...Vh1 is a channel that belongs to the chain MTV Networks and from time ago it has been developing a reality show called “Surreal Life”. In this show, diverse prominent figures from the media are joined in order to live in the same house for 12 days. The producers have interest to enter to the Latin-American market and even more on the Ecuadorian market, since they suppose that the multiple fights among the players will attract the public television viewer. Nevertheless there is the possibility of doing a “Surreal Life” which according to the analysts throws a Present Value of US$ 300 billions (of dollars). It is necessary to notice the sources of revenues in this type of programs are multiple: advertising material, dolls, T-shirts, and so on. You are being asked to evaluate the project of “Surreal Life” in Ecuador using the methods of APV and WACC. Please consider the following information: The marginal tax rate is 30% The unlevered cost of equity is 20% constant per year. Due to the necessary investment, we must have to ask for debt at the Sucre Reloaded Bank for $ 120 millions of dollars. This Bank has established that $ 9 millions of dollars must be repaid from years 2 to 4, then the debt level will increase in 7%. The cost of debt for the three first years is 12% and then it drops to 9% From the fourth year, the Free Cash Flow will grow at a constant rate of 7% Next, you are given the Project Free Cash Flows in thousands of $ dollars: Year...
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...of the world. She manages to escape but not without being infected with the mass hysteria. I believe this is when Marisol begins to slip through a different reality. There is a theory of alternate realities which indicates that there is a thin fabric of reality similar to our own but each reality branches off and continues on another path based on decisions made in our life. Since there is a war between God and the angels then it is possible with the death of the angels that other realities can tear and bleed into each other. I believe this is what happened to Marisol on the subway. I believe she slipped into her own alternate reality where she actually died on the subway. Therefore, as more and more angels perish, the more alternate and surreal her reality becomes. The confusion that she experiences further indicates that this isn’t her world anymore. When she is confronted with the reality that God is old and doesn’t care about Earth as well as an angel uprising, she refuses to believe that she can take care of herself without aide from God. Her codependence on God and the belief that he will take care of her further cripples her ability to take care of herself like a child not ready to grow up. However, despite the confusion she experiences, Marisol manages to become more independent and sympathetic to those around her. She also manages to retain focus on finding June, finding answers about God, and...
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...[pic][pic][pic] Top of Form [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] [pic][pic] Bottom of Form • Issues [pic] Reviews How Reality TV—And Its Criticism—Falls Flat Posted Friday, November 12, 2010 in Reviews by Erin Polgreen [pic][pic][pic] Top of Form [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] [pic] Bottom of Form [pic]Elimination-fueled competitions and make-over shows complete with product placement are everywhere these days. It seems reality television, sometimes called "unscripted" programming, is here to stay. The genre is redefining the way we interact with, understand, and socialize with our fellow Americans. It's not here for your approval and, to use a cliché commonly associated with the genre, it’s not here to make friends. Part of the reason for the resurgence in reality television is that it's the cheapest way to fill programming blocks. While we see much more of it today, reality TV is nothing new. It's been around since Candid Camera, which documented sneaky practical jokes on unsuspecting average joes, debuted in 1948. But things have changed since then. The genre hit its second stride in 2000 with Survivor, an elimination show in which “castaways” compete to win big by roughing it for the longest, and since then the genre has presented increasingly regressive caricatures of women, men, poor people, and people of color. In Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, media critic and activist Jennifer...
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...Moments like those with the humanoid character may not be blatant in their meaning, but felt like an accurate surreal version of something I’ve experienced - not hallucination but an overbearing sense of dread and a lonely experience. While ‘Grace’ does not take the same level of risk as Deren’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ to determine it as experimental, it does take the idea of dreamlike states throughout and makes it difficult for the audience to place reality (Cousins, 181). Audience member’s familiar with the genre will understand the choice to employ this style in ‘Grace’, subsequently they will have empathy for this exploration of feeling, or...
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...by a handful of different rape comments and degrading names. Mel Brooks portrays in Blazing Saddles the reality of how women were treated in this time period, he uses humor to make it easier to address this issue. For example, when the Governor is introduced he is with a woman that is only partially clothed. She is in provocative attire and the Governor looks at her chest and says “hello boys have a good night rest, I’ll miss you.” This scene is surreal comedy because it is so ridiculous that he is speaking to her chest that it is humorous. This scene also shows how women were treated in this time period. This film takes place in an era when women were still not able to vote. Therefore, this film exposes the issues that women had during this time, in a comical manner making it more approachable. There is another scene when Hedly Lamarr hits Lili Von Shtupp and calls her a very inappropriate name, and the other gentleman says nothing about it, this shows how little women were treated in this time period. Blazing Saddles uses mostly surreal humor to address issues regarding...
