...In his article Story or Spectacle? Why Television Is Better Than the Movies, David Charpentier claims that contemporary television shows are superior to contemporary films. He supports his claim by comparing television shows and movies in terms of characters and the plot. I agree with Charpentier’s thesis.At the beginning of his article Charpentier says “Steven Spielberg and George Lucas put out doomsday-esque statements about the end of movies as we know them” (Charpentier 308). Both Spielberg and Lucas are directors of credible movies. The fact that he uses movie directors as an example makes it easier to agree with his argument. All of the examples he uses in his article provide evidence that supports his claim and make his claim stronger. A character is a person in either a novel, film, or television show. Characters in television shows and in films are very different. Charpentier says “committing to a series involves watching dozens of...
Words: 1430 - Pages: 6
...Marketing Plan. A SWOTT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends) analysis on the service. 500 word with references Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, Netflix began offering daily DVD rentals to customers via the mail. Seeking to differentiate itself from its competition, Netflix created partnerships with companies selling a complementary good (i.e.) a DVD player (Chiu, Doroudi, Haussler, Khosla and Maltingly, 2007). Netflix therefore offered free rentals with every DVD player purchased. Presently, Netflix is the world’s largest online movie rental service with more than 20 million members (http://ir.netflix.com/). The company provides not only online movie rental service but subscription service streaming movies and unlimited TV episodes via the internet. The company also offers free in home delivery with no due dates, late fees or return charges. This winning strategy and user friendly service has made Netflix extremely successful over the years. SWOTT Analysis Strengths Market Entry Netflix entered the market for DVD rentals with minimal competition which allowed the company to establish its brand whilst providing a large variety of DVDs to customers at their convenience. Thus customers are able to rent and return DVDs at their convenience without the hassle of rushing to avoid late fees. Partnerships By partnering with stakeholders in the movie, electronic and retailer industries, Netflix was able to promote its services and...
Words: 818 - Pages: 4
...NETFLIX Inc. Case Study BMGT500 Submitted by: Moid Ahmad Under guidance of: Mr. Roger L. Powell Introduction Netflix Inc. is considered to be in the video entertainment industry, which distributes to consumers through movie theaters, airlines, hotels, and in-home (Netflix, Inc; 2009). Netflix and its competitors serve in-home consumers specifically through a number of alternative channels, making up the different strategic groups or segments of their portion of the entire industry which includes brick and mortar (Blockbuster) and DVD vending machine rentals (Redbox), mail delivery (Netflix and Blockbuster), and online rental (Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes), pay-per-view video (available from specialty suppliers such as HBO and Showtime through your cable provider), and on-demand services (VOD; those offered through digital cable providers), as well as brick and mortar (Wal-Mart and Best Buy) and online purchasing (Amazon and iTunes). Historically speaking, this industry began as stand-alone brick and mortar rental stores such as Blockbuster and the later entrant Hollywood Video/Movie Gallery (which for the most part were all corporately-owned, with small portions of franchised locations) and local rental businesses. They started in VHS and progressed to DVDs along with technology and household adoption. They would typically carry about 2,500 titles and performed better when copies were rented and out of the store—the longer period the better. (Spinola) This would...
Words: 3702 - Pages: 15
...of their rush? One person’s opinion would comprise of either the rush would treat her unfair and possibly brain commanding everything she does. As for the usual educated very dark man, our excuse is we were coach by that usual woman. Yet we glimpse it every day. Why do very dark women date white men, or possibly Latino men? Or even better Japanese men? Yet the genuine investigation is why do educated women get with problem men? One cause is the believe topic. Women who are expert are very much having affairs with men who are commanding their every move. As it was mention in the first paragraph, men would use mental and physical means to make the Afro-American woman your domestics. Another reason there man would treated them like animals. One demonstration: All the Tyler Perry videos, with the exclusion of the following: The Family That Prays, Madea's Big Happy Family, and Madea Witness Protection. All the others would display how an expert Afro-American woman would be in a problem connection to a dark hue friend. Then the lightweight skin hue friend would come into the location and would save the professional Afro-American woman and dwelled joyously ever after. This can furthermore be describing as a fairy tale story. When a woman hit their 30’s the only thing they would believe about is finding that right person in their life. They face a few bumps in the street but they will never give up. So why would a professional woman date from out of their rush. Is it because...
