...Stereotypically, “Many of us … will ooh and ahh over a dog playing in the theatre, but wouldn’t dream of going to see an animal performing in a circus…” (Gardner, L. 2014). So, should animals be used in the Theatre and the Entertainment Industry? This essay discusses the history of animals performing within a theatre or circus, the representation of animals within a performance, whether it is humane or inhumane for animals to be apart of the entertainment industry and should animals continue performing in theatres and the entertainment industry. Animals that perform within the theatre and entertainment industry can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. However, travelling performances, such as circuses, gained popularity in the...
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...The last Circus In a time where people was frightened by war and where everybody was terrified by the thought of something they hold dearest should be destroyed. The cold war was on every lip, and the word was making people anxious and scared. In the time where just a picture of an atom-bomb, could make people dizzy sick. This was the real dilemma of the cold war, the problem that scarred the people living in the age of the war between the top nations. In the story we meet Doug and his pal RT, whom is also called Red Tongue Jurgis because of his love for the sweet red shots. The two boys are living a normal life with the daily enjoyments of going to the cinema and a walk to the railway. Doug is living in a small town with his mom and dad, and his brother Skip. The life is good, and the news of the circus coming to town makes the smiles on Doug and RT´s faces even bigger. As the excitement gets bigger, the closer the circus gets to the small town and Doug is dying of delight. The two boys decides to go do the railway to see the circus arriving, and the looks of the big animals and the clumsy clowns surprises the two young boys in a way they have never tried. But when the two boys come home, they find Doug’s dad in shock of what he have read in the paper. Headlines with the word “Atom-bomb” and “Cold war” makes the father scared of what might come out of the war that is unfolding. The family situation gets more and more stressed as the dad reads aloud from the paper....
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...The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America. The history of a circus dates back to the ancient Roman period, when the first circus, or Circus Maximus, was founded. Soon after, Circus Flaminius and Circus Neronis also appeared. In Roman society, the circus was very different from how we may picture circuses today. It was used mainly for exhibitions for chariot and horse races, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. The circus was important to Roman society as it was the only public event that did not separate men and women. Although the layout and the acts of this infant circus is much different than today, the circus still brought much joy to the public. The story of the first American circus begins with John Bill Ricketts, who set up a circus in America. Although his circus career only lasted seven years, he managed to befriend President George Washington, tour the East Coast, Canada, and the West Indies with his company, and present America a new type of entertainment...
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...The Tempest Review The Tempest had many interesting qualities and factors in the show that made the play particularly enjoyable. A few of the unique characteristics were the circus theme, the aerialist, and the costume design along with the actors’ makeup. I think that these elements made the play more interesting to the audience, and truly engrossed the audience in the unique showing of The Tempest. The setting of The Tempest in a circus was quite a distinct portrayal of the show. It fit the exotic performers of the play very well and added a unique twist to the play. I think that the addition of a circus to The Tempest made the show more interesting and drew the attention of the audience. It certainly made the play quite exciting to watch. The performers possessed what would be known as different traits, such as the Tattooed Strong Man Freak. As far as society is concerned, someone with odd features like that would fit into a circus or a freak show. I think the aspect of a circus was a great idea and made the work of Shakespeare more appealing to the audience. The aerialist was one of the most fascinating parts of the play. The elegance and grace needed to balance oneself and perform on silks is a captivating performance. The show put on by an aerialist is not typically found in a normal play and I think it makes this particular play stand out in my mind from other performances I have seen. The act of balancing precariously on silks is an enthralling show which put me...
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...Can anyone wrapped there mind around a world without animals? A world where we have destroyed all nature and killed our ecosystems. A world where all we see is flat ground and buildings. Its desolate and unhappy. Most people believe that animals are items, that they have no meaning to us. So we slaughter them, and kill them like they are worthless, but if you think harder, are they really meaningless to us? Animals are creatures just like us. They show affection, they have fears, and they breath. Isn’t that what we do? Like humans animals have rights to live peacefully, and not become rugs or coats. When coming into a neighbors house when I was younger, I was appalled when I saw the tiger rug, the moose head on the wall, and the grizzly bear that stood right behind the TV with glassy eyes, and an opened mouth. Those animals had lives, they had children, but somehow people just came out and murdered them, like they had no feelings, and they felt to pain. Yet, looking into that bear’s eyes that day I saw the pain, with its mouth opened wide bearing its gleaming teeth, trying to defend itself. What I realized about the neighbor boy was, he didn’t care about animals. He acted like they were his and his dad’s to kill. He didn’t think that they could really have a heart, or a mind. That is what most humans succeed to miss, that animals aren’t so different after all. Ever since the dawn of humans animals have been harmed and treated unfairly. Most countries have...
