All Time Great Horror Movies
Horror movie as a genre has always been there or as long as cinema has been around. While this genre has an enormous stigma attached to it as cheap and lowbrow, still there are some diehard fans of these movies. Here are two best all-time great horror movies.
The Shining: This movie produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and is based on the novel going by the same name. The film is about the character Jack Torrance; an alcoholic who takes the job offer as a caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His wife Wendy and son Danny have the ‘shining’ which is a physic ability to see the past. The hotel has a cook and he also has the same ability as Danny. Jack loses his senses due to the supernatural forces that are in that hotel and endangers his family.
The Exorcist: This movie is about Regan MacNeil who at the age of 12 starts acting strange and terrified. Her mother does everything that she can to cure her son. It ranges from religion, superstition to even science and also goes to the priest Damien Karras to send the demon out of her house. This movie was nerve-wracking and haunting with fantastic performances by its characters.
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Shooting At A School In California Leaves 4 Dead
Another California school is in the midst of a shooting episode. Of Late, there have been many instances where disgruntled shooters have targeted schools and schoolchildren. A shooter killed four people and injured at least one child in an elementary school in California on Tuesday. The gunman shot at many locations and randomly chose his victims as per the police.
The police have not yet given out the name and other details of the killer, but said that he was killed by police after he went on a shooting spree at many locations in the hinterland of Northern California, and included an elementary school in Tehama. The gunman did not have anyone in particular but shot at randomly targeting people as per Phil Johnston the assistant Sheriff.
The Associated Press also said that seven people were being treated which includes three children in two separate hospitals. It was also reported that one of his victims was a student who got away with injuries, while the other two, one child and a woman were hit while they are driving.
Police at Rancho, Tehama which is about three hours away from north San Francisco got calls for multiple shots fired around 8 am, and the call also mentioned that there were many shots and many victims at the school.
Sheriff Johnston said that they are investigating five crime scenes and also added that the school had been cleared and the children are safe. This shooting has happened on the same day where the family of the Sandy Hook elementary school is in court for a case against the rifle companies which are selling the A-15 type of rifles. This is the same weapon that killed 20 school children and 6 adults in Newtown Connecticut in December 2012.
Another incident where a gunman killed 25 people at a church in Texas happened in less than a couple of weeks of this California incident.
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Start – Up Slump Blamed for Lag in Economy
The year before the recession of 2007 saw the birth of as many as 558000 companies. But only about 414000 companies were formed in 2015 as per the Census Bureau, which was a little over the year before. Though the rate of unemployment is on the decline and the stock markets are up, the economy is still not expanding and so is the productivity and the wage rise. The economists believe it is due to the slump in start-ups which essentially means there is less creation of new businesses.
It is critical to understand the reason behind the slump, and it could be due to the power of the big corporations. The economists argue that these big corporations can kick out the challengers or acquire them before they can be a force to reckon. So if you are wondering why bother about the stifling entrepreneurship, experts say that this kind of slump has a lot of implications. The small companies and start-ups are the ones that offer dynamism to the economy. These companies can generate, create job, innovations and is a ladder for success to middle class and immigrants. The most significant contribution of startups is that it makes the economy more productive. They have the talent to invent new approaches, innovations, and products that challenge the big companies to compete or be ignored by the customers. Startups have created jobs and also promote entrepreneurship.
Though the slump is observed for more than 30 years, the recent trends are what have worried economists. In the 90’s the slowdown was only in specific sectors like the retail, and that was not a drag on the economy or productivity. But since 2000, the deceleration is noticed in the technology sector, and this is coupled with low productivity. Research conducted suggests that the entrepreneurship decline and reduction in business dynamism is a primary reason for stagnation in productivity.
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