Today, I am going to briefly talk about Marvel Studios in JC Economics Essays.
(I was recently reading about it from Ryan Lamble’s 2015 article,
“How Marvel went from bankruptcy to billions”, and so this came to my mind.)
Basically, all comic books have a point in the plot where all seems
lost.
The good guys are down on their knees, the aliens have almost completed
their invasion of earth, and the bad guys have prevailed.
For Marvel Entertainment,
this hour where all seemed lost arrived in 1996.
It had grown throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s thanks to
the art and storytelling in comics like the Fantastic Four and The
Amazing Spider-Man. I read these comics growing up in the 1990s.
Its financial success reached a peak by the early 1990s, but, by
1995, Marvel Entertainment was heavily in debt.
A series of financial bubbles
and business deals saw its stock value collapse, and, for a long while, the
company faced a bleak future.
Yet, just like the heroes in the comics, to cut a long story
short, Marvel emerged from the rubble a decade later as a successful film
industry giant – much like the proverbial Phoenix from the ashes came Marvel
Studios, a venture which finally brought the company's most famous characters
onto the big screen.
Ironman was the first, followed swiftly by many, many more successful
movies. I am a fan myself!
Today, the rest is history.
For me, this article reminded me that change is the only
constant, and Marvel successfully switched industries and changed with the
times.
What does this have to do with JC Economics Essays?
After more than a decade of blogging - yes it has been more than ten years since I started this economics blog - I am changing direction, and trying to adjust to readers' changing demands. Hopefully I can be as successful as Marvel (one can dream).
In recent years, there have been many economics websites and blogs coming around the corner, and many have even used similar names to mine (even though mine started earlier). Some economics blogs and websites even temporarily displaced me from my number one pole position on Google.
Looking back, I sometimes recall some moments when former econs students of mine did their economics homework by referring to my blog, and when other students said that they knew of people who read my economic blog as revision, and so on. These are and will remain fond memories.
But after many years of lecturing and teaching economics, I am going to change the focus of JC Economics Essays to focus on higher education, scholarships, and economics degrees.
With my wealth of experience (not the wealth of nations), I aim to cover the entire range of topics such as applications to the UK and US, and even Singapore, universities, scholarship preparations and interview preparations, including dealing with personal statements - and I have read and edited many students' personal statements - and general advice on economics, degrees, and undergraduate and even postgraduate life in general. My topics will also deal with loans for academic study, econometrics, software and applications that economics undergraduates need, and how to score in university.
Some of the advice on my (non-economics) personal blog will be adjusted and adapted for JC Economics Essays' use, since I'm the copyright owner. (Please read, share, and enjoy but do not plagiarise or copy. Thank you!)
Following my Masters from the LSE and a few years serving as a teacher in the education service, teaching H2 and H3 economics, I have decided to expand my blog's reach and go up the value chain, so to speak.
The guidance, direction, and advice that I provide on applying for economics degrees, scholarships, and courses will not be perfect and may have to be adapted to your own personal circumstances, but I hope that they will be useful. Do, however, read with an open but critical mind.
Also, I will write in the first person as I am no longer editing or writing economics essays, but giving personal guidance and advice.
In fact, over the years, to attempt to keep relevant, I have already tried many different economics topics and approaches - do feel free to surf this economics essays blog and see the wide range of materials and essays that I have. These will remain. But since change is eternal, I shall keep up with the times and move up the value chain.
Thank you for reading and stay tuned for the change in direction!
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