Purpose: Name Assignment #1: Good Night Motel Background: * Justin McGregor, owner of Good Night Motel is offered a proposition from George Alward that would fill up all 30 units of the motel from Friday 10/26/12 – Saturday 10/27/12 * The renters are delegates to a church convention which fits the family-style reputation that the motel wants to maintain * Alward offered to pay $40/unit as opposed to the normal $80/unit * The dates that Alward wants are during the slow season where it struggled to fill up to ¼ of the rooms * In recent years, a further dip of an additional 7%-15% is expected in room occupancy * Revenues are expected to remain flat for the next several years Issues and Qualitative factors: * McGregor doesn’t want to take the deal because he says that Good Night barely broke even in the 2012 and is afraid that giving out these rooms for ½ price will be unfavorable * McGregor is also afraid that giving this deal might set future precedents Guidance: * A Cost Volume Profit (C-V-P) analysis should be done to determine breakeven point and contribution margins Computation: * McGregor’s take on the breakeven point in incorrect. He looked at the income statement and came in the conclusion that the motel only made $3,177 in 2012. * This is incorrect because depreciation is not a cash outflow and should not be considered. Total operating expense | $385,973.00 | less: depreciation | $54,700.00 | Total cash outflow | $331,273.00 | * He only needs to earn $331,273.00 in revenue to break even instead of the original $385,973.00 that he thought. He earned $389,150.00 which is well above that amount.
This is an interview that was conducted on Friday May 12, 2013 at 8:30 P.M. in Murfreesboro, TN at the home of Barry Ferguson. Barry was chosen for the interview because of his many changes in political views, his available schedule, the friendship that we have, and because he lives next door to me making it convenient. . Barry owns a title company and is also a semi-retired professional musician. When Reagan was elected in 1980 Barry had just come of Tammy Wynette’s tour and was 23 years old.
In the year 2000, four percent of Americans admitted that they had used methamphetamines at least once. Meth users have a choice of methods to get the drug into their bodies. It can be injected, smoked, snorted, or ingested ( USDOJ “Meth…” ). Injecting and smoking meth cause an instant euphoric rush. Snorting meth takes effect in about five minutes, and ingesting the drug gets the user high in twenty minutes ( ONDCP “Meth…” ).
“The Night Owls who called earlier must have been thinking about, uh, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit or some other book.” (page 222) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a 1955 autobiographical novel by Sloan Wilson that deals with his experiences as an assistant director of the US National Citizen Commission for Public Schools. The book shares the experience of a man in the workforce, as opposed to Brown’s Sex and the Office, which focuses on the woman. 25. “To an eastern child, particularly a child who has always had an uncle on Wall Street and who has spent several hundred Saturdays first at F.A.O Schwartz and being fitted for shoes at Best’s and then waiting under the Biltmore clock and dancing to Lester Lanin, New York is just a city, albeit the city, a plausible place for people to live.” (page 231) F.A.O Schwartz is the oldest toy store in the United States which had a popular location in New York City on Fifth Avenue. The Biltmore Clock was a famous clock located in the lobby of the New York Biltmore Hotel.
When he was 10 he returned to Hawaii where he lived with his Christian grandparents and as an adult him and his wife attended church and had a close relationship with Christian preacher Jeremiah Wright for 20 years. The book goes on to say that it’s not new to social psychologist that people are holding
As the school day ended one Friday in February, we arrived at church the following Sunday only to be questioned of our knowledge. Sitting next to Parm, our pastor asked us a few questions because we were the oldest two children of the choir. “Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?” We could answer that question without hesitation. “Who is Rosa Parks?” We could also answer that question easily. “Who is Shirley Chisholm?” We hesitated, but answered correctly.
Mormon Church On Sunday September 22 I went to the Mormon Church in order to observe the way they conduct their religious ceremonies. I stayed there for the whole entire program which consisted of 3 hours and in each hour a different activity was held. The first hour was held in the very center of the church known as the chapel. Families are seated and ready for the program by 10:00. I noticed that the people attending this church are predominantly white middle or upper class families.
Community is held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and is mandatory for all residents. These meetings are used to remind the men of their support, but also hold each other accountable for any wrong doing. Once the meeting starts roll-call is taken and everyone is greeted with “good morning” by everyone in attendance, even us visitors. This part was a little awkward for me because I was the only female in a group of 80 plus men, but everyone was very welcoming and open to tell their stories. After roll-call, the men’s director, Steve Hanks, ask the group if there are any issues, this is where the men admit to any missed job assignments, inappropriate behavior, or problems with other residents.
My first thought was that these two women must be attending their first meetings. I later learned that my suspicions were correct. Neither of the women stood alone very long as other members, who I could only assumes were veterans to these meetings, promptly introduced themselves with big smiles and comforting remarks. As the mingling whined down, one of the employees (whom I could only distinguish because he was the gentleman I first contacted about the group) stood at the front of the class and spoke for about 10 minutes. He spoke of his tribulations to get to the point in his life where he is now comfortable with himself.
Traditionally American weddings take place in a church, family and friends are formally invited and they have bridesmaids, flower girls, and a ring bearer. The bride and the groom always have a dance too after they have said their vows. Pakistani weddings have two sides, first there’s a religious ceremony at a mosque where there’s a mullah who reads them their vows and there can’t be any music at this part of the wedding because this part is like a Islamic ceremony where the bride and groom make a promise in front of God. After the religious part is over the other part of the wedding usually takes place a week after where they can dance and enjoy. Family and friends play a big role in both weddings; they are the most important part of the wedding.