...English Language – comparing spoken and written language (film review) I will be comparing the crudely spoken Tron film review to its well written counterpart. Firstly, I can see that the spoken ‘review’ is very spontaneous as both people look to compliment what the other says with agreement and they both use phatic talk and hedging to vaguely outline to each other why the think the film was good, “very good film actually” “yeah. He’s very good”. In comparison, the written film review is obviously planned as it is checked before publishing and it uses sophisticated language to depict what happens in the film and how it is presented, “After that, it gets sluggish and the visuals-as so often happens in 3-D films-are far too dingy”. This analysis of the film creates a sense of professionalism as it not only criticises the film but the way it is presented also, showing the reviewer has taken into account more than one aspect of the overall presentation of the movie. The audience for the spoken conversation will be aimed at a younger teenage audience as there are lots of pauses and very little informational dialect involved, “yeah (.) He’s very good (.)”, this means it is easy to understand and interpret. The written review on the other hand, is aimed at more intelligent/developed people and goes into detail to give the reader a detailed analogy of the film and its presentation, “Tron would like to evoke the future”. In the spoken review, there are three voices which are very much...
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...Topic 1: What career would you like to choose after leaving school Model answer: Today, it is not easy to choose a career. Hundreds of students pass various examinations every year and compete with one another for positions in the various professions which are not so many as there are applicants. I would, however, like to choose teaching as my career. Teaching is an interesting career for several reasons. As a teacher I can learn many things, especially if I teach to an udder-secondary school. If I teach History or English, for example, I have to read many books to make my teaching lessons more interesting to my pupils. Thus, I can acquire more knowledge of the subjects that I teach than what I can learn from the class text books. It is indeed a fact that a teacher learns a lot from the class text books; but that is hardly enough to make the teacher's lessons interesting to pupils. A good teacher must therefore read many other books. Again, as a teacher, I have to speak well so that my pupils will be able to understand my instructions well. In this way I can improve my powers of expression. Even my pronunciation of words will improve to great extent. Further, as a teacher, I shall have enough leisure to read and prepare for various examinations. It is possible today to sit for many important examinations by studying entirely at home. Thus, I can acquire important qualifications. Finally, as a teacher I will be respected as an educated person. People will assume...
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...Xinwei Cen COM110 Sheldon Lu 12/16/2014 One Character’s development Hong Kong cinema is the third largest motion picture after Hollywood and India Cinema. Many of the movies are revolve around martial arts and action. However there are also movies revolve with drama of love, fantasy, journey, and self-discovery. In the period of Hong Kong return to China, a variety of movie address the issue of pursuing dreams, cherish old relationships, and search for new identities. These films included Comrades; Almost a lover story, directed by Peter Chan; Chungking Express, directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and Durain Durian, directed by Fruit Chan. Even though, these films were directed by different directors and produced in different years. These three films share some similar theme such as pursue of dream, cherish old relationships, and character change. The idea pursues of dream is one of the themes that these three film shares. In the 1990s, many mainlander unsure about what would happen after Hong Kong return to China, as result many mainlanders travel to Hong Kong and search for better job opportunities, and pursue their dream, one of the good example would be Comrades, Almost a lover story, In this films, two mainlanders, one named Li Xiao Jun (starring Leon Lai) role-play northern mainlanders. Another one was Li Qiao (starring Maggie Cheung) role-play southern mainlanders. Both of them have the passion to pursue their dream in Hong Kong. Xiao Jun’s dream is to bring his fiancé...
