...The movie Wall Street (1987), written and directed by Oliver Stone, is about a fledgling and ambitious stock broker, Bud Fox, trying to learn from and become like his idol, a greedy, immoral, and wildly successful corporate raider named Gordon Gekko. In the movie, Bud Fox makes his way into Gekko’s office initially through persistence but makes his mark by informing Gekko of inside information regarding a company, Blue Star Airlines. Gekko rewards Bud Fox by showing him the rich and fast life, and Bud Fox continues to help Gekko make money in an illegal fashion. Eventually, Bud Fox wants to be in on part of a deal that involves Blue Star Airlines, for which his father is a labor union head. The deal goes sour for Bud Fox when he finds out that Gekko plans to dismantle the company and sell its parts, destroying his father’s and father’s friends’ jobs, rather than the initial plan of changing how the company is run and helping it succeed. This causes Bud Fox to go to Gekko’s enemy, Sir Larry, for help in order to successfully save the airline. All in all, I believe that Gordon Gekko, though a greedy corporate raider, is a great strategist who brings value to the shareholder while having many skills as an effective administrator sans one in human skill that leads to his eventual downfall. The term ‘corporate raider’ or ‘takeover artist’ often has a negative connotation associated with it in the English language. I believe this is due to one of the ways that corporate raiders...
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...1. What is the business ethics issue that you can find in the movies? The movie Wall Street represent of bad morals and bad business ethics in the world of business.There are the main character that is Bud Fox by Charlie Sheen and Gordon Gekko by Michael Douglas.The business ethics issue that we find in this movie is, Gekko does not want just a few tips on the stock market, he wants information of the sort that should be confidential, obtained by any means necessary, even if it involves using unethical and illegal methods. Desperate to advance in life, Fox agrees. One of his first job is to spy on Sir Lawrence Wildman and follow his next move. By following Wildman through New York, Fox founds that he is out to take control of a major steel company in Pennsylvania and informs Gekko who breaks the news to the press and then and buys the shares. He continues to curious information, going as dressing up as a cleaner and breaking into the offices of lawyers and businesses after work in order to gain necessary data.Bud Fox believes that the Bluestar Airlines can be move on and will be success. 2. What is the business ethical dilemma for Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko’s are facing that depicted in the movies? Things seem to be going well, but then Fox learns at a shareholders meeting that Gekko has indeed double-crossed him and in fact intends to sell off all of Bluestar's assets leaving Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed once the stock peaks at it's price. Fox himself...
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...Jordan Belfort, More Noise From Victims After Movie Launch Audience and victims are becoming more curious and alert after the success of the movie “the wolf of wall street” by Leonardo Dicaprio , people all over the globe and myself are questioning , Belfort: Good or Bad ? Rich or Broke? hiding money or not and when will victims claim their money back. Some victims claimed that they have lost all their money savings, others said that the movie showed Belfort as a myth of which triggered them to ask for more actions to have their money and many claimed that these type of movies shouldn’t show these people as heroes instead they should have shown real victims and how they suffer rather than showing the partying, prostitution and drugs. The movie globally affected public opinion in terms of injustice towards such frauds. 1989, as a talented salesperson who graduated with a Biology degree decided to set up his own company Stratton Oakmont, building up on his learnings from working as a stock broker in LF Rothschild which was to be known prestigious at that time before falling in 1987. The ambitious Belfort taught his employees sales calls for penny stocks and lead this company to being a boiler room: a term used to describe high pressure sales environment. Employees followed him blindly and he gained their trust with his everyday speeches and high commissions. It was said that he had around 1,000 broker dealing with a $billion worth of trades. The pump and dump scheme he followed...
