Big Brother and the Holding Company Big Brother and the Holding Company came from San Francisco and was an American rock band which was part of the psychedelic music scene in 1965. This band had one gem among them which other bands didn’t and that gem was Janis Joplin who was their lead singer. In 1968 they came out with their masterpiece an album which rose to number one on the Billboard charts and was ranked at 338 in Rolling Stone’s the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was Cheap Thrills
Janis Joplin One of the most colorful music legends of the 1960's was Janis Joplin. Blues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19th 1943, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-aberrational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive
Confusion, while crashing in multiple apartments. Janis Joplin was also arrested in Berkeley for shoplifting (Willett, 2008). Even though Janis Joplin had a slow start, she became very popular during the first period of her career. Joplin first met Big Brother and
1. Introduction 158-years-old institution, the Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Sought chapter 11 protections on September 15, 2008, indicating the largest bankruptcy filed in the U.S. history. The Lehman declared $639 billion in assets and $619 billion on debts, which surpassed the previous bankruptcy filed by Enron and WorldCom. The Lehman brother was 4th best-ranked U.S. Investment bank and globally 7th best investment bank before the collapse. An industry that had 25,000 employees worldwide crumbled
When thinking about women singers in the sixties one name constantly pops up in my head, Janis Joplin. Nothing is more unique then the raw raspy voice of Janis Joplin. Though her rise and eventual unexpected death was short her voice and words live on through her countless songs. Janis Joplin was born January 19, 1943 in Por Arthur, Texas. Growing up she had a loving family as well as two younger siblings. According to Wikipedia Janis’ mother said, “that Janis always needed more attention than
success of bank was up to at mark. Unfortunately in 1969, the Lehman’s family member left the firm. After 1969 that firm converted into the investment bank and name was Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. The Chief Executive of the Company was Richard Fuld. He was very aggressive person towards his work. The company was taking the big risks of financial. Due to the firm was started winding down after collapse of the Bear Stearns hedge fund. The firm also had accumulated a very large commercial real estate
famous examples is bankrupt of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc in 2008. The driven force of this financial crisis is securitization. Securitization increases the equity of the market because “Securitization is the process through which an issuer creates a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing different tiers of the repackaged instruments to investors” (Investopedia). The disadvantage of
a global credit market pause (Arner, 2009). Lehman Brothers, a stand-alone investment bank, along with other companies such as Bear Stearns, American International Group, Inc. (AIG), Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac suffered catastrophic losses. However, unlike Lehman Brothers, the federal government instituted rescue efforts for Bear Stearns and AIG, along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government’s lack of intervention regarding Lehman Brothers prompted questions as to why the government showed
and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Chester Helms (father of San Francisco’s 1967, Summer of Love) was a music promoter and a counter culture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid to late Sixties. Helms had recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer
and as a result, the commercial especially target those with technophobia - the fear of super computers and HAL like mainframes used as a medium for increased government surveillance. At the time of the its release, Apple Computer was still a small company and IBM’s uniform PCs dominated the market, crushing competing machines with performance, and forcing themselves into businesses and homes alike. In order to tame the computer paranoia and be successful in such competitive and broad demographic, Apple’s
are many levels to the symbolism in the commercial. The premier symbol is the dictator Big Brother, referencing to George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” where Big Brother is a tyrant in control of a country’s political party that "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power" (Orwell, 272). In the context of the commercial, Big Brother is meant to represent IBM. At the time, IBM was Apple’s largest competitor and ran the
Costa Coffee , is a company that is founded in 1995 by an italian brothers (Sergio Costa & Bruno Costa) in England. They first started as a Coffee Bean wholesale business , catering to the needs of local cafes and coffee houses. With their Italian background and experience in mixed roasted coffee beans that Sergio learnt in Parma, Italy, The Costa brothers gradually established their own unique style of roasting coffee beans. They go through a low temperature , slowly roasting the coffee beans, so
entire career. As we know, Mr Kuok owns multiple companies in various fields and most of his businesses are managed by him or his family members. His business interests involve many aspects, which are sugarcane plantation, sugar refinery, oil and mining, flour milling,
Swot Analysis of McDonald’s Australia Holding Limited: Executive Summary: This report will be presenting to you the SWOT Analysis of McDonalds Australia Holding Limited. There will be use of company reports, McDonald’s own website, and articles from the internet. The whole purpose is to show where McDonald’s is doing well and where its doing bad. Towards the end, there will be some recommendations that can help McDonald’s turn their weaknesses to strengths and threats to opportunities. Introduction:
Moral Hazard by definition is when a person or company takes on a risky venture knowing that they are protected against the risk and another party will incur the cost. Henry Paulson former head of Goldman Sachs and at the time of the Wall Street meltdown served as the Secretary of the Treasury used the term moral hazard when dealing with investment banking houses. Moral hazard to Paulson meant that bailing everyone out ensured that they had no incentive to succeed and would not avoid the dangers
Motor Company, General Motors Company, and the Chrysler Corporation, a.k.a. "The Big Three", are the three largest manufacturers of automobiles in the world. " The Big Three" hold nearly 75% of the market and produce over 8 million automobiles per year. The largest competitors of " The Big Three" are Japanese auto producers that include Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. These three foreign manufacturers hold 20% of the market and produce about 2.7 million automobiles per year. General Motors Company, the
What comes to your mind when I say Walt Disney , some of you might think of classic cartoons & modern – day movie masterpieces . or maybe a grand theme park or a mass media holding company , all of these are accurate but what’s the story behind the Walt Disney company. as we all knew it started with a man called Walt Disney . - He was born in Chicago in 1901 - Walt was a pretty regular kid and one of five children . - during primary school he expressed an interest in drawing and would practice
differences of these financial crises one must first understand the circumstances that surrounded the panics. The financial panic of 1907 can be traced back to 1901, the beginning of the Roosevelt presidency, and his crusade against monopolies and big business by enacting strict anti-trust laws. Business began searching for ways around these new anti-trust laws which led them to chasing riskier profit. This activity went nearly completely unregulated, as there was no central bank at the time. Stocks
spends most of his time dwelling on the past, specifically trying to recall how society lived before Big Brother. Mr. Charrington’s junk shop is an indulging destination for Winston because being surrounded by memorabilia helps him connect with the past in a way his mind cannot. The first relic Winston purchases from the junk shop is a diary. “He had seen it lying
am able to look at my holding environment. Kegan says that humans are subjects to specific holding environments that provide both adaptive challenges and support for growth (Kegan 18-12). These challenges are provided in certain holding environments so that a person can overcome with a support system. Also, Kegan explains “effective holding environments must match the individual’s stage of development – that there must be a goodness of fit” (Kegan 18-12). I believe my holding environment matches my