...Once said by writer, Debra Marquart, “Driving west from Fargo on I–94, the freeway that cuts through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises and curves in places that it will feel like one long-held pedal steel guitar note”(Marquart 1-5). The passage is from The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir about growing up in North Dakota. In this passage, Debra Marquart conveys her profound love for the upper Midwest region, even as it was marked as an inhabitable location for many who first approached it. Marquart characterizes the upper Midwest as an entity whose landscape is bland and yet very orderly structured. In The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart adopts the use of powerful allusions...
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...POW STORY “UNBROKEN” LOOKS SUFFERING IN THE EYE “Unbroken” is a 2014 American historical biographic war-sports drama film, produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, and based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”. The film revolves around the life of USA Olympian and athlete Louis “Louie” Zamperini, portrayed by Jack O'Connell. He joined the armed forces and went on a rescue mission before his plane crashed. Stuck on a raft for 47 days and then picked up by Japanese military ship Louie must spend the rest of his days in the army camp but he must fight for his freedom. “Unbroken” is the best movie I've seen in ages. Let me start by saying that Angelina Jolie is truly a genius! I can't imagine a female directing a heavy movie like Unbroken. She actually manages to show all the important details of Louis's life in just 2 hours. For some film makers it's not enough. The screenplay by the Coen Brothers is surprisingly lucid. Firstly there is an exciting plane battle which puts the viewer right in the vulnerable position of the crew. I have admiration for the story of Louis's running. From my point of view it is inspirational. It’s repeated like a mantra: “If you can take it, you can make it.” Those words drive Louis Zamperini all his life. Then there is the survival in the sea on life rafts for many days. Situations like this have been shown before but here it is particularly well done. Finally...
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...Final Film Critique: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Robert L. Forbes ENG 225 Film: From Watching to Seeing. Instructor Ebony Gibson April 29, 2013 Final Film Critique: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Everyone likes to laugh, and this film is no stranger to the call. O Brother, Where Art Thou is indeed a comical action/adventure and musical romp Directed by Joel Coen and Produced by Ethan Coen. The Cast consist of many favorites in film such as George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson. The film O Brother, according to well-known film critic Roger Ebert (2000), “is based on Homer’s The Odyssey” (p.1), this is an epic Greek poem around 700 B.C. Although the setting is much different, the Homeric journey of three would be prisoners of the late 1930s are similar to The Odyssey and its theme of perseverance. The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou however has a comical twist accompanied by great Gospel/Bluegrass music, and scenes that play into an allegorical concept including references to repentance and salvation during the depression of that era. The storyline in this movie the collaborating efforts of the Coen brothers and cinematographer Roger Deakins bring together...
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...Film Analysis Paper HU-489-001 5/4/2011 Fargo, and the role of Setting Fargo, a dark and somewhat humorous crime movie by the Coen Brothers delves into themes of isolation, morality, and greed. And throughout the film, a very prominent role is played by the setting. The Coen brothers make sure that no one misses where the story takes place – small town upper Midwest in the middle of a frigid winter. The film makes extensive use of the frozen landscape, the characterization of rural Midwesterners, and realistic depiction of the events of the story in order to emphasize these themes. There is a great deal of contrast in this movie between moral and amoral characters as well as contrast between what the viewer expects from such dark subject matter and how it is in fact presented. The very first shot of the film is of a barren grey snowscape as a car in the distance slowly approaches. The setting is immediately present and it sets up a feeling of a cold and emotionless environment. This car appears very small on the screen and slowly approaches the camera. So very early this feeling of isolation is brought into the film. The car appears small and alone in a desolate world. It gradually moves toward the screen as we are introduced to the beginning of the story. This is actually the main antagonist, Jerry Lundegaard as he tows a new car to make a deal with two criminals to kidnap his wife. This cold landscape represents well the dark intentions of this character. As the movie...
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...D Diversity Analysis of Wells Fargo MGMT 360-51 Team - Multiplicity Shannon Willy Darren Cattnach Jeannine Petersen Edward Davis Cindy Sellner Metropolitan State University Summer 2010 Executive Background Introduction Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 10,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the Internet across North America and internationally. They are headquartered in San Francisco; however, they’re decentralized so every local Wells Fargo store is a headquarters for satisfying all their customers’ financial needs. This has led to a large customer base, which Wells estimates that one in three households in America does business with them. Wells Fargo has $1.2 trillion in assets and more than 278,000 team members across their 80+ businesses. They ranked fourth in assets, and third in market value of their stock among their U.S. peers as of March 31, 2010 ("Wellsfargo.com," 2010). Wells Fargo’s company vision is stated as, “We want to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs, help them succeed financially, be the premier provider of financial services in every one of our markets, and be known as one of America’s great companies.” This statement has led them to have an outstanding reputation in the community. They have been recognized in the following publications: FORTUNE 19th in Revenue among All Companies...
