...Film Critique / The Sixth Sense For my final project, I decided to critique and analyze various features of the movie, The Sixth Sense. I will use a structural approach to examine the film’s edifice and explain how the productions of scenes and shots tell the overall story (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). I will demonstrate how the genre and the rating of the movie do not appropriately fit its criteria, and how the motion picture evaluation system failed by revealing horrific scenes to teens by assigning the PG-13 rating. In addition to that, I will illuminate inconsistent and unexplained actions with continuity glitches throughout the movie. Regardless of its mistakes, the film became a great success, because the plot of the movie allowed the audience to explore a different side of life after death and the grief that comes with it. Ultimately, the movie The Sixth Sense can be perceived as a therapy, because it gives us tools on how to deal with fear and helps us learn about the ways on how to come with terms of loss. It also explains the importance of communication between a doctor and the patient, a husband and a wife, a mother and a son, and of course, between our society and ourselves. Two unalike families contribute to the story’s plot. Two separate lives of Cole (played by Haley Joel Osment) and his mother Lynn (played by Toni Collette), and a psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) with his wife Anna (played by Olivia Williams). The story begins with an ordinary psychologist...
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...market share of Whirlpool's washing machine can be calculated either by value of sales of customer possession. Graph 1(Westgarth, 2014) showed the market shares of several brands in the UK market by value. It is clear that Whirlpool only counted 3%, which is the lowest, only one tenth of the market leader Hotpoint. Graph 2(Westgarth, 2014) illustrate another picture of the market share: 7% of people remember they are using a washing machine branded Whirlpool, which means compare to the actual sales, Whirlpool has a good brand recognition. Graph 1: Manufacturer market share in the UK by value Graph 2: Ownership of washing machine brand in the UK The report will focus on one of the washer series in Whirlpool, the Sixth Sense series...
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...Issue: 4 ISSN 2321 – 8169 277 – 282 ______________________________________________________________________________ SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY Abhinav Sharma, Mukesh Agarwal, Anima Sharma, Sachin Gupta B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, (abhi4u247@gmail.com) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, (mukeshsir@gmail.com) 3. Sr. Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, (animasharma2004@yahoo.co.in) 4. Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, (sachingupta.cse@jecrc.ac.in) 2. 1. Abstract: ‘Sixth Sense’ is a wearable gesture interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Steve Mann is considered as the father of Sixth Sense Technology who made wearable computer in 1990. He implemented the Sixth Sense Technology as the neck worn projector with a camera system. Then his work was carried forward by Pranav Mistry (Ph.D student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab) [1]. Sixth Sense Technology may change how we look at the world forever. Sure, it is a system that projects information about what surrounds you over objects' surfaces, but it's also much more. By using a camera and a tiny projector, Sixth Sense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with [1]. The camera and the projector...
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...reading and studying focusing on print and online materials ISBN 1-256-09222-3 Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success, Sixth Edition, by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. c h a p t e r 7 hanh never had trouble keeping up with her high school reading assignments, but after four weeks of college she is already snowed under. With midterms coming in two weeks, she stays awake at night thinking about how much she has to learn. It seems as if all the reading she has done this term—particularly what she has read on the computer—has gone in one side of her brain and out the other, so she feels she has to start at the beginning. She has the sense that the way she is reading may be a problem, but it worked for her in the past, so why change now? In this chapter . . . you explore answers to the following questions: HOW can SQ3R help you own what you read? p. 190 WHAT improves reading comprehension? p. 200 HOW do you customize a text with highlighting and notes? p. 205 HOW can you read online materials effectively? p. 208 ISBN 1-256-09222-3 © Shutterstock Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success, Sixth Edition, by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. Habit for Success ask questions Questions are the backbone of learning. They help...
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...Each one of us however experiences crisis in our own unique way. He lost his son, his parents, and a brother all in one year. He fell into a deep depression and alone all he did was read books. A thought from one of the books impacted his soul. It was on will. He made a decision to change his will of hopelessness into a will of power to decide to act on free will to think outside the box, and listen to his sixth sense of possibility beyond the current desperate situation and try new things to overcome. From this insight he wrote another book called The Varieties of Religious Experiences. In this book James defines religious experience as: “the feeling, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they stand in relation to the Divine” (Jones, 2003). In a review from the Journal of Moral Education - Religious Experience according to William James and Howard Thurman (Jones, 2003), Jones writes: Thurman defines religious experience as: “the consciousness and direct exposure of the individual to God”. James refers to God as the Divine, while Thurman refers to the Divine as God. James appears to follow in his father’s belief that one does not need to follow a denomination to have a relationship with God. His father was a theologian. Thurman was a theologian and an ordained minister of a Baptist...
