they have evolved today is significant. Along with the changes in the content and the way moves are made so has the movie ratings have changed over the last 30 years. The standards on what children are allowed to see have been relaxed a PG twenty years ago and a PG today are different. The culture of our country has changed and so has the standards in which the movies and rating viewed. In the early 1900s, filmmakers had to tailor their movie to the requirements of more than 40 local, city and
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Allan Grey JQ Excelsior Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Kazan’s film adaptation shared not only the same characters, but also the same themes, reactions and other literary techniques Williams had created throughout his play. However, for Elia Kazan to have produced the film, some scenes were eliminated or changed to fit what was known as the Hay’s Code. One of the scenes that was not so much vital to the play, was when Blanche DuBois explains to Mitch about her ex-husband. Allan Grey
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Melissa Jinks Frist Year Writing II: ENGL 1304 5 November 2013 One Up “Proposal Argument for the MPAA rating system” A student and a teacher make out on school premises. A young man sings, “I make love with a woman on the bathroom floor.” A character says suggests to another that she, “shove it up her harry little-.” Two teens passionately make out in a bed while a mother walks in and offers condoms. A teenage girl is hit by a bus. PG-13 ("Mean Girls [2004] [PG-13] - 5.4.4."). These few scenes
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volution of Strategy at Procter & Gamble Founded in 1837, Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has long been one of the world’s most international of companies. Today P&G is a global colossus in the consumer products business with annual sales in excess of $50 billion, some 54 percent of which are generated outside of the United States. P&G sells more than 300 brands—including Ivory soap, Tide, Pampers, Iams pet food, Crisco, and Folgers—to consumers in 160 countries. Historically the strategy at P&G
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categorize the ratings of modern movies and the lack of censorship is harming children and teens. I: The NC-17 rating has become irrelevant. A. The producers edit and re-submit their films for a lower rating. B. Theaters do not want to air them. II: The MPAA does not treat content consistently. A. Violence is not treated as harshly as sexual content. 1. Small moments of sexual content will warrant a higher rating. 2. It takes extreme amounts of violence to warrant an R rating. B. The system does not
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seventeen; two of the board members are required to be of a Catholic or Protestant faith. The board also has to rotate every five years. The MPAA devises guidelines for movies and films while also rating them. The MPAA has its own film rating system to determine what is suitable for certain audiences to watch. The ratings go from G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17. Movies rated G mean that they are suitable for the general audience. PG movies are movies that need parental guidance. PG-13 means you need parental guidance
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as possible. A censorship that protects the young will filter out the things that could badly influence their minds and lives. Let’s take for example that rating system in movies. Movies are rated so that parents are warned of the content that could be exposed to their minor and to prevent those minors from seeing that movie. The movie rating PG-13 lets parents know that they need to be cautious and that it could be inappropriate for pre-teens. Although what constitutes as being PG-13 now isn’t
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Summary: Watching TV Makes You Smarter In the featured article, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” the author, Steven Johnson, justifies his opinipn on the affects television has on the mental development on young people. Readers will notice early on that he opens up first with a comparison of shows that were aired in the past to that are more recent and supportive of his thesis. An older show that he used as an example, Dragnet, only follow one or two characters, has a single plot, and then reaches
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other types of speech. (The Hays Code) This led to the creation of The Production Code of 1930, by Will H. Hays. This code became known as the Hays Code. This code, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is what governs the ratings of movies today. The code spells out what is acceptable and unacceptable. The Code has three general principles along with detailed particular applications. The three general principles are as follows: 1. No picture shall be produced that will lower
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INTRODUCTION 1 2 IT SYSTEM CHARACTERIZATION 2 3 RISK IDENTIFICATION 6 4 CONTROL ANALYSIS 8 5 RISK LIKELIHOOD DETERMINATION 11 6 IMPACT ANALYSIS 13 7 RISK DETERMINATION 15 8 RECOMMENDATIONS 17 9 RESULTS DOCUMENTATION 18 LIST OF EXHIBITS Exhibit 1: Risk Assessment Matrix 18 List of Figures Figure 1 – IT System Boundary Diagram 4 Figure 2 – Information Flow Diagram 5 List of Tables Table A: Risk Classifications 1 Table B: IT System Inventory and Definition
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