Essays on Entertaining

Typography refers to the appearance and style present in printed matter. It also relates to the skill of arranging to ensure that published sources appeal to the readers. Neil Postman uses his book, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death,' to analyze different ideologies like how the television acts as ‘the way of knowing’ and how it uncompromisingly acts hostile to the typography techniques. The media objects’ ‘Knowing’ process entails how they obtain information, the means they use, and how they present it to the public and therefore, the television’s mentioned procedure is more identifiable with the public compared to ...

Introduction

One could hardly imagine a resident of the developed country who has never delved into such aspect of popular culture as sport – either by buying a soccer ticket, buying exactly the same sneakers model David Beckham was wearing in that Adidas commercial, following the Olympics on TV or hunting some rare baseball cards. In the modern world, sport activities have become extremely different from the leisure games they used to be as they were invented. In the recent decades, significant societal, economic, political and cultural transformations turned sport not just into a socially meaningful phenomenon but rather in an ...

Technology Trends in the Hospitality Industry

Introduction Technology is a major driver of all business in the world today. The mechanization of services leads to short lead times and eventual savings in operational expenses. The savings in turn lead to an improvement in business profits. Technology is also a major driver of the current global nature of business. In particular, developments in the transport and communications sector play an important role in globalizing business. The connectivity of the world means that potential customers learn of new services and products as they arise and expect them wherever their location. Consequently, new technologies spread quickly and the ...

Social Action Theory

Anderson and Meyer (1988) use the following terminology to understand the social action theory: “For most of the history of research in mass communication, content has been seen as a silver bullet shot from a media gun to penetrate a hapless audience” (Anderson and Meyer 48). Media affects can be related to the social action theory by evaluating the negative effects of playing violent video games on children. A television show by CBS News further places emphasis on the role video games has on making children aggressive. The show clarifies that independent studies have proven that there is a ...

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A CASE STUDY ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A CASE STUDY ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Introduction

In international business, the organizations also need to consider cultural and social values at individual levels in the present competitive business environment (Mandják et al., 2016; Weinzimmer & Esken, 2016). In this context, China is evidently one of the topmost cradles of civilizations in the world to take into account for a case study. The history of this East Asian nation is really astounding. The People’s Republic of China has developed to become one of the top world powers today, named among the G5 + ...

Plutarch’s historical work On Sparta is a vivid and compelling description of Spartan life, and their contributions to modern philosophy, warfare, and other elements of life, to which they have made significant knowledge contributions. Spartan customs, and the rise and fall of their kingdom, are both of interest to current readers, because their culture influenced the rest of Europe profoundly, even after it’s’ eventual decline in the third century B.C. It is a compelling read, depicting some extremely significant historical moments, and characters, and offering tidbits of wisdom still applicable today Plutarch was a Greek Historian, and ...

It has been a long time since movies have become an unalienable part of entertainment. Nowadays, going to the cinema is more a social event that cultural one. People become huge fans of their favorite movies and actors, keep track of all the news and become obsessed with them. Whomever you ask, every person must have at least one favorite film, which touches this person’s heart and makes him or her experience great feelings while watching. There are many people, who became so depended on movies that they cannot imagine their lives without them and organize different events ...

All for Love

No matter what century and place in the world we are living in, there will always exist some eternal topics that are close to each human being. One of such topics is definitely love. This feeling, indeed, is a very especial and meaningful word to every person. Thanks to its power, people are not just blind creatures in the kingdom of darkness who are looking for the light. Love is that magical feeling capable of healing any heart and directing all lost souls to the right life road, in spite of all the obstacles in front of them. It ...

I fail to understand most of the world around me, and the world seems to misinterpret me. However, when I need to relate and to feel understood, I do not go to a person, but to an object. The object that best describes me is my longboard. This can be seen in the Personal, Practical and Universal aspects of the chosen object. My black bird flies on the road like a road runner. Its wheels are smooth and strong, and its black and rough surface is perfect for my feet. I remain firmly attached to it throughout my inner-city ...

