...University of Phoenix Nicholas Barnes Marketing Plan for Z-Wing Executive Summary This marketing plan will help Z-Wing remain among the top aircraft manufacturers in the world. We have the opportunity to take a sizeable chunk of the market away from Janssen by offering more models, we have traditionally manufactured only large jets, now we can offer extremely large jets and small jets. We believe that our competition won’t be able to keep up with what we will accomplish. Not only will Z-Wing offer more products but we will have a CRM system in place for our shareholders that will be second to none in the industry. We may run into issues with the economy being as bad as it is but we won’t lose focus. Our mission is to make more revenue and make more customers from our new systems. We will target military and also commercial airlines. Situation Analysis SWOT Analysis Z-Wing is fortunate enough to have become the world’s largest commercial and military aircraft manufacturer. Z-Wing has 50% of the market and we are currently developing state of the art technology so that our market will increase. We are developing a CRM system that is technologically advanced yet very user friendly, after all you, the customer will be the one using this great support system. We develop some of the best aircrafts in the world here at Z-Wing and we want to manufacture more aircrafts and gain more satisfied customers through this CRM system. No matter what individuals or companies...
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...would share some of the knowledge I have gained on modelling aircraft in 3D. I’ve decided to do this tutorial with the free Blender software (2.45) so that anybody can have a go at it at without having to outlay lots of cash. The purpose of this tutorial is not to teach you how to use Blender (although I will give plenty of tips) but to show you how I go about modelling aircraft. The techniques I show should readily transfer to any 3D software that you use. For this tutorial we will use the Nieuport 11 as an example as a lot of the shapes are relatively easy compared to WWII aircraft or modern jets although the techniques shown are equally applicable to those types. We will cover how to model a wheel, cowling, fuselage, tail plane, fin, top wing and engine crankcase. I will also show how to uvmap those items so you can texture your aircraft. I will also give some tips on how to model the rest of the aircraft if you wish to finish it off. This is the first time I have ever used Blender so there may be better ways of doing things. Getting Started Step 1 Download Blender 2.45 & install. Optional Download Python 2.5 for your operating system & install. Note: Python allows full functionality of the software but you should still be able to do this tutorial without Python. Step 2 Download these 3 PDF files which teach you the basics of the interface, keyboard shortcuts and have some tutorials that are well worth going through before you start modelling aircraft. The Blender manual is...
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...founded in Dog Town, California, circa 1975. Key Questions • Can Hebdige’s Marxist-based, class-centred approach support the ethos of the Z-boys? Or does the Z-boys website reveal a more active dialogue between the subculture and processes of capitalism, rather than perpetuating a working-class incitement to overthrow the dominant? • The Z-boys website highlights the multicultural, multiethnic aesthetic of the 1975 skateboarding team. Does Hebdige’s citing of black culture’s role in the formation of punk help locate the inter-racial influences of the Dogtown skating scene? Or does Hebdige’s insistence on the metropolitan render the ‘ethnic’ experience a historically specific moment with essentialist characteristics? • In relation to the above, is Hebdige’s London-based study congruent with the California skating/surfing scene of the early-to-mid 1970s? Do the Z-boys conform to Hebdige’s notion of the ‘spectacular’? • McRobbie and Garber identify a patriarchal discourse within Hebdige’s work, in which they suggest ‘(girls) are absent from the classic subcultural ethnographic studies, the pop histories, the personal accounts…of the field’ (Gelder & Thornton (eds).1997, p112). Does this assertion coincide with the difficulties in applying a structuralist approach to the analysis of the sole female member of Z-boys? Theoretical Framework • Hebdige- Subculture: The meaning of Style. Structuralist approach, • (BCCS)Marxist based. Utilises...
