United States Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10- K Microsoft Corporation For the fiscal year ended June 30‚ 2012 Sujata Gawali ACCT 221 Prof. John Davis June 16‚ 2013 General Business Information: Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. It develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. Originally‚ Microsoft was established
Premium Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Balance sheet Asset
consider various legal‚ familial‚ health positions when determining how to care for his or her patient. An example of this predicament can be seen in case 8 of Philosophy and Medicine. Here‚ I am presented with a situation where the patient‚ Esther K‚ has pancreatic cancer. When the patient was initially diagnosed‚ she made a will. In this will‚ she refused all aggressive therapies and any treatment that she determined would be considered as “extraordinary measures:” chemotherapy‚ respirators‚ or
Premium Patient Physician Medicine
Kellogg’s Special K brand a ‘good source of fibre’ is targeted at women who are health conscious about their body weight attracting a lot of consumers and therefore has been a success to the company. The Special K brand has a variety of products; ✵ Cereals ▷ Original Cereal ▷ Low Fat Granola. ▷ Red Berries ▷ Cinnamon Pecan ▷ Protein cereal ▷ Chocolatey Delight ▷ Blueberry ▷ Fruit and Yoghurt ▷ Vanilla Almond ▷ Honey and Oats Learning “Learning is the process of Acquiring knowledge
Premium Psychology Advertising Learning
The Rocking-Horse Loser Money‚ although important‚ is not the only thing that makes life worth living. However‚ for the characters in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner‚” money appears to be the only thing that produces happiness. This ideology proves quite toxic‚ as seen in the characterization of Paul and his mother; it is through these two vessels that Lawrence accentuates the consequences of greed and materialism. Paul’s death is the result of his mother’s selfishness which
Premium Selfishness Family Altruism
War Horse: Theatre Review Before I went to theatre‚ I was expecting puppets to be moving and for it to be an emotional play. We (my drama class) went to the ‘New London Theatre in west. We went to go and watch the play ‘War Horse ‘which the book was written by Michael Morpurgo. The directors of the play are Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris. The person who had the idea of the novel and playwright was Nick Stafford. As soon as we got to the theatre‚ my first impression was ‘Wow ‘.It was so big and
Premium Theatre Stage Performance
GENS1101 Fiction Analysis Directions: Use critical thinking strategies to analyze the short stories from the fiction section of the Mercury Reader. 1. Title of Selection: The Rocking-Horse Winner 2. Author: D.H. Lawrence. Was born in a coal town in the dusty industrial area of England but didn’t find his way to the mines because of his mother. His writing mostly criticizes society. 3. Theme: Possessions are not more important than personal connections. Paul is trying
Premium Family Mother Horse
Introduction The text‚ The Next Hundred Years‚ is an effective persuasive text due to its use of exigency placement and original use of metaphor. There are three exigencies addressed in the text‚ of them‚ the main is directed towards poverty. The other two exigencies‚ global warming and modern weaponry‚ give further insight into why the world is so impoverished. The metaphor used by the Laureates‚ is one that illustrates the real and terrifying power that both global warming and modern weaponry have
Premium Science fiction Human Natural environment
recent years. The high accidental rates might be lead by the human errors‚ which are including the person approach and the system approach(Reason‚ 2000). However‚ there are some causation models‚ such as James Reason’s model‚ which known as the Swiss Cheese Model‚ provides ascent to quite distinct philosophies of error management(Reason‚ 2000). Besides‚ there are some assets are found by the comparison among the Reason model and other models and has brought out overzealous implementations(School of Aviation
Premium Human factors Human factors Failure
From above discussion‚ 4 points are extracted on Polanyi’s war theory. Firstly‚ his evaluation of “Hundred Year’s Peace” turns a complete about-face. While he evaluates highly the peace with various reservations in TGT‚ he says it is just fake peace in CFP‚ and the evaluation nosedives. Next‚ the cause of war he assumes changes clearly. In TGT the ultimate cause of war is the collapse of the international gold standard system‚ and political elements are out of consideration. War happens by breaking
Premium International trade Gold Peace
Rocking Horse Winner March 2nd‚ 2009 D.H Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a characteristic modern story about a family filled with inner conflict‚ all revealed through the innocence of the young Master Paul. The family is plagued with the dissatisfaction of never having enough wealth‚ to keep their affluent position in society. The mother although a descent women‚ is not very devoted to her children and instead spends her time blaming their “unfortunate” situation on her husband’s
Premium Horse Family Capital accumulation