...The “Blurred Lines” music video has many signs with signifiers, which then signified an idea or concept. One example of a sign that relates to sexism is the following lyrics, "You know you want it. Cause you're a good girl. Just let me liberate you. Tried to domesticate you. But you're an animal, baby, it's in your nature" (Blurred Lines, Feb. 17, 2014). These couple lines is representing rape because he is basically saying the women in the videos are animals and that he “tried to domesticate” them, also meaning that he wants to tame the girls in the videos. This is a sign of sexism because it consists of a signifier (lyrics) and it signified that he is representing the women as animals instead of human beings. Another signifier when they constantly mumble “I know you want it” (Blurred Lines, Feb. 17, 2014). This signifies sex because the R&B singer is consistently saying it to the girls in the video and the overall sign is the sexual interactions. Not only does he mumble, “I know you want it” constantly, but the whole song basically says he wants to have sex the ladies. Lastly, when the song started with Robin singing, “If you can’t hear what I’m trying to say. If you can’t read from the same page. Maybe I’m going deaf. Maybe I’m going blind. Maybe I’m out of my mind” (Blurred Lines, Feb. 17, 2014), it means that the ladies in the video are rejecting him, so he’s saying, “If you can’t hear what I’m trying to say” and “Maybe I’m out of my mind”, this was the signifier. Then...
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...I don’t feel that anyone has a true way of making any decisions. To learn any portion of any theory should have some proof and not just one person ideal of what or could happen. Religion has always been the backbone of most theories and I think that because it has ran the world since the beginning of time. Take Adam and Eve for example. Were they really true individuals or the makeup portion of someone’s mind? Proven fact? I don’t think so. Having facts is the best way of teaching someone the REAL way of any theory. Being a subject of a theory will make it more realistic to the student or to the world. The world is a student that will tell if it is a theory or proven facts. Having to be taught from theories alone would be cruel. Only having one way of thinking would be a downfall for mankind. Foe me being an IT student, they teach you that there is ALWAYS two ways or more to get an answer. Now that is fact. If I was told that I could only have one way of doing things then it would not open my mind to do it any other way. Could that be a factor for a theory? Maybe. When I read the pages of “The lynching of Bill Dembski “ I was appalled at the thought of having to be replaced by a intelligent design. Would this “thing” be a True person or just an ideal from the professor’s mind? What is his basic’s behind this? Intelligent design points not to a creator, but to a designer -- a crucial distinction. “If you examine a piece of furniture,” he explains, “you can identify that...
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...MGT 455 Week 1 Written Case Analysis - Izmir National University Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/mgt-455-week-1-written-case-analysis-izmir-national-university/ Use the following format for each week’s Case Analysis assignment. Each Case Analysis should be 5 to 6 pages in length. Izmir National University Case Analysis assignment Questions 1. What do the comments by the faculty tell you about INU ’s strategy? 2. What would you recommend the Dekan do regarding the Business School’s strategic planning process? What role would you recommend the Dekan play in this process? 3. Productivity is defined as the ratio of output (including both goods and services) to the input used to produce it. How could the productivity of the Business School be measured? What would the effect be on productivity if the faculty all received a 10 percent raise but continued to teach the same number of classes and students? Format I. Summary of the Facts This section presents a brief listing of the key facts, with page numbers from the case in parentheses, where appropriate. It should be no more than 1 page in length. Therefore, there is little room for a long-winded presentation of each fact. Important assumptions should also be listed here and labeled as such. II. Statement of the Problem This section presents a brief treatment of the major problem or problems, with a concise statement of the major problem or problems you see in the case. This part...
