Director Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Alex Cross

This is a crime thriller films that was produced in 2012. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, exposing some of the evils that happen in the society. After securing a job with FBI, Cross fears revealing to his wife the intentions of changing cities. Unknown to him, the day he takes Maria for an outing happens to be the day Picasso was attacking them, marking an end to Maria’s life. This results in Alex Cross plotting a revenge mission with the aim of killing Picasso. Through several events that take place, Cross and his friends manage to kill Picasso, securing a ...

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Rob's situation with Dusty puts him in a dilemma. The community, customers and board members of the firearms company exert pressure on him to relieve Dusty of his duties owing to his past as a criminal record after the exposure by a local publication following a tip from Dusty's former crime mate T-rex. On the other hand, Dusty has been exemplary in his job and has even been an important figure in the community owing to his voluntary service. Furthermore, Rob is aware that he has reformed and has already atoned for his crime ...

2. Rater errors refer to the errors that occur in a systematic manner when judging or appraising a person (Deb, 2006). Some of these errors are discussed as below.
Halo effect: This refers to the tendency to allow one or more job characteristics of an employee to over shadow other aspects. This happens when the strongest positive or negative characteristic of the employee is used to generalize the overall performance of the individual.

Central tendency: This error happens when the managers consider all employees to be average in their performance and over look the individual characteristics and overlook the actual ...

Action Assignment 2 – Visioning

1. The most important idea that I learned in Part Two was that having a vision for a company involves specific process, content, and application principles. This idea was a relative surprise to me given the rather abstract and ideal impression the word “visioning” had upon me initially. It was almost as if something termed “visioning” would not involve concrete process steps, particular content, and specific application approaches that could be followed to increase the chances of formulating and executing an effective vision. Before reading Part Two, I believed that visioning would have involved, somehow, inherent and inspiration driven processes that would ...

Role Play Scenario

The proposals of finance manager, in result of the poor financial ratios are debatable. There are many advantages and disadvantages of implementing all three suggestions. The first suggestion of reducing the holding stock by fifteen percent to twenty percent can reduce the holding and manufacturing costs. However, it will affect the trust of shareholders of the company. Shareholders may assume that the business is losing the market share, or the business is not capable of finding new markets for more profits. Therefore, in these circumstances the business may face a failure of the right issue. Moreover, in the competitive environment, ...

‘Sicko’ is a documentary film directed by Michael Moore. It is a document on the national system of health in U.S. The thematic core of the documentary is the health system in the United States and the way it is provided by the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) which are described and seen to be functioning clearly oriented by their non-stop need to keep increasing their profits. The documentary describes the established health system in the United Systems and compares it to the corresponding health system of Canada and other European countries, trying to arise questions regarding the ethical aspects of this ...

1. The name of the film is Casablanca. The director is Michael Curtiz. The two leading actors are Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund.
2. The leading characters are Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Captain Louis Renault, Major Heinrich Strasser, Signor Ferrari and Sam. Other important characters are Ugarte and Carl. The story takes place in Casablanca in French Morocco during World War II. France is occupied by Germans and people from all over Europe are coming to Casablanca in order to try to get to Lisbon from where they can continue ...

Shot in 1972, The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola has become one of the iconic motion pictures in the world cinematography, and is still watched by the contemporary audience. The key to success of the film is hidden in the director’s profound artistic approach to reflecting the novel written by Mario Puzo. The talent of the author who provided the screenplay for the film together with the talent of the director who made it visually unique provided the future of the motion picture that is quoted and alluded to most often among others. This paper is thus going ...

Final Project Part II

Cultural Awareness
CRIM 103
The film “Windtalkers” directed by John Woo came out on big screens in 2002. The movie was name after brave marines of Navajo origin that served as code talkers during the war. Navajo language is so difficult and so rare that American army chose is it as a coding language for their operations. It played a crucial role of the US army's success in Japan.
The movie starts with a departure scene, in which future Navajo soldiers say goodbyes to their friends and families. In this scene we meet the protagonists Ben Yahzee and Charlie ...

