Grear Rafting Company is the dream business of Ms. Grear, and has been in operation for one year, and according to the income statement she has provided, she is losing money. Because of her dream to maintain this rafting business, she has come to us for help to get her out of the red. In order to do this, we need to explain variable and fixed costs, period and product costs, and rewrite Grear Rafting’s income statement. Grear Rafting’s income statements is provided below.…
Bibliography: * Blakesly, David (2007) The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. Illinois: SIU Press…
“The Golden Age of Television” is a phrase often used to describe today’s entertainment landscape, with successful shows such as ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of Cards’ getting huge viewing figures underpinned by undeniably high quality content. This shift in the quality and ambition of television marks a change in its ontology but what effect has this had on cinema? Quentin Tarantino, Oscar winner and indie cinema legend, has, with an eye to the rise of digital projection, referred to modern cinema as “TV in public” and suggested that soon he will retire from working…
Over a period of time, specific audiences construct expectations of different types of media, related to either what they have been told, or perhaps what the media have exposed them to in the past. Indeed, it could be argued that the success of a film to a large degree, rests on whether or not such expectations are met, surpassed, else the audience successfully surprised. Certainly, such expectations have to be addressed by the film, if it is to be considered satisfying for the audience, and in this way, elements within the film, such as character representations, the narrative and cinematography are all important components which allow this to be achieved. Additionally, the social and political context in which the film is being viewed must be considered, as it is against this background that their expectations will have been formed.…
Fiction films are often stigmatised by historians, as they distort the truth, causing problems when trying to use them as a source. Their wildly varying content matter, inaccuracies, and bias make them hard to use. Film does not simply suggest a worldview; it states, and we experience, its existence as truth, which is the fundamental power and danger it poses to the observer. One cannot deny, however, film’s phenomenal impact in the twentieth century, drastically changing the way we see the world and how we absorb information. In this way, film is best considered as one stage in the ongoing history of communications. As a historical medium, therefore, fiction film can be very valuable, as despite fictitious content, it still has the potential…
The variety of films mentioned aims to provide an extensive inquiry into both modern and traditional films. To substantiate this inquiry, an article by Paste Magazine has been supplemented, containing some of the most well-known and endorsed films of the 21st century. The logic behind including an article of this nature is to examine mainstream/dominant culture as it communicates the disposition and context of…
In the final article Why Movie Critics Hate Tyler Perry the author looks at films to gather data with a different intent, instead of looking at all films that it can and not comparing them, it instead looks at specific themes of movies, allowing a more concentrated look at the possible reason for the…
Amna Mahmood Anne Malone English 1101 28 October 2014 North by Northwest Essay In his essay “Great Movies” Roger Ebert says how our minds are “limit[ed]” when it comes to “curiosity” and we don’t let our minds explore great movies that aren’t just big hit movies. We are exposed to many movies from “100 years, in color and black and white, in sound and silence, in wide-screen and the classic frame, in English and every other language,” but we only watch movies that are considered “box-office winner[s]”. Ebert talks about an Iranian movie he had seen with around 1,000 children and parents, and how everyone watched the movie so attentively.…
All throughout history art has been around to appeal to those who were willing to take the time to understand it. While a large majority can appreciate art in itself, it is clear that not everyone has the patience or sometimes are just not even willing to attempt, to appreciate it. In the last century or so film has brought art to the attention of a larger audience through a way that, to many, comes across as more appealing.…
They assisted them in escaping from their troublesome realities, and in modern day, films still do. Although genres to watch to escape reality have changed from romances and witty comedies to epic thrills filled with modern special effects, the movies have the same effect on the modern population then it did back in the 1930s. As long as the population still turns to movies to feel hope and content, the industry will continue to evolve and develop new genres and marketing strategies. Movies still continue to affect society today as it did to society in the past and they continue to reinvent themselves like they did during the 1930s. David Germain, a writer for The Seattle Times, explained that "'in an era that brought harsh reality home with the war on terror and an economy gone bust, Hollywood became more of a dream factory than ever, embracing fantastic escapism at a time when audiences needed it most’” (Kaufman). The yearning for escape also occurs today; even though today’s economic system is much more effective and successful, the population can still, and does, turn to movies to forget about their reality for an hour or two. Along with the escape movies provide, the film industry continues to reinvent itself by creating newfound movie genres, like documentaries, psychodramas, and more and movie theater companies have expremimeted with new techniques to have a substantial…
In the summer of 1887 Hamlin Garland visited his family in northern Iowa after six years of living in the West, and the monotonous lifestyle of the countryside had inspired him to write the series of eleven stories that became The Main Travelled Roads. In these stories, Garland explores the daily lives of common women in the Midwest, demonstrating how they were required to do arduous labor on the fields, and as a direct result, women were ill at an early stage from poverty and exhaustion. Additionally, living in the Midwest as a woman consisted of taking care of children and housework, stripping them of their independence by obstructing them from traveling and broadening their worldview.…
In the second part of the book it shows how Art becomes a young kid talking to a therapist. He pours out his feeling about his father reminding him that he couldn’t do anything as well as he could. “Mainly I remember arguing with him...and being told that I couldn’t do anything as well as he could” (Spiegelman 204). This shows how Art’s father have little appreciation of what he has been doing and how everything that he has been through can not compare to the things that he is doing right now. The most important part of the scene is Art getting questioned about the book Maus, and him walking all over the dead bodies. The dead body significe all the dead body that his dad has talked about throughout the story; it fits into the larger context…
I have a passion for psychiatric nursing and my favorite nursing theorist that I would chose to guide my nursing practice would be Hildegard Peplau. She has worked for the World Health Organization, United States air force, and for the National Institutes of Mental Health. These are only a few of the places that she gained experience and knowledge from throughout her nursing career. Hildegard Peplau contributed the interpersonal theory which focuses on the nurse-patient relationship. The theory has four phases that we have all learned about in nursing school. The phases include orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution. Nurses and patients progress through all of these phases from identifying the need of the patient to termination…
The movies are a great way to pass some time and escape reality for a couple of hours. People like movies for all sorts of different reasons. Movies usually come out each week on Friday night and on average three to four movies come out a week. That comes out to over two hundred movies a year and that is just mainstream film. One of the decisions people have to make is what movies to watch. The paper will discuss what the writer likes to watch, what he finds enjoyable, and what he does not. There is also the choice to watch in the theater or rent and watch at home. The first choice is more immersive and on a bigger screen while the second choice is less expensive and more intimate.…
Bibliography: Barsam, Richard, and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies; an Introduction to Film. Third Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. 368-407. Print.…