...ta Atlanta plans to develop Asia's largest theme park in Surat | Vinay Umarji & Kalpesh Damor / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad Nov 22, 2011, 00:38 IST | | In what could give a major fillip to Gujarat's tourism industry , Mumbai-based Atlanta Ltd . an infrastructure development and real estate company, has received in principle approval from the state government to set up a USD 2 billion (Rs 10,412 crore) theme park in Surat.With the first phase of the project set to begin in April 2012, the theme park has been cleared by the Gujarat Industrial Development Board and Gujarat Tourism Board and the state cabinet is expected to give a final go head in a few weeks. Atlanta, which is active in emerging sectors like road projects, is in talks with World’s biggest theme-park operator is likely to partner in the project. | BSE | | | NSE | | Price | | | | | | | | | Also Read | | | | Related Stories | | | | News Now | | | | | - | OZ bets on Indians to triple tourism revenue | - | Plan panel, tourism ministry want 4-fold rise in sector outlay | - | F1 may turbo-charge tourism | - | Abu Dhabi tourism body eyes India after 7-city Europe tour | - | Incredible India attracts over 400,000 foreigners in June | - | ITDC posts 32% rise in sales in Q4 at Rs 105 cr | | | | | "We are in talks with the likes of Wonderland in Canada, Sentossa of Singapore, Disney and Malaysia's Genting for strategic partnership. However, we will...
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...Question #1 – Why has Disney been successful for so long? The primary reason for Disney’s success is their understanding of a corporate strategy. Since its inception, Disney has successfully utilized its corporate strategy to diversify. This has enabled them to look forward into the future, as well as developing complimenting and cross-promoting business products. They are able to look into the future and foresee upcoming market trends. By expanding their line from movies to theme parks and even cruise ships, Disney has successfully diversified its corporate strategy over and over again. Their corporate strategy is also geared to people across a broad demographic. However, it is the genius of marketing toward children that helps to engrain the culture of Disney into young minds. Those youngsters grow older and pass their love of Disney onto their young children and Disney remains strong. Question #2 – Is Disney diversified along geographic and product lines? Disney is definitely diversified along both geographic and product lines. Disney has created value through various diversification strategies, primarily vertical integration and more specifically forward integration. They have diversified over geographic lines when they built hotels around the world, theme parks, not only in California and Florida, but also in Asia and Europe. Their cruise ships travel all around the world as well and they have over 200 retail stores in North America, over 100 in Europe and 50...
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...Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He and his brother Roy co-founded Walt Disney Productions, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world. Disney was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Early Life Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Later, Disney would work a summer job with the railroad, selling snacks and newspapers to travelers. Disney attended McKinley High School in Chicago, where he took drawing and photography classes and was a contributing cartoonist for the school paper. At night, he took courses at the Chicago Art Institute. When Disney was 16, he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. Instead, he joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for...
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...Trial Assignment Name Institution Date Trial Assignment PART 1 Disney organization is the world’s best entertainment organization owing to several factors. This organization affects the lives of most Americans and people around the world through their films, theme parks and resorts. The company has been a key player in the film industry through its animations and other children’s films, this level of growth and identity comes with great wealth and financial strength to an organization like Walt Disney (Silverman, 2008). The financial security at Disney originates from several factors that the management considers as the pillars of driving the organization to higher levels of competition. Walt Disney uses several business standards that cover ethics and compliance to maintain a competitive spirit within the growing business of entertainment. This essay will explore the role of ethics and compliance in Disney’s financial environment. Ethics and compliance at Disney has helped in improving the general outlook of the business in three main areas. The firs area is employee appreciation. Most workers at the organization work with passion and enthusiasm because of the level of transparency and trust within the organization. The company incorporates trust by availing to each staff member a copy of the Standards of Business Conducts handbook to enable their role and relationship within the organization. They stress on this by taking online training and learning on ways of...
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...Rostow and Gerschenkron. The differentiation between the pattern of thoughts and ideals is a hotly debated topic within economics. The ideals the two theorists create, each substantially creditable in their own right, entail degrees of correlation and variation. Leaving the conclusion, do the to patterns of economic thought complement one another or is there distinct disparity between the two. Applied examples will be used below to analyse the extent of segregation or association between the works of Rostow and Gerschenkron. The two theories of work are mainly discussed with Asian development as it is more relevant, timely and there is significantly more information available than previous developed countries such as Great Britain. Walt Whitman Rostow developed one of the major historical models of economic growth in 1960, The Stages of Economic Growth: A non-communist manifesto. This piece portrays the process of economic development in a previously unseen approach, evidently forging it as a milestone in economic literature. Rostow's Stages of Growth model, The five stages are (1)...
