...Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 Literature Homework- Write 5 examples of literary concepts/devices used in Miguel Street and 3 pieces of supporting evidence for each. Simile Bogart’s fame spread like fire through Port of Spain and hundreds of young men began adoptiong the harboiled Bogartian attitude. –This sentence refers to how quickly Bogart’s fame spread, similar to that of a wild fire which can spread very quickly. “He Smart like hell”- Hat (Pg11) Chapter I- Hat is referring to Bogart intelligence being similar to the strong blazing fires of hell. In Elias’s mouth litritcher was the most beautiful word I heard. It sounded like something to eat, something rich like chocolate. (Ch.4 Pg 41)- The writer compared the sound of Elias’ words to that of chocolate. When people think of chocolate, they think its charming and pleasant to have. Imagery “George was short and fat. He had a grey moustache and a big belly. He looked harmless enough but he was always muttering to himself and cursing….”(Ch,3 page 26)-The narrator gives a vivid description of the appearance of George, for the readers to imagine exactly what he looked like. It also gives a short description of his character “He was like the donkey he had tied in front of his yard, grey and old and silent except when it brayed loudly” (Ch.3 Pg. 26)- The author is comparing the mysterious attributes of the donkey to the character, George. Geogre is like the donkey because he too displays characteristics of unexpected...
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...正菁 Date: 04-26-2010 Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul The History of Trinidad Trinidad was inhabited by Carib and Arawak people long before Christopher Columbus arrived, but the recorded history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Spanish. Both islands were encountered by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British, French, Dutch and Courlanders, but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists. In 1889 the two islands were incorporated into a single crown colony. Trinidad and Tobago obtained self-governance in 1958 and independence from the British Empire in 1962. It became a republic in 1976. The Author V. S. Naipaul (1932~, ) is a Trinidadian novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent. He is widely considered to be one of the masters of modern English prose. He has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the Booker Prize (1971) and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993). V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. In 2008, The Times ranked Naipaul seventh on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Book Miguel Street is usually treated as a “semi-autobiographical” novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC. Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset...
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...SYNOPSIS 4 SETTING 5 MAJOR CHARACTERS 7 Titus Hoyt 7 Laura (The Maternity Instinct) 9 Man-Man 10 MAJOR THEMES 13 Domestic Violence 13 Ambition 14 Gender Roles 17 Personal Views 19 Conclusion 23 INTRODUCTION The noble laureate V.S. Naipaul started his career as a freelance writer with his first written work of fiction; Miguel Street in the year 1959. Miguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel set in war-time Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote this novel while he was employed in the BBC. Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award. As Trinidad is V.S. Naipaul’s childhood home, he minutely observed its tradition and culture. The readers are introduced to a galaxy of characters with different professions and features. They love to live in illusions and meet failures at every stage of their life. The whole novel is narrated by an unnamed fatherless boy who himself is a part of a group of kids on Miguel Street. He uses a humorous and satirist tone to describe the people who make up Miguel Street. The whole novel is divided into seventeen episodes and each episode describes the life and its situations targeting one character at a time. This approach of picking up one character at a time made this work easy to understand. The novel contains a number of characters with great ambitions that never went anywhere and are only left to be recorded in books. The novel is written in the first...
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...Miguel Street V.S Naipual’s novel Miguel Street recounts the life of the narrator when he lived on Miguel Street. The narrator tells the tales of the people he came into contact. The caharacters mentioned have proven to have large personalities and this is seen in the 17 short stories written in the play. One of the short stories focuses on a man named Popo, his story tells of the development of a person when faced with the various ups and downs that life has to offer and touches on how the narrator now views him. This leads to the question can the hand you are dealt in life change you so drastically that you end up in a downward spiral and you can no longer be the person you once were. In the story, The thing without a name the character Popo was a carpenter in which the narrator came in contact with, however Popo never finished a task in which he began. This can be seen in the very beginning: “The only thing that Popo, who called himself a carpenter, ever built was a little galvanized-iron workshop under the mango tree at the back of his yard. And even that he didn’t quite finish.” (15) Popo was a man that struggled with the need to be accepted by his peers, those on Miguel street did not like Popo the considered “a man-woman. Not a proper man.” (17). He was also very insecure and didn’t have confidence in his profession even though he was so proud of his sign, “ Popo liked standing up in front of the sign. But he had a little panic...
