...As many as 20% of teenagers will suffer from depression by the time they reach adulthood (“Teenage”). That is one in five teenagers. Depression does not discriminate between age, race, or even social class. Actress, singer, and songwriter Demi Lovato has suffered from depression. In 2011, Demi was diagnosed with a specific type of depression called bipolar II disorder (“Demi Lovato Recalls…”). Demi Lovato’s story of depression and very successful recovery has brought a voice to many teenagers across the world suffering with similar issues. Demi’s story lets them know that they are not alone and getting help is okay. Demetria Devonne “Demi” Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Dallas, Texas to parents Patrick and Dianna (DeLaGarza) Lovato (“Biography”). When Demi was 4, her parents divorced and her father is not a really part of her life anymore. Demi participated in beauty pageants, and for the talent portion, she would sing. She began to take singing lessons. To pay for the lessons, Demi began acting at a very young age. Her first role was at the age of six as Angela in “Barney & Friends” (“Biography”). She was still enrolled in public school, but when she was 11 and 12, she was bullied very severely. Students once signed a petition saying, “We hate Demi Lovato,” along with being called fat (“Demi Lovato: Stay…”). It got so bad that she had to drop out of school to be homeschooled by her parents. At age 11, Demi first recalled cutting herself, and at age 12 was when she had...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Analysis of The Walt Disney`s Strategy PESTEL SWOT STRATEGIC ANALYSES “Fiscal 2011 was a great year financially and strategically, demonstrating the strength of our brands and businesses with record revenue, net income and earnings per share,” said Disney President and CEO Robert A. Iger. “We are confident the Company is well-positioned to deliver long-term value for our shareholders with our focus on quality content, compelling uses of technology and global asset growth.” According to the PESTEL analysis, the Walt Disney Company has been shaped mainly with respect to social, economic and political. First, it is politically shaped because the government and lobby groups have an important role in establishing policies, requirements and competition rules. Furthermore, the local governmental rules are crucial in establishing foreign ownership for subsidiaries or business units. Alongside with the political factors, both the economic and social factors influence the group`s profitability and activity because customers and economic conditions are closely related. For instance the financial crisis of 2007 brought serious economic downturns that affected most of the activities at Disney 11 parks. The group is also dependent on oil prices, inflation and interest rates that might affect exchange rates. Social trends influence the company strategic decisions, mainly due to demographic changes, attitudes or certain fashion cycles. According to PESTEL, technological factors...
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...a game and tried to make learning about the past fun and exciting. One of our stops was at South of the Border. Everyone bought a sombrero from the gift shop and then went on the big sombrero ride. I did not know we had to take a paddle boat to the park. I have a fear of boats so I held on to the pole in the middle of the boat. My sister and husband grabbed my son’s hands, so they did not get lost in the crowd. When the paddle boat began to move, I closed my eyes until we arrived at the other side of the lake where the Magic Kingdom was located. It only took about five minutes but it seemed longer to me. The Magic Kingdom was my favorite part of our vacation. As soon as we walked in through the gates, we heard all different Disney songs. While walking on Main Street USA we passed several restaurants and bakeries. The smells coming from the bakeries were so delightful and tempting, we had to stop in and buy some muffins. We spent two days at the Magic Kingdome, riding all the rides and going to most of the shows. One of the days we decided to have dinner at the castle. They had butter shaped like Mickey Mouse and the characters were walking...
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...The Allegory of the Cave and Disney Movies The Allegory of the Cave is one of many vivid and complex stories in Plato’s book entitled “The Republic”. The Allegory of the Cave is a story about the unseen truth of the outside world. The story takes place underground in a cave where prisoners are forced to watch a show that they believe is what life only consists of. There is a blazing fire set back behind them and a wall where puppets are displayed so that it casts images on the wall in front of the prisoners. Their heads are chained so that the only thing that they are able to see is what is being projected on the wall. For the prisoners, this is all that they know about life and all they have ever known. A prisoner later escapes and finds his way out of the cave and into a world that he did not believe existed. He was blinded not only by the light but blinded from what he missed out on for so long. He was so happy of what he has seen but discouraged at the same time of what the cave has made him believe for such a long period. He traveled back to the cave to tell the others of such a beautiful place above them, but to his dismay, the prisoner’s scolded him and didn’t believe a word he said. For the prisoners, the cave was all they knew and they were angry that someone would try and tell them otherwise. The prisoners didn’t want to believe they were being hidden from the truth. Plato used many metaphors in the story, For instance, I believe that the cave is used...
