million bears and had over 400 stores in operation worldwide in Australia‚ Canada‚ Denmark‚ France‚ Germany‚ Japan‚ South Korea‚ The Netherlands‚ Norway‚ the Republic of Ireland‚ Poland‚ Russia‚ Singapore‚ South Africa‚ Sweden‚ Taiwan‚ Thailand‚ the United Kingdom and the United States (including Puerto Rico). While the majority of Build-A-Bear stores are in shopping malls‚ by 2008 the company had opened five stores in Major League Baseball stadiums.[3] In 2006‚ the company acquired The Bear Factory
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The purpose of this lab was to observe osmosis in the Gummy Bears and to investigate the movement of water in and out of a Gummy Bear. The hypothesis stated that the salt will make the gummy bear weigh more‚ but it will keep the gummy bear more intact. However‚ the results showed that the gummy bear decreased in mass because of the salt and water. This contradicts the hypothesis because of how it was believed that the gummy bear would increase in weight‚ but it did the exact opposite. One part of
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In 1935 the Public Utilities Holding Act was passed which led eventually to the breakup of privately held utility companies. Bear Stearns became an aggressive trader in the expanded market for securities being issued to place the utilities in public hands. In the 1940’s‚ the firm became a large player in mergers and acquisitions‚ particularly in the freight and transportation industries as cars and trucks began to replace railroads as the primary mover of people and freight. A once booming rail industry
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Build-A-Bear Workshop Case Study 1. Which of the marketing management concepts covered in this chapter best describes Build-A-Bear Workshop? The marketing concept within the marketing management concepts is the one that best describes Build-A-Bear. The marketing concept‚ which is the “marketing management philosophy which holds that achieving organisational goals depends on determining the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions more effectively than competitors
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The accounting issues surrounding mortgage backed securities and the collapse of Bear Stearns Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Bear Stearns and their Activities Prior to its Collapse 4 Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) 5 Accounting Theory‚ Mortgage Backed Securities‚ and the Collapse of Bear Stearns 6 The Offsetting Nature of Relevance and Reliability 7 Fair Value Accounting 9 Information Asymmetry 11 Adverse Selection 11 Moral Hazard
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Should the Government Limit Our Right to Bear Arms? POSITIVE The government should not limit our right to bear arms for several reasons; the main reason being that it would go against the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. The government‚ I believe‚ needs to focus on WHO gets to bear arms rather than take the right to bear arms from all people. Congress needs to set harder laws and punishments for those who misuse guns and other weapons. They also need to set higher requirements for gun purchases
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Billy Collins has used Imagery in Flames to show an idea or a thought he has had. Smokey The Bear is walking in the woods with a gas can and some matches. “Hat cocked at a disturbing angle”(line5). This is imagery because it makes the reader visually see Smokey The Bear. When you see this type of imagery it alters the reader’s perspective of the poem to think something is not correct. Smokey The Bear is tired of warning the careless about forest fires. He is walking in the woods with a gas can
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It wasn’t till fifteen years later in 1942‚ that Faulkner wrote a book filled with short stories with a famous story to be known as the best short story within the twentieth century. "The Bear" appeared in its fullest form as a chapter in Go Down‚ Moses. “The Bear”‚ is a simply yet complex story to wrap your head around told from Ike’s‚ Isaac McCaslin‚ perspective. This short story set in a time frame shortly after the Civil War‚ during an annual late autumn hunting expedition
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article titled‚ "The Right to Bear Arms" was published in Parade Magazine. The article‚ written by former Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86)‚ Warren E. Burger addressed issues on the second amendment. In this article‚ he examines the needs of society to have guns when the Bill of Rights was drafted versus modern day society‚ using logic and history to appeal to his audience. While not necessarily taking a standpoint against the second amendment’s right given to bear arms‚ he criticizes the regulations
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A congress that allows the President to permit the public to kill hibernating bears and wintering wolves are ignorant and vile people. Truly. I really wanted to make these letters respectful but‚ this is out of control… Literally. What is it going to take to get politicians to take the natural environment (which even you live in) seriously? Mass extinction? That’s what you’re asking for with this! Undrinkable surface and ground waters? We already have hundreds of thousands of impaired waterways throughout
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