Tennessee Tornadoes On January 24, 1997, a supercell resulted in a tornado outbreak that spurred 13 tornadoes across middle Tennessee with an estimated damage in excess of nine million dollars across the counties of Rutherford, Cannon, Wilson and Smith with more than 300 buildings damaged or destroyed completely which included homes, businesses, and public facilities. Reports state that 31 individuals were injured during the tornados, which are reported to have ranged

While it is important in such widespread and far-reaching networks to ensure that individual elements within the network are empowered to make decisions as they see fit, it is even more important that each node in the network is given access to all relevant information in a current and comprehensive manner (Porche, 2004). A plan needs to be in place for dealing with these health issues that takes the

What Williams-Sonoma must do is create a more unified multichannel strategy that seeks to manage the lowest-cost sales entirely online, further reduces Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) on their income statement. If Williams-Sonoma can do this they can quickly become even more profitable. The e-commerce strategies need to concentrate on creating such a unique online customer experience that prospects and longtime customers both use the Web to purchase directly

Williams-Sonoma continues with its current strategies and objectives in five years, it will be facing declining sales, declining profits and may be evaluating the merits of continuing some of these brands. Basically, the company's financials have been strong and it has responded with a variety of new brands and brand extensions. However, the company's business is cyclical, and correlated with the health of the economy and in particular the housing

Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play by Tennessee Williams that explores the relationships between Stella (DuBois) and Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, Stella's sister. In the play, Williams analyzes how social constructs and expectations influenced Blanche's behavior and the factors that contributed to her mental breakdown. Blanche's mental breakdown piques towards the end of the play, however, it can be argued that Blanche was psychologically damaged before she arrived

Streetcar Named Desire and the Snows of Kilimanjaro The epigraph of Tennessee Williams' classic play A Streetcar Named Desire contains a quote from Hart Crane's poem The Broken Tower: "And so it was I entered the broken world / To trace the visionary company of love, its voice/An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)/But not for long to hold each desperate choice" (1947). Ernest Hemingway also elected