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- 471: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... an adventure, a comedy, an informational film, a chase film, and a melodrama. The most accomplished maker of these films was Biograph's D. W. GRIFFITH, who almost singlehandedly transformed both the art and the business of the motion picture. Griffith made over 400 short films between 1908 and 1913, in this period discovering or developing almost every major technique by which film manipulates time and space: the use of alternating ... first film stars after beginning her cinema career in 1909 under the tutelage of D. W. Griffith. Together with her second husband, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, she founded United Artists in 1919. Despite considerable business acumen, her career faltered with the advent of talkies. Her best-known films include Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), and Little Annie Rooney (1925). She received an Academy Award ... led to feature films in which he expanded his highly individual comic views: Our Hospitality (1923), The Navigator (1924), Seven Chances (1925), The General (1926), and his cinematic tour de force, Sherlock Jr. (1924). Bad business advice coupled with personal problems sabotaged his career in the early 1930s. He continued to work in films and television the rest of his life, but after his move to MGM in 1928, he ...
- 472: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... Bricks and windows, windows and bricks"¹. It seems as though Willy has boxed himself in, however, because he refuses to realize his inability to be a successful salesman. The "living" city is symbolic of American business. The only way to go is up unless you fail, and then you are devoured by progress. Willy is living in a time when his worth as a human being is judged on how many ... the illusion that he is a successful breadwinner who keeps his family comfortable and his head above water with no help from anyone else. He also enjoys giving his sons "sage" advice on their future business pursuits, such as "Never leave a job till you're finished- remember that" (Miller 28). In the end, Willy's job certainly "finished" him, ironically enough, but one would not say he came out on ... Clark remarks that "it is our particular form of money economy that has bred the absurdly false ideals of both father and sons" (Clark 220). Is it the "American dream...distorted to the dream of business success" (Clurman 213) that has left Willy so disillusioned? Does he feel that he is worthless as a man if he cannot sell his product (or himself)? Willy's brother Ben appears often throughout ...
- 473: Outsourcing
- ... part of its IT responsibilities to an external company. More and more companies are leaning towards outsourcing it could be said that this may be caused by the growing complexity of IT and the changing business needs of an organisation. As a result, an organisation may find that it is not possible to have all its IT services supplied from within its own company. Given this, an IT manager may decide to choose to seek assistance from an external contractor/company to supply their services the organisation lacks. In addition, the business competition has set the pace for an organisation to continue to strive for internal efficiency. It also needs to look for a way to transfer non- core activities or "in house" services and support activities ... needs to consider outsourcing in light of its long term strategic directions and its information needs. Competition is a another area to be carefully considered. Competition opens up opportunity for all potential suppliers to conduct business with the organisation. Through the competitive process, it allows organisations/IT managers to derive the best outcome. From the open and effective competition, the organisation is then able to judge soundly in determining the ...
- 474: Now Is The Time To Be Computer Literate
- ... to become familiar and comfortable with the computer because in the future we will become virtually a paperless society and many daily activities will be linked to the computer. Mail delivery to the home and business will be almost entirely phased out and e-mail will replace it. Bills will come via the computer and paid the same way. Pay checks will be electronically deposited to your bank account. On special ... comfortable temperature when you arrive. Window covering will be adjusted to allow the correct amount of sunlight in. Light fixtures will automatically adjust to the right level of light in your home. The way of business conducted be entirely changed. Instead of long distance business trips, business will be conducted via interactive tele- conferences. Documents and files will be stored on computers hard drives. Much of this is done today but in the future it will expand as we ...
- 475: It And Retailing
- ... after the sale has been made. For example being located on the Internet means that place does not enter into the marketing mix of an e-commerce company. As its customers will not visit the business, it means having a prominent high street location is no longer of importance; in fact a business can be set up in someone’s home (if space for storage allows!). Also when considering mail order companies there is no longer the need to endure the costs of designing, printing and sending out ... service providers. Failure in e-commerce is not always going to be caused by poor products but rather by not building sites that are as efficient and usable as its competitors. For an e-commerce business to be successful it is essential that the sites are given thorough pilot tests so that faults can be found and also customer behaviour patterns can be learnt. It is possible that such a ...
