Essays on Bounty

Thanksgiving is a holiday that has been long celebrated over the years but is has had its roots in a cultural and religious perspective. There are many myths that surround the origin of thanksgiving but the most known one is that it was a feast to celebrate the successful fall harvest. The pilgrims celebrated it as they made through the winter and with the great assistance of the Wampanoag tribe, they got a bounty harvest to sustain them to the next winter season (Smith 79-85). The feast took place for three days, usually between September and November, though there ...

The situation on the HSM Bounty presents an excellent opportunity for studying organizational behavior, administration, and organizational decline. In particular, the film Mutiny on the bounty deals with issues such as attitudes towards leadership, toxic leadership, communication, ethics, and organizational culture. In the film, the HMS Bounty was commissioned by the English government on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. William Bligh served as captain, the first time he was holding that position on a ship. Fletcher Christian, a man from a distinguished and wealthy family, serves as his second-in-command. Before ...

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a combat sport that incorporates a wide range of fighting skills and techniques drawn from a combination of martial arts cultures and non-cultures. These skills and techniques are also used in competitions. The people taking part in these fights are not allowed to use arms. The rules and regulations that govern the game are always set by the relevant commission and they are subject to any applicable restrictions. This sport started in the United States in 1993 and later on it was taken up by other countries. The main styles that dominated the sport ...

There is the old saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” However, I prefer the thought you can’t beat the price, “free”. Dumpster diving, the act of taking items from the garbage or dumpsters is illegal in some places by local ordinance, regarded as trespassing if enclosed by a fence or placed against a building, sometimes forbidden by a sign posted on the dumpster itself or at the very least generally frowned upon by society. Do not let this stop you from the limitless bounty of previously owned goods awaiting you for just the cost ...

1. The National Football League has already identified a key way in which it can target its marketing research when it comes to attracting the interest of women. The two identified pillars for the NFL are football and the community. The partnership that the NFL has developed with the United Way since the 1970’s has built it a considerable amount of goodwill. Many women enjoy watching football for football’s sake – if you go to any sports bar on a football Sunday, you’ll see many more women, proportionally, there who are engaged in the game than you would see ...

Introduction

Food and drink habits in a given society are important aspects of cultural identity. Different foods and drinks are consumed in a different civilization and different historic times. The differences in the feeding habits amongst various civilizations are affected by a variety of factors such as geographical placing that determines which foods can be produced in certain places. Travel and trade also influence the food and drink varieties available to the community. Trading expeditions may introduce new foods and drinks, but also with their interaction with the cultures they trade with, different feeding and drinking routines. Despite the cultural uniformity of these ...

In the 1840’s through to 1850’s there was industrial revolution and commercialization of agriculture. This brought with it social problems majorly being some members of the society amercing wealth while others lived in poverty. This paper seeks to compare between response to the manifesto of the communists by Marx and Engels and that by Walden by Thoreau. It specifically looks at what were the problems in their view and what were the possible solutions. Marx and Engels viewed the greatest problem that faced the world at their time as class conflict. Classes according to them arose ...

In this paperwork, I am going to discuss a movie review about the Naked Spur.

The Naked Spur by Anthony Mann, (1953)-Starring James Stewart and Janet Leigh A film most appropriate for the adult viewers-It is a wonderfully filmed, stylistic, and moralizing. The film is among the best westerns Mann made with James Stewart, whereby, the corporeal battle is in line with the hero’s personal clash. Stewart is depicted as a silent frontiersman who ends up losing his home, while fighting in the civil war. It, therefore, becomes a challenge to him, Stewart, for he has to buy a new grubstake. Stewart has to raise enough money for the new grubstake and this leads ...

The movie Django Unchained, was released on December 25, 2012 in North America. The film takes place in the Old West in America’s pre civil war South. It was directed by Quentin Tarantino and produced by Stacey Sher alongside Reginald Hudlin. The film stars in this piece are Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie runs for a total of two hours and forty five minutes. Django (Jammie Foxx), is the protagonist in this story. A freed slave who was bought by a German dentist, Dr. King Schultz. Dr. Schultz buys ...

