...FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE AND POLICY STUDIES ADM501- ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AM228/AM225 SEMESTER MARCH 2014-JUNE 2014 MOVIE REVIEW GUIDELINES: 1. Students are required to do a movie review based on the topics covered in the scheme of work. 2. Students need to form their own group maximum of 3 people per group- It’s a group work assessment. 3. The movie review requires to be formatted as follows: a. Must be according to the questions provided in this guidelines. b. Assignment must be presented in a typed format. b. The content of the review must be typed using Times New Roman font, font size 12. c. Each question or heading must be clearly indicated in bold Times New Roman font, font size 12. d. Spacing between lines should be double spacing. e. All sources of references (3 minimum) must be acknowledged using APA style. f. Insert the paging number at the bottom right of each page as well. g. Citation is compulsory in the assignment i.e. (Shane and Bohlander, 2013) etc. h. The review should not exceed15 pages. 4. Based on the movie that you have watched answer the following questions: a) Write a short synopsis of the movie (shall not exceed 150 words). (5 marks) b) Identify any 4 (FOUR) issues/problems revealed in the movie. (20 marks) c) Explain how the issues/problems identified relate to the study of organizational behavior. (30 marks) d)...
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...paper Introduction Captain Phillips movie, examines the 2009 hijacking of a U.S container ship, by the name Maerks Alabama. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Richard Phillip (IMDb). It is a hard pounding thriller that exhibits the creativity of its director Paul Green Grass. According to Ryan McNeil (2013) the movie reflects on the primary effects of globalization, by showing the relationship between the ship's commanding officer and the Somali captain who forcefully held him (McNeil). Richard Phillips meets with Muse; the Somali captain, when Phillips ship goes on a wrong course (IMDb). Both captains find themselves at the mercy of forces, which are beyond their control. The movie is recommended for audience above the age of thirteen years. It contains an intense sequence of menace, and violence associated with bloody images (IMDb). The script The script of the movie was primarily based on a book called A Captains Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals and Dangerous Days at Sea, which was written by Richard Phillips (IMDb). The script narrates a very compelling story, which keeps the audience on the seat's edge. It moves the audience in the world of the ship’s crew, leaving the audience with a close experience of the dangers associated with cargo ships (McNeil). Acting Tom Hanks is considered as the highest box office star currently (Whitfield). According to IMDb, he was “outstanding as always” in this movie. However critics have argued that in this movie Barkhad Abdi steals the show (Torres)...
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..."Movies were intended to talk from their inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium's natural tendency toward a total representation of reality." This quote by David Cook deals with what is referred to as the “silent era” in film history. This era was between 1894 to the early 1920s and dealt with films with no synchronized sound. These films that were produced in this era were known as silent films and include motion pictures with subtitles instead of sound. Some of the motion pictures known as silent films include: The Gold Rush, Girl Shy, For Heaven’s sake, The Dark Angel, and Dangerous Money. The film reviews of these motion picture films will be looked into for a better understanding of how the audience felt about these films. These American films were born in the age of reform and addressed themes that focused on major social and moral issues that the audience could relate to. A common theme that was prevalent in the aforementioned movies is the openness of romance in the American society. Romance films mainly involve a connection or bond shared between the two protagonists. There were many ways the theme love was displayed in these silent films. Some examples of the themes displayed in these romance films include: young love, love at first sight, unrequited love, spiritual love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, tragic love, and forbidden love. The film, The Dark Angel, could be looked...
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...Corner Roger Ebert a prolific movie critic, had this to say about “Citizen Kane,” “Citizen Kane” is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound, just as “Birth of a Nation” assembled everything learned at the summit of the silent era, and “2001” pointed the way beyond narrative (Ebert, 1998).” I most certainly agree with Mr. Ebert on this movie does begin to break into the categories not yet truly explored in movies sound and special effects. However being a child and growing up in the age of “Star Wars” and most recently “Avatar” I found myself losing interest quickly. “For the first time in the American cinema, the very process of telling a story on film became every bit as tricky and exhilarating as the story itself”, said columnist Owen Gleiberman. (Gleiberman, 1991) Certainly agree with the columnist here the story itself although to me took a moment to unfold at the end became a lot more plain for the viewers. Citizen Kane proved to be a slightly difficult movie to watch not because the acting was horrible or the movie production was awful but more because it was not what I was accustomed to. The movie started a little slow with the introduction of the main character in what almost seemed like a very early slide show. The takeaway from the movie as opposed to what Mr. Ebert stated in his review I believe is to see how far we have come as a movie going and producing society. The movie was a masterpiece of its time however...
