Its corporate culture has been described as mold-breaking. "what a mold: a startling amount of office hugging and kissing in lieu of handshakes; elaborate practical jokes; and on-the-premises beer drinking at headquarters, as long as it is after 5 pm" (Bailey 2008)
11. Allowing the company access to capital markets when investors are skittish on just about every other major carrier in the world" became a bonus and Southwest has remained profitable (Donovan 2001)
Here's the amazing part to me. Southwest has been able to maintain this culture for nearly 40 years" (Oswald 2009)
The RBV suggests that the firm's services must be rare, valuable, unable to be imitated, and unable to be substituted. "By specifying a resource profile for a firm, it is possible to find the optimal product-market activities" (Wernerfelt 1984: 172)
Ewert attempts to make an argument for the 'moral' nature of capitalism, versus the moral nature of socialism. He states unequivocally that self-directed actions are "an inescapable part of human life," which is a premise that many Christians would disagree with: even if Christian salvation focuses on every human soul, great stress is placed upon the spiritual focus of this self-directed nature, versus material interests (Ewert 1989)
Through the course of the play, Troy Maxson shows himself to be a man consumed by his own desires. "Fences is the odd man out because it's about one individual and everything focuses around him" (Bryer 208)
Feeling emasculated by a primarily white society, Troy turns to baseball, a highly masculinized sport where male strength and skill is expected and glorified. His "preoccupation with images associated with the traditionally masculine, extremely competitive sport robs him of the candor necessary to handle the delicate relationships in his life" (Clark 210)
Similar to the fence is the wooden porch which requires a paint job. The fence and porch are symptomatic of the crumbling marriage between Troy Maxson and wife Rose (Nadel 86)
Then you come on. Bring your army. Bring your sickle (Wilson 77)
In a way, he was trained from a very early age that in order to be considered within his family, he also had to become involved in the religion. If he did not do so then his father would not think of John as highly and this put pressure on him to become a preacher (Leise 348)
That is, I'm trying to tell you things I might never have thought to tell you if I had brought you up myself, father and son, in the usual companionable way. When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters (Robinson 102)
Religion was an important part of John's upbringing since he and his family lived in a parsonage. The two men did not communicate with one another very well and this impacted his ability to communicate with his own little boy (Tanner 227)
It is not unusual for people who have had such great losses to question their religious beliefs and even to question the existence of God. It also can either strengthen or worsen the potential relationships that people have with their other family members (Weele 217)
However Communists were not to stay silent and shortly after the victory of nationalist party, the conflict between two factions gripped the nation. This civil war lasted a whole decade in which communist party was repeatedly suppressed with the help of United States that had reportedly invested $3 billion to strengthen nationalist party and stem the growth of communist elements in the region (Stoley: 117)
But before we discuss the novel, however briefly, it is important to understand the historical background of this highly acclaimed book of its time. (Dye, 1999) By historical criticism, it means that we would be analyzing the novel and its various characters to see if the novel was based on real events and people or was it just a fictional work
Among the numerous other writers who exploited this ironical approach, the best was probably Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo (1887-) with his works, "Marionettes" (1918) and "Sleeping Beauty" (1919) (608). During this period, other small art theatres also began featuring works that were characteristic of the theatre of the grotesque, including Luigi Pirandello, Mario Praga, Dario Niccodemi (Berghaus 18)
Likewise, Brockett (1968) places Valle-Inclan with Spain's most popular playwrights during the period between 1915 and 1945, and attributes the delay in producing Bohemian Lights to his works' "perhaps to their similarity to Absurdist drama" which accounts for their "only recently coming to the fore" (609). According to this theatrical historian, besides Bohemian Lights, "Valle-Incan, noted primarily as a novelist, wrote several verse plays, satirical dramas, and farces of which the best is probably the 'Farce of the True Spanish Queen' (1920), a biting satire on the reign of Isabelle II" (Brockett 609)
(183) Characters of the Play The main characters in the play, "Bohemian Lights," are described briefly in Table 1 below. Table 1 Characters of the Play, Bohemian Lights Character Description The blind poet, Maximo Estrella Set sometime between 1917 and 1920, Luces de Bohemia (Bohemian Lights) chronicles the last night of Max Estrella's life as he roams the streets of Madrid (Dowling 1)
John P. Gabriele, however, finds a basis for psychological analysis of the character beyond his archetypal qualities (Gabriele 659 -- 60)
The sounds of rioting workers are heard from the street. Later that night Max and Latino stagger drunkenly under the broken street lamps seeking the streetwalker who appropriated Max's lottery ticket (Parker 468)