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."

Tags:jesus, bread, divinity

Abstract
The paper provides an overview of the restaurant industry as a whole and a strategic management study of one particular restaurant chain, Panera Bread. The paper looks at the problems and issues that the company must address with sound strategic planning if its advantages are to be maintained over the long term. The paper discusses the strategic management alternatives available to the firm and concludes that Panera Bread finds itself at the crossroads of tremendous opportunities and challenges that can be utilized as an opportunity for growth.

Outline:
Abstract
Industry/Company Overview
Situational Analysis
Problems/Issues to be Addressed
Strategic Alternatives and Recommendations
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Worldwide, there are approximately 8 million restaurants, run by about 300,000 restaurant companies, traditionally consisting of the full service segment, which comprises the "conventional" restaurants such as family-style, buffet, and dinner houses, and the fast food segment, which typically serves sandwiches, hamburgers and the like in the McDonald's type of a format (Gilliard & Khandekar, 2004). Because of the maturity and intense competition in the fast food segment, and the fact that full service restaurants are likewise in a state of saturation (Korn, 2001), there emerged a large segment of the population whose desire to spend money at restaurants was going unanswered, due to the fact that these consumers were tired of fast food offerings, and did not always have the time/money to visit full service restaurants."

Tags:food, strategies, issues, challenges

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.

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"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."

Tags:mmigrants, jewish, reb, smolinsky

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."

Tags:smolinsky, sara, european, jews

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."

Tags:poland, judaism, tradition, women

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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)."

Tags:jewish, immigrant, woman

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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."

Tags:immigration, pogrom, orthodox

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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)."

Tags:Spina, Fascist, priest, Uliva, Don, Benedetto

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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.

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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."

Tags:history, facts, conditions, immigrant, ghetto