Abstract This paper looks at the statement that Jesus makes in the Gospel of John that "I am the bread of life," and how this is significant to proving and explaining his divinity and his role as the Messiah in the context of the Old Testament. The statement is also discussed in the context of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes that had been performed the previous day.
From the Paper "I am the bread of life." In the Gospel of John, Jesus makes many "I am" statements, including the allegorically complex, "I am the bread of life," speech, which has many meanings and implications. This paper will look at the events surrounding this statement and its complex relationship to the revelations of God in the Old Testament and to the revelation of the deity of Jesus. It is important to understand the context in which Jesus makes his statement that he is the bread of life. The speech takes place the morning after he performs the miracle of walking on the water on the way to Capernaum, which is also the day after the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand with the loaves and the fishes."
Abstract The paper introduces and analyzes Ignacio Silone's novel "Bread and Wine". Specifically, it analyzes the statement "'School is not life, my dear Don Benedetto,' Concettino said. 'At school you dream, in life you have to adapt yourself. That is the reality. You never become what you would like to become'" (Silone 15) as it relates to the characters of the novel, especially Pietro. The paper examines whether transformation really does occur for any of the characters, who is transformed, who is not and, most importantly, who really becomes who they "would like to become".
From the Paper "If there is one character in the story who is not transformed it is Bianchina. She worships Don Paolo the priest, but inside she is still the same girl she was at the beginning of the story, her knowing Pietro has not transformed her at all. In the country she would have disgraced her family had she given birth to the illegitimate child, and she learns nothing from her mistake. When she travels to Rome, she becomes a prostitute, saying "In Fossa I was bored to death" (Silone 296). She is a simple person, with no need for revolution or redemption, and she realizes it. In fact, she admits her only hope in life is Pietro, but she is enough of a realist to know he will not ever feel the same about her. "It is the only thing that keeps me alive now, and it doesn't cost you anything" (Silone 299)."
Abstract This paper will examine the role of the Jewish European immigrant when coming to America. By examining Yezierska's book "Bread Givers", we can see how the main character Sarah struggles between old world traditions and new world world America.
Abstract While Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers" is a work of fiction, the story of the Smolinsky family is quite typical of the reality faced by many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Yezierska writes, not only of economic and monetary struggles tackled by countless immigrants, but of a familial dynamic emblematic of Eastern European Jewish culture. This paper explains how, through her account of Sara Smolinsky and family, Yezierska tells a history that recounts past struggles in the Jewish shtetl of Russian Poland, continuing all the way through the Americanization of the second-generation Jewish immigrant. It shows that this powerful tale of Sara Smolinsky helps create a context to further study the rich history of the Eastern European Jews in America.
From the Paper "The story of Sara Smolinsky begins well before the first chapter of Bread Givers. One cannot fully understand the direction Sara's life takes in America without first understanding the heritage and culture from which she came. While Bread Givers is centered around Sara and her family's experiences in America, the life of Sara's parents before immigrating to the United States is an integral part of Sara's story."
Abstract This paper explains that "Bread Givers" is a source of cultural and social history because, even though it is fictionalized, it gives rich details of life in the early 20th century and illustrates many social conditions. The author points out that the book is not a primary history source, but rather a secondary source, full of facts that would be of use to just about any researcher who is interested in the period. The paper relates that this book is the story of a young girl's fight to make something of herself, just as the author came to America as a young girl in 1890 with her family, who emigrated from Poland, graduated from college, and wrote six books between 1920 and 1932.
From the Paper "Sara's story, and the story of her sisters is not unusual for the time, and provides the historian and interested reader with rich details of how these Jewish immigrants lived and worked in the ghettos of New York. Sara recognized her father's dominance over the family, and struggled to make a life for herself, which her sisters did not have the strength to do. She said plaintively, "I don't want to sell herring for the rest of my days. I want to learn something. I want to do something" (Yezierska 66). She broke away from the family and suffered incredible hardships to educate herself, and in addition, these experiences give great insight into the personal history of the people, and of the time."
This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book, "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska, which is about the life of a young Jewish woman in Lower Eastside New York at the beginning of the 1900s.
Abstract This paper reviews this novel and explains that, although it is a work of fiction, "Bread Givers" is, in truth, based on the real life of the writer, Anzia Yezierska. It compares her life to that of Sarah in the book, who left home to acquire an education, something fairly unheard of for young Jewish women of her time. It discusses how Sara's father, Reb, is a cruel and demanding man who stands in the way of everything his daughter hopes for and how his actions are based on Old World customs rather than New World sensibilities.
