describing how he has come under criticism because his tales do not have morals. In response to his critics‚ whom he refers to as "ignoramuses‚" Poe writes "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." The story is clearly a satire directed at these "moral mongers‚" who lack the intelligence to see the moral in fiction unless the author makes it obvious. "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" is the sad history of the short life of the narrator’s friend‚ Toby Dammit. Dammit had many vices‚ all of which resulted from a personal
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Outlook Point of View January 2013‚ No. 1 Freight & Logistics Freight forwarding and logistics: What the high performers know By Rob Knigge Rob Knigge leads the Accenture Freight & Logistics group in Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Africa and South America. rob.a.knigge@accenture.com For further reading Access the complete research report: www.accenture.com/ us-en/Pages/insight-achievinghigh-performance-freightforwarding-industry.aspx Read more industry insights: www.accenture.com/us-en/ industry/freight-logistics/Pages/
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Employee Retention Strategy: How to Attract and Retain Top Performers Talent is a driving force behind Human Resource contributions to organizational success. The ability to attract and retain such talent is rapidly becoming one of the key issues for human resource managers and their organizations across the globe. High performance organizations are consistently outperforming their competitors on a number of human resource factors‚ including the level of teamwork and openness between co-workers
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“Do Pigeons Gamble? I Wouldn’t Bet Against It” Summary: This article describes the facts about the psychology of gambling by focusing on the behavioral patterns exhibited by the pathological gamblers under a gambling situation. Basically a man is gambling at whatever point he or she takes the risk of losing money or belongings‚ and when winning or losing is chosen generally by chance. Gambling includes risking something of value on an indeterminate occasion in hopes of winning something of greater
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Would You Bet Your Life On The Bottom Line? “Thank You For Smoking” is a satirical comedy which is graceful‚ yet brutal. This film targets the pro-tobacco lobbyists‚ who would like the public to believe that smoking cigarettes is not harmful. It stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor‚ who is the spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. The opening scene starts with Nick appearing on "The Joan Lunden Show‚" sitting beside a bald-headed boy named Robin‚ a 15-year-old boy dying of cancer‚ but who
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“American dream” Anyone who’s ever thought about living the good life has pictured the best life ever. When we picture this perfect life we see a life with endless possibilities‚ having enough money to just go crazy with it‚ going to all the parties‚ and just living life without a care in the world. While I sit here and think about it most of my friends believe that a life of no worries and work‚ a life without the worry of responsibility is the "American dream." That used to be what I thought
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Chloe is a good all-round sports performer and could represent her school in many different sports. Evaluate the potential influence of different factors on Chloe’s choice of physical activities. Niamh hebden Chloe’s choice of sports may be influenced by six main categories; resources‚ people‚ culture‚ image‚ socio-economic‚ health and wellbeing. These then contain sub categories. I will go on to explain these influences in turn. Firstly‚ socio-economic may be one of the main reasons for Chloe
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Executive Summary This report will show the methodology‚ analysis‚ concerns and final solution to the proposed problem of pricing the Bet Performer‚ a capesize bulk carrier. The Bet Performer is an 11 year old vessel‚ featuring 172‚000 deadweight ton capacity‚ originally built by Nihon Kokan Kabushiki-Kaisha of Japan. The most recent sale of this ship occurred in 2006 for $70 million. After a series of regression analyses including a multiple regression analysis accounting for the recent rise in
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1. How much is the Bet Performer worth based on comparable transactions? What ship is the best reference transaction? (the closest comparable)? Comparable transaction is a conventional method of evaluating the value of something that is ready for sale. To value a ship‚ one had to identify a set of “comparable” ships where comparability was based on four main factors: ship type‚ size (DWT)‚ age‚ and condition. The Bet Performer was a 11 year old ship‚ built in 1997‚ 172‚000 DWT capsize bulk
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prices for comparable transactions‚ how would you assess the reasonableness of the Bet Performers $133 million purchase price in May 2008? To value a ship using the market approach‚ one had to identify a set of “comparable” ships where comparability was based on four main factors: ship type‚ size (DWT)‚ age‚ and condition. According to Exhibit 3‚ there are five ships which are the most comparable to Bet Performer. They are Martha Verity‚ Ingenious‚ Sumihou‚ Cape Sun‚ and Coppersmith. These ships
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