1. Who is Alejandro Jodorowsky?
Jodorowsky is a noted, though rather obscure, director. He made many films on a limited budget, that gained a degree of critical acclaim among more progressive circles.2. What are his most famous films?
His most famous, or perhaps infamous, films are Il Topo and The Holy Mountain.3. What is Dune?
Dune is a novel by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It has been made into films twice, once by David Lynch, and once in a miniseries format hosted by the Sci Fi chanel.4. Who are the key artists that Jodorowsky brought together for his project, and ...

Abstract

The paper begins with a detailed introduction of Hotel Beacon and Lotte New York Palace, highlighting the frame of reference, the grounds for comparison and the thesis statement. The analysis that follows assesses the person-organization fit, the person-job fit, and the steps of recruiting, the applied cut-off, evaluation of abilities and personalities and finally the competency models that the firms use in the hiring process.

Introduction

The analysis presents a famous Hotel in New York, Hotel Beacon, and a successful restaurant, International House of Pancakes in Glendale, California, United States. Comprehensive qualitative interviews on the issues of recruitment and staff ...

[Institution of Affiliation]
In my perspective, I am not in agreement with the statement “For small projects the PM and TD may be the same person, which leads to schizophrenia!”. For smaller projects, the project manager and technical director should be different persons since their roles are slightly different. For instance, in cases weddings, the PM and TD perform different functions. Furthermore, these two persons have various roles to perform which may not be completed successful if it is assigned to one person (Ferraro, 2012). As a result, assuming that the two are same persons may lead to conflict ...

In the English-speaking cinematography, 1995 was the year of Jane Austen. As if trying to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the writer, who since the 20th century became to some extent even a cult figure, the filmmakers created just three versions of her novels “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma”. I like the Jane Austen’s creativity and read almost all her books. I saw a lot of different adaptations of the book “Pride and Prejudice”, and by and large I like all of them. After seeing the film adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility”, directed by Ang ...

Originally George John Beto, also known in the Texas criminal justice system as “Walking George” for his common practice of arriving by foot, unannounced at Texas penitentiaries to perform inspections, served as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDOC) from 1962 to 1972. Beto did not originally plan to work in criminal justice, having studied to be priest in college and being ordained as a minister shortly after graduation; he first became familiar with Texas’ correctional system when he was asked to serve on the Texas Prison Board (TPB) in 1953. At that time he was teaching ...

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The Most Important Role
In my point of view, all the other roles are important, however, the most important role is of the director, who is responsible for presenting a performance in front of a big audience. Coordination among the members present in the theater, and the production is done only with the continual efforts of the director. Similarly, the director is the head of rehearsals and is used to of performing a supervisory role in the theater. He or she is the one who has a clearer vision regarding the play. He assigns the roles ...

Introduction

The process of decision making faces ethical dilemmas that require the application of relevant theoretical foundations. The most common theoretical foundations of ethics include utilitarianism, Kant’s categorical imperative, justice as fairness and altruism. Utilitarianism theories require decisions to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people (Johnson, 1952, p.154). Kant based his theory of categorical imperative on the premise that decision makers should focus on right decisions regardless of their costs (Johnson, 1952, p.158). The proponents of the theory of justice as fairness propose that decision makers should guarantee equal rights and opportunities even in the ...

In the essay sweatshirts to sweatshops several universal intellectual standards have been violated. To begin with, the speaker breaches the fairness that should be upheld in an argument by presenting the “little girl was working hour after hour while trying not to collapse from the heat” (Cournoyer, 2011). In putting this across, the speaker is attempting to influence the audience by invoking their emotions of sympathy on the little girl. Since the speaker’s argument is not based on facts, the audience can as well dismiss it. In fact, there might never have been a little girl in the actual ...

Identify the key external and internal strategic issues and forces impacting upon WGF.

William Garden Furniture is a small business that is owned and established by Martin William twenty years back. Since its origin, Mr. William is the managing director and sole owner of the business. William Garden Furniture principally serves the high-end customers and manufacturers up-market wooden chairs, tables, and benches for gardens. William Garden Furniture had fought very hard to develop a sound market reputation, and the underpinning factor for its success is its highly skilled craftsmanship. Unfortunately, after 8 years of its start-up, William Garden Furniture started encountering a number of internal and external strategic issues that are still ...

