Essays on Bayou

The aim of this paper is to discuss the fraud that took place in the Bayou Hedge Fund Group and its impact on the organization’s investors and creditors. The organization was established in 1996 as Samuel Israel III and a gathering of foundations and hedge funds were united as the originator encouraged them to in the long run bring $450 million up with the expectation that the fund would develop to more than $7 billion in a ten year time span. The way that the organizer utilized a portion of the cash for individual use alongside critical exchanging ...

Final Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4

SWOT Analysis 6 Balanced Scorecard 9 Organizational Assessment 9 Mission 10 Vision Statement 10 Value Statement 10 Strategy and Tactics to realize Strategic Objectives 10 Marketing Strategy 11 Monitoring and Control 11 Ethical Issues including Legal and regulatory Issues 11 Corporate Social Responsibility 12 Conclusion 12

References 13

Executive Summary The Eco Food Company was incorporated in the year 2012 as an entity to provide eco-friendly and high-quality food to the consumers. The sales were executed against the orders gathered. However, with the help of its talented and dedicated staff, the organization was able to attain ...

The short fiction work of turn-of-the-century author Kate Chopin regularly deals with the recurring themes of womanhood, agency and identity, usually telling stories of women trapped in stifling lives due to the patriarchal expectations placed on them to live a certain way. Through these explorations of gender roles, particularly through marriage and motherhood, Chopin uses these central themes to explore the imbalances found between men and women in terms of power and agency. At all turns, the protagonists of Chopin’s stories must make unconventional, taboo decisions to reject the white, male-dominated judgments and expectations placed on them. Two ...

Analysis and Comparison of two Climate Change films: “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

“The Day After Tomorrow (TDAT)” refers to an American climate change film that was directed by Emmerich Roland in 2004. The film focuses on the disasters caused by global warming. “The contest over global warming is a challenge for the referee because it's a tag-team match, a real free-for-all” (Al Gore, 2011 p.2).In the movie, the weather scientist Dennis Quaid tries to warn people on the issue of climate change, but he fails. Quaid finds themselves horrified after finding out that all their predictions about global warming were coming true faster than they could imagine. According to the ...

Abstract

The Ford Motor Company is an international business organization focusing on the vehicle industry. It has large quantities of manufacturing plants all over the world. The company developed through the years due to the innovative and revolutionary ideas regarding their manufacturing assembly lines as well as their corporate management and leadership. The Ford Motor Company remains in the list of the Fortune-500 and it is considered as one of the most successful automobile companies in the world. Their main strength lies in their mix marketing strategy which depends on the market condition of every country they are distributing into. ...

Business Process: 100 years have gone in this business of producing up to 450 million vehicles worldwide with the brand name General Motors. Also, the corporation is operating globally almost in every country on a virtual basis. However, presently GM has achieved its goal by earning revenues and sales outside US. But, a huge market for GM is the United States Market. GM is one of the biggest buyers for United States in terms of buying iron, steel, aluminum, copper, rubber, computer and electronic chips. The vision of the company is that to remain streamlined in the auto industry by providing ...

History

There are many historic stories of Houston city and the old, established neighborhoods and new subdivision tell a lot of the historic stories of the city found in Texas State. According to the city residents I got a chance to interview, he told me that the founders of the city Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen named the city after a General Sam Houston in 1837. The city of Houston is termed as a Freedmen's Town because it hosts many African Americans and it has significant value due to the general name after him. He was one of the liberal military ...

6.0 INTRODUCTION This section provides discussions on prospective environmental impacts touted to arise from implementing the recommendations under Section 5 (Alternatives Analysis). Officials at the federal, state and local levels and the general public would benefit from the environmental overview provided in this section, as it aims to give a clearer understanding on various environmental impacts that may arise from the proposal to develop Lafayette Regional Airport. The Environmental Assessment (EA) elaborated in the Airport Environmental Handbook, under FAA Order 5050.4A stands as the model from which the environmental overview in this section is derived (FAA, 1985). Of ...

