...Did Jim and Laura Buy a Car? Kanise K. Kelley Strayer University Professor Montano Business Law 100 November 8, 2015 Some good friends of mines, Jim and Laura Buyer they currently visited the local dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently own is on its last leg, its aging and starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, they decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments. Once at the dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like a blue 4-door sedan. Therefore, they agreed to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.oo is refundable. No documents were signed before leaving the dealership. They then say the next day, Stan Salesman calls them to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. But Jim and Laura decided they didn’t want the car any longer after leaving the dealership, so they tell Stan Salesman that they wanted their $100.00 deposit back. Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract. Stan is very persistent and insistent that they have contracted to buy the car, therefore the $100.00 will be applied...
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...November 10, 2015 Contracts: A contract is an agreement that creates obligations that are enforceable by the law. A contract can either be written or spoken. There are elements to a contract that make it valid and binding. This is defined as a clear manifestation of willingness to enter an agreement made by another person with full understanding that their assent to the bargain is an invitation and is concluded. As to whether there was an offer in this case, yes there is an offer. When the salesman offered the buyers time for a test drive and they finally chose and agreed to buy the blue car it was a clear offer. Acceptance. This basically means that the terms of the offer have been clearly understood and agreed to through consent and assent and at no time will the terms be changed. When the buyers agreed to the terms of sales and even agreed to pay a deposit, it clearly shows that they have accepted the seller’s offer. Legal purpose. It means that the reason for the contract must be legal. In this case, the sale and purchase of a car from a licensed dealer is legal and done under the regulations specified by law. Mutuality of obligation. This refers to the parties’ mutual understanding and also assents in expressing their agreement. They must both agree to the same sense, same thing ant also the same time. When the two buyers approached a dealer seeking to purchase a car, there was both an offer and acceptance. There was clear communication between the terms of the buyer...
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...gentleman caller, Jim O’Connor. Of the many animals in Laura’s collection the unicorn is her favourite animal of them all. The unicorn represents Laura’s peculiarity. When Laura hands Jim the unicorn she says, “I shouldn’t be partial, but he is my favourite one” (83). Jim points out that unicorns are extinct in the real world. They are also lonesome as a result of being different from other horses. Laura is too unusual, lonely, and ill-adapted to life to live in the world in which she lives. If you look at Laura in the right light she refracts a whole rainbow of different colours, just like glass. The fate of the unicorn is a smaller scale version of Laura’s fate. Jim’s enthusiasm when he is with Laura is selfish. He enjoys her company because, like Tom, she remembers him for his glory days back in high school. He thoughtlessly leads Laura on. Laura and the unicorn are both very fragile and Jim breaks both of them. Laura makes it seem like she doesn’t care: “I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less–freakish!” (86). Jim’s advances endows Laura with a new normalcy, making her just another girl. This new normalcy is violently thrust upon her meaning she cannot become normal without somehow “shattering”. Laura feels that the without the horn the unicorn is not appropriate for her anymore. It was the special glass piece that fit her personality, but now it is just like all the others and it doesn’t stand out. Laura gives Jim the broken glass...
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...The reader feels sorrow and pathos for these two women, as they both struggle between the painful concept of reality- causing them to retreat to the concept of illusion. In Tennessee Williams very famous and well-known work, The Glass Menagerie, the reader observes Williams’s theme of illusion versus reality as being a pivotal and central focus of the play: “Although he’s trying too hard, you never know if Jim will make it big. Perhaps he will. On the other hand, when you recall that illusion dominates the play, you might suspect that Jim’s plans are pure fancy, and that he’s placed too much faith in a hollow dream” (Ehrenhaft 16). The play centers around Amanda Wingfield and her son, Jim and her daughter, Laura and the struggles they face living in a small, run-down apartment in St. Louis. Out of all the characters in the play, Laura seems to be the main character who draws on this theme of reality versus illusion: “Laura is unable to hold a job and or interact socially with others and retreats into a world of...
