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The invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, was the wide-scale military operation of British and American troops against Hitler’s army. In fact, it was one of the most crucial moments in World War II after the defeat of German troops near Stalingrad. This predicted the German surrender at discretion and prevention of the world from the Nazi chimera. Three movies, The Longest Day (1962), Saving Private Ryan (1999), and Band of Brothers (2002), are dedicated to the D-Day invasion in Normandy. Their plots are different. However, the atmosphere and background of the events point out the same location (Normandy, Belgium, in particular), same conditions, and same tragedy with victorious outcomes. The role of preparations for the invasion is significant in all three movies. Description of how it was implemented physically and emotionally cannot be outlined without points on soldiers’ heroism and brevity while struggling against Hitler’s forces. In The Longest Day , the plot of the movie discovers the solidarity of British-American allied troops along with the French soldiers during the D-Day. In fact, this film directed by Darryl F. Zanuck was aimed at showing the initial difficulties of the operation due to the weather conditions. Though most of the generals thought it was a misfortune for the anti-Hitler invasion, the operation started. The director took basis for the description of the invasion from the book by Cornelius Ryan. The director tried to get closer to the events by means of letting the main characters speak in their native languages. It made an atmosphere of brotherhood between soldiers for the purpose of total destruction of Nazis. Moreover, the film is screened in classical black and white colors. It provides a viewer with emotional and mental associations concerned with World War II. The movie Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg is an improvised continuation of events description of June 6, 1944. In fact, the plot is somewhat different. However, one can see the points on humane and duty supremacy. It describes the intentions of General George C. Marshall to find out the last of four Ryan brothers. It is done during the Baker Company considered with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. The heroic deeds of several soldiers-paratroopers headed by Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) are illustrated at the moment when Hitler commanded German Panzer artillery oppose the troops of General Montgomery. Difficult weather conditions cut the provision of food, arms, and dry clothes for soldiers. On this background the most tragically exciting episodes take place. It considers the events on the way to Ramelle after the opening of Bastogne. The most tragic moment is when Captain Miller is fatally shot by “Steamboat Willie” (Joerg Stadler). Thus, the mission was completed for the sake of Private Ryan’s life by means of Captain Miller’s death. Band-Brothers is another movie talking about the events of D-Day and Baker Company and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. Initially, this story is a representation of Stephen Ambrose’s book. It is composed in the form of ten-part miniseries. The movie was produced by S. Spielberg and T
Introduction The pirate radio station is a station in the UK. It is a site delivering pirate radio culture and music which is straight from the heart of London. It is also served through a web server and screening real audio. It has played a crucial role in forming Britain’s musical test. Today, the waves of the pirate radio station in the cities are so much crowded to the extent that the pirates are been pushed to the suburbs and the countryside. It is through these that the people from the rural communities have been in a position to access these services which most of the radio stations have not achieved. Today the members from the rural communities can now have the opportunity to listen to what is happening all over the world through the many programs which are made by this radio station. As a result, most people have named it a nerve center and its headquarter is Essex’s top pirate radio station. What was crucial for the growth of the pirate radio station was the incorporation of the new technology in the performance of its many activities. This radio station has used the new technology and these are some of the factors on how this new technology has made pirate radio prosper. You find that the transistors were now a bit hugely smaller and also for the first time, these transistors were transportable. It was due to the new technology that there was a drop in the hardware price. It was due to the drop in the hardware price that most of the activities could be done effectively hence leading the company to realize its competitive advantage. You find that for a company to grow, first it needs to maintain its costs since when costs are more than the profits, then definitely the company will lead to losses. But here we see tha