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...Ventker & Warman, PLLC 101 West Main Street Suite 810 Norfolk, VA 23510 ATTN: Daniel R. Warman WTC FINANCIALASSOCIATES, LLC 101 WEST MAIN ST., SUITE 180 NORFOLK VA 23510 Fernando Galindo, Clerk United States District Court For the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. Courthouse 600 Granby Street Norfolk, VA 23510 Document Technologies, Inc. 101 West Main Street Suite 3500 Norfolk, VA 23510 Document Technologies, Inc. P.O. Box 933440 Atlanta, GA 31193-3440 Zahn Court Reporting, Ltd. 208 East Plume Street Suite 306 Norfolk, VA 23510 Shelton Advertising 1060 Laskin Road Suite 21-B Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Hon. Tina E. Sinnen Clerk of Court Virginia Beach Circuit Court 2425 Nimmo Parkway Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Lawyer’s Staffing, Inc. P.O. Box 11194 Richmond, VA 23230 Mark Wilkinson, Accountant Malvin Riggins & Company, P.C 733 Thimble Shoals Blvd. Suite 170 Newport News, Virginia 23606 mwilkinson@malvinriggins.com McAllister Towing of New York LLC 17 Battery Place New York, NY 10004 ATTN: Laura Moore McAllister Towing of Virginia, Inc. 914A Pearl Street Norfolk, VA 23523 ATTN: Elliot Westall Treasurer, City of Norfolk Division of Parking Attn: Monthly Parking 222 East Main Street Norfolk, VA 23510 WTC Financial Associates, LLC P.O. Box 405538 Atlanta, GA 30384-5538 Deborah A. Ellington, Clerk Chesapeake General District Court 307 Albemarle Drive Civic Center Chesapeake, VA 23322 ...
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...been linked to his past work. What is the emotional impact of working with death on a person? 2.) The lawyer is the most impacted by Bartleby’s behavior. Not only does it fascinate him, but it leaves him questioning what he should do about the passive resistant man that refuses to do anything he asks. Throughout the story, the lawyer feels a variety of emotions towards Bartleby; including sympathy, pity, frustration, and resentment. He feels sympathy and pity towards the copyists when he realizes that he is living in the office, and only eating ginger nuts. But when the copyist refuses to accept help from the lawyer or continue to copy documents, the lawyer begins to feel a sense of frustration. He doesn’t want to put Bartleby out on the streets without a place to stay, but he also does not want to be made a fool of. 3.) The lawyer mentions a rumor he heard about Bartleby that said he worked in the Dead Letter Office in Washington before he came to work at his office. He hints that maybe this is the reason for Bartleby’s mental decline. In today’s society, it is known that death can be responsible for many emotional traumas. War veterans who have witnessed death often come back from overseas with mental scars that will never be fully healed. Although Bartleby was not working with corpses, or dying people, he was dealing with their last...
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...key to success is to continue to continue to conveniently provide customers a various sundry of items at a fair price to maintain our competitive advantage of convenience. Description of Business Like businesses that operate in fairs and airports, Busters fills the needs of convenience to corporate America. Many employees lack the time to make a separate stop will going into work or on their lunch break. Our competitive advantage is that we are located in the lobby, a central place that is convenient to the entire building. Company Ownership/Legal Entity The company is set up as a sole proprietorship owned and operated by JaJa Binks Location Our current location is on the bottom floor of 529 Wall St, New York City, NY. We are looking to expand to a second location at 800 Wall Street Interior We are a kiosk style business. Our kiosk has footprint of 20 square feet and we use another 25 square feet for tables and chairs Hours of Operation We are open Monday through Saturday 6 am to 6 pm Products and Services We Sell products and services that we think would be...
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...success is to continue to continue to conveniently provide customers a various sundry of items at a fair price to maintain our competitive advantage of convenience. Description of Business Like businesses that operate in fairs and airports, Busters fills the needs of convenience to corporate America. Many employees lack the time to make a separate stop will going into work or on their lunch break. Our competitive advantage is that we are located in the lobby, a central place that is convenient to the entire building. Company Ownership/Legal Entity The company is set up as a sole proprietorship owned and operated by JaJa Binks Location Our current location is on the bottom floor of 529 Wall St, New York City, NY. We are looking to expand to a second location at 800 Wall Street Interior We are a kiosk style business. Our kiosk has footprint of 20 square feet and we use another 25 square feet for tables and chairs Hours of Operation We are open Monday through Saturday 6 am to 6 pm Products and Services We Sell products and services that we...
