Motivation Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The film Aguirre, The wrath of God, is a 1972 German film. It is an adventure art film that was directed by Werner Herzog. The central character in the film is Klaus Kinski. The film gives the tale of a Spanish soldier who guides a team of conquistadores along the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America looking for a mythical city of gold. Through the use of a simple story and conversation, the film builds an image of madness and folly, counterpointed by the luxuriant but harsh Amazon jungle.
The film brings out a number of themes that depict the main issues affecting ...

There were a wide range of personalities at play in Armageddon. Harry Stamper, was the primary leader within the story, with AJ the ambitious next generation aspirant, his daughter Grace embodied the strong, supportive and determined woman of the modern era. The various personalities of his crew aptly represented the various excesses of the common man. Rockhound loved women, brilliant yet needing leadership and adventure. Bear was a tremendous physical presence, yet very much a member of the team. Max portrayed the troubled first mate that sought to make good for his children. Dan Truman the NASA leader, led the government forces, yet ...

Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989)
Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989)
Film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays have been made ever since the filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the Autochrome color photography process. However, Henry V (1989) is perhaps the finest film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, and Kenneth Branagh, who directed the film, wrote the screenplay and starred in it as King Henry V himself, was critically acclaimed around the world because of the film. Since the film after all is adapted from Shakespeare’s play, so like the play it shows Henry ...

I believe that Tom has laid down a great talk from a prospective of education on motivation especially to the students in this Motivational and Emotional video. This is applied in a sense of what is a challenging task engaging. One of the techniques that could be applied is collective questions that randomly rewards person with a huge piece of puzzle. In this presentation, I think the main idea is how the video games are applied as an extension of the practices and principles of applied analysis of behavior.
In my opinion, what makes the schools to be a mindless and boring for most ...

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is a study that has something to do with the way how people or groups of people inside an organization interact (Dalton, 2000). The different groups of people and how they interact is the bread and butter of this field of study. There are several principles and variables that affect how people interact in an environment. Most of these principles have psychological and sociological roots (Fill, 2003). Organizational behavior is often confused with other fields of study like Human Resource Management, and Organizational and Industrial Psychology. While there may be similarities and links between these fields of study, ...

In the video titled “What makes us feel good about our work,” Dan Ariely presents a TED talk about the effects of rejection and motivation, and the effect, which this has on how people feel about the work they do. Indeed, it turns out that individuals develop a sense of ownership over anything they do, irrespective of how basic the task is. Using some experiments, Ariel is in a position to offer some quite easy to comprehend insight on how individuals work and that value they attach to the tasks they perform (Ariely, 2012).
Apparently, Ariely gives three experiments ...

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

In the late 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, Steve Prefontaine was a distinctive and unique personality. He was an athlete who revolutionized his running career and managed to bring his sport in the headlines. The movie majorly focuses on Prefontaine aggressive personality and his constant refusal to pace himself. The only way Prefontaine was interested in winning was by “flat-out leading” in the whole race. He was undefeated in the US and acquired all of the American records between 2000-10000 meters. At the Munich Olympics, he ran one of the most memorable races. Prefontaine was greatly favoured to attain ...

W. Edwards Deming was one among the various management consultants sent by the Unites States government to ameliorate the production quality standards in the war torn Japanese economy. The Japanese yearned for getting out of their lagged image in the international market where they regretted upon the bad quality front and the obvious cheap prices of their products. Deming applied his statistical approach and assured them to implement the changes recommended so that they could totally turn around their earlier issues within next five years (Deming Institute 1). Adhering to his simple notions and unconventional approach, the Japanese came ...

The film “Remember the Titans” was released in 2000. It is best known as a Sports Cinema. The main profession of the main characters is associated with the football. Both of the main characters are football coaches. One of the highlighting factor in the movie is the perfect and vibrant professional relationship between the two coaches of football; Herman Boone and Bill Yoast. Their professionalism lies in their initiative to remove the racial discrimination among the team members and establishing a team spirit among them regardless of race. The team spirit is very important for the accomplishment of the team objectives. ...

Analysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

Instutional AffilationAnalysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

There are several things that The Bobs did right in the interview. For instance, he and his associate were able to remain calm and composed despite the fact that Peter seemed to be disorganized and unprepared for the interview. He was also able to ask Peter some questions that would help in job analysis and work flow analysis. For example, he asks Peter what his typical work day is like. Such a question can help in understanding the activities a worker is involved in during a working day and how they are undertaken

What is ‘wrong’ about how “The Bobs” conducted the interview?

