Black Swan is a psychological thriller about Nina, a ballerina in a New York dance company. Nina is chosen to play the lead role of the Swan Queen but struggles with the dark sexuality required for the Black Swan role. Nina begins having hallucinations and losing her grip on reality as the pressures of the role intensify. The film explores Nina's psychological breakdown through her developing anorexia, bulimia, and schizophrenia. It also examines the themes of competition, sexuality, and control through Nina's rivalry with fellow dancer Lily and overbearing relationship with her mother.
Shutter Island is a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner officer Chuck Aule; Ben Kingsley is the facility’s lead psychiatrist; Max von Sydow is a German doctor; and Michelle Williams is Daniels’s wife.
The movie happens to be based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel of the same name. The movie opened to rave reviews back in 2010 and was also one of the most profitable movies of that year. The movie was praised on the basis of a newness in the work of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan Melanie Swan
Overview of Chapter 12 and 13 in The Black Swan: humans are not good at predicting, so therefore we should minimize downside risk exposure and maximize upside risk exposure
Shutter Island is a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner officer Chuck Aule; Ben Kingsley is the facility’s lead psychiatrist; Max von Sydow is a German doctor; and Michelle Williams is Daniels’s wife.
The movie happens to be based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel of the same name. The movie opened to rave reviews back in 2010 and was also one of the most profitable movies of that year. The movie was praised on the basis of a newness in the work of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan Melanie Swan
Overview of Chapter 12 and 13 in The Black Swan: humans are not good at predicting, so therefore we should minimize downside risk exposure and maximize upside risk exposure
In his thought-provoking book, The Black Swan , Nassim Nichloas Taleb warns us that in managing risk, we are asking for trouble if we ignore dealing with low-probability, high-impact events -- so-called Black Swans. Coming from the financial sector, he focuses particularly on surprise events that can serve to undo banks, investments houses, and even whole economies.
In his presentation, Dr. J. Davidson Frame examines the premises of Black Swan events to see the extent to which they are truly unpredictable and unmanageable. Through the analysis of recent, high-visibility Black Swan events (including the Toyota car-acceleration event of Winter/Spring 2010; the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear plant disaster of March 2011; and the China Bullet Train crash of July 2011) he shows how risk identification, diligent risk impact analysis, careful risk response planning, and diligent risk monitoring and control can help you handle Black Swans, as well as more conventional risk scenarios, in the management of projects.
"The Black Swan" was written by N.N. Taleb. Highly recommended book! This presentation contains some of the remarkable quotes and insights.
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Agile IS Risk Management -- Dump the Heavyweight Process and Embrace the Prin...Ken Rubin
How applying core agile principles make the development process robust and at times antifragile to the disorder of uncertain events, allowing us to avoid harm and reap the benefits of uncertainty, without the need for heavyweight risk management processes.
Many believe that agile is lacking because there is no formally defined risk-management process. To compensate for this “failing” some people introduce a heavyweight risk-management process. Others might not believe that any form of risk-management process is necessary; if a risk matures into a real issue, then just deal with the issue through the normal agile process. In my experience, organizations that successfully “manage” their risks don’t fall into either of these camps. In this presentation, I discuss how a large part of successful risk management in agile is applying core agile principles to prevent risks from occurring rather than using a complex process for dealing with the risks that easily could be avoided in the first place.
For pharmaceuticals and biotech companies, medical, legal, and regulatory reviews (MLRs) are commonplace, and help ensure that product claims, promotions, and training are medically correct, and in compliance with FDA and other industry standards. This requires companies to develop an MLR process that helps assure the accuracy, relevancy, and value of the promotional material they produce and market.
Glocalization: A Measure of Global Brands’ Adaptation to Local Cultures by Ol...InsightInnovation
A brand’s ability to adapt and reflect consumers’ core values in different areas of the world directly effects its sales in those markets. Multicultural targeting is every global brand’s dream, but there are no metrics in place to truly know how brand strategy adaptations are resonating with different cultural communities’ values – until now.
The “Glocalization Index” is a simple actionable tool that will revolutionize the field of global brand tracking and communication research. Marketers of global brands will be able to use the “Glocalization Index” to track their communication strategy success and brand health in local markets.
The presentation will illustrate the importance of learning about local values and adjusting brand communication to those local values while keeping true to the global brand’s core essence.
Learn how values associated with being rich and owning prestigious things are viewed by China vs. Australia and how major brands like Colgate and Nike fall on our correlation index that determines how well a brand’s perceived value correlates to that of a country, and relates to that brand’s strength there.
