1: Opportunity Evaluation: a: How good is it? While not been in the distribution area‚ Plas-Tek has characteristics that fit Allen Lane skills and objectives. Plas- Tek has gross margins in excess of 40% for a nonproprietary product. It was giving half a million a year‚ from a Business with a million dollars in sales. It is a gold mine. b: What is the potential (market size‚ growth rate‚ potential: company’s competitive advantage? Market Size: Plas-Tek has over 26 year in the Business. Lets
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Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7‚ 1975)[1] is an American retired professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for four teams. He played both the point guard and shooting guard positions. Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star and won the All-Star MVP award in 2001 and2005. Iverson attended Bethel High School in Hampton‚ Virginia and was a dual-sport athlete; he earned the Associated Press High School Player of the Year award in both football and
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conversations that are soon forgotten. We don’t expect them to profoundly impact our lives or even change who we are. Elisa Allen in John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” was not expecting any visitors while cutting down the old year’s chrysanthemums‚ much less a visitor that would deeply impact her and her feelings. Her character starts out as a strong woman and ends in tears. Elisa Allen is a dynamic and round character. Steinbeck describes her to us in great detail from her face that is strong‚ lean
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poems to try to advocate for gender equality. For instance‚ in Paula Treichler’s paper "Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in The Yellow Wallpaper‚” the yellow wallpaper is a symbol representing (amid other things) the "outline" which triggers sexual inequality in the society. Here‚ women are portrayed as vulnerable creatures that are suffering at the hands of cruel men‚ who want to exploit them for their personal gains. Paula Treichler sees “yellow wallpaper” as a term that describes the
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The English colonists were responsible for the demolition of the Indian culture. In the book‚ Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma‚ we learn about what it is like to be living in the 1600’s but also about the different aspects of Pocahontas’ life growing up. Through out this reading it was clear to see that the Native Americans were not treated fairly in comparison to the English or any other people of a different descent. There are many times that Native American lives were taken for no true cause
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Opportunity Evaluation Allen Lane’s decision to acquire Plas-Tek Industries (PTI) is intriguing since the business appears to be a good match with Lane’s work experience and interest. As a manufacturer‚ PTI has been able to create large margins and high cash flow under Harry Elson’s leadership. However‚ significant risks are prevalent in acquiring PTI. First‚ more one-third of PTI’s sales originated from five companies and it is uncertain that without Harry Elson’s personal efforts if their
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Disney Company released the animated feature “Pocahontas” in the summer of my 20th year‚ I had to see it. At the time‚ I thought I had hit the jackpot with this movie. “An American legend comes to life” is the tagline to get viewers interested in this movie. [1] A heroin‚ whom was a beautiful Indian and a love story‚ who could ask for more from a Disney movie‚ I thought to myself. Now‚ being ignorant of the true facts about the Indian woman Pocahontas and even about Indian culture and history itself
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novel‚ Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma‚ author‚ Camilla Townsend‚ a history professor at Colgate University has investigated through many written records from the seventeenth-century. During this time in history many things were written down in journals‚ maps were created and artifacts such as agricultural tool and body remains were left behind. Through these primary sources Townsend has written a biography that focuses on the life of America’s most influential female Indian‚ Pocahontas and some
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first glance shows the real Pocahontas vs. Disney’s interpretation of the individual. Disney’s version of Pocahontas is showing her as a very empowering indigenous person. This appearance would be then spread across the globe because of globalization. Source one also shows Disney’s Pocahontas very glamified and perfect. She is seen visually as a strong individual vs. just being a strong individual. The true Pocahontas is distinguished as regular being. The real Pocahontas would be less empowering by
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An English diplomat‚ England’s main tobacco producer‚ and the husband of Matoaka (Pocahontas)‚ who was none other than John Rolfe. A time when the New World was discovered‚ in 1609‚ his journey set sailed from England to Virginia. Rolfe traveled on the ship‚ Sea Venture‚ as part of a new charter for the organization The Virginia Company. While en route‚ a hurricane wrecked the ship on the Caribbean in the West Indies; this caused him to be stranded from 1609 to 1611. There‚ Rolfe discovered the
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