The verbatim theater is considered as a type of documentary that is grounded on the spoken words from the people who record their testimonies on interviews concerning the topic or event not common in the mainstream society. The two examples of the verbatim plays are Robin Soans' ‘Talking to Terrorist' and Alan Valentine's ‘Parramatta Girls.' Both plays are similar because they portray social and political message but different in terms of approach and ideas. On one hand, Valentine shed light on the social perspective to portray the issues that are hidden from the mainstream society and bring the stories ...

Abstract

This paper will summarize the book, “Who Killed Change? Solving The Mystery of Leading People Through Change. Although the author tells the story within a fictitious context, the primary concept focuses on change management. The author wants to teach supervisors or managers how to effectively deal with change throughout their employees and overall organization. In addition, these factors of change could either bring an organization down, or if the manager handles change effectively, then the company could be bigger and better than ever. We will also carefully critique and synthesize the content of this story by determining how the ...

The text “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” was written by Jonathan Safran Foer and the text “Communication Styles” was written by Deborah Tannen. “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” is a short story written in a stream of consciousness mode while “Communication Styles” is a text written in an explanatory way. There are more differences than similarities between these two texts. “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” is written in a completely different way than “Communication Styles” and the audience and purpose are different, although the tone of both texts is similar. “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” ...

Roadhouse

Literature Review In older reviews, professional critics believed that the plot and the acting in the movie were simply unbearable. The biggest issue is that the ailing plot line, established early on and never fully developed, is just too campy and lackluster. Professional critics went on to state that Road House suffered largely for its bad acting, which is considered juvenile and not worthy of cinema. In an article published by Caryn James (1989) the author focuses largely on the plot of the movie as his target. He went on to state that the star of Road House, Patrick ...

Many people believe entertainment to be a harmless thing. It is a form of pleasure used to pass the time. But what happens when it becomes a weaponized machine, used to warp an entire country’s culture and sense of values? For America, this is what has happened. Entertainment has changed their culture into a consumer driven, narcissistic wasteland, that has propagated more negativity than positivity in its wake. Entertainment has changed the culture and values of Americans whether they are willing to admit it or not. Advertisements are a good example of this, as they often use celebrities ...

Introduction

As a documentation of my personal experience, I got moved so much with anecdotes. Still, in the same line with my class work, I got to have a good experience with anecdotes. Therefore, it became my first choice when the teacher asked us to write about our personal experiences. The subject was within the context of the discussion. Furthermore, one can only get to have a feeling of an anecdote using the five senses. That is, the sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, through all these senses, I was able to in culminating my most interesting anecdote. ...

An Assignment Submitted by

Executive Summary All companies today have to maintain active social media presence in order to target their consumers, retain the loyal clients, and attract new buyers. Home Depot and Lowe’s were selected for the analysis of their social media presence by dissecting their pages on Facebook and Twitter. It was decided to analyze their last several posts and focus on some of them more specifically. As the analysis showed, both companies make posts quite often preferring to use visual support by inserting pictures, videos, and coubs. Lowe’s tend to be more versatile and creative in their posts ...

Introduction

Sexuality refers to sensation and linked closeness between two human beings. In psychological terms, sexuality is the way through which people make an expression of the completeness of love between a woman and a man. In biological terms, this is the means through which the conception of a child occurs and the ancestry is passed over to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to look at the issue of public expressions of sexuality concerning the law in the United States. In this paper, is going to be established that public expressions of sexuality in the United ...

http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_2_Special_Issue_January_2014/25.pdf This research article, found on the Internet, describes the role of advertisement in shaping children’s behavior. After examining the questionaries’ answers, given by Pakistan children, the author has proved that advertisement has a considerable impact on the way children perceive an advertised item. It is proved that the connections between children’s wish to purchase a thing and the advertising of this product exist in four main fields, which are food advertisement, school advertisement, rock music, and television advertisement. Alongside with identifying the way different sources of advertisement can influence the buying behavior, the authors also implement ...

