to calculate WACC. To compromise these differences‚ we agree to use the average discount rate that doesn’t make a large influence of the valuation price. After this‚ we discussed the most important factor –growth rate. Based on the assumption in the case‚ we use 4% as terminal growth rate‚ 2% annual oil demand growth rate plus 2% inflation rate. However‚ Amoco hold the view that the oil price
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Praise for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down “Fadiman describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture.” —The New Yorker “This fine book recounts a poignant tragedy…It has no heroes or villains‚ but it has an abundance of innocent suffering‚ and it most certainly does have a moral…[A] sad‚ excellent book.” —Melvin Konner‚ The New York Times Book Review “An intriguing‚ spirit-lifting‚ extraordinary exploration of two cultures in uneasy
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down In the book‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Anne Fadiman tells us the story of a little girl named Lia Lee‚ caught between the differences of two cultures. The differences in Lia’s parents’ knowledge‚ abilities‚ and understanding of the culture they were surrounded by and the rationalized facts that Western medicine and its culture provide bring us to the borderland of the two. When these two cultures meet Lia’s life is put in danger‚ not
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SUMMARY Barilla SpA‚ an Italian manufacturer and world’s largest pasta producer that sells to its retailers largely through third-party distributors‚ experienced widely fluctuating demand patterns from its distributors during the late 1980s and Barilla suffered increasing operational inefficiencies and cost penalties. Brando Vitali‚ Barilla’s ex-Director of Logistics‚ proposed a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system to counter this demand variation. This system required the distributors to share
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worlds and reality TV. The question is has this brought us to a place were our reality is now blurred? We live in a world were we are surrounded by the mass media portraying air brushed woman‚ attractive guys‚ perfect families etc this is in our faces so much that we start to think that this is who we should be and how we should act‚ the norm of life if you want. The distinction between real life and life represented by the mass media gets blurred and all sense of reality is lost. Reality television
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It describes the battle of love and hate‚ in which battle love is victorious. When Romeo first enters and sees the evidences of the fray between the partisans of Capulet and Montague he says: Here’s much to do with hate‚ but more with love. This remark describes the play. A deadly feud had‚ for a long time‚ existed between the Montagues and Capulets. Law could not control it. Religion could not abate it. A young Montague falls in love with a young Capulet. This love is reciprocated. It is a love
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Walt Disney World Case Study Executive Summary The Walt Disney World Resort is a family themed amusement park located in Orlando‚ Florida on approximately 25‚000 acres of land. Opening in 1971‚ the resort now is visited by an approximate amount of 17 million tourists each year. Currently‚ Robert A. Iger‚ presides over the resort as the CEO. With 62‚000 employers‚ Walt Disney World is a the largest single site employer in the United States‚ running a variety of different themed areas such as
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Jealousy generates progress Neg. 1st speaker Good afternoon. History is the best proof of all the atrocities caused by jealousy. The Bible tells of the first murder in the world. Cain was jealous because God favoured his brother Abel‚ and he murdered Abel. He was thus condemned to a life of suffering. Jealousy led to his sibling rivalry‚ broken family and miserable life. Moving on to Ancient Greece‚ Greek states were jealous of Athens’s great achievements in literature and art‚ and started
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For the second reflection paper I chose to write about the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. When I started reading this book‚ I had no idea what I was going to read about. I learned many new concepts on the culture of Hmong and their views. A brief section of the book also was about how they came to America and the experiences they had while doing so. I learned that there was a secret war in Laos that caused a tragedy among the Hmong people leaving them to abandon their homes in the
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Upon analysis of Barilla’s proposed implementation of the Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) model‚ it appears that the JITD proposal is attempting to minimize the bullwhip effect phenomenon on the pasta manufacturer’s supply chain. The bullwhip effect is seen as one moves upstream in the supply chain from the retailer to the distributor to Barilla’s central distribution centers (CDC) to Barilla’s plants – the farther one moves upstream‚ the greater the volatility in demand. This demand fluctuation
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