Accounting Mitchells & Butlers Plc Mitchells & Butlers PLC Mitchells & Butlers PLC (M&B) is a major operator of managed pubs and restaurants in the United Kingdom. The corporation runs restaurants and pubs below the Alex‚ All Bar One‚ Browns‚ Crown Carveries‚ Ember Inns‚ Harvester‚ Innkeeper ’s Lodge‚ Metro Professionals‚ Miller & Carter‚ Nicholson ’s‚ O ’Neill ’s Premium Country Dining Group‚ Sizzling Pub Company‚ Toby Carvery‚ Village Pub & Kitchen‚ and Vintage Inns
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Shumann Butler Lumber Company Background: Butler Lumber Company had been founded in 1981 in a suburb of a large city in the Pacific Northwest. The company s operations were limited to the retail distribution of lumber products. Their typical products included plywood‚ moldings‚ and sash and door products. Despite good profits Butler Lumber Company experienced a shortage in cash and found it necessary to increase its bank loans. Issues: y y Why does a Profitable company such as Butler Lumber
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Statement of firm’s position Butler Lumber Company is looking for more cash due to a fast-paced lumber market and a shortage of funding. Their regular bank‚ Suburban National Bank‚ is not willing to expand their exiting loan to an amount greater than $250‚000 without securing the loan with real property. Another loan is being offered by a second bank‚ Northrup National Bank‚ for $465‚000‚ with the understanding that the previous loan would be rolled into the second. The interest on the new loan
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"Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay‚ which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behaviour. A political policy is equated with moral right‚ and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." Synopsis: From Arthur Miller‚ America’s most celebrated playwright‚ a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria‚ inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist “witch-hunts” in the 1950s “I believe that the reader will discover here the
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Writers utilize their literary abilities in order to create a piece of work that transmits a meaningful message to their audience and create an impact on them. This is the case of Octavia Butler’s Kindred‚ a historical science-fiction novel evolving around a twenty six year old woman named Dana living in 1976. What makes the story unique is the fact that the plot alternates between the past and the present as Dana travels through time from the commodity of her house in 1976 Los Angeles to Maryland
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our words.” Even at a young age we are taught that speech is highly valuable when attempting to achieve a positive reaction. Throughout history‚ this has appeared to be true in some way or another‚ but what happens when this system breaks down? In Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds‚” she depicts a society suffering from the loss of ability to speak‚ write‚ or both which causes the people to revert to animalistic means of expression‚ thus breaking down the atmosphere of community. Although Rye and Obsidian
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It Is Not About Feminism. It Is About Freedom. Octavia Butler is the famous writer and the author of the fantasy genre of African American race. She became the first black woman who gained worldwide fame in science fiction. Kindred was published in 1979. Kindred is considered as the most famous and the best book of Butler’s works. It describes a strong black female protagonist who makes time travel for the sake of Rufus’ (white man) salvation. The main character is Dana. She experiences what it feels
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Parable of the Sower takes place in Octavia Buttler’s apocolypse (Old English‚ via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis‚ from apokaluptein ‘uncover‚ reveal‚’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’). In an interview‚ Buttler said that when writing the book‚ she took many of the issues of the modern world and took them to their natural conclusion. In doing so‚ by defintion‚ Buttler has created an apocalyptic work. For Parable of the Sower to be fully understood‚ one must first
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Synopsis Consumer Behaviour 1. People as Consumers Learning Objectives What you should learn from this module: To place consumption in the context of human behaviour The positivist and interpretivist approaches to its study The concept of real cost The production orientation and the marketing concept Sections 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Introduction Buyers‚ Customers and Consumers Consumer Behaviour The Consumer Environment and the Consuming Society The Consumer and the Market Place
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worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them‚ but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity”. Meaning‚ it is our heartlessness that allows us to feel indifference towards others; it steals the harmony in the world. Octavia Butler allows us to explore this cruelty in her science fiction novel Kindred. The novel is based on an average black woman Dana. Dana is called back in time to the antebellum south to save her ancestors. The author uses a variety of literary devices
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