Abstract

This paper is a wiki page entry on rhetorical theory and concept. The introduction provides the definition of the concept rhetoric by two scholars - Aristotle and Kenneth Burke. According to the scholars, rhetoric is an art of communicating effectively by persuading the audience. Aristotle, the proponent of the concept, highlights three important elements that should be present for rhetoric. These elements are identified as ethos, logos, and Pathos. The entry further presents the history of the concept by looking at the different views of the concept of the ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. The ...

The Entertainer’s Manager

A manager of the entertainer is a person who represents and guides the specific artist in all aspects of the entertainment industry. A manager does not have to be licensed by the state. An entertainer’s manager can be a best friend, a relative or any other trustworthy person in the life of the artist. The primary purpose of the manager is to ensure that proper coordination is done between the entertaining artist and other relevant agents. For instance, in the case of an organized tour, the work of the entertainer’s manager is to make sure that everything ...

American hip-hop music has achieved its global popularity over decades. It gives young people a lot of acoustic and visual pleasure as a music genre, but it also shows public issues, like poverty, race, human equality, etc. Young people are often attracted to this kind of music because those lyrics reflect their own living situations and mental states. Because of its provocative nature, the influence of American hip-hop music can be a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it can encourage people to participate in social movements; On the other hand, it can be used as a propaganda that ...

The Host, better known as Gwoemul has been categorized as a genre film due to its combination of "outbreak" narrative, monster movies, news reportage, melodrama, and comedy. The film generally brings out the situation in South Korean political, army dictatorship as well as the economic state of affair. The film proprietor Bong Joon-ho tries to relate the current situation to the historical happenings in the country. He explains the action of an American scientist of ordering the disposal of 120 liters of formaldehyde in Han River that is used by Seoul residents. The results of the chemical disposal are ...

Introduction

This essay will explore the role that the American media plays in forming public opinion. This essay will particularly focus on the area of public opinion, media influence and politics. It will investigate whether, or not the media plays a key role in forming public opinion when it comes to politics. It will discover what the extent of their influence is. The research methodology in this essay has been taken from, statistical data, journals, academic presentations, books, newspaper articles, and video recordings. This topic has been chosen, because it is a current issue that is playing out in the ...

The kids TV analysis is based on the cartoon programme “adventure time” which was aired on April 16th 2016. The code title for this episode thirty of season seven is “Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension”. The episode is set on T.V finding a hidden box which draws attention from Rainicorn. The episode is set in a green environment, showing the importance of conserving the nature. Children are made to realize the beauty that is created by the green environment. The plot is continuous and changes as the episode progresses. As the episode proceeds it is evident that the ...

I went to the National Museum of Math last Sunday. My objective was to observe a child, preferably a child attending pre-KG. As I visited the museum, I found that the place was somewhat crowded with a lot of tourists and enthusiasts. It was a bright day, and the atmosphere was really good there. Within the first 15 minutes, I spotted a girl child who was just over three years. I decided her as my subject. She was an active Caucasian girl with sparkling eyes. She seemed to be curious about all the sights around. She was occasionally communicating ...

Literature Review: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone"

Literature Review: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" J.K.Rowling’s first book in the serious of the record breaking book series Harry Potter began with “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” The book starts the reader on a journey into Harry’s earlier part of life when he was just a baby. In a horrible fight with the evil Lord Voldemort, Harry’s parents are killed, but somehow he manages to survive Voldemort. This becomes a very big sign for those in the Wizarding world who celebrate Voldemort’s defeat against Harry. Unfortunately Harry is left with ...

