...The Innocents, a film directed by Jack Clayton, adapted from Henry James’ short novel The Turn of the Screw by John Mortimer, William Archibald and Truman Capote, can be argued to have subject matter of either a supernatural or psychological nature. The same can be said for Henry James’ original, but having digested both texts it is made clear to me that there are some very noticeable differences between the two, that both hinder and enhance our understanding of the stories. In both the film and the novella, the principal story is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by Miss Giddens, the governess appointed to care for the two children by their uncle. In Henry James’ version however, the story is framed in the prologue by an unknown character, Douglas, who introduces the story to a few friends at a house party. In the film, we see Miss Giddens crying with her hands together as if praying, emotionally exclaiming: “All I want to do is save the children, not destroy them. More than anything I love children. More than anything.” It then fades into the interview scene with the uncle, soft focus, to suggest a flashback. Both these openings elicit an anachronistic or nostalgic feel, and with The Innocents, this sensation is strengthened by the black and white cinematography. The cameraman, Freddie Francis, used a special filter which darkened the edges of the frame similar to the ‘vignette’ effect. This had practical uses for characters walking of screen but it also gave the impression that...
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...Castles are often pictured as enormous, magnificent stone buildings that are home to kings and queens. However, castles did not start out that way. The first castles were known as motte and bailey castles. They first appeared in England after the Norman Conquest in 1066, and they were popular in England by 1087, when William the Conqueror died. Motte and bailey castles created the basis for the hundreds of castles built in England and Wales. In the motte and bailey castles, the main building was on top of a man-made hill, which usually contained “22,000 tons of soil,” called the motte (Trueman). They were very difficult to make because there were alternating layers of soil and stone so that the structure would be stronger. However, one castle could be built in eight days if enough people assisted in the building. The castle could be accessed by either wooden stairs or a flying bridge. The bailey was below the motte, and it was surrounded by a wooden fence to protect the inhabitants. William continued to build these castles during his reign in locations where the people usually rebelled. This “[reasserted] his authority” because it gave people the impression that William’s feared army was nearby (Trueman). As soon as “the people of England had been tamed,” William began planning the production of stone castles (Trueman). These stone castles eventually evolved into the sturdy and defensive structures known as concentric castles. Concentric castles were made of stone and had...
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...Thesis statement: The result of human folly is shown in both stories, which contain similarities and differences through the elements of themes, symbolism, and characterization. I. Theme A. Preservation of history B. Destruction of history II. Symbolism A. Black box - Symbol of the way things have always been, and the way people settle into doing things the way they were taught rather than thinking for themselves B. House - Symbol of the way things have always been, there is always an upper class, there is always corruption III. Characterization A. Tessie 1. Jokes around, vocal about opinions 2. Backed by feeling of injustice B. Trevor 1. Quiet, withdrawn, appears indifferent, schemes on his own 2. Backed by feelings of bitterness Both “The Destructors,” by Graham Greene, and “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson offer insight to the limited wisdom of man, as well as his stubbornness and sin nature. When man is left to his own devices and limited knowledge, destruction is sure to follow. The result of human folly is shown in both stories, which contain similarities and differences through the elements of theme, symbolism, and characterization. Although in both stories the prevailing theme is that of established history, one sets out to destroy history and the other seeks to change it for the better. Steve Maraboli stated, “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people...
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...Plan For A Product Of Innocent Drinks Marketing Essay The report describes the marketing plan for the repositioning of the product “This Water” offered by “Innocent Drinks”. Company was founded in 1999 and offers smoothies and flavoured spring water in Super markets, coffee shops, cinemas and other outlets in UK and other countries. Company has decided to re-launch its existing product “This Water” in the cinemas in the UK with the new name “This Water Plus”. This report covers the marketing plan and marketing strategies to reposition the product. The period for the marketing plan is set from 2nd January 2011 to 1st September 2012. All the effecting factors are consider while planning the plan including current world and specifically UK economic position after recession as UK economy is still in process to gain its recovery position. Innocent Drinks has improved the design and packaging of its product to make it more attractive and focused on the corporate social responsibility. They used recycled material for the packaging and also contributes portion of the profit towards charitable work. They have targeted the UK cinemas to offer this product. Innocent Drinks is a UK based company established in 1999 by three Cambridge graduates. Its main business is producing smoothies and flavoured spring water. Company sells its products in supermarkets, cinemas and coffee shops. It has branches in UK, France, Austria, Denmark, Amsterdam, Brussels and Germany. Company enjoys 71% of UK...
