 Dimon graduated cum laude from Tufts University. He worked for the Management Analysis Center, a consulting firm in Boston, for several years and then enrolled in Harvard Business School. While a student at Harvard, Dimon interned at Goldman Sachs and was offered a job there after graduation in 1982. He declined, instead going to work for the mentor who would profoundly shape his career: Sandy Weill. From 1982 to 1985 Weill and Dimon teamed up at American Express, where Dimon signed on as vice president and assistant to the president. Dimon's abilities to crunch numbers meshed well with Weill's people skills. When Weill was forced out of American Express, he made Dimon his second in command at the little-known consumer-lending outfit that he bought called Commercial Credit Company. That tiny firm was the beginning of what would eventually become Citigroup. Dimon was a key member of the team that launched and defined Commercial Credit's strategy. He served as the company's chief financial officer and an executive vice president and then...
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...SHAJI THOMAS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR P G DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE PAVANATMA COLLEGE IDUKKI,KERALA EFFECTS OF BLACK MONEY ON INDIAN ECONOMY ABSTRACT: Black money is one of the hot topics of discussion now a days in our country. The black economy represents not less than one fifth of the aggregate economic transactions. Black money results in the functioning of a parallel economy. In India, black money refers to funds transacted in the black market, on which income and other taxes have not been paid. It practices those activities which are contrary to the principles of economic policy pursued in an economy. Therefore it is called illegal economic operation. It is well-known that there is a large quantity of money, income and wealth which has been...
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...Applied mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences, 1997, 1175 pages, Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler, Karl Byleen, 0135745756, 9780135745755, Prentice Hall, 1997 Published: 14th July 2010 DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/1RspljW Applied mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences This book prepares readers to understand finite mathematics and calculus used in a wide range of disciplines. Covering relevant topics from finance, linear algebra, programming, and probability, the Seventh Edition places emphasis on computational skills, ideas, and problem solving. Other highlights include a rich variety of applications and integration of graphing calculators. Provides optional regression analysis, containing optional examples and exercises illustrating the use of regression techniques to analyze real data. Both graphing calculator and spreadsheet output are included. Offers more optional technology examples and exercises using actual data. Implements use of graphing calculators in optional examples, exercises in technology, illustrations of applications of spreadsheets and sample computer output. DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/1qC8Dk0 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2483933 Solutions manual to accompany Raymond A. Barnett and Michael R. Ziegler's finite mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences , R. Michael Ziegler, Raymond A. Barnett, 1990, Science, 476 pages. . Precalculus functions and graphs...
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...which took place in the 1940’s or 50’s, the busy streets of Harlem are filled with children who are positioned in a neighborhood described as a ghetto. “Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center.” (Harlem) Harlem, New York gave way to many beautiful attributes to the world such as jazz music and Langston Hughes, but it wasn’t always an easy road to find these beautiful assets within the ghetto. The ghetto can be described in scholarly terms as, “A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.” (Dictionary) Bambara introduces a young and annoyed character, Sylvia. Sylvia is at first impressed with Miss Moore’s lesson, but moderately annoyed with it because she would rather be having fun. “Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better,” (Woodson) Miss Moore, an educated African American teacher, from the same neighborhood, takes on a class of students who have yet explored a world known to be beyond their reach, Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue is a prominent shopping destination for the well-off and privileged, the white population. Sylvia, our angry and daunting main character, goes along for the field trip with Miss Moore despite her personal concessions about her and her ideologies...