Introduction

The modern market is full of surprises that if left to the perceived strong players and watched from a distance by junior players, would lead to monopoly and subsequently compromise product and service quality. In the past, fierce competition was a thing for big companies scrambling for a sizeable market share. It mainly involved product oriented companies. Service industry operated like a shaved sheep that has nothing to worry of when approaching a sliding ground. Today, the wave of quality products and services continue to awaken these companies that have so long enjoyed the royal nap for many years.

Process Design

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Theme Park Industry: General Market Overview

A theme park industry is an amusement creative environment, where a single or multiple themes are used to enjoy the consumers with diverse rides, landscapes, entertaining attractions and other amusement services. The idea of mass-entertainment places emerged in the nineteenth century when the first amusement gardens appeared in the US. They offered rides on animals, simple attractions and beautiful natural landscapes. Later the trolley parks have evolved into innovative amusement theme parks known for their sophisticated attractions and services (Abercrombie, et al., 2011). Such parks are usually divided into domestic/national parks or international depending on the target audience or ...

When given the assignment to do something associated with human sexuality, I chose to take a field trip to the adult book store or as I like to call it- the big kid toy store. I actually told some of my friends about the assignment because of the “taboo” nature of the class and the field trip, surprisingly some of them decided to tag along. I had not originally thought of going with anyone, because it’s just not the type of thing you ask your buddies to do with you. However, my mentioning the field trip and paper ...

The poem "Warning" is a sensational sonnet which communicates feeling to portray something. The ballad depicts the life of old individuals which is not usually entertaining. Old individuals act like kids in light of the fact that the fun is not there anymore. They should take after social standards so individuals can acknowledge them. They can't make the most of their life since they become more seasoned and they are not as solid as youngsters. Through the lyric, Jenny tries to tell individuals that despite the fact that obligations and responsibilities must be complied, individuals require a period to ...

As I watched them together, at first I perceived a typical tangle dance. It did not look like anything particularly special. Kudo and Baryshnikov have a unique way of moving together, however, and it appears as though they are moving over ice. One holds they other up, their legs spread apart, they slide together gracefully despite the complexity of the movements, all in an effort to show the beauty of the dance. While this was impressive, I was most unimpressed with how the male was chewing gum throughout the performance. It showed a lack of professionalism. He did not ...

As the United States entered World War II, John Steinbeck was no stranger to writing anti-fascists propaganda for the masses. It may have seemed like a natural step for him to ensure he had a position as an intelligence officer in the United States’ armed forces in an effort to continue the habit. Unfortunately, for Steinbeck, this particular goal never came to be, and he spent most of his time becoming a simple war correspondent, eventually working for the New York Herald Tribune, provided he was able to secure the necessary security clearances to write the juicy stories the ...

Discussion Question #1

The recent trend of making the news more entertaining only serves to dilute the importance and relevance of the actual important news stories. The peppering of puff pieces with real news detracts from the impact when a real news story hits. More time is spent on human interest stories than the actual news sometimes, and therefore people will pay more attention to that. The role of news to educate viewers can get sabotaged by the need to keep people feeling better and entertained. While the news may be seen as ‘sad,’ there is no need to force happy stories down ...

Abstract

Over the last couple of years, there has been a growing wave in the video gaming world. Video games have developed into an ingrained feature of human lives. In US alone, it was found out that (88%) of the youth between the ages of 8 and 18 play video games (Gentile, 2009). Though only a handful was found to overdo it, (from 8-13 years), there is a wave that is slowly encroaching the world at large. Video game addiction has been linked to frequency of play and the overall time spent in play. Also, the fact that other gadgets other than the ...

The author of the review has used adverbs to indicate manner, this can be shown by, for example, the use of ‘weirdly’ (5, 5). This adverb qualifies the verb ‘entertaining’ and is hence used to show how entertaining the two actors are.

Adverbs of time have also been used and one example is the word ‘medieval’ (1, 3). This adverb is used to show when the tale was given. Adverbs have also been used in the review to show degree. An example of this can be shown by the author’s use of the adverb ‘almost’ to qualify the ...