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Mortal Kombat is a film released in 2021 directed by Simon McQuoid. The story that is the basis of the movie is a fictional battle between the people from the Earth and those living in the so-called “Outerworld.” The latter want to conquer the Earth and will be able to do this after they win ten fights ( Mortal Kombat ). This movie is based on a well-known game and a series of movies released in the 1990s. The plot shows how the fighters from Earth find out about the battle and train to become prepared for it. Moreover, over the course of the film, the creatures from the “Outerworld” try to assassinate these fighters to prevent them from participating in a battle altogether. Both the plot and the storyline of Mortal Kombat are enjoyable to watch because they have many details about the fictional battle. These details are logical and allow the viewer to see the motivation of the characters to fight. This paper will evaluate the value of different elements of Mortal Kombat. The main character of this film is Cole Young, who is a professional fighter. Young’s storyline is enjoyable because out of all the characters in Mortal Kombat, his storyline is the most complete. For example, in this film, Young has a wife and a daughter but no other family members because he is an orphan. Still, he is a descendant of Hanzo Hasashi, another main character, who was a well-known fighter. Therefore, it is enjoyable to see Young’s storyline develop because the viewer can fully understand the motivation of this character, which is wanting to protect his family. Hanzo Hasashi is a Japanese martial arts specialist who lived during the 17th century. At the beginning of the film, one sees Hasashi and his family living peacefully in the woods. However, after this episode, Hasashi’s character appears several times throughout the movie as a vision that Young has. In the end, Hasashi and Young joining forces to fight Sub Zero, which is entertaining because it shows how two generations join forces to fight evil. The plausibility of this film’s plot is low because it is based on the idea of a battle between people living on Earth and those from other worlds. Therefore, this is a fictional movie that shows the viewers something that would not happen in real life. The special effects in Mortal Kombat are impressive since this film features a plethora of computer-generated imageries (CGI). For example, some of the characters were created using CGI, such as Goro, who is a giant with four hands. During the battles between the characters, CGI is used to show their special powers. For example, Liu Kang throws flames, and Kano uses a laser. Special effects are important for Mortal Kombat because they are a part of the plot. Overall, Mortal Kombat is an interesting film since it has a good storyline and character development, supported by adequate special effects, which make it entertaining. Reference McQuoid, Simon, director. Mortal Kombat. Ne
Introduction Social scientists have described family bonding to be a significant factor in mutual relationships among the populace. The strengthening of the family and the reinforcement of these values thus has both religious and societal significance (Shaye, 1999). The Jews culture is one of the cultural contexts in which family values take the central focus. By definition, the term Jew refers to any person who subscribes to and is an inherent member of the Judaism religion. More clearly, Jews are typically members of a worldwide group of people whose religion is mainly Judah. Ideally, they are representative of a diverse and rich cultural group who are believed to be the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and who are the conventional adherents of the Jewish religion (Sharot, 2007). As a matter of fact, the Jewish community is one of the greatest cultural societies and whose rich culture is rooted in the Judaism religion, among other rich and unique cultural values and practices. One of the typical and unique points of the Jewish culture is the family and home. The paper, therefore, presents a perspective of the Jewish culture with a bias to the family. The Jewish family In the Jewish culture – both in the classical and the ancient time – the family formed and still is a basic unit of the society and whose role in the sustenance and development of the societal value/ culture is critical. The family home among the Jews and which was strongly built on the tenets of Judaism was formed by the basic union between a man and a woman. It is from this basic union therefore that children were/are brought forth to extend the family, the children of whom are referred to as Jews depending on the context of Judaism and the composition of the parents (Shaye, 1999). As such, a child can only be considered a Jew in the context of conventional Jewish culture where the mother is a Jew; characterizing the mother in the traditional Jewish cultural context as a typically domineering mother. In Reform Judaism or rather the classical Jewish culture, however, a child whose either parent (whether the mother or the father) is Jewish qualifies to be a Jew (Zelizer, 1995). In effect, the importance of the Jewish tradition of marriage cannot be overemphasized. In fact, the traditional marriages are taken with very great significance and greatly supported by the conventional Hebrew marriage laws as it is considered the leeway to building up the most basic unit yet critical for the existence, sustenance, and development of the Jewish society. According to Paula (2001), in reference to the Jewish thought culture and values, a union between a man and a woman is taken with the same intensity, importance, and value which are taken as a representation of the relationship between man and the creator (God). As a result, God or rather the divine/ supernatural power is believed to be the force behind marriage and the power unionizing a Jewish man and a Jewish woman. The basic objective or rather the underlying factor in the establishment of a family in the Jewish culture is to have and bring up children within an environment that promotes good Jewish
