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Universal Cable Productions has inked a deal with Alfred Hitchcock’s Estate to create and produce an anthology series based on the filmmaker’s movies. Suspense is considered a main driving force for some movies, whether it’s for frightful tenacities, or to keep to audience on the edge of their seat. Many would argue, that Alfred Hitchcock was the master of this craft, as he manipulated frames and distorted reality to leave audiences in a constant state of indecisiveness. From the most popular…

life better for people in many ways. It made it easier to publish written material and led to an expanding market of people learning and desiring to read. As Baugh and Cable indicate, by Shakespeare’s time “…it is probable that not less than a third and probably as many as half of the people could at least read.” (199). Baugh and Cable give another interesting statistic as consequence of the printing press, “The number of books printed before the year 1500 reaches the surprising figure of…

Netflix: The Era of Cable-Cutters The word “Netflix” has been ingrained in populations all of the world to the point where it has become a common placeholder for groups of people, and couples, to spend their weekends inside, watching a movie or T.V. series from the comfort of their own homes. However, streaming movies from home was not always the case, or ease of use for that matter. Netflix began in 1997 in California by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. Randolph co-founded MicroWarehouse which…

One of the first things I noticed as I walked past the famous San Francisco cable cars was his sign. “It’s tradition to tip San Francisco’s street performers because they actually do shit crap to earn money, rather than begging for nothing!” He was sitting on a white rice bucket with a harmonica pressed firmly between his lips, howling out a random assortment of notes. He would occasionally interject with his version of the blues. His lyrics immediately caused us to erupt into a fit of laughter.…

Joe Flint’s article “Why does the Cable-TV Bundle Exist Anyway” depicts the conception of the cable TV channels and how they came to became bundled into sellable package deals. Now with millennials and technology innovations there is an even greater switch from cable bundle packages to the consumer seeking only the programs they wish to watch. As far as the external environments are concerned technological, sociocultural, economical, and legal/political players all have a part to play in the…

reinforcement, the stays are connected to trusses located on the edge of the decks, adding further stability since trusses are stiff and sturdy shapes. As for the actual strength of the cables themselves, they are made entirely of steel and are “made up of strands of parallel wires bound together into a compact cylindrical cable.” Steel is a metal alloy consisting of iron and carbon, which makes its atomic structure very compact and therefore makes steel a strong material in both compression…

comes to data leaving computers headed outward. While many home networks have routers filling some of this role as well, in a business environment it is fine to have a router that only has a single inward facing Ethernet cable, which goes to a switch, that allows for more Ethernet cables to be sent onward to company computers, and in this case, point of sale…

This Strategic Management case study focuses on assessing DISH Networks mission and validating whether or not it is aligned with the needs of the stakeholders. Do to this, we are to read various articles recommended by TUI and then provide my interpretation of DISH’s mission and vision; make my own assessment of the stakeholders and their needs/goals; and finally, provide my critical assessment as to whether DISH 's mission and vision takes their stakeholders into account. DISH Network…

Abstract: The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into the Northwestern coast of Washington on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world in terms of main span…

At Comcast, one of the most highly influential and large population job is the Call Center Representative. Some of the job responsibilities in the Call Center include handling incoming calls, in-person lobby traffic, working to resolve customer billing issues, and explaining Comcast’s products and features. If the Call Center were to close or be non-working for an extended period, customers would not have access to the fast, reliable, and respectful services that Comcast promises in the Comcast…