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...Marketing Environment Case 2 innocent Ltd: being good is good for business In a world of big commercial brands that promise to make you feel younger, look better or live longer, occasionally there are those that come along that try to be more grounded, more real and more authentic. A classic case in point was the Body Shop chain of cosmetic shops, which did not promise to reverse ageing or get rid of wrinkles but instead offered natural, authentic products and showed concern for the environment at the same time. innocent Ltd is a company in that mould. It has built a very successful business in the smoothie market by offering quality, fresh products and by behaving in an openly ethical manner. Its success has spawned a host of competitors and it now faces several challenges to its dominance of the sector. Company background innocent was founded in 1998 by three college friends—Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright. In the summer of that year, the trio set up a stall at a small music festival in London. They started with £500 of fresh fruit and set up two bins, one with a ‘yes’ sign and the other with a ‘no’ sign. They also had another sign that asked customers ‘Should we give up our jobs to make these drinks?’ By the end of the festival, the ‘yes’ bin was overflowing and innocent Ltd was born. The vision of its founders, in the words of Richard Reed, was to be ‘Europe’s favourite little juice company’, and innocent set about making products that...
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...poem starts out from the view of the dreamer, later on it changes to a narrative from the cross itself. That made it more difficult for me to understand. I believe that in this poem the author wants the audience to feel many things, outrage over the injustice being primary. The author paints a picture for the audience so not as to elicit our pity but rather our sense of morality. The line 'Clearly this was no criminals gallows, but holy spirits were beholding it there, men on this earth, all that mighty creation' (P33, L20) intrigued me as I believe it was intended to do. The audience is supposed to see implicitly that the tree was not being used for a criminal but for someone holy, that it was being forced to take part in the death of an innocent man. I believe the role of the audience is to feel outraged and stand up against the injustice. The narration is almost that of a resigned story teller but it has the undertones of anger, like he wants the audience to feel his pain and anger. 'Then the warriors left me there standing, blood all over me, pierced everywhere with arrows.' (P34, L60), this line almost sounds like he wants the audience to understand that he was betrayed. The cross did his job as he was forced to do it and then they just left him there. I believe the audience is supposed to feel this sense of betrayal. I believe the nature of the audience is supposed to be diverse. It doesn't seem to be a story simply for Christians but rather anyone with a sense of...
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...Unit 5 Analysis 1: Pentium Flaw The Pentium flaw was discovered by Intel testers in June of 1994. Intel determined that the flaw did not affect many people and did not inform anyone outside the company. Intel withholding this information was a recipe for disaster in the first place. This lead to the customers of Intel to assume that the company was not completely trustworthy. Finally in November of 1994, Intel announced the flaw, although they have known about it for months. Intel did not handle this problem correctly. Intel should have at first notice of the flaw conducted a full recall of all the processors possibly affected. Not announcing a flaw of this level was a huge error on Intel’s part. They could have announced the problem and offer fixes to address the issues at hand. Waiting to announce this until months after the fact was a huge let down for customers. Customers expect that if a company finds a problem with their products that they inform them about it and provide a fix to the problem. Intel finally announces in December of 1994, that there would be a total recall, replacement, and destruction of all of the flawed processors. Something that should have happened months before. Finally, they have done right. Intel commits to purchase of all chips produced through the end of the year in January 1995. Intel sets aside 420 million dollars to cover costs of replacing all flawed processors upon request in mid-December 1994. If a flaw of this nature happened again...
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...How does innocent conduct market research? Surveys: What innocent do is “They hired a stall at a music festival and asked customers who bought a drink, “Should we quit our jobs to make smoothes?”. People could choose whether to throw their empty smoothie bottles into a bin marked “Yes” or “No”. (http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=4113&Title=The_marketing_secrets_behind_Innocent_Drinks ). By this method which is a survey you can see that Innocent is using primary research in order to develop their market research and know what the customers want. Surveys are widely used for gaining a better understanding of your customers’ needs or how they perceive your brand. They can help you profile your customer base, and it can sometimes be useful to send them out anonymously to ensure objectivity from your respondents. Again Innocent drinks use a survey to find out basic yet vital information about their business. Doing a survey is a primary source which they use... “This survey is built to capture data for Innocent Drinks for Educational Research...” and this is the survey... (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B5QXTTM). Focus groups: Facebook and blogs are also used effectively to allow customers to comment and feedback on innocent. So one of our recent blog posts were on veg pots, sure enough, people are responding. Then you’ve got all this free insight there as to what you should do. Sales Figures for the businesses own products: “Innocent Sales rocked...
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...In the story, “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog’s actions are justified. First of all, the king is unethical and evil. He valued humor over everything else and found it funny to make fun of other people’s flaws or disabilities, even if they couldn’t help it. One of the king’s last actions was the thing that pushed Hop-Frog over the edge: “without uttering a syllable, he pushed her (Trippetta) violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face” (Poe 3). Trippetta was only trying to ask the king to leave Hop-Frog alone, but the king responded with violence. Trippetta was Hop-Frog’s only friend, so when the king pushed her and threw wine in her face it made Hop-Frog furious. A reader could tell that Hop-Frog was...
