THE VICTORS OF DISTRICT TEN were a considerable miracle to the nation of Panem. Nobody had expected a Victor to come out of District Ten. They hadn’t won in years and there were no living ones left. Florian Parker had won his games at age thirteen‚ shocking the entire country. The 61st Hunger Games has left the twenty-seven-year-old in a reclusive state and some questioned whether or not he had lost it. Calix Forrester was not the expected tribute to win in his Games‚ it being quite the upset to
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Case Assumptions & Observations: 1. In 1990‚ L.L. Bean received 87% of its revenue from customers who purchased merchandise through their mail order catalogs. The remaining 13% of revenue was realized through their single company store in Freeport‚ Maine. 2. They print twenty-two catalogs (or "books") with four primary seasonal catalogs: spring‚ summer‚ fall‚ and Christmas. Additionally there are various specialty catalogs: Spring Weekend‚ Summer Camp‚ Fly Fishing‚ etc as well as a smaller "prospect"
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of business: "The forecast is the only estimate of demand until actual demand becomes known" [ (Heizer & Render‚ 2014) ]. L.L. Bean estimates that annual costs of lost sales and backorders to be $11 million and costs of having too much or the wrong inventory were an additional $10 million. With losses like these it would appear from the outside that L.L. Bean has serious issues with item forecasting and inventory management. While there are several things that go into the decision of how
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AN ABSTRACTION OF APPLICATION PSYCHOANALYSIS ON MONA LISA SMILE MOVIE By : Yoga Sudarisman In the late 19th century Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud developed a theory of personality and a system of psychotherapy known as psychoanalysis. According to this theory‚ people are strongly influenced by unconscious forces‚ including innate sexual and aggressive drives. Sigmund Freud compared the human mind to an iceberg. The tip above the water represents consciousness‚ and the vast
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L.L.Bean is an outdoor apparel and equipment manufacturer and retailer with a focus on quality products and practical designs that meet the high standards of its demanding customers. To meet quality standards‚ the company spends a significant portion of its resources on research and development and places a premium on the field testing of its products. L.L.Bean regards itself as a multi-channel retailer that offers direct sales of its products through mail‚ phone‚ fax‚ email‚ or internet channels
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The major conflict in the text is the author‚ Chaz Bono‚ not being able to accept themselves. Throughout the story there are both internal and external experiences that lead Chaz down the wrong path to self-discovery. He allowed outside influences to infiltrate his mind and tell him what he was. Chaz lived in a time where sources for LGBT kids were hard to come across‚ even worse‚ he was born to Cher and Sonny Bono‚ celebrities who had reputations they had to keep. While growing up‚ Chaz felt like
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Calculating OCF. Hammett‚ Inc.‚ has sales of $34‚630‚ costs of $10‚340‚ depreciation expense of $2‚520‚ and interest expense of $1‚750. If the tax rate is 35 percent‚ what is the operating cash flow‚ or OCF? Operating cash flow $ 17283 Calculations: Sales - Cost - Depreciation = EBIT(Earnings Before Interest Taxes –Depreciation Amortization) 34630 - 10340 - 2520 = 21770 EBIT - Interest = Taxable Income 21770 - 1750 = 20020 Taxes (35%) = 20020 x .35 = 7007 Net income: 20020 - 7007 = 13013 EBIT
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Mark Cronin MBA 600 – Production & Operations Management Final Project Report - June 2‚ 2003 Supply-Chain Management Executive Summary – By adopting five new proposed initiatives‚ the L.L.Bean Factory Store Division can provide brand appropriate product to customers and it can also improve its in-stock position and inventory turns while reducing costs in the Supply-Chain and management of corporate inventory. If we leverage a Special Purchase strategy and negotiate
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The Book‚ The Bean Trees was written by Barbara Kingsolver. Lou Ann is one of the characters in this novel. She is an innocent‚ insecure women and a fighter all in one. A cautious‚ patient‚ worrisome and caring single mother who will go to the ends of the earth to make her newborn baby‚ Dwayne Ray safe and sound in her little town of Tucson‚ Arizona. she longs for her husband and expresses her conviction that marriages and love should last forever but then she is introduced to Taylor Greer‚ who
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Bean Trees DJ’s Eng. ½ PASSAGE: “I have been afraid of putting an air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil Sign.” (pg. 1.Barabara Kingsolver) RESPONSE: This was the first sentence of The Bean Trees. I honestly didn’t know what to think. Personally‚ I had to reread the sentence a few times to believe it. The first sentence of a book sets the tone of the story. I enjoyed it at one hand because it wasn’t the cliché
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