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    CASE #0 Butler Lumber Company Analysis I. Conclusion Based on the information and corresponding financial statements provided‚ we concluded that: Bulter Lumber Company has to collect money from outside resources to compensate its funding gap of 383‚000 USD. From the perspective of banker‚ we won’t approve Mr.Butler ‘s loan request From the perspective of firm’s financial advisor‚ it is better to finance from new shareholders than to borrow from bank. II. Analysis i. Funding gap There

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    Joseph Butler (1692-1752) hold contrasting views on how to build a human society. For Hobbes the most important issue is to achieve and maintain peace‚ and points out‚ that men ought to give up their natural rights and transfer them to a sovereign. For Butler the best way is to follow the rules of God which are already inside of every man’s soul. The two both start with an account of human nature: Hobbes notes that it is lead by appetites and aversions and results in selfish individuals; Butler argues

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    substance‚ of a natural sort of being(Butler‚ 1990‚ p.33).” What Butler means that gender is performative is to say that gender is “real only to the extent that it is performed (Butler‚ 1990‚p.278).” Notably the repetition of the acts in performativity is an imitation or miming of the dominant conventions of gender. Butler argues that “the act that one does‚ the act that one performs is‚ in a sense‚ an act that’s been going on before one arrived on the scene” (Butler‚ 1990‚ p.104).

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    Human Condition As Dana soon discovers‚ the reality of slavery is even more disturbing than its portrayal in books‚ movies‚ and television programs. Before her journey into the past‚ Dana called the temp agency where she worked a "slave market‚" even though "the people who ran it couldn’t have cared less whether or not you showed up to do the work they offered." This turns out to be an ironic contrast to life at the Weylin plantation‚ where a slave who visits his wife without his master’s permission

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    Butler Lumber 1. Why does BL need to borrow money to support its profitable business? Draw up a Fund Flow Statement‚ i.e.‚ Funding and Uses a. Funding would include Bank Borrowing‚ Trade Credit‚ Retained Earnings‚ Cash‚ Accrued Expenses b. Uses would include Inventories‚ A/R‚ Buyout‚ Reduction in debt‚ increase in fixed assets/accounts Response: BL needs to borrow money from the bank to take benefit of the purchase discounts. During the last two years‚ BL had taken very few purchase discounts

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    like the Mekong Delta‚ where they grew up. Their child‚ Bill‚ was born in America. He was much more Americanized and had little knowledge about his cultural background. The story‚ "Crickets‚" by Robert Olen Butler is about a father‚ who is trying to educate his son to be more Vietnamese. Butler is trying to let his reader understand that coming to a new land as a new immigrant is difficult. In order to have a better life‚ the father and his new bride struggle to come to America. In other words‚ you

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    impairment are the loss of intellectual abilities‚ constant misunderstandings‚ murderous jealousy‚ violence‚ and the dissolution of society. In the first passage of the prompt‚ the bus driver responds to Obsidian’s superiority by gesturing “threateningly” (Butler 93) and by shouting “in wordless anger” (93)‚ which is an illustration of one of the major implications of the loss of communication. The bus driver’s brash reaction

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    Butler’s Tourism Lifecycle Model Butler developed a model which shows how any tourist resort may grow. A resort may start off from being a small‚ low key‚ destination. He suggests that all resorts go through the same sort of process. The seven stages of tourist development A graph of Butler’s resort life cycle model 1. Exploration - a small number of tourists visit the area. The area is unspoilt and few tourist facilities exist. 2. Involvement - local people start to provide some facilities

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    In the chapter The Storm of Kindred the slaves have turned husking corn into a enjoyable thing. And so Rufus gave them whiskey to help them with it. “There was no reason for me to join them‚ but they seemed to be making a party of the husking—Rufus gave them a little whiskey to help them along—and I needed a party‚ needed anything that would relieve my boredom‚ take my mind off myself”. So after work Rufus gave them a large amount of food which the slaves think is his way of thanking them. So things

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    Mr. Tan Wee Li‚ 012-676 0964‚ weeli@netizentesting.com | Employer Project/Process Owner Name‚ Position & Contact Information | Mr. Tan Wee Li‚ 012-676 0964‚ weeli@netizentesting.com | Project Name | The Importance Of User Experience on a E-commerce Website | Brief Profile of the Company | We test websites. We do this by showing website owners videos of ordinary users speaking their thoughts aloud when using the website. We crowd source our testers from all over Asia and the world. Their

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