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The works of Peter Jackson always amaze people by their richness, fascination, and beauty. His famous trilogy The Lord of the Rings made him recognizable all over the world by people of different age and race. The adventures of a young hobbit, the creation of the Fellowship of the Ring, and the land of Mordor – all this is a small part of the story, created by J. R. R. Tolkien and produced by Jackson. On my opinion, the production of the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was enhanced considerably by means collaboration between different departments, detailed planning, and moving storyboards; Peter Jackson’s faithful and painstaking job may serve as a good outcome of this collaboration, and fans’ obsession with Tolkien and the movie becomes one of the most powerful evidence of this work’s success. The movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is based on the Tolkien’s first volume of The Lord of the Rings . The peculiar feature of the book is Tolkien’s unique style of writing, desire to underline the darkest times and the problems that living beings may face with. However, Jackson’s approach to the production of the movie was a bit different to the Tolkien’s ideas. He wanted to introduce something lively, kind, and friendly. In spite of the fact that this very gesture was not inherent to Tolkien, his fans evaluated Jackson’s attempts and fell in love with this movie. There were three significant things, which influenced the production of the movie. One of them was a detailed plan created by Jackson to introduce each piece of work in accordance with certain order and sense. Jackson’s purpose was to re-invent this magnificent fantasy; his actions have been planned for a certain period of time to transport people to one more reality, to the world of hobbits, magic, and elves. The book itself was published about 60 years ago, and Jackson decided to represent or even to reborn this story on the screen. Considerable help of Christian Rivers promoted storyboarding of the trilogy. Jackson offered to accept this Middle-earth from a historical perspective as if it existed actually one day, influenced evolution, and promoted the war between good and evil. The use of storyboarding was another important means that improved the movie’s production and helped to discover potential problems in advance in order not to spoil the whole work. By means of storyboards, Jackson got an opportunity to evaluate the layout
Introduction The Reconstruction period started after the American Civil War and lasted between 1865 and 1877(Encyclopedia Britannica, Web). The Congress implemented the period whose main objectives were two. First, there was the need to rearrange the Southern states that had successfully seceded prior or during the war by putting in place ways of readmitting them to the Union (Encyclopedia Britannica, Web). Secondly, reconstruction intended to heal the social inequities arising from slavery and its socio-political and economic heritage. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Web). The Impact of Reconstruction The American Civil War marked the end of slavery and thus marked the emancipation era. In this regard, the blacks were termed freedmen (Encyclopedia Britannica, Web). However, the freedom was only technical as the freedmen remained slaves to policies introduced during this period (The Social Studies Help Center, 2013). The reconstruction period was therefore another era of suffering for the blacks on their social, economic and political life as discussed below. State laws know as black codes came into effect in 1866. The codes conferred power on the whites over freedmen to prevent the freedmen from owning land or seeking employment outside their states (The Social Studies Help Center, 2013). This forced the freedmen to work in the lands owned by the whites under crop lien contracts. Crop lien contracts demanded that the freedmen work in the farms and earn by getting a share of the harvest at the end of the seaso
Introduction Terrorism stands for the unlawful use of violence and intimidation against the civilian population in pursuit of religious or political goals. After the audacious attack by Al-Qaeda and the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11th of September 2001, terrorism was declared the number one enemy to the peace and stability of the modern world (Masciandaro 11). Despite the world’s best efforts, however, terrorism was not eradicated. On the contrary, the appearance of ISIS and various other religious fundamentalist groups in the Middle East and their continuous support is growing. Such growth would not have been possible without monetary support from various parties inside and outside the country. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how fraud, corruption, and money laundering could be used to support terrorism. What is Fraud, Corruption, and Money Laundering? Fraud is a blanket term utilized to describe various practices of purposeful deception and illegal activities committed to acquire funds and resources illegitimately. Fraud is described by the International Monetary Fund as a fraudulent, coercive, collusive, or obstructive practice utilized to gain an unfair advantage (“Anti-Money”). Fraudulent practices include any actions or omission of required financial information. Coercion, as the name suggests, involves using physical and financial threats to force other parties into submission. Collusion suggests an illegitimate agreement between two or more parties to partake in illegal activities. Obstructive practices involve displacing, destroying, or modifying information to achieve one’s ends. Fraud exists in all spheres of banking, financing, and commerce. The most common ex