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...Written Analysis 5 For my popular culture topic I chose to analyze what others think about the TV show CSI. Though the previous four written analysis’ I have a better understanding of what they do think of the show after applying the aspects of this class. I found out through the first written analysis that many people believe that real life crime scene investigators really do everything that is portrayed in the TV show. However, that is just a myth. Real crime scene investigators are the individuals in the lab running tests on evidence that law enforcement collects and gives to them to test. They do not make arrests either. That is also left up to law enforcement. I also learned that forensic science has become a pop culture icon because of the show. It has made a lot of individuals to take college courses to learn more about it and to even change careers because they want to be just like the characters on the show. In the second written analysis I depicted that the show has a stereotype about crime scene investigators. The show portrays them as the crime solver. This is simply not true. Real crime scene investigators simply analyze the evidence in labs. Law enforcement is the ones who solve the crimes. They use the analysis of the evidence from the crime scene investigators to solve the crimes and to arrest the ones who committed the crime. In written analysis three, it was hard to decide if the characters in the show were heroes or not. But, if you look at the show...
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...The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling Written Case Analysis Mitchell Bredberg-(12205176) Mitchell Sovis-(12156556) Jake Rux-(12159615) Zach Dorer-(12171436) Finance 465-001 11/10/15 I. Executive Summary Anita Roddick was the founder of The Body Shop International PLC. Despite growing a successful business, the company recently ran downhill after losing revenue growth starting in the late 1990s. One of the major problems was intense competition. This unexpected phenomenon caused The Body Shop to lose its image of being the “go to” place in Great Britain’s many shopping venues. Later on, a new CEO, Patrick Gournay, took charge and was faced with a declining pretax profit of twenty-one percent. Facing a dilemma, Gournay’s recommended plan of action included a focused product strategy of increased investment. He was confident this strategy would produce improved results. To be effective, this strategy incorporated a reduction in product and inventory costs as well as a reinforced stakeholder culture. To justify the course of action with this strategy, we will prepare a three-year financial forecast to help predict The Body Shop’s future earnings and financial needs. This forecast will be based on The Body Shop’s historical financial statements to create the best possible financial model going forward. II. Statement of the Problem When Anita Roddick was still CEO, the main problem affecting The Body Shop was not being...
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...Written Case Analysis Case: Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A). Harvard Business School Case Jon Goebel Question 1: Considering various behaviors exhibited by Taran Swan, what do you think are the two predominant personality traits that characterize her? Rely on the class discussions from Session 1. Highlight important examples from the case that led you to this conclusion. In the case study about Nickelodeon in Latin America, Taran Swan exhibits glimpses of each of the five personality traits, but the two traits that most clearly epitomize her dynamic personality are “high extraversion”, and “high openness to experience”. Taran Swan has a tendency toward “high extraversion” and demonstrates this in how comfortable she is networking throughout all levels and functional areas within Nickelodeon / MTV and parent company Viacom. She was dealt a challenging situation when initially asked to launch the network station in Latin America. Taran is given direction to solicit resources and support from MTV personnel, but these employees are not familiar with the Nickelodeon brand and hold obvious bias toward their own network (MTV). Despite this situation, one MTV employee still gives Taran very high praise for not only involving all departments of the organization, but also for offering the opportunity to contribute their own ideas. Taran’s tendency for extraversion also allows her to infuse a sense of camaraderie...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Cases Included: ------------------------------------------------- - Oracle – An Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence ------------------------------------------------- - Enterprise Health Information Systems ------------------------------------------------- - FedEx Express EMEA ------------------------------------------------- ITM505 Group 18 – 3 Long Cases ITM505 Group 18 – 3 Long Cases By: Ali Ahmed (500405839), Arham Gul (500393563), Qasim Malik (500450605), Arich Lengkong (500481555), Patrick Antwi (500461586) By: Ali Ahmed (500405839), Arham Gul (500393563), Qasim Malik (500450605), Arich Lengkong (500481555), Patrick Antwi (500461586) Contents Case Analysis – Oracle: An Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 3 Introduction 3 Key Issues 3 Key Assumptions 4 What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a Business Intelligence (BI) software system in a small/medium level business? 5 Procurement and Spend Analytics: 5 Supply Chain and Order Management Analytic 5 Financial/Monetary Analytics 5 Sales, Price, and Marketing Analytics 6 Project and Human Resource Analytics 6 Loyalty, Service and Telephony Analytics 6 Disadvantages of Using Bi-Software System 7 Suggest a dash board for the said Oracle BI application (use a drawing tool to show the dash board components) and justify why they are needed. 7 Do you agree with “…the data is valuable only if it...
