...and a remake of the original movie all stemming from the 1960 version. The dark and realist nature of the film was previously unexplored by film makers and directors alike, which optimized the effectiveness of 'Psycho' as its thrilling and horrific connotations attracted audiences. The production of 'Psycho', and its success among certain audiences, acted as a catalyst for thriller films' induction into the mainstream film industry. Following its success, several thriller films were produced, with varying degrees of success, many of which boasted aspects which strongly emulated aspects of 'Psycho'. Jaws - 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg, 'Jaws' depicts the story of a coastal U.S community which is plagued by the terror of a great white shark. Growing increasingly, a policeman, a marine biologist and angered fishermen set out to stop it. The film incorporates a variety of camera shots and editing...
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...Executive Summary SEACHANGE TECHNOLOGY PLAN TO RELEASE AN ECO-FRIENDLY SHARK REPELLENT DEVICE WHICH WILL BE KNOWN AS THE SCUBA SHARK SHIELD, A PROMOTIONAL IMAGE CAN BE SEEN ON THE REPORT TITLE PAGE. Our goal is to achieve 100% customer satisfaction so our focus will be on product quality; the Shark Shield will never fail (excluding battery life). We will be the first company to enter this specific industry so to take advantage of our first mover advantage we will do substantial promotion to gain maximum market share before any competitors arise. Our demographic is mainly middle-aged with above average income and they spend on average $1300 per year in scuba diving and they prefer quality over value. After conducting a survey it was found that 50% of scuba divers would either definitely buy or possibly buy the Shark Shield. We will be advertising the quality of our product and our target market share is 30% of scuba divers after 5 years. The sale price of the Shark Shield is $750 including $600 in expenses and a $150 (25%) markup. Underwater camera, underwater propulsion devices and some drysuits cost $2000+ and having the target audience prefer quality over value we expect the audience won’t perceive the price as too high. The capital we require to start the project is $840,000 which covers all initial development expenses, ongoing expenses will be covered by sales. The loan will be paid off over a 5 year period. Our expected market share will grow most...
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...Marketing Plan For: Worcester Bruins ECHL Professional Hockey June 2014-July 2019 Submitted to: Michael Leamy, Professor May 20, 2014 Prepared by John Dunn Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Situational Analysis 3 2.1 Market summary 3 2.2 SWOT analysis 4 2.3 Competition 5 2.4 Services 5 2.5 Keys to success 6 3.0 Marketing Planning 6 3.1 Target market 6 3.2 Positioning 6 3.3Marketing mix 7 4.0 Implementation and Control of the Marketing Plan 8 5.0 Summary 10 6.0 Appendix: Financial Analysis 10 7.0 References 14 1.0 Executive Summary On November 2004, after 11 strong seasons of minor league hockey at the DCU center in Worcester, MA the city’s team, the Worcester Ice Cats announced that they would be moving to Peoria, Illinois. During this time, attendance averaged around 7,000 fans per game and provided an economical and fun night out for adults and kids alike. After a brief hiatus of two years, San Jose moved their affiliate to the city however the results were not like past years. As ticket prices rose and the product on the ice declined with several non-playoff seasons, attendance averages dropped to just over 4,000 (figure 1) and the cost of sending players across the country weighed heavily on the parent club. Although there have been bumps and struggles, Worcester remains a strong market for a professional hockey team, especially one with ties to a local NHL club such as the Boston Bruins. Boston’s current...
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...safe from Great White Sharks. The seals lounge about providing excellent photo opportunities for photographers and tourists alike. Parks and activities At the north end of Sea Ranch is the 195 acre Gualala Point Regional Park where the coastal forest meets the sea. Rent a kayak and paddle about for an afternoon of water borne fun. Take a walk on the beach where the Gualala River joins the Pacific Ocean. Six park entrances spread along Highway 1 are open to the public with beach access. Rarely will you encounter crowding on these remote beach areas, and wildlife is found often. Annapolis Winery is located high above Sea Ranch. Take the steep and winding Annapolis Road eight miles up into the forest and enjoy a lush pinot noir while the wind rustles the trees above. Good to know Some words of caution since the great outdoors is what attracts most visitors. During the summer season beware of ticks. If you stay on the maintained trails your chance of picking up these unwanted hitch-hikers is lessened. The weather on the coast is unpredictable with storms and fog appearing often throughout the year. For many, the foul weather adds to the attraction of the area. Dress in layers-rain resistant or rain-proof clothing is a good idea, and wear good hiking shoes. Pay attention to No Trespassing signs, especially if you are not staying as a guest of Sea Ranch. If you are a guest you will have a parking pass the allows access to most areas of Sea Ranch. SUMMARY Lodging choices...