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...Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known by her stage name Rihanna is a Barbadian recording artist, actress and fashion designer. She lived the life of a normal island girl going to Combermere, a top sixth form school. Rihanna won numerous beauty pageants and performed Mariah Carey "Hero" in a school talent show. Her life changed forever when one of her friends introduced her to Evan Rodgers, a producer from New York who was in Barbados for a vacation with his wife, who is a native. Rodgers arranged for her to go to New York to meet Jay-Z, CEO of Def Jam Records. He heard her sing and knew she was going to be incredibly successful. She was 16 when she was signed to Def Jam. Since then, she's amassed phenomenal success. After watching Rihanna’s 2013 Grammy performance of her hit song ‘Stay’ it led me to conclude that Rihanna has a Strong personality, an assumption which is based off the application of Evolutionary psychology and Existential psychology concepts. As she sang, the audience could feel her raw emotion, it didn’t feel rehearsed it felt real, which was only suitable since the song can be seen as a representation of the current dilemma she currently faces in her love life with ex lover Chris Brown. Existential Psychology is the study of human existence, however Rollo May focuses on concepts like freedom, responsibility, Authenticity, Death, courage, anxiety, destiny, dasein , daimonic , etc. All of which can be found in the traces of rihanna’s personality that...
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...Are We More Narcissistic? Does someone that you know think that the world revolves around them or that they are the best at almost everything? If you know someone like that, then there is a good chance that he or she is a narcissist. Many people know narcissistic people but they do not notice it sometimes. A narcissist is person that believes that they are entiled to things, is self-obsessed , and does not care about other people’s thoughts or feelings. A well known researcher named Dr. Jean M. Twenge has been doing a lot of studing to prove her point that, narcissism is more common with the new generation than what it used to be. I do not think that our generation known as “Generation Y” is more narcissistic than earlier generations. Dr. Twenge claims that the younger generation is more narcissistic because of the results that she got on one of her tests. According to a test done in the past, “In the early 1950’s, only 12% of teens ages 14 to 16 agree with the statement ‘I am an important person’. By the late 1980’s, an incredible 80% claimed that they were an important person” This test supposedly proves that the newer generations are in fact more narcissistic that the older generations. I do not think that one can actually see how many teens are narcissistic with these types of yes or no questions.It is not fair to do these types of tests because someone could have answered yes to one of those questions not becuase he or she is narcissist, but maybe for the reason that...
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...Sultan Kamara Dr. Derrais Carter Hip Hop & Racial Idealogy BST 511 October 5, 2014 “Put Some Bass In Your Walk.” 3 Quotes from Article 1. “I shouldn’t think about or openly write about black male bodies in hip hop because the black male body had been historically under siege in American culture, a site of violence and trauma and demasculization.” 2. “So what was one to make of this new sound, this rap music, straight from the streets of New York and New Jersey, in which “masculine” bodies and voices spit boasts and stories over disco music? It certainly wasn’t coded as “gay,” even though the music behind the voices was a snippet of the musical soundtrack that had been relegated across the sexual line to the “gay crowd.” 3. “Disco, too, was aspirational music: it trafficked in glamour; it sold a vision of access, of high living, of escape from the mundane. It was, in many ways regardless of its European club linage a singular soundtrack of American dreaming. And who dreamed harder made their dreams (and nightmares) the stuff of publicly rendered fantasy better than rappers? 3 non-evaluative 1. This article is basically about sampling and how stereotypes view what’s masculine and feminist. Majority of hip hop songs in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s are sampled from R&B music. Even though stereotypes view R&B as feminine, rappers today have hits that will make them so much money and also they are viewed as thugs/gangsters that is a masculine...
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...In 2004, one of the most notorious albums was made, The Grey Album. It consisted of Jay-Z’s Black Album and The Beatle’s White Album. DJ Danger Mouse created this mash-up album without the permission of Jay-Z or The Beatles. The album included acapellas and instrumentals from both of the albums. As of result of this, recording company EMI filed a cease-and-desist letter to Danger Mouse as he started to distribute and sell the album. A fellow music group by the name of Negativland released a song with the name U2 on the front cover. Negativland sampled the song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking for” and outtakes from the host of American Top 40, Casey Kasem. Negativland never received permission to use any of U2’s work. As soon as Negativland released the album for retail, recording company Island Records and Warner-Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Negativland and their record company. The lawsuit ended with Negativland recalling all the copies of the single and having to pay over $70,000 in damages and legal costs. Artists should not be allowed to use each other’s work. According to the case study, Negativland claims “Our work is an authentic and original whole, being much more than the sum of its samples”. In other words, Negativland does acknowledge that they in fact did use U2’s work but it should be looked at as more than that. Negativland’s work is not original and is just refurbished pieces of some other artist’s work. It’s been said that true creativity is...
