Star Wars Essays (Examples)
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Media And Its Grip On Youth Culture
...Star wars Introduction
As Stuart Hall shows, media representations are powerful. The problem is that the often present stereotypical images and characters that perpetuate and propagate biased beliefs. Because so much media is directed at and consumed by young people, youth culture itself becomes inundated with prefabricated ideas that are developed by the Culture Industry for their consumption. The Frankfurt School argued that the reason people in America never rose up against the owners of the means of production was because the Culture Industry had pacified them by way of the media—films, TV shows, musicals, music albums and so on—all of it had depleted the working class people of whatever impulse they might have had to rise up and take control of their own destiny, like Marx said they would. One of the most powerful companies within the Culture Industry is Disney, and as Giroux points out, it is all about hooking……
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Drake, Jennifer, et al. Growing up postmodern: Neoliberalism and the war on the young. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Giroux, Henry. “Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence.” TruthOut, 2009. https://truthout.org/articles/disney-casino-capitalism-and-the-exploitation-of-young-boys-beyond-the-politics-of-innocence/
Hall, Stuart. “Representation & the Media.” Media Education Foundation, 1997. https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Representation-and-the-Media-Transcript.pdf
Marger, Martin N. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The mass media as a power institution.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Power in modern societies (1993): 238-249.
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Walt Disney
Disney Studios and the Online Streaming wars
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Disney was at its best when it was not just Eisner but rather the triumvirate of Eisner, Wells and Katzenberg. The three … one another well, but individually and on their own they could not recreate the same magic. Thus, strategy formulation and implementation has to star with the question of who is calling the shots and making the decisions at Disney? Who is bringing the vision? What is the … vision and sense of what people want. There has already been terrible backlash at the way Disney handled the rollout of the new star wars films after acquiring the brand. Disney needs to do a better job of monitoring performance in this regard and one way to measure … way to measure its performance is to assess the fallout on social media, where fans are voicing their opinions of Disney’s take……
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Wheelen, T. L., Hunger, J. D., Hoffman, A. N., & Bamford, C. E. (2010). Strategic management and business policy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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The Disney And Pixar Merger Deal
… Lasseter, Docter, Stanton and Ranft—wanted to retain…[break]…the Pixar phases of development. This may be one reason many fans have disliked the new Disney-produced star wars films and why many fans of Toy Story still enjoy the Pixar films that are produced under Disney. Pixar has retained creative control.
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Debruge, P. (2016). Disney’s Pixar Acquisition: Bob Iger’s Bold Move That Reanimated a Studio. Retrieved from https://variety.com/2016/film/features/disney-pixar-acquisition-bob-iger-john-lasseter-1201923719/
Jain, P. (2013). The Disney-Pixar merger. Retrieved from https://qrius.com/disney-pixar-merger/
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Recent Broadway Crises
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Of course, the Jacobs article was penned long before the coronavirus threat darkened Broadway. The article “Broadway, Seeking to Stay Open, Suggests star Keep Their Distance,” was written when Broadway was still struggling to find a way to reconcile its tradition of star meeting fans at the stage door with the new post-coronavirus reality. At the time, Broadway decided to first discontinue the practice, given the ……
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Jacobs, Julia. “Dancer Tries to Quell ‘West Side Story’ Controversy: ‘I Am Not a Victim.’” The New York Times. 31 January 2020.
Marshall, Alex. “Broadway Is Closed, but London’s Theaters Carry On.” The New York Times. 20 March 2020.
Paulson, Michael. “Broadway, Seeking to Stay Open, Suggests Stars Keep Their Distance.” The New York Times. 11 March 2020.
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How Media Coverage Of Operation Desert Storm Was Influenced By The
… the American public as a job well done by those who were trained for the purpose.
Notwithstanding the successful outcome of the military intervention…[break]…star down the mouth of a cannon barrel and have few viable alternatives except to comply while the former provide the economic means by … the mouth of a cannon barrel and have few viable alternatives except to comply while the former provide the economic means by which wars are waged through their tax contributions. To the extent that public opinion fails to support the U.S. government’s military actions will therefore likely … therefore likely be the extent to which such actions are jeopardized and their outcomes adversely affected. The United States could have won the wars in Korea and Vietnam by leaving the north of these countries radioactive wildernesses, but the nation has decided that these weapons are too ……
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Curtis, J. (2015, November). Reflecting on strategic results of Operation Desert Storm. Army, 65(11), 24-27.
