What Happened? DRTA Lesson Plan TITLE OF READING SELECTION: What Happened? CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS We are going to read a story about a boy’s ambition and how far his dedication for an activity got him. What/who are your biggest motivations/motivators? What are some hobbies that you are passionate about? (art‚ sports‚ etc) Are you good at your passions? Do you believe with practice and determination‚ you’ll eventually do really well because of your passion when if you’re not good at
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the Tom.Com case. Present your findings in a report to Andy Lau not to exceed three single-spaced typed page‚ plus relevant exhibits. The report should not be in question and answer format‚ but it should address the following questions. Include a brief introduction‚ analysis‚ and summary/conclusion. (a) Size up Tom.Com‚ Ltd. Assess Tom’s business model‚ revenue model‚ potential risks‚ and major shareholders. (b) Consider the valuation of Internet stocks versus “traditional” firms. What are the similarities
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Case: United Parcel Service’s IPO Please answer the following questions. Limit your responses to four pages total. These should provide a good foundation for our next class discussion of the case. 1. How is UPS performing? Back up your assessment with your financial ratio analysis. What factors in your opinion are driving this performance? UPS has grown from modest beginnings to an organization that ships for that 15 million packages a day with over 6.1 million customer in more than 200 counties
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Facebook kept growing rapidly. With the high expectation of investors‚ Facebook finally decided to go public. The “Red Herring” of Facebook stated that its goal was to connect all two billion global Internet users. Basing on our analysis of Facebook’s IPO‚ we would like to give several recommendations on the investment of Facebook. Analysis Facebook generated its revenues mainly through advertising. Advertising accounted for 98% of Facebook’s revenue in 2009‚ 95% in 2010 and 85% in 2011. As a real identity
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6. What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today? I would say greed and ignorance is the biggest problem facing the world today. It is an aspect of human nature and seemingly intractable. I don’t expect the mass of humanity to undergo spiritual transformation to amend these aspects. However I do think that in order for problems to be solved such as objective conditions e.g. war and poverty‚ there has to be a change in social ethos- that of which is generally considered desirable
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1. What do you think Will Hunting’s life would be like if the therapy had not been successful? I believe that Will would have still been a construction worker and a janitor. He would still be afraid to take chances and allow people to actually love him. Furthermore‚ Will would have continued to be an intelligent‚ yet angry person for the rest of his life. He was going to look at his life fifty years from now and have so many regrets. He was going to be labeled as a genius that was an idiot for wasting
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Understanding IPOs and IPO Scams You don’t have to spend too much time around the stock market to discover that there’s something fishy about many stocks’ initial public offerings‚ (IPOs). The standing joke is that IPO really stands for “It’s Probably Overpriced”. While that may or may not be true in any given case‚ there are a large number of pitfalls awaiting the would-be IPO trader or investor. It’s a case of caveat emptor‚ and in order to be suitably wary you need to understand how an IPO works and
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“What Do You Care What Other People Think?” Further Adventures of a Curious Character‚ written and narrated by famous physicist Richard P. Feynman; the book consists of two parts: firstly about his life through sequences of humorous stories and several early influences he encountered; mainly his first wife Arlene. Through very emotional stories on how he and Arlene dealt with her heart breaking battle with tuberculosis. All these events led to his personal battle with cancer‚ ending with his death
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The significance of the Albatross in "The Ancient Mariner" has been left open to examination by the reader. The symbolism of the Albatross in Coleridge’s poem is rather debatable. By looking at different interpretations‚ I will investigate whether Coleridge’s Albatross is significant or not. The ancient mariner represents Coleridge himself and the albatross represents the fight with himself to overcome his personal guilt. The mariner’s sufferings are an expression of Coleridge’s strong addiction
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IN YOUR OPINION DYOU THINK SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM WORKS‚ WHY OR WHY NOT Shareholder Activism refers to a range of actions taken by a shareholder to influence corporate management and board. Actions range from threatening the sale of shares (“exit”)‚ letter writing‚ meetings management‚ to asking questions at shareholders meetings and the use of corporate voting rights. The common definition of a shareholder activist is a shareholder “who tries to change the status quo through the “voice”‚ without
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