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A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

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Leadership skills are critical in situations where a firm intends to conduct a succession of its leadership on a periodic basis. Leadership competencies are necessary skills in ensuring a smooth flow in leadership succession and in the development of the potential of the employees who will help an organization attain its vision (Delbridge, et al. 2007, p. 42). The current trend is characterized by seasoned managers and leaders who are retiring from their business ventures thereby creating a gap that needs to be filled through practical leadership training and mentorship. The aim of this paper is to examine the ...

The term "demand" in economics means payment need, i.e. need that the subject is able to pay. From this definition it follows that the demand for a particular commodity (service) depends on the price. This means that the increase in commodity prices will lead to a decrease in demand, and, conversely, a decrease in prices will lead to higher demand. The relationship between price and quantity demanded is stable. (Agarwal, 2013) The cause of the change in demand is change. This reverse causal relationship between price and quantity demanded is the law of demand. The law of demand manifests ...

Business Memo

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In light of the scandal regarding Stephen Glass’ fabricated article - 27 articles out of 41 articles - this memo is to provide a clear explanation as to what happened along with recommendations as to what needs to be done going forward. Given that the paper’s reputation is clearly at stake, thanks to an apology that had to be made, this incident where we dupe our readers into reading fiction, as we can all agree, should never happen again at the New Republic.

Message

The journalist’s life is not an easy one. We have to churn out ...

Introduction

We all know how difficult it can be to express you and ensure that we are understood by those, who surround us in our professional environment. Business environment demands respect and high level of tolerance from all of us, outlined by the corporate rules, strategies, culture and the expectations, which are we as peers and our superiors have in this situation. Such expectations make communication process in a way, more structured and easier to adjust to the existing norms and formal rules, set out by organizational hierarchy and cognitive and emotional behavior regulations. Politics and diplomatic tone in our ...

News Story #1

Road Rage Incident on Gloucester PI, Two Drivers Come to Blows A traffic accident on Gloucester PI resulted in an alarming case of road rage in Brighton on Monday, creating a traffic jam that lasted nearly an hour. According to several fellow drivers surrounding the vehicles in question, at approximately 1:25 PM, a young woman driving a blue car attempted to merge into the left lane, when a man in the left lane rolled down his window and began yelling at her and refused to let her in. After a short verbal confrontation, the woman then drove forward and ...

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Educators, civil rights advocates, law enforcement and development organizations for youth would agree that bullying can be avoided. Bullying can lead to serious impairment of both the health and achievement of vulnerable victims. Research indicated that nine out of ten elementary school children have been subjected to physical or psychological bullying by their peers, while six in ten have been bullies themselves (Reiter & Lefler, 2007 as cited in Cooper, 2011). Bullying can be considered a feature of school violence, which is a major concern in education today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fact Sheet 2010 revealed ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), driverless, and autonomous trucks and cars—collectively referred to as “driverless and autonomous vehicles” in this paper. The transportation industry is one of the most important sectors in the world economy. It ensures that goods and services can freely flow within unrestricted (i.e. trade-able) areas. This is allowed through the fast and efficient (as much as possible) of commodities and people. The premise is that the faster and more efficient goods and people can be moved from one point to another, the more booming the transportation industry will be. A booming ...

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Organizations from around the world are working on improving the qualities and capabilities of leaders and managers, and developing new leaders. Moreover, a large number of executives and officials consider leadership development as an important priority not only in the present world but also in the future. Nearly, two-thirds of 500 executives showed leadership development as their top most concern (Gurdjian, Halbeisen, & Lane, 2014). This is due to the fact that organizations can’t flourish with average leaders. Whereas, an exceptional leader can deal effectively with employee commitment, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability and these things ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Response Paper

According to Chapter 1 of the Podolny reading, for status to flow through exchange, there is need for the actors to maintain their reputation when it comes to exchange. This means that if an actor in the hierarchy of exchange has earned a good reputation over time, it is not worth ruining for in order to make quick profits from an item whose hype may be short-lived. Maintaining one’s reputation for a service ensures that every actor is able to maintain his or her image and position thereby making sure that the exchange of services flow seamlessly within ...

Basis of opinions

The presented case was argued on 13th October, 2004 where the constitutionality of capital punishments for juveniles was challenged through an appeal. The basis of the argument of the Eighth Amendment as it is related to unusual and cruel punishments for crimes committed by individuals (Lane, 2005). The decision of the Supreme Court in 1988 under Thompson v. Oklahoma was to bar the execution of offenders who are below 16 years. Another case was heard in 1989; Stanford v. Kentucky, which indicated the possibility of having capital punishments rendered to individuals below 17 years. Based on the evolving standards ...

