1.Executive Summary The case study has been approached from different valuation methods to ascertain if there is value in the acquisition of Southern Comfort. These methods all yield the same result‚ i.e. Southern Comfort is expensive at the asking price of $94.6million. The valuation methods also examined the reasonableness of the acquisition using methods such as Free Cashflow Analysis‚ Book Value methods and Price Earnings ratios analysis The qualitative aspects have also been analysed to
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Cold Mountain Cold Mountain‚ a novel wrote by Charles Frazier‚ is a Civil War story‚ a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely‚ dangerous journey to find the way back home‚ and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at‚ and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying
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In Cold Blood was the story of two men whom were on parole when they brutally killed the Clutter family‚ a successful farm family from Holcomb Kansas. Perry Smith along with Richard Dick Hancock were hanged for the murders. Perry was a short man with a tall temper he never married; Perry was mentally and physically abused by his father as a child. Dick‚ on the other hand‚ came from more of a normal background. Truman Capote the writer of the book also had a terrible upbringing where he was
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Too Close for Comfort When you think of marriage‚ usually one thinks of a couple coming together to begin a life and to start a family together. Generally speaking a married couple is also considered to be in a legal‚ religious and/or social agreement. As time has passed by the stereotypical marriage is not only for heterosexual couples‚ homosexual couples have been allowed to marry their partners. So how has marriage changed socially and how does it change individuals once they “tie the knot”? According
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Katharine Kolcaba: Comfort Theory Sarah SchlenvogtPresentation College In my nursing practice with long term care residents‚ I frequently care for dying residents. Instead of simply providing these patients with medication to ease the pain‚ I wanted to learn about ways to enhance the comfort of the dying patient and assist their beloved family throughout the difficult process. This desire led me to undertake a concept analysis of comfort. Through my research at the end of life‚ I discovered Katharine
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer‚ 2004. In the early part of the 20th century‚ comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A "good nurse" made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s‚ textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example‚ in 1926‚ Harmer advocated that nursing care be
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Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Annette Hall St Joseph’s College of Maine Abstract Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory fits best with my philosophy of nursing and my current work environment. As a hospice nurse comfort is the top priority. The goal of hospice care is to provide comfort and dignity at the end of life. The technical term for comfort for health care is the immediate state of being strengthened by having the needs for relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence addressed in the four context of
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Throughout nursing history‚ many nursing theorists have referred to comfort as a basic need for which nursing care is delivered. This simple concept of comfort‚ however‚ was never clearly defined. Comfort has many meanings and can be used in many different ways. Kolcaba’s comfort theory explains how a patient’s comfort exists in three forms –relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence (Kolcaba‚ 2003‚ p. 9). When a person’s specific needs are met or a specific discomfort is alleviated‚ for example receiving
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Using Insights to Choose Theory-Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Choosing a nursing theory that resonates and embodies my personal values‚ beliefs and nursing practice is imperative to the advancement of my nursing practice and lifelong development. Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory is a middle-range theory that has been my personal favorite since learning about her almost five years ago as I embarked on a new collaborative journey when opening a new hospital from the ground up in my own community
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We go our whole lives in a state of looking for something or someone which reminds us of the stable idea of safety. Whether that be a comfort blanket given to you by your mother at the age of 5‚ that for some reason you still keep it under your bed to fight away the monsters at night. Or a relationship with someone you can’t keep your eyes off of for more than a second because you’re afraid they’ll do something incredibly adorable and you’ll miss it. Either way‚ when these things are taken away from
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