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...The adversarial system promotes a sense of competition, which is motivating for many Americans in our individualistic society. The civil system presents an air of teamwork, which may also work for some Americans. I believe that for the purposes of being motivated to work the case, the adversarial system will be more effective for many Americans. In the civil system, both sides of the issue have access to all information. In the adversarial system, both sides are entitled to the evidence through the discovery process, but may not be entitled to the opposing counsel’s work product (except in some circumstances too broad for the scope of this discourse). For this issue, I believe the civil system will be more effective in gathering information to expedite the judicial process, as both sides are not doing essentially the same work. In the adversarial system, all opposing counsel will conduct their own investigations, interviews, read their own documents, etc. Two (or more) parties are essentially doing the same work, thus being less effective. The adversarial system helps protect citizens’ Constitutional rights, specifically the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment provides that criminal defendants are not required to testify against themselves. Presumably in a civil system, the defendant would not have this luxury, as both sides are seeking the truth, which may or may not result in zealous advocacy. The Sixth Amendment provides for assistance of...
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...------------------------------------------------- Greiner’s Sixth Phase ------------------------------------------------- Greiner’s Sixth Phase Organizational Design & Change Management Organizational Design & Change Management Table of Contents Greiner’s Terminal Stage 2 Internal & External Forces Driving the Need for Organizational Change 3 External Forces 3 Globalization 3 Technological Change 3 Internal Forces 4 Sixth Phase: Efficiency Phase 4 Implications on Organizational Structure & Design 5 Works Cited 13 Greiner’s Terminal Stage In Greiner’s terminal stage there is a strong organizational emphasis on collaboration and spontaneity in management action through teams and the skillful confrontation of interpersonal differences (Greiner, 1988). Often there is a growing opposition to coordination that may need to be addressed by attention to human connection and more collaborative and supportive approaches. Bureaucracy is simplified and trust is rebuilt with a greater focus on common organizational goals. Also, structures have been implemented to connect people in multiple dimensions, such as the use of a matrix structure. Reward systems are also realigned to promote team and organizational success rather than just individual performance. Greiner’s fifth phase ends with a crisis for internal growth. How can an organization grow further without overloading current systems and processes? Through this crisis, it is evident that...
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...completely different model to decision making. Let us discuss the recognition primed decision making model as designed in 1985 by Gary Klein, which is further researched and outlined as an Intuitive Decision Making Model. This model utilizes the intuition one has, built by various outside factors, including experience, situation, and quite honestly: gut instinct. “In a given situation, the decision maker will pick up cues and indicators that let them recognize patterns. Based on these patterns and the decision they have to make, the person chooses a single course of action, an ' action script', that they consider will achieve the outcome” (McDermott). This action script, as described is based on how one replays the situation in their mind. A review of variables draws to the decision. This decision is viewed as intuition. Intuition draws on our inborn ability to process information quickly and effectively— something that can often be affected or hindered by outside influences. There is research to suggest that intuition plays a great role in the ability to successfully complete tasks that may be...
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...Annotated Bibliography By, R.T. (2005, Dec). Organizational Change Management: A Critical Review. Journal of Change Management. Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 369-380, December 2005. Retrieved from http://www.academia.edu/187718/Organisational_Change_Management_A_Critical_review The author contend while successful management of change is crucial to organizations there are often conflicting theories and approaches to change management. As a result, management may be confused as to the most appropriate route to take. The purpose of the article is to offer a critical review of some of the main theories and approaches to organizational change management as a way to begin managing change. Due to the complexity of the military setting, change is often looked upon as an unwanted kink in what is considered traditional processes and procedures. Military leadership responsible for successfully leading service members returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) presenting with a myriad of mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) must forgo the traditional negative stigmas associated with mental health and substance abuse services and offer a non-retributive path which leads subordinates to openly receive desperately needed services. Cameron, K. (2004). A Process for Changing Organizational Culture. The Handbook of Organizational Development. Retrieved from http://competingvalues...
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...------------------------------------------------- How does the role of a priest within medieval Christianity compare to the role of an imam in medieval Islam? In order to fully compare the roles of a medieval priest and a medieval imam, it is necessary to fully analyse their purpose as a leader within their religion, their influence upon the people of that religion in terms of their relationship with God and also to acknowledge their irreligious purpose in medieval life. Between the two, it is perhaps easy to argue that the role of a medieval priest is far greater than that of a medieval imam, but before this conclusion is jumped to, it is important to ensure both roles are looked at anachronistically due to the ever-changing nature of religion. In order to answer this question it is important to view the roles of a priest and an imam, not individually but in regard to the other to find a true comparison. In terms of looking at a medieval priest, perhaps one of the most important things for contemporaries is that essentially, the priest was representative of god, hence in a time of deep-seated spiritualism, his role was vital to any community, and placed him and his clergy amongst the first estate, the most important in society. This idea of a representation of God comes form his specific acts that he could partake in, particularly the role to ‘absolve men and women of their sins for the act of confession’. Obviously this was incredibly important, and if we consider this...