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...not turn against them or any of the millions of innocent Muslim people living worldwide. We have a responsibility to them as fellow members of the human race. This hate mongering is not without consequence. In the past year, rates of hate crime against Muslims have risen drastically. When we take a group of people and separate them from ourselves- when we turn them into bogeymen, we open the possibilities for great amounts of violence. Recently I visited the Holocaust museum, and it all felt very surreal to me. Despite taking a trimester of history specifically focused on the World Wars, and talking about the subject extensively, I could not comprehend how an entire nation could turn against a group of innocent people. It also feels surreal to me when I see Donald Trump making blanket statements about a group that encompasses 1.6 billion people. It feels surreal to me when I watch news reports about mosques being trashed and innocents being killed or harassed. It feels surreal to me when I see on Facebook, people whom I had previously considered rational and good human beings talking about Muslim people like they are not people. I’m so worried for this country right now. I’m worried about the minorities who are facing so much violence, and I’m worried about all of us. I’m worried about who we are becoming - about both our actions and pointed inaction. I urge you, please, please, regardless of political affiliation, do not turn Muslims into scapegoats. Do not turn against...
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...should not be restricted by reason and social limitations. With a kind of nihilistic approach, and an almost selfish attitude, these new styles were the first to present a truly individualist nature. This unique take on artistic expression led to the formation of the Surrealist movement in the 1920’s. Surrealism, as defined by the Collins English Dictionary, is: “a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially [sic] from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements.” Although he was not limited to one particular style, or even one particular medium, no one artist is more identifiable with surrealist paintings than Salvador Dali. His surreal works, which he calls “hand-painted dream photographs,” are filled with images, often grotesque, over stretching landscapes which in and of themselves could send a viewer into a cycle of deep contemplation. Dali’s most famous painting of this type is The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas, 1931. The small canvas, only 9½ x 13 inches, shows us images of melting pocket watches, a solid watch covered in ants, and a malformed “slug-like” creature lying on the ground. All this lay out on a beach landscape with illuminated, mountainous cliffs in the background. The drooping watches are, according to Dali, what Camembert cheese looks like when it begins to soften. Some theorize the watches represent a Freudian outlook on the passing of time...
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...integration of culture and communities. In the order of sequence the more knowledge the people are granted the more the solitude and solidarity of the town is disturbed by gypsies and other modernist. As physically isolated as the village is, it is inevitable for the town to be integrated with the outside world. The author intentionally applies solitude to the title as opposed to isolation, or seclusion because of the positive connotation. The family, mostly Jose Arcadio, is fond of the idea of solitude. In fact he dedicates his life’s work to keeping his small town separate from the rest of society. His admiration for alienation is passed on for generations with a few mishaps in between. In the narration the idea of solitude is very surreal and admirable. The people seemed very content with their lives in solitude until their innocence was extinguished by the exposure from the outside world. They were no longer satisfied with their lives and what their government had to offer. It was when this serene solitude erupted that the town fell apart both literally and in the sense of their solidarity. The family, which represented the town as a whole, was split on many issues especially during the civil war. As it goes further down the generation, the different family members embody Jose Arcadio’s different traits which they display with either their extroversion or extreme fondness of solitary lives. The title covers the generations that struggle with the idea of solidarity, whether...
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...Salesman” written by Arthur Miller, in which he portrayed Willy as a hollow salesman, constantly seeking wealth and fame in his life. Believing in his corrupted version of American Dream, Willy was unable to withdraw himself from his self deluded idea of societal conformity. Throughout the novel, Willy is in a constant state of mental dissillusionment. Containing a strong desire and obligation to fulfill his American Dream, he often contradict himself and thus trying to justify actions and events through nonsense justification. However, traces of Willy natural and subconscious inclinations also constantly show up in the novel. Therefore, as a result, Willy achieved virtually nothing in his life just like his belief in American Dream, which is surreal and intangible as well. Throughout the novel, the outward conformity and inward questioning of Willy often create contradicting tension. Willy often make contradicting statements from his previous assertions in order to conform his later statements into the standard of his American Dream. For example, Willy earlier stated that Biff is lazy, but he later denied Biff's laziness. He does so in order to retain his hope in Biff, wishing that someday he will achieve his American Dream through Biff. Another example of self contradiction is also manifested when Willy said that he will attain a more successful business than Charley because he believes himself to be more “well-liked.” But he later claim that Charley is more successful because he...
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...Rose’s parents, superficially, seem to be caring of their daughter and accepting of her relationship with Chris. However, they have an eerie, uncanny air about them, and they can be very unsettling. Rose’s mother, being a psychologist, is responsible for the more surreal, psychological parts of the film. These moments were a real treat for me because I love bizarre psychological horror, and movies rarely utilize these types of surreal scenes properly. Rose’s father is a neurologist and a very charismatic man. His role in the film is a little more important near the end, which I do not wish to spoil. The minor characters really stood out in this film. In fact, many moments with Georgina and Walter, the ostensible help, gave me legitimate goosebumps. Overall, none of the actors were subpar, and all of the characters, even the minor ones, were well developed and well portrayed. The...
