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new computer-controlled camera to get the shots they needed (The new Economy). Many people say that Star Wars “woke up” the special effects industry, such as Mike Fink, a Hollywood effects heavyweight who has won an Oscar for his previous works (Yahoo News). The effects in Star Wars were actually so well received that Dykstra and his team’s company, Industrial Light and Magic was given an Oscar for special effects. Special effects are not the only thing that Star Wars influenced, it also has…

The U.S. is known as the “greatest” country the world has ever seen for the purpose of our freedom. Freedom is a prized possession for all Americans and foreign Americans who come here to taste the freedom everyone dreams of. Truly, though, not all of what you hear is what you get. As it says in the Fourth Amendment, “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”, is a wonderful feeling of…

pharmacy chain in the United States; the corporation has approximately 7,027 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico. CVS is committed to innovation, reinventing the pharmacy operations and leading their customers to better health (“CVS Health,” 2015; “Yahoo Finance: CVS,” 2015). What are the espoused values and beliefs of the companies? CVS mission statement states that, CVS will strive to be the easiest pharmacy retailer for customers to use and their values include innovation, collaboration,…

The labor force hasn’t always been fair for certain ethnic groups. Whites have always been stereotyped as the “dominant” race over the years. Many different minorities were encouraged to migrate to the United States to work. A minority is a group of people who are discriminated against in a community because of race, religion, or language. There are complaints about fairness at work, the payment minorities receive, welfare, etc. Klein, the co-chair of the Kapor Center for Social Impact, states…

will take advantage of what one company has done, build off that, and create something better. Pandora is like that for Sirius radio. Both companies offer most of the same things even though one offers better incentives. Pandora has competition with Yahoo music and Spotify because they have also gotten on board with this type of service. Now there are more and more competitors offering like services by providing most of the same features. Supply chain management This can go along with how…

Advertising Consumerism: The Effect on Americans Have you ever wondered how an ad appeared on your doorstep, or in your email’s inbox? With the help of advertising industries, this is possible. Advertising consumerism effect Americans in today’s society in many ways. Furthermore, it affects the behavior of Americans as well. Advertising industries main focus is to figure out what is an individual’s buying impulses and also how to trigger them, in order to sell products more…

In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he shows us a world in which mind control, manipulation, and how the power of the government can lead to controlling the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom. In many ways, our world is already like the fictitious one Orwell wrote almost 70 years ago. A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. One person or an elite few…

Privacy of citizens in the United States is deteriorating due to the vast amount of technological advancements that have surfaced throughout the years. Comparisons between Orwell's novel concerning a tightly controlled totalitarian future ruled by the ubiquitous Big Brother are strikingly similar in today’s world. The most obvious ones are telescreens, psychological mind control through paranoia, and criminalization of free thought. Envisioning a desolate future that banishes personal freedom…

decent attention span is attentive and a person who is inattentive has a short attention span. In “The Attention Span Myth,” the author Virginia Heffernan debates on whether attention spans are real or not. “Heffernan is a national correspondent for Yahoo News [and a] former editor at Harper’s magazine” (Heffernan 113). She uses certain strategies to inform the reader on her information and certain types of evidences to prove her claim. Virginia Heffernan claimed that attention spans are unreal…

millions of Americans” (Alan Greenblatt, 2013, p.70). This shows that the government is recording everything we do and have documentation on our movements. Also he discusses that “ The federal government has a direct pipeline into Verizon, Google, Yahoo and other such companies, those companies would control huge amounts of information about Americans on their own”. (Alan Greenblatt, 2013, p.71). The author means that not only do corporations maintain surveillance on all users but they are also…