...The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a touching play about the lost dreams of a southern family and their struggle to escape reality. The play is a memory play and therefore very poetic in mood, setting, and dialogue. Tom Wingfield serves as the narrator as well as a character in the play. Tom lives with his Southern belle mother, Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura. According to Margaret Thornton: “William wrote to himself about himself” (1). Thus, Glass Menagerie’s plot closely mirrors actual events in the author's life. Because Williams related so well to the characters and situations, he was able to portray the play's theme through his creative use of symbolism. The Glass Menagerie reflects Williams's own life so much that it could be mistaken from his autobiography. The characters and situations of the play are much like those found in the small St. Louis apartment where Williams spent part of his life. Williams himself can be seen in the character Tom. Critic writer Andrea Peterson states: “The third Williams child, a boy named Dakin was born after the family moved from Columbus to St. Louis, Missouri, when Thomas was eight. It wasn’t long before the general malaise and unhappiness in young Thomas Lanier’s life would lead him to writing as an escape” (1). One not so obvious character is Mr. Wingfield, who is the absent father seen only by the looming picture hanging in the Wingfield's apartment...
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...the financial success of the company. Profitability ratios would be beneficial to individuals outside of the company such as investors and creditors. Solvency ratios are the ability of the company to pay off the long-term debt. The company’s solvency ratios are of interest to long-term creditors and the company’s’ shareholders. Shareholders and long-term creditors would be most interested in solvency ratios of the company. * Which users may be interested in each type of ratio? Huffman Trucking are mainly suppliers, other trader creditors and staff such as: Government – profitability ratio. Suppliers - they are interested in liuidity. Electronics cunsumers – expendigture on anti-pollution measures. Lenders – grearing ratios. Manageres and Cutomers- Profitabilty. Employees – Mainly in return on Capital Employed ratio. * * What does the collected data reveal about the company’s performance and position? The collected data reveals that Huffman Trucking has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. The growth is in result of...
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...start with great aspirations.”-Moon shots for management). In order to become a successful manager one needs to ask himself: „Isn’t this worth trying?” rather than „Has anybody done this?” Drive and determination along with a drop of courage are required in the managerial role. Not since long ago, a question of „management’s age” put some problems among scholars and CEOs. They felt that the main issue concerning management, was that its fundaments were created decades ago, and because of the many improvements and innovations that occured, the principles needed some changes. The group tried to understand what needed to be done so as to create organizations for the future and also what should the critical priorities be, for the future manageres. They came up with 25 moon shots that were desinged to perfectionate and boost the former management model. The first 10 were considered of critical importance and thus, they play a key role in the education of junior managers. The principles...
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...Finba1. i. Home Depot’s mission statement is as follows: “The Home Depot is in the home improvement business and our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products and the most competitive prices. We are a values-driven company and our eight core values include the following: Excellent customer service, Taking care of our people, Giving back, Doing the "right" thing, Creating shareholder value, Respect for all people, Entrepreneurial spirit, Building strong relationships.” (Home Depot, 2014). According to Exhibit 2.1 in chapter two, Top management of a company provide strategic direction after assessing the external and internal environments. Taking a look at the external environment, some of Opportunities available to Home Depot (Circa 2005) were Restructuring, to make operations more sound and profitable, provision of internet shopping facilities to customers, and expanding the market geographically and locally, as well as targeting new market segments. It should be quite important to note that during the Nardelli era, the slogan Home Depot used was “Improve everything we touch”. Threats included declining home sales and market share, a looming credit crunch, a dip in the level of customer service and product knowledge hitherto offered due to poorly trained staff, and a saturation of the markets in North America. Increasing levels of Environmental Uncertainty as more layers of management are added to achieve a more vertical structure...
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