Arthur Schnitzler

The father-son relationship is one of the most important mentorships and friendships in a young boy’s life. In the popular TV series, The Walking Dead, the relationship between Rick Grimes and his son, Carl, helps drive the plot as Carl puts Rick in danger at some points. Rick serves as a role model and protector for his son and this relationship is also examined and amplified by the man and the boy in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. While analyzing the novel, a contrast is created between love and…

Thematic Statement: Biff, Willy, and Happy’s senses of identity in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman portrays the idea that immoral actions taken with doubt and the fear of not being able to attain financial success, results in an inability to achieve their hopes and dreams. Under the frivolous American dream Willy has built, Biff’s idea of success manifests as a man who achieves great financial value on the basis that one is superficially attractive instead of attaining personal prosperity…

Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos, portrayed the adventurous yet boring summer of a boy, Jack, whose plans for summer are ravaged when he gets grounded for making some highly immature choices. But, getting “grounded for life also brought many adventures, mysteries, understandings, and experiences of a lifetime. Jack made some pretty bad decisions in a short amount of time. First, he gets one warning after another. Later, he disobeyed his mom and cut down the rest of the field anyway, and he…

Introduction The key tenant of choosing a specific firm for analysis, is one having the history of outsourcing their Information Technology (IT), to a third party, only to regret the decision, and return, or back source, the IT service. An excellent example being the current largest bank in the United States; JP Morgan Chase. In 2004 JP Morgan Chase cancelled the remainder of a seven year, $5 billion IT contract with IBM. When the outsourcing deal was done in 2001, it was heralded as the…

Hizmete Özel / Confidential Hizmete Özel / Confidential MGMT 512: Corporate Governance Sultan Orman: 0055134 Corporate Failure: Toshiba Accounting Scandal (2015) Summary of the Case: Everything began with the results of an independent report created by a committee of people consisting of independent accountants and lawyers in July 2015. The CEO of one of the leading companies in electronics and technology sector, Toshiba from Japan, announced that he is resigning of his…

Employee of the Month is a comedy film that reveals the complications between employees of a retail store, “Super Club.” The main character, Zach, is a slug who has no ambition to accomplish any goals at work. Zach is constantly annoyed by his over achieving co-worker, Vince, who is always stealing attention from upper management. One day Zach finds that an attractive female, Amy, has been newly employed and she only dates ambition men who become employee of the month. While Zach suddenly finds…

Prudential The time when the protagonist Arthur Ryan was brought in as CEO, Prudential was charged with the largest investor fraud in US history. Prudential had defrauded investors of close to $8 billion and eventually had to shell out $371 million as settlements and fines. The most common solution to overcome the economic condition is layoffs. The critical time in highly competitive market leads Arthur Ryan to downsizing environment (p.1). Management decision in downsizing creates gap between…

In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Biff, a man struggling to get a grasp on adulthood, states to his brother Happy that “I oughta get married. Maybe I oughta get stuck into something. Maybe that’s my trouble. I’m like a boy. I’m not married, I’m not in business, I just—I’m like a boy. Are you content, Hap? You’re a success, aren’t you? Are you content?” (Miller 23). In a thoroughly developed essay, explain your position on the relationship between contentment and success by gathering…

Blood. Sweat. Tears. Those who you love forgo everything they have for you so you may live the life that they never had the opportunity to live. How would you feel if the life your loved ones created for you was a life that you never wanted? This inner turmoil is explored in Alden Nowlan’s Warren Pryor. Warren Pryor ultimately is caught choosing between his own happiness or the happiness of the people he loves, a choice which he makes unselfishly and forever regrets. The major…

There’s no known cure for greed. That said, the fall of Enron was inevitable from its inception, for whichever way the head goes, the body follows and with Ken Lay as the head, one could expect nothing less. Can a rotten tree produce good fruit? My initial response to the movie, “The Smartest Guys in the Room”, was to discuss Lay and Skilling. But a more careful consideration of the matter, I had to admit that they really weren’t the problem, even though they were the deed doers. None of…