At&T Risk Analysis “Analysis of AT&T’s Stock” FIN560 - Securities Analysis Index 1. The background of the company 2. AT&T’s Life Cycle Analysis 3. Analysis of Return on Equity 4. The company’s projected future growth rate of earnings 5. Analysis of its required rate of return using the CAPM measurement 6. The company’s intrinsic value using the discount valuation techniques 7. Conclusions 8. References 1. AT&T Background AT&T Inc. is an American
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tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles‚ through an attempt to help his people‚ a king learns the dark secrets of his past. Citizens of Thebes ask for help from King Oedipus because he has previously dealt with a sphinx that was devouring his people. In order to deal with the plague‚ Oedipus sends Creon to the Oracle of Delphi to receive help from Apollo. When Creon arrives from Delphi‚ he reports that the oracle said to find and punish the former king’s murderer. Creon suggests that Oedipus consult
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characteristics that cause them not to succeed. Actions of arrogance‚ paranoia‚ and anger affect a king named Oedipus. In Sophocles’ Greek drama‚ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus ruins his own life‚ as well as the lives around him because of the negative behaviors that get the best of him‚ which show his weak character‚ and later on lead to his exile. Oedipus is a man of pride and arrogance. E.R. Dodds says‚ “Oedipus‚ they point out‚ is proud and overconfident; he harbors unjustified suspicions against Tiresias and
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Sophocles’s Oedipus the King is no exemption. Oedipus the King was written around 430 B.C. so this play has had plenty of time to be critiqued. Not only has this Greek tragedy been around for so long‚ but it is considered a masterpiece; it only makes sense for something very famous to be criticized even more. Oedipus the King follows the story of a man named Oedipus who tries to escape fate. Before the play is even started‚ the readers are given background information about Oedipus. When Oedipus was a
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In Sylvia Plath’s "The Arrival of the Bee Box" and T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both speakers are burdened by great mental anguish caused by their feeling of insignificance and powerlessness in the world. They both fear and accept the prospect of death‚ while acknowledging life as its opposite. These are the two sides of the human experience. Through an internal monologue‚ Prufrock explores his feeling of uselessness and displacement in society‚ while in "The Arrival of the
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Fitzgerald ’s Great Gatsby and Elliot ’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties‚ and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a number
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THE TRAGEDY OF OEDIPUS Tragedy‚ in English‚ is a word used to indicate other words such as misfortune‚ calamity‚ disaster and many more such words. However‚ this word has another dramatic meaning‚ not far from its original meaning in English. In Western theatre it is a genre that presents a heroic or moral struggle of an individual that leads to his or her ultimate defeat or misfortune. When the audience and reader share the playwright’s particular social perception and social values they easily
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which can be unsettling for some. In Oedipus the King‚by Sophocles this is demonstrated. Oedipus is given away as a child because his parents were told that he inevitably would kill his father and marry his mother. This same prophecy follows Oedipus as he grows and leads him to run away from the kingdom that raised him. On his road away‚ he ends up killing a group of men which leads him to another kingdom. There he marries the dead king’s wife‚ little does Oedipus realize he had killed his father and
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unalterable. While most believe otherwise‚ this theory serves as the foundation for Sophocles’ famous tragedy‚ Oedipus Rex. Through Oedipus‚ Sophocles creates the perfect example of a Greek tragic hero‚ as fate becomes his fatal flaw and leaves him with limited free will. Oedipus’ fate‚ decided for him by the gods‚ leads him to murder his father and marry his mother. Before he was born‚ Oedipus’ fate was decided for him by the gods through the oracles and could not be changed. In this time‚ an oracle
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Consequence of Oedipus’ Pride Throughout history‚ all great fallen leaders have shared one common trait: an overinflated ego. Oedipus from Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is no different. From his beginnings as the prince of Corinth‚ Oedipus had always been held as a man of great status. After cleverly defeating the Sphinx to gain the rule of Thebes‚ he was considered more highly than ever‚ until his sense of arrogance grew to dangerous proportions. Eventually‚ this fatal flaw of pride effectuated Oedipus’ destruction
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