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...socially acceptable outlet for hostile and aggressive feelings, and the role sport plays as a cultural element to bring meaning to life. Additional attention will be given to aspects of extra-sport character behavior and a determination of whether or not such behaviors support sport stereotypes and/or deviant characteristics. Through internet research, library study, and the use of periodical articles found in the ProQuest databases, I intend to apply the functionalist model of society to show that the fictional football team “The Miami Sharks” highlighted in the movie supports stability and equilibrium in the community of Miami based on common interests and convictions. The world of professional sports, especially professional football, is a world that most will only see on the television or through movies. “Any Given Sunday,” by Oliver Stone, is one such movie. It highlights a portion of a season for the fictional team The Miami Sharks with the interpersonal struggles on and off the field experienced by the characters related to the team. This paper explores the movie “Any Given Sunday” and attempts to discuss the movie in detail by focusing on the socially acceptable outlet for hostile and aggressive feelings, masculinity and gender roles, religion in sport, race in sports, character examples of the personal functions of sport such as feelings of belongingness and social identification, and the role sport plays as a cultural element to bring meaning to life. Additional...
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...EXPERIENCE HBR.ORG Case Study A theme park operator considers whether the boost in ticket sales is worth the trouble. by Marco Bertini, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman, and Michael I. Norton The Experts Gideon Lask is the founder of BuyaPowa, a UK-based social commerce business. Do Social Deal Sites Really Work? T he sales reps from DailyDilly had just finished their rollicking video presentation, and the laughter in the meeting room was starting to subside. Ruth Davison, the marketing director of Flanagan Theme Parks, was still smiling when she finally spoke. “I’m thoroughly impressed,” she said. “This would give us the marketing capabilities we’ve always wanted.” Will Eastman, Flanagan’s operations director, was beaming. He had suggested doing the promotion with DailyDilly, a fast-growing Australian social-couponing company similar to Groupon and LivingSocial. “Then I think we’re ready to make a decision,” he said. Everyone looked at Allie James, a consultant decades younger than Will and Ruth. Allie had been working with Flanagan for just over a month. She knew she had to kill the DailyDilly initiative but was reluctant to do it with the reps present. “Let’s discuss this off-line,” she said. Will slapped the table. “Come on,” he demanded. “We’re here now.” The DailyDilly reps became wide-eyed. Allie took a deep breath. If Will was going to push her, she’d be blunt. “No, then,” Allie said. “It’s not on.” Will pushed his chair back and walked out of the room...
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...Bronislaw Malinowski AKA Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Born: 7-Apr-1884 Birthplace: Krakow, Poland Died: 16-May-1942 Location of death: New Haven, CT Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Anthropologist Nationality: Poland Executive summary: Founder of social anthropology British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski is remembered as the father of the functionalist school of anthropology as well as for his role in developing the methods and the primacy of anthropological fieldwork. Malinowski first rose to prominent notice through his studies of Pacific Islanders, especially those conducted among the Trobriand Islanders whose marriage, trade, and religious customs he studied extensively. His best known works include his classic book Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) as well as Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926), The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929), and the posthumously published Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays (1948). Malinowski helped develop the field of anthropology from a primarily evolutionary focus into sociological and psychological fields of enquiry. Some of the more noteworthy byproducts of his fieldwork in this direction was various evidence that debunked the Freudian notion of a universal Oedipal Complex and also showed that so-called primitive peoples are capable of the same types and levels of cognitive reasoning as those from more "advanced"...
