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Crimean War Middle East
1,673 wordsThe Crimean War started because France and Russia wanted control over the Middle East and surrounding areas. The war lasted from 1856 to 1858, just under two years. The more important parts of the war are the causes and events that led up to it, the battle of the Alma, the naval wars of various seas and Sevastopol, the heavily fortified base of the Russian fleet. MLV French Blake states that the main cause of the war was "Russia's desire for territorial expansion, particularly towards a port in ...
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20 Th Century Vertical Integration
1,952 wordsBackground The entertainment industry demonstrates a multi channel structure, with companies owning several forms of companies in each link of the value chain. The industry is converging toward a single model, which combines production of content with multichannel distribution. All companies try to sell content in many ways, e. g. movie, TV show, book theme park, etc. All but two of major players in the industry conform to this model. Non-conforming companies have regulatory barriers (foreign ow...
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Arundel Partners Case Analysis
1,430 wordsExecutive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studios entire production during a specified period of time or purchase a specified number of major films. Arundel's profitability is dependent upon the price it pays for a...
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Aol Time Warner Merger
810 wordsAOL Time Warner Merger Announced on January 10, 2000, one of the largest and most powerful mergers of the past century took place. The consolidation of America Online and Time Warner ($ 183 billion dollar deal) caused much arguing amongst financial analysts and related parties. There were many issues and questions raised in the regards of the future of the new super corporation. Many doubts were expressed and everyone was eager to know what will it all end up with. Today, having observed the pos...
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Warner Brothers Intellectual Property
6,020 wordsBOUNDARIES OF OWNERSHIP Nobody owns this essay. It is important that I make this very clear and that I do so at the earliest possible moment. I must do this because the essay that you are reading is about intellectual property, and that means that this essay must be self-referential. When one writes or speaks or communicates in any way about intellectual property, one is dealing with some of the most basic rules of the very medium in which one is operating. There is no neutral ground here, no po...
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Marilyn Manson Wal Mart
2,023 wordsCensorship in the music industry, which has existed long before forms of media were invented to broadcast the music itself, has seemingly grown out of control in the last couple of years. The controversy comes not just from the bands creating the music but from those who hold the power to censor the music as well. While many support the choice to censor music, many more find it unconstitutional and a direct violation to our rights. It is quite unfortunate that some find it necessary to censor an...
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Federal Communications Commission Time Warner
2,018 wordsA little over one week ago, on May 1, 2000, millions of Time Warner Cable customers? 3. 5 million to be exact? woke up without the American Broadcast Company (ABC) on their TV dial. While these 3. 5 million, which pondering the coming of the Apocalypse without Regis, Kathy Lee or Susan Lucci for a day, news spread across the country about the reality of the situation. After the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a transmission deal, after five months of negotiating, ABC service was cu...
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Tweaking Noses Smashing Pies Rko Rival Betty Grable Lucy
11,857 wordsOn April 26, 1989, the world lost an extremely talented comic genius, Lucille Ball. There are so many things to learn about this extraordinary woman: her childhood, her acting career, and her unfortunate death. Lucille Ball will most surely be known as a premiere comedienne of the 20 th century. Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York on August 6, 1911. She spent her first few years in Anaconda, Montana and Wyandotte, Michigan. When Lucy was three and a half her mother, Desiree, was pregnan...
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Time Warner 5 Billion
536 wordsTime Warner and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) were in deep negotiations over the possibility that the CEO of Time Warner, Gerald Levin, could purchase TBS for about $ 8. 5 billion. However, there are many details to work out, which means that this deal is still far from being made. In the forming of a deal, Time Warner and TBS could merge, which would require Ted Turner to be second in command, and would possibly create volatile relationships between the top moguls. Gerald Levin, representing...
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Fountain Of Youth Life To The Fullest
1,294 wordsOld Man Warner I was watching an episode of? The Simpsons? on TV the other day, and there was a craze around town because the Springfield Lottery was up to 130 million dollars. Bookstores were selling out of Shirley Jackson? s? The Lottery? . Homer quickly threw the book into the fireplace when he realized that the book could not tell him how to win the lottery, that it was a book about time old traditions, barbaric, but still practiced nonetheless. If Homer had read the book, he would have disc...
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Quot Quot Marriage Quot
9,029 words1922, On " An Octopus" In 1922, Marianne Moore made the first of two trips to Bremerton, Washington, for long summer visits with her brother. On the first trip, the family traveled up to Paradise Park on Mount Rainier for an overnight stay. Moore photographed the dramatic Nisqually Glacier and took close-ups of alpine flowers. She and her brother joined a hiking party and climbed up to the ice caves, the greatest distance visitors can reach without full climbing gear. Back in New York,...
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