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...Profile II- Industry Analysis A. External Factors B. Internal Factors III- Competitive Analysis : Porteu’s Five Model IV- Strategy Formulation A. Present B. Proposed C. Strategy Formulation Matrix V- Strategy Implementation A. Objectives B. Recommendation I- INTRODUCTION A. Company Profile HISTORY San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) is the largest producer of beer in the Philippines, with nine out of ten beer drinkers preferring its brands. San Miguel Beer was first produced by La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel, an upstart brewery in the heart of Manila that began its operations in 1890. It received the Royal Grant from the Spanish king to brew beer in the Philippines, then a colony of Spain. In 1963, the brewery was renamed San Miguel Corp. (SMC) to reflect its growing ventures into food and packaging. As the beer business grew at a steady pace, it provided the foundation from which SMC expanded its interests from food, beverage and packaging, to power, oil, airline and infrastructure. Today, SMC is the country's biggest diversified conglomerate. All SMB's beer operations were then under the San Miguel Beer Division, a business unit of SMC. SMB was incorporated on July 26, 2007, and the domestic beer business was spun off from SMC to SMB on October 1, 2007. The spin-off of SMC's domestic beer business into SMB was intended to...
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...n miguel INTRODUTION Eduardo Cojuanco, a CEO of San Miguel Corporation is having a hard time in making his decision about the risk he will take for his product know as the San Miguel Beer. He is currently re-assessing his marketing strategies to known if he can expand his plans and make it a success. His current flagship product is well known as the ‘San Miguel Beer’, is taking its slow growth rate because of its large market share. Because of this he then decided to engage in business not in line with his profession. These businesses are energy, mining and infrastructure. There’s more but these are what he chose to look real close. But we all known that San Miguel Beer is a long time-time product that was already familiar and be loved by the Filipinos. So, what would be the best decision for Mr. Conjuangco’s Company? History of the company La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel, the Philippines’ first brewery – establish in 1890 with 70 employees – produced and bottled what would eventually become the country’s best selling beer. Within a span of generation, San Miguel in its familiar amber Steinie bottle would become a Filipino icon and a quintessential part of Filipino life. By 1914 San Miguel Beer was being exported to shanghai, Hong Kong and Guam. Hong Kong would later become a site of san Miguel’s first offshore operation in 1948 While brewing beer is San Miguel’s heritage and the focus of much of its expertise, the company subsequently...
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...In the early 1980’s the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and A. Soriano corporation (ANSCOR) group of companies, under the leadership of Andres Soriano, Jr. Addressed a long felt need for an effective formal planning system for the two companies. According to Soriano, the companies had developed their budgeting and long-range planning systems several years earlier but, despite the many advantages these gave them, they still were not satisfied with their ability to respond to the rapid changes in the environment around them. They, therefore, searched for a process that would enable them to upgrade their planning ability. SMC and the ANSCOR group, thus, sought professional advice from a team of experts on strategic planning. The team was headed by Dr. Peter Lorange, then professor at the Wharton school and consultant on strategic planning to the two companies. Soriano expressed this great satisfaction with the approach to strategic planning developed by Dr. Lorange and his team. In November 1982, Dr. Lorange addressed a joint dinner – meeting of SMC and the ANSCOR group and shared his insights on the implementation of strategic planning of the two companies. Following are excerpts from an article prepared by Lorange based on his address during the meeting as well on as the major issues raised during the lively open - forum discussion. TO QUOTE SORIANO: He endeavor has been quite formidable in terms of time and energy invested by our people during the critical first year of implementation...
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...I. Introduction San Miguel Corporation is one of the largest companies in the whole word. One of the country’s premier conglomerates, San Miguel’s extensive products portfolio includes over 400 products ranging from beer, hard liquor, juices basic and process meats, poultry, dairy products, condiments, coffee, flour, animal feeds and various packaging products. The San Miguel Corporation makes a greats difference to their competitors. Making everyday life a celebration they will carry a new markets our over a century-old tradition of quality and integrity. Consumer will take pleasure in reaching for the product and service because they are the best value for money. The food and beverage brands will be in every household and every retail outlet, they will meet their consumer’s everyday need, delighting their taste. Through the products and services, every occasion to drink and eat will bring enjoyment celebration. II. Objectives Goals are specific accomplishments or action plans targeted usually for the particular time or period. Another term for goal is objectives. For San Miguel Corporation, to expand the market share to multiply their current scope, to grow their products-services portfolio, and to increase sales , to assess whether the business strategy are approximate given by the current situation of the business and to determine the right strategy; to achieve the business growth...