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...| 2011 | | Tian Gong Fujitsu | [BUSINESS PLAN FOR TIAN GONG Hotel] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Table of contents A. Executive Summary B. Statement of Purpose C. Name and legal structure D. Description of the business E. Description of the concept, licenses, and lease F. Market analysis and strategy G. Hotel Room Configuration, Food service menus, Beverage Menus, and Pricing H. Advertising and promotional campaign I. Conclusions and Summary Works Cited A. Executive Summary Tian Gong Inn. will centrally locate in the heart of the exclusive Gold Coast at the intersection of Goethe Street and North State Parkway. Within walking distance to the shopping and restaurants on the Magnificent Mile and Michigan Avenue, the nightlife on Rush Street, Lincoln Park and the beaches of Lake Michigan. Just a short distance to Millennium Park, museums and cultural centers, and the Loop business district. Tian Gong will provide 285 spacious and oversized guest rooms and suites are individually furnished with integrity, taste and superb functionality. It will attract more and more upper class customer as well as many of the foreigners, specially more and more Chinese business traveler, because this hotel will use traditional Chinese decorate...
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...Week 4 Print A | Given that people make the difference in how well organizations perform, assess how an understanding of organizational behavior concepts and theories is a useful knowledge base for career success and for improving an organization's effectiveness. | Key Concepts * Define organizational behavior and describe why is it important. * Analyze what organizations are like as work settings. B | Given the influence of factors such as values, attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and personality on individual behavior, demonstrate how knowledge of individual difference factors helps in understanding, predicting, and influencing individual behavior. Use a diagnostic instrument, such as the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) to assess your personal thinking and behavior styles and their role in accomplishing self-improvement goals. | Key Concepts * Describe the nature of managerial work. * List the individual differences and how they impact performance. * Define value differences among individuals. * Define emotions and attitudes. * Analyze job satisfaction and why it's important. * Describe personality types and how they differ. * Learn how to manage diversity and individual differences, and why this is important. The High Performance Organization Visionary Leadership | A Culture of Accountability | Affinity for Risk | Strategic Agility At the heart of the high performance organization (HPO) is people—in particular, leaders who model...
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...The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed – the absolute ruler of Dubai – beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the dust-storms blasting across the region. He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins. And there he stands on the tallest building in the world – a skinny spike, jabbing farther into the sky than any other human construction in history. But something has flickered in Sheikh Mohammed's smile. The ubiquitous cranes have paused on the skyline, as if stuck in time. There are countless buildings half-finished, seemingly abandoned. In the swankiest new constructions – like the vast Atlantis hotel, a giant pink castle built in 1,000 days for $1.5bn on its own artificial island – where rainwater is leaking from the ceilings and the tiles are falling off the roof. This Neverland was built on the Never-Never – and now the cracks are beginning to show. Suddenly it looks less like Manhattan in the sun than Iceland in the desert. Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades...
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...Wellgate Fisheries Private Limited 28 December, 2010 Saiful Islam Bablu | ID:082011106 | Contents | Page number | Executive Summary | 2 | The Company | 3 | Our Vision | 3 | Our Mission Business Concept | 3 | Type Of Ownership | 3 | Products OFFERING | 3 | Processing Of The Fishes | 5 | Customer Pain Points | 8 | Value Proposition | 9 | Organization Structure | 9 | Operational Plan | 10 | Plant Location, Building And Layout | 10 | Machines Use For Fish Processing | 11 | Marketing Plan | 13 | Market Analysis | 13 | Competitors | 15 | Marketing Strategy | 16 | Promotion | 16 | Distribution Channel | 17 | Pricing Strategy | 18 | Strategic Plan | 18 | Competitive Strategy | 18 | Key Success Factors | 18 | Future Products And Services | 19 | Risk Management | 19 | SWOT Analysis | 19 | Financial Plan | 20 | Breakeven Analysis | 20 | Appendix | 21 | I.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Processed fish have been considered a widespread industry since a very long time. Frozen foods are the second largest export sector of the economy. The massive natural resources available in Bangladesh make this sector particularly promising for us to make invest. Export oriented fish processing plants produce Fresh Water shell On (FWSO), Sea Water shell On (SWSO), shrimp products under the most hygienic and sanitary condition under the supervision, control and guidance of foreign trained handling & processing experts...
