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    Disabled People

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    Disabled people are the most important part of our society and they should be treated with justice. Society should deliver to them according to their needs. Treating them equally is not the solution because their needs and capabilities are different. I understand people with disabilities live in this world and want to be able to live like any other person. Not differently than anyone else. They want to be able to go out to do shopping‚ have fun with people‚ study in any situation‚ and maybe work

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    Motion Picture Industry

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    Analysis: Ch.2 #1 - The motion picture industry is a competitive industry. Each year‚ more than 50 studios produce a total of 300 to 400 new motion pictures. This managerial report is based on data collected for a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005 and will evaluate the financial success of these motion pictures by using 4 major variables – (A) Opening Gross Sales‚ (B) Total Gross Sales‚ (C) Number of Theaters‚ and (D) Weeks in Top 60. (A) Opening Gross Sales−this variable indicates

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    Motion Picture Industry

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    III. Data Analysis For this analysis‚ it was used descriptive statistics of a data set with four variables in order to describe the performance of the motion picture industry. First‚ the study involved measures of Location which include: mean‚ median‚ mode. In addition‚ it was analyzed measures of variability of the data set which include: variance‚ range‚ and standard deviation. Moreover‚ the outliers movies were identified by calculating the z-score of each variable. Finally‚ it was measured the

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    Motion Picture Industry

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    Through the use of numerical measure‚ the Motion Picture Industry can be analyzed more specifically. Descriptive statistics can assist analyst to measure data in terms of location‚ variability‚ association between two variables‚ as well as using data for exploratory analysis and the shape‚ relative location‚ and the identification of outliers. The data presented offers a look at four data sets including opening gross income‚ total gross income‚ number of theaters‚ and weeks in the top 60 movies

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    Motion Picture History

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    comedy‚ the Western‚ mystery‚ horror‚ romance‚ melodrama‚ and the war story. More and more large cinemas were built‚ and the major producers expanded their distributing systems and bought entire chains of theaters. Major studios attempted to produce a picture a week. A typical film show consisted of a feature starring big-name players‚ a short comedy‚ and a newsreel. The 1922 film Nanook of the North‚ directed by the American Robert Flaherty‚ is often credited as the first great achievement of documentary

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    Television Stereotypes

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    There is no doubt that television has found its way into the lives of the everyday‚ average American. Television has become our go-to. It’s our stress relief after a long day of work; it fills voids that our actual lives cannot; and it has become the framework of the world we know today. A popular‚ if not the most popular‚ type of television that has filled the hearts of its viewers would have to be Situation Comedy- or Sitcom. Sitcoms tend to involve lovable actors‚ playing even more lovable characters

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    Stereotyping in Motion Pictures Even though movies and shows are mainly fictional and used for pure entertainment‚ these forms of media lead to discriminations such as Islamophobia because they vilify Arabs and Muslims portraying them as a violent and dangerous group. Muslim: A person that follows the religion of Islam Islam: a monotheistic faith that teaches that there is only one God and that Muhammad is His messenger. Arab: a person originally from a part of the Middle East Allah: Arabic translation

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    Motion Picture Case Study

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    Assignment No. 2  September 23‚ 2014    Case Study: Motion Picture Industry      Course: ‐Statistics   Professor: Homayoun Khamooshi‚ Ph. D.        Team Members:  Selena El Hajji              Cristina Brain Vizcarra  Mandatory Integrity Document for MSPM Team Projects  Cristina Brain Vizcarra:  “I am satisfied that the contribution made by each team member warrants a full share  of  the  credit  for  this  work‚  and  I  affirm  that  I  have  completed  this  assignment  in  accordance with the Code of Academic Integrity

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    Motion Picture Case Study

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    increased levels of high speed Internet made downloading easier and faster‚ which made pirating movies easier. This increased the threat of substitutes because consumers were no longer buying movies‚ the consumers started to download movies and television shows free of charge. Because this option was available fewer consumers paid to watch movies‚ which helped in the decline of the movie industry. The power of the buyer was high and the power of the seller was low. Because substitutes were available

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    exploitation among men" helps explain‚ Wiegman says‚ the negotiation of the black male position between "feminization (buffoonish Uncle Tom) and hypermasculinization (well-endowed rapist)" (180). Along with such ambitious studies of the male body‚ Screening the Male also includes an analysis by Adam Knee of gender inversion in Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty for Me (1971)‚ in the form of a dialectic between female aggression and Eastwood’s "male hysteria." This piece‚ which epitomizes the book’s use of

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