Marketing consists of strategies and tactics used to identify, create, and maintain satisfying relationships with customers that result in value for both the customer and the marketer. Marketers are therefore supposed to identify the markets and then come out with appropriate strategies. This process involves two very crucial components called segmentation and targeting. In simple terms market segmentation is the process of broadly identifying different types of markets, customers etc. Segmentation is required to be done depending on a range of factors like the customer profile, preferences, paying capacities, usage of credit card, number of travels, and geographical factors. In order to market a product or service, it is imperative that a company tailors the marketing and sales efforts to specifically reach the segment of population that are most likely to buy these products or services. Identifying primary market is very critical for a successful business. It is indeed quite a challenge to segment a price sensitive market, as the company might end up losing a good share of its customers, if it plans its services for some other segment. For example, if the segmentation is being done for the retail sector, then the segmentation process might involve classifying the customers on the basis of goods and commodities being purchased, number of visits to the superstore, size of family etc. similarly, if it has to be for an airlines industry, then we need to take into consideration the general aspects of airlines industry, duration of the travel, type of traveller corporate or general etc. It is not a must that all corporate clients would prefer to have meals on their journey’s ranging from one hour to two hours. Such a journey can be undertaken with a low-cost airline which cuts the cost by not serving the meals. During such a journey what the client will be looking at is a thorough professional approach from the airline staff and a comfortable journey. Though an airline is not limited to one particular segment but still for the sake of pooling efforts it is very important that the airlines identified and divided the customer base into a range from Finest for those wanting something special, to Value for those on a budget. Therefore, segmenting essentially involves identifying customers with homogenous attributes who are expected to respond to the company’s marketing mix in similar manner. Once the market has been segmented, the marketing team prepares a product-market profile and start targeting those segments by fine-tuning their strategies to suit the needs and requirements of those segments. The targeting process
Listo Systems, the company under consideration, is aimed at providing customers with different superior graphic design services and other similar products. Proper teamwork and leadership, certain innovations, and state-of-art technologies – this is what will help Listo Systems to take leading positions and be respected by clients and even by its staff. In fact, there are so many competitors in this very sphere for the company: lots of graphic design companies try to offer their services, attracting consumers with the help of cheap prices and quick services. Listo Systems tries to choose another way for success, and be more attentive not only to its customers, but also to its employees. This fully-fledged corporation has already proved its quality and is ready to demonstrate its skills and high tech services to people. Many rapidly developed companies face certain difficulties and problems with their competitors or within a corporation itself. The major problem of Listo System is their blind belief in success and desire to hire as many people as possible. Due to such a quick expansion of staff, Listo Systems cannot provide all its employees with proper training, and this is why addition of new layers causes the decrease of productivity, and increase of turnover. The company has no time and abilities to care about its employees, and training is not that important as it was later, this is why the number of sick days cannot but be increased considerably day by day. In order to make the company profitable, it is necessary to define its problems and find out the decisions. Let us clear up what issues have to be analyzed. First, the problem of rapid hiring of people should be taken into consideration. As lots of people are hired within a short period of time, proper training turns out to be absent. New employees cannot get enough information to start working, and the results are not as successful as should be. Services, provided by Listo Systems, turn out to be of lower quality; this very fact may cause the decrease of customers and loss of leading positions. All these troubles and problems have to be solved in order to return consumers and reprove the quality of the products, presented by Listo Systems. Graphic design is one of the most rapidly developing companies nowadays; people want to have a great variety of services to compare and choose the best ones. This is why Listo System has to analyze its actions and pay much attention to common sense in order to reorganize its strategies, find out some business concepts, and not to lose its leading positions. First of all, it is possible to reorganize the company and make up a clear division of functions. Let it be one layer that will be responsible for training of all staff. One day in a week or at least several hours will