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...P_(0 )= $1.21/(2.013%) breakthrough. He only hoped that tomorrow morning would bring mercy upon him… Such was not the case for Dr. Santiago. He arrived at his office early, hoping to prepare for the meeting at hand with the senior staff and the project manager. Instead, he found the project manager, along with the vice president of biotechnology, waiting for him. It did not take long. The data and the logs clearly showed that the error was a result of Santiago’s negligence – and they were errors that could not be forgiven easily. His worst fears were confirmed as they sat him down to discuss his future with the corporation. His career would be altered – he would be transferred and demoted to a research assistant. He would loose many of the perqs he’d come to enjoy. He would be all but thrown away. And that was the good news. All of this would come with a heavy price. One paid with blood – literally. In order to recover from this incident, Santiago would have to sacrifice his only son. The corporate offices had been keeping an eye on young Tomas since his twelve birthday, when testing revealed he possessed a latent gene known to be involved with magical ability. He had failed, however, to demonstrate any sort of ability or powers that would attract the attention of the thaumaturgy division. Possessing even latent abilities, however, would make him a valuable and powerful candidate for ritual sacrifice to power some of the more obscure procedures that were rumored to take...
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...Vision & Mission statement and Strategic clock G. H. PATEL P.G. INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY VALLABH VIDYANAGAR Submitted by: Purohit hardik 11F16 MBA 2nd year (Div: A) 2011-13 What is Vision & and Mission? A Mission Statement defines the organization's purpose and primary objectives. Its prime function is internal – to define the key measure or measures of the organization's success and its prime audience is the leadership team and stockholders. Vision Statements also define the organizations purpose, but this time they do so in terms of the organization's values rather than bottom line measures (values are guiding beliefs about how things should be done.) The vision statement communicates both the purpose and values of the organization. For employees, it gives direction about how they are expected to behave and inspires them to give their best. Shared with customers, it shapes customers' understanding of why they should work with the organization. Bowman’s Strategy Clock In many open markets, most goods and services can be purchased from any number of companies, and customers have a tremendous amount of choice. It's the job of companies in the market to find their competitive edge and meet customers needs better than the next company. So, how, given the high degree of competitiveness among companies in a marketplace, does one company gain competitive advantage over the others? When there are only a finite number of...
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...Tory Burch Tory Burch is an attainable, luxury, lifestyle brand defined by classic American sportswear with an eclectic sensibility, which embodies the personal style and spirit of its co-founder and creative director, Tory Burch. Perceiving a void in the market for a sophisticated American aesthetic at an accessible price point, Tory wanted to create stylish yet wearable clothing and accessories for women of all ages. Tory Burch was launched in February 2004 as a lifestyle concept with multiple product categories, including ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes and jewelry. Going against the minimalist trend that was popular at the time, Tory designed her flagship boutique, in downtown New York, to feel more like a room in her own home than a traditional retail store. Key design elements featured in all boutiques include orange lacquer doors, mirrored walls, and Lucite fixtures. Tory’s childhood on a farm outside of Philadelphia, as well as her mother and father’s unique sense of personal style, influence the aesthetic of the collection. Her sensibility is also inspired by art, photography, films travel, and the work of interior designer David Hicks. Graphic prints, bold colors and ethnic detailing are all signatures of the brand. Born in Valley Forge, Tory graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Art History and moved to New York to pursue a career in the fashion industry. She has worked for some of America’s greatest designers, including Ralph Lauren...
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...Malik Yomen Estee Lauder Case Study Professor Hackenberg October 17, 2010 Estee Lauder Company was founded by Estee Lauder and her husband Joseph Lauder in 1946. Estee Lauder started the company by selling her first beauty products in beauty salons and hotels and established their first department store account with Saks Fifth Avenue in New York in 1948. Estee Lauder is now one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. Estee Lauder is one of the most well known manufacturers and marketers of cosmetic product line companies in the United States and is guided by the original values of quality, delivering outstanding customer service, enhancement of reputation through image, style, prestige, and pursuance of profit, but never at the expense of quality, service, or reputation that Estee Lauder instilled at the beginning. The business strategy and mission of Estee Lauder, in their own words is: “Bringing the best to everyone we touch” through a great business that is committed to uncompromised ethics and integrity. The company is always striving to give its stakeholders the maximum value for their money by continuous improvement and growth in all sectors of the company. The company is primarily managed by the Lauder family members as both the CEO and Chairman of the board are Lauders. It is unclear of the organizational structure of the company, the executive officers...
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