...All the Kings Men All the Kings Men follows the final years of the life of a man named Willie Stark through the eyes of Jack, a friend. The story of Willie is based upon true events of Huey P. Long’s rising and abrupt end as governor of Louisiana in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The main concept behind All the Kings Men is to show how even good-hearted men like Willie Stark can be corrupted when granted power. The concept was successfully passed to the audience through the use of stage and sound. The three-sided thrust stage setup helped the audience become a part of the play and feel Willie’s power as he ascended and descended from the throne of governor of Louisiana. Being a part of the play is important in the sense that the audience no longer feels like they are watching a play, but instead they are seeing events unfold in front of them as if in real life. This allows the audience to form their own opinions and judgments of the characters without any outside bias. The feeling of Willie’s increasing power is prevalent through the use of the stage. In the beginning, he is standing on the floor tier with Jack having a light-hearted discussion as a common citizen. The floor stage is commonly used throughout the play to relay a sense of powerlessness and vulnerability. Willie starts moving up the tiers of the stage only after he starts to drink for the first time of his life. After Willie becomes governor, he is most commonly seen on the highest tier giving speeches...
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...Imagine taking 4 billion of Bill Gate’s 6 billion dollars and distributing it out to give every single American a free college tuition. Huey Long held similar views to spread the wealth, which he gave in his speech “Every Man a KIng”. Huey Long’s speech, “Every Man a King”, was monumental because it gave hope to millions of depressed common citizens, and was highly supported throughout the country. The background of the time period, the popularity of Huey Long, and the influence of his speech help account for its significant impact. The historical background and time period of Long’s speech help account for his exigence. Huey Long gave this historic speech February 23, 1934. During this period of time the United States was experiencing an...
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...Long is the New Deal Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana, U.S. Senator, and a champion of the common man. Long believed that government’s place was to protect and support all citizens—specifically the most prominently vulnerable ones—regardless of social hierarchies due to race or class. Long’s most celebrated policy, which had established him as a viable presidential candidate before his assassination, was famously known as his “Share Our Wealth” platform. Perhaps the most famous opponent to the New Deal, which was a series of domestic programs in response to the Great Depression, Long viewed the movement as an unconstitutional failure that did not do enough for those in poverty. In Long’s address to the nation in his speech “Every Man...
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...The Black Panthers vs. The Black Panthers The sixties was a time in American society where the youth from the post-war baby boom era became teenagers and the young adults. The movement from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in the revolutionary ways of thinking and change in the cultural of the American way of life. With an extreme admiration of no longer being an image of their predeceasing generation, young Americans wanted and demanded change. These changes affected education, values, laws, entertainment, and the way of life for several citizens around the country. As society, it is extremely important to understand that although the valiant efforts and impact that African American’s had, particularly in the 1950’s and 1960’s, in helping restructure American culture, many of the racist views of the past still play apart in American society. The 1950’s is often described as the calm before the storm of the 1960’s. During this time period, society was very much conformed to the views of conservative living. The desire for security during this era, reinforced by McCarthyism at home and the Korean War, created was known as the cold war culture. During the post WWII period in America, the face of the nation changed greatly under President Truman and Eisenhower. Because of extreme paranoia caused by Communism following WWII, conformity in the United States became an ideal way to distinguish American culture from the rest of the world. Conformity...
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...To what extent is CSR beneficial to a company’s performance? The area of corporate social responsibility has been laid great emphasis recent year. Corporate social responsibility means a company concerns its business operations in an environmental-friendly way and interacts with its shareholders and customers voluntarily (Commission of the European Communities, 2001, as cited in Dahlsrud, 2008). Nowadays a large quantity of international companies have issued their CSR report and designed separate websites about their CSR performance in order to run a better business. However, opponents believe the relationship between CSR and company’s performance is neutral (Aupperle, Carroll, & Hatfield, 1985) and CSR’s benefit to a company’s performance is not obvious. As a matter of fact, even CSR performance can’t be measured easily and numerically in most cases, its benefit to a company’s performance is significant. In this paper, the elaboration will cover three most important dimensions: brand value enhancement, employee attraction and consumer relationship nurturance. To begin with, brand value will be enhanced by CSR performance. The study result of Melo and Galan (2011) shows that CSR has a positive impact on brand value. They chose a group of American corporates as target. Meanwhile, they set CSR and brand value as control variables and build a model to set up a connection between them. The numerical result shows the positive correlation of CSR performance...
