Contents Executive Summary Stagecoach Group was founded by ‘Brian Souter’ and his sister ‘Ann Gloag’ Aim to provide public transport across the UK‚ USA and Canada. The group splits its operations into smaller divisions consisting of UK buses‚ UK rails and North America. Their main clients are general public‚ tourists‚ elderly and the disabled. During the London Olympics 2012 the key clients branched to tourists‚ athletes and
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2012 Financial Analysis on future investment in Stagecoach Plc. Denisse Varilla‚ Ha Nguyen‚ Jasmin Atwal‚ Sui Fong Shum University of Greenwich 2/14/2012 Contents Text Executive Summary 2 Introduction 2 Method 2 Findings 3 Growth 3 Profitability 3 Liquidity 3 Efficiency 4 Borrowing 5 Investors Ratios 5 Conclusions 6 Recommendations 6 Bibliography 7 Tables and Diagrams Appendices Appendix 1 Ratios
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John Ford’s Directing Techniques in the Film Stagecoach By Bob For Cine 121 (01) John Ford’s film “Stagecoach” from 1939 had several important hidden messages tucked away inside it. The film has everything from social injustice to alcoholism‚ prostitution‚ gambling‚ and even working class people in general. This paper’s aim is to bring to light some of these messages that are expressed through Ford’s use of mise-en-scène and cinematography. In the scene when Ford introduces Dallas‚ it is
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Western movies including Unforgiven can be considered to be realism because the narrative follows that everything in the movie feels and looks real. The movie Unforgiven takes place in the Wild West‚ during the time where there were outlaws and gunslingers. The plot of Unforgiven is similar to any other western where there is a hero who is trying to accomplish a task whale the villain is trying to stop them. The western genre of movies is supported by American history creating realism within the
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In the movie Unforgiven‚ W. W. Beauchamp who was an author that wrote about gunslingers in the west and their battles‚ was played by Saul Rubinek. Beauchamp improves the narrative be flowing around different gunslingers and learning that they are not what he thought of them. His character connected with the audience improving overall experience. Beauchamp characterization was successful throughout the movie and improved the narrative. Beauchamp was an author that created novels about what he believed
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External Environment and Business Operations -A Case Study of Stagecoach Group‚ UK 1. Introduction It is widely known that business strategies are critical to survival and development to entities. Basically‚ companies set their strategies to earn profit. A number of factors are considered when setting those strategies. Generally‚ in literatures‚ those factors affecting business strategies are divided to two types‚ internal factors and external factors. In specific‚ internal factors are the factors
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Clint Eastwood ’s Unforgiven As human beings we constantly struggle with ourselves on whether our actions are virtuous or vice. Some of us choose to act in an ethical way when presented with a certain situation‚ while others choose to act on their desires and therefore act unjustly. This was the struggle that the character‚ William Munny‚ faced in the movie "Unforgiven." He was unable to control his desires‚ which resulted in his unethical actions. His actions support Socrates and Plato ’s theory
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3/4/14 John Ford’s Authorship in Stagecoach The auteur theory states that a director is the author of a film just like an author writes a book. Each director has their signature directing techniques which represent their authorship. John Ford‚ the famous Western director‚ had many aspects of his films which illustrated his authorship. The film Stagecoach shows Ford’s authorship at its finest‚ since this film still stands as one of his greatest works. In Stagecoach‚ Ford uses signature directing techniques
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Mercy Among the Children and Unforgiven The film Unforgiven tells the tale of a former killer who embarks on a journey in order to kill two criminals and later confronts a law driven sheriff who controls a town with brute force. Towards the end of the film the protagonist confronts the main villain and kills him. Before dying the man complains that he did not deserve to die the way he did and in response the protagonist replies that “Deserves got nothing to do with it”. This line has left a legacy
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“The Gran Torino” allows Clint Eastwood to play a role as a Polish American factory worker and a Korean War veteran‚ who has to face his prejudice beliefs and in doing so creates a heart felt experience with a dash of unparalleled humor. His rough stern traits was forged over time‚ living a solitary life unable to get along with the only family he has left. With this cynical mind set on the world ever since the war each passing day for him gets darker. Until one day theres a sudden change of events
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