« Joseph Provenzano Danger at a Distance: Question Two The nomenclature of "disaster movie" is as difficult a classification to place upon a film as any; for its ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe nomenclature of “disaster movie” is as difficult a classification to place upon a film as any; for its definition is extremely malleable. Many movies incorporate a disaster, or even numerous disasters, and are still not known as “disaster movies”; the definition is not that simple. A disaster movie is usually declared as such when, and only when, the entire essence of the film revolves around disaster. Characters, and the realities which they inhabit, seem to exist only in order to be affected by the disaster(s). Disaster movies of all types (from alien invasions to in-peril travel movies), operate within the same formulaic realm; the death toll is large, the disasters horrific, and hero(s) nearly always saves the day. The allure of the disaster movie is that of “danger at a distance”; the audience can live (and nearly die) vicariously through the characters facing the disaster, while remaining safe in the knowledge that it’s only a movie. The thrill is the heart of the disaster movie. However, there is more to the average disaster film than meets the eye; these films have a way of acutely reflecting the times in which they are created. Disaster movies are often capable of analogizing the fears and concerns of contemporary society in particularly inspired and insightful ways.
Table of Contents- In the 1950's and 1960's, disaster movies based in the realm of science fiction reigned supreme.
- What set these sci-fi disaster movies apart, other than their enhanced visuals and massive scales of destruction, was the fact that they were not based in a tangible reality.
- One of the largest fears during this time period was the use/misuse of nuclear weaponry.
- Within all the sub-genres of sci-fi disaster movies (nuclear monsters, space invaders, etc.) at least one similarity universally existed.
- Another prime example of this form of disaster movie is 1972's The Poseidon Adventure.
- Whether watching the Earth under attack from flying saucers in The War of the Worlds (1953), or rooting for Gene Hackman to save the day in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), audiences have always flocked to disaster movies.
« this puts the women in immediate danger just as the abortion providers are also in danger. to protest and does so herself, I feel it is a fair distance for him ...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn the war waged between abortion-rights activists and anti-abortion protestors, the front lines are often in front of abortion clinics or medical facilities that provide abortions. Since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, legal abortion in the United States has been one of the single most debated laws in recent memory. The issue, to many, is both personal and political. When issues of morality are put aside, the debate turns to anti-abortion protestors who historically picket abortion providers and harass pregnant women. While many forms of protest are allowed in this country, these protests have special circumstances to consider. For the purposes of this analysis, we will assume that the majority of abortion protests take place in front of abortion clinics.
Table of Contents- Place.
- Violence is Not the Answer.
- Time.
- On The Road.
- Manner.
- Taking It Personally.
- Necessary Restriction.
« greater demand for this coffee, then, is matched by the danger of losing Politics of Knowledge Though growers hope to decrease the distance between themselves ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThough I have never been a coffee-drinker, the ideological and symbolic weight of coffee has not escaped me. With caffeine for the office worker and flavor for the distinguished upper-class palate, coffee’s appeal stretches across many socioeconomic categories and occupies a unique register of social and professional life. And yet, as with most commodities, I find myself on the consumption side of the chain. A privileged position, to be sure, since the production of coffee has long been associated with labor exploitation, environmental damage, and human rights abuses. This widely publicized “underside” of coffee production, which has lead to the emergence of fair trade and organic labels for coffee, now leads me to ask about the viability of labeled coffee in the wake of the ongoing Zapatista struggle for indigenous rights in Chiapas, Mexico.
Table of Contents- The Power and Marketing of Quality
- On the other end of the commodity chain, the marketing of quality helps establish niche markets and create discourses of taste.
- The Danger and Promise of Growth.
- Ruiz also states in his interview, 'Many people in Europe and the United States who drink coffee have never seen a coffee plant.
- The Production and Politics of Knowledge.
- Labor and Social Capital.