The significance of value analysis is demonstrated by the wide use of the SWOT analysis by every business nowadays. This test can be viewed as a feasibility test that predicts to what extent a business is going to be in a pre-determined duration. As a matter of fact, before any business embarks on strategies and sales methodologies, different kinds of tests that display the potential of the business are performed. This system is widely used to determine the position of businesses in a particular marketable ecosystem. For instance, a corporation that objectifies the profitability of its business entities will have to calculate its current profit ...

A Thesis

Graduate Faculty of the Requirements for the Degree 2013 All Rights Reserved Introduction This project will focus on the botanical Family Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, Louisiana. These parishes are spatially adjacent but are distinguished by different ecological habitats, making them botanically diverse. Lafayette Parish contains a prairie complex, St. Martin Parish has large areas of swamps, rivers, and lakes. The only recent publications on the identification and distribution of the Apiaceae in Louisiana occur in) and the USDA Plants database (plants.usda.gov 2011, and Thomas and Allen 1996). Since little is known about ...

Summary of The Awakening and Other Stories

Summary Wiser than a God is a story by Kate Chopin focusing on the life of a woman named Paula von Stolz. Paula is a gifted pianist who has went through relentless training throughout her life. Having managed to focus on her musical career, Paula sought to escape any instance that would enable her to fall in love with anyone. Yet, Paula encountered a dilemma on the death of her mother, when a suitor named George Brainard proposed to marry her. George is a wealthy and handsome man who Paula eventually grew to like, hence giving her the dilemma on choosing between her career and ...

Adventure Island and Busch Gardens are both SeaWorld recreational parks located at Tampa, Florida. This essay aims to compare and contrast the two parks.

Theme and Land area

Adventure Island is Busch Gardens’ water park. It is located right across Busch Gardens and has an area of 30 acres. It mimics a beach atmosphere which offers lots of fun on the sand and water. Busch Gardens on the other hand, is more of a nature and wildlife park. It has an area of 335 acres, much bigger than Adventure Island.

Park Hours

Park hours for Adventure Island begins at either 9:30 am or 10:00 am and may ...

Forest Gump is a 1994 American romantic sit-com which centered on the novel Forest Gump by Winston Groom. The film directed by Robert and starred by Tom, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise and Sally Field. The plot portrays the life of Forest Gump, an inexperienced powerful native of Alabama, who impacts some of the vital events of the latter half of the century in the United States of America. The art of Rhetoric, developed by Aristotle argued that it is the art of persuasion using the skill of ethos, logos and pathos. In the Film, Forrest has a character that ...

Introduction

Human activity and natural forces have endangered some of the most resourceful regions in the world. This has a direct impact not only to the communities living in the regions but also to the ecosystem. Campaigns for the conservation of natural resources have exhibited an increasing trend especially in America. The campaigns have been done using different media such as books, magazine and newspaper articles, the internet, television and radio documentaries as well as books emphasize on the need to conserve wildlife especially in the Amazon rainforests, African savannas and the Arctic refuges. Tidwell’s book explores the alarming losses ...

Introduction

“Time is the force we often think of that aids in making things better, ability to recover all wounds” (Tidwell, 2003). Mike Tidwell’s quote will always summarize a popular attitude held by a majority of people in times of despair (Tidwell, 2003). With time, there comes the ability to cope with a loved one loss, the acceptance of intellectual growth, failure and responsibility (Tidwell, 2003). What Tidwell states about time in Louisiana however, conflicts with the description of the previously quoted because in Louisiana, the opposite occurs to be true: since that day a year ago the state has lost over 17, ...

M, T. (2003, March 1). Bayou Farewell. Retrieved March 23, 2013, from what is: Http://37articles.com/bayou-farewell-the-rich-life-and-tragic-death-of-louisianas-coast/ The website analyses the book Bayou Farewell and indicates several factors affecting the coastal region of that area. According to the author of the book, there is the importance in the construction of the bifurcated diversion of 95 mile that can be controlled as well on the lower of Mississippi river. The article indicates that the high travelogue that is intense in the book will soon provide the environmental conservatives, historians and geographers with a pointing guide to a vanishing landscape, and the lost culture. ...