Words: 3366 - Pages: 14
...External Market Analysis [Name] [Institutional Affiliation] (The left -vertical scale is in Million US dollars.) (The right-vertical scale is in % in range of 3%) Introduction After a critical evaluation of the Netflix Company, various strategies need to be put in place in order for the company to retain its 33 million subscribers and to realize a higher profit margin. This is due to the fact that the competitors have recorded increased numbers of subscribers in higher rates as compared to the Company. This shows that new customers in the industry are being taken by the new market Entrants such as Amazon Prime and Vudu. The strategies include the following; Netflix should implement strategies that are different from the way they are done by other emerging companies. They should for instance start offering their online streaming as HD (high definition) as this will tend to attract more customers. They should also make sure that subscribers are able to order for some movies online and reduce the amount of time required for one to acquire the products. All customers are always time-conscious and thus time efficiency will make the company acquire more subscribers. 1. Netflix Company should determine the competitive powers of its rivals such as Vudu, Amazon Prime and HD streaming. The competitors have the potential of fetching its customers if some strategies will not be laid down by the end of 2015. One evident characteristic by the competitors is lower...
Words: 1213 - Pages: 5
...Top ten computers in the world 1) The Tianhe-2 Runs on a version of Linux that is relatively popular in the Asian region known as Kylin-linux. Its main purpose includes traffic light controlling (which is necessary for managing the rush hour traffics that are known to affect China), predict earthquakes (that are common in Asia), design cars and create movie effects. 2) Titan Also runs on a Linux version specific to its inventors which is “Cray” Linux environment and was previously the number one super computer before The Tianhe-2. Its main purpose surrounds research in energy (alternatives) and climate change. 3) Sequoia This US based supercomputer runs on the Linux and was dethroned by the Titan himself. Its main purpose surrounds the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration)’s management of the country’s nuclear stockpile. 4) K Computer The Japan based super computer runs on the Linux OS and just like the previous 2 supercomputers was dethroned. Its purpose revolves around power sustainability of the world’s resources, health care, climate change, and industrial as well as space exploration issues. 5) Mira Is another US based supercomputer that also runs on Linux OS. Its purpose includes solve complex calculations that the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) Program sees fit, research leadership computational challenges, and also calculate computations that are urgently needed to be done...
Words: 373 - Pages: 2
... CASE ANALYSIS PORTFOLIO Abstract In studying how to be a more effective and overall better manager, I’ve made a list of all the best practices I hope to rule by. I will go from assignment to assignment starting with my paper from 1.1 titled Effective Management of People. 1- A perfect leader is passionate about the company and only wants to make it better by bringing in only the best to help the company flourish. To me, a perfect leader/manager is someone who is sensitive to the needs and attitudes of his employees but also knows how be firm and somewhat demanding. Being a friend to your employees does work but a manager must never forget that the company comes first. 2.1- Case Analysis on Motivating Employees: Don’t play favorites. Everyone needs treated fairly. 3.1- Case Analysis on Strategic Management: Happy customers mean repeat and new business. Word of mouth is everything. 4.1- Case Analysis on Managing People During Change: Be inviting to my employees and let them know that I am available to talk to them about the change. I will also assure them that we will all get through any change together. 5.1- Case Analysis on Managing Work Teams: Inspire creativity by providing an incentive. 6.1- Case Analysis on Empowered Decision Making: Make decisions myself unless I feel that another employee has either a spectacular idea or its time to select a successor. 7.1- Case Analysis on Managing Organizational...
Words: 3502 - Pages: 15
...Stephen King, a mastermind of the horror genre has taken the literature and film industry by storm from hit movies such as “The Shining” and successful novels such as “Carrie”. Stephen King has continuously illustrated that when it comes to horror there isn’t only one way to present a horrific story. In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” he presents several rational explanations about why we love horror movies, even though it puts a peculiar fear in viewers. King utilizes persuasive techniques such as pathos and logos, as well as comparisons to real life events to draw connections between horror and other areas of entertainment which in the end illustrates why movie enthusiasts crave horror. Stephen King, born in Portland, Maine, has had to deal with change throughout his lifetime. As a young child his father, Donald King, departed the family leaving young King, brother David, and his mother Nellie Ruth behind. Soon after the departure they moved to Connecticut only to return to Maine. A traumatic event, only claimed to be true by King’s family, occurred involving a gruesome death of his friend. King doesn’t recall the train accident but it can be seen that witnessing something this gruesome can bring out a living horror in an individual. This event could be what drives...