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...be somewhat symbolic in nature. In the play a southern family, trapped by poverty and codependency, struggles to survive in St. Louis. The story is narrated by Tom Wingfield who struggles with choosing between his own personal dreams versus accepting the reality of his families situation. Tom and his family live in an alley apartment and survive mainly on Tom's salary from a shoe factory. Having dreams that are bigger than St Louis he lives in a fantasy world and his mind is comsumed with thoughts of escaping their dreary lifestyle. The fire escape and goingto the movies are his only solice. He is able to live vicariously through the characters on screen, watching their adventures cause he is not able to live his own. Toms sister Laura is slightly cripple and is incredibly insecure. She had to wear a brace on her leg because of a childhood disease so she felt inferior. She said it sounded like thunder when she would walk causing her to refrain from venturing into new possibilities. She chooses instead to live in an alternate universe where her collection of glass figurines and her victrola records prove to be her only companions. Amanda Tom’s mom is a former southern belle who lives in the past. She constantly dreams of yesteryear, of her youth and her...
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...Tom’s life at home in the brief first scene? 7. What do we learn about Laura? 8. How is Amanda portrayed? Scene 2 1. As Amanda comes up the fire escape, Laura’s actions are described. What are these actions and what do they reveal about her? 2. What has Amanda done that day? 3. What has Laura done during school hours? 4. Why is Amanda upset about Laura’s failure in school? 5. What is Amanda’s decision about Laura’s future? 6. How does Laura feel about this decision? 7. What is revealed about Mr. Wingfield in this scene? 8. Laura continually tries to avoid the unpleasant reality of Amanda’s conversation. How does she do this? Scene 3 1. What becomes Amanda’s obsession? 2. What does Amanda do about the obsession? 3. Who are the principal actors during this scene? 4. What is the quarrel about? 5. Why does Amanda believe that Tom is doing things he’s ashamed of? 6. How does Tom respond to Amanda’s assertion that he is jeopardizing the future? 7. What happens as Tom leaves for the movies? Scene 4 1. When does Tom Return from the movies? 2. What does he tell Laura he has seen? 3. Why does this intrigue Tom? 4. What happens on the fire escape when Amanda sends Laura for some butter? 5. Tom...
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...Tom is the working man of the family, the breadwinner so to speak. He works in a shoe warehouse and the audience finds he is very unhappy there. Tom struggles through life without adventure. He longs to have adventure like the people in the movies that he sees all the time. Tom is called “Shakespeare” by his co-worker and friend Jim O’Conner, because he writes poetry. Tom cannot handle his overbearing mother and after a big fight breaks down and does something she asks. Amanda is the mother of Laura and Tom. She is the antagonist of the play. Amanda is still hurt by her husband leaving her all those years ago. She yearns to re-live her past of popularity through her daughter, Laura. Everything Amanda tries does not work as Laura is not like Amanda was. Amanda struggles with Tom to have him find a gentleman caller for his sister. Amanda does not see the reality that Laura is different, she only wants to see her imaginary reality. She is constantly living in her illusion and pulling her children down. Laura is the slightly crippled daughter. She is extremely shy and gets physically ill when in situations that she does not want to be in. Laura is the...
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...she tells her daughter, Laura, to stay nice and pretty for her gentlemen callers even though Laura has never had any callers and expects none. Amanda remembers the time that she had seventeen gentlemen callers all on one Sunday afternoon. Amanda then tells Laura to practice her shorthand and typing. A few days later Amanda comes home from Laura's school after finding out that Laura had dropped out several months earlier. Amanda is shocked and wonders what they will do with their lives since Laura refuses to try to help and spends all her time playing with her glass menagerie and her old phonograph records. Amanda decides that they must have a gentleman caller for Laura, and Laura tells her that she has liked only one boy in her whole life, a high school boy named Jim. When Tom goes out to the movies that night, Amanda accuses him of doing something else rather than going to the movies every night. They have an argument, and the next morning after Tom apologizes, Amanda asks him to find some nice gentleman caller for Laura and to bring him home for dinner. A few days later, Tom tells Amanda that he has invited a young man named Jim O'Connor home for dinner. Amanda immediately begins to make rather elaborate plans for the gentleman caller. On the next night, Amanda oversees Laura's dress and adds some "gay deceivers" to the dress to make Laura more attractive. When she mentions the name of the gentleman caller, Laura realizes that it is possibly the same Jim on whom she had a crush...
