20th December‚ 2150 The end is coming quickly. At first I thought it would be because of an unexpected virus that would spread and kill all mankind. No fuss somehow. Or a battalion of unknown species would land on our planet‚ take it and destroy all living matter in sight. I imagine weird creatures flying even more ridiculous things. But I was sort of disappointed. Humankind wanted a cruel finale. Bombs are everywhere. Merciless androids are roaming around shedding innocent blood. Deafening
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The Red Line The story “The Red Line” by Charles Higson revolves around a woman and two men of whom one is stabbed and another becomes a murderer. All of the characters share the feeling of displacement. They all feel different from other people. The first character we meet‚ the Bob Seeger imitator‚ feel that he is different from others in his appearance and better than others when it comes to performance. “when he looked out of the window he could see people. Ugly people.”. He thinks that people
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UV5319 May 10‚ 2010 B CORPORATION: A NEW SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL “We envision a new sector of the economy which harnesses the power of private enterprise to create public benefit.” —B Lab‚ “Declaration of Interdependence‚” 2010 Introduction Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan were friends as undergraduates at Stanford University. In 1993‚ a few years after graduation‚ they helped start the basketball shoe and apparel company AND1. As the company grew‚ cofounder Gilbert and president
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ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE 1. What is an Electronic Voting Machine? It is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system. 2. What are the advantages of EVM over the traditional ballot paper/ballot box system? (i) It eliminates the possibility of invalid and doubtful votes which‚ in many cases‚ are the root causes of controversies and election petitions. (ii) It makes the process of counting of votes much
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ACF: CONGOLEUM CORPORATION Summary Congoleum Corporation has three product market segments: home furnishings‚ shipbuilding and automotive and industrial distribution. In 1979‚ First Boston Corporation bid for an LBO of Congoleum for a price per share of $38. The purpose of this analysis is to assess Congoleum as a LBO candidate and determine whether the offer made by First Boston Corporation is fair. 1. Is Congoleum a good LBO candidate? In other words‚ does this company have a lot of debt
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Hampton Machine Tool Company‚ a machine tool manufacturer‚ was founded in 1915. Hampton ’s customer base is made up primarily of military aircraft manufactures and automobile manufactures in the St. Louis area. Hampton felt the boom in the 1960s with record setting profits in the mid to late 1960s. Hampton slowed down in the 1970s with the withdrawal from Vietnam War and the oil embargo. Hampton stabilized by the late 1970s and now has a larger market share as other competitors were unable to
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Target Corporation By: Michelle Management 361 (APA style) Abstract “Our mission is to make Target the preferred shopping destination for our guests by delivering outstanding value‚ continuous innovation and an exceptional guest experience by consistently fulfilling our Expect More. Pay Less‚ brand promise.” Target Corporation is a quickly growing company who has over 1400 stores in the United States with plans of opening 600 new stores within the near future. This expansion requires great
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Gulf Oil Corporation in 1984. This merger was the largest merger till that time in the history of the United States and it doubled the oil and gas reserves of the company. Chevron merged with Texaco in 2001 & formed a new company named ChevronTexaco. Texaco was one of the branches of Chevron family. It was formed in 1901 in Beaumont‚ Texas. To convey a unified presence in the world‚ it was again renamed to Chevron in 2005. Chevron strengthened its position by acquiring Unocal Corporation in 2005.
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DFD Yourdon Recently reviewed In the late 1970s data-flow diagrams (DFDs) were introduced and popularized for structured analysis and design (Gane and Sarson 1979). DFDs show the flow of data from external entities into the system‚ showed how the data moved from one process to another‚ as well as its logical storage. Figure 1 presents an example of a DFD using the Gane and Sarson notation. There are only four symbols: Squares representing external entities‚ which are sources or destinations
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Development Corporation has built a very large apartment complex in Gainesville‚ FL. As part of the student-oriented marketing strategy that has been developed‚ it is stated that if any problems with plumbing or air conditioning are experienced‚ a maintenance person will begin working on the problem within one hour. If a tenant must wait more than one hour for the repairperson to arrive‚ a $10 deduction from the monthly rent will be made for each additional hour of time waiting. An answering machine will
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