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...ETHICS IN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT CASES (Various sources) ETHICS IN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT - CASES – In this course we will discuss and analyze selected cases from among the following sets: 1. 20 short cases - to be resolved individually (ethical challenges of managers) 2. 15 longer cases –more involved, to be resolved in group discussion (ethical challenges of employers, managers and organizations) A. SHORT CASES 1. You’re the plant manager in one of ABC Company’s five plants. You’ve worked for the company for 15 years, working your way up from the factory floor, after the company sent you to college. Your boss just told you, in complete confidence, that the company will have to lay off 200 workers. Luckily, your job won’t be affected. But a rumour is now circulating in the plant and one of your workers (an old friend who now works for you) asks the question, “Well Pat, what’s the word? Is the plant closing? Am I going to lose my job? The closing on our new house is scheduled for next week, I need to know!” What should you say? What will you say? 2. As an operations professional, you need to be able to interact effectively with many internal customers – from corporate managers to field representatives. One of your peers is Jessica, who is a talented operations professional, but who is downright rude to her internal customers. Her attitude is so bad, that people around your company ask specifically to deal with you...
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...Macroeconomics Term Paper: Wells Fargo in Ireland | | | | | | Wells Fargo was founded in 1852 by Henry Wells and William G. Fargo and opened for business in the gold rush port of San Francisco. Wells Fargo offered banking (buying gold and selling paper bank drafts as good as gold) and express delivery of the gold and anything else valuable. By the 1860s, Wells Fargo earned everlasting fame and its corporate symbol, the stagecoach. In 1888, Wells Fargo became the country’s first nationwide express company. By 1918, Wells Fargo was part of 10,000 communities across the country, however that year the federal government took over the nation’s express network as part of its effort in the First World War and Wells Fargo was left with just one bank in San Francisco eventually expanding in 1923 to two banking halls. In the 1980s, Wells Fargo expanded into a statewide bank, became the seventh largest bank in the nation, and launched its online service. In the 1990s, Wells Fargo returned to its historic territory throughout the Western, Midwestern and Eastern states. Today, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank’s customers who conduct business in the global economy. According to Forbes.com, as of May 2013 Wells Fargo’s market cap was $201.35 billion. Wells...
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...Financial Analysis of Wells Fargo Bank Analyze the company’s mission and vision statements against the performance of the organization. Then, evaluate how well the company lives out its mission and vision statement. Provide support from the organization’s performance in your evaluation. The mission statement of Wells Fargo, like most other banks, centers around getting as much money and financial obligation from each individual as possible. “We want to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.” To further clarify that mission Wells Fargo says, “We believe our customer can save more time and money if--- after carefully shopping around and comparing choices --- they bring all their financial services to one trust provider.” Wells Fargo has lived up to its mission statement by becoming the nation’s largest financial institutions, serving one in three U.S. households and employing over in 500 working Americans. Regardless of the growing size, scope and reach, Wells Fargo common visions and distinct values form the fabric that holds the company together. As a team member of Wells Fargo, I can say it doesn’t matter what my responsibility is, or my titles, the business of the company is what I work for. Wells Fargo is one of the few American companies doing business for longer than 150 years under its founding name and in its original line of business: banking. Banking has changed in many ways through the years...
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...by. To increase our profits and gain new clients to our portfolio, I have a vision of launching a client referral program. An incentive to our existing clients to refer their business vendors and customers will aid us in gaining prospects to our group. It will then be the Business Development Officers job to present the Letter of Interest, and sign the new client. To keep profits margins strong, this would not be a cash incentive, yet it would be monthly finance charge decreases for each client referred. A large portion of our clients finds difficulty in paying the quarterly finance charges, as some clients pay their sales and employee taxes quarterly. As a referral incentive, we will offer a percentage of fees waived. Mazon Associates, Inc (2015), a competitor of ours, offers a 10% referral fee payment based for the term of the client relationship. This small referral fee payment can make a big difference in our clients’ checkbooks. To stay competitive and grow in the asset-based lending market, we must do something that benefits the client to earn their trust and referral. If this product launch does not take-off quickly, we may need to implement into the Business Development Officers marketing collateral that is distributed on a monthly basis. Since the product depends on our Underwriting and Credit teams to book, we will need to devote a six-month program to see the true results of this incentive. Since this incentive will be based on the performance of the referral, no...
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...Effects of Quality Management on Domestic and Global Competition Paper MGT/449 Wells Fargo versus Wachovia From the beginning in 1852, then titled Wells, Fargo & Co., the new banking and express delivery company became a well-known and trusted place to buy gold, bank, and sell paper drafts (which were as good as gold) (Wells Fargo, 1999). Since then, Wells Fargo has moved East through the United States, and has globalized. In 1929, Wachovia was incorporated as South Carolina National Bank. While the history of the banks founders date back to the late 1790’s Wachovia gained its reputation as a trustworthy Southern bank that handled all forms of banking needs including but not limited to checking, mortgage loans, securities, and insurance (The Gale Group, Inc., 2006). It was not until the 1990’s that Wachovia branched out of the South, and tailored to London, and Japan customers with that limit, the bank remained primarily domesticated. While Wells Fargo is a domestic bank their lending and financial practices have primarily become global. This paper will discuss the difference between the companies’ different versions of strategy, and customer service. Focusing on globalization and domestication, how quality management affects the position of the companies in the domestic and global market. Community Banking Versus Global Banking When guiding your business toward success, you may come across many different aspects where a decision is needed. In the banking...