Question 1

Which of the articles looks most interesting to you?
Response 1
Among the articles, I was interested enough in the article authored by Tricia Serio entitled “The Magic Mix of Mentorship that Worked for Me” . The article clearly discusses mentoring and advising that would assist students in many ways. Through mentoring, the students can achieve their goals to succeed with the guidance and support of the professors. Most mentors focus on the students’ needs, boosting their confidence to perform better and make a difference. Accordingly, mentors encouraged to compete and provided chances, allowed to voice opinions in a safe ...

Human Resource Management

Comparison among San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York’s Provisions on Grievance Procedures
A grievance can simply be defined as a concern, complaint or problem related to the working environment. Due to the diversity at the workplace, people have different beliefs, opinions and thoughts about how to approach work and as a result they often have grievances relating to issues that arise from the workplace procedures. The Las Vegas collective bargaining agreement defines a grievance as a dispute or a difference of opinion between the employer and the Union with regard to the meaning, interpretation and application of ...

Vince Gilligan’s crime/family drama Breaking Bad (2008-2013) is often cited as one of the greatest television shows ever made, one of the best examples of the era of prestige cable drama. Telling the story of science teacher-turned-meth-cook Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and his burnout assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Breaking Bad’s serialized narrative, layered performances and dedication to dynamic visual storytelling elevate it in ways not enjoyed by most cable dramas. Perhaps one of the most presentational and ambitious episodes of the series is the tenth episode of season three, “Fly,” directed by Rian Johnson. A classic ...

The film Skyfall was screened in 2012. At the beginning of the movie the director continues the tradition of the title sequences, which has been introduced by Maurice Binder, the author of the famous gun barrel shot, the iconic image of James Bond (Yamato). One of the main themes of the Skyfall opening titles is death. The sequence opens with the shot of Daniel Craig as he falls to the bottom of the riverbed. A woman’s hand is taking him deeper and deeper. It is clearly seen that Bond is wounded and unconscious. The main colors of the ...

As a member of staff in a company, I once experienced an ethical dilemma that involved one of the supervisors and a co-worker. The ethical dilemma revolved around the issue of mental harassment whereby the supervisor would keep pressuring one of my colleagues to overwork even when he was supposed to be on a break. It seemed as though the supervisor in question loathed the employee for reasons I was yet to understand. I was worried for my job if I tried to report a supervisor for harassment, bearing in mind that he was a superior in the organization. ...

The Inside Job is a documentary narrated by Charles Ferguson that gives an analysis of the main events that led to the collapse of Wall Street economy (Riley 3). This documentary focuses on the roles played by both the government and private sector in accelerating the financial meltdown that cost millions of people their jobs, homes, and savings (Marshall 13).

The banking institution forms one of the major private sectors that bear the blame of the financial crisis in the film “The Inside Job”. The film provided a wide range of view on how corrupt the US banking institutions are ...

Shot in 1946, the spy thriller “Notorious” by Alfred Hitchcock is a beautiful love story in the frames of real historic events. The movie is the first mature work of the director where his style and specific features form in the manner of shooting and conveying the message to the audience. “Notorious” was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original screenplay at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947.
The beginning of the movie coincides with the immediate introduction to the main characters, Alicia Huberman and T.R. Devlin. When the audience hears the judgment of the court and the ...

Introduction

Stars Hollow Hat Company is a manufacturing firm that manufacturers and coincidentally looks for market for her finished good. Given this nature, the firm would thus require three major departments along which the job families shall be aligned. These include: management, production and sales. The following discourse focuses on firm in terms of the probable job families that would project the firm into greater heights of development.

Management/ administration: members of this department are charged with the supervisory role of the entire firm. They are mandated with the day to day decision making and ensure that both the process of ...

Improving Organization Retention

When organizations fail in retaining their quality employees, they are often left with are under qualified and understaffed workforce that will eventually have an effect on the organization’s ability towards being competitive. Work retention is an important element in a functioning organization. It has an important relationship with the management skills in the workplace. Every organization has to implement strategies that are specifically designed to improve programs that attract employees, develop their skills, retain, and utilize their equitably, fairly, and professionally (Guerro, 2007). Any organization that wants to they keep their employees from leaving their current jobs and joining ...