- Conclusion
« The only thing that is common concerning Power Distance in all Unilever entities is salaries des conditions de travail qui ne mettent pas en danger leur sante ...» Document abstract
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SummaryWe have decided to study the company Unilever for several reasons. Firstly, Unilever is a European company that is one of the biggest multinational in the world. Secondly, as we have chosen to study the corporate culture of multinationals, Unilever presents a quite particular corporate culture. Indeed, as opposed to most of other multinationals, Unilever presents values based on human relationships and local autonomy. Finally, we had the opportunity to get an interview with a Unilever’s executive called Stéphane Verhaeren. He is Brand Manager for Knorr Culinary Aids.
Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company which owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs more than 247,000 people and had a worldwide revenue of 48 760 million euro in 2004. Unilever has two parent companies: Unilever NV in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Unilever PLC in London, United Kingdom. The current non-executive Chairman of Unilever N.V. and PLC is Antony Burgmans while Patrick Cescau is Group Chief Executive. Unilever's major competitors include Nestlé and Procter & Gamble.
Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company which owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs more than 247,000 people and had a worldwide revenue of 48 760 million euro in 2004. Unilever has two parent companies: Unilever NV in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Unilever PLC in London, United Kingdom. The current non-executive Chairman of Unilever N.V. and PLC is Antony Burgmans while Patrick Cescau is Group Chief Executive. Unilever's major competitors include Nestlé and Procter & Gamble.
Table of Contents- The history of Unilever
- Corporate culture theory
- Hofstede's cultural dimension
- Description of the management style
- Sociability and solidarity: Two Dimensions, Four Cultures
- Practical case: Unilever
- Description of Unilever's culture
- Harmonization of corporate culture in Unilever
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Summary Moreover, the French and Canadian governments have recently tried to strengthen their business relationships, and encourage trade between them. It may be very interesting for the French toy industry to penetrate the Canadian market as its presence there remains reduced, and Canada seems an excellent destination due to the opportunities that such a market creates. It may also revive the French national toy industry.
In a first part, we will make a market survey of similar products in Canada, making an overview of the market and studying the evolution of the toy sector. Then, in a second part, we will analyze the transport network which is a key factor in international trade. And we will finally weigh the feasibility of the project...
In a first part, we will make a market survey of similar products in Canada, making an overview of the market and studying the evolution of the toy sector. Then, in a second part, we will analyze the transport network which is a key factor in international trade. And we will finally weigh the feasibility of the project...
Table of Contents- Market survey of similar products in Canada.
- Overview of the Canadian market.
- The supply.
- The demand : the Canadian consumer.
- Analysis of transport means, distribution channels and norms.
- Transport means.
- Distribution channels.
- Norms.
- Taxes.
- Recommendation of feasibility or non feasibility.
- Feasibility.
- Pending difficulties.
« discovers that Rowan Morrison is alive, but believes that she is in great danger. . even admiring the strange practices of the locals from a distance, while Sgt ...» Document abstract
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SummaryA horror movie does not work unless it is frightening. A meek horror film is as ineffective as an unfunny comedy or an uninteresting drama. If a horror film succeeds at being scary, then, by definition, the filmmakers behind it have accomplished what they set out to make. The difference between a good horror movie and a great horror movie, however, is its ability to transcend the genre. Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) is, today, universally accepted as one of the greatest genre movies of all time. It is a perfectly crafted horror film; frightening and engrossing. It is also much more than the horror movie. With its emphasis on music and songs, at times it approaches a musical. Moreover, its highly engrossing storyline and deep, well-rounded characters arguably make it a drama. However, The Wicker Man is, at heart, a horror film. Its ability to transcend the genre lies in its willingness to acknowledge itself as a horror movie, and its capacity to move far beyond such a simple categorization. An intelligent, thought-provoking work, it challenges the very ideals most audience members hold sacred. Taking on organized religion, sex, and morality, The Wicker Man deals with topics and ideas that most films are afraid to confront. Perhaps due to the fact that it was created under the simple classification of a “horror movie”, it is able to explore themes that most mainstream films shy away from. The Wicker Man stands as one of the greatest horror films ever made, but it is much more. Highly influential, thoroughly controversial, and inarguably provocative, it is an intensely brave movie that has the ability to transcend almost any label that can be attached to it.
