Facts: · First Investments Inc. owned stock of Basic Industries (BI)‚ a diversified multinational corporation with major shares in various electrical related markets · The BI annual report of 1994 shows a decline in the return on owners’ equity (ROE) · Fred Aldrich‚ a trainee in First Investment‚ was asked to conduct a financial analysis on BI · Three years financial statements (1994‚ 1993 and 1985) and reported 10 year financial highlights (1985 to 1994) were available for the
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My First Marathon By the time I entered Tsinghua University in 2006‚ my life had been occupied by boring studying for several years. There were many things that I never believed I could do like being a monitor of class‚ getting into a fancy relationship or dancing on the stage. If those were things I had still imagined‚ marathon was one thing that I had never imagined. A distance of 42.195 kilometers (about 26.4 miles) was not kidding. In the first month I went to Tsinghua‚ the student union
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16 October 2013 The Government: Can it be trustworthy? How important is your privacy? Most people would agree having privacy is a huge concern‚ especially when it involves personal business. In recent breaking news‚ Edward Snowden‚ a 30-year-old high school dropout‚ who worked for the NSA‚ released private information to America. He announced the NSA is tracking citizen’s phone calls and monitoring emails. Most people in the U.S. were very frustrated once the information went viral. Many people
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First Deserve‚ then desire Our desries have no end and they aer innumerable also . Our mind flittrs from one whish to another as a careless bee from one blossom to another‚ without realing the futility and the foolishness of riding on the wings of fancy . people expect good luck to meet at every turn of life . And when fortune obstinately refuss to meet them ‚ theyfell bitteriy disapponited and angry at fat for being so unjust.Money ‚love‚ power ‚ popularity ‚ beauty and peace aer the object
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First Vatican Council This council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Aeterni Patris of 29 June 1868. The first session was held in St. Peter’s basilica on 8 December 1869 in the presence and under the presidency of the Pope. The purpose of the council was‚ besides the condemnation of contemporary errors‚ to define the Catholic doctrine concerning the Church of Christ. In fact‚ in the three following sessions‚ there was discussion and approval of only two constitutions: Dogmatic Constitution
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For those who spend their lives working to prevent and end wars‚ whether and how war itself can be justified must be an urgent question. Of course‚ war’s justification is an ancient tradition. Bizarrely‚ Just War theory was formulated within the Christian church‚ whose founder chose a donkey instead of a war horse and taught his followers to overcome evil with good. Not only is the theory still mainstream among churches but‚ as Dan Smith‚ head of an important NGO working for conflict transformation
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Below are essay prompts from the most recent SAT administration in January 2012. Prompt 1 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Most people tend to trust others too readily. To avoid being taken advantage of‚ however‚ it is generally wise to be doubtful and suspicious of others’ motives or honesty. Many people would agree that if you find yourself doubting other people’s sincerity or questioning their intentions‚ your instincts are probably
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runner collapsed at the royal court. To commemorate Pheidippides’s heroic effort and his spirit of patriotism‚ in 1896 a long distance race named Marathon was introduced at the Olympics. Fittingly a Greek postal worker called Spyridon Louis won the first ever marathon. 26.2 MILES. Since it’s inception the marathon had been run for 25 miles in keeping with the distance covered by Pheidippides. At the 1908 London Olympic Games
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In this paper‚ I will discuss the brain and its functions as related to the movie 50 First Dates. The paper will discuss the three main characters and the cause-effect relationships that have affected their brains‚ as well as an analysis of what portion of the brain has been affected. In the romantic comedy‚ Lucy is the main character who suffered a brain injury in a car accident. Her main symptom was loss of short-term memory. This is caused by damage to the hippocampus‚ inside the temporal
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- FOCUS ON THE LEARNER PART A I interviewed a 26-year-old Italian in the Elementary English Class. He is a student at the University of Verona‚ studying International law. He can be described as both extrinsic and intrinsic learner because he said he is learning English for basically two purposes; first‚ for the course he is studying ’International Law’‚ which involves global communication‚ so with English he will be able to deal with international clients in the future. His second reason
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