Essays on The Edge

Introduction

Sony Corporation began in 1946 in Tokyo as a manufacturer of measurement and telecommunications equipment. Over the decades that followed, Sony became a major player in electronic markets such as communications, audio and video equipment’s meant for professional and home use. By 2010 the company had more than 171,000 employees worldwide in countries such as china, the United States, Europe and japan. In the financial year ending March 31st, 2010, Sony Corporation reported annual sales of $89billion. Sony introduced the VAIO series of computer products to build its consumer lines and debited the market with desktop product ( ...

Introduction

There are several reasons why the annual Burning Man festival is unique among mass gatherings. Held in the Black Rock section of America’s Great Basin desert in Nevada, Burning Man’s 70,000 participants construct a city that houses—and in itself functions as—a participatory performing arts space, a communal spiritual retreat, and a cathartic experience of radical self-expression (Brill 2007). Then, one week later, they tear it all down, pack everything out, and leave no trace behind. It is an anti-market event (Cesewski & Giles 2007) whose participants rely on gift-giving and barter to secure any necessities ...

At one point during the life of a small business, the owners find themselves with the decision of whether or not to change from a manual system to a computerized system. There is an incentive for small business owners to automate the processes. Among other reasons, automation eliminates the mundane tasks that take up the time of the employees (Moore and Justin 536). For instance, the generation of reports by an accountant can be laborious when done manually. However, a computerized system will allow the accountant to generate reports quickly and allow more time for other tasks. Additionally, automation ...

English astronomer W. Herschel discovered planetary nebulae in about 1783. Nebulae received the name "planetary" on account of their external similarity with the images of distant planets, light wheels of which are different from the point images of the stars. “A planetary nebula is a beautiful object created during the final stages of the life of a star whose birth mass was between 1 and 8 solar masses” (“Planetary Nebulae”). A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of an ionized gas shell and the central star, a white dwarf. All planetary nebulae originate from stars that are in ...

“The ecological crisis is very real, and it is getting worse at exponential speed. However, there is a silver lining on the current cloud of global gloom: The ecological crisis is interconnected with a global economic, political, social, and cultural crisis due to the fact the treadmill of production is failing to meet most people’s needs. The failure of the old paradigm of constant economic growth, combined with the reality of constitutional democracy in nations like the United States, will lead people to take the political actions and support the public policies necessary to build a sustainable world”. ...

Summary of Martin Barker’s Research

The main subject of Martin Barker’s Research is to assess audience perceptions of sexual violence (with a focus on rape) when included in films. In a BBFC report on the research, it is noted that Barker assesses natural audiences (that is, those that had chosen to see the films themselves) and their response to five films: A Ma Soeur, Baise-Moi, The House on the Edge of the Park, Ichi the Killer, and Irreversible (Barker et al. 3). These films were chosen because of their portrayal of sexual violence, meaning that they can be used to highlight natural audience ...

Question 1

Virgin Galactic is the first space line in the world that owns and runs privately built spaceships. The company plans to be the pioneer in commercializing space travel and offering ordinary people a unique opportunity of going into history as the first ever non-professional astronauts. Its main competitor is the Blue Origin, which has already attained a spectacular achievement in pioneering the first rocket booster to make a safe trip back to earth from space (The Economist, 2015). Virgin Galactic plans to use its massive resources and synergistic effects from the Virgin Group umbrella to beat its competitor in ...

Shot in 1997 by Takeshi Kitano, Hana-bi is a Japanese motion picture whose success reached the international level. Translated as “Fireworks” for the US release, the film brought fame to Takeshi Kitano and made him a recognizable director outside of Japan. Though the film’s storyline can hardly be called innovative, the Asian approach and view of life found the international critical acclaim and brought the director numerous prestigious nominations and awards. Hana-bi’s artistic and intertextual codes are still admired by the contemporary audience in spite of the fact that the film was released almost twenty years ago. ...