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...Literature Review on Autism Literature Review on Autistic Spectrum Disorder Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become a widespread and familiar disorder in the 21st century. ASD is defined as an impairment of cognitional and emotional functioning. People with ASD will have difficulty interacting socially with their peers, and many struggle with developmental delays such as speech. Autistic children will often be less responsive to their caregivers than children without the disorder. In the research article by Tong &Brereton two important areas of difficulty for children with ASD is the ability to speak clearly, and the lack of skills needed to play and have an imagination (2010). Children with autism are very matter of fact, and rarely understand any metaphors. They may also be ritualistic and have compulsive behaviors. The cause and effect of ASD is still unknown, many researchers believe there are biological and genetic factors that play a role (Tong, Brereton, 2010). Since ASD as a behavioral disorder, can autism be cured? Will children who are diagnosed with the disorder live with the same delays and rituals as they did as a child? After reviewing many journals, I have failed to find any evidence of cures; I have however come across different therapy’s in there preliminary phases. Music and dog therapy are being used across the country. Gold, Wingram and Elefant explain in their article that music helps people who are non-verbal interact without the use of words...
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...June 27, 2013 Environmental Scan Southwest is committed to continuing to lead the in emissions reductions through fuel efficient operations are the hallmark of their Company and the foundation of their environment commitment. “The planet sustains us all, so we feel it’s our responsibility to protect it. This focus on efficiency not only makes good business sense, it is the right thing to do.” (Environmental Initiatives, 2012). Reducing the Environmental Impact Southwest is committed to continuing to lead the industry in emissions reductions through fuel efficiency. “We have maintained our position as an industry leader in fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions through comprehensive programs of reinvestment in equipment and technological innovation and partnerships with industry and government” (Environmental Initiatives, 2012) Flight Efficiencies Southwest is moving forward with millions of dollars in initiate to retrofit their newer aircrafts fleet with advanced avionics to support Required Navigational Performance (RNP), the cornerstone of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Traffic Control System. RNP procedures are designed to conserve fuel, improve safety, and reduce carbon emissions, while simultaneously taking advantage of the high-performance characteristics that exist in an airline’s fleet (Environmental Initiatives, 2012). This dollar investment to retrofit our aircraft which airline train their Pilots in the most significant...
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...Kotter, J. (1995). Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail. Harvard Business Review, 59-67. Retrieved from http://www.csc.mnscu.edu/docs/LeadingChange.pdf Starr, K. (2012, September 18). The Eight-Word Mission Statement. Retrieved from http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_eight_word_mission_statement Meehan, C. (2015). Flat Vs. Hierarchical Organizational Structure. Chron. Retrieved February 6, 2015, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/flat-vs-hierarchical-organizational-structure-724.html Tharp, B. (n.d.). Four Organizational Culture Types. Retrieved January 28, 2015, from http://www.canfieldco.com/uploads/Four_Organizational_Culture_Types.pdf 4) Design an organizational culture that complements the organizational structure and organizational goals (market, hierarchical, clan, adhocracy)5) Assess the environment for change in your plan. Is there a mechanism built in to the organizational structure and culture to facilitate change? | There are eight steps that Kotter suggests for transforming an organization (Kotter, 1995). First, Mr. Dunn should create a sense of urgency within the organization and attempt to identify opportunities for the merged business. Next, Mr. Dunn should put together a group of leaders to encourage the organization to work as a team and lead the organization through the changes. Third, Mr. Dunn with the assistance of Mr. Atkins should establish the vision the newly formed business. Strategies should also be developed...
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...with identifying microchip implants underneath their skin. Brain implants have also benefitted the medical field enormously, having in some cases cured blindness (Graham-Rowe 2007) and Parkinson’s disease (Harding 2009). However, developments indicate that brain implants for personal consumer use may see the light of day. IBM, the world’s largest chipmaker, recently announced their intent to research and develop brain implants capable of controlling gadgets via brain waves by 2020 (Hsu 2009). Toyota has already successfully demoed a wheelchair that can be controlled by its rider through brain waves (Hsu). In perhaps the most jaw-dropping development, Patti Maes, a professor at MIT, is currently developing a brain implant device named Sixth Sense that would allow its wearer to access the Internet, use programs and software (such as Word or Instant Messaging) through a mental interface, and integrate it with his or her interactions (Mistry 2009). What would this technology be capable of?...
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...effects of Nazism on people. At a very young age, Simic’s father had been captured by the Nazi officials but he managed to escape in the year 1944. Many of his poems such Death List are strongly influenced by the time he spent under the Nazi regime and on the horrors of the holocaust survivors. One of the first poem that Simic published was “What the Grass Says”, this was when he was in high school in USA. Later in 1990 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of prose poetry. If you read any one of the Simic’s poems you won’t be able to understand the clear meaning that he is trying to convey but as you read three or four of them, you will start to realize there is a strange sense of juxtapositions of objects in his works. The poems written by Charles Simic always have the sense of conflict within the poem itself. Simic is not afraid of exploring violence in his poems and this can be justified by his early days. His imagination has the scenes of what he witnessed during the Nazi regime and he seems to be scared of it. However Simic himself justifies his use of violence in the poems, he once said in the interviews, ““Violence is a kind of pathetic, perverted attempt to feel. The poems try to understand its origins, to see its consequences, to exorcise its demons”. (The Michigan Press, 1985) He adds to this, “My subject is really poetry in times of madness. There are people out there who have the means to murder me and everyone I love without giving us advance notice...
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