Across The Universe

I was dragged to the movie Across the Universe, I had no idea what the movie would be about. So when the first scene began as a musical i had to restrain hitting my friends. they know how i feel about musicals. However this movie was amazing. Dealing with the Vietnam war times i immediately saw the parallels to our own Iraq war. In class i remember Mr. O'Connor speaking about how the play Crucible was written during the Cold War era. Immediately i saw how they were connected. Their is an atmosphere of mystery and accusations in both time periods.

Across the Universe showed people protesting the Vietnam War, and the police. We all know the protests from then, and similarly their are quite a few now. In one random trippy scene, a monkey randomly appears. Many people feel that President Bush looks like a Monkey. That is how i believe the movie portrayed his appearance. I feel the movie was bashing teh war because in teh end their was no shown good that came from the war. All that came was death and deportation.

Vertical Development

A key factor in McDonald's

monopolizing its

industry of fast food

has to do with the term,

Vertical Development.

When you devolpoe your

company verticaly you

maintian controll over

every single step when

creating your product.

The McDonalds you know

is the store in which their food is sold.

To be so succesful they need to

do more for them selves though,

they also own everything from the

cows to the paper food is wrapped in.

To the plastics their straws are made of.

In order for a profit to be

made Verticle development it crucial.

You could also develope your company horozonally, which would mean that your company would be developed but not in different areas. If you owned a clothing store, and you decided instead of making your own cloths for cheeper that you would open another store with a different name next to the origional store, you would be developing horozonatly. Large companies are able to thrive because of their abitlty to play teh field and search areas to employ themselves. That is how in america you can create monoplies.

Memorial Wall

The Vietnam memorial wall is a very special and unique place. Originally i was gonna do this post about the creation of the wall. So i went online to the memorial site, after searching around, i came across a list of fallen solders who's birthdays would have been today. Looking up and down the list i noticed several odd things.

1. They have posted the religion of each fallen solider

Maybe this is to get bonds between random people and solders. However in a society with a seperation of church and state, this is not ok for a pubicilly funded site.

2. They have posted race as well, now this may not see odd, however instead of African American, they have posted, Negro. Which i feel is an inappropriate term.

I really dont know why this is not changed, any suggestions?