By the 4th century, a diminished military and the incompetence of new emperors eventually led to the downfall of the Roman Empire at the hands of invading Germanic people such as the Goths and Visigoths. During the Pax Romana, Rome was at its cultural zenith. Innovations such as the Coliseum, aqueducts, and roads and art including great mosaics and statues were staples of this time period and of the Roman legacy, and instilled a strong cultural sense of Roman virtue into citizens, one that taught that it
The Failure of Prohobition The prohibition movement lost political strength in the 1920s. The stock market crash of 1929 and the resulting Great Depression of the 1930s further changed the political climate. Critics of Prohibition argued that the rise of criminal production and sale of alcohol made the legal ban ineffective. In addition, the general public's patronage of speakeasies bred disrespect for law and government. Critics also argued that “legalizing the manufacture and sale of alcohol would stimulate the economy and provide desperately needed jobs”(Prohibition1).
Source 15 backs up this point; it’s message is that the media has shown the royal families true colours, albeit very bland colours. It tells us that the media revealed that the hype over the monarchy was somewhat exaggerated and they weren’t really worth peoples excitement. We can also see this in the TV show “It’s A Royal Knockout” which was a great embarrassment to the monarchy. Source 16 both agrees and disagrees with this point. It tells us that the nation was very distraught after the death of Princess Diana, who was intensely followed by the media.
It had a decline because their emperor died, the economy fell and Germanic tribes invaded Rome. The Roman Empire declined from Economic and Military reasons. It declined because it ended the Pax Romana period with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 152 AD, who was the emperor that made the Roman Empire reach its peak, which began violence. Aurelius’s son, Commodus, bankrupted treasury in 192 AD and over the next century, Romans began to fight each other. The economy went down because of the rising prices.
The Western Roman Empire was a very advanced civilization. They were advanced for their time with public baths, aqueducts, a consul that contain two parts, a lower consul (Tribunal) and a upper consul (Senate), and an advanced army. But then, what caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire? It was a combination of different variables. Also, many experts say that it fell because of the lack of heart the people had to the Empire, the rise of Christianity, it was too immense to govern and protect, the decline of the economy and jobs, the army being made up of mostly foreigners, and outside invaders.
As is stated in the article, the company used to have a major competitive advantage in terms of movie selection, where, “…customers could browse through thousands of titles…” (Hitt 106). Now, the entire scope of the market has changed and Blockbuster was much too slow to respond. The recent moves that it has made will surely generate profits, but not enough to sustain the company in the long run, seeing as there is nothing that differentiates Blockbuster’s services from that of its competitors. In order to fully gain lost market share back, the company would have to create some sort of highly innovative way of viewing or renting movies that none of its competitors has already thought of; It would have to be something that is rare, difficult to imitate, not easily substituted, and able to generate above-average returns. Unfortunately, at this point it looks as if none of this will come into fruition because Blockbuster has essentially decided to latch on to other companies, creating a sort of symbiotic relationship where the company feeds off of the success of its competitors.
Although many considered Leary to be one of the most prominent, outstanding people during the counterculture of the 1960’s, his ideas were sorrowfully misinterpreted. What ended up being the conclusion of his philosophies was to, “get stoned and abandon all constructive activity”, which was not what he’d intended, and therefore, his formula led to a dead end. Four years before Timothy Leary’s death, Daniel Quinn came out with his novel, Ishmael, and proposed a very similar idea which was to sort of, “Walk away, go
Breathless (1960) by Jean Luc Godard is the most revolutionary movie of the French New Wave movement. Its characteristic accomplished everything the New Wave Movement set out to do. Which was rejecting the conventions of classic Hollywood cinema, which was mass-produced and targeted films at the audience’s demand. It began in France around the late 1950’s when some of the revolutionary directors of the French new wave movement worked as critics for a famous French magazine “Cahiers du Cinema”. At this time there was a decline in the amount of people going to the cinema because of the war, the audience was much younger.
Has Disney diversified too far? I believe Disney has diversified too far. I think the first bad decision they made is to create ‘Touchstone’. I personally view this as a diversification out of desperation as they lost Walt Disney the company sort of running out of ideas to make animation, which always has been their best ability (should have said core competence). Even though, Touchstone did generate profit to Disney and it can share Disney resources, as a film company, to film at Touchstone, but it made them lost track of what their core business really is.
The success of a new film can be defined as either commercial success or critical success. Commercial success is more important to mainstream films, whilst critical success is more important to independent films. A good film script for a mainstream film will be simplistic and predictive so that it appeals to mass audiences. Also the film script will belong to a clear genre and will have a structured storyline. If the majority of the population finds the script of a film to be unclear and hard to understand then they will give their friends that feedback and so people won’t go to see the film, which is especially bad for a mainstream film as they cost millions to produce and rely on commercial success.