Fred M. Vinson

Maurits Cornelis Escher, also known as M.C Escher, was a graphic artist between 1898 and 1972. He is most famous for his unique works that incorporated mathematics, specifically the manipulation of perspective and space. He developed an innovative style of both print and engraved art (“M.C. Escher Biography”). Some of his most well-known works include, “Relativity,” “Ascending and Descending,” “Hand with Reflecting Sphere,” and “Metamorphosis” (Gallery, “Most Popular”). M.C. Escher was born…

Samuel Martinez February 17, 2016 BUAD 311 T-TH 12:00pm The Goal Analysis The goal is primarily about a manager named Alex Rogo who is charge of a production plant that is unsuccessful at both making profits and handling its resources. Given the failures of the plant, Alex is told that he has a short period of time to completely turn the plant around. The novel is primarily about Alex’s interactions with Jonah, and more importantly, the lessons that Alex is able to take away every time they…

“The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt, is described by its back cover as being one of the most important business books ever written. First published in 1984, The Goal introduced the theory of constraints to the business world through the use of a fictional manufacturing plant. This fictional manufacturing plant, managed by Alex Rogo, demonstrates how large and complex systems can be limited in achieving their goals by a small number of constraints, or bottlenecks as the book calls them. In other…

The Machine Stops” is a story that tells about a mother and son, Vashti and Kuno, living in a dystopian society where machines controlled everything and were made to care for an individual in isolation. Food and water is dispensed from the machine and all communication including personal, professional, and educational is done through a monitor. In this society, no one is allowed to leave his or her room without a temporary permit. If they did something that was deemed illegal, has punishment…

Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth was corrupt form the beginning. Although he appeared to have altruistic views, that wasn’t the case. The meteoric rise of HealthSouth came about with the rapid influx of baby boomers coming into middle age and older. This required more facilities which Scrushy happily provided through franchising. After starting HealthSouth (AmCare), he took it public two years later. He was motivated by the vast amounts of money from meeting Wall Street’s…

In 1984, Richard Scrushy, an ex-respiratory technician started his own business, the initial national chain of orthopedic hospitals and outpatient centers in the United States called HealthSouth[x1]. Later in 1996, the company was found out perpetrated by its executives of accounting fraud around 2.7 billion US dollars behind the fast growth during the years. This is due to the demand of increasing the stock price and meeting analyst expectations that unintentionally put the pressures on the…

libertarian ticket, his loss led him to begin to try and buy influence with the people in office. She digs into the family’s political affairs throughout the span of their generations, since the formation of the family’s oil refinery by the family patriarch, Fred Chase Koch. However, the Koch estate progressed vastly through their business relations with wildly known dictators such as Adolf Hitler leader of the Natzi regieme and Joseph Stalin leader of the Soviet Union at the time. The Koch…

I read an interesting essay recently, and I really want to share the story and my understanding with you. In the essay, “Turner and the Barber’s Shop”, John Berger narrates the life and art of Joseph Mallord William Turner who is one of the most important artists in history. Turner was born in London, the son of a barber. “He was a child prodigy” and entered the Royal Academy Schools at fourteen (215). Next, He had his own studio at eighteen, and his father becomes the assistant and factotum. He…

There arise two problems when discussing the doctrine of double effect, the first being the close connection theory, and the second being choice description relativity. First, we’d discuss the choice description relativity. The idea behind choice description relativity is that you can explain the harm away to make it foreseen and unintended. In both CC and HC, the doctor intends to have the fetus and mother survive, and if given the chance to save both, it is expected they would. By stating this…

In 1798 a well-known poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. The poem was contained in a poem collage by Coleridge and William Wordsworth called the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge is known for the Romantic influence in his writings: “Coleridge achieved wonder by the frank violation of natural laws, impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature).…