Essays on Visual Arts and Film Studies

There are two types of summaries namely: quantitative and visual.... Quantitative or summary statistics give only numbers while visual employs the use of charts or graphs.... Its aim is to summarize a sample.... The various measures used to describe a set of data, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and measures of distribution....

However, studies indicate the situation can be arrested through conservation.... number of studies have been carried out to unravel the future prospects of the water situation in Southwest.... The studies have been centered on the water shortage, from the current situation to about one hundred years from now.... According to some of the studies carried out, between 2010 and 2110, the Southwest region is likely to utilize close to 1....

Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress studies.... The arts in Psychotherapy, 34, 69-80 ... The paper "Art Therapy Opposite Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment" presents detailed information, that the most affecting predicament during childhood is likely to be the death of a parent or a sibling....

Part A covers analysis and comparison of the case studies, cause, sequence and consequences.... From the paper "Fire History and Fire Incidents" it is clear that MGM Grand Hotel is one of the hotels to experience a high number of fire fatalities in America.... The incident at the hotel occurred on November 2, 1980, killing both guests and hotel employees....

The store's upper management wanted to improve customer satisfaction ratings.... The ratings have a direct effect on the store's profit maximization rates since it.... ... ... The customer satisfaction factors will also serve as a competition strategy since other retails store have adopted customer related approaches to increase sales and increase the market share. ...

Likewise, in much the same way that an individual might be encouraged what one particular film on their net flicks queue as the result of the fact that they watched a similar film, Sainsbury's utilize a similar approach with a loyalty program and reward card as a function of encouraging consumers to try new and similar products; thereby expanding the consumer experience and increasing the potential for repeat sales as well as new sale the firm might otherwise hope to experience. ...

Panasonic provides a wide range of CCTV cameras that are effective in maintaining a visual contact of every corner of the room to ensure maximum security of the products (Panasonic).... Panasonic provides visual aided monitoring and risk assessment to ensure that the risk of losing goods in an organization is minimal....

The paper titled the "Analysis of Supercool Co.... Partnership Firm Case" contains a report to Supercool advising the partnership on their chances of successfully defending claims from john and Ethel in connection with the bar furniture and injuries respectively.... .... ... ... Ethel is a member of the bar staff team and an employee of the Inky Town F....

Nike Corporation is the biggest manufacturer of athletic footwear and apparel in the world.... The company on fiscal year 2011 which ended in May 30, 2011 generated revenues of $20,862 (Nike, 2011).... Back in the late 1990's the company faced heavy criticism from the media and the general public due to the revelation of the sweetshop scandal....

isual/Non-Verbal: 28 visual/Verbal: 34 ... Through these results it is evident that the primary learning style for Chenchen Yan is the visual/verbal learning style with which she can acquire information best when it is provided through a visual representation as well as in written format.... visual/Non-Verbal: 38 visual/Verbal: 24 ... This means that Hongjin Yan's preferred learning style is the visual/non-verbal style which is relatively similar to his other team member with which information is best provided and attained visually through pictures or designs....

The paper "Florida Department of Management Service" describes that the use of IP security that acts as a filter for traffic going through the administrator of the network ensures the security of information amidst large web traffic.... It ensures that only authenticated access is allowed.... ... ...

The author of the paper "Anti-Money Laundering" will begin with the statement that money laundering and terrorist financing is a serious issue for most countries and it raises important issues in relation to avoidance, detection, and prosecution.... ... ... ... Complex systems are used in order to launder money and finance terrorism further increasing the complication of these issues....

This case study "Firm Performance in the South Florida Region" discusses the synergy between innovation and entrepreneurship.... Innovation is one of the biggest factors which contribute to the success of the business.... Innovation is forming new ideas and coming up with solutions for problems.... ...

In this paper, we will describe a "Problematic" situation in a Web Design Studio, we will review some of the most appropriate management science methods for analyzing the situation and recommend the most suitable method(s) that helps to resolve the problem.... ... ... ... We will build a model of the problem based on the selected method(s) and will discuss the limitation of the model we have developed....

The paper "The Analysis of the Assessment of the Overall Status of the Firm McDonald's" describes that McDonald's shows an overall profitable picture.... In terms of Liquidity, McDonald's performed better than Burger King.... In terms of debt management, McDonald's performed better than Burger King....

Smith, and Ron Tamborini (2005), studies that have been conducted reveal that there is a correlation between aggressive behavior in adolescents and the exposure to violent video game content (p.... n addition to other studies, the group's journal article discusses research performed by the Kaiser Foundation, which serves to shed some light upon the notion that a video game might somehow be responsible for the aggressive and violent behavior of a young person....

The event met almost all my expectations, especially with various activities ranging from cabaret, circus, comedy, music, dance, visual arts, and design, and theatre.... Initially, it was considered as an alternative to the Adelaide Festival of arts, which previously offered limited opportunities for the artistes to express themselves.... In my view, the festival met these requirements through accommodating all the Australians with talents from arts, music, dancing, and other natural abilities....