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...high-end women’s apparel, had posted lackluster sales for the past three years and margins were now at an all time low. Sara Huey, Vice President of Strategic Planning, gathered her strategy team and key operating managers to review the disappointing 2007 results and brainstorm ideas to reverse the negative trends. During the meeting, Blake Myers, the general manager for the Vigor division, proposed his idea to expand into a new product line. Myers stated, “The word I hear from some of our retailers is that stylish, sporty, casual attire is flying off the shelves. There has been tremendous growth in the activewear segment. Harrington is missing a huge opportunity by not offering this kind of line.” Karen Allen, a director in Strategic Planning, responded, “Expanding our lines downstream is not a sound long-term strategy. And a new product launch would probably put a significant drain on our resources. I doubt we could capture enough sales in the first year to break even.” Huey thought for a moment. Expanding into a product line with more casual, lower-priced fashions was not a novel idea, but it had always been dismissed as too big a departure from Harrington’s sophisticated, high-class roots. However, with continued pressure on profits, it was clear Harrington needed some fresh ideas if it was going to continue to remain an industry leader. Huey thought that there might be something to Myers’s idea. She told the group, “Interesting suggestion, Blake. Perhaps the time...
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...Fall Prevention Falls are the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries for persons over 65 years old. Falls can be linked to several factors such as several medical, cognitive and functional factors. There are several factors as well as situations that can increase fall risk such as unsteady gait, vision and cognitive impairment, incontinence and environment (Huey-Ming, 2011). In 2005, a sum of 15,802 individual over 65 years of age reportedly were injured from falling and died. In 2006, 1.8 million estimated individuals over 65 years old incurred some kind recent injury related to falls (CDC, 2006). However, the number of uninjured older adults that fell or had minor to moderate injury is unknown. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issues of falls on the geriatric unit that I am employed and the changes necessary to decrease the numbers of falls on this unit. Problem Identification The geriatric unit in the hospital where I work has an average census of 36. On this unit patient falls are the most prominent problem. According to the hospital data in the past six months, there has been an average of two falls a day and twenty injuries related to falls. The number of patient falls has increased by 35 percent in the past six months. The goal of the fall prevention program is to reduce falls percentage by 30 percent (three falls a week) for the next three months and maintain it at a maximum of one fall a month thereafter. Falls affects the safety of the patients...
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...City University of Hong Kong Master of Business Administration FB6706 Executive Discovery and Network Group report: Energy resources – Strategies and National Safety (能源战略与国家安全) Presented by Prof. Way Kuo on 18th September 2014 Prepared by Group 14: LEUNG Wai Hung, Calvin (53924394) LU, Yan Hui (53833750) QIU, Tao (53997233) SU, Jiahui (53739822) YANG, Xi (53863790) It was our honor to attend the presentation on “Energy Resources – Strategies and National Safety” given by Professor Way Kuo, the President of City University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor. As an expert in the area of safety reliability, Professor Kuo wrote one of his popular science books named “Key Report of Nuclear Power” (2013), which aroused great impacts. The presentation was based on this book, which we could divide into three areas: Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues, People’s Acceptance and Public Media Impacts. Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues In the presentation, Professor Kuo said, currently the main resource to generate electricity was fire, such as coal and gas etc. The next would be water resource, nuclear resource and other new energy resources. In China, the most frequently used was fire to generate electricity. However, this created a lot of environment pollutions such as haze in Beijing. Moreover, in spite of the large amounts of rivers in China, waterpower was still lacking. It could not 1 become an alternative generation to support...