From the Paper "The author, Anzia Yezierska, came to America in 1890 when she was a young girl. Her family emigrated from Poland, and settled in New York City in the Jewish section of the Lower East Side. Her story is in many ways a mirror image of the young Sara in "Bread Givers," as Anzia left home when she was seventeen to continue her education, and she created a great rift between herself and her father. Anzia began to write around 1915, and published several short stories and books. In fact, her first book was made into a Hollywood movie. She gained fame and acceptance, but in the 50s, her writing feel out of style, and she never regained her popularity. She died in 1970. Her book "Bread Givers" was rediscovered by a professor at Columbia University, and reprinted in 1999 as a classic text of life in the Jewish ghetto in New York."
Abstract "Bread Givers" is a novel about a Jewish Immigrant family that moves to America and attempts to make a living in New York. This paper is about how the author uses the title of the book to describe the new role of women in American society, the struggles they faced both in the working world and from fathers unwilling to separate themselves from the old ways of life, and the new complications created by their new-found freedom.
From the Paper "The plot of Bread Givers revolves around Sara and her family. Sara being the narrator, taking in everything that happens around her so that the reader practically sees her world in one's mind's eye. A big chunk of the story is the relationship Sara has with her sisters and the horrible pain and suffering they go through at the hands of their father, Reb Smolinsky. From the very first few paragraphs, the reader can tell that Sara and her sisters, especially Bessie, are the workers of the household; as quoted here ?One look at her (Sara regarding Bessie), and I knew she had not yet found work. I went on peeling the potatoes, but no more knew what my hands were doing. I felt on the hurt of her weary eyes.? (1). Due to their fathers refusal to get a job as a result of his rigorous religious studies, Sara and her sisters (even her mother) are forced to go out and find jobs or go hungry."
Abstract This paper tells that "Bread Givers" is the moving story of one young woman's struggle to make something of herself in a new country. She struggles against the old world ideals of her family, especially her father, who hangs on to his native customs even though he has come to America to better his family's lives. The paper examines the concepts of nativism and nation in the book.
From the Paper "Bread Givers," as with most of Yezierska's works, is semi-autobiographical. Like her heroine Sara, Yezierska came to America when she was young, lived on the Lower East Side in the Jewish Ghetto of New York, and constantly pushed herself to work hard, write, and rise above her beginnings. One critic writes, "Yezierska's works chronicle the lives of Jewish immigrants in America, in particular the struggles of Jewish women to escape drudgery and realize their dreams. She was critical of the patriarchal religious culture of Orthodox Judaism that transported old-world oppression to America" (Bloom 160). In addition, the introduction to this new printing of her novel states, "Her constant themes are the dirt and congestion of the tenement, the struggle against poverty, family, and tradition to break out of the ghetto, and then the searing recognition that her roots would always lie in the old world" (Kessler-Harris xvi)."
Abstract This paper discusses Anzia Yezierska's book, "The Bread Givers", depicting the chronicles of the Smolinsky family, Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 1930s. The paper examines how the themes of the novel underline that the American nation as a whole must give up conventional notions of America as a land of boundless opportunity and recognize the sacrifices of culture, life and limb that immigrants make to become a part of the American fabric.
From the Paper "The profound cultural shift the Smolinsky family endures is shown early on in the book, whereby the narrator bridles at the control wielded by her father over the family. The Smolinsky women struggle to keep the family economically afloat and to support the scholarly activities of the father. However, this older, European model of the torah-reading scholar supported by the labor of others is really not sustainable in America. In America, money matters more than learning, and there is no wealthy Jewish community or patrons or network of financial support and stability to keep the man in the style that would be customary in Europe. Although the Smolinsky patriarch may wish to keep alive the study habits, support of charities, and manner of life that would be practical, once, in a European Jewish community, in his perhaps equally idealized version of old Europe, he cannot in America. His determination to do so makes life hard for his daughters, and causes Sara to turn away from him first in her heart, and then to seek a new life."
Abstract An examination of how Italian author Ignazio Silone uses the characters Spina and Bendetto in his novel "Bread and Water" to represent compromise between the institutions of Christianity and Socialism.
From the Paper "In the novel "Bread and Water" Ignazio Silone attempts to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable ideologies inherent in Christianity and Socialism through his attention to the relationship between the novels most important characters - Spina and Bendetto. In the relationship between these two men, it seems that Silone finds a microcosm for a greater understanding between the two institutions."
Tags: ignazio silone, bread and water, spina, bendetto, socialism, christianity
Abstract The paper discusses how "Bread and Wine" and "Dr. Zhivago" are novels that contain strong motifs of idealism and passion, against a backdrop of war and personal confusion for their protagonists. The paper examines how both books feature protagonists who are deeply morally conflicted, due both to physical hardship and to enormous moral confusion. The paper analyzes the books' two main characters, Pietro Spina and Yury Zhivago, in terms of how both of their lives fundamentally change.
From the Paper "As the book opens Spina has returned home to Italy, after a long period of exile abroad. He seeks refuge now among peasants of the Abruzzi; pretending among them to be Spada.
