Betrayal of Family Loyalty In the play Antigone‚ written by Greek playwright Sophocles‚ loyalty to family seems to be a recurring theme. We first see it when Antigone defies King Creon’s order to keep her brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied as a punishment for his betrayal of their country Thebes. We also see how Antigone’s sister‚ Ismene‚ accepts partial blame for the burial (even though she refused to actually do it) in an affectionate‚ loyal act. Creon is also family (their father’s brother)‚ but
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2. Loyalty is extremely important within Odysseus’ world. Characters in The Odyssey will go as far as to die for their leader and or fellow men. If you are not loyal to your leader or a person of power‚ they could go as far as to kill you for disloyalty. For example‚ in all of book one of The Odyssey‚ Odysseus’ men die for Odysseus on countless occasions. To be more specific‚ when Odysseus was passing through the island with the lotus eaters‚ Odysseus’ men go out and explore the island for Odysseus
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Part I – Perfect capital markets‚ capital structure and cost of capital (15 points) GP Corp. has common stock with a market value of $200 million and riskless debt with a value of $100 million. Investors expect a 15% return on the stock and a 6% return on the debt. Assume perfect capital markets without any taxes. a) Suppose GP issues $100 million of new stock to buy back the debt. What is the expected return of the stock after this transaction? (4 points) b) Suppose instead GP issues $50 million
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FUNDAMENTALS OF Corporate Finance Jonathan Berk Stanford University Peter DeMarzo Stanford University Jarrad Harford University of Washington ISBN 0-558-65200-X Fundamentals of Corporate Finance‚ by Jonathan Berk‚ Peter DeMarzo‚ and Jarrad Harford. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2009 by Pearson Education‚ Inc. Editor in Chief: Donna Battista Sr. Development Editor: Rebecca Ferris Market Development Manager: Dona Kenly Assistant Editors: Sara Holliday‚ Kerri McQueen Managing
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1) The corporate philosophy: The corporate overall at Bosch is advanced. They are advance in developing the process of training which leads to place the expatriate to two years of training at least. Advancing Kazakhstan’s nationals should be a first priority for the development center because it plays a major role. The preparation the discussion on admission to manager development plan and for employees to next stage of level in management for employees is such a great process of bringing the
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The Corporate Culture Robert Alford Grantham University BA560 Business Ethics Dr. Janice Spangenburg March 19‚ 2013 The Corporate CultureLegal Case: Adelphia Case: Feds drop fraud case against Adelphia founder‚ son A six-year legal battle involving the jailed father-son duo who headed now-defunct Adelphia Communications has ended after prosecutors withdrew tax fraud charges related to their earlier conviction in a $1.9 billion fraud case. Prosecutors said they withdrew the tax-related
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Preliminary Draft - Comments Welcome CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD?* RAY FISMAN GEOFFREY HEAL VINAY B. NAIR# Abstract We provide a framework for analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our model of CSR in this paper has two important ingredients – CSR is at least in part a profit motivated decision; and different CSR activities are aimed at different audiences. We examine the implications of our framework using a ‘visible’ CSR index that captures
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CORPORATE INSOLVENCY 1. VOLUNTARY ADMINISTRATION When company is put under VA‚ it will go through 2 phases. The first phase is company enters into VA‚ which commences with the appointment of administrator: s 435C(1). In this phase‚ the company is put under moratorium. Under moratorium: * Creditors should stay all legal proceedings against the company except by the administrator’s consent or court’s order : s 440D * A company under VA cannot be wound up voluntarily except as provided
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Corporate Misconduct T Ware Sr. ITT Tech Online BU222 – Business Law and Regulation Dr. Carrie A. O’Hare November 30‚ 2011 Corporate Misconduct What is and what is not ethical can be defined different ways by different people. What may be unethical to one person may not be so unethical to someone else. These values can depend of how someone was raised‚ the type of environment that they were accustomed to‚ and even how they carry themselves day to day. Ethics is simply defined as a set of
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Compared to today‚ there are some elements in “King Lear” that don’t seem that foreign to us. For example‚ betrayal and loyalty are two things that are shifted around today and where maybe even more present in the past‚ as a king had to be on his guard. This includes his family‚ as we can see from the story. The 1st act of “King Lear” starts the whole problem of the play‚ where Lear says (1.1.56-57) “which of you shall we say doth love us most‚ That we our largest bounty may extend.” Today‚ we don’t
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