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...Thakkar Marketing Objectives and Goals 7-10 Paul Noonan/Micky Thakkar Advertising and Promotion Strategies 10-13 Environmental Analysis and Porter Analysis 13-15 Christina Carroll SWOTs 15-19 Netflix SWOT Redbox SWOT Blockbuster SWOT Competitive Advantage Strategic Focus Paul Noonan Financials 19-20 Future Trends 20 Recommendations 20-22 All Questions 22-25 Bibliography 26 Compiled by Paul Noonan The History of Blockbuster Inc. Blockbuster’s mission statement is “To be the global leader in rentable home entertainment by providing outstanding service, selection, convenience and value.” Blockbuster is an American based chain of retail stores renting DVD, Blu Ray, and video games. They have over 9,000 locations in the US and 25 other countries worldwide. It is headquartered in the Renaissance Tower located in Dallas, Texas. The first store was opened in Dallas, Texas 1985 by David Cook. Cook had started a company called Cook Data Services Inc. in 1982 selling software to Texas’s oil and gas industries.[i] When the industry went flat Cook was searching for another source of revenue. His wife a movie fan suggested getting into the movie rental business. At the time rental stores were small, specialized, and inefficient. These stores were mainly family oriented stores that provided few former big hit movies. Cook recognized if they displayed the movies, provided a large former big hits selection, and set up a computerized system he could provide...
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...community. Less than five years after publication, the novel had been translated into English, and the first of many films in the American Planet of the Apes media franchise debuted as "loose adaptations" of Boulle's work. Today, this science fiction powerhouse continues to create popular film adaptations, however as time continues, the derivation from Boulle's original French novel escalates. By looking at a handful of the many films, one can see how each of the different versions distances further from the original intent of the novel, becoming nearly unrecognizable from the 1963 French novel. Despite Boulle willingly signing over the rights to his work, having been credited and compensated accordingly, and even writing new material for a movie sequel, the Planet of the Apes franchise's continual derivation from the original work is a disservice to Boulle's creation and legacy, leaving the author almost forgotten. On the contrary, the modifications to the original allowed Boulle's creative thoughts to reach entire audiences that he never thought possible. The author himself spoke minimal English and lived his whole life in France, but Planet of the Apes and the concept behind it is now a household name in the United States. While this is a strong counter-argument regarding artistic liberties and the benefit of adaptations for reaching greater audiences, the fact still remains that Planet of the Apes as of today is unrecognizable from the French brainchild of Pierre...
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...on the movie rental company Netflix. | The major portion of revenue that Netflix derived came from its unlimited streaming plans that included either one, two or three DVD’s out at a time from the mailing system. Netflix began as a DVD rental provider that allowed customers to use the internet to select the DVD’s they wanted to rent. Netflix’s strategy so far has included offering various plans that incorporate unlimited streaming to a viewing device from the internet and a mail order system that sends physical DVD’s to the customer for an unlimited amount of time without any additional fees (so long as they still have a subscription with the company). With consumers moving toward the digital era, which Netflix has embraced, Netflix has to focus on continuing to be an innovative leader in the movie rental industry. 1. Identify the key elements of Netflix’s strategy. What competitive advantages is Netflix trying to achieve? Netflix strategy consists of at least six major elements, but its key elements consist of: * Providing subscribers with a comprehensive selection of DVD titles. * Giving subscribers a choice of watching streaming content or receiving quickly delivered DVD’s by mail. * Offering nine different variations of their service with subscription costs ranging from $4.99 to $47.99 with a free one month trial on any service. One of the most basic features that any movie rental company needs to have is a comprehensive selection of movie titles...
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...on the movie rental company Netflix. | The major portion of revenue that Netflix derived came from its unlimited streaming plans that included either one, two or three DVD’s out at a time from the mailing system. Netflix began as a DVD rental provider that allowed customers to use the internet to select the DVD’s they wanted to rent. Netflix’s strategy so far has included offering various plans that incorporate unlimited streaming to a viewing device from the internet and a mail order system that sends physical DVD’s to the customer for an unlimited amount of time without any additional fees (so long as they still have a subscription with the company). With consumers moving toward the digital era, which Netflix has embraced, Netflix has to focus on continuing to be an innovative leader in the movie rental industry. 1. Identify the key elements of Netflix’s strategy. What competitive advantages is Netflix trying to achieve? Netflix strategy consists of at least six major elements, but its key elements consist of: * Providing subscribers with a comprehensive selection of DVD titles. * Giving subscribers a choice of watching streaming content or receiving quickly delivered DVD’s by mail. * Offering nine different variations of their service with subscription costs ranging from $4.99 to $47.99 with a free one month trial on any service. One of the most basic features that any movie rental company needs to have is a comprehensive selection of movie titles...
