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In a movie the director’s style and purpose can be determined by his or her unique approach in presenting the story. Beside the director, a movie that we watch is a collective effort of many specialist artists and technicians. Each has their own ways of highlighting their views to the audience. These film styles can be defined as political, economical and social representation of the director’s point of view. The film making styles can also have an effect on the audience’s perception of the…

incessant improvement of the products as well as the production processes, along with maintaining the lowest production cost possible. In particular, manufacturing plants focus on improving production through thoughtfully adoption and implementation of production facility layouts that most suitably meet their production improvement goals, while focusing on production cost reduction methods that do not compromise quality. This report discusses production and quality improvement at reduced costs…

specializes in completing a single task. It is used in mass production and is considered “one of the basic organizing principles of the assembly line. (Britannica, 2014). Specialization via division of labor has helped to eliminate the need for workers to handle multiple tools and minimized unnecessary motion. Through the repetition of simple basic tasks by unskilled workers, production time and costs have been reduced. Lower production expenses lead to completed products being less…

he put it, they were paid a minimum wage for their labor that only gave them enough capital to cover the bare minimum of existence. That included food, rent, and a few other meager items. They could never earn enough capital to own the means of production of their own labor or even their own home. Ownership was something that only the bourgeoisie had the…

Theory in Action: How Adam Smith and Marx & Engels understand UberX business model Uber, a smartphone application connecting Uber drivers and customers directly, enables customers to request an Uber cab to pick them up on site by simply tapping on their screen. Recently, Uber Company is undergoing waves of protests from drivers of UberX, a subdivision service of Uber in which drivers use their own vehicles. Drivers contend that they are earning much less than the company claims. This paper will…

inequality issues. We are so wrapped up in our own lives that we “think about human society with calm and disinterested eyes” but if we look closely, its easy to see “only the violence of powerful men and the oppression of the weak” (Rousseau, 10). Is what is happening today with police brutality but a window into our systemic oppression and violence against those who have the least power to do anything about it? Our duty as “revolted mind[s]” at seeing such a truth is that we must “deplore…

Capitalism’s basic principle is to leave everybody free to decide, as it is the economy of minimum scarcity. For Karl Marx, Capitalism is essentially different from other modes of production primarily because it is based on unequal private ownership of the means of production. It was this inequality that Marx emphasizes as the core of Capitalism. Capitalism, rather than a system of income and power, is mainly a system of market anarchy. According to Marx, the impact of Capitalism on the new…

My production group chose to do the documentary that I pitched about the increase in hate crimes and hate groups, specifically anti-Muslim violence, that has occurred over the last few years, particularly in relation to the presidential election. I chose to frame the incident around the specific incident in which a Muslim student was threatened to be lit on fire if she did not remove her hijab because it was the most shocking local incident that has occurred and I thought it would be a…

Despite the Industrial Revolution having a profound effect on the economy and the development of many nations, the cost of the growth and prosperity on the masses of the working class people were brutal. Working class men, women and children working in factories were exploited by the factory owners and managers. They were forced to work in horrible conditions, with long hours of labor, while enduring abusement from their bosses and all the while they worked for a meek wage that was taken…

Second, Standardizing is the removal of variation by developing standardized operating procedures. As a line attendant we could have a check list to make sure that the main points of our job are completed throughout the course of our shift. In the appendix, figure B is an example of a possible checklist. By having this it will help to enforce the roles of the line attendant and make sure certain tasks are become a “norm”. For example, line attendants are supposed to make sure the floors are…