Film as Mirror in Hitchcock's Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a master's class in subtle and effective filmmaking - its noirish tale of obsession and loss is considered one of his best works. This is due in no small part to the directors' use of the various elements of film as a mirror. Hitchcock intends to create a sense of repetition and a cyclical nature to the life of the characters in the film; following Scottie (James Stewart) through his descent and ascent into madness deals significantly
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For more than fifty years, Warren Mackenzie’s, has pursued the philosophy of the mingei (Japanese/Korean folkcraft) tradition in both his work and his daily life. The first major influence on the Mackenzie’s was the work of the British potter Bernard Leach. Warren and his wife Alix were impressed with Leach’s philosophy, which embraced Eastern and Western practices and celebrated the simple mingei functional pot. After moving to Saint Paul, and following much correspondence, they convinced Leach
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On the other side of the ledger, however, stand the conclusions of some of our most eminent historians. Bernard Bailyn and Gordon S. Wood are among those who have tried to show that quintessentially republican principles, rather than small-l liberalism, dominated the American founding. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Bailyn demonstrates that the founders were intensely concerned with public virtue and corruption, and regarded American self-government as a fragile and
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Overall strategy of LVMH LVMH’s website states the following as their missiom statement, “The mission of the LVHM group is to represent the most refined qualities of Western ‘Art de Vivre’ around the world. LVMH must continue to be synonymous with both elegance and creativity.Our products, and the cultural values they embody, blend tradition and innovation, and kindle dream and fantasy. “ In 1987, Racamier agreed to a merger with Moët Hennessy, a company that was much more larger
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371427 WorldCom, the United States second largest telecommunication company stunned the world by filing bankruptcy in July of 2002. The downfall of WorldCom did not just affect the employees, retailers, the government, but also the bankers. WorldCom was a multi-billion dollar telecommunications business that was founded in 1983. They started their business under the name ‘Long Distance Discount Services’ (LDDS) providing long distance telecommunication amenities. In 1985, Bernie Embers became
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WorldCom Case Study Update 20061 by Edward J. Romar, University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Martin Calkins, University of Massachusetts-Boston In December 2005, two years after this case was written, the telecommunications industry consolidated further. Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers
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Management Planning Paper Management Planning Paper WorldCom or “MCI Inc.” (Presently) was a telecommunications company founded in 1983. The company began as Long Distance Discount Services, Inc. (LDDS) and was based out of the state of Mississippi. The company became publicly owned corporation by 1989 as a direct result of the merger between themselves and “Advantage Companies Inc”. It was at this time the company took on a new name (LDDS WorldCom). The primary function of WorldCom at the time
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Spencer Ballard Professor English 1101 2 September 2015 Gun Control There have been many of mass shootings in the past 15 years, everyone knows that. The the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
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was the largest mover of internet traffic. The company started as a small-town Mississippi company that behemoth more than sixty acquisitions in the span of fifteen years (Trans). WorldCom managed to commit the largest accounting FRAUD in history. Bernard Ebbers, WorldCom’s CEO, 63 years old, was convicted of orchestrating this 11 million dollar accounting FRAUD and was sentenced to 25 years in prison (Stefano). A major economic problem WorldCom was confronted with was the vast oversupply in the nation’s
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Animashaun R Tunde SOC 161 April 28, 2015 Critique on Our Guys The novel Our Guys, written by Bernard Lefkowitz, is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes from a small New York suburb against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broom handle which took place in this unsuspecting town, by these upstanding young group of boys, as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks
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