Table of Contents- The film begins in Scotland, where Police Sgt. Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) receives a mysterious letter from Summerisle; a small, reclusive island off the coast of the mainland.
- Sgt. Howie is a deeply religious, intensely prudish police officer that lives and breaths by the word of the Bible.
- As The Wicker Man progresses, however, these traditions seem less and less mysterious, and the audience begins to grow intensely interested in the belief system of the people of Summerisle.
- That night, as Sgt. Howie is praying by his bedside, he witnesses Lord Summerisle standing with a teenage boy outside Willow's window.
- The Wicker Man is, for the most part, even-handed in its representations of Christianity and the pagan-based ideology of the Summerislanders.
- Sgt. Howie eventually discovers that Rowan Morrison is alive, but believes that she is in great danger.
- It is not hard to see why The Wicker Man, upon its initial release, was largely praised by critics, and largely ignored by audiences.
- The Wicker Man is a brilliant genre picture because it is atmospheric, frightening, and in the end, quite disturbing; all attributes of any successful horror film.
« "We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit Marinetti also preached that writers shouldn't slow their writing or distance themselves from the emotion and ...» Document abstract
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SummaryFuturism (1909-1944), which actually owes its inception to poetry, was the first major art movement of the 20th century. It encompassed not only nearly every form of creative expression, including practical arts like architecture, advertising, and product design. Interestingly, there were two very separate and very different Futurist movements during roughly the same time period, one in Italy and one in Russia, though the Russian Futurists are often overlooked because the Italian movement was much more heavily publicized. Though the cores of both movements were relatively short-lived, Futurism left lasting effects on many forms of art and design, particularly book design and typography.
Table of Contents- Introduction
- Italian Futurism
- Italian Futurist Books
- Russian Futurism
- Russian Futurist Books
- Conclusion
« After the Americans lost the war, the Hmong were in danger of being put into re A woman also has the option of running away, usually a short distance, to show ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans. During the Silent War in Laos, which was fought between the Communist party, called the PL, in Laos and the US American CIA, the Hmong aided the CIA by fighting on the ground as guerilla fighters. After the Americans lost the war, the Hmong were in danger of being put into re-education camps by the new communist government in Laos. Therefore, during 1975-2004, over 300,000 Lao, or 10% of the population, mostly Hmong, resettled in America (Cummings and Burke 2005: 31). Most of the Hmong immigrants moved to Stockton, California, Seattle, Washington, Lacrosse and Madison, Wisconsin and The Twin Cities, Minnesota, where they formed Hmong communities, usually with extended families living in the same apartment building, if not the same apartment. The Hmong have had some problems finding a balance between keeping Hmong culture and tradition and adjusting to American culture and traditions.
Table of Contents- The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula
- Donnelly points out 'the most immediately striking aspect of gender roles in Hmong society, described time and again by researchers, is the apparent hierarchical relation between men and women,?
- Power and Independence
- Childbirth
- Divorce
- Courtship and dating
- Conclusions
« but somehow every culture has developed its own way to distance itself from Cited Douglas, Mary 1966 "Secular Defilement" in Purity and Danger: Analysis of the ...» Document abstract
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SummaryOthering occurs every day; sometimes we become so accustomed to it that we cease to notice it or its effects. However, for something so common, othering is surprisingly difficult to define, but we know it when we see it. To me, othering means to exclude someone because of a perceived or real difference; often we “other” because dealing with differences can be problematic and uncomfortable. Yet, sometimes othering takes on more pernicious and deliberate forms, such as racism and sexism. Through our long history of othering, we have devised many different ways to “other” others: we stigmatize them, we say they pollute, and we create discourses to separate “us” from “them”. While each of these ways of othering is distinct, these systems all illustrate ways in which we put up barriers between ourselves and people different from us.
Table of Contents- When I think of stigma, I think of someone who has been symbolically marked as dirty or immoral
- In Mary Douglas' writings on pollution, we focus not on environmental types of pollution
- Stuart Hall explores the topic of discourse in his Modernity
- Much of Hall's work focuses on the discourse between 'the West and the Rest?.
- Pollution and stigma are fairly simple to define; however, a discourse is more abstract
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