Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Vocational training

There are 2 Basic Ways to Approach the Study and Analysis and Understanding of the Moving Image:

Aesthetics:

1. The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, as in the fine arts

2. The study of the psychological responses to beauty and artistic experiences.

Representation:

1. An image, model, or other depiction of something of previous existence.

2. The state or condition of serving as an official delegate, agent, or spokesperson.

3.1. Objective vs. Subjective POV: ALL moving images are shot either from an objective (no known POV) or a subjective (one of the character’s) POV.

3.2 Highly Subjective Main Character:

High subjectivity affects what the character sees and therefore influences content and form:

• Subjectivity

Company and Product Description

SMARTT is one of the leading companies in the mobile phone industry. Its most successful product is the SX series of smartphones, but sales of the competing MARVELL M2000 series exceed those of the SX.

Purpose and Method of This Report

The purpose of this report is to show the results of our latest marketing study and suggest strategies to improve our sales over our closest competitor, the MARVELL M2000 series. In order to collect data for this market research, we studied the sales figures for the SMARTT SX and SMP series, and we conducted a survey to learn what features of the MARVELL M2000 our clients and prospective clients preferred over the SX series.

Findings and Conclusions

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Milgram Obedience Experiment

Stanley Milgram designed an experiment to study how direct commands influence behavior, focusing on obedience – the act of responding to commands. He sought to answer the question: "Under what social conditions are people more likely to obey?"

The experiment involved an authority figure instructing participants to administer electric shocks to a "learner" for incorrect answers. While most people predicted they would stop upon the learner expressing pain, the reality was different. Even with complaints from the learner, most participants obeyed the experimenter's directives, such as "please continue."

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First Things First

I'ma say all the words inside my head
I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been
The way that things have been

Second Thing

Don't you tell me what you think that I can be
I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea
The master of my sea

From Brokenness to Belief

I was broken from a young age
Taking my soul into the masses
Writing down my poems for the few
That looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me
Singing from heartache, from the pain
Take up my message from the veins
Speaking my lesson from the brain
Seeing the beauty through the...

You made me a believer, believer
(Pain, pain)
You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
(Pain)
I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My luck, my love, my God, they came... Continue reading "Believer: A Song of Resilience and Faith" »

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Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1: Verb Tenses

1) I am going to fly - I have travelled – I went – I usually visit – I didn’t have – I am saving – I didn’t take – are going

Exercise 2: Verb Tenses and Negatives

2) I haven’t finished – Peter didn’t send – but I always do – Today don't be - Charles isn’t coming – he isn’t working

Exercise 3: Making Suggestions

3) Why don’t we move some tables outside?

- Let's go to see a film at the cinema.

- What about moving some tables outside?

- You have to take some suncream because of the sun.

- He might be her brother, but...

- No, I don’t have to take cash because...

Exercise 4: Making Suggestions - Study Together

4) Let's study together on Friday (I'm not afraid).

What

Present Simple and Present Continuous

Present Simple: Used for habits, routines, states, opinions, or feelings.

Present Continuous: Used for activities in progress, temporary activities or situations, and fixed plans and arrangements.

Future Tenses: Will and Be Going To

Will: Used for predictions based on personal opinions.

Be going to: Used for predictions with specific evidence, plans, and intentions.

Past Simple and Past Continuous

Past Continuous: (e.g., was living in 2002) Used for actions in progress at a specific time in the past, or actions in progress interrupted by another.

Past Simple: (e.g., he spoke at a conference in 2007) Used for completed past actions.

Used To

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Imputation of Structure Costs

L'imputation Rationelle Method

One of the main disadvantages of full-cost systems is that the unit cost of the product depends not only on the productivity and cost of the applied resources but also on the activity level of the productive centers. The Imputation Rationelle method avoids the influence of this variance (between actual and normal activity level) in unit costs when using a full-cost system. The method modifies the department fixed costs to be assigned to products following these steps:

1. Activity rate calculation for each department and period of analysis (t): the actual activity level (Ar) divided by the normal activity level (An).
2. Actual fixed/structure cost for the period (F) is multiplied by the rate

Unit 7: Full Cost Systems

Introduction

This unit explores full cost systems, assuming that manufacturing processes consume resources to perform tasks. The costs of these resources are accumulated to determine the cost of the centers. Variations in this hypothesis lead to different systems:

1. Unnecessary Resource Consumption: Some resource consumption might be deemed unnecessary and accounted for as a period loss, not a production cost. This leads to distinctions between traditional and economical full costing.
2. Resource Cost vs. Accumulated Cost: The cost of resources used in production might differ from the cost accumulated in the units produced. This introduces systems with predetermined rates like normal costing, imputation rationelle, and standard

Material Transfer Valuation Criteria

When materials are transferred to the next department, the valuation criteria can be applied by considering each batch of products or by using an average unit cost. The primary methods are:

• Weighted Average Price Criteria (WAP)

  Assuming one batch: The batch includes units in process at the beginning of the period (later completed) and units that have been initiated (completed or not). The unit cost is a weighted average of the unit costs from the previous period and the unit costs of the present period.

• First-In, First-Out Criteria (FIFO)

  Assuming different batches: The first batch includes units in process at the beginning of the period (later completed). The second batch includes units initiated in this period

Unit 6: Costing and Production Systems

1. Production Systems

The two common cost accumulation systems are job order costing and process costing. The election to use one or the other of these systems depends primarily on the nature of the product and the manufacturing process by which it is created. Process production and job-order production are the extreme possibilities when considering the heterogeneity of products. The difference between order accounting and section accounting is the aim of the cost system, and the difference between process costing and job costing is the method to assign the cost to products.

1.1. Job Order Costing System

Job order costing suits the processes where it is necessary to assign costs to a specific amount of production... Continue reading "Costing and Production Systems: Job Order and Process Costing" »