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...on the movie rental company Netflix. | The major portion of revenue that Netflix derived came from its unlimited streaming plans that included either one, two or three DVD’s out at a time from the mailing system. Netflix began as a DVD rental provider that allowed customers to use the internet to select the DVD’s they wanted to rent. Netflix’s strategy so far has included offering various plans that incorporate unlimited streaming to a viewing device from the internet and a mail order system that sends physical DVD’s to the customer for an unlimited amount of time without any additional fees (so long as they still have a subscription with the company). With consumers moving toward the digital era, which Netflix has embraced, Netflix has to focus on continuing to be an innovative leader in the movie rental industry. 1. Identify the key elements of Netflix’s strategy. What competitive advantages is Netflix trying to achieve? Netflix strategy consists of at least six major elements, but its key elements consist of: * Providing subscribers with a comprehensive selection of DVD titles. * Giving subscribers a choice of watching streaming content or receiving quickly delivered DVD’s by mail. * Offering nine different variations of their service with subscription costs ranging from $4.99 to $47.99 with a free one month trial on any service. One of the most basic features that any movie rental company needs to have is a comprehensive selection of movie titles...
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...Freedom Writers Diaries – Their Story, Their Words, Their Future One of the main concerns that Erin Gruwell would face was teaching a group of kids that the school system process having an integrated school was a good thing in front of board members that had issues at that certain time in history. The school system did not look at how this integration with mixed cultures would affect everyone involved. This system would suddenly take them out of their own element and put them with mixed cultures that would drastically change their way of looking at life. This change would only drive the kids back future with no desire to learn or participate in continuing their education. Comparing this to the business world, you would look at Erin Gruwell would become a style of pathfinder practitioner for the inner city mixed culture teenagers (Brown, 2011 p 92). Erin Gruwell could see what potential each one of her students had and would fight the school system to help create a different approach and style for the kids to open their minds toward a positive life with a future. This is compared to big business or a corporation showing how starting out in a large environment how one can get lost like a child in a large school. Many may want to avoid taking chances or even give ideas because of stepping on someone’s toes in business or getting shot at from another child in school because of the way they looked at someone. Another issue facing Erin Gruwell was how administration would look...
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...expanding global market. These cultural barriers affect human interactions through our perspective of one another, credibility, time frames, as well as through communication. The success of international business depends upon the ability to set aside our differences, unite and strengthen one another. Many of these challenges can be seen throughout the movie Gung Ho. The movie portrays the relationship between the Japanese and Americans in a lightly comically point of view through an auto factory. However, when comparing and contrasting the interactions of these two cultures, both in and out of the film, they’re dynamics of become more apparent. The connections and exchanges between the Japanese management team and the American workers throughout the film present examples for each of the five dimensions in Geert Hofstede’s cultural dynamics analysis: Individualism/Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance, Masculinity/Femininity, and the later added Long-term Orientation. I. Hofstede’s Cultural Dynamics The results from Hofstede’s analysis for the United States and Japan are in the following table. When comparing the two we see that the Americans have a highly individualistic, male reinforced, ambiguous, society with a slight hierarchy with a weak connection to tradition. Japan is highly male reinforced, high structure, hierarchy with a strong connection to tradition. The two are on opposite ends of the scale in each category, except for the Power Distance where...
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...Notes: FIN 303 Spring 09, Part 7 – Capital Budgeting Professor James P. Dow, Jr. Part 7. Capital Budgeting What is Capital Budgeting? Nancy Garcia and Digital Solutions Digital Solutions, a software development house, is considering a number of new projects, including a joint venture with another company. Digital Solutions would provide the software expertise to do the development, while the other company, American Financial Consultants (AFC) would be responsible for the marketing. Nancy Garcia of Digital Solutions would be responsible for assessing the financial viability of the plan. Information about the costs and revenues of the project would come from the accounting, production and marketing groups of the two companies; however, Ms. Garcia would have to put the information together, and provide a preliminary analysis that she would present to the company’s managers. Capital budgeting is the process of making a decision about the financial desirability of a project. The proposed software development project at Digital Solutions is an example of this kind of problem. We will see how Nancy Garcia approaches this problem as a way to learn the techniques of capital budgeting. The Big Picture Businesses are about increasing the wealth of their owners, which means that they should pursue all the profitable projects that they can. Capital budgeting is about deciding which projects are profitable and add to the value of the firm. Sometimes the firm has to choose between two or...