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...Literature and Composition 1 Alice Cabille Thompson Rivers University ENGL1001 Literature and Composition 1 Assignment 3 Student #: T00552179 9 May 2016 Lois and Bartleby’s Isolation Isolation… having more than one hundred friends on Facebook and feeling lonely, is very common nowadays. With time, our life style has changed so much and even if there are more than seven billion people on Earth we still continue to feel more and more lonely and isolated. Isolation is a theme which inspires a lot of writers. Margaret Atwood in “Death by Landscape” and Herman Melville in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” illustrate the topic of isolation. Lois and Bartleby, who are the two main characters respectively, have created their own isolation, and are negatively affected by it. We will see how they are both physically and socially isolated, the reasons and the consequences of these isolation. First, from the beginning of “Death by Landscape” we can see that Lois is isolating herself physically and socially when the narrator says: “Now that the boys are grown up and Rob is dead, Lois has moved to a condominium apartment in one of the new waterfront developments” (Atwood 25). She is closed off from the outside world, in her “safe” condominium. She does not want to go up north again, even anywhere near. She just wants to stay safe and avoid her fears. Also, Lois “was living not one life but two: her own, and another, shadowy life that hovered around her and would not let itself be realized”...
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...appealing to the general population but holds merit today. He wrote “relatable” fiction, and people liked to read travel logs and exciting adventure stories (escapist literature). Moby Dick is not a relatable story due to the context of the scenarios, but it is considered an artistic novel because it is obscure and challenging. Melville wrote in two different modes; strange, difficult and unrealistic compared to relatable, realistic fiction. Bartleby the Scrivener contains elements of both; it is set in a New York office yet still continues weird elements. It was meant to be accessible and was considered “Great Literature” because it is symbolic, subtle and ironic. Bartleby the Scrivener * The boss is governed by the obligations of Wall Street, but also contains sympathetic traits towards Bartleby. Bartleby, who we do not know, is insane, stubborn, or stupid, and his behaviour is left up for interpretation. * Historical context: In the right hand corner of America, the Puritans went from England to settle in this area for religious reasons. New York was founded by the Dutch and they intended to set up a trading post. War was fought between these 2 groups, and the Puritans established New York. The Dutch were interested in money compared to the Puritans who were interested in religion. New York was essentially founded for money. * Industrialization, urbanization and unionization as well as labour concerns became problematic in New York, and essentially this story is about...
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...In ID’ing my fear, I imagined graduating in May with my Masters and entering the real world. I have many worries about this, but one of them has burdened me the last two years. While thinking about this specific fear, a short story came to mind from high school that may have placed the seed for this terror. Herman Melvin’s Bartleby the Scrivener tells the story of a new employee of a Law Firm on Wall Street. Everything in this story embodies my fear of my future profession. A scrivener is someone who serves as a scribe. Bartleby is a new scribe to this law firm and works day and night handwriting copies of legal documents. The lawyer describes Bartleby as an excellent worker whose work output is tremendous. Along with Bartleby are 3 other employees. Turkey is another scrivener who is described by the lawyer as being excellent in the morning; however, as the day goes on he becomes less efficient and more prone to making mistakes. Nipper is a second scrivener who is simply described as a young ambitious man and a steady worker. Ginger Nut is a young errand boy whose primary role is going to pick up ginger nut cakes. Bartleby continues to work day and night to producing perfect copies of legal documents pleasing the lawyer greatly. One day, the lawyer comes in asking Bartleby to examine a document and Bartleby responds to his plea with “I’d prefer not to.” The lawyer is baffled with this response and delegates the work to Nipper. Bartleby continues to repeat this phrase when delegated...
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...Wall Street It seems ironic that this film was set in the early 1980’s which was the same time that I was working for a privately owned Fortune 500 company. I gained a lot of experience with this company by learning how to handle different situations that would arise, but mostly how to work with a diversity of personalities. Both Fox and Gekko quoted “it’s another dog with fleas” and that reminded me of my feelings during this tenure of employment which was ‘it’s a dog eat dog world.” Our firm had a group of headhunters that would scour the colleges to bring new talent into the company. Every year we would receive a group of sales trainees and they would work in various departments learning the business from the bottom up. We were privileged to host these young men (there was never a female trainee at that time) for a period of six weeks. Many would start the program ready to tackle the world. They were aware of the fact that “if you do good, you get perks.” These perks could include that “corner office with a view” or a prime sales territory. Any advantage the trainees could achieve over one another worked to the benefit. It was apparent that there was indeed “trench warfare out there.” As I would work with these young men, who were often the same age as myself, I could sense an undertone of greed. Hey had but one goal, and that was to succeed in the company. There were two young men that really caught my attention and I feel helped to mold me into the manager...
