The passage from Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges explains how “the most essential skill in political theater and a consumer is artifice.” In political theater and a consumer‚ being artifice means to deceive or trick someone for your own benefit. Moreover‚ he argues that an image-based culture communicates through narratives‚ pictures‚ and pseudo-drama and those who don’t are ignored. Being artifice is technically not the greatest thing you can do‚ but it works well with many leaders out there
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Making Disney Pixar Into A Learning Organization * James M. Haley and Mohammed H. Sidky This study examines how leadership‚ teamwork‚ and organizational learning can contribute in making mergers and acquisitions work. Our intention is to identify critical factors and practices needed for merger success. Our research is part of an ongoing project‚ and builds on previous analysis of merger success/failure in such organizations as Standard Oil‚ Exxon Mobile‚ and Time Warner-AOL. In this paper‚ we
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Disney in France (Source: Hill‚ C 2003‚ Global Business Today‚ 2nd edn‚ McGraw-Hill Irwin‚ Boston pp. 118-119.) Until 1992 the Walt Disney Company had experienced nothing but success in the theme park business. Its first park‚ Disneyland‚ opened in Anaheim‚ California‚ in 1955 and was an instant success. Its theme song‚ “It’s a Small World After All”‚ promoted “an idealized vision of America spiced with reassuring glimpses of exotic cultures all calculated to promote heart-warming feelings
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Case 2: Euro Disney 1. The factors that contributed to Euro Disney’s poor performance during its first year of operation were their lack of knowledge of their target market and the fact that they didn’t take into consideration that the target market was not intended to just focus on one culture. Disney builds and promotes Euro Disney as a piece of America in Europe although Disney failed to adapt to the culture. In the European culture they perceived Euro Disney as being overpriced and the vacation
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dream. Many people believe that Disney has focused too much on race and the time period‚ rather than making Tiana a princess. Moon Charania and Wendy Simonds wrote an article titled “The Princess and the Frog” explaining the different stereotypes presented in the film. Ajay Gehlawat also wrote an article titled “The Strange Case of The Princess and the Frog: Passing and the Elision of Race” explaining the stereotyping of the races in the film. I think Disney did a great job of relating the time
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For decades now‚ Disney Corporation has been providing us with countless films made to delight and amuse children and adults alike. But not all Disney films seem particularly appropriate for their target audience. Many of these films portray violence‚ gender inequality‚ and skewed views of leadership roles that seem altogether inappropriate for impressionable young children. Better and more contemporary heroines need to be added to Disney’s wall of princesses in order to counteract years of sexism
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Ever since Disney started animating full length feature films there has been a common trend in their choice of lead characters. These characters have been young women or girls‚ and are often royalty. These characters have served as role models for many generations of young women‚ and have been continuously evolving over the years. This paper will examine the evolution of Disney’s heroines by examining past and present heroines‚ as well as speculate on what type of heroines Disney’s future projects
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and Economic Development Bureau . (2012‚ January 17). Retrieved April 6 ‚ 2012‚ from Tourism Commission : http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr11-12/english/panels/edev/papers/edev0117cb1-808-5-e.pdf Consumer Analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10‚ 2012‚ from Walt Disney Parks and Results: http://advergators2.weebly.com/consumer-analysis.html Travel News. (2008‚ May 3). Retrieved March 7‚ 2012‚ from MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23481523/ns/travel-news/t/hong-kong-disneyland-targets-chinese-yuppies/#.T4EGT5lDy8B
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Behind Disney The documentary “Mickey Mouse Monopoly” written by Chyng Sun and directed by Miguel Picker‚ discusses the truth behind Disney and the message it gives to young children. Disney portrays a lot of racism in their movies by correlating black or dark animals as being evil and always up to no good. This teaches little kids that people of color are monstrous and bad people when really they ’re not. It ’s not common to see an African American or Latino as an actual person in Disney as they
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and to minimize risk. I feel that Disney was motivated by all three of these aspects‚ and possibly others when deciding whether or not he should move more of his business abroad. After seeing how successful the two theme parks in the United States were doing‚ the next option would be to expand. By expanding the parks into five international parks‚ Disney’s theme parks outside the United States would reportedly exceed that inside the country. I think that Disney also wanted to diversify and to let
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