Arthur Laffer

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…

wish you where strong enough to to pull a sword out of a stone! In the story, “ The Sword in the Stone,” Arthur had the courage and strength to remove the sword from the stone, even though people were telling him that he would not be able to do it. This story took place in the medieval time. Courage is of the main characteristics that Arthur shared in both of the the video and the story, “Arthur Becomes King” and “The Sword in the Stone”. The Sword in the Stone was about when King Uther died,…

Walter Lee is a middle age black man who is the oldest man in the younger household. Walter has big dreams and it seems that some of the time he only cares about money. Walter's dream through most of the the play is to have a liquor store franchise and be rich. toward the end of the book his dreams shift and he is focused on making his family happy. He realizes that he needs to be the man of the house and act like the boss. Walter is determined to be a successful businessman and at the end of…

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail Williams’s flaws – Lust, Vengefulness, and Arrogance – that led her to be the most responsible for the tragedies of the Witch Hunt in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Abigail is a lustful and arrogant who wants her way and that’s it, she doesn’t care who she hurts. During the play Abigail lied, accused, and hurt very many people but one person she did not want to hurt was John Proctor. Her and John Proctor had an affair…

The last step of the hero's journey is the Return. The Return is when the hero is able to come back to the old world with his accomplishments. Sometimes the hero may feel content in the new world and refuse to return to the old world. In order for the hero to fulfill their destiny and become the leader they need to return to their old world. An example of a refusal is when Jack fights against the cops and refuses to turn himself in and go to jail. Another step in the Return is the Magic Flight.…

There has always been methods to get what one wants from other person, theres hundreds of torture methods along history. We know some from the Bible, like cutting fingers, from Greece, like the Brazen Bull (a devise that is worth reading about), and people are still using torture as a mean to get what they want. Being a confession o causing pain as a punishment. But as we will see, in the Middle Ages people became really experts and used all their creativity to invent the worst methods of…

Irony is in everyday life. Short stories have a really good way of showing that the unexpected tends to happen a lot. Three short stories with great examples of twists are The Bet, How Much Land Does A Man Need, and The Jewels. By writing about irony it gives a warning that people don't always get what they want. In The Bet, by Anton Chekhov, The Lawyer believes that dying is better than spending the rest of life in prison. The Lawyer and the Banker ended up making a bet. The bet was that…