Tv shows to watch if you love stranger thingsZainab Shah
Today I am here to talking about Stranger Things and separate out list of shows for those peoples who love Stranger Things. Need more thrilling action and weird monster to fill out stranger things void?
1. Black Swan By: Melvin Fortin, Sadi Khajavi, Vicky Labrecque and Jessica Ramos
2. Introduction Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Main character Nina (Natalie Portman) plays as the leading ballet dancer. Co-star Lily (Mila Kunis) plays Ninas competitor. Released in Canada on September 13 2010 at the Toronto National Film festival. Had won several awards and created enormous amounts of discussion.
3. Introduction Black Swan reflects issues that many face in their everyday lives: A controlling mother experiencing jealousy Competition fear and much more Topics we will touch up on: the psychological factors of the ballet dancer the dark theme
4. Summary Nina Sayers is a professional ballet dancer who dances for a prestigious dance company in New York. Her mother, Erica, used to be a ballet dancer as well. She constantly pressures Nina when it comes to ballet. The dance company Nina works for plans to do a “raw, visceral” production of Swan Lake, to be directed by the “brilliant” Thomas Leroy. Nina, along with a handful of other dancers, are chosen by Thomas to compete for the title role of Swan Queen. Nina seems to be the fore-runner to be the Swan Queen, although serious doubts whether she will be able to handle the role of the Black Swan. Ultimately given the role of Swan Queen. While Lily, another dancer vying for the title role, goes on to be Nina’s understudy. At the same time, Lily was given the role of Black Swan, for fear of Nina not being able to handle the role. Nina’s hallucinations and schizophrenic episodes begin to worsen, heightening her anxiety. This coupled with her bulimia, self-harming tendencies, and pressure from her mother all coalesce into her eventually losing her sanity and grip on reality.
5. Transition from White Swan to Black Swan Nina was portrayed as innocent and fragile being perfect for the role of the white swan. Later she portrays the characteristic of the black swan by being sensual and mischievous. During this development she started to: drink alcohol and experiment with drugs conducted in sexual activities she had never done before rebel against her overbearing mother.
6. Films Content Some scenes that were demonstrated had caused: disbelief and confusion amongst some of the viewers and; discussion amongst groups about: the sexual and dark content involved the scenes that caused some audiences questioning whether it was a figment of Nina’s imagination.
7. Scene One Nina had a dispute with Lily in her change room. Became violent causing Nina to stab Lily. Later shown that Nina had stabbed her self not Lily. This lead to the death scene at the end of the play and the film. Death symbolises their freedom from the curse that had haunted them, finally allowing them to be perfect.
8. Scene Two Nina had gone out to a party with Lily leading her to drink and consume a form of drug. Lily had initiated sexual advances towards Nina Next morning Nina was convinced the actions from the previous night had occurred Lily had denied it all making the audience wonder who was telling the truth.
9. Psychological Factors Nina experiences many personal conflicts. The audience could easily recognize the current issues in today's world demonstrated in the film. Two of these conflicts are: anorexia schizophrenia
10. Eating Disorder Anorexia: Affects preteens, teens and mostly young women. Nina demonstrates an eating disorder problem, shown as a skinny girl who barely eats and makes herself throw up.
11. Schizophrenia Over 280,000 people are affected in Canada by Schizophrenia Nina demonstrates this through her double personality of the “Black Swan”, the one that she is struggling to be in her ballet play.
12. Conclusion This film is considered 'popular literature' because it deals with themes that almost all people have experienced The main plot of the film deals with a seemingly 'perfect' protagonist and her gradual slip into madness, and fall from grace Two of the main afflicting disorders that the protagonist suffers from are anorexia/bulimia, and 'schizophrenia These topic, as addressed through the personal suffering of the protagonist, bring things into perspective for the viewer as they are made aware of these modern issues Sexuality plays an integral part of the film, and in how the main characters interact and behave toward each other. Keeping up with the ‘pure’ image of the White Swan, Nina’s modesty and demureness when dealing with issues of her sexuality tie into her intimate resemblance of the role. Nina deviates from her naïve nature eventually when she becomes exposed to Lily’s lifestyle. She becomes ‘tainted’.
13. Black Swan Trialer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs Anorexia: http://www.articlesbase.com/answers/how-many-people-have-eating-disorders-in-canada-40237 Schizophrenia: http://www.schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm
