...The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Benjamin Button: Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance. Benjamin Button: You never know what's coming for you. Benjamin Button: Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss. Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. Benjamin Button: Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. Benjamin Button: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. Daisy: We all end up in diapers. Ngunda Oti: You'll see little man, plenty of times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret I find out. We know we alone. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... but they scared shitless. Mrs. Maple: [at piano] It's not about how well you play, it's how you feel about what you play. Benjamin Button: It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us. 相助 The Help (2011) Aibileen Clark: You is kind. You is smart...
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...The Curious Case of Benjamin Button “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is notable not just for having the least likely title of a major Hollywood hit since “Forest Gump.” It also features images you don’t see every day: Using sophisticated makeup, long segments of the tale show superstar Brad Pitt’s face, aged beyond his years. He looks so different that a confused Angelina would kick him out of their kids’ nursery. His wrinkled countenance is then seamlessly computer grafted onto a diminutive body. The flick follows “Benjamin Button,” born small, but appearing elderly and arthritic, who then spends the remaining screen time becoming physically younger. While this concept is fantasy, the situation of child who looks geriatric is very rare but very real. Progeria (also called Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome or HGPS) is an extremely rare condition. This is a genetic condition characterized by the dramatic, rapid appearance of aging beginning in childhood. Affected children typically look normal at birth and in early infancy, but then grow more slowly than other children and do not gain weight at the expected rate. They develop a characteristic facial appearance including prominent eyes, a thin nose with a beaked tip, thin lips, a small chin, and protruding ears. Like Pitt in the film, people affected with this rare condition experience hair loss (alopecia), aged-looking skin, joint abnormalities, and a loss of fat under the skin (subcutaneous fat). This condition...
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...MARGARET is 64 HATTIE is 49 VERN is 55 BENJAMIN enters and almost runs into LINDA a 19 years old who looks and acts very similar to DOROTHY from Act Two, Scene 3. BENJAMIN I didn't see you there, forgive me. LINDA No problem, it's my fault. I'm trying to get to the roof to see the fireworks before midnight. You should come up. BENJAMIN Wow, WOW! You are so familiar, this is all so familiar. You're not here with a friend are you? LINDA No, I'm here with my parents. They met here 20 years ago today. BENJAMIN You're kidding? LINDA It's true, New Years Eve 1899. The turn of the century. (VERN enters. He is...
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...“This is the age of the prosumer – where the consumer becomes the producer” Discuss In recent times, media and technology has developed into the online age. In this essay I will be discussing the ways in which the Internet has had an increased effect on everyday life. Nowadays, the development of the internet has now allowed the once consumers to become today’s producers as it is now easier for people to produce, distribute and communicate with others by sharing their hobbies and opinions. However, some people argue that web 2.0 has done the world a injustice as it just allows more people to make money and become just a producer rather than prosumer. Theorists such as Henry Jenkins and Christian Fuchs argue both sides. A prosumer is defined as a person who consumes and produces media. The word prosumer comes from Alvin Toffler, a futurist who predicted the digital revolution from analogue to digital media. Since analogue media has moved from the ‘boardroom to the bedroom’ meaning media can be made by all different people not just businesses. Theorists, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams discusses this in their book Wilkonomics where they coined the term presumption to refer to the creation of products and services by the same people who will ultimately use them. Before web 2.0 the media world was top down with a simple broadcasting pattern, high entry fees with a few firms competing. Charles Leadbeater takes a revolutionary view of the internet and web 2.0. He goes further...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American authoran , short story writer,publishing dozens of short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. The most famous of these are, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and at the top of critics' lists everywhere, the 1931 "Babylon Revisited." "Babylon Revisited" is the story of a Charlie Wales, a former drunken party-goer who returns to Paris, the site of his former 1920s debauchery, shortly after the stock market crash of 1929. Charlie sees his world with new (sober) eyes and is both shocked and appalled by the extravagance that characterized his former life. The story is rooted in the financial crisis of its times. Fitzgerald wrote the piece in December of 1930, when the good times of the Jazz Age (also called the "Roaring Twenties") had come to an end and America was headed into the Great Depression. Charlie's horror with his own former waste and self-destruction is Fitzgerald's condemnation of a society who drank away the '20s. "Babylon Revisited" is also a criticism of Fitzgerald's own participation in the party that lasted a decade. (Fitzgerald's fast-lane lifestyle epitomized his generation of Jazz Age party-goers.) He wrote in a letter to his editor that he "announced the birth of [his] young illusions in This Side of Paradise, but pretty much the death of them in […] stories like 'Babylon Revisited'" (source: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Scottie Fitzgerald...