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...I ． Industry-Describe the industry or industries where the company operates. 1. Industry definition-define the need of the industrySan Miguel Corporation is the largest publicly listed food, beverage andpackaging company in the Philippines.It has been in the industry since 1890being founded by Don Enrique Maria Baretto.Since then,the SMC ensure that itsstrategy, organizational structure and processes, and external relationships wereadequate to confront the expected threats and to capitalize on the opportunitiesfacing it domestically and internationally.2.Overview of the industry2.1.market size and growthSan Miguel Corporation has a sizable international presence. The company hasover 100 facilities in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, China, and Australia. Itsmajor operating facilities include five breweries, four glass plants, two metalclosure and lithography plants, two plastic case plants, and a coconut oil mill.San Miguel is one of the Philippines' biggest private employers, with over 25,900employees.The company reported a net income of $171 million in 2005. As of the first half of 2006, the company's net income had grown 15 percent from a year earlier toP4.36 billion2.2.industry profitabilityThe company reported a net income of $171 million in 2005. As of the first half of 2006, the company's net income had grown 15 percent from a year earlier toP4.36 billion2.3.major players The major players are Asia Brewery Inc.; Asahi Breweries, Ltd.; TsingtaoBrewery Company Limited;...
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...Simile Bogart’s fame spread like fire through Port of Spain and hundreds of young men began adoptiong the harboiled Bogartian attitude. –This sentence refers to how quickly Bogart’s fame spread, similar to that of a wild fire which can spread very quickly. “He Smart like hell”- Hat (Pg11) Chapter I- Hat is referring to Bogart intelligence being similar to the strong blazing fires of hell. In Elias’s mouth litritcher was the most beautiful word I heard. It sounded like something to eat, something rich likechocolate. (Ch.4 Pg 41)- The writer compared the sound of Elias’ words to that of chocolate. When people think of chocolate, they think its charming and pleasant to have. Imagery “George was short and fat. He had a grey moustache and a big belly. He looked harmless enough but he was always muttering to himself and cursing….”(Ch,3 page 26)-The narrator gives a vivid description of the appearance of George, for the readers to imagine exactly what he looked like. It also gives a short description of his character “He was like the donkey he had tied in front of his yard, grey and old and silent except when it brayed loudly” (Ch.3 Pg. 26)- The author is comparing the mysterious attributes of the donkey to the character, George. Geogre is like the donkey because he too displays characteristics of unexpected bursts of chaos. “If you want to get a proper picture of Mrs. Bhakcu you must consider a pear as a scale-model. Mrs. Bhaku had so much flesh, in fact, when she held her...
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...San Miguel Corporation and A. Soriano Corporation Background of the Study: In the early 1980’s the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and A. Soriano Corporation (ANSCOR) Group of Companies, under the leadership of Andres Soriano, Jr. addressed a long felt need for and effective formal planning system for the two companies. Summary / Abstract: More than a decade ago, the ANSCOR Group and SMC spent several years developing and strengthening their budgeting system in order to have a better internal focus on where they going over the short-term. Their next evolutionary step was the development and implementation of a long-range planning process. This helped them to better understand the resource requirements and constraint of the future. While these systems definite assisted them in planning for the future, the rapidly changing environment and the increase competition led them to search for still other ways of further improving their management approach. This article will discuss various aspect of the strategic planning approach adopted by the ANSCOR Group and SMC help them cope with the future. First, I shall discuss briefly the basic aspect of the approach which can be described in terms of four important dimensions. One dimension pertains to the determination of the companies’ future direction through hierarchy strategies under this it is composed of three levels namely, corporate level, Business Family level and Business Element level. A second dimension is the delineation...
