...Rubrics for Movie Reflection: Stated Objective of Performance Unacceptable Acceptable Target Summary of Film Provided minimal or inaccurate summary of events that occurred during the film. Provided summary of events that occurred during the film. Provided detailed description of events that occurred in during the film. Reflection Did not include a reflection or provided insufficient reflection of the film. Provided a thorough reflection of events that occurred during the film. Provided extensive reflection about events that occurred during film. Description of how movie will affect future career. Did not include an explanation or provided insufficient explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator. Provided a thorough explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator. Provided an extensive explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator. Quality of writing Unclear, unorganized, with writing errors. Does not exhibit APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, or fewer than 3 pages in length. Clear, organized, with no writing errors. Exhibits APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, 3 pages in length. Clear, organized language, with no writing errors. Exhibits APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, 3 pages in length. Exemplary expression Overall Movie Review Assignment Sheet: Analysis Grading Sheet Introduction: 5 –...
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...The Core Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood Rating: 7 out of 10 <="" span=""> Movie Details: View here Cast: Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Josh Keyes Hilary Swank as Maj. Rebecca 'Beck' Childs Delroy Lindo as Dr. Edward Brazleton Stanley Tucci as Dr. Conrad Zimsky Tchéky Karyo as Sergei Leveque Bruce Greenwood as Col. Robert Iverson Alfre Woodard as Stick DJ Qualls as Rat Richard Jenkins Summary: "The Core" is a fun popcorn flick with a strong cast, bad Hollywood science, and cool special effects. Story: A series of strange occurrences start taking place on Earth. A group of people with pacemakers falls down dead for no apparent reason in Boston. A flock of pigeons fly out of control and terrorize people in London. The space shuttle Endeavour loses its navigational guidance during re-entry and crash lands. Dr. Josh Keyes puts the puzzle pieces together and realizes that they all involve the Earth's electromagnetic field. He further realizes the cause of it - the Earth's core has stopped spinning. What this means is that the sun's radiation could cook the Earth's surface in less than a year. The American government secretly plans to solve the problem by re-starting the Earth's core rotating using strategically place nuclear bombs under the surface. A top-secret team is put together to go on the mission. Dr. Edward Brazleton, a mad scientist, will develop a ship capable of reaching the core. The conniving Dr. Conrad Zimsky will provide scientific guidance...
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...Hot on the heels of "Far from Heaven," which looked exactly like a 1957 melodrama, here is "The Core," which wants to be a 1957 science fiction movie. Its special effects are a little too good for that (not a lot), but the plot is out of something by Roger Corman, and you can't improve on dialogue like this: "The Earth's core has stopped spinning!" "How could that happen?" Yes, the Earth's core has stopped spinning, and in less than a year the Earth will lose its electromagnetic shield and we'll all be toast--fried by solar microwaves. To make that concept clear to a panel of U.S. military men, Professor Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) of the University of Chicago borrows a can of room freshener, sets the propellant alight with his Bic, and incinerates a peach. To watch Keyes and the generals contemplate that burnt peach is to witness a scene that cries out from its very vitals to be cut from the movie and made into ukulele picks. Such goofiness amuses me. I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it. It is only a notch down from "Congo," "Anaconda," "Lara Croft, Tomb Raider" and other films which those with too little taste think they have too much taste to enjoy. To be sure, "The Core" starts out in an unsettling manner, with the crash-landing of the space shuttle. Considering that "Phone Booth," scheduled for release in October...
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...MOVIE SUMMARY The Core directed by John Amiel Geologist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and scientists Serge Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) and Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci) become aware of an instability of Earth's magnetic field after a series of incidents across the globe. They determine that the Earth's molten core, which generates this field, has stopped rotating, and within a year the field will collapse exposing the planet's surface directly to devastating solar radiation. Backed by the U.S. Government, Keyes, Leveque, and Zimsky create a plan to bore down to the core and set off several nuclear explosions to restart the rotation. They gain help of rogue scientist Ed "Braz" Brazzelton (Delroy Lindo) who has devised a vessel made of "Unobtanium" that can withstand the heat and pressure within the Earth's crust and convert it to energy, as well as a laser-driven boring system that will allow them to quickly pass through the crust. Construction starts immediately on the Virgil, a multi-compartment vessel to be helmed bySpace Shuttle pilots Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood) and Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hilary Swank) who will join Keyes and the others. To prevent a worldwide panic, Keyes enlists computer hacker Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch (DJ Qualls) to scour the Internet and eliminate all traces of the pending disaster or their plan. Virgil is launched through the Marianas Trench from an offshore platform. The team accidentally drills through a gigantic empty geode structure...