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...Did Jim and Laura Buy a Car Week 6 Assignment 1 Matthew Ader Professor Lori Baggot LEG 100 Feb 14 2016 A contract is an agreement that creates an obligation that is enforceable by the law. The law has clear guidelines that before there exists a contract that will be binding, there has to be an offer, acceptance, mutual obligation and all parties should be of sound mind and by law be of legal age. A contract can either be written or spoken. Assuming that the buyers were at the required age went to the car dealership looking to purchase a new car. Stan the salesman made an offer to Jim and Laura and they both agreed to the terms. They asked that Stan the salesman hold the car for a day. He told them to put down $100 dollars to hold the car and that it would go to the final purchase of the car or that it would be refundable. Jim and Laura just wanted to hold the car so that it would still be there the next day. With mutual understanding Stan the salesman keeps the car and calls the next day to confirm when the purchase would be completed. I do believe that Jim and Laura did not enter into a legal contract that is binding. There are several factors that do not exist that would show a legally binding agreement. Like a contract that both parties would sign, agreeing to the purchase of the car. Having a contract in writing that both parties signed could show the sale of the car. Stan the salesman let Jim and Laura have a chance to test drive several cars that they were interested...
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...were shown in different people. There were primarily four main characters in the play: Amanda, Laura, Tom, and Jim. Each character had their own original issue in the story, which makes the play so entirely complex. What makes the play interesting are putting those characters together and creating inside moral and conflict. As a result, everybody still appears to be an outcast in his or her own world. The title The Glass Menagerie was named because of Laura’s glass animal collection. She had many different animals that symbolized your everyday people that she came not to be a part of. One of the animals was a unicorn which was a symbol of Laura by representing the idea of being different. Laura was described to have a shy personality and would never attempt to make a change on her appearance to people. One of the main appearances she was embarrassed about was her crippled leg. Since she is already shy, this adds on to the fact that she can be very sensitive as well. Near the end, when Jim accidentally broke unicorn’s horn, she was hurt from seeing the broken glass and finding out that Jim was engaged after kissing her. To show Jim her pain, she gave him the unicorn showing that she is fragile like the glass unicorn (p.1282-1283). The most emphasis was on the kiss because it was assumed from the audience that it was Laura’s first kiss. Amanda, the mother of Laura and Tom, is seen with love and pity, but also laughable. She is very loving like many other parents...
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...them years ago. We see Tom having dinner with his mother, Amanda, and his sister Laura. Amanda expresses a desire for Laura to have "gentlemen callers" (a.k.a. dates) as she used to, back when she was a Southern Belle. Laura describes a boy named Jim she used to have a thing for in high school, and we see her glass menagerie obsession. Amanda gets angry at Laura for dropping out of a typing class due to her painfully shy nature. The conflict with Tom is quickly established; he is at odds with his mother because he hates his job and wants to leave, but has a duty to support the family. His mother calls him selfish for his constant reading, dancing, drinking, and escaping to the movies. Laura encourages them to make up, which they do – ostensibly. But the issue is unresolved. Amanda asks Tom to get a gentleman caller for his sister, which he does – one of his friends from work that turns out to be the Jim that Laura had spoken of. Amanda gets all excited and prepares the house. When Laura finds out that it’s Jim coming to visit, she hides in the living room. Jim, however, talks to her and gets her to open up. They bond; they kiss; Jim is engaged to someone else. He takes off, Laura gets sad, and Amanda yells at her son and then comforts Laura during Tom’s closing speech to the audience. Tom reveals to us that he abandoned his family shortly after that night, but has been haunted by Laura, the sister he abandoned, ever...
