Econ 204 Name Institution Date Question 1 Avatar: 218.1× 760.50/214.5 = 773.26 Titanic: 218.1 × 600.8/160.5 = 816.41 Star Wars: 218.1 × 461/60.5 = 1661.89 Shrek 2: 218.1 × 437.2/188.9 = 504.78 E.T The Extra-Terrestrial: 218.1 × 399.9/96.5 = 903.82 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Movies |Nominal Box Office |Year Released
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Drawbacks of 3D Movies According to IMDb.com‚ James Cameron’s Avatar has become the highest grossing film ever to achieve more than $2 billion. Avatar earned $2‚783‚165‚628 because 2/3 of its tickets sold are for 3D watching. This phenomena made people starts to think that this is the era of 3D. Now‚ almost every movie is produced in 3D. And to enjoy 3D movies at home‚ vendors start to provide 3D facilities such as 3D TVs‚ 3D Blu-Ray players‚ 3D projectors‚ etc. Despite the fact that 3D is very
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series of chapters focused on recognizing and avoiding breakdowns in intercultural communication. In this chapter‚ you’ll read about ethnographic and cultural approaches and then examine anxiety‚ assuming similarity instead of difference‚ and ethnocentrism as barriers to effective intercultural communication. ETHNOGRAPHIC AND CULTURAL APPROACHES Read the following court transcript (Liberman‚ 1981) and assess how successful you think the communication was: Magistrate: Can you read and write
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and Interactivity Met with Cinema "The movie‚ by sheer speeding up the mechanical‚ carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configuration and structure. The message of the movie medium is that of transition from linear connections to configurations." (McLuhan‚ 1994‚ p.12) On August 19‚ 1839‚ Louis Daguerre‚ who was already known for his diorama‚ introduced the new process of "daguerreotype". With this process‚ some lucky amateurs‚ for the first time became
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Sejarah Ice Cream The earliest documented usage of an ice cream type of product is from China around 1000BC. For centuries people from the China and Middle East have enjoyed a delicacy we know as dessert. Marco Polo is believed to have brought the idea back to Italy‚ but it wasn’t until 1533 that our European ancestors sampled the sensation of "frozen cream". The concept was taken up by inventive French chefs and developed from essentially a frozen fruit ice to dairy based ices‚ which were akin
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Public AffairsLocal and Foreign Issues Should Abortion Be Legalized In The Philippines?Page 1 of 512...NextLastLastResults 1 to 20 of 85 Reply to Thread Thread Tools Nov 2‚ 2010 11:19 PM #1 inasmay inasmay is offline Member inasmay’s Avatar Join Date Nov 2010 Location I’m sexy! Should Abortion Be Legalized In The Philippines? I’m not a lawyer nor do I have any legal background. But I learned through my readings that we cannot legalize abortion in the Philippines until we revise
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World Order after the Cold War is replaced by deep-seated doubts about how to manage current world problems. While the deeper causes of various political events in the south and the East also affect the North‚ we are also facing an Increasing ethnocentrism and racism in Europe and North America as people are escaping to this part of the world. Wild capitalism thus combines with wild ethnicism and racism in a frightening mixture of policies and social practices that result in keeping many people or
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and explore a number of theoretical principles and topics of cross-cultural management in the everyday life of Australian’s living in this suburb‚ through such theories and topics as Oberg’s six-month cycle of culture shock‚ Cultural dimensions- Ethnocentrism/stereotyping/parochialism‚ Hofstede’s value dimensions theory‚ as well as Harris’s and Moran’s cultural profiles. Oberg’s six-month cycle of culture shock Oberg’s theory identifies 4 major stages of cultural shock and explains the “typical”
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Jack Capossela Prof. Drogy Sherry Turkle Summary Jack Capossela Cover Letter Sherry Turkle’s piece states that society and the way kids grow up is changing as a result of increased technological use. Rites of passage that used to exist are now forgone or postponed as these children are “tethered” to their devices and their parents. They’ve become dependent on these devices to assist in finding out who they are as people‚ and some are unable to figure out who they are because they always have connections
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I am stating my opinion based on what I see and not based on research. Theory plays a huge role in the fashion industry since everyone has an opinion. Ethnocentrism - the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture. Pluralistic - state or quality of being plural If you become more pluralistic and less ethnocentrism‚ you are more opened minded to things involving other cultural. You are happier since you understand that there is no such thing as a superior race/cultural
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