A key theme of Silone's Bread and wine is Pietro Spina's personal struggle against evil that he observes all around him in the world, especially among the fascists, although Communism itself, Russian style, has also come lately to disillusion him."
Tags: competing, philosophy, literature, medicine, Russia, Catholic, Church
Abstract This paper is a case study of the Pandera Bread company, which was created by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich on the Eastern coast of the US in 1981. The company is currently operating 1027 bakery cafes across the country. 696 of these working points are franchised and the rest are company-owned. The paper discusses the group's activity, which covers the provision of food for breakfast and lunch and is spread across three business segments: bakery & cafe, franchise and the provision of fresh dough to franchisees. Also, the paper discusses the companies statistics, such as being considered by Business Week among the 100 Hot Growth Companies in US. Specifically, the paper assesses the bakery-cafe subunit, which is the company's flagship activity, and it's growth and franchise units. The paper asserts that franchising is one of the ways in which the company manages to create wider brand awareness and presence across the country and in the same time diversifies its risk. Also, this paper included many graphs and tables illustrating the key points throughout.
Outline:
Introduction
Strategic thinking
Tactical planning
a. Key Results
b. Success Factors
c. Critical Issues
d. One-Year Objective
From the Paper "The total revenue, tangible book value, gross profit and cash from operations have values above the industry average. The higher these ratios are, the better is for the company. The inventory seems to have a value higher than the industry average. However, this ratio is positive when it has a low value, which suggests that the company's inventory is high. The levered free cash flow should be as high as possible to express a positive impact on the company. In Panera's case the value shows a negative evolution. One of the explanations for this evolution could be a high interest of mandatory principal repayment.
"Overall, the company's evolution in the last years has been remarkable and the Bakery and Cafe subunit has been by far the group's most important activity. In marketing terms, it is the group's "cash cow" activity as it already reached a maturity point - the company has been in this business for around 25 years; and the activity is still generating high revenues."
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between Sara Smolinsky and her father in Anzia Yezierska's novel "Bread Givers". The paper relates the traditional views of the family structure in the Jewish home and illustrates how in this book, the actions of the father are themed after an intense culture clash of tradition against progress. The paper discusses how Sara's father would have been best represented as a sympathetic character if the history of his upbringing had been focused upon with more detail. The paper contends that the book is biased in its writing style and point of view by being exclusive to anything but Sara's struggle and her fight for independence and identity. The paper points out, however, that if the father figure were more caring, less degrading and controlling then Sara would not have been the dynamic character Yezierska had intended.
From the Paper "Sara's father in the novel is the epitome of the over-bearing father. He insists on marrying her three sisters off, not to men whom have shown keen interest in them, but to suitors that he alone has chosen. In this fashion he controls his family, his family's affairs, and through this action makes it clear that he is the alpha male. The patriarchy presented in the novel is of great consequence to the actions of Sara. She wants to be rid of the old way of life and become Americanized, but the father, despite Sara coming back after finishing school and earning a degree only complains, "She's only good to the world, not to her father. Will she hand me her wages from school as a dutiful daughter should?" Thus, there is no reconciliation found in the novel between daughter and father, and this is the theme throughout the entire novel."
Abstract While comparing Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Yzierska's "The Bread Givers" may seem like comparing apples and rocks, there is always more than what is simply seen. While on the surface "The Great Gatsby" appears to be a novel of love, idealism, and disillusionment, it is readily evident that what lies beneath, the wasteland that exists between New York and West Egg, is the true center and meaning of the book. "Gatsby" is a novel that presents us with one of the great enigmatic characters of American literature. Fitzgerald's novel centers around the very current idea that what lies underneath the surface is a corruption of ideals because elements of human life, such as love, faith, and friendship are forced to put on a false face and to deny themselves when viewed by others. Yzierska's "The Bread Givers" is also a novel of conflict between two equally distant worlds, the "Old World" of Europe and the "New World" of America. Bridging that gap is just as difficult a task as Fitzgerald tackles. The purpose of this paper is to examine how each book takes on the task of jumping between two dissimilar worlds and how the attempts to join them together ultimately fail.
Abstract This paper discusses the Panera Bread Company in relation to its human relations practices. The writer also looks at the company's employees, its marketing strategies and how they are devised to reach its target markets. Further, the writer discusses how the Panera Bread Company has leveraged information and technology solutions to create market differentiation and competitive advantage in the marketplace.
From the Paper "The restaurant industry is composed of two major segments: the full-service segment and the fast food segment. However, over the past decade a novel concept has quickly been developing into a new segment of its own: the quick-casual segment. The quick-casual is essentially a combination of the quick order and fast service of the fast-food segment combined with the quality food products found in the traditional full-service segment. The quick-casual segment is a segment that produces over $6b a year in revenue and is growing in double digit percentages year on year. The quick-casual is a fast rising new segment in the restaurant industry and one which holds much promise for the organizations involved in it."
