1. Introduction Eastman Kodak Company‚ also known as Kodak is a digital imaging and photography company which is best known for its photographic film products. One of the most dominant companies of its time‚ Kodak made photography available to the masses‚ but failed to adapt its business model to the development of digital photography. Recently by shedding many of the businesses that made them famous‚ Kodak has emerged from bankruptcy and also coming back to New York stock exchange. Now Kodak is
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5 More Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses Recently we had a look at 5 Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses‚ which spotlit the magical pairings of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti‚ Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina‚ Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman‚ Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp. Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich An Austrian-American film-maker‚ Sternberg is best remembered
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Jurassic Park My number one favorite films of all time is Jurassic Park. Stephen Spielberg created a realistic fantasy of a world in which dinosaurs one ruled the Earth. The combination of a surprising story‚ which was derived from a best-selling novel‚ told through clever dialogue and humor‚ with a hints of startling violence‚ thrilling special effects‚ and an accompanying John Williams score was a unique alignment few films ever meet. The story sets revolves around a island called‚ Isla Nublar
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Saving private Ryan How does Spielberg use the opening sequence of "Saving Private Ryan" to create an interesting cinematic experience for the audience? "Saving Private Ryan" is an entertaining and moving motion picture set in 1944 during the 2nd World War. Stephen Spielberg who is one of the world most renowned film directors having masterminded "Star Wars‚" "Jurassic Park" and "Jaws"‚ directed the film. He also has tackled controversial topics such as: the Holocaust‚ slavery‚ war‚ and terrorism
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Freakonomics Stephen Levitt‚ Stephen Dubner Summary‚ chapter 1 The authors of Freakonomics discusses in chapter one about how incentives can do the opposite of what the incentives are created for. Incentives are the basis of all human action and interaction [i.e. - people do not act randomly‚ they are always following some set of self-imposed rules and/or are trying to gain something for themselves]. As an example‚ the authors speak about a study of daycare centers in Haifa‚ Israel‚ in which
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Why do teenagers drink? * Because they don’t truly care about them and believe that it should be equal to educate which is false because education is helping us grow‚ discover who we are‚ to see what is right and what is wrong. Most of the time teenagers drink for anger or because they’re disappointment at something. * Because they can’t treat with kids when they start to become adults (maybe because they didn’t find themselves the answers they were looking for when they were kids and
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”A Gift for My Mother” is a short story written by Viv McDade. . It’s chronicling the course of a young girl’s best intentions. The main character in the story is a little‚ juvenile girl called Lucy. “..a bunch of wild flowers in the bushveld..” (p. 8‚ l. 1) The story takes place in South Africa‚ because a bushveld is a well-grassed plain area in South Africa. Throughout the entire story Lucy wants to give her mother a gift. She decides to collect bunches of flowers‚ sell them and earn some cash
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Vidding 1 Ashleigh Boward Vidding -- Free Expression or Copyright Piracy? BUS250: Corporate and Social Responsibility Instructor: LaVonne Baker February 18‚ 2013 Vidding 2 Vidding is something we so commonly use that most do not even consider that it may be an infringement of intellectual property. I personally don’t see it as infringement if one is not making any money off of it or claiming it to be their own. But I do understand
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Laughter is an experience unlike any other and it is hard to define as it is hard to perceive. But why I find something funny might not be the same reasons why others find such an idea‚ act‚ or situation funny or not funny. A sketch aired on May 10th of 2014 titled “Bikini Beach Party” via the television sketch series known as Saturday Night Live. This sketch was a parody‚ or imitation with an extreme exaggeration of the movie “Gidget” in 1959 in which a “girl-midget” discovers how to surf and also
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New Poetry: “Chicago” “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg goes further into detail with what could be seen through a person’s eyes. The poem describes Chicago and everything that’s happening in the surroundings. A person’s eyes see more than some people think. “They tell me you are wicked and I believed them‚ for I have seen your fainted women under the gas lamps the farm boys‚” states imagery in the poem. Meaning the people of the town are bad‚ and how people are afraid. “Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping
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