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...integrating art ideas into his works could be a probably factor that has made him experiment with paint to produced the ‘unfinished’ buildings. Basically, building is a form of art and from any artistic architecture, it can be confirmed that the building’s structure tends to be more poetic than a complete building. This may be the reason why Gehry created the ‘unfinished’ buildings such as his house; it was simply an appreciation of the more profound art. As Joyce elaborates, Ghery’s work has always been a portrayal of art. This is because Gehry has been able to follow his vision for art from the 1960’s via a ‘formal experimentation’ in LA houses to the eminent artistic expression phase that is currently characterized by buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall as shown in the picture below and Bilbao. We cannot forget that we are in a techno-world where people want their emotions and imagination aroused, try new things, take up more tasking challenges and explore the world in a more...
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...Introduction: Monkeys, Mickey Mouse and Margaritas, are favorite words from my childhood one I have loved since childhood, and the other I enjoy as an adult. Body: I. My first word is Monkey. A. As a kid I had a fascination with monkeys 1. Wanted a spider monkey a. Got plenty of stuffed monkey instead. B. Monkeys are very social animals 1. However they are unpredictable 2. Destructive, expensive 3. Need a lot of attention C. Spider monkeys 2. Live in tropical rain forest 3. Have long lanky arms and gripping tails a. tails are up to 35 inches long 3. weigh 21 to 24 pounds II. My second work is Mickey Mouse A. Another childhood favorite of mine was, and still is, Mickey Mouse 1. Red shorts white gloves and big yellow shoes 2. Round mouse ears 3. Gets into mischief 4. Extremely imaginative B. First appearance in 1928 1. Steamboat Willie 2. Appeared in over 130 films 3. 9 of his cartoons were nominated for academy awards a. Lend a paw won in 1942 4. Became the first cartoon character to have a star on Hollywood Blvd. III. My last word is one I enjoy as an adult, Margarita. A. Good drink on a hot summer night 1. Applies to both sour and sweet taste buds. B. Margaritas can be made several ways 1. Most common tequila 2. Flavored liqueur 3. Lime or lemon juice C. Margaritas can be serve many ways 1. On the rocks 2. With a salted rim 3. Frozen 4. Straight up D. Have been around since 1950’s 1. Not sure who actually created...
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...O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain is the poem about the brave captain of a ship who felt dead on the deck just when the mission is over and the victory is won. This means that the end of the leader is tragic. "The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won." The narrator of the poem, he is one of the men of the crew on the ship, delivers the message to the captain that their fearful and dangerous trip is done. "For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding." They won and people are flying the flag, the church bells are ringing to celebrate the victory, people are cheering and waiting to give him flowers to honour the captain but the problem is that his journey ended on the deck. "Fallen cold and dead." The captain doesn't answer because he lies cold and dead. The ship is safe because the anchor was dropped safe and sound. The victory is worth the effort. "Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!" The narrator of the poem is encouraging people to cheer and ring those bells loud as possible for the captain to show that he was a honourable man. The narrator says "Here Captain! Dear father!", "My Father." showing that the crew considered him as their father, someone close to them. "But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my Captain lies." The speaker will walk the deck with sadness where his captain lies cold and dead. The captain in this poem was a leader probably one of the greatest who completed his mission and paid...
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...Bus 162 Team 4: Beyond Tokyo: Disney’s Expansion in Asia 1. What cultural challenges are posed by Disney’s expansion into Asia? How are these different from those in Europe? Answer: With its large population, and relatively low number of theme parks, Asia is a tremendously attractive location for Disney. Already, the company has been successful in Tokyo. While its park in Hong Kong has been less profitable, the company believes that further expansion into the region is worthwhile. However, the company faces a number of cultural challenges that must be overcome. Certainly language poses a problem for the company. At Hong Kong Disneyland, the company has chosen to be trilingual for example. In addition to dealing with language differences, Disney must also tailor other components to meet the local needs. The Hong Kong location includes more covered space to allow people to enjoy the park without dealing with the region’s rainy weather, special gardens for picture taking that appeal to the preferences of tourists visiting the park have been created, and the menu has been adapted to local preferences. Plans for the Shanghai location will incorporate Chinese cultural features as well as more traditional Disney themes. 2. How do cultural variables influence the location choice of theme parks around the world? Answer: Disney’s parks first and foremost promote Disney characters and themes. Visitors to the parks want to experience the Magical Kingdom. In Asia, Disney has encouraged acceptance...
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...Dillon Meldrim Mrs. Summers 3rd period American Lit 5/1/12 Whitman and Dickenson compare and contrast It seems like a lot of people think that Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson are some of the best poets of all time. Emily Dickenson was born in 1830 , and Walt Whitman was On 1819. These were the two greatest poets of the civil war time period. I will be Comparing two of there best known and greatest poems. Both of them are very short, that is one of the biggest things I like about them Is that you don’t get so bored reading them and there not a “book” long. A lot of People don’t like reading a poem for a long time. That is also just my opinion The poem “I hear America sing” is only 16 lines , that is very short . Whitman Uses great personification in this poem. “If you were coming in the fall” is only 20 lines, That is a little big longer but sill pretty short. Dickenson uses great growing suspense in This poem. “If only centuries delayed, id count them on my own hand” shows great uses of building suspense because of how long she has been waiting. But most importantly Both poems uses a great calm flow of words. Whitman shows he’s proud of America He says in the poem “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear” in a calm tone It is good because he is not yelling about his love of America. Emily Dickenson is very Calm as she is waiting for something, “but now, all ignorant of the length , of time ...
