2.Scott Equipment Organization Paper Based on the following scenario‚ complete the calculations below: Scott Equipment Organization is investigating the use of various combinations of short-term and long-term debt in financing its assets. Assume that the organization has decided to employ $30 million in current assets‚ along with $35 million in fixed assets‚ in its operations next year. Given the level of current assets‚ anticipated sales and Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) for next
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I’ve always considered myself a chick flick or romantic comedy kind of girl. Last year‚ when there were no new movies out in which I was interested in‚ I decided to give Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a chance due to my obsession with Michael Cera‚ the main character. I was very hesitant at first‚ because the movie is based on a graphic novel‚ which obviously meant a lot of sci-fi and comic-con scenes that are‚ to say the least‚ not my top pick. As the movie progressed‚ I found myself really enjoying
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Nick Carraway is an important character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book‚ Nick struggles to understand the world around him and the people in it. Why are some people so careless while other people are so cautious? Why do people wait around for things to happen instead of going out and making them happen? And most of all‚ with all the people in the world‚ how can one still feel so lonely? It’s not hard to pick up on Nick’s detachment‚ “I felt a haunting loneliness
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Carelessness is the beginning of all evils; Carelessness is the flaw of the upper class of society. In The Great Gatsby‚ the characters are adored for their status‚ but their carelessness is ignored. Every character exhibits carelessness in different ways. Jay Gatsby is careless in his want of love; Nick Carraway is careless in his judgment of others; and Tom Buchanon‚ Daisy Buchanon and Myrtle Wilson are symbols of the carelessness of wealth in American society. Money and love corrode people’s minds
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Baby Party” focuses on the suburban scrap between two families during a party for the neighborhood little ones. John and Edith Andros live a charmed life in what seems to be a peaceful neighborhood in the suburbs‚ and they live here along with Joe and Mrs. Markey. The conflict begins with Edith Andros’ daughter‚ Ede‚ pushing Mrs. Markey’s son‚ Billy‚ and stealing his teddy bear. Mrs. Andros fails to discipline her daughter‚ and even goes as far as to laugh alongside
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Games Have you ever thought about the way people cheat in games? The novel‚ Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card‚ is about a third child that goes to Battle School to learn how to stop the aliens from invading his world. Orson Scott Card demonstrates how the games were used as a way to manipulate the kids and soldiers. The ways he accomplishes this is by the adults changing the rules of the battle room games‚ and when the adults were giving the kids and soldiers promotions to higher rankings. Now let’s
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Wow! What can I say; I have read the book The Boys In The Boat‚ Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics‚ by Daniel James Brown. This is about a guy named Joe Rantz. He went through many obstacles‚ to name a couple‚ he saw his mother die in front of him at the age of three. Another is that he got abounded at a very young age. I have also watched a outstanding movie called The Great Gatsby. Which is takes place twenty miles east of New York. The movie and the book are very
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In the bible Jesus turned water into wine. Most people rejoiced. Alcohol is a known refreshment in society. especially in the 1920’s. you cannot blame F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book for being historically correct. The 1920’s is also known as the jazz era‚ and it’s also known as the prohibition era. It’s the era with ; gangsters‚booze‚money‚power mongers‚ and speakeasies. So again why blame a book that is teaching
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absent from the constant hassle of society. These people wish to roam incognito without having to be responsible for anyone but themselves. This divorce from human relationship can become dangerous for the person as well as the surrounding people. Scott Russell Sanders makes a good point that‚ “...if we make a career of being unaccountable‚ we have lost something essential to our humanity‚ and we may well become a burden or threat to those around us.” The nicest thing about getting away from it
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strongly parallels to the life of the author‚ Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ reflecting upon the tragedies that he encountered along his pursuit for love due to the lack of morality that existed in the 1920s. Fitzgerald utilizes the lives of many different characters within his book to portray his personal life story‚ injecting portions of his background‚ experiences‚ and personality into several of the individuals illustrated in the novel. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul‚ Minnesota in
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