...This story of star-crossed lovers is one of William Shakespeare’s tenderest dramas. Shakespeare is sympathetic toward Romeo and Juliet, and in attributing their tragedy to fate, rather than to a flaw in their characters, he raises them to heights near perfection, as well as running the risk of creating pathos, not tragedy. They are both sincere, kind, brave, loyal, virtuous, and desperately in love, and their tragedy is greater because of their innocence. The feud between the lovers’ families represents the fate that Romeo and Juliet are powerless to overcome. The lines capture in poetry the youthful and simple passion that characterizes the play. One of the most popular plays of all time, Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s second tragedy (after Titus Andronicus of 1594, a failure). Consequently, the play shows the sometimes artificial lyricism of early comedies such as Love’s Labour’s Lost 1594-1595, . 1598) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (. 1595-1596, . 1600), while its character development predicts the direction of the playwright’s artistic maturity. In Shakespeare’s usual fashion, he based his story on sources that were well known in his day: Masuccio Salernitano’s Novellino (1475), William Painter’s The Palace of Pleasure (1566-1567), and, especially, Arthur Brooke’s poetic The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562). Shakespeare reduces the time of the action from the months it takes in Brooke’s work to a few compact days. In addition to following the conventional...
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...Introducing Alfa Romeo into Canada Introducing Alfa Romeo into Canada P720 – Strategic Management Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Company Background/History 3 Statement of Problems 3 Analysis 5 Brief History Overview 5 Industry Overview 5 SWOT 6 Porters 5 Forces 7 PEEST 8 VRIO 10 Competitor Overview 12 Alternatives 12 Decision Criteria 14 Implementation 16 Contingency 19 References 21 Exhibits 22 Executive Summary Alfa Romeo, a company steeped in automotive performance history is being evaluated for re-entry into the North American and specifically Canadian consumer market. The company was founded in 1910, and has been producing high performance vehicles to present day. To-date its sales focus has been focused on the European market, with over 90% of units sold in Europe. It was acquired by, then Fiat Group, in 1986 from this acquisition a partnership was brokered between Fiat and Chrysler Motor Company in 1988 for exclusive rights to sell Alfa Romeos through Chrysler dealerships from 1988 to 1995, at which time Alfa Romeo pulled out of the North American market. In 2015, due to the recent partnership between Fiat and Chrysler and the creation of Fiat Chrysler Automotive Group, Alfa Romeo is returning to North America. Three key problems have been identified that must be overcome for Alfa Romeo to be successful in the Canadian market place and North American market overall. The first is to develop strong brand recognition...
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...CASE: ROMEO ENGINE PLANT (ABRIDGED) 1. What were the main objectives of the Romeo Engine Plant’s manufacturing strategy? According to the Mission and Operating Philosophy of the Romeo Engine Plant (REP) Manufacturing Handbook of August 1989, “The Purpose of the Romeo Engine Plant is to produce the highest quality production engines in the world that meet all of our customers' requirements at a cost lower than the competition, and to develop teams of employees who are the best engine builders in the world.” Ford seemed to continue to use REP with the same objectives; only to market their brand instead of REP’s. During 1992, REP produced 400,000 engines in two engine models: a 4.6 liter, 2 valve engine used in the Lincoln Town Car, Ford Crown Victoria, and Mercury Grand Marquis, and a 4.6 liter, 4 valve engine used in Ford Motor Company's Lincoln Mark VIII luxury car. Sales of these automobiles for Ford were strong and Ford Motor Company would continually introduce new car models that would use the Romeo engines; so REP was to be Ford’s captive supplier. By 1996 REP expected to produce more than 800,000 engines per year. 2. What specific initiatives did the management of Romeo implement to achieve these objectives? REP was continuously striving towards better efficiency and high productivity. In this regard they were set target of increasing production from 400,000 engines per year in 1992 to reach at least 800,000 engines by 1996. This goal of increasing production output...
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...What is Love? A Conceptual Analysis of "Love", focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud Nico Nuyens GRIPh Working Papers No. 0901 This paper can be downloaded without charge from the GRIPh Working Paper Series website: http//www.rug.nl/filosofie/GRIPh/workingpapers What is love? A Conceptual Analysis of “Love”, focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 1 1. FORMAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE............................................................................... 3 2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LOVE........................................................................... 6 3. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE....................................................................... 9 3.1 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO ..................................................................... 11 3.2 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY: SAINT AUGUSTINE............................................................ 18 3.3 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FREUD ................................................................................. 27 4. COMPARATIVE EVALUATION............................................................................ 37 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................. 40 REFERENCES....................................................................
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...A Fundamental Valuation of the BMW Group Authors: Jalpesh Madlani – MSc Applied Economics and Finance Jens Chr. Ulvestad – MSc Applied Economics and Finance Supervisor: Jeppe Schoenfeld, Deloitte Number of Pages and Total Characters: 120 pages, 254.877 characters Submission Date: October 22nd 2012 Master Thesis – Copenhagen Business School 2012 Resumé This thesis conducts an in-depth analysis of the BMW Group in order to determine the fair value of the Group’s share price and to conclude whether it is over- or undervalued. The BMW Group is one of the largest automotive manufacturers that focus on the premium segment, producing both automobiles and motorcycles. The Group is headquartered in Munich, Germany and its business operations are divided into three segments: Automotive, Motorcycle and Financial Services, where the Automotive segment provide by far the largest source of revenue. The BMW Group is analyzed by conducting a strategic and financial analysis, where several models are applied and financial drivers thoroughly analyzed from a historical perspective. The findings from these analyses act as a foundation for forecasting the future performance of the Group. The share value is estimated by utilizing the discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation model on the forecasted figures. A multiple valuation model (EV/EBITDA) is also conducted in order to triangulate the value derived from the DCF valuation with a relative valuation based on market multiples...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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...Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin Dedication To the two special women in my life—my mother and my wife Mao’s Last Dancer A Wedding Qingdao, 1946 On the day of her marriage, a young girl sits alone in her village home. It is autumn, a beautiful October morning. The country air is cool but fresh. The young girl hears happy music approaching her house. She is only eighteen, and she is nervous, frightened. She knows that many marriage introducers simply take money and tell lies. Some women from her village marry men who don't have all their functional body parts. Those women have to spend the rest of their lives looking after their husbands. Wife beating is common. Divorce is out of the question. Divorced women are humiliated, despised, suffering worse than an animals fate. She knows some women hang themselves instead and she prays this is not going to be her fate. She prays to a kind and merciful god that her future husband will have two legs, two arms, two eyes and two ears. She prays that his body parts are normal and functional. She worries that he will not be kind-hearted and will not like her. But most of all she &+x worries about her unbound feet. Bound feet are still in fashion. Little girls as young as five or six have to tuck four toes under the big toe and squeeze them hard to stop the growth. It is extremely painful, and the girls have to change the cloth bandages and wash their feet daily to avoid infection. The tighter the feet are bound the smaller the feet will...
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