Priority Plastics, Inc is one of the leading companies in the provision of complete plastic packaging solutions for Startup Company to multinational firm.... As such, the company owns five manufacturing facilities that are well built at diverse points in the U.... .... (Priority.... ... ... Nevertheless, just recently the HR manager received resignation letters from four employees who put them up in one week....

Washington Mutual was a commercial bank that serviced small businesses and individuals.... The paper "The Fall Of Washington Mutual Bank And Its Implications" discusses how it failed because it was obsessed with profiteering and disregarded the use of reasonable lending standards.... ... ... ... The sales assistants were deployed to learn the needs of the customers in terms of financial services....

1733,”, largely due to the fact that the bureau believed this brand campaign was more in line with what studies showed as the perception most people had of Savannah, as they noted, “During recent research in several cities, we learned that just mentioning Savannah evokes many positive associations (Backus, p.... Tourism and the Branded City: film and Identity on the Pacific Rim.... Our society is more complex and requires diversified visual communication....

oupled with the hypothesis were several studies whether the hippocampal volume has a significant effect with the building of spatial memories or affected by the building process otherwise (Maguire et al.... The paper 'A Vital Role of the Hippocampus' presents the hippocampus which is part of the Limbic System....

ased on feasibility studies, the business has targeted two premises, one to be used as its administrative office and the other as its factory location.... This case study "Great Barrier Reef Sponge Farm" presents Great Barrier Reef Sponge Farm that is aimed at specializing in design....

Art: visual arts.... This case study "The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens" presents the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) who created the well-known artwork: The Massacre of the Innocents, circa 1611-1612.... Rubens completed his eight years of study in Italy and returned to Antwerp in 1608....

The author of the paper titled "A Reader Analysis of Three Stories Authored by Edgar Allen Poe" examines and analyzes such short stories as "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat" published in 1843, and "The Mosque of the Red Death" published in 1849.... ... ... ... The notable cause of disagreement in the story is clear from the instance when the narrator insists on murdering an old woman claiming the man has a vulture eye....

This case study "The USA Science and Technology Arms Control Policy" discusses the Arms Control policy on nuclear strategy and weapons employment that has been enshrined in the national security policy and strategy.... ... ... ... Diplomacy is one of the approaches that highly weaponry sophisticated countries try to use to ask others to stop the production, spread, and use of weapons of mass destruction....

It yielded a Scaled score of 10 and a raw score of 65, whereas, in symbol searching which is more demanding of attention to detail and visual discrimination, it yielded a scale score of 10 and a raw score of 34.... It consists of tasks that evaluate nonverbal concept formation, visual perception and organization, visual-motor coordination, learning, along with the aptitude to separate figure and ground in visual stimuli.... He his raw score of matrix reasoning was 21 with a scaled score of 12, while his raw score for visual puzzles was16 with a raw score of 10....

and European Markets' Journal of International Business studies 20(3): 437-453 ... (2004), ‘New Frontiers in International Strategy' Journal of International Business studies 35(3): 175-204 ... (2003), ‘Semiglobalization and International Business Strategy' Journal of International Business studies 34(2): 138-155 ... (1999), ‘Australian and Japanese value stereotypes: a two country study' Journal of International Business studies 30(1): 203-211 ...

ccording to studies in the United States, approximately 25000 to 30000 persons (6-11 per 100000) experience SAH (Pfohman, 2001) each year.... For both of these instruments, studies have shown a direct correlation between the severity of the clinical grade of cerebral aneurysm and the incidence of vasospasm after SAH (Rusy, 1996).... Some studies of CSF after SAH indicated elevations in levels of free fatty acids, implicating these agents in the development of vasospasm as well (Pilitsis, 2002)....

The various sub divisions in visual arts such as printmaking, sculpture, painting and photography have given advantage to artists, to illustrate their ideas in a more dynamic and specific way.... Hannah Sawtell is one of the emerging names in this field of arts.... Throughout the years, there hasbeen massive development and innovation in the field of arts.... annah Sawtell is one of the emerging names in this field of arts.... Her tremendous work in the field has made a reputed place of her and is now considered as the prime British artist of three dimensional arts works....

In the TEACCH programme, controlled studies are necessary for comparing performance against other programmes.... visual information, predictability and structure help the children understand what they are supposed to do, where and when it should be done, and the order of doing the activity.... The visual learning activities help the student and adults develop independence.... The strategies may involve visual cues such as symbols and pictures similar to those discusses by Jordan in the TEACCH programme....

This is because studies have shown that users with IT experience and education have greater satisfaction with enterprise systems (Dezdar 2012, p.... The study "Review of Vista Enterprise Software System by Viewpoint" focuses on the critical analysis and evaluation of Vista Enterprise Software system by Viewpoint....

The efficiency of NGOs comes from their approach of identifying a problem, carrying out studies on its occurrence and how it can be solved then working towards getting the funds to curb the problem.... ranian studies Group at MIT. ... The organization is responsible for carrying out therapeutic, preventative and educational programs that are meant to treat and to prevent visual impairment and blindness in developing countries; both locally, regionally and internationally....

In the paper 'Fresh Perspectives at Harrington Collection,' the author provides a critical analysis of Harrington Collection's case study.... The paper seeks to identify some of the problems and their causes to this negative growth in the financial results of Harrington Collection's 2007 fiscal year....

