Fixing Broken Windows

high-end consumers. Synopsis of the situation In 2011, however, Nokia adopted the windows phone platform as the primary source of software for the smartphones they produce. This move received ample rejection; there was a dip in share prices of the company…

Why were they motivated to build this way? The cathedral at Beauvais experienced a lot of downfall such as accidents that lead to a broken arm from falling stone. The columns still undergo structural problems and inside lies a lot of modern braces that hold the cathedral together. In addition, there were mainly instances where the church would collapse, which became a constant problem…

In this chapter of Murray’s book, he examines gothic cathedrals as objects of desire and the relationships between these objects and their agents of its creation. Using Saint Denis as its main example, Murray uses the writings of three principle agents: the ecclesiastical patron, artisans and financers. For his example of Saint Denis, he focused on the writings, illustrations, and correspondence of Abbot Suger, Gervase of Canterbury, and Villard de Honnecourt. He begins by reflecting on how a…

A company named Bellarine techno PVT LTD is located in Geelong, started an innovative project to develop an electronic card type of a device, which stores data from multiple credit and debit cards into a compact single Visa-measured electronic watch-type wearable gadget with the goal that it can allow the client to convey the data of every last one of cards into a solitary compact gadget. As this is a new innovative idea, the company wants to outsource this device to small manufacturing…

The positioning and differentiation strategy for Micromax, Samsung, Lenovo and Apple in India. Micromax Micromax provides a wide range of phones with different features thus serving a variety of customers. The major differentiating factor of Micromax is that it has managed to distinguish different unique needs of customers and offer a product that solves them such as providing rural customers with long battery life, and providing urban customers with the best variety at least cost with…

Released in 1955, To Catch a Thief was one of three films director Alfred Hitchcock produced within an eighteenth month period and was the result of a collaboration with rising screenwriter John Michael Hayes, whom he had previously worked with on Rear Window. Quickly written and produced, the film is about retired cat-burglar John Robie, who after being framed for a ring of jewel thefts in the French Riviera, seeks to find the real culprit, while evading the police and the romantic advances of…

“In the design of the building itself it is often difficult to draw a line between practical necessity and deliberate intention, since Iktinos seems subtly to have exploited the former in the latter.” This quote about the Greek Parthenon, taken from Pollitt’s work on ancient Greek art and separated from its context, could almost be applied to a description of a much later, almost millennia later, Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral. While separated both by time and location, each ‘temple’ was created…

Apple’s main advantages concentrate around mobile devices. The company’s customer loyalty is also a key factor to its 108 plus billion-dollar revenue. Additionally, the success of the App Store has allowed the company to distinguish itself from other phone companies, such as Google, Blackberry, LG, etc. Moreover, the app sales generate a significant amount of revenue for the company since they take, “a 30 percent cut of all app sales” Google’s main advantages stem from its popularity as a search…

Christopher Nolan’s Memento is organized in a way that the story and character development is presented to the audience backwards and with the same amnesia as the character. We experience scenes out of order and backwards. In the film Leonard talks with the motel manager about his memory condition (Memento 8:00). However, this has happened before, we the viewers are just know seeing the exchange between the characters for the first time. This can help the audience have a connection with Leonard…

February 1, 2015 A Review of the Samsung Galaxy A3 Place Photo A1 The Samsung Galaxy A3 is a solid mid-range smartphone that offers good performance and battery life. Its unibody metal design can match the build quality of some of high-end smartphones. Unfortunately, its camera is lousy. Previously, Samsung devices were mostly made of plastic and, there have been many who hoped that the company would improve their build quality by moving away from plastic. Samsung began to use metal with the…