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...“Magic Kingdom” in Orlando, California, or any of the other now international theme parks people become entranced and reborn from the magic and spectacle that has been a trademark of Disney for many years and generations. Reality is that customers seeking audience with “Mickey Mouse” have no interest in the financial aspects that make Disney a major company and probably never review the company’s financials or examine their ethics and compliance functions. Team C in this paper will examine, asses, and conclude in its review of Disney and how they utilize ethics and compliance in their daily operations. “Large corporations are managed by a team separate from the firm’s owners. Though management is expected to make ethical decisions that reflect the best interest of the firms owners, this is not always the case. Indeed managers often face situations where their own personal interests differ from the interest of the shareholders. Some of these situations can be viewed as a straightforward test of the financial manager’s ethics.” (Titman, Keown, Martin 2011) In all businesses whether they be large companies as we are examining here are of course all different in structure as well as corporate beliefs. In the case of Disney as in any large company it is invaluable to view the policies and mission statements that the company pursues and trains its staff as well as “Cast...
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...CASE 4-2 Disney Learns to "Act Local" on the Global Stage The Walt Disney Company, home to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other iconic characters, has a stellar reputation in many parts of the world for its family-friendly entertainment offerings. The company's parks and resorts division operates theme parks in five global locations, including a recent $1.8 billion park in Hong Kong. Disney's fabled studio entertainment unit has an illustrious history in both animation and live-action features. The Lion King, released in 1994, is the highest grossing animated film of all time. More recently, Disney has enjoyed massive hits with live-action features. These include Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels as well as classic American fare such as the TV show High School Musical. However, despite high worldwide awareness levels of the Disney brand, as of 2006 only 25 percent of the company's revenues came from outside the United States. Historically, the Disney team has created products at its headquarters in Burbank, California, and then exported them to the rest of the world. Now, as the company targets China, India, South Korea, and other emerging markets, it is departing from its "one size fits all" approach. One factor driving the strategy change: the first-year visitor count in Hong Kong fell short of the target figure of 5.6 million people. This prompted company executives to step up efforts to educate the Chinese about Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other Disney characters...
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...University of Phoenix Material The Fabulous Fifties Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1950s: |The Mickey Mouse Club |Ozzie and Harriett | |Interstate highways |I Love Lucy | |Dishwashers |Persistent poverty | |Automobiles |Black urban migration | |Hi-Fis and stereos |Urban renewal | |Poodle skirts |Beatniks (beats) | |Drive-in theaters |American Bandstand | |Levittown |Elvis Presley | |Dr. Spock |James Dean | |Event |Significance ...
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...High School Graduation Speech Now that we are graduating I believe this time that we, class of 2014 fine tell all the people cheering on tonight but most importantly our parents three words we swore we will never say you were right. Now today, class of 2014 I challenge you to reflect on your past four years, remember who you are, where you are from, and what you represent. There’s this rumor that high school changes who you are and truth is I agree. Four years can really change a person just as Miley Cyrus because when we are freshmen she was a Disney star who was Hannah Montana riding horses and singing hoe down throw down, but now she rides wrecking balls. Although were change has been a drastic we are the naïve freshmen we once were when we first walked in as 15 year olds very awkward looking forward for the best years of our life. However, we seem realize that high school was not like High School Musical and all these singing and dancing and laughter usually ended as with crying on the way that IBCA everyday and trying to hide behind the bleachers to avoid the dreaded mile on PE. And not even next to classified school survival guide can prepare us for the horror of math excel. Since freshmen year we even change our styles and let’s take a moment to apologize to our parents for having to walk to that headache trap we called abracrombi freshmen over year. And now it’s instagram, twitter, and snapchat and if you don’t update each of them daily people will question your...
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...Walt Disney Case Analysis Corporate Strategy The Disney brand is extremely well known, but most may not realize how diversified the company actually is. The company is made up of media networks, theme parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products, and interactive media. Walt Disney Company’s corporate strategy involves three aspects; creating high-quality family content, exploiting technological innovations to make entertainment experiences more memorable, and internal expansion. Disney wants the whole family to be involved. Much of their success is due to targeting not just children, but the entire family. The movies and shows they release are done with family in mind. Theme parks and resorts, Disney Cruises, live performances and interactive media are all aimed at creating high quality family content. Disney acquired Pixar, Marvel, and Playdom in order to satisfy their second corporate strategy. The acquisition of Marvel and Pixar was intended to enhance Disney’s animation abilities to make experiences more memorable. Playdom gave the company new online gaming capacities that Disney hoped would help to improve its struggling interactive media division. UTV was acquired to facilitate its international expansion efforts. Disney’s international expansion strategy mainly focused on opportunities in emerging overseas markets. As of 2012 The Disney Channel was available in more than 100 countries and reached 75 percent of viewers in China and Russia. This was...