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...seventh of the poem attempts to portray her suffering in life. It seems she has faced very tough struggle. I can utter it because I see in the second line she describes her life as no crystal stair. I picture the words no crystal stair as though her experience in life which is not sparkling and luxurious like crystal. In addition, stair is the foothold for us to stand before we step higher to reach the top, I guess. She must have not only trouble but also bad situation. The third line adds that her life is full of tacks which mean pain. Our foot will be bloody if we tread it because tack is keen. So, the pain happens in a mother’s life. In the following lines keep talking about her troublesome life. However, in the last line she remains strong. She does not give up even though she has to face so many problems in life. She keeps going on...
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...We've always found that there's something about modern living that makes it hard to be healthy. That's why we gave up our jobs over five years ago and started making innocent smoothies. The idea was to make it easy for people to do themselves some good. And to make it taste nice too. We wanted people to think of innocent drinks as their one healthy habit; like going to the gym, but without the communal shower afterwards We call them innocent because our drinks are always completely pure, fresh and unadulterated. Anything you ever find in an innocent bottle will always be 100% natural and delicious -and if it isn't, get on the banana phone and make us beg for forgiveness. In fact, being accountable to our customers is something that is in our blood. In the summer of 1998 when we had developed our first smoothie recipes but were still nervous about giving up our proper jobs, we bought £500 worth of fruit, turned it into smoothies and sold them from a stall at a little music festival in London. We put up a big sign saying 'Do you think we should give up our jobs to make these smoothies?' and put out a bin saying 'YES' and a bin saying 'NO' and asked people to put the empty bottle in the right bin. At the end of the weekend the 'YES' bin was full so we went in the next day and resigned. Then we had to find a home. And that's when we stumbled across the perfect place - Fruit Towers. It's a lovely little place, somewhere that we can call our own and where everybody's welcome. You'll...
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...My chosen Company is Innocent. It was founded by three friends who met at Cambridge University in the early 1990's. They sold their first Smoothies at a music festival having spent £500 on fruit for the Smoothies. When finished their Smoothies, customers were asked to put their empty bottles in either a “Yes” bin or a “No” bin. The question the customers were asked was whether the guys should quit their jobs to make Smoothies. When they checked the bins, the “Yes” bin was full with only three bottles in the “No” bin. So the guys quit their jobs the next day. They have since opened offices in Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Germany and Austria. Innocent sold a share of their Company to Coca Cola in 2009. Coca Cola now hold a 58% stake in the Company though Innocent say that they have a “hands-off” approach. Their product range now includes Innocent Smoothies (which contains 2 of your 5 a day), Fresh Juice, Kids' Innocent Smoothie Cartons, and Innocent Kids Juice. In 2008 they launched Veggie Pots (which has 3 portions of your 5 a day in every pot) and in 2009 they invented Fruit Tubes for Kids. Innocent's mission statement is : “to make natural delicious food and drinks that help people live well and die old” (Source: www.binarymoon.co.uk, 2011)(i) The Logo The design brief (such as it was) aimed to emphasise the purity and naturalness of Innocent drinks. “We didn’t have any sophisticated marketing plan,” explains Dan Germain (Head of...
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... 3. THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION.....................................................4 4. THE COASTAL STATE JURISDICTION....................................................................5 4.1. Internal Waters...........................................................................................................5 4.2. Territorial Seas...........................................................................................................6 4.3. Contiguous Zone........................................................................................................6 5. NAVIGATION IN TERRITORIAL SEA......................................................................6 5.1. Innocent Passage.....................................................................................................6 5.2. Straits.......................................................................................................................7 5.3. Transit Passage........................................................................................................7 6. THE HIGH SEAS...........................................................................................................7 7. INTERNATIONAL MARITIME EVENTS..................................................................8 7.1. The Corfu Channel...
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...Meri is actually saying that she was brainwashed by the person who catfished her. She really does feel like a victim, which she is, but Meri seems to be avoiding talking about the fact that she was married when this all happened. Meri is now speaking out and saying that she was a victim. A woman pretended to be a man and tricked her into getting to know her better. Meri went to Twitter and shared several things last night that reveals how she is feeling. She posted one thing showing that she was the victim. Meri said that both men and women can be victims of catfishing. She also talked about signs that you are being catfished, such as someone refusing to meet you. Meri Brown wants to bring awareness to catfishing and do what she can to keep it from happening to someone else. One other thing that Meri Brown shared was that she had never even heard the word catfishing before this happened to her. The person who was doing catfishing her is actually the one who told her about the word. Meri thought she was talking to a man, but it turned out that she was talking to a woman named Jackie Overton. On a recent episode of the show, Meri Brown shared saying, "Kody, this person got so far into my head that I didn't know what end was up sometimes. And I'm still trying to get her out of there." Another thing that Meri shared on Twitter was a post about brainwashing. It said that you could do this by isolating the victim and sending them inconsistent messages. It went on to reveal you...
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...“Advice to Youth” By Mark Twain Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it beseechingly, urgingly-- Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn’t mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined. Go to bed early, get...
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