DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Business Case Analysis Financial Management Big City Trust Company Group 2 Dean Atty. Joe-Santos Balagtas Bisquera Executive Summary Big City Trust Company Mr. Samuel Cooper, a senior trust officer of Big City Trust, discusses with Mr. Richard Brainard, an analyst in the trust department, on how BCT should finance the growth of Auto-Drive Company’s sales. He also wants Mr. Brainard to examine the funding schemes adopted by two giant companies
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was urban living conditions. Cities were constantly growing due to the increasing availability of jobs. This led to a need of lots of housing, quickly. It was built cheaply and most areas in the city turned into tenements and slums where crime went unpunished. Many families were crammed into the small buildings, most of which were unsanitary. Thus, disease quickly spread. However, the industrial revolution the nation experienced around the early 1900s led to improved city housing. This is because of
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theorists insisted that society could no longer use the “let-alone” or laissez faire policy. • Before 1900, politicians and writers begun to pinpoint targets for the progressive attack. Bryan, Altgeld, and the Populists flamed about the “bloated trusts” with corruption and wrongdoing. • Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth in 1894, it was about the Standard Oil Company and on its “predatory wealth” and “conspicuous consumption” • Veblen viewed parasitic leisure class engaged
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relationship3. Friendliness, good will In order to know what all these definitions mean we need to figure out what is the definition for friends. A friend is defined as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. So friendship is when two people know each other well, and trust each other. Friendship is the relationship between two people who really care about each other. Your friendship will keep you happy, but it is not easy. Friendship demands time and effort, and sometimes you have
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to build libraries, construct universities, and to help fund thousands of charities. Body 2 – Disadvantages of industrialization to American society between 1865 and 1920: Monopolies / trusts – limited competition, inflated prices (ex. Railroads did this to farmers) - Social Darwinism – big businesses took over small companies, put them out of business - corrupted government (bought influence, controlled officials) Immigrants worked for very low
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small rural citizens were forced to sell their land to the landlords and gradually moved to the cities, where they often only found poorly paid work in factories. The factories changed and eventually got bigger and bigger. The owner of the factory original lived near his factory and his workers, which he ruled over like a paterfamilias, during the 19 century, the factory towns developed into to large cities, where factory workers lived so closely together in horribly built buildings, also known as
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essay tells the story of the essayist Susan Cheevers herself, and informs us of her opinion of the city, versus the country. The essay takes us from Susans childhood, all the way through to herself having kids. Susan illustrates in several ways the difference between living in the suburbs, and living in the big city. It is safe to say that Susan has become accustomed to the lifestyle of the big city, which in return has made her discontent when it comes to the more primitive life of the suburbs. The
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Should relationships put to a test? Some may answer this question with a big YES reflecting complexities in their relationships while some may oppose the idea, showing full confidence over their relationships. Both the views of two different people are correct in their own way. Emotional Attyachar, TV show that allows one to spy over his/her partner on stupid note of ‘loyalty’ is the origin of such tests. “Yes, loyalty tests are important because 90% of the men attract towards pretty faces very
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illustrated in Lincoln Steffen’s book, “The Shame of the Cities”. He believed that the party bosses had “betrayed his own ideals; he believed in the code of loyalty, but he was not loyal to the community.” Steffen’s book was the reason why we now have city commissioners and city manager system. The implementation was to limit the corruption of these party bosses and to create checks and balance on a local level; a city manager is to report to the city council. While Lincoln’s was a bit broader in his approach
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“Living With Strangers” Many people think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation
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