Khan, H. (2011, July 1). An unbiased estimate of present American competitiveness from deontological and teleological perspectives of utilitarianism. Competition Forum, 9(2), 348-352.
Klotzer, C. L. (2002, October). A lesson for Americans: Desert Storm operation reports were full of lies and distortions. St. Louis Journalism Review, 32(250), 34-39.
Lindsey, J. M. & Smith, C. (2003, Summer). Rally 'round the flag: Opinion in the United States before and after the Iraq War. Brookings Review, 21(3), 20-24.
Operation Desert Storm. (2020). U.S. History. Retrieved from https://www.ushistory.org/ us/60a.asp.
Stilwell, B. (2015, September 12). 21 facts about the first Gulf War. Military.com. Retrieved from https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2015/09/21-facts-about-the-first-gulf-war .
Taylor, A. (2016, January 14). Operation Desert Storm: 25 years since the first Gulf War. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/operation-desert-storm-25-years-since-the-first-gulf-war/424191/ .
Tilford, K. H., Jr. (1993, Summer). Review: The meaning of victory in Operation Desert Storm: A review essay. Political Science Quarterly, 108(2), 327-331.
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The Hollywood Blacklist Dalton Trumbo And Spartacus
… how it led to the stigmatization of Dalton Trumbo; how it inspired him to write the film Spartacus, which would go on to star Kirk Douglas and be directed by legendary director Stanley Kubrick; and how the film served as a contemporaneous critique of McCarthyism and the ……
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Ceplair, Larry and Christopher Trumbo. Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Griffith, Robert. McCarthyism: The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Krutnik, Frank. “Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. New Brunswick N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
McGilligan, Patrick and Paul Buhle. Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Schrecker, Ellen. The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Schrecker, Ellen. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Smith, Jeff. Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
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Supply Chain Management In Canada
… and delivers in half the time (3 weeks vs. 6 weeks). In terms of quality and customer satisfaction, Krebbler bests McCray by 1.5 star in the Furniture Quality Index (4.5 vs. 3.0). Krebbler’s extra time to delivery correlates with a higher quality ranking. However, its extra care ……
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Channick, Robert. “Fallout from China Trade War,” Chicago Tribune, 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-china-tariffs-illinois-impact-20190510-story.html
Krebbler Furniture Case Study, Supply Chain Management Association. Digital File.
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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird
Historical Context of the Film To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird star Gregory Peck is a 1962 film adaptation of the 1960 novel by Harper Lee of the same name. The film was produced during ……
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Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm
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US Customs And Border Protection And Defense Intelligence Agency
… case is the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The stated mission of DIA is “provide intelligence on foreign militaries to prevent and decisively win wars” (DIA, 2020). Thus, it is important to note, from the onset, that this particular agency largely concerns itself with not only the gathering, … fought to sustain since World War II” (DIA, 2020). It should be noted that in the past, the U.S. has engaged in various wars and military conflicts. In these engagements, the U.S. has deployed various strategies and tools that have been studied by its competitors. DIA is ……
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Customs and Border Protection – CBP (2020). About CBP. Retrieved from https://www.cbp.gov/about
Department of Homeland Security – DHD (2016). Section 559 Pilot Program Donations Acceptance. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Customs%20and%20Border%20Protection%20-%20Section%20559%20Pilot%20Program%20Donations%20Acceptance%20-%20FY%202016.pdf
Defense Intelligence Agency – DIA (2020). Strategy. Retrieved from https://www.dia.mil/About/Strategy/
Keating, T.J. (2011). Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military Operations. Washington, DC: DIANE Publishing.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (2020). Defense Intelligence Agency. Retrieved from https://www.intelligence.gov/index.php/how-the-ic-works/our-organizations/412-dia
U.S. Government Accountability Office – GAO (2020). U.S. Ports of Entry: Update on CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs. Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/704191.pdf
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