The paper defines fracking, describes its merits and demerits. Besides, it discusses effects of fracking on the environment. It concludes that fracking should be stopped and offers ways of stopping fracking. Fracking is a concept that denotes a method of drilling into the ground then directing a high-pressure mixture of water at the rock as well as rock formations to produce gas and oil (Lane, 2013). The mixture consists of chemicals, sand, as well as water, which is directed at a rock at some high pressure to eject gas or oil to the earth's surface. A fracking procedure can ...

Communication

Mean of a group of numbers is simply the average value of those numbers. Thus, mean is the sum of the values in a list divided by the total values in the list. Let us take a sample list of numbers i.e. 1, 6, 7, 7, 9. In this case, the mean is (1+6+7+7+9) / 5 = 6. Secondly, Mode is that number in a given list which appears the most in the list. In other words the number which is repeated the most times in a list is mode of that list. If one or ...

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SWOT analysis for Primark.4 Strength4 Weakness.4 Opportunity..4

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Motivation6 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.6 Herzberg’s Two-factor theory..6

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Marketing.7 Primark Marketing Mix8 Price.8 Product.8 Place.8 Question five9 Demand and price9 Quality..9

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How globalization drivers affect Primark..10

Cost Drivers10

Government Drivers..10

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Market Drivers11 7b. The most Important Drivers (Technological drivers) .11 References..12 Question One 1. a) SWOT Analysis for Primark Strength The primary strength Primark enjoys is a large market. Primark has already concurred most of the European market and is expanding in the United States market. A large market is strength since it provides Primark with a large base of ...

Currently, feminism is a social movement that has brought a tremendous effect on film criticism and theory. The cinema has been widely taken by feminists to be an ethnical practice depicting myths concerning women and femininity. As a result, the issues of spectatorship and representation are key to feminist film criticism and theory. In the past decades, feminist criticism was aimed at women particularly those in Hollywood movies. Such fixed, the endless repetition of images of women were conceived to be obnoxious distortions that would set back the female observer (Hilderbrand and Lucas 345). Nevertheless, the understanding dawned that ...

Introduction

The initiation of the North Shore Boulevard Project is primarily prompted on the tenets that the Mount Low Parkway has experienced increased congestion levels due to the enormous growth in the Northern Beaches. The project is designed to construct a road linking Lionel Turner Drive and no. 151 Mount Low Parkway to the end of the existing stub of the North Shore Boulevard near the Bruce Highway. The huge economic development in the areas around Northern Beaches has proved to be a critical aspect of the future prosperity of Townville. Therefore, an immediate, optimal solution to creating enhanced and ...

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Introduction This perennial question about the existence of God has always been the favorite topic in many debates. It seems that this issue has never been laid to rest yet. This time, the debate was hosted by Birmingham University, in October 2011, and the two top-caliber debaters were Professor William Lane Craig, who defended the issue on the existence of God, against Professor Peter Millican, a skeptic and atheist himself, who believes that God does not exist. Both were conversant in their own field of expertise and they presented their positions thoroughly well. This paper will then ...

Introduction

Contemporary academic analysis is concentrated on the issue of states’ emergence. The former is analyzed in different social, political, and economic contexts. Such state of affairs can be explained from the practical point of view, meaning nowadays there are many players at the international level which have recently appeared. However, in order to understand the nature of the aforementioned processes, the historical analysis is thought to be of great importance, since lots of contemporary phenomena took place in the previous centuries. Thus, in this paper, the correlation between the Sykes-Picot agreement, formation of the Palestinian identity, and creation of ...

The play “The Importance of being Earnest” was written by Oscar Wilde, and was first seen in a theater in 1895. The play is a comedy which uses various literary techniques to bring out various themes in the Victorian era. Irony is a major literary technique in the play in which the protagonist named Jack uses the name Earnest as an alibi whenever he wishes to escape from his reality. He has created an imaginary character in his head in which he has a younger brother by the name Earnest (Wilde 15). In his real world, he is however ...

Analysis of the opening sequence in ‘A touch of sin’

The opening sequence of the film ‘A touch of sin’ (2013) is taken into consideration for analyzing the scene by using the mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing for the scene. This scene starts at 1: 47 and ends at 3:50 in the movie’s timeline. The scene begins with a toppled truck spilling all the tomatoes on the two lane highway and blocking most of the road. The scene explains the situation when a traveler is attacked by three roadside thugs who try to loot him and all of them threaten him with an axe. The traveler seems to be ...

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Casually cited as ‘Nueroscientist’,Marin Lindstorm,is a well known brand expert around the world and is largely renowned for his ideas on neuro-marketing and how the companies can take the benefit from the tendency of the consumers to follow impulse buying. His most famous work, Buyology, where he analyzed more than 2000 people to buy in the world filled up with clutter crisis, and what role does human psyche and subconscious mind in inducing the buyer to buy the product, the ideas perfectly supplemented the content of the article ‘‘In Search of Buy Button’’. As we read in ...