Question 1

The nature of communication between the coaches and also the media is very significant. The communication would help me as the director deal easily with the issues which currently exist in the university especially in the sports department. I will make sure I consult each coach of every sports in respective in order to get information regarding the sports that should be eliminated. It is obvious that a few sports should be eliminated from the university since there is the deficit in the budget.
The media always wants to be the first to have updates and publish them but ...

General Education Capstone

Introduction
Suicide is an issue that affects our country in a big way, especially with the increase of bullying incidents in schools around the United States. What can we do as a society to help this problem and recognize the signs? It is possible to notice the signs of someone thinking about committing suicide and there are different tips on how to help the person or even tell an adult about the situation. Suicide can be preventable if given the right knowledge
There Are so many reasons why any individual would choose this topic to write about such as: ...

The movie ‘Crash’ is an Oscar winning movie directed by Paul Haggis and released in year 2004. The movie received an overwhelming response and praise from the different types of viewers. Crash clearly depictsthe true image of life of people living in metropolitan city. The movie is a drama based on race and gender and their impact on lives of people living in Los Angeles. The movie presents some hard realities of our society that are rare to see in any movie. Race not only increase awareness of people on social issues such as race and gender but also encourage ...

Discussion

Business

The main issue in the Director’s Daughter case is the choice that Zoe Apse, the purchasing manager of Mesa Meals, Inc. (MMI), has to make between Tabitha’s’ Tablecloths and Loretta’s Linens, on who will be their supplier for restaurant tablecloths and linens. Her choice is complex because the former supplier is owned by Tabitha Foster, a daughter of Clark Foster, a member of the company’s board.

What are the Reasons?

Some of the evident reasons are that, Loretta’s linens have been their steady supplier and its contract can be renewed. However, the main concern is that Tabitha’s Tablecloths ...

What is ‘risk’ and how can it be accomplished successfully? You are required critically to analyze the concept of risk; discuss how it can be measured and ranked and outline how a project risk management strategy may be constructed.
Risk is the capability of losing something that is worth; weighed against the possibility to increase something that has quality. Qualities might be gained or lost when one takes a risk which results from a given action and/or inaction, predicted or unforeseen. Risk can also be characterized as the purposeful communication with vulnerability (Altemeyer 2004). Risk perception is the subjective judgment individuals ...

Introduction

Cases of mental illness in many communities has been on the rise in an alarming rate. Requirements and needs in life in different aspects has led to depression and drug abuse disrupting a person's thinking, mood, daily functioning and relationship with others (Hurley & others, 1999). Individuals of different ages are susceptible to this problem if proper care and conducive life conditions are not available to ensure mental stability and comfort to help avoid things such as drug abuse that lead to mental instability in an individual. However, this condition can be cured through varying treatment plans depending with place and ...

Reflection on Bogle (2007)’s Democracy in Corporate America
Reflection on Bogle (2007)’s Democracy in Corporate America
Bogle (2007) reflects on the nature of democracy in corporate America. By making a reference from the James Madison’s statement, since C.E.Os and other senior company executives are not angels, they are supposed to be subjected to adequate checks to make sure that they improve both the price of the corporate share and the corporate long term value. He notes that since there have been no influential checks from the stockowners, managers and directors have been left with excessive ...

Irresponsible waste dumping is becoming a global concern as companies are increasingly polluting the environment with hazardous and unprocessed chemical substances. This poses a menace to both our natural environment and general public safety. The following is a waste dumping case that successfully resulted to resettlement fines and costs.
A good example of a successful settled court case on waste dumping is the Richard James case in Cambria, United Kingdom. Mr. Richard James Allan is a 40 year old director, and owner of two companies; Brampton Skip Hire Ltd and North West Recycling. He was accused by the Carlisle Crown Law Court of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been given a mandate by the Congress, through legislation, to protect the environment for the people of the United States. The parent act establishing the agency gives it the power to make delegated legislation that would be essential in helping the agency carry out its obligations efficiently. Drafters of the Constitution, in their wisdom, saw it fit to advice Congress, and indeed encourage it, through provisions of the Constitution to establish agencies with regulatory power to carry out specific functions. Indeed, Congress cannot be heard to legislate on everything because it will be overwhelmed ...

