OVERVIEW This is an excellent short case to introduce the managerial accounting issues related to the "joint cost" problem. Classic microeconomics argues unequivocally that attempts to assign cost to individual products in a "joint" set constitute a complete waste of time--"just maximize the total revenue over the batch." Like the comparable adage to "price so that marginal cost equals marginal revenue‚" the economists’ advice about joint costing is certainly accurate‚ given the assumptions‚ but
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unseen plot of green trees and shadows. The poem is clearly very biographic; the narrator undoubtedly represents Keats himself‚ and is in no way a surrogate persona‚ made apparent by the constant references to subjects very personal to the author; when speaking of the harsh realities of the mortal world‚ he describes it as a place “where youth grows pale‚ and spectre-thin‚ and dies”‚ making a direct reference to his young brother Tom‚ who at the time was dying from tuberculosis. The narrator’s suffering
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This passage is taken from the book Songs of Ourselves. This poem written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India and importance of religions and culture in India. It is a poem written about the social and political concern of the lost of cultural identical renunciation of Indian identity. The poem is based on Religion and a bit of Greek Mythology. All the lines are not of the same length. This shows us that the poem is meant to be read slowly with understanding. The effect
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Matthew Choma English 101 Prof. J. Douglas 4/9/11 Breakfast of Champions: Science Fiction as Social Commentary Vonnegut’s symbolic and satirical representation of humans as robots in his novel: Breakfast of Champions is representative of the authors interpretation of world events and conflicting nature of human beings. The renowned author often hits on significant and worrisome themes such as destruction of the planet and overpopulation. His unique and unparallel style includes outrageous
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Research about Play-by-Play Sports Commentary The Definition In sports broadcasting‚ a sports commentator gives a running commentary in real life or real time about a sport. Usually‚ this is done during a live broadcast on television. The broadcast is normally a voiceover and the main commentator is rarely seen on screen if at all. In American English‚ other common terms for a sports commentator are announcer and sportscaster. In actuality‚ a sportscaster may just refer to a newscaster covering
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and the "demise of apartheid." Elie Wiesel’s struggle is obvious in “The Perils of Indifference” through his diction as he ranges from emotions of anger‚ hatred and hope. Elie Wiesel allows the people to feel and share his anger and struggle when he speaks out “now we knew‚ we learned‚ we discovered that the pentagon knew‚ the State Department knew.” Elie Wiesel also allows the people to feel the indifference he felt by speak in the previous quote and shows that the indifference in the world
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chose a sequoia tree. The very first stanza of the Gioia’s poem sets the tone for the poem‚ which was melancholy‚ with the imagery the author uses. The imagery type the author uses is visual color imagery when he describes the “blackened horizon” and the “dull gray” sky. The author’s word choice when describing the sky and horizon were dark and mournful words hence the established tone. Towards the end of the first stanza the author writes “of an old year coming to an end” which implies that the season
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Cry‚ The Beloved Country Commentary Fear and Religion And now for all the people of Africa‚ the beloved country. Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika‚ God save Africa. But he would not see that salvation. It lay afar off‚ because men were afraid of it. Because‚ to tell the truth‚ they were afraid of him‚ and his wife‚ and Msimangu‚ and the young demonstrator. And what was there evil in their desires‚ in their hunger? That man should walk upright in the land where they were born‚ and be free to use the fruits
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Margaret Atwood’s theme in The Landlady is about the speaker’s prison-like living situation in what can be assumed to be a dorm. The landlady has made home‚ the place where we can feel free and comfortable‚ to a suffering sentence. The landlady is sin control‚ and the speaker‚ a young university student‚ cannot escape from the landlady‚ physically nor mentally. The Landlady is effectively written in free verse and is a run-on style of poetry‚ allowing the readers emotions and thoughts to carry to
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This article looks deeply into the final lines of the story when Esau is mentioned. The author believes that this allusion is much more than a commentary on giving away a choice and more of a commentary on the roles of men and women. The author does spends time looking at Esau’s choice to give up his birthright to Jacob and compares that to Louisa’s choice to give up her marriage. He then takes it further to look at Esau as an example of men/masculinity and Louisa as the example of female/femininity
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