Introduction:

The morality of genetic research can play out in many ways. Two broad fields of concern are that of genetically engineered organisms and the ethics involved in the use of human stem cells taken from zygotes and human embryos. Another issue is the patenting of the genome and how that affects medicines and the rights of people to “own” their own cells. Of special concern is that bio-engineering might escape and have long term adverse effects as the manipulated creations cross genetic structures with other biological elements in the environment. This paper will look at the general ethical concerns ...

Book Review No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Summary of the Book Harry Markopolos introduces the book to the reader on the accounted date of December 11, 2008. December 11, 2008 was a crucial day Bernie Madoff was arrested. Madoff was arrested for creating and running a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme was the largest in history of United States. Markopolos makes sure that the reader comprehends the revelations by incorporating a short story of a man in a plane. The man is shocked by the streaming exposures on the CNBC. The man reveals to his wife that they have lost millions of dollars they had invested with Madoff. However, the ...

Little Background on the Cinematographer

American cinematographer George Walton Lucas Jr. is producer, director, editor and screenwriter; he was born in the town of Modesto, located in the state of California. George Walton Lucas, Jr. (May 14 of 1944, Modesto, California, United States) is a filmmaker States, creator of the hit film of Star Wars and later Indiana Jones, president of Lucasfilm, LucasArts Entertainment Company, and Lucas Digital Ltd, Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Learning Ltd LucasBooks. He was considered two consecutive years as the number 4 of the most powerful in the entertainment industry, just behind the owners of Time Warner, Turner and Steven Spielberg ( ...

The bug-bounty program is a current technological advancement in the computer networking and online internet world aimed at improving the online security and reducing or minimizing the vulnerabilities of the companies that run the program or intend to run the bug bounty program. The program is to have its various pros and cons since use by the various online tech companies, for instance, Mozilla and Google. The advantages for the firms that use or run this program are clear since the security professionals and specialists use it to resolve most current security issues. Another advantage of using this program ...

It is not uncommon to note that some parents are more engulfed in the euphoria of their new families and forget to take care of each other’s needs. Some parents are more engrossed in their daily responsibilities and families that they forget about the needs and desires of their spouses. There are some factors that make it difficult for individuals to make time for each other, either physically, emotionally, mentally or sexually. This is detrimental to the couple’s sex life because of the huge amounts of time spent apart. It is vital that the spouses establish a positive ...

In Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, the detailed world that provides the film with its setting is created and filmed in a unique and interesting way. The setting is Los Angeles in the far-flung future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is ordered to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the abstract, breathtaking story, creates a visual and cultural futurist’ ...

Advertising is used as a means to publicize a particular product or service to its target market. Companies often vie to produce the most creative, lucrative, and efficient advertisements in their respective industries. However, in the high demand for such advertisements, certain campaigns tend to neglect their responsibility of proper advertising. Various forms of deceptive advertising are seen almost everywhere and the most notorious will be tackled later on. To be specific, any form of advertisement that lures consumers to purchase a product or service due to a misunderstanding may be ...

Buffalo news is one of the leading newspapers circulated in the Buffalo NY and Niagara Falls Metropolitan region. The Buffalo News was found in 1873 by Edward Hubert Butler Sr and was initially started as a Sunday newspaper. The Buffalo News has been three time Pulitzer Prize winner and was a nominated finalist on four times. It has won numerous statewide awards, in competition with the New York City papers among other renowned newspapers in the market (Buffalonews.com). Buffalo.com was launched in 1999 and it has been one of the busiest websites in the Western New York area. Some of the ...

Discuss the roles of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in the provision of drugs. Therapeutic Goods Administration is one of the major Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing branches and it focus mainly on helping the government to regulate various forms of therapeutic goods such as the medicines, medical equipments, implants, vaccines and haematological products. The importance of their role to the community is that those goods are something that people use every day. The goods are used in the management of different major medical conditions (Australian Government, 2011). The ...

INTRODUCTION

In the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott takes great care to fashion a detailed, unique dystopian world for the characters to inhabit. The setting is Los Angeles in the (at the time of production) dystopian future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is tasked to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the dreamlike, meandering story, creates a visual and cultural ...