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...But how will we know if expensive lawyers are being paid to make sure the experiment is never conducted? With that in mind, it is only fair that evidence supporting intelligent design be presented to students alongside of evolutionary theory. No one is being forced to believe in God so there's no real violation of separation of church and state. Why not enliven this with a student debate on contrasting theories? Why not have an intelligent design advocate stop by science class to be interrogated? Many students, like me, find it hard to understand evolutionary theory, and the scientific method itself, until they are illuminated by contrasting points of view. Each of the articles cited has a detectible bias. However, they were written objectively. The only fact that was left out...
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...India starting eighties. Luxury watches were bought for their symbolic significance and experiential benefits. It was basically attributed to the major lifestyle changes. The other brands having high demand in luxury segment in Indian market were Tissot, Rado, Omega, Tag Heuer and Longines. Xylys is a premium Swiss brand housed by Titan in India. At the launch of the Xylys brand in 2006, the management of Titan Industries created a unique brand perception for Xylys in the consumer market. The brand employed it with style and attitude and was directed towards both men and women who were conscious of their image projection. The aim of the brand was to inculcate in them a sense of pride with the ownership of the premium Xylys brand. ANALYSIS The commonly used basis for segmenting the consumer market for watches is technology, benefit sought and price. This segmentation basis, although widely used, doesn’t give a clear picture...
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...Broadening Your Perspective Identifying Habits that Hinder Thinking This is an opportunity for me to take an account of my bad habits. The following habits are difficult to admit to myself, however once admitted it is easier to overcome them. Mine-Is- Better Habit On countless occasions throughout my childhood, I have demonstrated the “Mine- is- Better” habit. I grew up on U.S. Army bases as the daughter of a ranking officer. There was numerous times where I would pull “rank” on the other children. Such as, there was an instance when the neighborhood children and I were outside waiting for the ice cream truck to make its daily rounds throughout the base housing. When the truck arrived on that particular hot summer day, I decided, as well as informed the other children, that I was going to be served first. In the military this was an enormous deal because it was an unspoken rule to cause confusion with the child (ren) of a ranking officer. I was demonstrating the superiority of my mother over the other children’s enlisted parent. In retrospect, it was a very ridiculous thing to do as we are all equal, especially as it relates to standing in line for ice cream. I allowed the ego of my mother’s position to hinder logical thinking. Resistance to Change Habit Another bad habit that I realize is the “Resistance to Change” habit. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine lost his job after having been with Front Point Security for over three years. He did not think...
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...Understanding teacher’s perceptions on practices in giving written feedback in a sub - urban upper primary school in sungai petani ABSTRACTS This study presents a conventional research which looks into the perceptions of teachers in giving written feedback among different level of abilities pupils in a sub urban school. Different ways in giving written feedback to pupils provides an opportunity for them to see how the respond given to their works which may be engaging or just being ignored by pupils. However, the teachers may have their own perspectives and beliefs underlying their practices. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the way teachers give written feedback to pupils’ writing, belief of their practices and factors that influencing their belief on practices in written feedback. A number of writing exercise books selected from upper level primary pupils are collected to be analysed and a few follow- up interviews being done to elicit the information data required for the purpose of this study. The results shows that most teachers focus more on the language form, giving uncoded error feedback and less written commentary given in writing. It is assumed that the factors that influence these practices are mainly because of examination culture, the time constraints and the teacher’s personal belief of written feedback. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction Written feedback is a long-standing educational practice that can arguably...