Words: 1140 - Pages: 5
...An Analysis on Ek Ruka Huwa Faisala from Communication Perspective Submitted to: Course Instructor Managerial Communication Apex College Submitted by: Laxman Aryal Roll no. 8 Manikkya Apex College 2012 Ek Ruka Hua Faisala is a Bollywood movie directed by Basu Chatterjee inspired from Hollywood film 12 Angry Men. We the student of MBA are shown this movie to learn some lesson of Managerial Communication. Altthough this is a movie about different organizational behavior, it also gives a strong example of effective communication. This is a movie about 19 year old boy who was a suspect for murder of his father. There was a committee of 12 people assigned to decide whether boy was culprit or not. All 12 jurors must agree whether a young man is guilty or not of murdering his father. In this movie we observe the entire decision making process. Where each individual had different perception and different behavior in particular situation. Their personal opinion leads them to one wrong decision first but later on with just one leading, convincing, neutral and practical individual, they were able to think on the other side of the case and finally they reached to right conclusion. A switch from 11-1 to 0-12 is very rare in real life juries, but Ek Ruka Hua Faisla very convincingly depicts the switch. It achieves this by staying true to the realities of group dynamics through effective and proper communication. Once the objective of the group is established, they start...
Words: 2494 - Pages: 10
...English 2010 April 16, 2012 Illegal Street Racing: an Unknown Danger It is the primal urge amongst male teenagers; vehicles side by side, engines revving, to put the pedal to the floor and see who wins. It is street racing and it has caught on in the U.S. over the past decade as one of the worst influences on young impressionable minds today. The feeling you get when you’re going fast cannot be replaced by any other stimulant known to man and is just as addictive as any drug. Influential sources like the media, celebrities and peers all have the ability to pressure one into an adrenaline fueled race to the finish. The consequences of street racing, however, outweigh the rush it gives its participants. Laws passed to deter would be street racers with consequences including, but not limited to: Fines, loss of driving privileges, and imprisonment are all results of street racing, not to mention the ever present risk of serious injury or death to participants and bystanders alike. Many different ways of preventing and detecting street racing have been put into action over the last few decades by various agencies and organizations, from lowering the national maximum speed limit, installing speed cameras on buys roads, or providing innocent drivers with safer vehicles, this nation is fighting a war on street racing that many don’t even know exists. Street racing originated from drag racing on the quarter-mile strip. The concept of drag racing is when two racers in different cars...
Words: 2386 - Pages: 10
...3. Flow Rate Analysis • Evaluating flow-rate through a complex process • Notions of “capacity”, “bottlenecks” and “utilization” • Improving flow-rate (capacity) of a system Case: Kristen’s cookie company 1 Course Roadmap Operations Management Strategic View Process View Process Flow Metrics Flow Rate 2 Recap Basics Steps of Process Flow Analysis 1. Define the process 2. Draw the process flow diagram 3. Determine the basic process flow metrics: flow rate, flow time, inventory Little’s Law I=RxT 3 Kristen’s Cookie Co. • Process Flow Diagram 4 Kristen’s Cookie Co. Q1. How long will it take you to fill a rush order? 5 Kristen’s Cookie Co. Q2. How many orders can you fill in a night, assuming you are open four hours each night? Assume each order is for 1 dozen cookies. Assume that you have 1 tray. 6 Kristen’s Cookie Co. Q2. How many orders can you fill in a night, assuming you are open four hours each night? Assume each order is for 1 dozen cookies. Assume that you have sufficient number of trays. 7 Definition Capacity of a resource It is the maximum possible flow rate through a resource on average What is capacity of each resource in KCC? 8 Definition Bottleneck Bottleneck is the resource with limiting constraint on the system. Capacity of a process It is the maximum possible flow rate through the process. = Capacity of the Bottleneck resource Now Calculate the Capacity of KCC? 9 Bottleneck...