Abstract

A dual carriageway is proposed to be constructed in the town moving in the east-west direction. The dual carriage is intended to be eight-kilometer long looping around the northern part of the town. Cut and fill techniques are used where half of the road is cut to a maximum of six meters. Half of the road is supported by an embankment of six meters high. At the eastern and western ends of the road are of grade where the road joins other roads and at the middle where the cut sections meet the filled sections. The road has a ...

Local domestic violence is a social problem that leaves the victims suffering a myriad of challenges. These problems encompass physical torture, deprivation, emotional and psychological problems. While the physical torture leaves the victims in need of medical care and a place where their hearts can heal, their mental problems and emotional issues remain in need of attention until help is availed to them. Evidence shows that cases of local domestic violence are still high in the United States. Further studies have associated local domestic violence to post-traumatic stress disorders which leave the victims suffering even longer after the violence ...

For most people, it is difficult to believe that a woman would rape a man. Contrary to most people’s beliefs most men fall victim to incidences of rape by women. Rape occurs when is made to engage in sexual activity unwillingly or without consent (Masho and Anderson 99). A man can fall victim to rape if he is; impaired by alcohol or drugs, physically limited or handicapped, below the age of consent which in most states is between 16 to 18 years of age and coerced or physically forced by a woman. According to the Bureau of Justice ...

There is a major environmental degradation to the Chinese natural tourism spots. The discussion examines a few natural features, and how they have undergone degradation due to the poor government’s conservation efforts. Environment and the environmental conservation are very big issues in China today.The prospect and value of environment is slowly degrading in China, and this is expected to escalate even further since people do not see the importance of environmental conservation (Pan Par.7). In other country, there are always some rules to help environment protection and people know they need to keep the environment clean ( National Park ...

Establishing the national homeland security initiative right remains the most challenging task in the Turkey owing to the concerns in protecting the homeland are based on pervasive competency, over-centralization, entrenched politics, and corruption that frequently make Washington not to discharge their duties appropriately. Given numerous terrorist and criminal activities being witnessed in Turkey’s neighboring countries, like Iraq and Syria, which are believed to make nuclear weapons, there is an urgent need to strengthen Turkey’s Homeland security. The recommendations indicated in this article are vital steps in setting up the suited kind of homeland security for Turkey. The ...

Executive Summary

Jack Welch is one of the formidable American chief executives of all times. Staying at the helm of General Electric for more than twenty years, he managed to increase total value of the company on 4,000%, eradicate corporate bureaucracy and create a completely new business philosophy of the corporation. This research analyzes the core elements of his leadership style. In particular, it speaks about the methods, which Jack Welch used for transforming the company and the challenges, which he faced in this endeavor. The case study specifically focuses on analyzing re-structuring of the top-management of GE, his approach ...

Background

According to Martin Richard Kuklinski, also known as Iceman was an American professional murderer who was contracted to kill people. Eventually, Kuklinski was convicted of the five known murders (2006). Richard was given the name Iceman because of his continuous unique method of freezing the people he killed to conceal the real date of the murder. Richard was born on 11 April 1935 to parents Stanley a Polish immigrant and Anna Kuklinski, an Irish immigrant, in New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was the second born in a family of four children. His father was a brakeman on the railway station; ...

BUSINESS IN EMERGING MARKETS

Introduction The theory of natural resource curse can be founded back from the 1970s. Resource curse has been an important topic for researchers since two subsequent decades; multiple research efforts have proposed the association between the production of resources, numerous socio-political ills, and, economic underperformance. The role of natural resources in the growth of the economy has been a question of immense debate. If the role of natural resources is considered in common sense, then economic growth theories propose that natural resources are the gift and economies through building their capital can grow economies. However, if the revenue spending ...

1 Introduction This essay is about an advertising campaign for Apple laptops. The essay will describe the personal background, the laptops’ and Apple’s background in the first section, research on how the paper was prepared will be discussed in section two, target market will be handled in section four, the campaign objectives are highlighted in section four, creative planning is in section five and the advertisements are in section six.

Personal Background

This essay is an advertising campaign for a particular product and brand of choice, and I have choses a laptop as a product and Apple as the brand. ...

Self-employment and choice

The production of a large in-house capacity allows craft beer companies to apply more control and flexibility over how the beer industry operates. Additionally, it allows the management to make some prompt changes in the products according to the preference of the customers and changes in the market demand that are more unpredictable due to quick changes. However, there are over 1,500 craft beer companies in the United States brewing numerous delicious and flavorful craft beers (Chen). Moreover, these companies are not making similar older beers. Therefore, each craft brewery is making its beer in a special way ...