Executive Summary This paper is an assessment of Russell Hobbs, which is one of the UK’s top goods manufacturing brands. The paper asserts manufacturing and organization structures of the company. The company – Russell Hobbs is aiming to expand to a new market of UAE, which is a highly competitive and diversified market. Analysing the internal business position of Russell Hobbs, this report has provided a complete business plan for the company to expand its business to a new market segment. The plan incorporates Russell Hobbs’s possible action plan related to the workforce, market and business management in view of the UAE market. It is an action plan for Russell Hobbs for moving into a new market of UAE. Introduction Russell Hobbs is one of the successful electronic goods manufacturing companies in the UK. The company owns one of the UK’s top business brands and stands at a leading position in the electronic goods manufacturing industry. This paper is a business assessment and analysis of Russell Hobbs, its structure and operational system, and also includes an analysis of its corporate business culture. The purpose of the paper is to provide Russell Hobbs a human resource plan as the company aims to enter a new international market of UAE using its current manpower setting. Planning of the business and its human resource requirements are, therefore, main objectives of this report. The first section of the report will analyse the current state of the business and the second section will provide the preliminary human resource strategy for Russell Hobbs to be followed in the UAE. This will include recruitment, selection, socialization, performance management, communication, reward, and training management of Russell Hobbs’s staff. The Report Russell Hobbs History When it comes to quality, style, and innovation Russell Hobbs is very popular brand. The company Russell Hobbs was founded in Britain in the year 1952 by Bill Russell and his co-partner Peter Hobbs (Russell Hobbs, 2013). The owners had a vision of quality, precision, and timely delivery, which they maintained throughout the company’s journey over the years. In the electronic goods’ manufacturing market, Russell Hobbs faced tough competition conditions to fulfil consumers’ expectations and demand. It has been more than fifty years that Russell Hobs has maintained its historic culture of prestige and focus on maintaining customer orientation (Russell Hobbs, 2013). At present, Russell Hobbs aims to maintain its historic objective that is to offer real value to its customers through its technical innovation. In this quest, Russell Hobbs is on an expansion move to extend its product line which includes kettles, toasters, cleaning, cooking and garment care equipment (Russell Hobbs, 2013). In the context of United Arab Emirates, which is considered as a place of customer novelty, diversity and orientation, Russell Hobbs ca
It goes without saying that during classes, modeling appears to be one of the most essential elements of studying certain theory or phenomenon. With the help of modeling, one can take a relatively huge concept and bring it to a size of a small air balloon, which is exactly the case of the video in question. Despite the fact that the phenomenon of objects changing their density and, therefore, their mass and volume, under the impact of a number of factors, such as temperature, which is the case in point, is quite hard, the teacher manages to convey the basic ideas with the help of small models. In the course of the lesson, the teacher offered the students a model of Charles’ law, which states that the volume of any gas increases in proportion to the temperature increase if the pressure is not changed. Creating three situations, in which equal amounts of gas in balloons were disposed to the impact of a 0º C, 100º C and 50º C environment, the teacher has managed to help the students see Charles’ law in action. It is quite peculiar that the students did not see the entire process of the Charles’ law in action immediately after the teacher started the experiment; it seems that the time which the students had to wait has taken its toll, fuelling the students’ interest and finally brought it to the boiling point. Thus, a model of Charles’ law was used as the catalyst for the students’ interest in the topic of the lesson. In addition, there is no doubt that, when visualized, the essence of Charles’ law became obvious to all of the students. While some students might have actually succeeded in following what the teacher was writing on the desk, it must have been still hard for most of the class to digest the dry theory and understand the basic principle. Even if they did, there was still something needed to back the theory up with, and the experiment was a perfect choice for that. As soon as the teacher asked what the relation between the water temperature and the size of the balloons was, one of the students