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...anyone applying Michael Porter’s “Five Forces” competitive analysis in 1984 would have told Guy Laliberté not to start another circus. Explain your reasoning. Applying Michael Porter’s Five Forces to Guy Laliberté’s decision to start ‘another’ circus would lead individuals to come to one of two conclusions, depending on how in-depth they understood Laliberté’s plan. On the surface level, his plan seems to be an inevitable failure - trying to become a new player in a market that is declining and facing new challenges in sustainability daily. Laliberté’s plan fits almost all of the criteria for struggle and potential failure according to Porter’s Five Forces. Breaking down each of Porter’s forces, it is clear that starting a new circus lends very little promise for Laliberté. First, Laliberté was facing supply issues to find talented circus acts that would draw in an audience. In order to acquire a high caliber of talented performers, a circus at the time was forced to put financial strain on their profits from ticket sales just to afford the acts themselves. Additionally, the power of buyers produced a real challenge at the time, as audiences were only interested in attending the circus if compelled by acts that were in turn too expensive for the circus to make a profit on. Laliberté was also facing tough competition in entering the circus industry. This space had been established by the century-old Ringling organization, and the name recognition alone made it extremely...
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...University veterinary student and ends as a tired, old, former circus member. A variety of vital themes that were portrayed throughout the novel were incorporated in the movie in both different and similar ways. The circus is a big deal to Jacob Jancowski. It’s where he regained control of his life after his parents died. It’s where he fell in love with an elephant named Rosie, who went on to become his personal pet. And it’s also where he met the love of life, Marlena. For much of Water for Elephants, Jacob is almost painfully old. He can barely walk, it's a struggle to bathe himself, and many of his desires are severely limited. He thinks about fresh fruit with the same longing he used to reserve for sex. And yet at his core, his personality remains unchanged; he's still the same person on the inside. To make sense of this, he retreats into the past, focusing on a time when his inside and outside matched – a time of adventure, wonder, excitement, and drama. It seems like all of those qualities are missing from his current life. Even though Jacob has aged, his desire for excitement and wonder has remained. And through his decision to return to the circus, we know he's still got that gumption he always had. In the movie, Lawrence chooses to share Jacob Jancowski’s story through flashback method. Jacob is at the circus meeting with a current employee of the Benzini Brother’s when he shares his memories of the circus. However, in the novel, the old Jacob Jankowski is nostalgic...
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...centre located in Calgary which offers unique, noncompetitive, gymnastic based programs. They include circus arts, trampolining, demonstrative gymnastics and parkour. • Services offered focus on 3 core areas: ˗ Youth, teen and adult programs ˗ Preschool programs ˗ Bookings (birthday parties, day camps, special needs groups etc.) • More than 1,500 on site participants every week, over 450 birthday parties a year, over 2,000 participants in other on site events and more than 200 off site participants through Flip Mobile program. • $786,503 of revenues in 2013 • Darlene Traviss, owner and CEO of the company, created and developed the business based on her passion for physical fitness and gymnastics. After three years of steady growth she needs to decide what steps should be taken in order to secure successful future for Flip Factory. Options include maintaining the business as is or pursuing some form of expansion. Competitive strategy Flip Factory’s strategy is based on a unique product offering and a close, long term relationship with the customers. Traviss noticed that the fitness market favoured competitive aspect of sports and left many children without options to advance their interest in recreational gymnastics. She decided to differentiate her business by focusing on noncompetitive programs and providing nontraditional activities like circus acts, parkour and trampoline gymnastics. She also created the culture of inclusiveness and fun to promote...
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...There so many people that have gone to a circus and enjoyed their time watching so many animals preform there acts in front of so many people. But a lot of people haven’t realized that circus tigers are being abused by their owners, what caught my attention in this photo and other cruel training. In this picture it shows tigers are getting cruelly being forced to preform and “the show must go on” this is what people see every day when someone watches television, newspaper, ad, billboard, online, and especially in the circus. However no one has noticed that so many tigers and other animals are being hurt from these acts for circus acts. Many times people won’t lie about how they enjoy the circus and how exciting it was, how they enjoyed the circus animals, if anyone looks at this they will see that these animals are being forced into doing these kinds of acts and also animal cruelty. In this photo many have said that visual argument is animal cruelty. It shouldn’t be allowed in the U.S. all circus animals should be act free without their trainers using whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bull hooks and other painful tools of the trade to force animals to perform. A brief description of this photo and tells you a lot of how poor tigers are being treating cruelty and circus animals are in danger by being forced acting this tricks. Tigers are naturally fear fire and they are forced to jump in hoops in some circuses. Most of the circus animals spend 26 hours in their cages...
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...TLFeBOOK Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant H A R VA R D B U S I N E S S S C H O O L P R E S S BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( W. Chan Kim Renée Mauborgne Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu, or mailed to Permissions, Harvard Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kim, W. Chan. Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant / W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59139-619-0 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. New products. 2. Market segmentation. I. Mauborgne, Renée. II. Title. HF5415.153.K53 2005 658.8 02—dc22 2004020857 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48–1992 To friendship and to our families, who make our worlds...