Introduction Management has become a very important aspect that assists businesses in strategizing on growth and improving performance. Business oriented organizations are often made up of different groups of people who contribute to the general outcomes of the business. The entrepreneurs and shareholders are among the people who form the business organization. These two groups hold substantive amount of financial assets of the business. Are these the main shareholders of the organization? This is one of the main questions in the minds of managers. This issue complicates the exercise of management. However, management is a wide concept especially when applied to business firms. There are different aspects of management that concentrate on various functions within the firm. For instance, there is finance management that centers on finances of the organization. Shareholders and business owners often concentrate on this function (Geoffrey, 1994). Shareholders of the organization are often interested in the financial worth of a firm. This is because this is what assures them of getting tangible returns out of the investments they make in the firm (Beurden and Go¨ssling, 2008). Therefore, the essence of management in the firm is not only to increase the wealth of shareholders and business owners. Management is a large function that concentrates on the wellbeing of the entire business. The stakeholders include: Shareholders, employees, the real business owners and the general corporate environment that benefit from the business outcomes. An ethical model of doing business is discussed in this paper. This helps in explaining the essence of sustainable business practices that form the core of management in a business firm. Management, as an organizational exercise, concentrates on the sustainability of the business. Therefore, the increase of the wealth of the shareholders is just one of the many factors of sustainability in the organization. Shareholders always remain interested in the general financial outcomes of the organization. This is because they gain significantly when the firm makes a lot of wealth (Geoffrey, 1994). However, there are many parameters to whether firms are accumulating more wealth or not. This leads to a different aspect of management in the organization. The accumulation of wealth is often an end product of the entire management exercise within the firm (Cosans, 2009). Overview of the role of the business – wealth maximization and corporate social responsibility in management For a long time in history, it has been argued by experts and scholars of business management, that the main purpose of establishing business firms is making profits. This is a rational argument because no one can invest in a business venture without the motive of making money or wealt
Introduction The title little children signifies to some extent the faith and discoveries that little children make in reality. This title signifies the explorations that little children have carried in trying to identify with the world. It signifies a search of some identity in the world and in the event of providing satisfaction on ho we are as people. There are several meanings that you can find in the title. These could vary from naivety, exploration, identity search, innocence and the faith that accompany being young in age. There is also a sense of learning and betrayal as we move through this movie. Dascription of conflict Conflict is a representation of contrasting ideas in a film and how they are achieved. In life people are very unique from each other. One’s thoughts and demands do not necessarily match those of another person. Whenever they get to pursue certain interests in life, they often follow different methods and procedures that may not be favorable to the rest. These processes in the end portray conflict of interest. This is where most artwork is spun around.conflict makes art an interesting field that tends to show real life scenes and events (Dennis 2004). The conflict in this film is both internal and external. Internally, both the parties have an urge to overcome their boredom inn their marriages but the way they are thinking of achieving this is very different. Externally there is a lot of conflict in the means that both parties are going to exploit in meeting their objectives. Sarah and Brad are involved in a purely psychological conflict. Brad is looking for some appreciation since his wife views him as a failure and an imperfect person. Psychologically, he does not know how to prove himself that he is still of worth to his wife. Therefore when he meets Sarah in the neighborhood, he finally has a way of proving himself that he is still of value. Sarah is a bored stay at home mother. She has is young at heart and wants to explore herself more but she does not know how till she meets Brad. The town pool has been used symbolically to show what Sarah and Brad expect to get from each other. A calm romantic and perfect life. Sarah feels that if life were to be this way, she would get to rediscover herself. She longs for something that only exists in her mind. This conflicts with what Brad expects from her, a way of getting appreciated. The entry of Ronnie into the film has some symbolism. Ronnie, the child molester signifies that life cannot be perfect and in a way there have to be bad people or bad characters in h