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...Explain when a z-test would be appropriate over a t-test. A Z-test is any statistical test for which the distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis can be approximated by a normal distribution. Because of the central limit theorem, many test statistics are approximately normally distributed for large samples. For each significance level, the Z-test has a single critical value (for example, 1.96 for 5% two tailed) which makes it more convenient than the Student's t-test which has separate critical values for each sample size. Therefore, many statistical tests can be conveniently performed as approximate Z-tests if the sample size is large or the population variance known. If the population variance is unknown (and therefore has to be estimated from the sample itself) and the sample size is not large (n < 30), the Student's t-test may be more appropriate. Nuisance parameters should be known, or estimated with high accuracy. Z-tests focus on a single parameter, and treat all other unknown parameters as being fixed at their true values. The test statistic should follow a normal distribution Z-test and T-test are statistical tests used to determine whether two population means are different. Z- test is applied when the variances are known and the sample size is large (n 30), the standard deviation is unknown while z-tests assume that it is known. Z-test has a single critical value which makes it more convenient than the t-test which has separate critical values...
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...354: The Visual Culture of Crime Kristina Ezhova 260454703 April 9, 2015 “Monster”: Misogyny, Racism, and Popular Culture Kanye West is a prominent figure in popular culture nowadays and his reputation is quite complicated and conflicting. West is acclaimed as one of the best rappers of this era, and is celebrated as a successful entrepreneur and fashion designer. However, he is also frequently condemned for his outspoken personality and offensive attitude. From numerous acceptance speech interruptions to questionable interviews and statements, Kanye West has created a contradictory image for himself in the media and is often characterized as a misogynist. The music video for his single “Monster,” in which he collaborated with Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, and Nicki Minaj, was released in 2011 and almost immediately became known as deeply controversial: the six-minute clip, which depicts dead women hanging from ceilings and scantily clad in lingerie, was banned by MTV for its violence and explicit content toward women (Vassar). Undeniably, the misogynistic theme runs throughout the video, however, West has defended himself by stating that “the concept of models hanging or people being eaten alive or [other] type of visuals for a horrific video was purely artistic” and addressed the ignorance of misogynistic accusations by claiming that “they [women’s rights activists] couldn’t understand how a rapper can have a taste high enough to do something like that without being misogynistic”...
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...As the sun goes down the starts come out, lights flickering, people chattering as I walk down the strip with the wolf pack with laughter, suited up looking dapper, we come across this giant poster with a bold writing, well lit up reading “Jay Z performing tonight at 11 in the Revolution Bar featuring Kanye West”. With excitement we all huddle down to the Revolution Bar like a pack of lions hunting for its prey, hungry, waiting in this long queue that never seemed to move. As the tall hunky bouncers perform their routine checks on us, the bass vibrates through the floor into our hearts making our heart beat sync with the rhythm of the music blasting inside the bar like it was welcoming us to join the party. The colourful lights flashing through the gaps as the door opens, constantly making eye contact with everyone as they walk past me, leaving a trail behind of their fragrance filling my nostrils with flavour. Waiting to get served by the bartender that seemed to be moving faster than the light eagerly working her way down to me, standing, filled with people around me, pushing and rubbing their body against mine, sweating to slide their way to the front of the bar like which felt like touching a fish, wet and slippery. As I stand there in slow motion with my mouth slightly open the bartender pours the poison elegantly into the glass making my tasted buds tingle with excitement, like it was having its own party inside my mouth. I felt like a winner as I lifted up my glass with...
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...The generation gap: thinking and communicating towards the same goal “Juvenoia,” or “exaggerated anxiety about the influence of social change on children and youth.", is a term created by sociologist David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire to describe the phenomenon of past generations not agreeing with the ideology of youth nowadays. This phenomenon affects the way "older" generations judge the "new" generations and their electronics, political thoughts, decision making skills, in addition to many other factors that up and coming young adults and teenagers are known for. It seems that it is nearly impossible to have a say or opinion in a matter when discussing it with middle-aged adults or senior citizens, just as hard as it is to convince a young adult or teenager to listen to their elders/parents in situations that they have lived before. The thought that any generation is better than the one before or the next is a bit selfish, if I may say. To explain the situation in a much simpler way, let's see it through and interpretation of an old saying: "an old dog can learn new tricks". Let's call the old dog generation X, targeting the adults of the 1960's. Now, as I see it, the world around the dog keeps revolving as new toys arrive, dog food gives better nutrition and food bowls get new styles. If the dog chooses to stick with his old kibble, bowl and toys, what will happen? The toys will break, the bowls will get worn and start leaking, plus it's old food won't give...