People frequently rely on verbal communication to express particular thoughts or to share ideas. However, communication goes beyond mere words; rather, it encompasses movement as well. This comes in the form of non-verbal communication cues which people typically associate with an individual’s facial expression. Smiling, frowning, subtle shifts of your eyes, as well as other non-verbal “clues,” are an essential aspect of communication since this allows a person to connect your feelings to what you are saying (Pigni 457). Without these non-verbal clues, it is very likely that aspects of communication such as sarcasm, humor or sadness will not be transmitted correctly resulting in a considerable amount of confusion involving the context of a particular conversation. One example of this can be seen in the lack of sufficient emotional context in email conversations. While emails are one of the most expedient methods of communication that you can utilize, their inability to convey the emotional context of a conversation can result in people misinterpreting the message that the sender is trying to send. Do note though that non-verbal communication is not limited to facial expressions, body movement is also another aspect of this method of subtle communication (Subapriya 37). Non-verbal communication using the body often centers around hand movements in everyday conversations. Gestures such as rolling the hands, pointing, or opening the hands are a recognized method of enhancing a particular point or specifying what a person is attempting to communication. In fact, various forms of literature, both fiction, and non-fiction, have highlighted the expressiveness of a person’s hands and how their movements are often an essential aspect of allowing a person to understand the context and emotional cues in a particular conversation (Gabbott and Hogg 384). Aside from hand movements, the movements of a person’s body when they are dancing are also an effective means of conveying emotion. Based on the research conducted by Phutela, it was shown that traditional dances from tribes in Africa as well as those from Western cultures embodied different emotional states and conveyed them through dance. For example, the Mauri Haka dance was meant as a means of intimidation and to show off strength, but it could also be used to convey appreciation for great achievements (Phutela 43). The rhythmic stomping, aggressive movements and traditional “shouting” are all meant to convey some form of emotion that can be interpreted
Introduction The Middle East is a unique region of the world with diverse cultures, which attracts millions of tourists and researchers eager to explore it. However, many critical social issues arise there due to different deep-rooted traditions. One of the most severe problems in the Middle East is women’s rights violations, as it affects half of the region’s population. Millions of women face direct discrimination, endure domestic violence, and fear speaking publicly about their problems. The situation is especially alarming in one of the wealthiest and most developed countries – Saudi Arabia. Women’s rights are flagrantly violated, and gender equality is rarely acknowledged in the country. Indeed, it is crucial to understand the importance of women’s rights, see the connections between the past, the present, the local, and the global, and realize how political and media discourse represents the social issue to eliminate it. The Importance of Women’s Rights The begin with, it is essential to recognize the significance of women’s rights in the modern world. Undoubtedly, each female should be able to earn money, own property, receive a high-quality education, vote, and hold public office. In the Western world, millions of people still protest against the violations of women’s rights and gender inequality, even if it may seem that females are equal to males in the United States, Europe, or Australia at first sight. However, these people clearly understand that even minor income differences affect all aspects of their lives, ranging from politics to culture. Besides, they believe that everyone should stick to human rights and speak up when they are violated to lead their communities and countries to prosperity. Unfortunately, the situation in the Middle East and particularly in Saudi Arabia is more alarming. For example, Saudi Arabia is ranked 146 out of 153 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report (301). It means that the gap between Saudi women and men is one of the largest in the world. While individuals from the Western world protest against sexist comments of political leaders on social media and the number of women in the top management of large corporations, Saudi females are concerned about other problems. For example, they must dress modestly and avoid interactions with unrelated males not to be disregarded or arrested. According to researchers, “Gender inequalities are a greater challenge in Muslim Countries, with few exceptions, than the rest of the world” (Sardar et al. 69). Thus, it is challenging to eliminate the social issue in Saudi Arabia, where gender inequalities are strongly felt. The reasons for the country’s alarming situation are clear – the government decisions and social attitudes. Firstly, the controversial male guardianshi
