OPENING SCENE FILM STUDY October Sky – Joe Johnston Script for opening scene: While most of President Einhower’s advisors-- If you have just turned in to this special bulletin... washington has confirmed that yesterday...on the fourth of October‚ 1957. On the fourth of October‚ 1957... the Soviet Union successfully launched... history’s first man-made satellite... into space orbit around the Earth. The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik... is being hailed as a milestone in history
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Skepticism and The Matrix What is skepticism? Skepticism to me is not knowing or being able to trust anything. However‚ that was my original opinion‚ now going through and from what I’ve learned and read‚ I believe that skepticism is a doubting of claims in which are set forth in various areas‚ along with what I mentioned above. Having knowledge of an outside world is basically believing that waking life is but a dream‚ and there is something beyond what we are experiencing now‚ that there is a
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This particular class session started with Nicholas Kristoff’s Half the Sky documentary on FGM. It is difficult not to get too emotional in this course because the film showed how Ms. Edna Adan‚ an FGM victim herself‚ stood up against it and later on established an organization that works towards its elimination. Ms. Adan is a truly inspiring person. She worked at the United Nations (one of which was being the WHO representative of Djibouti) and used all her lifelong earnings and retirement benefits
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Comstrat 2008 - Tata Sky Ami Kothari Palak Sood Swathi Velisetty amikothari10@jbims.edu PalakSood09@jbims.edu swathivelisetty09@jbims.edu +91-9820672221 +91-98925 97890 +91-98205 62709 Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies Environment Analysis - Porter’s 5 forces Bargaining Power of Supplier - High DTH relies on three major suppliers: Customer Premise Equipment – Satellite dish‚ Set top box and Access card‚ Ku Band Transponder and content. Bargaining power of
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The lyrics of the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds‚ performed by The Beatles‚ and primarily written by John Lennon‚ takes the reader or listener on a journey into the imagination. There are a few interpretations of this song. The most popular interpretation being‚ that the lyrics of the song follow the kind of journey that one would embark on upon the consumption of the hallucinogenic drug LSD which would project the wildest of imaginings. Although at the time of release‚ John Lennon had stated
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While reading Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn‚ I came across many issues and conflicts. In the story‚ a Pakistani woman named Mukhtar Mai was a victim of gang rape. Six men raped her as a punishment due to her brothers supposed relationship with a woman from another clan. Mukhtar says‚ “when I tried to call the police‚ I received death threats that I would be killed if I went to the police station.” In Joel Christie’s article‚ they talk about a Norwegian woman named Monika Korra
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The product-process matrix‚ developed by Hayes and Wheelwright in 1979 was designed to show the trade-offs in operations and marketing by linking product plans and process choices. The model is based on traditional trade-offs evident in a single manufacturing facility environment. The product-process matrix has been empirically tested‚ but improvements in operations flexibility by applying advanced technologies have caused many to question the model’s continued validity. In recent years‚ the environment
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Phil 201-D23 19 November 2013 The Matrix Recently‚ we have discussed how we know. Hilary Putnam‚ American philosopher‚ developed a thought experiment which has become so popular that it is the basis of blockbuster film The Matrix. In short‚ the thought experiment calls one to imagine that your brain and the nerves connecting it to your senses has been severed or disconnected. The brain would actually no longer be in your body it would be placed a vat filled with nutritional fluid to keep your
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BCG matrix The Boston Consulting Group matrix allows a multinational company to manage its portfolio by studying the relative market share and the industry growth rate of each division relative to all other divisions in the organization. It consists of 4 basic elements: 1. Question Marks(?)- falls in Quadrant I that has a low relative market share position but compete in a high-growth industry. 2. Stars- falls in Quadrant II that has a high relative market share and even has a high-growth industry
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For this class‚ we had to watch the first part of Half the Sky. The documentary went on to expose some of modern sex trafficking and slavery. We followed several famous actresses as they went to different locations around the world and zeroed in on specific regions and shined light on individuals and their truly unfortunate stories as many were forced into brothels. One of the persons stories that was really brought to light was Somaly Mam’s. Somaly Mam is a Cambodian woman who tells her story in
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