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...Marketing 300 ------------------------------------------------- Books across the Core: “To Sell is Human” Due Date: See class schedule and turn in via RamCT. Purpose: (1) Glean insights from the College of Business selected “Book across the Core” to apply to what you are learning in MKT 300, (2) Demonstrate the ability to synthesize across areas of knowledge, and (3) Develop an appreciation for life-long learning. What will you do: Using key principles and excerpts from the book, distill some key learnings that are relevant to your life and career. Then, develop a visualization/creative expression that can be shared via some form of social media. Steps: (1) Read through “To Sell is Human” (D. Pink). Take notes as you go. (2) Make connections. Take note of ways that the topics we discuss in class relate to “To Sell is Human.” They can be complementary or contradictory ideas. (3) Summarize key points from the book that you are taking away (again these can be points of agreement or disagreement). Make sure you can point to particular chapters/passages as support for your take-aways. (4) Come up with some kind of visual or creative expression. The term “visual” is meant to be broadly construed. This might mean creating a mind-map, a figure or chart, a Venn diagram, a creative sketch or drawing, a collage, or (fill in the blank). For sources of inspiration, look here: http://www.pinterest.com/chrisblocker/visualization/ This board has some...
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...Amanda Miley Dr. Jo Ann Rawley Mgt 100-3161 19 April 2015 Niki Leondakis and Core Competencies Niki Leondakis is the CEO of Commune Hotel and Resorts. She grew up in Massachusetts and has a strong Greek background and has been around restaurants for most of her life as her grandmother owns Charlie’s Diner. Niki graduated from the University of Massachusetts and now resides in San Francisco. She studied hotel and restaurant management and after completing college went to work for Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Kimpton Hotels and then Commune. Along her journey, Niki has learned and developed many core competencies that have helped her to be a very successful woman. These core competencies range from dealing with people, to dealing with business to self-management competencies. When it comes to dealing with people, Niki can definitely establish focus. She communicates the goals of the business to the employees to ensure the customers’ needs and wants are met. In order to communicate well Niki must possess attention to communication as well as good oral and written communication. She also empowers others, part of this being that when hiring she looks for innovative outgoing people that will come up with new ideas to help Commune achieve customer satisfaction. She also possesses high customer orientation. She knows that hotel goers are no longer just looking for a comfortable bed, that they want a memorable experiences and she strives to give this to them. In dealing with business...
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...Stick to the Core—or Go for More? “Cut!” Spike Sanchez stomped toward the stage, his arms waving the music to a stop. Wearing black from head to toe, sporting dark glasses, and sweating under the heat of the lights, he was losing his patience. A highly respected music video director, Sanchez was starting to wonder if taking on this advertising gig was such a great idea. “How many times do I have to tell you to point the logo on the can toward the camera during that move?” On stage was Maygan M, a pop singer whose star had risen in the months since she’d agreed to do this ad. She was a sweet-faced, 18-year-old beauty, dressed in a sequined, midriff-baring halter top, a skintight leopard microskirt, and platform shoes that had already tripped her up twice. She sheltered her eyes from the lights and glared at Sanchez. “Like I can even see the stupid logo,” she whined. “Maybe you could fix it on a computer or something?” “Or maybe you should just do what I say,” Sanchez shot back. “Then we might have some hope of airing this 30-second spot before your 15 minutes of fame are up!” He turned abruptly, strode off the stage, and dropped back into his director’s chair. “Let’s try it again from the top.” Maygan pouted at him for a moment and then flipped her long hair, spun around, and went back to her starting position. Sitting next to Sanchez was Ian Rafferty, cofounder and head of creative services for Advaark, a New York–based advertising agency. “Pretty tough to work with, isn’t...
