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- 1861: The Investment Industry
- ... have the expertise to identify which investors want this service and which don't. Their failure to do this may actually cause the loss of sophisticated investors who do not want to be bothered. In short, "clients said the most important factor in choosing an investment firm was trustworthiness, followed by performance and service" (Roseman, p.B18). Aside from these three factors, the speed of processing transactions has equal importance to ... picture of the industry as a whole. Examining the quick and current ratios for some of the larger firms in the industry shows that investment dealers have an equal proportion of highly liquid assets to short term liabilities (approx. 1.0). This shows that the firms have little in terms of a maturity mismatch. In addition, accounts receivable as a percent of total assets is quite large (approx. 91% for Fahnestock ... investment which can earn greater returns than a bank account. Considering this new demand for securities, investment dealers have a greater incentive to devise additional attractive financial instruments in order to attract the undecided. In short, a need for greater returns leads to increased asset demand thereby increasing market activity which in turn will strengthen the investment dealer industry as a whole.
- 1862: Secret Lion - Symbolism
- Symbolism in "The Secret Lion" "The Secret Lion" written by Alberto Rios is a very strange short story that has a lot of different symbols. Every symbol emphasizes the change of the lives of the twelve-year-old person who tells the story and his friend Sergio. As the story goes along ... place where they can do whatever they want to do. It is a place to hang around. "It was our river, though, our personal Mississippi, our friend from long back, and it was full of stories"(43). But as they become more grown up they realize that their thoughts of the river change. As time goes by, the arroyo dissatisfies the boys, and they decide to stop going there. "Nature seemed ...
- 1863: Shampoo Planets - Book Report
- ... God and then came Microserfs. His last book was Poaroids From the Dead, but before that was Shampoo Planet. Life After God and Polaroid From the Dead are not really novels but just compilations of short stories and anecdotes, some from his own life. I think that this book, about a guys life. The cover has a picture of the top part of a person’s head, forehead and up, with messy ...
- 1864: African Reaction
- ... This is known as a passive resistance. A nonviolent display by the women that frustrated the whites more than anything. The whites tried to crush the resistance many times and succeeded, but only for a short time. This resistance was finally resolved and the women were allowed to live without carrying passes. The resistance by this group of black women set the standard for all women, all classes included, that when ... population. There were many that had steady employment and were making decent wages. This is why the rebellion failed. When there is a reluctance in a population to rebel, the task is many times cut short of its goals. There were many instances in which there were symbolic actions against the whites. An example is when the blacks were killing all of the white animals in protest. This may have had ... had little or no impact on the views of the whites. The Bambatha Rebellion could have been a huge success for the black community but with out the full support of the blacks, it was short lived. In the Fog of the Seasons End In Alex La Guma’s story, the reader sees something that is appalling and has become one of the major atrocities of the world; apartheid. The ...
- 1865: Broken Spears
- ... years, but the Aztecs weren’t so entire villages were wiped out in just few weeks which cleared the way for the Spanish to entirely conquer and destroy the Aztec empire. Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from ...
- 1866: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... These are the questions that arise after reading the epic story of Beowulf by an anonymous author, and the romantic tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, also written by an anonymous author. The stories describe two very different heroes. Beowulf was undoubtedly a hero, but as time advanced and the world became more complicated, what constituted a hero became more shady; therefore, while he is not anything like Beowulf ... defeating the dragon because he has already proved himself and goes with honor, which is different from initially failing). In the last lines of the story the author clearly acknowledges Beowulf’s overall triumph, "Telling stories of their dead king and his greatness, his glory, praising him for heroic deeds, for a life as noble as his name." Sir Gawain on the other hand is deemed a hero but seems to ... when any character truly sets out to defeat another character. Each confrontation to Sir Gawain lies within himself, particularly when the wife of the Green Knight temps him with love. The ages in which these stories were written plays a major part in the messages that are trying to be conveyed through the author’s poetry. Beowulf was probably written around 400 A. D. when the main idea was survival ...
- 1867: Snow Falling On Cedars
- ... had been having "relations" with a white mail-order bride that had just arrived in town. They kept this secret because of the obvious problems it would have caused with the bigoted townspeople. In both stories, a love between two different people has evolved. Similar to each story the only reason the two young people were separated was due solely on the race and social standing. (The similarity to Romeo and Juliet here is amazing. I am beginning to think that all modern love stories are based on that play; West Side Story.) I believe that stories such as these will continue to happen indefinitely in the future. Ever since Columbus first set foot on the New World, racism and prejudice has been an issue. I personally have always been a ...
- 1868: Essay About Cooper Industries
- ... will be more beneficiary. Apparently there is more demand for Cameron's products than the Champions. Little adjustments in the production process along with the 'Cooperization' adjustment will have make the company efficient in a short period of time. In contrast, Champion is considered to have 1950's production techniques and only one product line, spark plugs, which will require tremendous changes within the company. The other option may be to ... the financial risks involved. By allocating all the departments such as Management Development & Planning in the process, Cooper may turn things around. Since the beginning, Cooper's way of acquiring companies seem to create success stories in the end. Champion still has brand name recognition in Europe and Asia (personal knowledge) which maybe taken advantage of. Major changes for the American market may take place while the revenues from the overseas ...
- 1869: Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
- ... When he became bored with the job, he went back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist. There he enjoyed the theater, the opera, and the libraries. Whitman wrote poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall Democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. For two years Whitman edited the influential Brooklyn Eagle, but he lost his position for supporting the Free-Soil party. After a brief sojourn in New Orleans, Louisiana, he returned to Brooklyn, where ...
- 1870: Sonnet 72
- ... Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines c And often is his gold complexion dimmed, d And every fair from fair sometimes declines, c By chance, or nature’s changing course ... the beauty of the unknown lover is the central idae throughout the sonnet and the element of time makes its first appearance in line 4 where it says "And summer’s lease hath all too short a date". This signifies the limited time during which the positive qualities of summer are at their best. The beauty is described in the shape of an answer to the question posed in the first ... The following lines (lines 3 to 8) present a number of negative qualities of summer. These can be reduced to two basic ideas which are joined in line 4: "And summer’s lease hath too short a date". The first idea presented is the idea that the beauty of summer is not stable. Sometimes there are "Rough winds" (line 3), the sun may be too hot (line 5) or not ...
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