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Wall Street
(Drama) ( 1987)
© 2000 by Raymond Weschler
Major Characters
Bud (Buddy ) Fox…………………………………….Charlie Sheen
A young, smart and very motivated stock broker
(seller) who dreams of making millions of dollars.
Gordon Gekko………………………………………….Michael Douglas
A very rich, ruthless and immoral stock trader and “corporate raider,” which is a person who buys and sells companies, often with horrible results for company workers.
Darien Taylor……………………………………………Daryl Hannah
A young and beautiful interior decorator with very expensive taste, who is a friend of Gekko’s, and who soon becomes Bud’s girlfriend.
Carl Fox…………………………………………….………Martin Sheen
Bud’s father, a very honest and good man, who is an airplane mechanic and labor union leader at
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Obviously, the management tries to resist this.
Anacott Steal: A steal company that Larry Wildman wants to buy and save, and in theory, make profitable for the long run. It becomes harder for Larry to do this when Gekko begins to buy stock in it, thus driving up the price.
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Some Words and Expressions that You May not Know
Bud has a bad day at the office, losing $7,000 for all his hard work.
How are you doing? :: Doing any better, and it would be a sin.
A silly way of saying things are going very well
(A “sin” is an immoral act of which God disapproves).
Get out while you’re young, kid.
Lou’s way of telling Buddy to leave the brokering business.
How are you doing, pal?
“Pal” is an alternative word to friend (It is heavily used in this movie).
Marv, I’ve got a feeling we’re gonna make a killing today.
A slangy way of saying to make a lot of money.
Jesus , you can’t make a buck in this market.
“Jesus” is a common way of showing emotion such as anger or frustration. A “buck” is a widely used way of saying a dollar.
The country is going to hell faster than when that son of a bitch Roosevelt was in charge.
If a person or country is “going to hell,” it is becoming bad or weak.
A “son of a bitch “ is a vulgar way to refer to a mean or abusive person.
Putnam Drug. :: No, it will take five years for that company to come around.
In this case, for a company to “come around” means to become
Hell is said to be the worst place to ever exist, and it is greatly feared about on earth and in the minds of people. “Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up,” this illustrates personification in giving the flames of hell the live ability to hold and swallow us. It portrays how we will be consumed by our own sins if we do not act on them to better ourselves. If we let our sins pile up they will weigh us down and we will eventually be brought down to hell to pay for our wrong doings.
Be it so, since he who now is sovereign can dispose and bid what shall be right: furthest from He is best, whom reason hath equaled, force hath made supreme above his equals. Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! Hail, Infernal World! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor—one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
“Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”
Based on the information presented in the PBS documentary and the TIME article, describe how the behaviors of corporations, such as Ford, Firestone, and the financial institutions on Wall Street, could or should be understood as crime whether or not they have been prosecuted? How do these activities differ from those involved in “typical” street crimes?
* No foreseeable new product in pipeline. Currently takes up to 11,000 compounds to be screened to find one (1) compound to send through final testing (human trials). And even then it’s not guaranteed to make it past the FDA.
Second City Options (SCO) is a small firm that specializes in option trading. Employing 35 people, SCO is located on LaSalle Street in the Chicago financial district. It is a member firm of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), where it trades options on stocks and stock indices. It is also a member firm of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME Group), where it trades options on futures and the underlying futures contracts.
shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.
The idea of the Christian Hell has evolved from older beliefs. Originally Jews believed all dead
The Meltdown is a PBS special on the events of the financial crisis of 2008, in a timeline format, revealing the thinking behind decisions made during the fateful months before the stock market crash in August of that year. Some financial gurus on Wall Street devised a plan to bundle several mortgages together into a group, and then selling that bundle to another group of investors looking to invest in securities. The lender did not need to earn money from the loans he was giving out, he merely gained enough of a profit from the bundling operation that billions were being made on Wall Street from 2005-2008. The problem is that these bundles were risky, and as credit unworthy individuals defaulted on their mortgages, the entire system crumbled into what is now known as the Stock Market Crash of 2008, and have subsequently lived during the Great Recession.
The very first level of Hell is limbo. Limbo is where the people who are not baptized go. “Their only pain is that they have no hope,” (Ciardi 49). These people were not blessed by Christ therefore are in one of the upper levels of hell. It is not that the people there were bad, it was simply just that they were not blessed and were not as good as the people who were baptized. These people very easily could have done good deeds, but because they were not blessed by the Lord, they were placed in the first level of Hell.
The company is so large that no one drug can lift it from its current sales doldrums. In addition, the company was once highly attractive to investors, but its recent stock price fell to 1997 lows. This may put pressure on the company to attempt acquisitions at a time when the company is ill-equipped to integrate a new company into its organization, and it is engaged in a cost-cutting program at a time when it may need to invest even more in research and development (McTigue Pierce, 2005).
Galibraith, historian of the events of Wall Street Crash has mentioned, "Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. Had the economy been fundamentally sound in 1929 the effect of the great stock market crash might have been small."2 During 1929 and 1933 the national income of United States fell by 30% and industrial production more or less halved. By 1933 over a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. According to the League of Nations, world unemployment nearly tripled between 1929 and
It can mean a malicious, irritating women. Some women have taken the word Bitch and made it a word that empowers them and make them feel powerful and even independent, taking something that could be hurtful and making it their own. Then you have son of a bitch, which can be hateful toward a male, which can have the same power as the words bitch when it is being use to hurtful. “The modern word bitch comes from the Old English bicce, which probably developed from the Norse bikkje, all meaning ‘female dog’. Its use as an insult was propagated into Old English by the Christian rulers of the Dark Age to suppress the idea of femininity as sacred.”(Bayley.) The rise of the word bitch had its biggest jump in the 1920’s, which was the same year the feminist movement in the United
The billionaire CEO of Monaco's creative forces, and later art director of Pulse in Wall Street, is an international con artist with a huge line of internationally known assassins in his circle. He secretly sells King Vandyke and Venus de Asia paintings to increase his popularity In Rome's art market, and challenges SYBIL's fellowship with MoMa gallery by firing her. Later when Sybil finds out that ABIGAIL the new girl is Bogart's long time mistress, she threatens to spill the beans if Bogart takes the new girl over her. Bogart freaks out and rehires Sybil and promotes her the House Executive of Pulse. When Bogart's wife Aura hears about All-That-jazz in Pulse, she questions Bogart's leadership and warns him, but Sybil, in order to keep her
People who don’t accept Christ as their Savior will go to Hell. Revelation 20:15 affirms that fact that if anyone’s name isn’t written in the book of life, they will go to the fiery pit (BibleGateway). Salvation is the complete opposite of death (Kyrtatas). Matthew 13:42 explains what Hell will be like by saying, “and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (BibleGateway).” The apostle Paul said it best when he said that Hell is the separation of the presence of God. Revelation 21:8 describes Hell as a second death and proclaims who the inhabitants of Hell will be. It says, “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death