Hudson Institute Political Studies Fellowship Personal Statement I grew up with my grandparents in a small town in the capital of Ethiopia. My mother immigrated to the United States when I was two years old‚ after winning the Diversity Visa lottery. My father was taken as a prisoner of conscience days after I was born. I remember visiting my father in crowded jail cells throughout my upbringing. I never knew where he was and I did not value his presence as a father whenever my grandparents took my
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Freeman notes that colored women are not just handicapped on the basis of their gender but are more mocked because of their race. Clenora Hudson-Weems explores the plight of feminism to all women with African descent that is categorically focused on the African culture that mainstreams the black feminist‚ the African womanist and the African feminist. Clenora Hudson-Weems in her article notes that the African woman has evolved due to struggles‚ strains and hardships against racial prejudice and discrimination
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The Canal which connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River. Therefore‚ the Great Lakes to the Atlantic were the main factor for Buffalo a thriving Commercial city. It was showed an easy statistic that before Canal there were 2500 residents and specialized in commerce along the Great Lakes. It was a revolution in transportation‚ even more‚ dramatic than railroads. Through this Canal‚ 50-ton bruges travel eastward city’s water-based transportation advantage also help Buffalo to become an early twentieth-century
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Polluter Corp. Polluter Corp. is a company that operates three plants in the United States. They make different cleaning products which are sold to customers. The U.S. government sells or gives out emissions allowances to companies‚ including Polluter Corp.‚ which determines a set amount of pollutants and greenhouse gases a company can let into the environment. These are given out to help discourage pollution by companies. “EA’s” are assigned a year that a company can use in‚ and they also
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com/story/money/business/2012/10/19/mcdonalds-3q-results/1643577/. Yahoo Finance (2012b). McDonald’s Corp. (MCD). Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MCD+Balance+Sheet&annual Yahoo Finance (2012a). Wendy’s Company. Retrieved from http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WEN+Income+Statement&annual Stock Analysis (2012)‚ McDonald’s Corp (MCD). Retrieved from http://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/McDonalds-Corp/Valuation/Ratios#PE
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Atlantic Corp – case study | | | | Question 1: Is the acquisition of Royal’s Linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? Yes. Atlantic corporation intends to increase its linerboard capacity‚ as it is a net buyer of linerboard. This acquisition of Royal by Atlantic Corporation would be a horizontal integration‚ which occurs when both the firm being taken over and the firm taking over are in the same industry and in the same stage of production. The linerboard industry
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Mercy Corps Introduction At the fourth biennial Mercy Corps leadership conference in November 2006 executive leadership described the well-known‚ internal complications at Mercy Corps as a large organization ($194 million budget in 2006) that “has to focus on two core areas: international relief and development” (Grossman & King‚ 2008). The status of the organization was examined in detail by the Harvard Business School case study and a number of problems were revealed. This analysis is based
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DATE: December 7‚ 2012 TO: Polluter Corp. FROM: SUBJECT: Emissions Allowances Facts: Polluter Corp‚ has recently spent $3 million to purchase emission allowances‚ with a vintage year of 2012‚ in order to meet the need for additional EAs in the fiscal years 2010-2014. They will also need to sell EAs‚ with a vintage year of 2016‚ in order to offset the costs of the purchase. It is to my understanding that the need for EAs arose because of the significant amount of greenhouse gases emitted by
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Polluter Corp. (the “Company”)‚ an SEC registrant‚ operates three manufacturing facilities in the United States. The Company manufactures various household cleaning products at each facility‚ which are sold to retail customers. The U.S. government granted the Company emission allowances (“EAs”) of varying vintage years (i.e.‚ the years in which the allowance may be used) to be used between 2010 and 2030. Upon receipt of the EAs‚ the Company recorded the EAs as intangible assets with a cost basis
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Diapers One morning‚ a Costco store in Los Angeles began running a little low on size-one and size-two Huggies. Crisis loomed. So what did Costco managers do? Nothing; They didn’t have to‚ thanks to a special arrangement with Kimberly-Clark Corp.‚ the company that makes the diapers. Under this deal‚ responsibility for replenishing stock falls on the manufacturer‚ not Costco. In return‚ the big retailer shares detailed information about individual stores’ sales. So‚ long before babies
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