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Part 1

Patrick Lencioni, a renowned leadership and team-building consultant, presents an analysis of how to build effective teams in three videos. These videos are examined as below. In the video Building and Leading a High Performance Team, Lencioni examines the need for a leader in a team. He goes ahead to state the characteristics of a good leader. As discussed in class, Lencioni also points out that the most important character of a leader is to maintain contact with his team. The team can maintain a charismatic relationship with their leader but they should also be free to communicate with ...

1. The War Room is a movie that tells the story of a family who, apparently, were well-off. The couple, Tony and Elizabeth, both have a successful career, and more than that, they too have a beautiful daughter. However, what happened inside the home, was in contrast to how they appear to other people. Tony, who was a pharmaceutical salesman was a verbally abusive husband, had thoughts of infidelity and do not spend much time for his daughter. On the other hand, Elizabeth is a real estate agent who felt bitter about how her husband has turned out over ...

Spellbound (2002 film)

Spellbound is a 2002 film that focuses on the efforts of eight teenagers to win a spelling competition. The movie centres on how culture plays an important role in shaping language skills of the children as well as their parents and teachers. All the children that participated in the competition came from different backgrounds and school and received varying training. The determination they had as well the support they received from their parents, siblings, other relatives and teachers. Apart from the simple fact that the movie is entertaining, it has more of an academic touch whose audience are the stakeholders in ...

The Iwo Jima Island is the setting for the movie. These islands are located between the American forces and the home islands of Japan. The Japanese army is desperate to protect the islands from falling into the hands of the American military forces. This is because once they fall they will be used as a base to attack the home islands. The movie is based on the Japanese perspective and is supposed to counter flags of our fathers, which is the American story of the same battle.
The Japanese army suffers heavy losses when the Japanese combined fleet is ...

Watching the movie, “The Corporation” is an eye opener for me. One of the things that struck me is the statement made by Michael Moore that the main motivation of corporations is the bottom-line, that is, to make as much profit as they can. It is saddening that most corporations only take into consideration their stockholders, without concern for their other stakeholders such as their employees and customers. Moore mentions further that for corporations, “there is no such thing as enough”. From the movie, I also learned that it is legal for corporations to put profit over the public ...

The Blind side

John Lee Hancock is behind the scenes in the film The Blind Side. Alcon Entertainment produced the sports drama film, and its central character is Michael Oher, a star player in football. The Blind Side is an interesting piece of art top watch with its hilarious and captivating story flow. The film is based on a true story to portray the events that shape and change the starring of the film.
The story is told by use of flash to allow the viewer to link the current action in the film and the reason for them to be acted in ...

Watching the film offers inspiration and enlightenment on doing something within set personal goals. The setting is at Welton Academy located in Vermont. The school presents a traditional set-up of a boy’s preparatory school. The film represents events that took place in 1959. During the period, the school has not received external pressure to admit young black students. Further, it represents the perceptions of young white scholars who have access to a vast wealth. The film revolves around an alumnus of the institution and seeks to return as an English teacher. His style shakes up the institution due to the enthusiasm ...

The movie “Thunder heart” touches upon the social aspects of poverty, exploitation, cultural taboos, deviances and other anomaly that may exist in a certain society. This is a directional presentation by Michael Apted who is famous for his movies which touch upon the social issues and events of past incidents that have prevailed and in a less milder way haunted the free existence of different communities within a society. In this project he undertakes the same challenge of representing the social differences yet he has presented them in form of the political spectrum and scope.

It also sheds light on the elementary part ...

1. What was Jimmy’s gift and what was he willing/required to do in order to allow/make this project take flight?

Jimmy’s gift was his ability to manage a band as well as the ability to find new recruits for his band. He uses his parent’s house to scout for talent as well as develop talent. A greater part of the movie drama will entail Jimmy making endless attempts to source new recruits to suit his band (R&B/soul). However, it is not make expressly clear the reasons as to why Jimmy seeks to begin the band. It is ...

Introduction

Saito and Nicholson are two different leaders from different communities with Saito being a British and Nicholson being a Japanese colonel. Even though the two men are similar in many ways like being loving, having pride and being dedicated to what they do, the two colonels are from different cultures which encompass different leadership styles.

Saito

He is a Japanese colonel who believes in commanding people to work despite their ranks. Saito is a transactional leader because he had personal interests in pushing even the officers to work. He knew if the bridge will not be completed in time, he was to kill himself ...