Commercialization

148). This is where The Cave exemplifies the usage of a conventional setting through the representation of the Center. Readers would be familiar with such buildings developed on a grand scale spurred by capitalism and mass commercialization and consumption, which pose a threat to Cipriano’s livelihood of traditional pottery – small businesses in general. In HPPA, Hogwarts castle provides the main backdrop where Potter and his friends raced against time to save his godfather, Sirius…

It becomes impossible to separate commercialization of architecture from globalization since it has resulted in the usage of images and architects from various parts of the world with the notion of creating a stand for themselves in the global market Architects themselves are considered to have…

Children’s media has led to measurable declines in children’s health in a variety of ways. When children spend the majority of their lives sitting on the couch watching television, playing video games, or using their phone, that is less time they are spending exercising. Today, children would much rather watch a screen and use a controller to make an animated person run around than actually run around themselves. Junk food is also portrayed in the media constantly, so those are the foods that…

In chapter five, Schneider illustrates the capitalist and English monolingualism discourse, characterized by the globalized commercialization of LA-style salsa, along with the notable absence of Spanish language and disengagement from any elements that tie with Latinness. She then explains how this “new cosmopolitanism” reflects Australian national identity and language ideology. On…

4.3. Intelligent surface ecosystem The startup Cube was created to develop and commercialize a type of technological platform with the purpose to transform some surfaces (e.g. tables, walls) into a computer interface, like a touch screen. To do so, the entrepreneurs decided to build a complex ecosystem. First, they formed a network of application developers. Second, they also created a network of two start-ups, a R&D lab and a partnership with an established firm for developing the hardware…

Shortage of the organs and tissues has always been a critical medical problem. According to the data from Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, the patient waiting list for organs in US consists of more than 80,000 patients and many of them die waiting on their organ list. There are several approaches for addressing this problem like artificial organs, xenotransplantation, etc. But these have other limitations like expensive organ- transplant…

Theme of Bioethics in Ball and Wolfe’s (2017) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks For three decades, scientists had been looking for human cells that could be successfully multiplied outside the human body and much of their efforts failed until 1951, when doctors in the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore collected a cancerous tissue sample from a colored woman, Henrietta Lacks, without her consent. Her tissue sample is significant as it allowed scientists to conduct tests on human cells…

mercenary humans are willing to use her strength as an advantage for them to publicize Mount Everest, so it can make them famous and more profit through charging the clients a fortune. Many critics in the novel, “pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence”(27) and “being sold to rich parvenus”(28). The tone of the quotation sets a criticism for the humankind that Mount Everest used to be…

Prostitution in America has existed since the colonization of the present day United States and its first colony, Jamestown. Prostitution was classified and known differently than today or even one-hundred years ago. It has evolved in accordance to different times in America but never completely disappeared. The practice changed along with the development of the United States. The “world’s oldest profession” is and has been frowned upon and called morally wrong. Feminist disagree in terms of the…

Everything you do electronically can be tracked, saved, and manipulated, regardless of where you are. Widescale spying occurring today eerily mimics George Orwell’s 1984 in an imminent and frightening way, as average people are no longer as private as they used to be. In 1984, Winston is trapped within a totalitarian government that watches everything its residents do or say. These residents are spied on everywhere they go and are never immune to government overwatch. In the United States today,…