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...current work place; I work at Wells Fargo Bank. The company has a mission statement that every customer counts, and that customer service satisfaction is the number one priority of the company. Wells Fargo started back in 1852 more as a delivery company of goods for individual customers, and companies back in the day; their purpose was to service all around the country, from their base in San Francisco all the way to the east coast in New York. The company took a big hit when the government took the bank and left them only with one branch, their base in San Francisco, so they basically had to start again from zero; but as a company they pulled through and Mr. Wells and Mr. Fargo took the company back into great business. One of the organizational strengths that I see with this company today is the strength to be always prepared for what is coming, they will be able to manage disturbing situations that come to them, from tough economical times. We can take the example of the great recession that we are just getting out from 2008 and 2009, as a bank with strengths it was able to stay a float, to still buy another big bank Wachovia, and become the largest retail bank in the United States, now being in 39 states of the Country, and having plans to start opening branches in the other 11 states that have not yet being conquered by Wells Fargo. This makes it distinctive from other companies because most people can have services with Wells Fargo, and right now literally can get service...
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...The history of the Company Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with central offices throughout the country. It is the world's second largest bank by market capitalization and the third largest bank in the U.S. by total assets. In July 2015, Wells Fargo turn out to be the world's largest bank by market capitalization, edging past ICBC, before slipping behind Chase in September 2016. Wells Fargo beat Citigroup Inc. and become the third-largest U.S. bank by assets at the end of 2015. Wells Fargo is the second-largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit cards. In February 2014, Wells Fargo was named the world's most valuable bank brand for...
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...operation to Winston-Salem. The bank was reopened in 1879 and evolved in the American Market and continued to grow tremendously in the Southern States between 1980’s and 1990’s. As Wachovia continue to grow and expand its southern branch started to encounter financial crisis and as an end result Wachovia was sold to Wells Fargo and company in 2011. Time line of Events that led to failure After Wachovia National Bank establishment in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the year 1879, Wachovia saw an opportunity to expand its operation in the banking industry and by 1911 it began merger with the Wachovia Loan and Trust. Wachovia did not stop there as many more opportunities waited in 1958 and 1998 it merges respectively in Asheville and Philadelphia and had also purchased The Money Store in 1998. In 2001 Wachovia merged with Charlotte and created Wachovia Corporation however, May of that same year the SunTrust Bank in Atlanta launched an unsolicited bid to purchase Wachovia. SunTrust Bank unsolicited bid only made Wachovia stronger as they combined the Wachovia Securities and the Prudential Securities Division of Prudential Financial, Inc. Combined and form Wachovia Securities LLC in July of 2003. In the latter part of 2003 the Bank saw another opportunity which was to acquire...
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...Management Behavior Nancy Fisher HRM/531 September 27, 2010 University Of Phoenix Wade Larson Management Behavior | InterClean, Inc. | Memo To: InterClean, Inc. Sales Managers From: Nancy Fisher, VP Sales Manager CC: David Spencer, President and CEO; Janet Durham, Vice President of Human Resources Date: [ 9/27/2010 ] Re: Merger: InterClean, Inc and EnviroTech As you are all aware, InterClean, Inc. officially has announced the merger with EnviroTech, one of our major domestic competitors in this market. With this acquisition, InterClean has taken a giant step in achieving domestic market control in the sanitation industry. In addition, the service expertise that comes with EnviroTech fit together perfectly with our new strategic direction. This merger creates what we believe will be a very compelling value proposition for our employees, customers, and communities with significant potential for even new growth. With the knowledge of both companies combined into one, we fully expect to reach our sales goals for the next year, which should increase profitability by 40%. Over the next four months, we will be working to merge about 60 EnviroTech sales staff and operations specialists into the InterClean structure (University of Phoenix, 2010). This will roughly coincide with launching a major media onslaught to announce our new service focus (University of Phoenix, 2010). Managers keep in mind there maybe staff affected by this merger. Mergers are never...
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...acquisitions, Wachovia has implemented their policies and procedures without taken into account how this would affect the existing employees of the company that was bought. Now for the first time, in company history, Wachovia finds itself on the other side of the table. I’m currently a Business Analyst at Wachovia. I’ve been with the company for almost 2 years, but I’ve been there long enough to understand and adapt to the culture, their policies & procedures, their implementation of diversity within Wachovia and their community involvement. I currently work with employees who have been with the company for over 10, 15, and 20 years. And employee morale for the most part has been fairly high, but due to the recent acquisition of Wachovia by Wells Fargo, I’m starting to see a paradigm shift in the organizational culture. After completing the Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI), it...
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