to suit the situation -it all depends on what you include as returns and costs. The definition of the term in the broadest sense just attempts to measure the profitability of an investment and‚ as such‚ there is no one "right" calculation. For example‚ a marketer may compare two different products by dividing the gross profit that each product has generated by its respective marketing expenses. A financial analyst‚ however‚ may compare the same two products using an entirely different ROI calculation
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Harvard Reference Example: As in many countries‚ consumers in Australia have recently had to accommodate increases in the costs of basic food (Webb & Leeder 2007‚ p. 7). During the financial year 2007–2008‚ overall food prices rose 3.9%‚ while some basic food prices rose more sharply: cheese by 14.2%‚ milk by 12.1%‚ poultry by 11.0% and bread by 6.8% (ABS 2008). Food cost plays a significant role in mediating food choice among low socio-economic status (SES) groups‚ who often have to reduce food
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Transcendentalism‚ the ideal that individuality and intuition run one’s life‚ based on the ideas of the rejection of materialism and the quest for truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the center of the American transcendentalism‚ laying out the foundation for it that many others builded upon‚ such as Henry David Thoreau and Immanuel Kant. In Emerson’s work Nature‚ the fundamentals of a transcendentalist is set with “build therefore your own world”(74). Emerson believes that a true transcendentalist follows
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An example of using these principles of rationality is when my family cooks dinner every night. To create an organized meal we first focus on efficiency. To make the most efficient meal‚ each family member takes a different tasks in the kitchen. This division
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“Unprofessional Conduct?” LaVoncia Harris 08/22/2010 Business Ethics Professor Scott Orlinski Strayer University In 2005 I started working for a school system and right from the start I could see that there was some unprofessionalism in some of the employees there. To me unprofessional means not acting as if you were at you place of business or acting as though you are at home or out with your friends. That is how the persons I worked with acted; however‚ to me Mrs. Petit did nothing of the
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Yeon Young Kim Final draft 11/03/10 Saemaul Movement Why did Saemaul movement occur in Korea in 1970? And what was it about? After Korean war ended in 1953‚ people in Korea lost many things; for example‚ houses were destroyed‚ properties such as livestock were lost‚ and families were scattered. The outbreaks of the Korean War led to chilling effect on people. In April 22‚ 1970‚ President Park Jung Hee had a conference with the government leaders in Korea and they laid out
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Anova Examples 1) A study of depression and exercise was conducted. Three groups were used: those in a designed exercise program; a group that is sedentary; and a group of runners. A depression rating was given to members in each group. Small random samples from each groups provided the following data: Exercise Group: 63 58 61 60 62 59 SST = 56.00‚ SSE = 140.00 Sedentary Group: 71 64 68 65 67 67 Runners:
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Gee! What did your teacher mean by asking you to write a portrait essay? Is it possible to write a portrait? What portrait should you write? Well‚ first‚ stop panicking because of your portrait essay. Second‚ your teacher wants you to prepare a normal essay‚ where you should describe someone or something just like an artist would do it. Sure‚ if you have never prepared a portrait essay before‚ you have a lot of questions. Yet‚ we are ready to answer some of them and provide a couple of ideas
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1. Romanticism can be described as a cult of the autonomous isolated self. Explain how Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther exemplifies this mystique of inward personality. What role does childhood/childishness play in Werther’s love? What is it the love of? What ideal does it flee? What ideal does it embrace? Why does it logically end in suicide? Goethe’s character Werther is the inward personality because he lives not in the world of the real‚ but in his own mind. He has not entered the real sphere
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“I became A-7713. From then on‚ I had no other name.” (42) Elie Wiesel’s Night is about a young Jewish boy and his experiences through the Holocaust in the 1940’s. Any human being should never experience the hell-like terror that Elie had to go through. He is separated from his mother and his sister and is deported to Auschwitz‚ one of Hitler’s most depressing concentration camps. Wiesel uses night not only as the title but also as a symbol of time‚ a world without God‚ and man’s inhumanity to man
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