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...I. INTRODUCTION: A. SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION ➢ Was founded on September 29, 1890. ➢ By DON ENRIQUE MARIA BARRETTON dE Y Caza. owner of the brewey La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel. ➢ Was authorize to brew beer in the Philippines under a royal grant establishment located at No.6 Calzada de Malacanang Manila`s San Miguel District. ➢ Inaugurate on October 4, 1890. OUTSTANDING QUALITIES AND SUCCESSES ➢ SMG stand as one of the richest and most profitable companies in the Philippines ➢ Country's most recognized corporate brand. ➢ Having 30000 employees in 90 major facilities in the Philippines and overseas. CHINA, Southeast Asia, Australia. ➢ SMC is the countries largest food,beverages, and packaging company. ➢ Affiliates Brands Includes: Magnolia, Anchor, Coca-cola, Ginebra San Miguel, Purefoods and Monterey. COMPANY FAILURE: ➢ The company was tottering under a P47.1 billion on debt, high fixed cost and weighted down by large-scale expansion projects in China. Its three breweries in the said country were operating way below capacity. To get much needed cash infusion, Cojuangco sold off SMC's 45 percent stake to Nestle Philippines. PRODUCTS: ➢ Produces close to 300 products includes: • B-meg • Wilkins • Viva • Coca-cola • Eight O'clock ➢ SMC 3 CORE OF BUSINESS • Beverages- "beer, hard liquor, soft drinks, bottled water and fruit juices. • Food &Agri business-"chicken, feeds, pork and beef" ...
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...SAN MIGUEL OWNERSHIP The company is majority-owned by San Miguel Corporation. Kirin Brewery Company, through its investment arm Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd, holds the most significant minority stake. Philippine mall magnate Henry Sy also has a stake in the company. Other top shareholders as of December 2009 are as follows:[5] Top 10 Shareholders of San Miguel Brewery, Inc. | Name | Shares | Percent | San Miguel Corporation | 7,859,324,270 | 51.000 | Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd. | 7,458,864,880 | 48.388 | PCD Nominee Corporation (Filipino) | 62,538,710 | 0.406 | Henry Sy | 12,500,000 | 0.081 | Syntrix Holdings Inc. | 12,500,000 | 0.081 | PCD Nominee Corporation (Non-Filipino) | 1,209,600 | 0.008 | Isias and/or Melinda Lumanta | 132,000 | 0.001 | Marilyn Maranon | 124,000 | 0.001 | Virgilio Salonoy | 82,000 | 0.001 | Fadil III | 63,000 | 0.001 | John Devela & Jay P Noy CO | 3,000 | 0.00001 | San Miguel Brewery, Inc. (PSE: SMB), a subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation, is the largest beer producer in the Philippines, with a market share of over 95% as of 2008.It has five breweries spread across the country producing eight beer brands, led by its flagship brand San Miguel. Locations/Subsidiaries No. 40 San Miguel Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Manila, Philippines Fax: 63 632 6323099 Distileria Bago Inc. 6/F San Miguel Properties Ctr., St. Francis St., St. Francis St, Mandaluyong City, Philippines Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. 3rd & 6th Floors...
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...Introduction Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer, playwright, and poet. He is currently the most known figure of Spanish literature. He is the writer of the famous Don Quixote de la Mancha which is considered as the first modern European novel. The language of Cervantes is an important term linked to Cervantes. He helped contribute to the development of Spanish language on a major level. Because of that, it was called la lengua de Cervantes (the language of Cervantes). People also referred to him as El Principe de los Ingenios (The Prince of Wits) because of his sense of humor. Cervantes earned success from the publishing of the first part of Don Quixote de la Mancha. It was published in Madrid. The publishing marked Cervantes's comeback...
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...Alberto Puppo/Luis Raigosa Comentario de texto sobre el Proceso militar de Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla “El indulto es para los criminales, no para los defensores de la Patria”. Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla es, para la mayoría del pueblo mexicano, el “héroe” más significativo durante el proceso de independencia. Ya sea por lo aprendido en la escuela o por lo enseñado por nuestros padres, este individuo pasó a la historia de México como una persona de rectitud envidiable y valor intachable. Pero, ¿fue realmente la persona que idolatramos como pueblo? Comúnmente pensamos que murió a sangre fría y sin consideración a manos del ejército realista. Lo que la mayoría de la gente no conoce es sobre el proceso militar y eclesiástico al que fue sujeto. Mismo proceso que nos disponemos a comentar. Antes que nada, es necesario aclarar que este no es un estudio sobre la independencia de México o sobre el movimiento insurgente durante el mando del Cura de Dolores. Tampoco es una explicación sobre la lucha armada entre el ejército insurgente y el realista. Y menos es un artículo sobre las causas de la independencia de México. Simple y sencillamente, es un comentario sobre el proceso militar contra el Miguel Hidalgo. No más, no menos. A pesar de lo antes mencionado, es necesario poner en contexto el perfil de Miguel Hidalgo, su proceso militar, la independencia y los demás movimientos emergentes...
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