Questions:
Question 1
Assume that you are an outside user of a financial statement. For example, you are looking at investing in a company, but are reviewing the financial statements first. Explain why you feel that MD&A is a useful component of the annual report. What sections are you most likely to use? Why?
Respond to this...I believe that MD&A is a useful component of the annual report because management provides feedback of the previous years operations, and how the business performed financially. Management also explains the upcoming year by explaining approaches to new projects and future goals. If I was an investor in this company then these two sections would be a real interest to me since it shows how the company has progressed from the last year, and the direction of the company.
Reference
Investopedia, 2017, Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), Investopedia, Retrieved From: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mdanalysis.asp
Question 2
Conduct an online search for André Breton's poem, "Free Union." Upon locating the poem, read through it and share your thoughts about the following discussion with your classmates:
André Breton's "Free Union" follows the form of a French blason, a poem that is made up of a list of qualities that describe a person, usually a woman, often to flatter, but sometimes to mock sarcastically. Maybe you have heard or read one before, something like, "Your eyes are like emeralds; your hair shines like the sun; etc." You can see that the poet is making comparisons: eyes with emeralds, hair with the sun. In "Free Union," Breton seems to be comparing "Woman of mine" to some really bizarre images.
Choose a few examples of these comparisons in order to see if you can make sense out of them. Remember what the Dadaists and Surrealists stand for, with regard to conventional poetry. What kind of thinking is needed to make sense of these images? Is it all logical? Is one even supposed to make sense of the poem? If not, then what do you think was Breton's point for writing it? Be sure to refer to examples from the poem when you share your thoughts with other classmates.
Respond to this... After reading Free Union by Andre Breton, I believe the poem describes all aspects of his wife; the good, the bad, and even some things he wishes she was.
My wife whose eyelashes are strokes in the handwriting of a child
Whose eyebrows are nests of swallows
My wife whose temples are the slate of greenhouse roofs
With steam on the windows
To me, this excerpt is saying how beautiful his wife eyes are and how her eyelashes make her eyes look soft even while she is angry. You can imagine how the skin at her temples wrinkles when she furrows her brow when upset. I do not think the whole poem is logical or that you have to make sense of every line. There are some that I could not make sense of such as:
My wife whose shoulders are champagne
Are fountains that curl from the heads of dolphins over the ice
Is he saying she has big shoulders? I am not sure. I think the point of the poem is just for him to express all of his feelings for her.
Breton, A. (n.d). Free Union. Retrieved December 10, 2017, from
https://poetryoem.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/andre-bretons-free-union-translated-by-david-antin/