Abstract
This paper explores the subject matter addressed in the films of Pedro Almodovar, who after Franco's death was a firm proponent of the La Movida Madrilena. By examining Almodovar's films "Pepi, Luci, Bom, y Las Otras Chicas del Monton" and "Entre Tinieblas," the paper explains how crudity and comical portrayal of Spanish culture, or "shock-factor," serve to allow the public to question their former belief systems. By examining the filming technique in these two films, the paper concludes that ultimately, Almodovar wanted to represent a Spain that was modern, liberal, tolerant, and perhaps even visionary as the country shifted from dictatorship to democracy.

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"Prior to this revolution, the Supreme Board of Film Censorship used a full range of measures to regulate film production. Historical epics, musical comedies, and religious dramas dominated Spanish production through the forties and fifties, while American films (with their emphasis on entertainment rather than social or political critique) shared the approval as acceptable foreign films. During the sixties however, the regime realized the value of using Spain's film industry to construct an image of a modern nation and lessened its hold.
"With this background information, we can proceed to analyze Almodovar's films in greater detail. In the first sequence of Pepi, Luci, Bom y las otras chicas del monton or Pepi, Luci, Bom and the Other Ordinary Girls (1980), lesbian-punk schoolgirl Pepi (played by Carmen Maura) gets raped by her cop neighbor. In the next sequence, the audience sees her dressed up in a bright sequined top, pacing back and forth, scheming about her revenge (she is upset because the virginity she had saved to acquire value was taken by some guy who did not even pay her properly). Contrary to religious ideologies, Pepi's view of her virginity and sexuality does not relate to any conventional ideas of sacredness or purity. In fact, aside from her concern with the loss of money-value for her virginity, she does not feel violated, humiliated, used or male-dominated by the rape. In this way, Almodovar completely disregards existing cultural notions about rape in terms of socially instilled feelings of gender inequality, sex, and receiving money for sex. In the absence of any attempt by Almodovar to address these issues in the scene, the audience is likely to be somewhat shocked and a bit confused. The goal of this is to set a stage where no preconceptions exist, with the purpose of creating an unbiased mindset for the rest of the film."

Tags:Franco, Movida, Madrilena

Abstract
Los temas sociologicos y culturales que Pedro Almodovar presenta en sus largometrajes los usa como formula en cada una de sus peliculas, podemos constatar desde su primer filme; Pepi, Lucy, Bom y Otras Chicas del Monton, en 1980 que el director hace una critica casi sarcastica pero fulminante del maltrato a la mujer en Espana. La influencia de la religion catolica en las peliculas de Almodovar no consta solo por su educacion escolar, sino por la influencia del catolicismo en este pais.

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Tags:pedro, almodovar, cinema

Abstract
This paper assesses the benefits and cost of outsourcing from the author's personal experience within an outsourced organization. Specifically, the company outsourced all accounting system IT functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit and collections, and internal auditing. The author argues that the decision to outsource pays off in terms of both reduced personnel costs, reduced time taken solving relatively simple but time-consuming accounting problems, and the freeing up of financial managers' and analysts' time to work on the larger, more difficult problem of the order management system being inaccurate in the bills of material (BOMs) it is sending to production.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Costs of Outsourcing
Benefits of Outsourcing
Conclusion

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"The subjective costs are the perceived loss of control of core accounting functions by the senior accounting managers, and the tendency to keep managing and monitoring the activities of Infosys even though the processes have been outsourced. Additional subjective costs have begun to emerge as well, including the realization our company at one point was too thinly staffed to manage the outsourcing relationship and we would actually have to hire a new project manager to manage the relationship as no one had time to do this full-time. Carrillo, L, Desronvil, K., Niven, C. (2003) report from their research on outsourcing that often companies are too thinly staffed to manage the outsourcing efforts, and this slows down the potential benefits that could be achieved. There were also the intangible costs of trying to get the Infosys culture to work with our company's culture. Infosys moves much faster than the company I work for, and that took several months for each organization to culturally get synchronized with each other. There was also a degree of ethnocentrism to an extent in the financial analysts who wondered if they were going to be outsourced as the second wave of the project, and insisted they knew the financials and company better than any outsider could."

Tags:management, benefits, analysis, experience, costs, profit

Abstract
This paper looks at how material requirements planning (MRP or MRPI) was developed in the 1960?s, to enable companies to calculate the number of different components necessary and when they were needed. It traces its development over the years and identifes the main differences between materials resource planning (MRP), its predecessor materials resource planning II (MRP II) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as well as the pro's and con's of the MRP II concept. Using a basic diagram, the three fundamental functions of MRP are explained which are netting, batching and time phasing.

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"Distinguishing MRPII from the original MRP concept is a simple process. MRPI is simply the process of identifying the amount of components required and at what time they are required. This developed into closed loop MRP, which calculated the workload required to fulfil the orders and compared this to the capacity available. MRPII expands on this by calculating the cost of proposed MRP runs, this allowed managers to identify viable production-runs and allowed them further control over the operation. In calculating the costs MRPII works in the opposite direction to MRPI, it starts at the lowest level of the BOM and works its way up until the net-requirements of the finished product is determined."

Tags:batching, bom, netting, operations, phasing, processes, time