responded almost immediately that the size of the balloon in the hot water was bigger. Thus, the students could finally understand the basic principle of Charles’ law. The use of models is also crucial in the cases when some of the students are too shy to ask for additional explanations; even those who could not get the idea of the lesson at first finally came to understanding it after the experiment. As for the processes which took place in the course of the lesson, it is necessary to make it clear that the lesson was not homogenous; the given issue is crucial for the lesson to work – once it flows in one piece without any actual break or change in the tone or mood, the students will hardly be able to perceive any information after the first twenty minutes. Hence, the fact that the lesson was split into several parts is quite essential. To start with, there is the introduction in which the teacher reminds the students about the
I am a student born to parents who belonged to different cultures and communities. My father is an Irish and my mother is of Mexican descent, so ideally speaking I should be having substantial knowledge of both the communities. However, this is not so and I lack any knowledge and first hand information regarding the Mexican cultures and traditions. Therefore, I decided to interview Jesus Paz, who is a Mexican and grandfather of my friend Sarah. I had never conducted any interview with a stranger and Jesus Paz was no less than a stranger to me. However, I provided myself with the consolation that I had some connection, although in an indirect way with my friend’s grandfather. Jesus Paz is an immigrant from the town of Jalisco Mexico who migrated to the United States of America in the year 2000. He has fond memories of his childhood and development in the Mexican culture and was a farm worker for the most part of his life. He and his family worked on a ranch for a living which was owned by a man of Caucasian race. What alarmed me during the interview is that Kaz knows nothing about his owner in spite of working with him nearly all his life! Another startling point was that although kaz spent most of his life in poverty, he never felt that he was poor because everyone he knew was also poor. This reflects the state of Mexicans with majority of the people being poor and leading a hand to mouth existence, and being employed as manual laborers. Hailing from a wealthy family, I found it very strange that people would not feel that they are poor because their entire community and friends are poor too. When I questioned Jesus regarding the acculturation to the new dominant culture of the United States, Jesus related his story to me. Jesus had moved to the U.S. with his son, Jolio. Jolio had received a scholarship to UCI at the age of 18 years and had to move to Irvine to attend college and pursue further education. Currently Jolio is a successful business man who runs an air-conditioning service, and is the father of my friend Sarah. While interviewing Jesus I realized that he is a simple down-to-earth man who does not believe in flaunting his possessions. He also lays great importance on family and familial relationships and wonders why people would want to worry about anything else except the family. Jesus also has many cousins in Santa Ana and fondly remembers them. He spends maximum of his time helping his cousin with the construction of his new home and also helping his son at his business. Even though he is old, Jesus does not believe in retiring and slowing down in life since his father had told him that if a man slows down in life, he dies. Jesus considers these words of wisdom
A break from the daily operations is normally important for everyone. It is because of this that the annual calendar has set days for weekends and holidays. It is during these days that people can take a break from work or school and relax. A day in the game park is one ideal way of unwinding. However, the fascinating scenery in-game parks are worth being put in memory, thus the need for a camera. Different types of cameras could be used in capturing memorable events in the park. In this case, the infrared camera will be discussed. The infrared camera was invented during the Korean War for use by the military. The infrared camera is similar to the common camera but instead of using visible light to form images, it uses infrared radiation (Cavnett 1). This radiation is part of the electromagnetic spectrum and is only differentiated in terms of its wavelengths. The infrared radiation used in infrared cameras has a wavelength of 14,000nm (Halliday 67). This means that the infrared camera can view distant images and be able to produce clear images of the same (Cavnett 1). As such, the infrared camera is, therefore, best suited in the game park because most of the animals are normally in distant places thus not able to get a close-range view. In addition, infrared cameras produce one-colored images since their sensors cannot distinguish different wavelengths. These images are referred to as monochromatic images. The main advantage of infrared cameras is that they can detect the slightest light and make clear images (Cavnett 1). This has made them useful in taking images in dark areas such as smoke-filled buildings. Infrared cameras are also able to take photos at night unlike other types of cameras, which use visible light. Works Cited Cavnett, Kyle. Information on Infrared Cameras . 1999. Web. Halliday, David. Fundamentals of Physics. Sixth Edition. New York: Wiley Inc, 2004. Print.