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...“Miley has everything a girl could want, she has millions of dollars.” After Hannah Montana was over, she started to do drugs. Now, she doesn’t make the greatest decisions. She also grosses everyone out by sticking her tongue out all the time. Miley wears weird clothes, does drugs, goes to parties, and she’s pretty much out of control now. Miley Cyrus is even like this when she’s on stage. Miley is totally out of control. Miley does drugs, wears really weird expensive clothes, goes to big parties, and she can be a little weird and crazy at times. One reason Miley is out of control is she always has chose the wrong path. Her fans, family, and some friends are mad at her because of it. Miley’s dad is not the only one upset with her. “Many of...
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...markets provides a rich backdrop to introduce a range of international strategy topics, including performance assessment, rationale for expansion, market selection, and choice of entry mode. Questions 1) Why did Grolsch globalize, and how well has it performed internationally? 2) What are the key elements and limitations of its emphasis on adaptation, in particular? 3) What changes would you suggest to Grolsch’s historical strategy? Mo 14.10.2013 | Case study: International alliance | UTV and Disney: A Strategic Alliance (A) Atanu Adhikari, Rama Deshmukh ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form DESCRIPTION The case describes the dilemma faced by the senior vice-president of business development and strategy when deciding in 2006 whether UTV Software Communications Ltd. (UTV) should go ahead with a joint venture with Walt Disney Company (Disney) even if it meant selling Hungama TV, the leading children's channel in India, to Disney. UTV was one of the large media companies in India and had diversified interests, including TV content, movies, animation and new media...
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...seems as if technology 10 or 20 years ago doesn’t exist anymore. It’s surprisingly shocking how years pass by and how rapidly media is changing. As youth of today we can give so much memories of our early media experience. Let me give you the insight of my memoirs… I was a 4 year girl super excited to receive my first shiny library card, and write my name all crooked on the back of it. I was so happy that day to be able take out books with my own card, and become part of a reading club that would award me with every 5 books I read. I remember reading Little Golden Books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Three Little Pigs, and Dr. Seuss series. As I grew older books weren’t as interesting as watching the early 90’s Nickelodeon shows, Disney channel, and watching Spanish soap operas with my mom. Unfortunately, I prefer to pick up the control or go to the movie theater then to pick up a book to read. I did read James and the Giant Peach, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and my recent favorite book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. But that didn’t of course stop me from being drawn to bigger and better things. Such as being excited to do research in the Mac OS X in the 2000’s; or listening to Hilary Duff, Britney Spears, and Backstreet Boys in my CD player. Media became so improve that my CD player was replaced by the iPod Nano 1st generation in 2005, and my disposable camera was replaced by a Panasonic digital camera, and much later my computer was replaced with a phone. It surely...
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...Informative Outline Thesis: My audience will learn a brief history of the Disney Company and their plans to take new directions in the future. Introduction: Briefly tell the audience a short history of Disney and the plans they have for their company and plans for future ventures. Attention Getter: Disney first started out making cartoons but later ventured into major films, radio, television programs and even vacation packages. Now, Disney has acquired new companies and will journey into the world of many multi-media platforms, mainly video-gaming. Let’s take a look to see where the company is going with their new plans moving into the future. I. First main point: The foundation for Disney began with Walt Disney in the 1920’s. A. Cartoons marked the beginning of the Disney Company. 1. Visual aid: Use a picture of Mickey Mouse as the very start to the Disney Company. 2. The success of cartoon shorts sparked construction of Disney Studios. B. The success of features and cartoons made possible the ideas to build a theme park centered on the world of Disney. 1. Visual aid: Use a picture of Disney’s theme park, Disneyworld. 2. Explain that after the success of theme parks, merchandising became another big part to the evolution of the company. 3. Visual aid: Use a picture that represents some of the merchandise that Disney produced. II. Second Main Point: Where the company is today and what they have done to keep moving forward...
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