ratios over the last three years since 2009‚ as found in the Appendix: Exhibit _‚ the quantitative data reveals an unfavourable trend in performance. Liquidity Reitmans has the strongest current ratio when compared to its competitors—The Gap and Le Chateau—at almost double their value. However‚ the Company’s ratio has been in decline since 2009; at that time‚ it was at 4.5‚ then fell to 4.3‚ and finally‚ to 4.1 in 2011. This trend reveals a slight decline in Reitmans’ short-term liquidity; however‚
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1 Story of Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès is the apple of this novel’s eye. We will follow him over the course of twenty-three years and 117 chapters (yikes). During this time he will pretend to be a number of different people‚ including Sinbad the Sailor‚ Lord Wilmore‚ Abbé Faria‚ and the Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond returns from a long journey at sea. The captain of his ship‚ thePharaon‚ has died along the way‚ and Edmond has successfully lead the crew and the cargo home to Marseilles
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ignites the jealousy of his fellow shipmate Danglars. Dantes is then falsely accused of being a Bonapartist. This means he sides with Napoleon Bonaparte and is committing treason against his own king. He is sent to a prison called the Château d’If. The Château d’If was surrounded by water and was known as a place of no return. When Dantes escapes‚ he takes revenge against his four enemies who conspired against him to send him to prison‚ in the manner of an eye for and eye. These four conspirators
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Infatuation for Vengeance Fascination is a human characteristic that is natural in proportion. However when a fascination grows stronger one becomes much more passionate‚ and often times obsessed with pursuing whatever it is they desire. Alexandre Dumas demonstrates in his novel‚ The Count of Monte Cristo that a fixation with revenge can frequently become addictive. Dumas shows this obsession through the character of Edmond Dantes. Dantes‚ a 19 year old boy growing up in the small town of
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Danglar‚ Mondego was able to frame Dantes for treason. When Dantes asks why he did it‚ Mondego responds‚ "You’re the son of a clerk; I’m not supposed to want to be you‚" (Mondego is the son of a Count). He is then taken to a horrible prison called the Chateau d’If‚ where he is barely fed‚ bored to the point of wanting suicide and whipped on every anniversary of his arrival. After a few years of torture‚ an elder man‚ Abbe Faria (a priest)‚ digs his way into Edmond’s cell. They make a deal that if Edmond
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consumer goods manufacturer. To celebrate he told Tracey that he was going to buy a bottle of Chateau Margeaux‚ an expensive red French wine‚ for them to share. After driving to two liquor outlets experiencing no success in finding his Margeaux‚ Tracey suggested that they just buy a bottle of French champagne instead. But Craig insisted that they try a third store on the other side of the city. For Craig‚ Chateau Margeaux is a: * -unsought good * -homogeneous shopping good
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entertainment. To show his wealth‚ the king imprisoned Fouquet and then hired a building team- Louis Le Vau‚ the architect‚ Andre Le Norte‚ the landscape designer‚ and Charles Le Brun‚ the interior artist. He was going to start work on a much grander chateau. Louis XIV was determined to show a symbol to embody majesty and power of the French monarchy. But after Louis Vau’s death‚ Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708) was commissioned to triple the size of the palace. It took thirty two years to complete
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replace it with a real ring. That night he is arrested on charges of conspiracy against the country and when seeking help from Mondego he learns that he is the one that turned him in. Dantes is sent to Chateau D’lf‚ the jail for country’s criminals who they wish no one to know of. While in the Chateau‚ another prisoner emerges from a tunnel he has been digging for decades in the wrong direction. The prisoner‚ Faria‚ is an old priest that promises Dantes to teach him everything he knows if he aids in
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Sigmund Freud once wrote: The uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar (Freud). This "class of the frightening" can also be detected in A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’s novel describes the lives of various people in England and France before and during the French Revolution. The familiar and homely is often turned into the terrifying in the novel. For instance‚ the sight of Madam Defarge who sits in her husband’s wine shop and knits all the
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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS Research paper Zagreb‚ svibanj 2013. Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. ART INVESTMENT 3 3. OLD - TIMERS 6 4. BASEBALL MEMORABILIA 8 5. WINE 11 6. CONCLUSION 13 INTRODUCTION | Alternative investments have become popular because many people and investors have been looking into safer ways to invest their money. But there is a question: What is actually an alternative investment
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