This paper "A Short History of Japanese film Industry" discusses the film industry as a vital element of any country as entertainment and visual media embody a sense of nationality and one culture.... Moreover, with the growing popularity of Japanese films in the west, Korean film productions suddenly carry on the trend and follow the tradition of the J-horror....

t is important for a business to develop a habit of examining every visual element in the packaging of the products a business produces.... The paper "Qantas Airline - Information System" is a perfect example of an information technology case study.... The airline was founded in 1920 in Queensland and registered as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS)....

he fact that autism affects three times as many males as females along with the findings of studies that have looked at effects of family and twins in autism strongly suggests that autism has a genetic leaning or component (Medical Research Council, 2001).... Many studies have conclusively proven that persons with autism spectrum disorders demonstrate strengths or special abilities: “a higher prevalence of perfect pitch, enhanced ability with 3-D drawing and pattern recognition, more accurate graphic recall, and various superior memory skills”(Wolman, 2008). ...

There are studies that support the game theory as a psychological approach to the understanding of the motivation behind terror attacks that are listed as being quantifiable factors that target being governments.... However, the concept has little research to support it as it bases its idea on purely a psychiatric examination that is not controlled by empirical psychological studies.... However, the idea of terrorist being sociopathic factor has been advanced without prior evidence from empirical studies bypassing the essential quest6ion of whether terrorism is a prosocial behavior or an antisocial behavior given that individuals who intentionally harm other innocent people are usually antisocial....

While we expect children to mature with age, we forget that their learning abilities while maturing with age also demand more interaction in studies.... Careful studies have shown that when students were not subjected to continuous lectures and were stopped in between classes and asked to note their questions, they came up with new perspectives to the subject and also performed better in exams (Chin, 2001, 88).... In separate studies by Barak and Rafaeli (2003), we see that peer assessment becomes an interesting process for such students, which leads to self-assessment and improved learning....

Sociology of the arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms.... arts & Economics: Analysis & cultural policy.... This case study "Managing an Art Business: Beauclaire" presents details about starting a new company, which is related to the manufacture and designing of custom and antique jewelry called Beauclaire....

The purpose of this study is to represent a description of a certain patient medical history and diagnosis and treatment process.... he patient complains of multiple cuts on the left hand (dominant), and minor cuts on face and neck resulting from an alleged assault at home.... ... ... ... The patient arrived at the hospital walking and alone....

I would then proceed to break down the visual of the house to its various components such as the door, windows, walls, floor, etc.... In the paper 'The Instructional Strategy for Student with Special Needs' the author discusses the use of pictures and graphs to make Billy understand his lessons....

The author of this case study entitled "Wal-Marts German Misadventure" touches upon the Wal-Mart and its global operations in the early 1990s when it opened its first international store in Mexico.... Analyze the reasons for Wal-Mart's decision to go global.... ... ... ... Wal-Mart remained a domestic company till 1991 and focused mainly on markets in the US....

On one side of the vase was carefully decorated with the genius of industry and the genius of fine arts on the other.... The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative arts: Two-volume Set.... However, this should not be construed to mean that they are not spectacular (Art, Design, and visual Thinking, 2012).... Art and visual Perception: A psychology of the creative eye/new version.... rt, Design, and visual Thinking....

This paper "Costume Designers" discusses that costume designers have a bigger role in theatre, film and television than you might think.... The Role of the Costume Designer in Theatre, film and Television Costume designers have a bigger role in theatre, film and television than you mightthink.... All designers said that theatre was very fast and the timing was different than in film or television.... ESIGNER RESPONSIBILITIES film ...

studies have indicated that music has beneficial effects on stress-related physiological, emotional and cognitive health.... studies have indicated that music has beneficial effects to the stress-related physiological, emotional and cognitive health.... studies have established that listening to sedative, soft music for nearly 30 minutes can significantly reduce depression.... Biomedical studies have established that music is substantially structured auditory language that involves complex cognition, perception and motor control within the brain....

During this period Spielberg had begun to intern at Universal Studios and soon the strength of his work was appreciated by those around him as he became the youngest director to be signed for a long-term film.... He continued to produce a number of films and is still considered a huge name in the film industry....

iu, 2012, Takeover Bidding with Signaling Incentives The Review of Financial studies.... The Review of Financial studies.... This paper 'Valuation of Firms in Mergers and Acquisitions' seeks to demonstrate the different aspects of mergers and acquisition using a case of two companies: Triumph and Rustic....

Womens studies International Forum: 227-42.... This case study "Social Change in the Arab World" focuses on social change in the Arab world, which includes some of the Arab countries in Africa.... It discusses what are the main causes and drivers of social change which include, youth and social media....

Women at the periphery, studies show that they are more tolerant on Facebook online interactions.... Women's studies Quarterly 33.... The paper 'The Safe Areas in Social Media' focuses on social media as a social network platform connecting people online via electronic websites....

Thus it informs and impinges the important segments of the behavioral sciences, such as psychological studies, and the hard sciences, such as biology and physics... The term semiotics (often also referred to as 'semiology') is derived from the Greek word semeion which means 'sign'....