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...Core competency means that an individual or a company has a strong basis from which to gain additional ability to do so a specific job.it is a fundamental knowledge ability in a specific subject area or skill set.it is something that a firm can do well and it should provide consumer benefit and it is not easy for competitor to imitate though it provides competitive advantage. While cost savings is important to every company, it is no longer the only driving force in an outsourcing decision. Companies today need to take a broader view of outsourcing by isolating their core competencies, and then chipping away at all the functions that do not contribute to them. When a company starts evaluating their activities for outsourcing potential, any products or processes involved in the company’s core competencies should automatically be off-limits. These core competencies are the most important activities to the firm, so they need to stay inside the firm’s control. Rather than outsourcing these core competencies, a company would want to outsource the non-core, but still significant, functions to experts outside the firm. By doing so, skilled employees are freed up to focus on the core operations - the activities that add value to the product or service. Decision to form relationship: When the decision relates to using an external provider of product or service the question arises whether or not the provider’s service will be needed. If firm has the ability to have a core competency...
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...Vostok Ice Core Date Analyses Introduction: Vostok is a Russian research station in the East Antarctic. Vostok sits on top of a Subglacial Lake underneath one of the thickest Ice Sheets measuring over 4 km. However, what makes this an ideal location for collect ice core samples is because the ice has remained undisturbed for the last interglacial and the penultimate glacial periods. Data: The Vostok dataset contains columns that give the depth (in meters) of the ice core, the "ice" and "gas" ages (in thousands of years ago), concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane found in the ice bubbles, the hydrogen isotopic ratios, and a column that provides information on dust. Analysis: The age of the ice is obtained by counting layers of ice that are deposited year after year that separate the warm and cold periods with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on the top. The gas age is calculated assuming that the bubbles of gas can only be trapped effectively in layers of older ice, where the pores in the ice close, sealing the air at a depth well below the surface in a process is called sintering. That is why in figure 1. the gas age is below the ice age as a function of depth. Similarly the isotopic composition of water is indicative of the temperatures of the environment. During cold periods, the concentration of the heavy isotope of oxygen, (18O), relative to, (16O), is lower than during warm periods. The reason for this is that at lower temperature, the moisture...
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...CORE COMPETENCIES AND DISTINTIVE CAPABILITIES A core competency is a skill or expertise the organization has or anything that a firm can do well and use to gain a competitive advantage over it competitors. Hamel and Prahalad (1990) suggested that a core competency should meet the following three criteria. 1. Customers should benefit. 2. Competitors should find it difficult to imitate 3. The core competence can be transferred to many products and markets. One of Tesco’s core competencies is its customer focused strategy. The clubcard reward scheme allows Tesco to collect, analyze and understand their customers very well. Tesco uses the information and adapt their services to the local market, thus adding value to the customer experience. Tesco’s club card gave them a distinctive capability of observing customers preferences thus, enabling them to predict customers buying behaviour and arranging their stocks accordingly in stores giving them an edge over competitors. Tesco has also designed and implemented supply systems that effectively link existing shops with Tesco.com. While online shopping is a feature of its competitors, Tesco was able to design a good user interface which personalizes online shopping resulting in its customers valuing the Tesco.com experience highly. This has helped to improve the performance of the company in different markets. Further, the strong Tesco brand has led to an increase in the number of customers, sales and profits and has helped the...
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...tool. On the operational side, the power of IT in reducing transaction costs, providing better customer service and offering an over-all customer convenience has basically made this a win-win situation for both banks as well as its clients. These have become the main drivers for getting IT the importance it has got in banks in recent times. The nerve centre of technology in a bank’s IT dept. is the ‘Core Banking System’. This paper aims at understanding the role of core systems, the scope of core systems, evaluation methodologies adopted by banks in selecting core systems, typical pitfalls in implementations, and recent and future trends in the core systems. II. What is a Core-Banking System? Core banking systems are basically the heart of all systems running in a bank and it forms the Core of the bank's IT platform. Amongst other functionalities, it provides the customer information management, central accounting and the transaction-processing functions, which by far are the most fundamental processes in a bank. With the advancement in technology and with passage of time, core systems now-days tend to cover more and more functionality giving the bank an integrated solution for most of its operations in different business lines. Alongside, it also provides a central operational database of customers' assets and liabilities giving facility to generate a 360 degree view of the customer’s relationship with the bank, which is...