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...empowered millions of people, especially women and African Americans, with her talent, passion, and courage. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Taraji faced many challenges and obstacles in her life, such as poverty, violence, stigma, and discrimination. She also experienced some tragedies and losses, such as the murder of her ex-boyfriend and the death of her father. However, she never gave up on her dreams and goals, and she worked hard and persevered to achieve them. Taraji...
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...Thomas Jefferson called "the world's best hope," shows no sign of reaching solutions commensurate with the problems of the day. It has not always been this way. On Friday, May 1, 1931, James Truslow Adams, a popular historian, was putting the final touches on the preface to his latest book. It was a curious time in the life of the nation. Though the Crash of 1929 had signaled the beginning of the Great Depression that was to endure for years to come, there was also a spirit of progress, of possibility. On the day Adams was finishing his manuscript, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington to turn on the lights of the newly opened Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, which, at 1,250 ft., was to be the tallest building in Manhattan until the construction of the World Trade Center four decades later. High hopes amid hard times: the moment matched Adams' thesis in his book, The Epic of America, a history of the nation that was to popularize a term not yet in the general vernacular in those last years of the reigns of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Adams' subject, he wrote, was "that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank which is the greatest contribution we have as yet made to the thought and welfare of the world." It was not a new thing, this abiding belief that tomorrow would be better than today. "That dream or hope," Adams...
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...________________________________________ The psychology in A Beautiful Mind (the movie) provides a valuable lesson for the practice of self awareness by ordinary people. Artistically differing from the actual events, it is a film, which convincingly uses the visual medium to portray stress and mental illness within one person's mind. The storyline supplants auditory symptoms with visual delusions to narrate the story of the paranoid schizophrenia developed by John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. It was an illness, which had been intensified by the anxiety felt by Nash, about the pain suffered by his wife and friends due to his mental condition. Even as he took medication to suppress the symptoms, Nash is shown returning to normal life by becoming self aware. The visually presented psychological symptoms in the movie effectively convey the barriers to distinguishing subconscious patterns within the mind. Click Here To Listen/Download This Page As An MP3 Podcast Psychology In A Beautiful Mind – Competition & Conflict The primary problem for Nash was his inability to distinguish between reality and his delusions. Even normal people fail to distinguish the concrete emotional changes in their viewpoints during the course of an average day. You may be fuming with resentment one moment and joyful, the next. These hidden shifts in moods and attitudes have a clear cause. They happen, because the control of your mind shifts between myriad competing and conflicting intelligences...
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...Thesis Degree programme International Business 2013 Benjamin Ach THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESSES – CASE STUDY ON AN INTERNET MARKETING COMPANY: LEAD CREATION BACHELOR´S THESIS | ABSTRACT TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Degree programme | International Business Completion of the thesis| 59 + 18 Instructor: Emmanuel Querrec Benjamin Ach THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESSES The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the evolution of the marketing strategies of businesses and more specifically of their communication strategies, with the important rise of social media influence, which is changing the way people get informed as well as their purchasing decision process. Indeed, this research is about underlining the fact that businesses, small or big sized, have to get online and to use social media and to adapt their business models if they want to stay on top of the competition on their markets. The research is supported by a case study of an Australian internet marketing company, in order to get valuable insights from internet marketing experts, which will strengthen the points explained by the different authors in the literature review. KEYWORDS: Marketing strategies, communication strategies, social media, community, online presence, brand image 2 TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES THESIS | Benjamin Ach TABLE OF CONTENT List of abbreviations or...
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...say My Life Then and Now As a college student now my life has changed dramatically since my high school days. For me high school was all about having fun and extracurricular activities. I took almost nothing seriously and looked at it as a game almost. It was all about popularity, prom, cheerleading, pep rallies, bonfires, and football games. My main worry was how many times could I come in late before my mom was called, or if my shorts were up to dress code standards. Although those days were unforgettable, I knew that they wouldn’t last forever. And now I’m facing the real world that I knew was fast approaching. My outlook on life and even I have changed so much. Back then I never thought about my future, or what decisions I would have to face, but now I’m always thinking about what’s to come. I take every decision I have to make seriously because I know that it may affect my life, either in a small or big way. To be honest I wasn’t even good at making decisions. I relied solely on my mom to make the big decisions. Now with college, my job, and even my personal life I have to decide and make choices on my own. Of course my parents are always there to back me, but as an adult now I’m own my own. My values and priorities are very different compared to back when I was a high school student. I will admit that I was more selfish and only worried about my social life. I spent much of my time going out with friends instead of spending time with my family. I took for granted...