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...Danyale Pinckard American Intercontinental University Marketing Plans MKTG305-1103A-04: Marketing Management Unit 1 Individual project July 22, 2011 Abstract This paper will discuss the definition of marketing plans. It will provide an example of both a success and a failure of a product due to its marketing plan. Lastly this paper will provide an example of a poor marketing plan that made a film fail at the box offices. Marketing Plans Introduction For any business, product, or service to succeed, they must understand how to market themselves. If done properly, the product, service or individual will succeed but if done poorly then the product, service or individual will fail. One of the first steps a company must take is to make a plan; a marketing plan. Definition of Marketing Plan According to Kotler and Keller (2009) marketing plan is “written documentation that summarizes what the marketer has learned about the marketplace, indicates how the firm plans to reach its marketing objectives, and helps direct and coordinate the marketing effort.” Basically the book is defining marketing plans as something in writing that helps solve customers’ problems profitably and includes activities that create customer satisfaction (AIU live chat, 2011). Marketing Plans: an Example of Success One example of a successful marketing plan was used by Hankook Tire America Corp. This marketing plan will help build brand recognition and accelerate its growing market share...
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...99405 Principles of Management MingChuan University Fall 2011 Dr. Frank C. Huang International College Email：fhuanginusa@hotmail.com Office Hours：By appointment 【Course Description】 This course is designed to familiarize the student with the basic concepts of management in diverse business environments; emphasis is placed on the functional approach including planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, directing, leading, and controlling. Additional selected topics of interest to managers such as ethical issues and decisions will also be discussed. 【Prerequisites】None 【Learning Objectives】 ➢ To Review existing literature and theory in the management field and help participants to understand the theoretical foundation of management as applied to a variety of settings within organizations and with relation to the environment of the 21st century. ➢ To help participants to recognize and analyze management issues and get an overview of relevant management activities. ➢ To provide an understanding of both the social and economic consequences of managerial styles. ➢ To enable students to understand and analyze management decisions by using case studies and experiential exercises. 【Course Proceedings】 ➢ Lecture ➢ In-class discussion ➢ Quizzes ➢ Project presentation 【Grading Scheme】 |Attendance, attitude, class activities, & participation |25% | |Written assignments (homework, cases...
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...Cinemark Presents: The Avenger’s Movie Premiere A night at Cowboy's Stadium Benefiting: Children's Medical Center of Dallas Table of Contents Executive Summary.......................................................................3 Background Dallas Chamber of Commerce………………..……………….4 Cinemark…………………………………………………………4 Children’s Medical Center of Dallas.......................................5 Event Details VIP.........................................................................................6 General Admission................................................................7 Timeline………………………………………………………………...8 Budget..........................................................................................9 Appendix A Case Studies…………………………………………...10 Appendix B Letters of Recommendation..………………..……….11 Appendix C Assumptions....………………………………………...14 Appendix D Citations..…………..………...………….……………..15 Appendix E Stadium Map………………………………………...…16 Appendix F Parking Map…………………………………………....17 Executive Summary Want to see the biggest movie of summer 2012 on the biggest high definition screen in the world? Cinemark Theaters presents a movie premiere featuring Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers”, the most anticipated movie of 2012 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Along with a VIP party before the screening of the movie, this event will be to benefit medical research for Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. The...
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...Frank and his business associate Kostya Novotny (Tony Siragusa) both seem to hint at Naturelle being the informant that led to Monty’s arrest and conviction. Review I went to see this film on a Friday evening in Olathe. The audience was well mixed in almost every way imaginable. The two constants were age - approximately %90 of the audience appeared to be between 21 and 30 - and the culturally “in touch.” By that I mean most of the people appeared to be skaters, ravers, hip-hoppers, and pretty much anyone who would not shop at Abercrombie, The Gap, or Hollister. This confirmed my suspicion that Ed Norton, mainly because of his role in Fight Club, has become not only a mainstream pop icon, but an icon to abstract artists, such as myself (I consider myself as an abstract artist because of my lifestyle as a rollerblader as I do not consider rollerblading a sport as much as it is a lifestyle or art form). Spike Lee being the director had a bit to do with this “cool” crowd as well. Spike Lee has always been behind cool, if not culturally controversial films. One theme that came through loud and clear is the New Yorker attitude and way of life. On one hand, everyone in New York is proud of his or her tough, blue-collar image. There is a lot of imagery and dialogue that recalls September 11 throughout the movie. Franks apartment overlooks ground zero. In one scene Frank...
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...RUNNING HEAD: AVATAR AVATAR Film Review Directed by James Cameron Eric Anderly ARTS/100 Deborah Laws Review “Avatar is set in the Year 2154 on the distant planet Pandora.” (French, 2009) The planet has been inhabited by Humans and was targeted because it vast supply of unobtainium, which is an energy source that the Human desperately are in need of in order to sustain life on Earth. (French, 2009) The human have hired a mining crew that is responsible for the extraction of the inobtainium. An army of hired soldiers to ensure the safety and forcibility of the mission has also accompanied the mining crew. (French, 2009) Although the planet has gravity is does not have oxygen, so the Human must wear mask to supply them with air to breath. One of the obstacles that the miners and army must face is the Native tribe of the Na’vi who has inhabited the planet and is determined to protect it from the Humans. The Na’vi is a primitive tribe and do not rely on technology as the Humans do, but yet, the instincts and training they have used for a lifetime to fight. The Na’vi have a sacred place of worship within their jungle know as the “Tree of Souls”. This also to be the area that contains the largest amount of the unobtainium material and the Mining company is determined at an cost to get it, even if it means killing the Na’vi or destroying the forest. A recruit by the name of Jake Sully has been selected to work in the Avatar program as has signed on to regain...