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...Wal-Mart Principles of Management Introduction Wal-Mart (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is currently ranked not only as America’s largest, but also as the world’s largest company (Soderquist, 2005). The store’s three business segments, Wal-Mart International, Wal-Mart Stores and Sam’s Club all operate in discount retail industry. Currently Wal-Mart’s leadership is facing challenging issues including an invariable customer base, a declining same store base and a crumbling reputation. However, Wal-Mart’s history is a living example of innovative and successful leadership. The company started with a single store in 1962, in Rogers, Arkansas and it has grown into what is now regarded as the world’s largest retailer. Wal-Mart runs each store with the products stocked in the store, to the front-end equipments, helping to speed up checkouts. Using the same philosophy in all its stores to provide low prices and superior customer service, Wal-Mart can sell at low prices and thus eliminate expenses associated with frequent sales promotions as well as have predictable sales. Wal-Mart has invented its own unique inventory system, the cross-docking system that has enabled the company to achieve economies of scale, thus reducing the cost of sales. In this system, goods are continually delivered to Wal-Mart’s stores within 48 hours and without the store having to inventory them. This allows the stores to replenish their shelves four times faster than...
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...Chapter 1 ------------------------------------------------- The Constitutional Foundations ------------------------------------------------- N.B.: TYPE indicates that a question is new, modified, or unchanged, as follows. N A question new to this edition of the Test Bank. + A question modified from the previous edition of the Test Bank, = A question included in the previous edition of the Test Bank. | TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1. State laws are the supreme law of the United States. ANSWER: F PAGE: 2 type: N BUSPROG: Analytic LO: 1-1 Bloom’s: Knowledge DIF: Easy AICPA: BB-Legal 2. The federal government and the states have the same constitution. ANSWER: F PAGE: 2 type: N BUSPROG: Analytic LO: 1-1 Bloom’s: Knowledge DIF: Easy AICPA: BB-Legal 3. State constitutions are supreme within their respective borders. ANSWER: T PAGE: 2 type: N BUSPROG: Analytic LO: 1-1 Bloom’s: Comprehension DIF: Moderate AICPA: BB-Legal 4. Statutory law includes state statutes and ordinances passed by cities and counties. ANSWER: T PAGE: 2 TYPE: N BUSPROG: Analytic LO: 1-1 Bloom’s: Knowledge DIF: Easy AICPA: BB-Critical Thinking 5. Statutes are laws enacted by Congress and the state legislatures...
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...Layout Page 9-11 Conclusion Page-11 Appendix Page 12 References and Bibliography Page 13-14 Wal-Mart- Origin Wal-Mart was the product of Sam Walton, a businessman from Arkansas. In the late 1940s, in USA, a retailer who was successful in obtaining a sufficient discount for his products from the whole-seller, used to sell the products at full price to the customers and thus enjoyed a substantial amount of profit. Sam Walton during that time was working as a retailer at a J.C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa.(Walton & Huey, 1993) Incidentally while working there, he was introduced to Butler Brothers, a big retailer who had chains of variety stores known as Ben Franklin and Sam was offered a store in Arkansas. There Sam excelled in operating the stores and soon huge amount of sales were generated which far exceeded the expectations. But during the lease renewal of the store, there were some problems and as a result an agreement could not be reached. This drove Sam in opening a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville, Arkansas and called it “Walton’s Five and Dime”. The prices...