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... In the article entitled “Is this generation really more informed?” by Palder and Syeda, talks about different opinions on whether or not Millennials are more informed than previous generations. In order to be a Millennial, you have to be around the ages of 13-32. Millennials are not more informed than previous generations, because they are given the choice of what to look at online, they are learning about unimportant information, and they don’t take the opportunity to learn more. Millennials have many resources to look at the news, however they do not take the opportunity to read about what is going on in the world. Previous generations care about the news, more than Millennials do. The AVID Weekly article states that, “In 2012, a Pew Research survey reported that members of the Silent and Boomer generations spent almost twice the amount of time following the news as Millennials.” This proves that previous generations spent more time learning about what is going on in the world. Teenagers today, spend less time looking at the news. There are many social media websites that distract teenagers from learning information about the world. The AVID Weekly article declares that, “Unlike sitting down and watching the evening news, Twitter and Facebook provide users with the ability to pick and choose what information they see and investigate more closely.” This illustrates that teenagers can choose what they look at on social media. When reading a newspaper, you couldn’t choose...
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...discovered the vortices that are produced off the wings, and observed the alulae, or "thumbs" of the wings. He was concerned with the center of gravity, stability, and manoeuvrability. Leonardo sketched several types of flying machines: helical wing, beating wings, parachute, and bat's wings. Through real life trial and error Da Vinci learned the difficulty of realizing his great dream of flying in a machine powered by human propulsion, and turned his talents toward the problem of gliding flight. In the glider drawing below, the flyer's position is studied at the point where he is balanced through movements of the lower part of the body. The wings, modelled upon bats and birds of large wingspans, are fixed on the inboard portion and mobile at the external portion. This part of the wing in fact can be moved by the flyer by a control cable connected to handles. Leonardo arrived at this solution by studying the wing structure of birds and observing that the inboard part of their wings move more slowly than the outboard, and that therefore serve to thus sustain themselves and produce forward thrust. "The great bird will take flight above the ridge...filling the universe with awe, filling all writings with its fame..." - Leonardo Da Vinci Early Da Vinci gliders had a articulated wing with a system of belts passing between the thighs and around the body of the flyer. He later reduced the structure to a simple form with wings directly attached to the human body. Leonardo's...
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...Have you ever flown a drone? Well, I have. I love drones so much that the amazing experience that I'd like to share with you is building my racing drone. I want to share this with you because of the challenges I faced and the things I learned. The first reason for why building a drone is a valuable experience is the challenges I faced. When my dad and I first started building our racing drone we had absolutely no idea on how to build it but, after a few hours of watching youtube videos, we had the slightest idea on how to build a racing drone. The main challenge was when we accidentally fried our only circuit board. We fried the board by leaving the soldering pen on the board for too long. This mistake set us back a couple of days, and we had...
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...How Planes Stay Up In the Air I remember a picnic with Becky, my girlfriend, at Maidu Park five years ago. We lied on the lush green turf and held hands as we watched the clouds drift by. We were captivated and intrigued by the definitions in the clouds as we matched them to shapes of animals and other objects. She pointed towards a blanket of clouds on the right and said, “There! That one looks like a dragon.” Right at that moment, a plane flew right above us as it cut through clouds. She quickly sat up and followed the plane with her head. Her eyes widened and her eyebrows shot up as she burst out, “Wow! How do you think it stays up in the sky like that?” As any mischievous thirteen year old would, I simply the magic dust and invisible angels carried the plane on their backs. She laughed and called me stupid for not knowing the answer. However, now as a college student embarking towards my future, I made my personal goal to be a pilot and learn about planes. I got accepted to Embry Riddle, an aeronautical school in Arizona, straight out of high school. Although the fear of planes falling out of sky held me back; so I decided study at Sierra College until I’m ready. Sean palmer, a sophomore at Sierra College, flys planes for a hobby. He pointed out that, “Flying a plane is not like driving a car, it’s far more complicated, but at the same time fun… I fly almost every week, but it’s little expensive to rent planes. So, I’m saving up for my own Cessna 120 for almost two years...
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