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...Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two of America’s greatest poets. They both wrote about death, life, and God. They also both had a love for nature and included it in their works. They led drastically different lifestyles and their writing styles were very different but the messages they presented through their writing were actually fairly similar. Their Life Dickinson and Whitman had very different upbringings. Dickinson came from a very wealthy family, attended an elite school, and also attended college. She lived a very introverted and reclusive life. She made few attempts to publish her work, choosing instead to share them privately with family and friends. During her lifetime only 7 of her poems were published only because she wrote them to others who had them published. Dickinson's youthful years were not without turmoil. Deaths of friends and relatives, including her young cousin Sophia Holland, prompted questions about death and immortality. Since her house was located near the town cemetery, Dickinson could not have ignored the frequent burials that later provided powerful imagery for her poems. Not having conventional religious views may have also contributed to her isolation. She did have a belief in God but it was different than the views held by her peers. Although Dickinson's friends, sister, father, and eventually brother all joined the church, Emily never did. In her later years, Dickinson increasingly withdrew from public...
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...hey. It's just me, your friendly neighborhood spiderman. charot. okay so I'm a superhero! or maybe not much of a SUPER hero. just a simple one. though I can't really explain how so 'simple' and so not I am as being a SUPER hero. as the world moves fast around me, I can slowly see each and every one of their faces as they walk pass by. worried, stressed, sad. even if they plaster a big smile on, it doesn't work. I can see through it. I can feel it, I can see what hides underneath it. what's really going on or what had happened for them to answer me how they're so perfectly fine when I ask them If they are. weird power right? mahirap. pero I take full responsibilty. hindi man nila aminin. hindi ko man sila kilala ng napakatagal. pero malalaman at nalalaman ko pa rin. annoying as it sounds but I still thank God for it. It's a gift. people need it. and I'm the one who was chosen to give it to them. in a sort of stranger-suddenly-tells-you-everything's-going-to-be-fine-even-if-he-hardly-knew-you way. though I really know that everything will be okay. I mean, bibigyan ka ba ng pagsubok ng Diyos na hindi mo kaya? binigay niya sa'yo yan dahil alam niyang kaya mo. alam niya na hindi ka susuko. katulad ngayon, sinusubukan na naman ata ako ng nasa itaas. late ako nagising off to work ang ka-macho-han ko, pero traffic masyadong magulo aligaga ang mga tao pero may isa dito na para bang kinuha sa kanya ang pagkakataong huminga...
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...one should think, feel, and, in part, be? This introduces another interesting question: Does the shift in societal values affect the nature and content of animation, or do the values portrayed in animation and public’s willingness to be overpowered create these changes in American beliefs? Regardless of which comes first, analyzing a character is synonymous with analyzing the culture from which the character is spawned. These symbols in animation, unfortunately, don’t always depict America’s best values and more often than not are targeted at children. Truly, the influential impact of animation on children is most perfectly depicted in the famed Walt Disney Heroines. These Disney girls have come to reflect America’s ever-changing values and the evolution of its popular culture. Despite the public’s initial skepticism, Walt Disney chose to create the world’s first feature-length animated film on December 21, 1937. Snow White hit theaters, ironically grossing 80 million dollars in the U.S. alone! Snow White not only pioneered a great new entertainment field, it was a significant screen innovation in which millions of families would increasingly identify with the characters projected on their...
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...Walt Whitman was one of America’s most inspiring poets. Born a poetic genius in the nineteenth century, Whitman influenced the twentieth century with his idealistic poetry. He envisioned democracy as a way of life and looked to America for inspiration. Walt Whitman’s background influenced his writing in many ways and produced a new poetic style which changed the face of American Literature. Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York, to Walter Whitman, a carpenter, and Louisa Van Velsor. He was the second oldest of nine children (Price and Folsom online). At age four, Whitman and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he spent a difficult childhood because of his family’s poor financial circumstances. At age eleven, Whitman ended his formal education and sought employment to supplement his family’s income. He got a job as an apprentice on a liberal, working-class newspaper called the “Long Islander Patriot.” There he “learned the printing trade and was first exposed to the excitement of putting words into print and observing how thought and event could be quickly transformed into language and immediately communicated to thousands of readers” (Price and Folsom online). Whitman began promoting his ideas to the newspaper. By age twelve, he had his first words published (Price and Folsom online). He was fascinated with seeing his own words and thoughts in print. Two years later, Whitman’s family moved back to West Hills leaving fourteen year old Whitman...
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...Biography of Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle. Whitman's sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. However, there is disagreement among biographers as to whether Whitman had actual sexual experiences with men. Whitman was concerned with politics throughout...
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