Introduction This paper focuses on a Project Management Analysis that seeks to analyze the experience of a group with a community partner. In this light, we chose the Brothers of Change to be the community partner for this project. The organization is a non-profitable organization that offers courses on cooking and helps the student to get jobs easily. During the interaction with the community partner, the group adopted a method of a participant observer. This method required the group to take part in various activities of an organization and make the observations simultaneously. Therefore, the community partner allowed us to give direct service to them for fifteen hours. Also, they allowed us to observe the proceedings of a cooking class, five hours for designing a marketing plan and fifteen hours of indirect service to the organization. This analysis will describe how the group used organizational concepts during the interaction with the community partner. The analysis will describe the general experience with the partner, communication power, influence, leadership, motivation, team building, team dynamics, conflict resolution, negotiations, emotions, attitudes, stress, and the organizational culture. General Experience The team comprised of five participants including Jiahong Lin, Gabriella de Castro, Viveka Yeung, Kerry Xiao, and Fernando Ucha. Gabriella de Castro was the team leader and the main contact person. His main role was to communicate with the partner and update us the other team members on the progress. Also, he was responsible for assigning duties to the various group members. During the interaction, we had various challenges that faced us. In the beginning, the management did not have a positive attitude towards the group. The management was not willing to communicate with us since we were strangers to the organization. Also, they were not willing to assign duties to the group since they could not trust us. Preliminarily, we communicated through emails that did not help us to complete the communication. However, we decide to approach the management physically and negotiate with them. At last, we managed to talk to them and carry on with the project. Later, the management assigned us time for various activities including class observations, planning a marketing strategy and serving them directly. Financial constraints posed a serious challenge towards the project and affected the efficiency of the team. However, we applied various organizational concepts to help us eliminate the challenges. Communication Power and Influence During the lectures, we learned that communication is the main pillar for conducting a community service especially when the subjects are working in a team. In this light, communication is categorized into internal and extern
Introduction The Women’s Movement, also called the Feminist Movement and the Women’s Liberation Movement, includes a series of efforts by women in the world to fight for restoration of gender equality. The Movement began mainly in Britain and the United States, and went on to accelerate to a lesser degree in the former and to a tremendous degree in the latter. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only that that ever has.” These sage words of famous American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead is an appropriate elucidation of the Women’s Movement as it progressed from its humble beginnings to its stunning world-changing achievements, coordinated by a group of simple, ordinary women gifted with single-minded and dedicated zeal and steely determination to make the world a better place for women to live in. Starting from 1865, there have been many milestones in the successful progress of the Women’s Movement. 1865 – 1892 The Declaration of Sentiments that was signed in the immediate aftermath of the first women’s rights Convention held in New York on July 13, 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others was greeted with widespread and scathing newspaper editorials. Its manifesto: “We declare these rights to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal,” 3 and its aim, to “end discrimination against women both within their households and beyond” was something unheard of. The violent backlash caused some women who had participated in the Convention to distance themselves from the ‘new Movement.’ But the majority of them did not back down and their stubborn stance paid off as something totally unexpected happened. The vitriolic newspaper reports actually struck a sympathetic chord in thousands of readers, and soon Americans in cities and towns all over the nation began taking increasing interest in the new topic of women’s rights. The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed in May 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Its aim was to gain suffrage or voting rights through an official Amendment to the American Constitution by Congress. In November that year, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell set up the American Woman Suffrage Association . Its aim was the same as the NWSA except that it planned to get it via official Amendments to different State Constitutions by state governments. Both suffrage associations soon decided it was in their best overall interest to join forces, and they did so in 1890 by merging into the National American Woman Suffrage Association . Its main objective was to concentrate efforts on gaining voting rights for women by a sustained state-wise