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...ways in which an artist can express a point of view in an artwork and also there are different mediums to represent them. In any case, whatever the medium or the mode of expression can be, the main thing is the way we can interpret the painting when we see it. In the following document we will be able to describe how two pieces of art “Mona Lisa” a portray by Leonardo Da Vinci and “Mona Loca” a graffiti by Abstrk can be similar in their forms but behind that, there is a vast difference in ideas, techniques and point of view of each artist. Mona Lisa is a masterpiece of the renaissance period characterized to look realistic and to bring the life out of the painting, while Mona Loca represents a contemporary art, a graffiti which displays surreal elements and less humanism in the artwork. The Mona Lisa is probably the most known piece of artwork in the entire world. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, who was a famous Italian artist between 1504 and 1519. Da Vinci was a considered a Renaissance artist. He was a great painter, but also an observer, scientist and a great inventor who also studies some medicine and anatomy. This preparation allowed him to draw and paint it more accurately than any other artist of his time. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece “Mona Lisa” or “La Gioconda” results in a painting that seems to be alive. This quality of being realistic is what makes Mona Lisa to fit into Renaissance artwork. Mona Lisa is figure of a woman, dressed in the fashion of her day...
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...Erosive – Ali Smith “The waking thought of her, sunlit and new, then the all-day hopeful lightheadedness, and behind it all, dull as a blown-out light bulb, the fact of the word never.” (ll. 5-7 p. 1). The quote is from the nameless main character in Ali Smith’s short story “Erosive” from 2003. As the quote implies Ali Smith tells the story of unrequited love. Through post modernistic techniques he portrays the main characters coping with hopeless love. A distinctive feature of post-modernistic literature is that they are often open to interpretation. The story can therefore be analyzed in multiple ways, and the observations I have made are not “set in stone”. The main character in “Erosive” is a first-person narrator who falls in love with a girl he sees on the street.”(…) it is as if someone hit me across the back of the head with a baseball bat or plugged me into a socket whose powers light up my whole body.” (ll. 8-9, p. 153) He paints a picture of himself being struck by lightning, to describe his feelings towards the girl. The metaphor especially underlines the intensity of his emotions, given that lightning is a particular strong force. However, the girl he’s in love with does not love him back, and as the title indicates, his love has an erosive impact on him and his mental state. Ali Smith uses a tree to symbolize his state of mind. “The larger new leaves, the fronts of which look clear and clean, have insects packed like bricks on their undersides and the edges...
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...Professor Bradshaw-Beyers Writing in the Disciplines November 20, 2014 CE – 3 Christopher Nolans Memento and John Boormans Point Blank films are both crime fiction films in which each tell the story of a mans personal and ludicrous life mission. Leonard Shelby from Memento and Walker from Point Blank go through life a crisis that deals with the search for their enemies and deeper life issues. The characters share a life issue of fear, the fear of dying before picking up the broken pieces of their lives. The surrealism with both characters deals with their own ideas of who their wives murderer/abductor are. The obsession of the search creates surrealism distracting the characters from reality causing them to make up ideas of what happened. Irrational decisions like murder and burying their truths are made all while playing by their own rules to mask their thoughts. In Point Blank Walker is the one man show in his anti-hero protagonist role, out against the people who have done him wrong and stole from him. The start of Walkers madness is shown in the beginning of the film when he realizes his wife and friend were the ones who left him for dead. Walker sets out to find his failed assassin with no regards of who dies. He had set goals in mind, to bring justice to the man who shot him and to get his money back. First, his wife and her abductor die. Walker seemed to be untouched by this. This does not stop him. He is determined to retrieve what was once his. Like falling...
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...A control-freak always fears losing control. His whole life is based on plans and being 100% in charge. Why did Wenger take off his best forward at 1-1 with 20 minutes to go? Why did the physiological manager take off his most creative player right after he'd made the goal that got Arsenal back into the game and gave them a chance of winning? Because he had a minor calf strain that could put him out for a month? I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. Oxlade has tweeted to his Southampton buddies that he wasn't injured. With AW, it's all about control. Control of everything. He thinks stability is harmony and that harmony requires a defined pecking order. We all have to know our place in the hierarchy. He hates confrontations inside the bubble we call London Colney and he lets Pat Rice be the shock-absorber who sorts out the squabbles between the players. On Sunday, Wenger stood on the touchline and saw Walcott being totally upstaged by his understudy. He saw Walcott sulking and bitching and he saw his pecking order being destabilised. If Oxlade had scored the winning goal, Wenger would have to pick him for every game. That was what happened with Jack. As soon as Jack Wilshere became spinal, a core player, Wenger had to pick him for every game. A diehard technocrat and data-analyst, Wenger plans his substitutions before the game. He's demonstrated scant ability to think on his feet in the technical area. He doesn't win many games from the touchline. He wins them...
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...Vera Chytilova’s 1966 film, Daisies, follows two young girls who believe that everything in the world they’re living in is going bad. The entirety of the film chronicles the pairs’ surreal misadventures, following their decision to go bad as well. In a direct quote from Chytilova herself, she attempts to explain the nature of her film: “Daisies was a morality play showing how evil does not necessarily manifest itself in an orgy of destruction caused by war, that its roots may lie concealed in the malicious pranks of everyday life.” It is through the film’s unstructured plotline combined with the use of surreal imagery, that Chytilova attempts to make her statement on the consequence of human action, and the repressive nature of society. Throughout...
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