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...rewards. For example, if you were to escape but had to sacrifice your loved ones and run away from a wide array of problems. When Tom escaped, he left Amanda and Laura behind along with any issues he might've had while he was still...
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...conversation between Amanda and Laura, (page 17) “Amanda: Girls that aren’t cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man….Laura: But Mother…..I’m- crippled!” reveals that Laura is physically handicapped and she allows her disabilities to determine her choices in life because she is embarrassed. This certain conversation is important because it displays Laura’s insecurity, which affected her decision to drop out of business school. When reading this conversation I became saddened by the fact that Laura allows her physical disability to govern her life. She is held back from being successful in life because she has a mental block. Later in the text, the author reveals to the reader that Laura has no social life and dropped out of business school because she could not handle the pressure. Not only am I saddened by Laura’s yielding behavior, but I can relate to her mental block. When entering high school I was very small, to be exact, I was 5’2 112 pounds, while the average male peer was 5’8 150 pounds. Because of my lack of size, I tended to be non-aggressive; playing football I was scared of being demolished and I decided not to play basketball because I was short. I let my physical abilities control my previous decisions, which have now become my regrets. Of course, I am no longer passive, I act upon all my wants and dreams, and I have realized that physical disabilities should not control personal decisions. If Laura would break her wall of physical...
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...is the breadwinner of his family, providing for his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura, by working at a “shoe factory where his father worked” (1612). Tom narrates the play from his dreamer perspective. He constantly goes to see movies in an attempt to provide adventure to his lackluster life. At first Tom struck me as sympathetic, but as the play progresses he reveals himself to be a very selfish individual. Tom narrates each scene from “memory and [they are] therefore unrealistic” (1614). He remembers his life as an imprisonment, where he is stuck doing undesirable work to provide for his family. His father’s abandonment left him as the sole provider for his family. His family displays “a blown up photograph of the father [that] hangs on the wall of [their] living room” (1614) in their disheveled apartment “flanked on both sides by dark, narrow alleys” (1614). We are continuously exposed to Tom’s viewpoint and the difficulty he has with separating his life from his vision. Amanda’s son emphasizes the smothering nature of his mother throughout the play. Amanda habitually badgers Tom telling him, “Honey, don’t push with your fingers. If you have to push with something, the thing to push with is a crust of bread” (1615). She treats Tom as an adolescent and pushes him further into his dream world. Amanda seems to expect Tom to act as a replacement for his father saying, “as soon as Laura has got somebody to take care of her…you’ll be free to go wherever you please” (1629)...
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...a shoe warehouse and writes poetry in his free time; while also taking on the responsibilities of his family after his father left. The mother Amanda lives in her memories of gentleman callers and parties, while avoiding the reality of her crippled daughter Laura who is in a dream world of little glass animals. Her mother seeing no future for her, she gets Tom to find a bachelor for Laura and invite him to dinner. Instead Tom brings home Jim his employee and also unknown secret idol of Laura’s from high school. Jim gets her from out this dream world, but when he breaks off bad news of him being engaged Laura withdraws for good. Angering the mother and eventually leading to Tom leaving as his father did. In this play Tennessee Williams uses a multitude of symbols. From these symbols, there comes deeper understanding of the relationship between the play’s four characters. The most obvious symbol in this play is Laura’s glass menagerie, representing the world she lives in. Being that this glass menagerie is a representation of Laura’s world. I understood that when Jim bumped into the table and knocked the menagerie over causing it shatter; Laura picking up the pieces then handing it to Jim, showed then that she wanted Jim to be her world/her happiness. Another recurring symbol is that of the fire escape. Each symbol is a concrete substitution to express a certain theme, character or idea. The Glass Menagerie is set in the apartment of the Wingfield family, described as a cramped...
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