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...She was 882.9 feet long, 92.6 feet wide, and weighted 46,329 tons. Titanic was the largest ship ever to be built by man in the world. Twenty- two tons of tallow, soap, and train oil were used to grease the slipway bed to coat and protect it against the enormous three-tons-per-square-inch pressure of the freshly painted hull. In January of 1912, sixteen lifeboats were installed, which later became a total of twenty lifeboats in all. There were three different types of lifeboats on the Titanic:14 wood lifeboats, 2 wood cutters, and 4 Englehardt collapsible boats. The capacity of the twenty lifeboats total was 1178, which would not save all the ship’s passengers if it were fully loaded (3547 passengers). In addition to the life boats the Titanic carried 3560 life jackets and 49 buoys. On the 3rd of February 1912, the gigantic ship dry-docked at the Belfast’s Thompson Graving Dock. In March the engineering crew began to assemble in Belfast and some lived abroad the ship. They tested the lifeboats by swinging them...
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...In his had he holds some kind of work document which appears that he just pulled it from his red leather wallet which contain more documents. When looking a the document closely, you can see the word “Ship” stamp on it. By showing this, he indicates how he obtained his wealth. The wallet looks expensive, made of rich red leather, and it’s placed on the table like it’s a very normal thing for him to do. He sits on what looks to be an Owen Jones’ side chair. With his arm across the chair and the bottom button undone on his coat, he gives very relaxed and self-assured look, a look of contentment and prominence. His coat is black made out of wool and it’s so skillfully painted is seems as though you can actually feel the wool with your fingertips. The coat is so delicately painted that you can even see the cuffs of the coat. The back of the color is somewhat warn out, indicating that he had worked hard to be in the position he was in. Under his coat, you can see that he is wearing a crisp white undershirt and through the top of the coat you can see a brocade made of satin. It s so delicately painted that you can even see the folding of the rubbles and the exquisite stitching. His shirt is beige and the caller sticks straight out as well. The hair...
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...students are the fastest growing demographic group in post-secondary education. Distant learning has enabled many students in the older population to enroll in school. Educators need to take into consideration the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of adult learners. Just as older adults deal with life experiences and come to the classroom with learned experiences, they also come with age related biological situations as well. According to Cercone (2008) the biology and learning styles are influenced by culture which influences who they are today. The article Examining learning and development concepts in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Koenig and Smith provides an excellent example about how biological experiences can...
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...Little Women Little Women was written in 1868-1869, the setting is New England in the 19th Century during and after the Civil War. The story begins at Christmas time. The girl’s father is away in the war. It is Christmas and there are memories of better times. But this Christmas their father is in the war and they have no means of support and very little money. There will be no presents and the beautiful breakfast they had put together is given away to a family who has no food. It is not a happy time for the sisters and their mother, who they call Marmee. The main characters are the March sisters. The oldest sister is Meg. She is kind, responsible and very moral. She watches out for her younger sisters and makes sure they do not act inappropriately. She is very aware of social expectations for them as young women of the time. Josephine March is the second oldest sister and is referred to as Jo. She is the protagonist of the novel and her character is probably based on the author, Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo has a temper and is outspoken. She is very intelligent and wants to be a writer. Beth is the third sister and is very shy and reserved. She has a very caring and tender personality and loves to play the piano. Amy is the youngest sister. She is very beautiful and artistic and dreams of marrying a wealthy man who will take care of her. Her character serves as a foil for Jo’s character. Amy wishes and dreams of marrying a wealthy man and being taken care...
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... and duties.() Statuses define us in so many ways, and sadly enough these statuses are so embedded in our society no one even realizes how significant they are. The statuses we have regardless of how we got them come with roles we have to play every single day, and although they may change due to the environment, or setting we are in, no matter where we are, we always are playing a role and we always have a status. The numerous statuses we hold are part of a status set, which is all the statuses one person occupies at a given time. Some of the different statuses one person can occupy is an ascribed status, achieved status, and a master status. An ascribed status is a social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life, based on at-tributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as race/ ethnicity, age, and gender.() An achieved status is a social position a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort.()Lastly a master status is the most important status a person occupies. Now the different types of statuses listed are status that you, yourself have, but you can also have status symbols which are material signs that inform others of a person’s specific status. Examples of this would be if you were wearing a Rolex, which would show others you of rich status, or on the other spectrum your ripped dirty clothes could be a status symbol that you are poor. Statuses are not only for people of people of rich...
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