Discipline and Behavior Modification

Discipline and Behavior Modification
1. The most important idea that I learned in Part Nine was the role of discipline and behavior modification theories in the manager-report business relationship. The given example concerning the performance improvement within the transportation industry was interesting for its complete lack of negative aspects. The results that the company obtained by emphasizing the positive and ignoring the negative were notable. In some ways this section was slightly contradictory, as the only discussion of what would happen if the drivers that did not meet the goals were receipt of encouragement to keep trying to ...

The movie A Fish Called Wanda was made in 1988. The movie is a heist- comedy and was written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton. Charles Critchon directed the movie. The movie stars actors such as Jamie Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. John Cleese wrote the script for the movie. The story of the movie stems from the heistand and its aftermath. It must be understood that the movie was not inspired by any literary piece of work. A Fish Called Wanda is a romantic comedy. Jamie Curtis plays an over ambitious conman who uses his sexual prowess to steal ...

1. What are the links between organisational design and structure Illustrate your points with real-life examples.
My Coca-Cola experience allowed me to understand that there is no doubt that organizational structure and design are concepts that intermingle. One summer, I worked for a Coca-Cola bottling company in Singapore. The first and key stakeholder group of the Coca Cola Company is the employees. Employees are a key asset for any company that wants to compete with other players in any industry. Coca Cola Enterprises has 73000 individuals who run the production facilities, sales, distribution centres, and administrative offices all over the ...

Montage Editing – this is a way of editing that allows for short clips to be edited together into a condensed sequence of shots. This condensed sequence often makes up key images or clips from a filmAlfred Hitchcock- was a famous film director and producer. He created many different methods of creating a sense of suspense throughout a film that is now used in many modern features. His psychological take on horror and suspense was renownedStanley Kubrick – created and directed many ground breaking films. He was known for being able to direct, produce, write, and edit his own films. MPAA –is an abbreviation of the Motion ...

As the head of North Korean intelligence apparatus, I am about to broadcast a 15 days nationwide action plan, designed precluding economic folding, to assess how the US will respond to the 15-day exercise. The action encompasses six areas of intelligence discipline, which are OSINT, GEOINT, MASINT, HUMINT, SIGNT and Cyber collection.

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence):

Publicly assessable information will be searched and analyzed to assess US response and actions taken. OSIT has been a popular source by the intelligence community. Owing to, globally, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and additional middling will be scrutinized. In addition, cyber espionages will also be assessed. Teams will be ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

A Critical Analysis of the UNODC
Origin and Primary Mandate
The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) is a supranational organization under the United Nations (UN) that seeks to prevent the spread of illegal drugs and transnational crime. Founded in 1997, the UNODC originated through the union of two separate offices – the United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the Center for International Crime Prevention (CICP), with each of their respective mandates converging to that of the present organization (UNODC).
The UNODC operates in different parts of the world, with 90% ...

Organizations function as an independent entity in the business environment. The action, behavior and culture of an organization is shaped and governed by its employee’s managers and stake holders. In each organization there are certain vital components that influences the way it behaves and function. The book Organizational Behavior by Robbins and Judge examines some of these vital components and presents research to highlight their importance. The role of a manager is to identify these components and incorporate them in daily processes to improve efficiency productivity and effectiveness. In this paper I discuss some of these vital components and ...

The authors indicated that the movie directors tend to twist facts so as to make their films more interesting and acceptable to the movie goers and ultimately to ensure that they are more bankable or financially successful in Hollywood. The article on ``Cinderella Man'' for instance had pointed out that the movie director of this film Ron Howard had ``omitted or suppressed'' some good qualities of a major character (in this case boxer Max Bauer who fought the lead character, fellow boxer James Braddock). Bauer was portrayed at one point in the film as a mean person (in reality he was ...

Discussion one

After reading Chapters 1-3, review the videos Ray Kurzweil on How Technology Will Transform Us and Ray Kurzweil: A University for the Coming Singularity. (Interactive transcripts are also available on the TED web site.) Based on what you have learned, which of Kurzweil's predictions do you agree with, and which do you doubt? Why? Please be specific.
After watching on Kurzweil’s video, T, there are some things that I do agree and those that I go against. The first thing that I do not agree is the projection that I the 2020s, there will be the capability ...