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...Jordan Hollingsworth Professor Appling English 1102 28 February 2016 Paper on Simon J. Ortiz “(My Father’s Song) A poem is a set up of words out together into a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In the poem written by Simon J. Ortiz is a very touch poem about ones father and how he misses him dearly. He recalls a memory they had once shared together. The next poem that will be laid out and made more clearer to the viewer will be a poem about a mans father and his hard work. The narrator of the story is one that is recalling his past and how he felt bad for his dad as a young boy. As he has gotten older and more understanding to challenges in life he starts to relative the hardship and to feel bad for his dad. Some expressions or descriptions that are used inside poems are figurative language, symbolisms, metaphor, simile, and personification. Figurative language is words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Symbolisms are the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In the essay we will discuss the ideas of how the author uses different ways that they have put there thought together in the poem. Metaphor is a term of used to imply comparison between two literally incompatible items; it does not use explicit connective words. Simile is an explicit comparison...
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...In language itself the spoken language is primary language and the written language is secondary language. There are thousands of languages in the world. Many of them are spoken and written. Some of them are only spoken but not written. But there is no language that is only written but not spoken. Oral communication is constantly and continually employed by an individual in the familial and social environments. Oral communication has also its vital role in business situations. Oral communication in business has a variety of purposes. The communication of information is one purpose of oral communication, and may include informing employees of company-related issues, training new hires, speaking to the general public and maintaining business to business relationships. Persuasion through marketing and advertising is another purpose of oral communication in business. It is used to show a group of people a need and provide a solution to that need. The following are some of the situations in which oral communication is employed. Example 1: Presentations One form of oral communication in a business setting is a presentation. Presentations are usually an organized conveyance of information to a group of people. Stylistically, they tend to be far more formal than informal, and rely more heavily on data and facts than they do analysis. Presentations may include some dialog after the sender of the message has finished their speech, but they are, by and large, much more monologue...
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...to actually find people who were relevant to the study, to save both time and money. The research paper is set out in a typical style, written in a formal format with sections of information broken up under relevant headings. I found the paper read progressively, with the information flowing from one section to the next. After the Data Collection and Methodology section comes the Findings, which includes methods of analysis and tables presenting the data and findings. This is then followed by the paper’s Conclusion. The aim of the study was to understand the effect social media marketing is having on brand loyalty formation, from the perspective of the consumers . The results from the study concluded that a significant contribution was to practise and literature. Social media marketing, at that point in time, was defined as a new, albeit growing platform for building those positive relationships with customers and developing positive brand images. A drawback to this paper is that it was written in 2012, and when dealing with such a rapidly changing and evolving medium, three years can be seen as a long time. I don’t believe that this paper, or its findings are out-dated, but this was written in a time when social media was only just developing as a tool for modern marketing. I still believe it to be a well-conducted study and a well-written...
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...INT J LANG COMMUN DISORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER VOL. 2011, 46, NO. 6, 657–664 Research Report Communication skills in a population of primary school-aged children raised in an area of pronounced social disadvantage James Law†‡, Kirsty McBean‡ and Robert Rush‡ †School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK ‡Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK (Received 10 December 2009; accepted 1 February 2011) Abstract Background: Previous studies have highlighted the level of communication difficulty experienced by children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, but the pattern of difficulties remains unclear. Aims: The study asks whether the performance of a community sample of children from one of the most socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Scotland is best characterized by a general delay in all areas of development, by difficulties across the more formal structural aspects of language or in phonological skills. Methods & Procedures: The study included 138 monolingual English-speaking children: 63 (45.7%) boys and 75 (54.3%) girls aged between 5 and 12 years. All children were assessed blind to educational attainment in the school. Outcomes & Results: Nearly 40% of children had delayed language development with 10% having severe difficulties. The children presented with an uneven profile with much lower structural language scores than reading, general communication skills or non-verbal...
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