+27.4% +28.3% n/a % Total Constant currency Sales £5‚662m Retail profit £473m £402m Adjusted pre-tax profit Adjusted basic EPS 13.5p 10.6p Interim dividend 2.47p 1.925p (Financial net debt) / net cash +1.6% £5‚454m £439m £(186)m £354m £19m Note: Joint Venture (Koçtaş JV) and Associate (Hornbach) sales are not consolidated. Retail profit is operating profit stated before central costs‚ exceptional items‚ amortisation of acquisition intangibles and the Group’s share of interest
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and tell me about the value of hard work‚ rather than all this showing. But show she did. Throughout‚ I’m treated to descriptions -- such as “disappear into my room . . ‚ wrap myself in jackets and blankets‚ and put on thick gloves” (Hicks‚ 2015‚ p. 186) -- which bring to life the struggling-to-make-ends-meet existence Hicks’ family lead. This description of how cold their home is (of how they don’t pay to heat the house) is a more powerful and effective choice than if Hicks had told me
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Divided We Govern Response Paper Divided We Govern was written by David R. Mayhew addresses the American government and the topic of united and divided party control. Throughout the essay‚ the author tried to talk about unified and divided control of the government from both views with five questions. The first view is that a united government allows the decisions of the country to be more effective in enacting laws‚ being held accountable‚ good government administration‚ better foreign policy decisions
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Corporation of and from each and every claim‚ demand‚ debt‚ liabilility‚ cost and expense of any kind or character which have risen or are based in whole or in part on any matters occurring at any time prior to the date of this Release” (Cheeseman‚ 2015‚ P.186) in order to receive $2‚300 as an exchange. The release stated clearly on what the offeror offered and what the offeree promised in order to receive the offer. Without any misleading activity and illegal consideration‚ both parties agreed to perform
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References: Charles‚ J. (2004). The environmental benefits of globalization. In Dollahite‚ N. &Haun‚ J. (Author). Sourthwork: Academic writing from sources. (pp 185-186). Boston: Heinle Schmalensee‚ R. (1993). The costs of environmental protection. MIT-CEEPR (Series)‚ 93-015WP.
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November 18‚ 2013 "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. Karl Marx asserts that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. Marx affirmed that “from the early epochs of history there has been a complicated arrangement of society of various orders - a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome there were patricians‚ knights‚ …slaves; in the middle ages ‚ feudal lords‚ journeymen‚ serf; in almost all of
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results in the murder of William. Lastly‚ when Victor destroys the female creature‚ the fiend murders Elizabeth on Victor’s wedding night: “the murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck‚ and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips” (186). The Creature’s retribution for the annihilation of the female creature was to create misery for Victor‚ which he was successful in doing. In conclusion‚ the Creature compulsive behavior hurts the people who have mistreated him or caused his
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2.1 The Consequence Argument Freedom to do otherwise as a requirement for moral responsibility triggers many problems in philosophy such as fatalism‚ causal determinism and divine foreknowledge.The problems are generally concerning about the compatibility between moral responsibility and causal determinism‚ which can be found among the debates on the Consequent Argument. The argument is introduced by Peter van Inwagen (1983) in An Essay on Free Will. Contemporary philosophers who participate in
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the inner cities‚ people lived where they could for their income or social status‚ and for many‚ that involved sub-standard conditions that bred diseases and caused even more trouble for its residents to climb up the economic ladder (Chen‚ et. all 186). Those who grow up in poorer urban areas also have more limited access to primary and secondary education that would be considered second-rate in a higher affluence area; this puts the children at a disadvantage as they must struggle to gain acceptance
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stories‚ where families are separated‚ where social imaginaries and representations can be constructed. This is the image often portrayed through social media‚ reinforcing and creating such border stereotypes (Iglesias-Prieto‚ “Border Representations” 186–87). In spaces like these‚ individuals‚ more specifically‚ children‚ create perceptions and social representations‚ as they experience the impact of the border settings. Social representations are ways of viewing the world and because social representations
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