- 476: The Prohibition
- ... was clearly impossible to prevent immense quantities of liquor from entering the country” (Behr, 162). Barely five percent of smuggled liquor was hindered from coming into the country in the 1920s. Furthermore, the illegal liquor business fell under the control of organized gangs, which overpowered most of the authorities (Wenburn, 234). Many bootleggers secured their business by bribing the authorities, namely federal agents and persons of high political status (Bowen, 160). “No one who is intellectually honest will deny that there has not yet been effective nationwide enforcement” (Behr, 161). As ... legally available, the public turned to gangsters who readily took on the bootlegging industry and supplied them with liquor. On account of the industry being so profitable, more gangsters became involved in the money-making business. Crime became so organized because “criminal groups organize around the steady source of income provided by laws against victimless crimes such as consuming alcohol” (Thorton, 13). As a result of the money involved in ...
- 477: What To Do When You're A Crime Victim
- ... 911 operator's position when the connection is made. Help can be dispatched to your location even if you don't get a chance to saya word! BURGLARY If you arrive at your home or business and feel that it has been burglarized, DO NOT ENTER, but go to another location and call the police. Let the police search the property to make sure that no suspect is still present. Upon entering your home or business, do not touch things unnecessarily as you may disturb or destroy fingerprint and other evidence. Inform the police of anything that has been moved from its original position so that it can be checked for ... with your money or other thing of value. Most con games are initiated by people who approach you on the street or call on you at your home. Be suspicious of ANY plan, idea, scheme, business deal or whatever that requires you to part with your money on short notice. If you feel you have been the victim of a con game or an illegal business practice, notify the police. ...
- 478: R.I.C.O
- ... RICO, (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) was passed as part of the Organized Crime Control Act. The purpose of the act was to curb the apparently increasing entry of organized crime into the legitimate business world. (Miller and Jentz 1998). G.R. Blakley (1980) who helped draft RICO, takes the position that while broad usage may or may not have been Congress’ intent (he believes it was), certainly it was ... involved in the same types of activities as traditional organized crime families, why should they not be prosecuted similarly (Greek 1991)? The situation was further complicated by the fact that organized crime often infiltrated legitimate business either to launder their illegal monies or as fronts to formulate additional criminal schemes (with or without the knowledge/consent of the business’ owners). RICO specifically makes unlawful these activities by any person, persons or organization: (18 U.S.C sec. 1964 a & c.) 1. Using income derived from a pattern of racketeering activity to acquire an ...
- 479: Death of A Salesman: The Tragedy of One Man
- ... has succeeded, that he is "well liked"and a great salesman. But at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with installment plans with which he could hardly catch up. In another time, Willy Loman might ... no spontaneous urges, but is only a means for satisfication of wants that have nothing to do with work"(Koon 65). Willy's allienation, however, is perhaps more excruciating than even Marx could have imagined. Business civilization tells Willy that selling is a task as whole and complex as that of any artisan, but the products of Willy's labor are never concrete and observable. The cabinet maker can contemplate the ... funeral...In those days there was a personality in it, Howard. There was respect, and Comradeship, and gratitude in it(Meyer 1748). This passage eludes to Willy's conflict with the changing Capitalistic society. The business has changed it has left his kind behind, and now he does not know how to perform his job. He once thought you could succeed on the merits of personality alone but now he ...
- 480: Crimes
- ... reported to the police. People who use the illegal services try to avoid the police because they do not want to be associated with that kind of people. When the crime syndicate invades a legitimate business or labor union, it uses terror, blackmail, and other methods to keep people from going to the police. Even when the illegal activities are discovered, prosecutors have difficulty convicting the gangsters because of the lack ... are arrested. Gangsters have two main goals and they are money and power. No one knows how much of each that they truly have, but investigations have shown that organized crime is a multimillion-dollar business and that gangsters have considerable political control. White collar crime originally included only criminal acts committed by businessmen and professional people while earning their living. The term referred to such crimes as stock market swindles and other kinds of fraud. Today, the term covers such acts as cheating in the payment taxes, which can be done in connection to your business. It may apply to petty thefts by employees, as well as to million dollar stock market swindles. It could also include a service stations owner's charging for an automobile repair that was not ...
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