Words: 1300 - Pages: 6
...Tyler Shaffer Professor Dennis Quinn IGE320.02 05.06.2011 Synthesis Essay I: Contact and Bucchi After reading Bucchi’s Science in Society as well as watching the Film Contact, I can see that there are several connections made between these two works. Both Bucchi and the film explore many issues pertinent to science and technology in today’s world. Using Bucchi’s Science in Society as a basis for my analysis, I will relate the film Contact to his writings as well as provide my own thoughts into the subject, raising questions into science, technology, and religion, providing examples along the way. Contact is a great movie, hitting multiple levels of suspense, action, politics, and intelligence. It deals with the struggles of Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway, who was able to make contact with an alien intelligence near the star Vega. After contact was made, her vindication of the find is short lived when people including the government, Dr. Drumlin (her supervisor), and many others rush in to take control and validate the find. However, it is discovered that the alien’s want us to build a machine that would enable a person to travel to them, which would eventually put the entire world on edge. One connection that immediately popped into my head is the idea of a paradigm. A paradigm “refers to a set of tacit assumptions and beliefs within which research goes on (Google definitions).” In Bucchi’s chapter regarding “Paradigms and Styles of Thought,” he states “According to...
Words: 1529 - Pages: 7
...techniques and skills for studying art, as well as learning about actual artistic creations. Stanley Fish whom argued that Humanities is merely not a tool but a whole category of its own that is taught is most likely hitting the nail on the head. Intriguingly enough, Humanities is useful in its own way of studies of our interpretations through art, music and other categories of historic pieces. For example, throughout the world people may look at a piece and start interpreting it, while referring to its historic features such as the work of Yun Gee’s painting, the Lone Ranger. The lone Ranger is a painting in which has a historic value which refers to the time period where Chinese were migrating towards the U.S. during the time of the gold rush. They were merely looked down upon as workers because of how they looked and acted. Through the use of humanities people may look at this painting and come up with ideas, “Why did Yun Gee decide to paint this man the way that he did?” “What was the reason for the color in the background and the setting that it has taken place in?” Through its historical value people may use humanities to discover what the painter was thinking at that time period and why he had painted it the way he had. Stanley Fish argued that “Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance.” This is a clever sentence used by Stanley as he is actually using Humanities upon the value of Humanities. His...
Words: 1003 - Pages: 5
...weather in Florida is more suited to family conditions usually. · they banned alcohol within the premises of the park. · Disney was more concerned advertising on how big the park was, when they should have been advertising the entertainment side of the park and show that disney is fun filled family vacation event, that Disney is actually known for all around the world, or at least the United States. · Hong Kongs Disney world, was trying to push to hard to make it happen and therefore made the park too small. · the park did not differentiate themselves from the surrounding amusements parks in china, it was just like the others basically · Hong Kong had very few rides compared to the theme park in Paris. · Did not offer current or hit movie theme based rides that were popular in China at that time. 2. to what degree do you consider that these ffactors were (a) foreseeable and (b) controllable by EuroDisney, Hong Kong Diisney, or the parent company, Disney? I believe that most of the mentioned factors were very foreseeable and controlable. It just depends on how hard the Disney companies were willing to look and observe the countries behaviors. When conducting business over seas, Disney should have hired some specialist in that specific country and scout out all of the possible aspects and new trends that are happening. If they would have done this, then they would have been able to minimize the failure rate tremendously....
Words: 1237 - Pages: 5
...Singh PLOT SUMMARY: In this movie, the jury of twelve men is entrusted with the power to send an uneducated, teenage boy to the Death Penalty. The crime that the boy is accused of is killing his father with a knife. The jury is locked into a small, claustrophobic room, on a hot summer day, until they come up with a unanimous decision. The decision that is to decide a boy’s life is to be either guilty or not guilty. The film is particularly important as it examines the twelve men's deep-seated personal prejudices. These are reflected in the perceptual biases and weaknesses, indifference, anger, personalities, unreliable judgments, cultural differences, ignorance and fears, that are in a position to mar their decision-making abilities, and subsequently cause them to ignore the real issues in the case. This can potentially lead them to a miscarriage of justice. What are the key learning for you as leaders? First and foremost, we learn that every decision should be based on reasonable evidence and it can be dangerous to rush to conclusions. In the movie, most of the Jury members were initially in a hurry to shut the case and pronounce the accused guilty even when they know it’s a matter of someone’s life. Only Mr. Raina stands against such a decision and demands that the jury should give appropriate time to the issue and have a healthy discussion on the entire case. Hence, as managers, we should always be dedicated and do a thorough analysis before taking an important decision...
Words: 3788 - Pages: 16
