My Big Fat Revision

Explain the general purpose of legislation from the point of view of a business (4 marks) The purpose of legislation from the point of view of the business helps protect businesses with weaker bargaining power, and also ensures competition is fair, employees are treated fairly, that due attention is paid to the environment, that consumers are considered and that health and safety regulations are met. Legislation essentially instructs how a business environment is ran – in an orderly fashion. Explain two advantages to a business of legislation related to competition (6 marks) One advantage to a business of legislation related to competition is anti-competitive agreements. Law is put in place to prevent, restrict or distort competition. This prevents the agreement of the fixture of selling prices, agreements that limit production, investment, development and agreements that apply different conditions to similar businesses. In this case, legislation is beneficial as it allows for an even ...

How stereotypical are the representations in your 3 main advertising texts? Each of the texts use stereotypical representations to offer a sense of familiarity to the audience and help sell the product and ideology associated with it. The Lynx advert represents men in a non-typical way. He is not overly masculine as expected from an advert of this type and is average. When he uses the product, he becomes completely irresistible which links to the tagline of ‘even angels will fall’ as it places an emphasis on how desirable he has now become. His representation appeals to the target demographic of young males looking for a female partner. The representation links to the ideology as it makes them more attractive to the opposite sex. However, the representations of women in the advert as very stereotypical. The angels are shown in clothes that give a nude illusion which directly appeals to the male gaze. The women are all famous models which creates unrealistic beauty standards and this ma...

  Write ‘How global is the appeal of your three main texts? [30]’ for Film. If a text has global appeal, it has qualities that make audiences from different worldwide cultures like it. Each of the three films have varying degrees of global appeal however their respective box offices figures are a telling sign of the extent of this. Gravity was the most successful in this field, followed by The World’s End and finally The Machine. Gravity achieves great global appeal in a number of ways, and an example is use of star theory. The film boasts Sandra Bullock who is a successful actress who has won a number of awards and an Oscar. It can therefore be argued that she gives the film a sense of global appeal because she is one of the world’s most famous actresses and has been in a number of films that have been successful at the box office, both domestically and internationally. Gravity also has a narrative which is centred around a theme that is universal: the fascination of space. The fi...

  Plan a global reach/appeal question for all texts studied so far. Breaking Bad: global appeal - they embraced and encourages user-created content through setting up a Tumblr to allow fans to post art. It has a vibrant presence across platforms: television, website, social media, podcasts, character perspective blogs, videos, iBooks, email marketing and more. They connect with users in more personal ways and through doing so, learn what works best. Breaking Bad has multi-screen viewing so people can watch it anywhere and participate in exclusive content. The show’s availability on Netflix – allows viewers all over the world to watch shows almost immediately after they air. Global reach/appeal is major because of the amount of channels of distribution and how they attract and embrace user generation content. Having such strong audience engagement means it will automatically become global because it will be a talking point for people. Lynx Excite: global appeal - Using Lynx's 170,...

‘Most texts today mix genres.’ How true is this of your three main texts? [30]   Most television programmes mix a selection of genres to create hybrid genres. This not only creates for interesting development in the story but allows for the show to be more unique in a fairly crowded industry. It can act as a unique selling-point, enticing audiences from across many genres to the programme which increases the likelihood of success. The three texts (Breaking Bad, The Night Manager and Black Mirror) all do this to an extent and this essay will explore just how true the statement is to these programmes. The Night Manager is predominantly of the spy genre. There are typical conventions that connote intelligence in crime in most scenes, notably the bloodied kitchen cupboards which helps the audience immediately place this as a crime programme. The freeze frame like photographs being taken reinforce the spy genre, adding an element of secrecy but still having the ability to make the audie...

WTF is the Verification Principle? The Verification Principle was intended as a tool to allow us to distinguish between the meaningful statements of science and the meaningless claims of pseudo-science and mysticism, and in that sense it has at times been valuable: as Ayer argued, sometimes people assume that because a word exists, there must be a corresponding real thing to which it refers. But the principle was quickly discredited as an adequate criterion of meaning, and much recent philosophy has examined less narrow ways in which language is used. But it is difficult to abandon completely the notion that for a statement to be meaningful, it must in some sense be shown to correspond to reality. Flew argues that for a statement to be meaningful it must at least be open to falsification– there must be some way of showing it to be false. A statement that fits any imaginable state of affairs doesn’t appear to say anything at all, and is therefore meaningless. Religious statements te...

JEAN PIAGET Argued that children develop their intellect through interacting with the world. This happens in stages where the child gets an understanding of the world they live in. The Schemata Child develops internal representations of mental and physical actions. Some schemata are already present in a newborn (sucking, gripping or crying) whilst some are developed as the child grows. The schemata are built through 2 processes: 1. Assimilation – fitting newly acquired knowledge into what the child already knows. 2. Accommodation – as new experiences occur which do not fit into existing schemata, the child adapts them to fit, or creates new ones. Assimilation > Equilibrium > New Situation > Disequilibrium > Accommodation > Assimilation (restart) This process happens when the child encounters something unfamiliar. The child applies an existing schema, but is not successful. They modify the schema to suit, and the cycle starts again. Piaget explains that children mov...