divisional unit. Performance measurement in investment centres is the main issue of this report. There are three popular measures of investment centre performance‚ namely: 1. Economic value added (EVA) 2. Residual income (RI) 3. Return on investment (ROI) Following the statement‚ only ROI and EVA is dealt in this report. RETURN ON INVESTMENT ROI is the most widely used financial measure of divisional performance. ROI expresses divisional profit as a percentage of the assets employed
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Hasan Manto- Writer of Stark Realities (Courtesy Iftikhar Chaudri) Saadat Hassan Manto (May 11‚ 1912 ? January 18‚ 1955) was a Pakistani Urdu short story writer‚ most known for his Urdu short stories ‚ ’Bu’ (Odour)‚ ’Khol Do’ (Open It)‚ ’Thanda Gosht’ (Cold Meat)‚ and his magnum opus‚ Toba Tek Singh’. Unfortunately having spent life on both sides of the border he was portrayed as an Indian writer in Pakistan and in India he was portrayed as a Pakistani writer. But truely he was a writer of the subcontinent
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poor health‚ she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66. Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Unlike other writers of her time‚ she did not come from the intelligentsia. Her parents were shopkeepers in Cebu.[1] She attended college‚ and studied
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Everyday people learn how to be a better English writer and it is successful because mostly everyone in the United States speaks English. In my experience‚ I’m learning how to become a better English writer everyday by reading books and writing essays. I’ve taken English 60A‚ English 60B‚ and now I’m taking English 50. Writing essays and reading article’s in English 50 helps me to become a stronger writer. In my portfolio I am going to edit my best essay that I did in class and I am also going to
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irrelevant‚ is that it is set in 1912. What must be remembered is that today if a young woman was struggling with the dilemmas that Eva Smith faced then there are measures such as unfair dismissal and welfare systems in place to ensure that no person feels like suicide is their only option. This is important because the question‚ who‚ ultimately is‚ what‚ because the era in which Eva Smith lived in and her class are to blame for her death and the Birling family were not guilty of any crimes when the play
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Narration. Types of Narration Narration is the way authors relate events to readers. Novelists use different way of telling their stories: they use different characters to tell the stories (narrators) and present the events from different ‘angles’ (different points of view). First – person narrator (the story is told by an ‘I’)‚ who may be the main character in the novel or a minor character in the novel‚ an observer of events that happen to others. Third – person narrator In the novels
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Final Project Jennifer Coffey ETH/125 February 24‚ 2013 Albert Mays Final Project What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past? In my studies I have found confirmation of my belief that diversity in the United States will only improve with time as the increasing number of interracial unions increase. I have also affirmed my belief that so long as society chooses to put people into groups we
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Writing has always been a reluctant process for me. When planning to write a paper I always write down all my ideas I want to talk about and my professor for advice too. I specifically think I did very well on paper one. I usually do not enjoy writing when it turns into an essay about a subject I have to pretend to care about‚ but I really did enjoyed writing paper one. From the six weeks of taking this class‚ I do feel like my writing has improved by becoming more structured‚ defined and straight
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In school‚ we have been required to write many papers on many different subjects‚ some being timed and others not. Writing has never been something that has come easy to me‚ especially when put on the spot and told to write a paper in a certain amount of hours. When I write‚ I like to have time to think and plan my essay. Being able to revise and edit the paper makes it even better than it was before. When I am given the time to plan my essay‚ the writing has more depth than when I am put on the
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Shakespeare: One of the Greatest Writers in the "Western Literary Tradition" William Shakespeare wrote about romance‚ drama‚ and comedy in many of his wonderful works. Shakespeare had a skill for language‚ imagery‚ pun‚ and creative adaptation of myth and history‚ which arguably has made him one of the greatest playwrights of all time. He is also well-known for his poetry‚ especially his sonnets. Some of his best-known plays include Romeo and Juliet‚ Hamlet‚ and Macbeth. Shakespeare’s
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