Spike making Malcolm his own
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
Despite intentions to stay true to an original source, a director's view will almost undoubtedly change certain elements of the film. This happens in the case of Malcolm X. Spike chose not to tell the story chronologically, as the autobiography mostly does, and this adds to the film in many...
Ambiguity of the term "objectivity" in the media
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The importance of the concept of objectivity in the media is well attested. Since the beginning of the newspaper press in the early nineteenth Century in the United States and in Europe, rising democracy in the Society has produced various economic, political and technological factors which have...
Staging in plays
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The staging of plays varies greatly in complexity, beauty and visual effect from one play to another. Writers sometimes focus their ideas rather on the characters' speech and acting than on creating a unique and refined staging technique. Both Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House and Arthur Miller in...
The magazine 'What else?'
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Each year, at the same period, at the IUT, students of 2nd year spend one day with their counterpart of 1st year, that permit to everyone to know the others. The journalists of "What else" were of course on the spot. This day starts firstly with an afternoon of games, where 1st year students were...
Cultural project: Museums in Bradford
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
Bradford is the 7th city in United Kingdom, with more than 478,800 inhabitants (metro district). Located in the West Yorkshire, this city has been developed thanks to the first industrial revolution (1780 - 1840) and the second one (1840 - 1900). During this period, Bradford has become very rich...
Corporate web communication: Lastfm
Essay - 12 pages - Journalism
Last.fm is a open content music community website and also an Internet radio station with music recommendation system based on each user's and friends' musical taste on the base of a collaborative filter. Objective of this site is to become the biggest music database completed by all users and...
Matthew Barney or the Gesamtkunstwerk of the 21st century
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
When talking or writing about the American artist Matthew Barney, critics and historians of art always start with the traditional biographic descriptions which in the case of Barney are quite pleasant and are justified by the fact that the artist himself uses autobiographic references in his own...
How do magazines construct identity?
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The many different types of magazines that are present in the market could be seen as a proof that editors are constantly looking to target an audience. Indeed, in order to secure the right type of advertisers, magazine editors have to find the right type of readers so that the efficiency and...
Analysis of do the right thing, spike lee (1989)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Do the Right Thing was released in May 1989 in Cannes. Spike Lee directed, produced and wrote the screenplay for the film. It tackles the subject of race relations by depicting the ethnic communities of the Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where Spike Lee grew up. Spike Lee plays the...
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...
Violence in South Africa
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
While South Africa is one of the richest countries of Africa, why is there so much violence? 25 of the biggest African firms are South African, and its economy is the largest and the most developed on the continent. It grows by 5% every year. Yet, South Africa has a high rate of unemployment and...
Absinthe
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Have you ever read Poe's, Maupassant's or Hemingway's works, examined Van Gogh's, Picasso's, Toulouse-Lautrec's or Manet's paintings, or even studied Baudelaire's, Rimbaud's or Wilde's pieces of art? Chances are you have, which means that you have also tasted the effects of la fée verte, the...
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is only in its...
Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé e Principe: Parties, influence groups and human rights
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The islands of Sao Tomé and Principe were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and were then used as a slave trading point. Later in the 19th century they began to export cocoa. After the decolonization in 1951 the country finally came to independence in 1975. A one-party-regime was...
Music and politics (2004)
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
Art is often seen as a way to escape from reality, to enter a new universe, and indeed it is. Art has to create emotions, to make people understand how irrational their life can be or sometimes just to make the beauty hidden from their eyes appears. And nobody knows how Art manage to touch so...
Romania
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
Romania is the old roman province of Dacie created in the II nd century. Since the IIIrd century, it was invaded but the farmers went to the mountains and kept their latin language and traditions. Between the Xth and the XIIIth, Orthodox principalities were created. Until the XVIIth century,...
Harley-Davidson
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The Harley-Davidson brand was created in 1903 by William S. Harley and the Davidson brothers. At the beginning, Harley-Davidson was built to be race motorcycles. As soon as 1907, the brand won several races, which allowed for the recognition from both professionals and customers. Harley-Davidson...
The Russian business culture
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia emerged as a nation. A new constitution was adopted in 1993, representing the end of communism. Russia has now a federation style government with a market economy (“CIA”, The World FactBook: Russia, online). Despite important...
Sampling methods
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
As time and resources available are limited, we cannot interview all members of a population. Therefore, researchers use sampling to obtain the information they need. They select a limited number of people (a sample) to represent the characteristics of a whole population. There are different...
United Kingdom: In and out of Europe
Essay - 10 pages - Journalism
The United Kingdom has always been in and out of Europe. Such posturing is in keeping with a series of mantras [religious beliefs] upon which Britain's policy towards Europe is predicated. The latter have never been really challenged in the last century. Britain's Europe is a paradoxical...
New British second homeowners in the French countryside: The Cathar country's case
Case study - 24 pages - Journalism
The study examined the motivations of the British buying a second home in France and more particularly in the “Cathar Country”. The research then focused on their economic impacts on the region, and their integration in the local community. Antagonism of the British second homeowners...
Euro Disney case
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Disneyland Park is one of the theme parks belonging to the Walt Disney Company. It is settled in Marne-la-Vallée, near Paris (France). The theme park opened on April 12th 1992 as Euro Disneyland. In 1994, it was renamed Disneyland Paris until 2002. It is now known as Disneyland Resort Paris. A...
Research methodology business tourism in France
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Welcome to the wonderful and interesting world of Business Tourism! This essay is the second step of a huge research to find solutions to questions in this market of the wider tourism industry. Meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions, outdoor events and individual business travels justify...
Will Narco-trafficking ever stop in Afghanistan?
Essay - 8 pages - Journalism
Since December 1979 and the Soviet Christmas invasion of the country, we could say that peace has never been satisfactorily reached again in the country. The Afghan War has firstly destroyed the country from 1979 to 1989 and caused the death of nearly 2 million civilian victims among the Afghan...
What makes a popular soap opera?
Essay - 6 pages - Film studies
A soap opera is a work of fiction taking the form of a serial, generally televised or radio phonic. They made their appearance with the radio in the Thirties. When the large networks started to develop, naturally these series followed .This designation comes from the fact that the first American...
Rapport de stage "State Street Bank"
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a sovereign state of 2 500 square kilometers bordered by Belgium, France and Germany. It has a population of over 455 000 of which 38.6 % are foreigners. The city of Luxembourg has a population of 77 300. Each working day, over 117 000 cross-border workers travel...
Comments on "Thank you for smoking" by Jason Reitman in the light of business ethics
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
“Thank you For Smoking” is a movie from 2005, about a tobacco industry lobbyist, Nick Naylor. As the negative effects of tobacco on health are no longer easy to deny, the tobacco companies join in the creation of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. The purpose of this academy is to prove...
The business travel industry in Lyon
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The Business Travel and Tourism industry is one the most dynamic sub market of the MICE market at this time. There are many definitions relating to the MICE market which make it difficult to define. However, MICE stand for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions related somehow to forms...
A new type of tourism: Activity-based tourism, the examples of dark tourism and sport tourism
Essay - 8 pages - Journalism
During the last decades, we have witnessed the existence of a tourism consumption model were consumers massively colonized all destinations worldwide indifferent to quality, environment and local cultures. However, for a few years, we have noticed the appearance of new trends in consumer...
Amsterdam presentation
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
Nowadays, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, is a city well-known in all Europe, thanks to its great charm, due to the global architecture of the city and the inhabitants' conception of life. The town, which has been a famous trade center for four centuries, was built around a lot of canals, which...
