Jeff Bridges

promotion which is viewed by many as one of the most effective in attracting new customers and maintaining old ones. Furthermore, Amazon’s unique strategy in using personalisation through technology allows them to reach a difficult market which CEO Jeff Bezos refered to as “the hard middle”. Bezos proposed that it was quite simple to reach a small group of people as they could just be called over the phone or talked to on the street. To reach millions of people wasn’t difficult either as a…

main one is the importance of emotion. In the very beginning the movie is in black and white, but throughout the film the scenes adjust to what Jonas (Brandon Thwaites), the main character, has or has not seen, felt, or heard through the Giver (Jeff Bridges). Jonas is assigned his job at the age of eighteen, and is deemed to have all the qualities to be the next Receiver, the only person in the entire community to be able to receive memories of the past, before this utopian society was created. …

change the whole connotation of their findings when language is used a certain way, omitted, or modified in translation. One of the first pieces that this discussion of language came up in was in the piece Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg. There were many criticisms and questions regarding the effectiveness of omitting some of the language that the people who were part of their field study were using. The language was omitted because of the vulgar…

Why Transmedia Storytelling should be applied to such a media marketing strategy? It is important, at this stage, to explain what transmedia storytelling means, and how it can be involved within a similar campaign. Stories are meaningful social resources that creates identities for their audiences (Page, 2012), and they represent the purest form of entertainment experience, being applied to different creative field, included marketing. Yet, for achieving a psychologically immersive experience…

Do computers take away from interpersonal communication and interactions with our co-workers, peers, and colleagues or do they help us enable and strengthen current relationships? Most people have talked to someone through text messaging, email, or social media to avoid a face to face communication. Essentially everyone has been able to retain a relationship virtually due to location and their current situation. Computers aren’t necessarily a thing of the “past.” In perspective, this means that…

Methodology The methodology consists of three separate assessments, one for each of the forces identified as important contributor in the city's potential for a creative milieu in Downtown Las Vegas and each addressing the corresponding set of research questions. The first is a measure of the socio-economic conditions of the Las Vegas region or the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA Conditions), the second is to identify the government agencies' strategies (GOV Actions) in the revitalization…

What makes this film even more interesting is the fact that it is one of the first motion pictures to replicate the video game craze on the rise in the 1980s. The main character in Tron is a computer programmer who is zapped into the cyberworld he helped create, forced to duel in gladiatory digital games, and tries to outsmart a corrupt master program. The film Tron works best on strictly an entertainment value, its colorful, has actions, and looks incredibly fun, much like a huge video game…

The Academy Awards or most commonly known as the Oscars, is considered to be the most prestigious award giving body in the world of movies. It was first presented in 1929, making it the oldest entertainment awards ceremony and last February 26th of 2017, the 89th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater and it is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. It was televised not just throughout the US, but to more than 200 countries all over the world. The twenty-four artistic and technical awards are…

with sonic atmospheres and noise. A song from the album “Ashes of American Flags” varied in vocals with great instrumental backing. This was a contrasting verse-chorus with a 4-measure vamp to slowly introduce the song. The interlude features a bridge with atmospheric noise to segue into the next song in the album. Many of the segments of the song are repeated, although they rarely occur in the…

BB King Autobiography... By Cameron Coleman Riley B. King was born to a family of poor sharecroppers on a plantation near the small town of Itta Bena in the Mississippi Delta. King's parents separated when he was only five and his mother took him to live in the nearby hill country in Kilmichael, Mississippi. By age seven he was doing the work of a grown man in the field. He was only nine when his mother died. He found inspiration in the music of the African American church. He dreamed of…