Delivery date

Every country exhibits two kinds of economy, these are the formal and informal economy. However, the formal sector is the most important for every country. It's what determines the country’s position of development as well as growth. Formal economy is made up of all the sectors of the economy that can be taxed. The formal jobs which contribute towards the growth and development of the country and are taxed to make up this kind of the economy. They include companies, industries, big businesses and some medium-sized and small corporations. So long as they pay taxes, the business no ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Introduction Bicycling is one of the most sustainable modes of transport and plays an important role in the transport system. Cycling has a number of benefits that include improving the quality of life, reduction of traffic congestion in cities, positive health outcomes due to the exercises involved, providing a suitable form of transport for short distances and environmental conservation among many other benefits. A number of cities have adopted bicycle master plans as they try to capitalize on the cycling opportunity (Litman et al., 2005). This has meant that bicycle ways are being created and existing roads are being ...

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Introduction This perennial question about the existence of God has always been the favorite topic in many debates. It seems that this issue has never been laid to rest yet. This time, the debate was hosted by Birmingham University, in October 2011, and the protagonists were Professors William Lane Craig, who defended the issue on the existence of God, against Professors Peter Millican, a skeptic and atheist himself, who believes that God does not exist. Both were top calibers in their own field of expertise and they presented their position thoroughly well. I agree with Professor William ...

Synopsis

Franny and Zoey were written as two different stories, the first being a short story about Franny, a college student dissatisfied with the pretentious American society as epitomized by her boyfriend, Lane. He even pretends he does not remember the letter he was just reading before the train arrived. The events of the story take place at a French restaurant where Lane takes Franny during their date, and the conversation that ensues is indicative of just how the two are different. Lane talks incessantly about his school work and assumes that Franny does not understand some of the words ...

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 Introduction Statement of Problem Statement of Purpose Research Questions Significance of the Study Definition of Terms: Chapter 11 History of pay inequality Chapter 111 Laws Chapter 1V Women in leadership roles Chapter V Research Methodology Conclusion

Bibliography

Abstract Gender Differences as a Predictor of Salaries in Leadership Roles. Salaries have increased drastically in the past 50 years but still there is a salary disparity between men and women. In today’s workplace, leadership roles are very competitive. Applicants must have many qualifications to be considered for leadership positions. Workforce found that women needed a Ph.D. to equal the ...

Module 5

‘’Rent-a-Board’’ is keeping its focus on targeting teen and young aged customers and I duly understand that when it comes to young customer segment, marketing message should be unique and we need to stand out from the competitors. Therefore, before infiltrating the target market segment and framing the marketing plan, I need to understand the customer’s concerns and what my rivals are lacking. While writing this, I recall what the great- Steve Jobs said while launching IPhone in 2008’’ We all have smartphones, but we hate these crappy smartphones, and Apple wanted to make this experience better, and ...

Analysis of the organisational profile of Lane Automotive and SWOT Analysis

Abstract This paper uses the company websites, newspaper publications etc. to research on the organisational profile and the current company’s position of Lane Automotive. Lane Automotive has secured a brand name in the Automotive Industry. The organisational analysis enables us to know the strength and the opportunities it has to help it maximise its profits also the threat that needs to be kept under check and the weaknesses that needs it to overcome. The research suggests that Lane has its strong brand name and popularity as well as sponsorships of big racing events as its strength, the market ...

Global Financial Crisis in the US

Introduction It was hard for the economists, professional analysts and policymakers among other players in the financial industry to foresee the crisis in the US mortgage lending industry in 2007 that resulted in the world's worst economic recession in two years' time (Sher and Iyanatul 2010). Initially, there was a housing bubble characterized by high house prices, low-interest rates, more support for subprime mortgage and increased speculation by the buyers (Acharya and Schnabl 2010). Eventually, there were decline of house market prices, increased lending rates and increased default and foreclosures by the mortgagors (John 2009). Notably, by mid-2008 the ...

Improve Bus Tracking System

Improve Bus Tracking System The objective of this given memo is to describe the purpose of employing a tracking system in transportation to avoid sector to avoid passengers getting stranded in bus stops, get cold in ice winter-stricken station lobbies without hopes of boarding a bus in the next free minutes. The attached is the methods that prove the effectiveness of an improved bus tracking system – the global positioning system (GPS) service. The methods for testing the service are discussed as well. How an improved bus tracking system, modern technology enables passengers to track their bus and know their ...

Human Resource Plan

The planning of manpower within a construction project in order to ensure that appropriate HR with the rightly qualified employees are hired to deliver the skills and efforts required (Chand, 2014). It also ensures that all existing HRs are functional and anticipates a future requirement. The plan allows the HRM to recruit the suited individuals in the market while managing employee retentions. In fact, the foundation of decisions regarding how to hire, fire, pay, and train the employees are part of this plan in order to enlighten the workforce about the standard working procedures (Lane, 2015). These procedures incorporate ...