Warren Buffet’s well-disciplined investment principles‚ which aims to maximize per-share intrinsic value‚ manifested in his renowned acquisitions of the “Big Four”‚ namely the American Express Company‚ The Coca-Cola Company‚ The Gillette Company‚ and Wells Fargo & Company. The total cost to purchase the stocks of the four companies was $3.832 billion‚ and by year-end of 2004‚ the total market value of the stocks were $24.68 billion‚ which is equivalent to a time weighted return of (24.68/3.832)
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The first noble truth is ‘suffering’ or ‘Dukkha’. On Buddha’s first adventure out of his palace he witnessed three main types of common suffering‚ old age‚ sickness and death. According to Buddha suffering goes much deeper than those three examples. He says that life is not ideal and constantly fails to live up to our expectations. Humans are full of desires‚ when you satisfy these desires the pleasure only lasts a small amount of time. When we are not suffering from illness or obvious suffering
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Essay about the short story‚ Four (with focus on narrative technique and the obsession with celebrities). In the blue sky an airplane fly with two kind of human a man and a woman. Poem by Rasmus Broendt (2011) In an airplane‚ a woman sits beside a famous man. This is in the 21. Century and the chances lead the woman and the celebrity together: “If I were a more self-assured person I would not have volunteered to give up my seat on an overcrowded flight‚ would
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The history of the Earth is categorized into four different geological time eras beginning with‚ the Precambrian Time (4.6 billion-544 million years ago)‚ the Paleozoic Era (544-248 million years ago)‚ the Mesozoic Era (248-65 million years ago)‚ and the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to the present). Eras are broken down further into smaller units called periods‚ which help scientists detect changes in Earth’s history. Geologists’s main sources of evidence for geological eras‚ and periods are
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NOTES for “The Four Cardinal Virtues” Prudence: The virtue of prudence is the mold and mother of all the other cardinal virtues‚ of justice‚ fortitude‚ and temperance. For Pieper the fact that people feel strange when they hear the discussion of prudence occur indicates that they are genuinely lost in terms of the relationship to Western culture. “…there is a larger significance in the fact that people today can respond to this assertion of the pre-eminence of prudence only with incomprehension
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Introduction The four Asian Tigers—Hong Kong‚ South Korea‚ Singapore‚ and Taiwan—are known for their remarkable growth over the latter half of the 20th century‚ which propelled them into some of the world leaders in finance and high value added manufacturing. The causes‚ or roots‚ of such a phenomenal success have been at the center of a vast literature written on these economies during the past decades‚ a debate still raging up to this day. The overwhelming tone of academic work on the subject
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Four forms of discouse 1. Exposition In the first of this‚ exposition‚ the intention is to explain something: for instance‚ to make some idea clear to the reader‚ to analyze situation‚ to define a term‚ to give directions. The intension‚ in short‚ is to inform. One of the four major forms of discourse‚ in which something is explained or “set forth” EXAMPLE: Outdoor Education remains my favorite field trip of all time due to all of the memorable activities we experienced. For instance
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Sentences Sentence Combining Four Types of Sentences / Compound-Complex Sentences Misplaced Modifiers CreateBetterWriters.com 37 Grammar Standards - Unit 2 ___________________________ Student Mastery 1. Complex Sentences 2. Sentence Combining 3. Four Types of Sentences / Compound-Complex Sentences 4. Misplaced Modifiers Non-Mastery Grammar Standards - Unit 2 ___________________________ Student Mastery 1. Complex Sentences 2. Sentence Combining 3. Four Types of Sentences / Compound-Complex
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Neither Langston Hughes nor Maya Angelou were just poets in the world of the twentieth century but instead heroes and leaders who showed the world that race wasn ’t what made you but whom you are instead. Though both grew up during times and events in the world‚ both have similar ideas while also different. Though both poets were put down by society‚ neither let what people said get to them. Both instead wrote poems about how what people say doesn ’t matter. Maya told those people that despite what
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PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT Dr. Montessori defined four stages of development and labeled them as four planes of development. Within these stages‚ development is intense at the beginning‚ consolidates and then tapers to the next. 1st and 3rd planes are period of intense creation‚ while 2nd and 4th planes are calm periods of consolidation. Each plane is approximately six years and has its own special characteristics as follows: 1. FIRST PLANE OF DEVELOPMENT : (0-6) ( INDIVIDUAL CREATION OF THE PERSON)
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