Introduction Management is a broad practice that entails the organization and harmonization of activities and practices in a firm especially in regard to the organization’s policies, plans, and objectives. It encompasses functions like planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. The human resources and management is an aspect of management that is very essential in every organization and falls under the staffing function of the general management process. It focuses on aspects like recruitment, coordination and control of the people working in an organization. Human resource management is associated with issues like hiring (recruitment and selection), benefits and compensation, motivation and communication, performance management of the employees and training among others. This paper looks into the recruitment and selection methods in Apple Inc. Company and their appropriateness. Recruitment and Selection Methods in Apple Inc. Company Apple Inc, which is the organization of choice in this assignment, is a multinational corporation that is involved in electronic and computer software manufacture and supply. Being a well known company and whose ventures are affected by advances in technology, it becomes important to have the best employees who will ensure that the company grows at per with technological advancements. It is a company that values her employees very much as it recognizes the fact that they are the driving force towards the organization’s success and prosperity. The human resource department in this corporation aims at recruiting people with the best computing skills and knowledge. The process of recruitment and selection is a very critical aspect in every organization and should therefore be taken seriously since it touches on the most important resource of an organization, the human resource. This is so because it is the people in the organization that help in the utilization of other resources to ensure that excellent performance is achieved and hence maximum profitability brought about by the efforts put forth by the employees. If efficiency, effectiveness, and economy within the organization are to be maintained, then the human resource must be handled well since it is the one responsible for this. The process has to commence with appropriate recruitment and selection which allows for hiring of qualified and appropriate employees (Anonymous 1). There are different methods that could be applied in the recruitment and selection of employees depending on their suitability and the decisions of the management body. The methods should at all times go in line with the organization’s policies and goals. Some of the methods include; external recruitment methods where the particular firm or organization establishes some links with other firms that deal with recruitments, for instance, professional career organizations and looking for applic
The article “The Ecology of the Family” discusses the development of a child in relation to its psychology and social orientation. Prior to the last two decades, the child’s development had always been put under scrutiny. The approach that societies and authorities have been using to analyze child development has been primarily focused on the psychology of the child. It was considered the main contributing factor to the outcome of child development. This method of study has been progressively viewed as narrow and too concentrated for research purposes. In the last twenty years of study, child development has metamorphosed into a broad field where a child is seen to be developing under influence of a broad spectrum of environmental factors. Development is now considered to be affected by institutions such as marriage, the state of family cohesiveness, and the broader community in which the family is incorporated. The community may include other institutions such as schools, churches and people who interact with the child in these places. This social approach coupled with the concentrated psychological approach, creates a comprehensive scheme which is the ecological approach. Article Critique The article mainly discusses the changes that the study of development of a child has undergone. The research of the author shows a bidirectional relationship between a child and the developmental ecology, and avoids one way perspective. It shows that a child has an effect on its ecology. The author articulates evidence that favors a combined social and psychological study for more accurate results. A fair argument in the article is that studying psychological state of a child alone may not be adequate, and may present inaccurate enumeration of all factors involved in development of an individual. The article in question explores the role of the family and the community in which the family thrives in a child’s development. However, the article fails to examine the cardinal role that schools and other institutions play in an individual’s development. The said peripheral institutions constitute the larger part of a child’s environment. Apart from the very initial stages of development, the family may not play a significant role in the ecology of a child especially in later stages, and only acts as a governing factor which determines the exterior environment to which the child is exposed. The education system to