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...WHAT ARE CORES There are lots of system cores available in the market, latest is core i7 a 6th generation quad core system that opens and shuts in a flash. It is best used for gaming and video editing. Its HD & 3D powered. Most i7 processors are built with hyper threading technology. Prior to i7 processors were fifth generation cores, i5 and i3 processors mainly differentiated by the number of cores. Difference in cores limits the response time and compatibility with different types of memory capacities. Cores functions depends on the type pf chipsets embedded. Intel chipsets that goes with I series cores ranges from K series to x99 series chipsets. This allow powerful gaming, graphic creation and we building offering the quickest response command. Core compatibility with your operating system depends on the motherboard. Intel offers easier management and recovery on times of hard disk drive failure and data corruption. Next thing to consider is choosing the right graphic card for you i7 powered PC. Choosing the right core and system for you depends on your needs. If for research and basic graphics you may use basic cores but a more complexed core for your IT frame working and web building, a faster multifaceted core like 15 and 17 could come handy....
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...Nowadays the Intel I-Core processor is very popular and mainstream in the market. Besides that, many personal computers or laptop owned nowadays use this I-Core processors. There are three types of I-Core Processor: i3 Processor , i5 Processor and i7 Processor. The aim of my research is to compare the performance, pricing, history, special recommendations, features of all three I-Core processors which one is the best and reliable. In this report also represent my opinions and i’m going to recommend the best I-Core Processor out of the three processors. 2.0 Executive Summary The reason i do this report is to tell about the comparison about the performance, pricing, history of the 4th Generation of I-Core Processor. Since nowadays many people especially teenagers nowadays are using the I-Core Processor. I think that this report will help those people that is looking for a new laptop or buying the processor of the computer because my report clearly stated the weakness and the strongpoint of each features and specification of the I-Core Processors. Besides that, the report can also act as a “sales kit” to tell that the customer which one is the most suitable I-Core processor to buy or to recommend. 2.0 Performances 2.1 Intel i3 Core Processor The Intel Core i3 Processor is the new face of the Intel Core generation performance processor, follow up by the Core-2 version. The technology behind Core i3 processors includes dual core base, hyper threading...
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...“How does the development of core competencies provide both advantages and disadvantages for an organisation? What steps can managers take to prevent core competencies becoming core rigidities?” In today’s world competition among firms becomes globalized and more intense. In order to become superiorly competitive, companies should enhance its competencies in a way that will allow them to achieve dominant position in a market. One way of accomplishing it is by development of core competencies. Competencies are considered core if they are skillfully performed and are principal to company’s strategy and its competiveness (Thompson et al, 2013). They are result of ‘collective learning’ activities (Prohalad and Hamel, 1990), a combination of unique skills, assets and routines (Teese, Pisano and Shuen, 1990), and knowledge sets, which altogether strategically differentiate company (Leonard-Barton, 1992) and by being valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable by nature they provide basis for sustainable competitive advantage (Hafeez, Zhang and Malak, 2002). To begin with, the development of core competencies provides numerous advantages for an organization. Prahalad and Hamel (1990) in their research ‘Core Competence of the Corporation’ argue that these benefits can be seen as the following: development of new core and diversified products and consequently potential ability to enter new markets. Scholars have also emphasized the importance of the effective competence building...
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...The difference between Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 can be explained by their relative processing power, which means that Core i7 is better than i5 and i5 is better than i3. However, strictly speaking, the main differences between the three cores can be analyzed based on the number of cores, cache size and Hyper-Threading capability of the processors. The number of Cores The number of cores reflects the number of tasks that can be performed simultaneously by a CPU. The i3 processors have only two cores, while most of the i5 and i7 processors are quad cores. Therefore, based on the number of core, both i5 and i7 have a higher processing power compared to Core i3 processors. Cache size If a CPU finds it is using the same data over and over, it stores the same data in its cache, which is similar to RAM. According to Parkinson, both cache and RAM are used for holding frequently used data and without them a CPU would be forced to keep on reading from the hard disk, which is a time consuming task. RAM reduces interaction with the hard disk, while the cache reduces interaction with RAM. If a CPU has a large cache, it means more data can be processed quickly. According to Parkinson, all Core i3 processors have 3MB of cache; i5 processors have 6MB of cache while i7 processors have 8MB of cache, which explains why i7 performs better than i5 and i5 outperforms i3. Hyper-Threading According to Parkinson, D., only a single thread can be served with one core at any given time. Therefore...
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