The Vertical Fields In this short story “The Vertical fields” the young boy starts out stating how his family and friends is a strong stand point of this text. The story begins saying‚ “when I was a young boy‚ after having the traditional punch and cookies and after having sung around the fire‚ I‚ with my sister‚ my mother and my aunts‚ and Emma Jackman and her son. For me as a reader to read this up front in this story shows me how meaning his family is to him. The plot of the story goes on
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Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily
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SEARS CASE STUDY by Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The great advantage of publicly held companies is that they bring together capital and managerial expertise‚ to the benefit of both groups. An investor need not know anything about making or marketing chairs in order to invest in a chair factory. A gifted producer or seller of chairs need not have capital in order to start a business. When
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Kmart and Sears: Still Stuck In The Middle? On January 22‚ 2002‚ Kmart Corporation became the largest retailer in U.S. history to seek bankruptcy protection. Kmart management said that they would outline a plan for repaying Kmart’s creditors‚ reducing its size‚ and restructuring its business so that it could leave court protection as a viable competitor in discount mass-marketretailing. Emerging from bankruptcy in May 2003‚ Kmart still lacked a business strategy to succeed in an extremely competitive
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Sears Vs. Walmart Financial Performance Comparison Profit Margin Profit Margin‚ Sears Co. | | 1997 | | 1996 | | 1995 | Net income | 1‚188 | -6.53% | 1‚271 | -29.43% | 1‚801 | Total revenues | 36‚371 | 7.76% | 33‚751 | 8.41% | 31‚133 | Profit Margin | 3.27% | | 3.77% | | 5.78% | This Profit Margin ratio is acceptable‚ though not high. The result means that for each dollar of sales at Sears Co.‚ the company earns only 3.27 cents in 1997‚ compared to 3.77 cents and 5.78 cents in 1996 and 1995 respectively
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“I am vertical‚” begins Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication
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antibiotic resistant pathogens through horizontal gene transfer. Located in the bacteria are plasmids. They are independent‚ self-duplicating‚ and allow bacteria to perform new functions/generate new products. Basically plasmids help their hosts to stop the action of antibiotics and become resistant. “Gene transfer must be integral and critical to the overall survival of bacteria‚ providing a way for them to adapt to difficult conditions” (Levy 2002‚ 83). Horizontal gene transfer can occur through conjugation
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The ratios presented on the Analysis for ROE with regards to Sears of 51.4% for 1996 and of 22% for 1997 are deceiving. Even though they are shown above the ones from Wal-Mart of 35.7 % for 1997 and 19.8 % for 1998 this doesn’t mean they have a healthier financial and more stable company than Wal-Mart. When we take apart the ROE number into its parts we can see a really high leverage from Sears. Wal-Mart with just a few points below the ROE from Sears when analyzed seems more solid and stable
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In “Verticals of Adam”‚ Frye argues that the most effective way to educate people in terms of literature is to start with poetry as the foundation; to work outwards to other forms of literary works; then to go further by making connections with subjects other than art. In literature‚ he states that there are both theory and practice: the latter derives from the types of literary works produced‚ and the former comes from the criticism of these specific works. It is the act of literary criticism‚ he
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Horizontal Violence in Nursing Nader Ayyad Evidence Based Practice Chamberlain College of Nursing November 2015 Clinical Question Does horizontal violence in nursing affect the way nurses perform in their working environment? Horizontal violence has been described broadly as any unwanted abuse or hostility within the workplace (Horizontal Violence in Nursing). Horizontal violence in nursing is hostile‚ aggressive‚ and harmful behavior by a nurse or group of nurses toward a coworker or
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