For Women Of Color, Being Marginalized, Dismissed, And Othered Comes With The Territory. Being Involved

Me gustaba su estilo, su elegancia, no cualquier mujer puede tener ese garbo de verse clásica como en el Partenón de Atenas con lineas y figuras estéticas en el vestir, que se complementan con las formas artísticas de su cuerpo. El Partenon de Atenas tenia esa lineas horizontales y verticales enmarcadas en una belleza estética clásica, sin lineas garigoleadas y góticas, sino simples en belleza, para demostrar la grandeza del pensamiento del hombre en lo simple sin perder lo estético, y arrojado en una pieza de arquitectura.

Asi era ella, o quizás asi la construia por el efecto de su belleza en mi corazón.

“Las Mil y Una Noches con Ms Beautiful”. Extracto.

Everything is About Finances!

I still remember when I was at my friend’s house and used to poke around by grabbing the paper to read the news, and show off myself by saying “my stocks in the market are doing pretty good”. Nothing to laugh about it, except that the only thing of value was my own bicycle that I used as a mean of transportation to go from home to everywhere else, and my own persona if a body could be counted as gold since my family was “poor” in the terms and conditions of that little kid from “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.

Years passed by, and we do not know what the future holds for us, and one day at school I am supposed to write a blog for my Entertainment Business Finance about the things that I learned in class. Believe me I learned a lot, and now the real world.

Stock market? Google stocks or Wal-Mart stocks? Which one do I go for? It depends. Stocks in the market behave divergently depending on the sector, and even within the sector a share might be of high value, depending on the company performance such as its efficiency, liquidity, profitability, and stability. We should look at the ratios when we compare Google vs Wal-Mart: Return of Investment (ROI, which is related to the efficiency of the investment for the company) for Google 14.15; Wal-Mart 14.31; Return on Equity (ROE, how much profit a company makes with money from shareholders) for Google 15.55 and Wal-Mart 23.30.

  Negotiations? Big deal in business finance when making a contract with an artist. 120 millions deal for Madonna in which she is getting 90 % of the concert sales, and also 50% of licensing money? In the top of that, LIve Nation is releasing $17.5 million to the artist in advance, plus another $50 to 60 million dollars when she delivers the music for some CD’s.!!!?????

What!!??? Are you crazy? She is going to steal even the clothes that I am wearing on! There should be a point where the artist knows when enough is enough! Do not worry my son- it seems to me that the CEO, Mr Rapino from Live Nation is telling me- everything is about finances! “We got the Madonna 2014 tour at 2008 prices… We project that Madonna will gross over $1 billion in this 10 years. She's working to generate the $1 billion, not the $100 million schedule that we're going to pay her over time. That's just the appetizer.” Everything is about finances; the money that you spend in the present time will grow in the future because “time is money”. It is like buying a house at $100,000 at the present time, and within 15 years that same house will value $140,000.00 because of the rate of inflation, interest, and time value of money. You see? I take off my hat for Mr. Rapino. Nice move, and above all, a whole concept about finances and time value of money.

Decisions in business? How would you know if an opportunity for business is good at the present time, and will be good in the future, taking into consideration the different rates associated for that loan?

R: By analyzing the profit that will be made in the future minus the cost at the present time. Formula? NPV= PVB-PVC

How would you know if an investment of $100,000 would return, at what rate, and within what time? Payback= C/ATB

I could go on, and on presenting a lot of variables and formulas that show us how taking business decisions is about critical thinking and finances.

  As I said before, and I repeat it again: everything in business is about time, rate, money and finances, specially finances which is the key to analyze proposals to get the best deal that should be represented in profit, profit, and profit.

What did I learn from this course? Finances, is the most important key to make business profitable

    REFERENCES

  http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=google

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=WMT.N

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-LiveNation_f423bde6-646a-4a15-8a27-0cca269e8a6d.pdf

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-livenationCEOinterview_bafe6c0b-19ef-465e-8dd6-56fa1eab2982.pdf

Capitulo II: LOS CAMINOS DE LA VIDA Y LA NATURALEZA

Y de repente un rayo, una luz en el camino, donde se contemplan edificios de 20 o 30 pisos alrededor de las siluetas del rio, porque sin percatarse llegamos ahí, al Centro de la Ciudad, al River Walk,  entre los ires y venires de estos vericuetos del camino y la vida, con gentes presenciando los escenarios lujosos de restaurantes y comercios alrededor, con los llamamientos de los valets en las riberas del rio, implorando la bienaventuranza de sus transeúntes para compartir sus manjares ya sea en sus comercios, en sus comidas, en sus hospedajes, en sus centros de diversión.

Entonces el rayo resalta, porque su electrizante luz estrella precisamente a la mitad del rio entre la flora y la fauna y la silueta de agua, sin decir que la chispa cae ahí en la canal, sino que fue en el horizonte, pero su centella queda plasmada como en una fotografía donde parece que el relámpago cayo a lo lejos en la silueta que formaba el río al final de su faja, que seria como decir que el rayo cayo en el paisaje alejado de las montañas, pero esta vez, el rayo descendió en el paisaje alejado del rio, en sus riberas. Y esa radiación de luz, se plasma por segundos también a la vez en el cielo, formando figuras entre las nubes como si fueran troncos cortados de árboles con brazos injertados formando “Z” y “V” y “U”s  y ese estruendo visual brrmmmm, comparte el escenario con los arboles grandes alrededor, acompañando a los edificios en las riberas del rio, dando un toque especial a la fotografía de la ciudad..

Las Cuatro Estaciones de Vivaldi entonces empiezan a sonar, con la lluvia y su alegria en el campo citadino, digamos, y las hojas de los arboles parecen encantarse y juegan en vaivén con el agua que cae del cielo, y entonan con el viento la sinfonía de Vivaldi… titutururutututu-tututu, moviéndoseloe de un lado para otro, yendo al son de la lluvia y el viento, como si siguieran las manos de izquierda a derecha, de arriba y abajo del director de la orquesta en la sinfónica.

3 Tips for Fast Drafting Your Novel In Record Time

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. Writing Mastery Academy, a 2021 NaNo sponsor, was founded by Jessica Brody, author of the bestselling plotting guide Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. In this post, Jessica shares her tips for getting words down on the page quickly, aka Fast Drafting:

As an author who writes on more than 350,000 words per year, I like to joke that every month is a NaNoWriMo for me. So with the real NaNoWriMo approaching, I thought I’d share my top 3 tips for writing quickly and efficiently, which you can use to easily smash through that 50k mark this November! 

1. You Don’t Need an Outline. You Only Need 5 Things.

As the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, I’m used to talking about plot. But as any happy “pantser” will tell you, you don’t have to start a novel with a full plot outline (although you certainly can!). 

No matter if you’re a die hard plotter, pantser or somewhere in between, I urge you to, at the very least, sit down and brainstorm 5 things about your main character, your plot, and your world before you begin writing. 

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Music is one of the other key elements from Coca Cola to create its own brand. The stories around the music are families together, joy, love, Christmas time, dreams, Santa Claus, and all of the other key values that we already talked about. The same values, the same stories will be presented in every aspect of advertisement, marketing promotions, ads, brochures and commercials. Coca Cola stays Focused Focused and Focused. In this sense, the company creates its own brand and differentiate from the other competitors. Stay focused, focused, and focused is a key element of branding, according to Marty Neumeier.