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...Layout Page 9-11 Conclusion Page-11 Appendix Page 12 References and Bibliography Page 13-14 Wal-Mart- Origin Wal-Mart was the product of Sam Walton, a businessman from Arkansas. In the late 1940s, in USA, a retailer who was successful in obtaining a sufficient discount for his products from the whole-seller, used to sell the products at full price to the customers and thus enjoyed a substantial amount of profit. Sam Walton during that time was working as a retailer at a J.C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa.(Walton & Huey, 1993) Incidentally while working there, he was introduced to Butler Brothers, a big retailer who had chains of variety stores known as Ben Franklin and Sam was offered a store in Arkansas. There Sam excelled in operating the stores and soon huge amount of sales were generated which far exceeded the expectations. But during the lease renewal of the store, there were some problems and as a result an agreement could not be reached. This drove Sam in opening a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville, Arkansas and called it “Walton’s Five and Dime”. The prices...
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...model. Through maximizing these models, Wal-Mart has grown into the super giant they are today. This has created a reputation for them as the corporate bully or the wimpy rich kid who owns the bat and ball. Either way they control the game and the output. Which leads to our discussion today, where we will take a look at the company from a variety of angles and viewpoints, some of their key issues, review a SWOT analysis that will guide us to our decision and why we believe this is the best path forward for Wal-Mart. Questions to keep in mind as we go along are: “Does Wal-Mart know what’s best?” and “Do consumers even care?” Whether one is a fanatic of Wal-Mart, or resents the image that they portray, this company and what they are doing can’t be ignored. The Company A few short decades ago, in the early 1960’s a small company was founded in the rural Arkansas that would blossom into one of the most powerful global corporations, Wal-Mart. On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton opened the first of now over 4,900 worldwide stores in Rogers, Arkansas. (Walton and Huey)...
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...Building a Visionary Company James C. Collins Jerry I. Porras Above all, there was the ability to build and build and build—never stopping, never looking back, never finishing—the institution.... In the last analysis, Walt Disney's greatest aeation was Walt Disney [the company]. —Richard Schickel, The Disney Version' I have concentrated all along on building the finest retailing company that we possibly could. Period. Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine. —Sam Walton, Founder, Wal-Mart^ magine you met a remarkable person who could look at the sun or stars at any time of day or night and state the exact time and date: "It's April 23, 1401, 2:36 A.M., and 12 seconds." This person would be an amazing time teller, and we'd probably revere that person for the ability to tell time. But wouldn't that person be even more amazing if, instead of telling the time, he or she built a clock that could tell the time forever, even after he or she was dead and gone?' Having a great idea or being a charismatic visionary leader is "time telling"; building a company that can prosper far beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles is "clock building." The builders of visionary companies tend to be clock builders, not time tellers. They concentrate primarily on building an organization—building a ticking clock— From 6u/;t to Last by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. Copyright © 1994 by James C. Collins and Jerry...
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...QUT | Case Study 4: Market Efficiency | Bill Miller and Value Trust | | Name: Huey Ngu Student ID: 08324093Tutor Name: David FairDate: 1 November 2013 | Words: 1097 | Contents Introduction 2 Past and current performance of Value Trust 2 Investment strategy of Bill Miller 3 Efficient Market Hypothesis 3 Bill Miller’s letter to shareholders 4 Changes in Chief Investment Officer (CIO) 4 Recommendation and Conclusion 4 Reference 6 Appendices 8 Appendix A: Data of LMVTX, S&P 500, and 30 years bond 8 Appendix B: Alpha and Beta between 1991 and 2013 9 Appendix C: Alpha and Beta between 1991 and 2005 9 Appendix D: Alpha and Beta between 2006 and 2013 9 Introduction Bill Miller is known as famous fund manager that hold the record of beating benchmark index for 15 years in a row. However, his poor performance after 2005 was the reason that the investors run away from his fund. Hence, arguments of whether Bill Miller’s previous performances involve luck or skills appear. Furthermore, this report will also discuss whether investors should invest in Bill Miller’s Value Trust. Past and current performance of Value Trust Figure [ 1 ]: LMVTX VS S&P500 (Morningstar Principia , 2013) Bill Miller had made an achievement of longest streak performance of beating the market. Refer to figure 1, it had showed that Bill Miller’s Value Trust had consistently beat the benchmark index of Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) between 1991 and...
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