Introduction This report seeks to offer a clear point of view on the most favorable managerial structure that would be appropriate for the Redell Company and some extra organizational structures to reach the company’s main objectives. Here in this report, the responsibilities, functions and tasks of a controller in an organization will be discussed in a deeper approach to be able to determine whether or not the Redell Company requires a change of system. In the report I shall be assessing the different angles whether positive or negative of both the Martex and the Redell methods of management to determine which is more appropriate and which conforms better to the organization’s objectives. Also in this paper, methods and ways to implement the Martex method in the Redell Company will be highlighted and discussed. Personal issues can be tragic in respect to the performance and development of a company. In this case study, there are two different points of controllership which are; the corporate controller whose responsibility is to overlook all the financial processes involved in the organization. Chain of command Movement of funds in and out of the company and the way money is spent is solely the responsibility of the corporate controllers of the company. However, the divisional controller reports to the divisional manager who then reports to the corporate controller. From here, information received by the corporate controller is then directed to the organization’s directors (Ashton 49). The structure as described above has many challenges and mishaps in between and it is for this reason the controller is raising his concerns. The fact that the divisional controller reports to the divisional manager is causing concerns that there is a possibility that the divisional manager may be given biased information since he does not get the information first had from the ground. In this particular case, the Redell Company is the main focus and it is clearly seen that the sour relationship between the divisional controller and the corporate controller is affecting the development of this company. Bevin’s solution As Bevins laments the responsibilities of the two departments are the major surce of the current dispute in the organization. Bevins suggests that a control structure similar to Martex be applied to bring this matter to rest. His main interest in this company is to make changes that would place the corporate control in a better position to effect reasonable budgets and analyze its performance. However, this effect is watered down by the division controllers as their loyalty is in the division managers and as Bevin’s laments; they have been maliciously submitting inaccurate and biased information about their performance. Reports on budgets are biased and inaccurate and this has raised concerns about the adequacy of the information offered from the division department. Bevins is suggesting that the best solution towards this problem would be implementing the Martex Company’s method (Banik). The Redell Company like any other business venture’s aim and main objective is to be profitable and increase in grow
When historians refer to imperialism, they are generally describing one nation conquering and dominating another group of peoples. The actions of 15 th century Europeans in the Americas certainly fit this definition. The New World has discovered at about the same time the navies and merchant shipping of European nations were at their apex. Therefore, this was an opportunistic time to colonize other lands, especially those whose inhabitants were less technologically advanced. This is what the Romans did and the Greeks before them, it was the Europeans’ turn for imperialistic conquest. The New World conquest yielded new lands, riches, and slave labor which set off an imperialistic hunger that spread to Africa. It was closer, larger and the natives from that continent were preferred as slaves over the natives of the Americas. Initially, when the Spanish controlled the Caribbean islands, their interests were only in the mining of silver and gold. When the riches of the mines had been exhausted, the search for additional wealth moved inland and the Spaniards adopted a plantation-based economy (Meyer, 2003). Products from the Americas such as tobacco, cotton, cocoa, and sugar were becoming increasingly popular in Europe which caused the Caribbean plantations growing these commodities to grow accordingly. The shortage of manpower to operate these ever-growing plantations required many numbers slaves from Africa to be imported. As the Spaniards were reaping the rewards from their colonization of the Americas, their need for additional labor in the mines and plantations continued to grow. However, the local population was dwindling with the influx of disease and abuse and this, combined with Spain abolishing the enslavement of natives in the Americas in the mid-1500s, necessitated a need to acquire Africans to fill their labor requirements (Meyer, 2003). By the early 19 th century, the New World wealth had been well plundered and it was widely feared that the slaves emanating from there could spread new diseases in Europe or contract European diseases and die themselves. Africa was an attractive target to quench the Europeans’ new thirst to create far-away empires and control territories that held the raw materials needed to maintain and grow their prosperous economies which were built upon imperialistic tactics. New territories also meant the opportunity to trade with new markets. By the mid 19 th century, the conquest of Africa was well underway. Gaining and controlling new territories outside the original country was justified by many explanations. A certain amount of national pride fueled the desire for an expansionist agenda. Obtaining new colonies was widely viewed as a gauge of a nation’s global prominence. Another justification was based on the prevalent racist attitude. “Europeans thought that they were better than Africans” (McDougal-Littell, 1999). Church officials and missionaries encouraged imperialism because the natives of conquered territories