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...Lithology-based sequence-stratigraphic framework of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic succession, Lower Cretaceous, Atlantic coastal plain Brian P. Coffey and Richard F. Sunde AUTHORS Brian P. Coffey ∼ Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, present address: Apache Corporation, Houston, 2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Texas 77056; bpcoffey@ gmail.com Brian Coffey received his B.Sc. degree in geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995 and his Ph.D. in geology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1999. He has worked at ExxonMobil, Simon Fraser University, and Maersk Oil and has been a private consultant specializing in carbonate reservoir characterization. He currently works as a carbonate specialist at Apache Corporation in Houston. Richard F. Sunde ∼ EnCana, 500 Centre Street, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G1A6; richard.sunde@encana.com Richard Sunde earned a D.E.C. degree (Diplôme dietudes Collégiales) at Dawson College, Montreal, in 2000 and a B.Sc. degree in geology at McGill University, Montreal, in 2004. He then completed an M.Sc. degree at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, in 2008; his thesis research focused on the content presented in this article. Richard currently is employed as a Geoscientist at Encana Corporation in Calgary. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT This study presents a lithology-based sequence-stratigraphic framework and depositional model for Lower Cretaceous, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate...
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...Legal Aspects of BLACKBERRY Takeover by FAIRFAX Legal Aspects of BLACKBERRY Takeover by FAIRFAX by by Anubhav Gaur SMBA12045 Section B Anubhav Gaur SMBA12045 Section B TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknoledgement Summary blackberry ltd. Section 1.1 : History Section 1.2 : Strategic Changes Section 1.3 : Success in Market place Section 1.4 : Changes in Financial Fortunes Section 1.5 : Financial Fortunes FAIRFAX LTD. Section 2.1 : Corporate Governance Section 2.2 : History Section 2.3 : Credit Ratings MERGERS & ACQUISATIONS Section 3.1 : Legal Structures Section 3.2 : Documentation Section 3.3 : Business Valuation TAKEOVERS Section 4.1 : Types Of Takeover Section 4.2 : Financing a Takeover Section 4.3 : Mechanics Section 4.4 : Strategies Section 4.5 : Agency Problems Section 4.6 : Pros & Cons Laws & Codes used during takeover Section 5.1 : City Code on Takeovers & Mergers Section 5.2 : Competetion Law Section 5.3 : Takeover Directives Section 5.4 : Companies ACT 1985 BLACKBERRY TAKEOVER REGULATORY APPROVAL COMPETETION COMMISION FOR TAKE OVER FCPA Section 8.1 : Provision & Scope Section 8.2 : History Section 8.3 : Requirements Section 8.4 : Application UK BRIBERY ACT TAKEOVER MECHANICS OF BLACKBERRY TAKEOVER CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCES ACKNOLEGDEMENT I take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to my guide Prof. Deepak Dayal for his exemplary guidance,...
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...Executive Summary Payday loans are short-terms, high-interest loans where people go to a physical loan store or via online store that are not banks. They are designed for people who need a quick injection of money before their next paycheck and its purpose is fast, easy money to take care of unexpected bills or emergencies (Watson, Stephanie., 2014). They started around 1959 when the senate passed a bill allowing people to received small amount of money for short-term loans for emergency, such as bankruptcies, bad credit, etc… The bill was to help people who couldn`t receive a regular loan at a normal interest rate. Since then, Payday loans have become very popular and in 1996, Payday lending saw a huge boom when the senate legalized them. In the mid-2000, online lending became available and is now a huge piece of the market (PaydayLoanPay.com., 2011-2014). Recently many controversy have been discussed with the Payday lending industry because of many operating dishonestly and illegally. This huge issue has caused the department of justice to investigate and place restrictions causing many legal and honest operating Payday lending to close shops and employees losing their jobs (Okun, Sarah.). In the meantime, the honest and top Payday lenders have form the Online Lending Alliance (OLA) to defend them and make sure Payday Loans don`t get de-legalized because of cracks in the lending system (Jones, Liz., 2014, March 26). Payday loans serves a great purpose...
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...2. Introduction 1. Background of the Company [pic] Microsoft is one of the biggest software and IT companies in the world. The industry touches every region of Technology. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. They cover Operation System (Vista and Windows 7), Server and Tools Division (Windows server 2008, VB and SQL), Online Services Business division (MSN and the search engine Bing), Microsoft Business Division (Microsoft Office), and Entertainment Devices Division (smart phones, XBOX and MSN TV). Microsoft mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. It develops software, hardware, service and solution to achieve this goal since it established at 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft’s operating system with IBM computers, paying Microsoft a royalty for every sale. With a real big range of service IT service, we can say the client of Microsoft is unlimited, from OEM, business, and individuals. And the competition is all over from every division, such as Apple in PC Market and Google in Online Service Market. [pic] Yahoo! Was started at Stanford University in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Both of them were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named “Jerry and...
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