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...Occupy Unmasked Occupy Unmasked was a very interesting film. It screams propaganda but there are multiple points that were put into perspective for me. In my last post I made an argument in support of the Wall Street Occupiers. After viewing this film it influenced my opinion in the opposite direction. Before viewing this film I was familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement, however I wasn’t too familiar with the Occupy movements across the country. After covering multiple riots/protests through the semester, I find the Occupy movement to be comical. However something I take away from it, is the true power we the people hold when in numbers. This movement had no organization and more then half the people involved were not even aware of what they were protesting for. Most protestors were just infatuated with being apart of a rebellion. How can you have a meaningful movement when the people taking part in the protest are uneducated in the goals of the protest? In the film, protestors are interviewed and can not answer simple questions as to what the sign they are holding even means. This was a perfect example of how clueless the people involved were. The protestors couldn’t even read the sign they were holding and elaborate vaguely on what the sign means or why they are protesting. What makes the Occupy movement even more comical is how a small group lured in a massive number of supporters by putting people under the false impression that their was going to be a live...
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...The standards of success and prosperity for the protagonists of Death of a Salesman and Wall Street are inflated by the media, celebrities, and their family lives. In the face of his brother’s triumph in Alaska, Willy struggles to achieve the same level of unrealistic, exaggerated success as a mere salesman in Death of a Salesman. Similarly, by working under the exaggeratedly cutthroat Gordon Gekko, Bud Fox seeks a hollow life of luxury, stolen through cheating. Both Willy and Bud try to succeed with exaggerated and unrealistic goals due to the pressure presented to them through external forces such as their mentors, society, their families, and the workplace. The pressure that Bud and Willy’s mentors place on them causes them to exaggerate their goals to unrealistic levels. As a result, Willy’s lucidity spirals into a deep depression that leaves him in a delusional mentality that refuses to let him face the reality of his present situation while Bud’s sanity becomes overcome by his hunger for power that is fed by his ego and arrogance. Ben Loman is the foil to Willy Loman’s character. He is wealthy, bold, and a ruthless business man. He is the epitome of a success story and living the American Dream. Ben is one of the fortunate few who found incredible success without much work, something which Willy recognizes and wants. Willy Loman believes that like his brother, he too can rise from humble beginnings to importance. His specific angle on this outlook is that a man succeeds...
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...What is the National Urban League Summer Internship Program? The National Urban League Summer Internship Program provides an insight into the world of non-profit management for college students, from the New York City metropolitan area and in Washington, DC. We are looking for candidates interested in a career in the not-for-profit sector, or in understanding the connection between non-profits, corporations, and government in the work of our nation. Why participate? The National Urban League offers valuable work experience in a professional, fast-paced environment. Some highlights of the summer’s activities include: Behind the Business Tours with corporate partners in the tri-state area Special assignments at the National Urban League Annual Conference Lunch with the President & CEO, National Urban League Interns Day on the Hill – a visit to the National Urban League Policy Institute in Washington, DC, and the opportunity to meet a legislator Work on The President’s Project - a special assignment from the President and CEO presented to Senior Leadership of the National Urban League at the end of the program Participate in the Black Executive Exchange Program Leadership Conference Lunch with National Urban League’s “Women of Influence” Lunch with National Urban League’s “Men of Influence” Who should apply? We are interested in students from a variety of academic backgrounds and majors who: Have demonstrated academic...
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...Summary Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stone and Stanley Weiser, and stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Owen Morrisey, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Ovitz, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested, and Stone wanted Richard Gere, though Gere passed on the role. Stone went with Douglas even though he had been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him. Efficient-market hypothesis Within the Efficient-market hypothesis, the Strong form of EMH additionally claims that prices instantly reflect even hidden or "insider" information. This is what was demonstrated within this video being that it focused on insider trading. However, The SEC believed in the Semi strong Version because this version claims both that prices reflect all publicly available information and...
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