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...Twilight (series) |Twilight | |[pic] | |Complete set of the four books | |of the Twilight series and the spin-off novella, The Short Second Life of Bree| |Tanner. | |Twilight | |New Moon | |Eclipse | |Breaking Dawn | |Author |Stephenie Meyer | |Country |United States | |Language |English | |Genre |Romance, fantasy, young-adult fiction | |Publisher |Little, Brown and Company | |Published |2005–2008 | |Media type |Print | Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl...
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...of beta in February 2005. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an effort to better compete in the market. Windows Live Search The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta. In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms.[12] Live Search On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter.[13] A...
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...Romeo and Juliet: The Movie I believe that this play/movie is based off of a conflict theory. The reason I say this is because both families here are trying to gain power and also trying to be the dominant family. As I go into detail on this movie it will explain the conflict theory. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is fully summarized in Shakespeare's prologue: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood make civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers who take their life" (Universal, 1996). This movie is a masterful culmination of the director's phenomenal ability to create a powerful introduction, to select a realistic, but surreal setting, to choose realistic actors, and to enact specialized dramatic effects. Sitting in the theater, watching this movie for the first time, I heard static break in to interrupt the beginning credits. A newscaster, sounding serious, came on the screen in a special report. I sat up to pay attention. She was reporting a tragedy that had recently happened in some place called Verona. I was pulled in thinking it to be a true special report. Ah-hah!! It was a trick. A trick to get people to do just what I did. Trained are we to listen to newscasts, our life-line in present day society, where we receive a lot of our information. A trick, and...
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...Studio Ghibli Distributed by Toho Release dates 17 April 1988 Running time 89 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese REVIEW The movie told about world war II. During world war II, Japan and America were enemies. The people were poor and hungry. During events like planes were bombing, the Japanese go to safe houses called shelter that secure them. After bombing there was “black rain”. In the movie the characters Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, must go to the shelter before the planes with bombs will arrived. This gave me knowledge about the happenings during world war II. I only thought before that only our country, Philippines was affected. After the bombing, His mom died because of too much injuries and burns. I felt sad because the main character Seita, saw his mother wearing bandage all over her body and saw her death. Because he wanted to not hurt his sister’s feelings, he kept his mother’s death as a secret. He was such a caring brother. If I was on his feet, I will do the same. Setsuko was such an innocent child. On the other hand his father was a soldier and can’t take care of them. That’s why they went to their aunt. At first, the aunt was caring just like a mother. I thought they were now in a good hand. But she became unfair. To be able to eat, they dig the food they stored under the ground because their house was burned. Actually in the movie, no more infrastructures were shown. After that Seita traded his mother’s kimono for 15 kilograms of rice. But again,...
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...ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITYMBA-DAY PROGRAM Organizational BehaviorPersonal Reflection About Job SatisfactionSubmitted by ; Mr. Lynn Pyi(Austria) Submitted to ; Dr. Ioan Voicu | Student ID ; 5819019 | | Date; 21, September, 2015 | Personal Reflection of Job Satisfaction Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive feeling about a job and it is one of most important job attitudes. Some believe it is simply how content an individual is with his or her job, in other words, whether or not they like the job or individual aspects of facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Others believe it is not so simplistic as this definition suggests and instead that multidimensional psychological responses to one's job are involved. Job satisfaction of employees improves the organization or company’s advantages. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds positive feelings about his or her job, whereas a person with a low level holds negative feelings. Job satisfaction scales vary in the extent to which they assess the affective feelings about the job or the cognitive assessment of the job. Affective job satisfaction is a subjective construct representing an emotional feeling individuals have about their job. Job satisfaction can also be seen within the broader context of the range of issues which affect an individual's experience of work, or their quality of working life. Job satisfaction can be understood...
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...Ethical movie review Title: Blood Diamond Year: 2006 Studio: Virtual Studios Producer: Warner Bros. Director: Edward Zwick Country: United States of America 0.1 Introduction The following essay will examine ethical issues addressed through the movie “Blood Diamond”. The two main issues identified and discussed are; child soldiers and conflict diamonds. My main lens of ethical theories will consist of the four western theories, this includes, egoism, utilitarianism, ethics of duties and ethics of rights. Even though these theories are based on ethical absolutism, I will still try to apply a pluralistic view. Additionally, some of these theories will be expanded and other theories that do not tend so much towards ethical absolutism will be added. The following section will concentrate more on how these issues occurred and try to give some potential answer to the problems. In order to do so descriptive ethical theories will be tools in the examination. Finally the conclusion will be presented by a combination of a film review and a short summary of the findings in the text. 1.1 Children with guns The first of the two ethical issues that will be examined is the use of kids as soldiers. In order to do so I believe I have to take a subjective role on the subject, looking from a rebel soldier. The reasons for this is because I believe objective or western views on this topic will in the end state that this is neither moral or ethical. In order to get a more interesting...
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