21100145 p.1 1/15/16 Courage is powered by fear Aristotle believed courage to be the most important quality in a man. “Courage is a mean with regard to fear” (Aristotle). Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear. Courage is not the absence of fear; it requires fear. As a human being‚ fear is part of everyday life. Without the concept of the fear‚ courage wouldn’t exist. On the other hand‚ risk is‚ by nature‚ scary. It’s uncertain‚ unpredictable. Having the courage to take risks in life
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"To bodily go where no one has gone before" is what Gene Rodenberry thought human progress was all about. I have been watching Star Trek for almost 15 years now and the way Gene Rodenberry portrayed human progress has made me wish that I was immortal‚ just so I could see what is to come. When I look at the picture of Tange Kenzo’s Metropolitan Government Offices in West Shinjuku‚ Japan all I see is the future. The tall unique building does not look like something from this time. It could be
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The Inescapability of the Fear of Death Humans are unique because they are conscious of their own ephemeral existence. Don Delillo uses White Noise to interpret the fear of death. Delillo uses the events of Jacks life to illustrate how people use different strategies to escape the reality of death. These strategies range from the drug addiction of his wife‚ to the zealot who turns to religion to even Jack’s strategy‚ alternate reality and/or loss of his reality. They use these strategies to
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Case 1: Warren E. Buffet‚ 2005 What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of the acquisition announcement? Specifically‚ what does the $2.55 billion gain in Berkshire’s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of PacifiCorp? The possible changes in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of acquisition announcement indicates the market approval for the acquisition and for both sellers
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price decline‚ except: (a) Short 10. A strategy consists of buying a market index product at $830 and longing a put on the index with a strike of $830. If the put premium is $18.00 and interest rates are 0.5% per month (monthly compounding)‚ what is the profit or loss at expiration (in 6 months) if the market index is $810? (d) $43.76 loss 11. A strategy consists of longing a put on the market index with a strike of 830 and shorting a call option on the market index with a strike price
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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG School of Accountancy ACY 3151 D– Company Law Preserve The Common Law Derivative Action in Hong Kong Presented to Professor C.K. LOW Submitted by Tony BAI Dongyi; Ashley CHEN Xi; Ri REN Xinyu; Zoe ZHOU Beinan 30 April 2010 Abstract This paper is a response to the First Phase Companies Ordinance Rewrite Consultation Paper Question 7 whether we should abolish the common law derivative action (the CDA) currently retained by sec. 168BC (4) in the amended Companies Ordinance (2004)
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Dear Roxanne Hack‚ On March 23‚ 2014 around 5:00 a.m.‚ Logan Wells was struck by a car and killed all while trying to enjoy his love of skate boarding on a street named Secretariat Way. To think that this young 16 year olds life could have been saved by a simple skate park infuriates me. A skate park would be a simple solution to protecting numerous skateboarders all around Yorba Linda including Logan. If the city has numerous soccer parks‚ baseball fields‚ basketball courts‚ and tracks‚ why
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businessman‚ educator and author. Sherman served as a General in the Union during the civil war. In 1864‚ General Sherman went ahead to lead his troops to the city of Atlanta. In all he received recognition for his military. Mrs. Thomas Burge wrote a journal called “A Women’s Wartime Journal.” In her recording you see that the Yankees constantly came to their town taking what was not their own such as food and money. In Georgia’s springtime‚ she described the air as a “tonic vapor‚” which was taken from the
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Mariea Pack-Elder‚ ACC 561 November 24‚ 2014 George Bray Avoiding Future Frauds with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act It is clear that the establishment of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) act in 2002 was specific to reducing future financial fraud and imposing criminal penalties for publicly traded companies. What is not clear is whether or not the act has proved to be successful in its implementation and governance. The establishment of the act and subsequent amendments are intended
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Ethics/Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 Article Summary The Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ which was enacted July 30‚ 2002 in response to the Enron and WorldCom scandals‚ gives extended powers to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was enacted to provide investors with accurate and timely disclosure of financial and other important data of public companies and to ensure that audits of this financial data are performed according to accepted standards and by independent accounting firms. The Compliance
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