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...ourselves all the time. This self-talk both reflects and creates our emotional states so when the self-talk is negative we become more stressed, less confident and more concerned with what other people think. We often tend to believe our self-talk is real and objective, not always aware that it comes from a feeling or belief we have. The good news is that we can transform our life experiences by learning how to defuse the power of negative self-talk. This entry will look at what self talk is, how it works and describe 5 kinds of negative self-talk. Part 2 will describe 5 additional kinds of negative self talk and offer a way to turn negative self talk around into positive action. HOW SELF-TALK WORKS In the memorable subtitle scene of the movie "Annie Hall." Woody Allen ("Alvy" and Diane Keaton ("Annie") are on the balcony off Annie's apartment. With a cityscape in the background, their real thoughts are seen in thought-bubble subtitles (like those in foreign films) at the bottom of the screen as they carry on absurd, small talk banalities in their conversation about photography. The thoughts in the subtitles are closer to what they really want to be saying. Why? Because they stem from true feelings. So one way to look at self-talk is as the expression of what we...
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...1. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and many short stories. He is worldwide recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the time called the „Jazz Age”. His most famous works are „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Great Gatsby” which have been adapted into films. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for many movie adaptations of the same name in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and the latest in 2013. 2. Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (1962 - ) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Australia and the newest version of The Great Gatsby released in 2013. 3. „The Great Gatsby” – the plot of the novel The Great Gatsby is an American novel written in 1925 that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young, handsome and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his unrealistic illusion and passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Major characters Nick Carraway – a Yale graduate originating from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and, at the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg, who is about 30 years old. He serves as the first-person narrator of the novel. He is Gatsby's next-door neighbour and a bond salesman. He is an easy-going, occasionally...
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...In the movie V for Vendetta, ‘V’ is a man who escaped an unfair captivity by the government as an experimental study. He vows himself to revenge and kill those responsible. He also becomes a rebel leader, fighting a violent terrorist crusade against dictatorship in Britain, set in the future and ruled by Norsefire, a fascist political party in a totalitarian government. The woman Evey, a protagonist in the film, is victim of an attempted rape by the secret police, when she knowingly breaks the law by leaving her house after curfew. The policemen used their status to create fear by threatening her in order to be respected and obeyed. In the opening scene, Lewis Prothero a TV host, announces that their successful country works through ‘Strength and Unity’, which is why immigrants, Muslims, homosexuals, diseases and terrorists all had to go, based on a ‘better’ judgment of their government’s religion, which in this movie is some sort of Christianity. ‘Strength through Unity, Unity through Faith’. The movie shows how government can manipulate its people, from fear to hope, Chancellor Adam Sutler was elected after a bioterrorist attack occurred which killed many. A cure for the virus getting discovered shortly after his election shows it was a plot engineered by Norsefire to gain power. The film makes plenty of political points and affronts the American government of today by making certain references about the war on terrorism and quoting the film “People should not fear their government...
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...Netflix’s Business Model and Strategy in renting Movies and TV Episodes Reed Hastings, founder and CEO, launched Netflix as an online rental movie service in 1999. Netflix is a company that distributes movies and television by streaming online and mail delivery. There are eight different membership options to choose from each varying in number of DVDs rented out at a time. Netflix also offers to stream movies and television series directly from their website to different devices (i.e. Pc, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Wii, PS3). The over all goals for Netflix are simple: to build the world’s best Internet movie service and to deliver a growing subscriber base and earning per share every year. 1. Identify the key elements of Netflix’s strategy. What competitive advantages is Netflix trying to achieve? Key Elements of Netflix Strategy ! Providing subscribers...
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