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...FLIP FACTORY INC. Birgitte Grøgaard wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The author does not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The author may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. This publication may not be transmitted, photocopied, digitized or otherwise reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of the copyright holder. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 0N1; (t) 519.661.3208; (e) cases@ivey.ca; www.iveycases.com. Copyright © 2015, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation Version: 2016-04-26 In June 2014, Darlene Traviss, owner and chief executive officer of Flip Factory Inc. (Flip Factory), stood in her fitness centre in a flurry of activity and excitement. Toddlers, youths, teens, and adults participated in a multitude of gymnastics-based activities throughout the 10,000-square-foot facility. Three years had passed since Traviss relocated Flip Factory from an inner city church hall to an industrial park in northeast Calgary. The business had evolved from a one-woman show with a few seasonal part-time staff to a team of more than 20 highly skilled and specialized coaches from...
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...limbs - both arms and both legs (partially had one foot with two fingers, let the boys in the future to learn how to walk, swim, ride a skateboard, play computer and writing). * Since 1999, began performing in front of his church group and soon opened a non-profit organization "Life Without Limbs" becoming a preacher of God's word. * In 2005, Nick Vuichich was nominated for the "Young Australian of the Year". * In 2009, he starred in the movie "Butterfly Circus» which tells of a man without limbs Will and his fate. * He traveled to more than 45 countries, speaking in schools, universities and other organizations. Participates in television shows and writes books. His first book, "Life without limits» (Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life) was published in 2010, in 2012, was translated into Russian. * He currently lives in California, USA. * February 12, 2012 he married Kanae Miahare, and February 14, 2013 they had a son - James Kiyoshi Vuychich. * The Butterfly Circus is a short independent film, created by Joshua...
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...always thanking Sydney for the finances and professional success he was in life. Charles had this quote “Like everyone else I am what I am : and individual, unique and different, with lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings ; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences , all of which I am the sum total.” Today that is something I think is a great why to describe who he was. He really was who he was he never tried to cover himself up in lies. He truly lived out everything he talked about. Many and nearly all of Chaplin’s contract called for a ten thousand dollar paycheck a week and today that would be around one hundred thousand seventy-four dollars a week. In the year of 1924 no studio was able to afford Charles. “The Circus” won Chaplin a special Academy Award in 1928, which today is now called the Oscar’s. The year of 1931 Chaplin took two years and eight months of hard work in filming “City Lights”. Albert Einstein the night of the premiere was Charles guest in Los Angeles. Charles Chaplin once said, “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” These very words are what we also need today. We need kindness and gentleness. Charles has made a huge impact for our society not just with film but the way of life. That is why I believe he made a mark in history. That so many times we think too much and we...
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...Instead of comparing themselves with their competitors, blue ocean companies focus on integrating its own functional and operational activities. Also, compared to red ocean strategies that choose between differentiation and low cost, blue ocean strategies pursue both. All in all, red ocean strategies stay in the comfort zone, while blue ocean strategies get out of it – that’s why it’s more risky. They are all about being unique and creating and capturing new demand. Thus, creativity also contributes to the success of blue ocean strategies. b) Cirque du Soleil achieved Blue Ocean by reinventing the circus. Their business model involved making a whole new circus concept and appealing to a new market - adult theatre customers. Instead of aiming to do better in the things that companies in the circus industry usually do, they redefined the circus and offered customers not only circus thrills but also intellectual sophistication. They weren’t merely using animals, star performers, multiple show arenas, usual acrobatic acts, and aisle concessions. Cirque du Soleil made its...
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...Narrative Essay The Circus by Matkurbanova Gulzat It was a long time ago, when my children were still young. I took them to the city zoo because I wanted them to see real animals. I noticed that animals were behaving strange. Some were just laying there and doing nothing. Others were just moving their heads or walking in a circle. They rushed to any place where children feed them. There I saw a little-sad tiger. I felt very sorry for it, because the cub will never know freedom and life in the forest. Then I disliked the zoo. A year later I brought my daughters to the circus. As we entered the building, I could smell sharp and unpleasant odor which made me sick. Since we came early, my daughters started playing with other children in the lobby where there were a lot of attractions for children. "Mom, animals will act in the arena?," Umida, my elder daughter asked with glowing eyes. "Of course," I said. Both my girls were very happy. "Mom,How are you feeling?" asked Umida. "Absolutely awful," I stammered. Shoira, my younger daughter, looked up at the two of us from under her eyelashes and patted my arm. "Sweetie, give me a hug, please, " I asked her. She shook her head and hugged me. "Good, now I feel much better," I said. In the arena, there were clowns, jugglers and acrobats. But a special delight in children were caused by performance of animals. We saw beautiful animals that played ball, spinning the hoops and performing complex tricks. Of course, back then I...
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