There has been considerable controversy over whether raising speed limits in highways is beneficial or not. However, factions that do not support the raising of speed limits of motor vehicles on United States’ highways simply ignore the benefits that accrue with such a decision. After the State of California increased its speed limit, critics of high speed limits predicted carnages on the highways of California. However, it has been three years now and the rate of accidents in Californian highways has, actually reduced. This paper is an, in depth, investigation of the benefits that come with the increasing of speed limits in U.S. highways. As implied in the discussion above, speed limits lead to a reduction of the incidences of accidents on highways. It is, thus, apparent that the adoption of a speed limit of 70mph will save American lives that could, otherwise, be lost in accidents. The reason why higher speed limits reduce the occurrence of accidents is because it leads to fast moving traffic which contributes to uniformity of traffic. This is very important in reduction of accidents since in a scenario where there are slow and fast moving vehicles on the same highway, there will be competition for space which leads to accidents. Additionally, most drivers are comfortable with high speeds and thus more perfected driving will be experienced after implementation of the high speed limit. Another benefit that comes with adopting a high highway speed limit is that it is bound to bring a positive change to delivery of services and transportation. This will, indubitably, have a positive impact on the economy of the U.S. since people will be able to run businesses more efficiently and more transactions will. Therefore, be carried out in a single day. In addition to this, the additional fuel consumption that may result from higher speed limits will undoubtedly be cancelled by the benefit of saving time. The government will get more taxes from fuel and thus it will be able to deliver better services to its citizens. Lastly, the increasing of speed limits in highways will be beneficial since as stated, most drivers like driving at high speeds and thus they can drive well in these speeds. This means that the number of people who default highway laws will be reduced and thus people will do more constructive things instead of concentrating on court cases. The increase of highway speed limit is also bound to reduce the levels of traffic noise which is mostly caused by hooting and screeching. It will also reduce the rate of emission of pollutant gases to the atmosphere. This will be very instrumental in the efforts towards environmental conservation. These pollutants include gases like nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide which are very infamous environmental pollutants. A lot of benefits can be associated with increasing speed limits in highways that one wonders why some states in the United States are yet to increase their highway speed limit. Legislators should appreciate the benefits that have been discussed in this essay to make proper le
It has been quite long since Disney stopped being a trademark and turned into something more – a whole wide world of adventures for children and a specimen of the most brilliant marketing the world has ever seen. However, it seems that at present, Disneyland business is starting to shrink, mostly due to the unreasonable and half-baked CRM strategy which is currently applying. Taking a closer look at the way the Disneyland business is run, one can suggest an alternative to the current tactics. It seems that at present, the key mission of Disney is to search for the tactics which will allow the company to provide the clientele with the services of the highest quality while making the prices more accessible. As for the goals which Disney Company must pursue, these are the development of the technologies which will help make the services even better. As CIOinsight explains, “Clearly, the goal for now is to do more with less” (1). Indeed, Disneyland must remain the way people are used to see it; otherwise, the brand will lose its gimmick that attracts millions. However, the prices must be lowered considerably. Splitting the given goal into several objectives, it is necessary to mention that maintenance of the equipment is the key objective. Speaking about the strategy which will help attract even more clientele and make people forget about the lack of comfort which they used to experience in Disneyland, one must admit that the company has chosen the strategy of shocking the viewers into paying attention and wanting to experience a visit to the Disneyland. As CIOinsight said, “For now, the most visible manifestation of the new strategy is a 10 ½-inch-tall stuffed doll called Pal Mickey” (CIOinsight 2), which, supposedly “telling a secret” to the visitor, starts making sounds when the visitor approaches an ostensible amusement. However, the given idea seems rather questionable; rather than luring the children with new gimmicks, the company should have reconsidered its pricing policy and made sure that the technical maintenance is up to notch. It is uneasy to nail down the exact moment when Disneyland stopped being that fun, yet one can suppose that the current situation with people losing their interest in Disney must have started at the point when the amusements in Disneyland started to seem less valuable than they are paid for. In the light of the above-mentioned, it can also be suggested that Disneyland should also feature new amusements. It is hard to recommend efficient tactics to the company that has been a corporate giant for the entire epoch; however, when it comes to what piece of advice one could give to the company, it would probably be offering new amusements for kids and keeping the prices lower for adults to take their children to the Disneyland. Hence, the further course of actions for the managers of the Disneyland can be structured according to the plan below. The short-term tactics can include numerous seasonal discounts for the visitors. Middle-term tactics can include developing the ways to inform the clients about new features beforehand (“They might send me an advance screening notice,” (CIOinsight 3), one of the vi