single receipt of $10‚000 at the end of Year 4. The company has a 16% rate of return. 2. Cash flow calculations and net present value On January 2‚ 20X1‚ Bruce Greene invested $10‚000 in the stock market and purchased 500 shares of Heartland Development‚ Inc. Heartland paid cash dividends of $2.60 per share in 20X1 and 20X2; the dividend was raised to $3.10 per share in 20X3. On December 31‚ 20X3‚ Greene sold his holdings and generated proceeds of $13‚000. Greene uses the net-present- value method
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politics ever written by geographer’ (Sempa‚ 2009‚ p.14). What Mackinder called in 1904 the ‘Pivot area’; he subsequently called the ‘Heartland’ by 1919. The ‘heart’ of Mackinder’s theory is contained in a famous and concise dictum: Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the
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Allen was a Jewish man‚ a school teacher and also a member of the American communist party which was risky and unusual in its self at the time of the 1930’s. Allen was inspired to right by a photograph of a lynching he saw that shocked him. The subject matter of the poem is about the lynching of African Americans in Americas south. Allen saw the harsh injustices of racism and how it was generational “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” He protested against racism in order to create a desire
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To the Bill‚ it defined lynching as an assembly of three or more acting in the purpose of depriving one’s from life without the authority of the law. The legislation was broken down into three parts. "First‚ the act punished state and municipal officers who failed to do their duty in protecting the lives of persons from mobs. Second‚ the act punished the perpetrators of the crime of lynching by federal prosecution. Third‚ the act compelled the county where
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African-Americans have been treated unfairly in the past‚ they were forced into obedience by white people and have suffered in various ways because of their skin colour. Lynching was a common form of punishment; usually by being hung in public as spectators watched. African-Americans did not deserve to be punished‚ but were often susceptible to unfair treatment. They were ridiculed and seen as property rather than human. Young people of colour grew up witnessing this unfair treatment‚ losing their
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Ida B. Wells: Courageous Success Introduction The Harlem Renaissance was a time period that began after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930’s depression‚ this era refers to a time of written and artistic creativity among African Americans. During this movement creativity was brought‚ but unfortunately so was discrimination and crimes that often occurred. A woman named Ida B. Wells was commonly referred to as the fearless crusader‚ suffragist‚ women’s right advocate‚ journalist
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traversable‚ Russia blossomed into one of the largest empires the world ha sever seen. Yet the importance and fierce fighting spirit of Russia has been formed by over five centuries of Tsar conquest. Its continual thirst for taking over the Eurasian Heartland has seemed to be the reason for the unification of the Slavic peoples‚ and it still continues today. The formation of the USSR in 1922 brought a scary force to the modern world; nearly 150 million people expanded over nearly 12% of land on earth
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through lynching as there was over 3‚000 accounts of lynching taking place between 1880 and 1930 with the majority on sketchy‚ unproven
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Strange fruit Strange fruit is a song/poem by Billie Holiday which talks about the lynching mob. We have read it and heard it and this is my response to it‚ which includes how the imagery is explained‚ the message of the poem‚ how successfuly the point has been made and the differences between the poem and the song. Imagery The poem describes a gory image‚ Negroes hung from trees by the lynching mob. This scene is a horrible one to make into a poem‚ and writing techniques are used to make
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Reliable Primary Sources Primary sources are original records created at the time or after historical events occurred. Primary sources may include letters‚ manuscripts‚ diaries‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ speeches‚ interviews‚ memoirs‚ photographs‚ audio recordings‚ video recordings‚ research data‚ and objects or artifacts from the time in order for it to be considered reliable. These sources are raw materials that help interpret the past. Not every primary source is completely reliable‚ because they
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