Crowdfunding Another way to fund a startup not only in Russia but in many other countries is through crowd-financing. In Russia, the first platforms developed in 2011 and since then many websites have emerged that concentrate on different types of it. According to J’son and Partners Consulting the market for online crowdfunding in 2014 was around 640-700 million Rubles ($9,743,769- $10,657,248 USD). There are three types of crowd financing: crowdinvesting, “crowdlending” and crowdfunding.…
Biker Boyz Critique DeWaun Bowman Methodist University The movie Biker Boyz is very powerful and it carries a strong message throughout the entire movie. It’s about the underground world of motorcycle clubs and not so legal street racing. A young man who is 18 years old named Kid (Derek Luke). Started his own motorcycle club named “Biker Boyz” after witnessing the death of his dad “Slick Will” at one of these races. He wants to be the one in charge the one everyone idealized…
The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…
show the proof of the killing. To prove the killing, they took pictures and brought back a bloody jacket. The Hells Angels bought the whole story and Jay knew they had control of the situation (Dobyns, Johnson-Shelton, p. 295-298). I think this was a good tactic to use, but also very dangerous. To me it seemed they had enough evidence prior to the murder to charge certain Hells Angels. Even though this idea may not have been necessary, it still is great representation of undercover work and…
what she’ll cook for dinner and Angel played in her little swings in the middle of the park. Dad has always been taciturn and would sit on a pavilion bench talking to mom as they watched over Angel. There’s a gentle breeze as Angel and I walked hand-in-hand along the cobblestone path. “How is Teddy?” I decided to ask Angel. Teddy is Angel’s beloved pillow. They’ve been pretty much best friends since the day we got him for her fifth birthday. “He’s fine,” Angel nodded. I, of…
two. It’s a power balled, main theme is child abuse. A true event story about a seven year old named Angela Carter. The music video uses methods of patho’s and etho’s. Angela is dealing with the abuse from her alcoholic mother. The title Concrete Angel gives it a powerful message because no matter how hard her life got, she faced it with a smile. The video and the lyrics will leave you very emotional you are guaranteed to feel overcome with deep sorrow. Here’s a story reflecting all events in…
it is like to ride as a member of the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels are a motorcycle club known to be associated with drug trafficking. Before they became a motorcycle club, the group started as a crew manning a B-29 Superfortress named “Hell’s Angels”. The crew flew missions over Europe during World War Two until they were retired after . After the war was over they formed their own motorcycle club. According to Peter Tamony, author of “The Hell’s Angels: Their naming” in the Western folklore,…
In F.W. Murnau 's TABU on the south Pacific island of Bora-Bora a young couples love is threatened when the tribal warrior chief declares the girl a sacred virgin. The added beauty of this film, apart from the beautiful scenery of the South Pacific islands is the story of a struggle against fate. What we had was a tale of forbidden love, reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of the South Sea Island Bora-Bora. One interesting aspect of this film is the use of the word TABU and…
Demons; Wretched beasts from the pits of Hell ordered to serve Satan. We all have demons residing inside us and they can be awakened at any moment either through traumatic events or by the demon in the bottle, alcohol. Throughout his life, poet Edgar Allan Poe struggled with alcoholism and this is apparent throughout his short stories and poem. Most noteably his short story, The Black Cat, where the narrators actions are influenced by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal…
Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to eat from the tree of knowledge as Satan continues to disturb God’s work. Like a prison, hell is seen as a factory full of ungrateful and menacing angels consuming confinement as if they were hungry like piranhas in a…