Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry Introduction Laura Martin‚ an equity research analyst for cable stocks‚ believes that the best way to value cable stocks is through creative methods such as real options and not through more traditional or typical valuation methods such as EBITDA multiples‚ ROIC analysis and DCF analysis. In 1999 she presented at the Credit Suisse First Boston Broadband conference‚ where she wanted to portray the message that real options is a superior valuation
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The film‚ ‘Soul Surfer’‚ directed by Sean McNamara is based on a true story about a teenage girl Bethany Hamilton who is a champion surfer. A day surfing in the water with her best friend Alana‚ Alana’s father Holt and brother Byron‚ she is attacked by a shark leaving her with just a right arm. She then has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm. She is told she will never surf ever again but she doesn’t let this happen. It takes her family‚ friends‚ her Christian faith and determination
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W.E.B. Du Bois‚ author of The Souls of Black Folks‚ wrote the enlightening text that many progressives (and non-progressives) of his time and of today study. Du Bois writes this novel in a lyrical and poetic style to tap in to the consciousness of African-Americans to inform them on the ways of gaining success in the American system that racially undervalues them. He also makes points to non-black Americans‚ but specifically white Americans‚ to inform them on how they can use their white privilege
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of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to move souls‚ one must understand the souls first‚ meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot‚ "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair‚ and secondly one of the horses
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In “Shakespeare in the Bush‚” by Laura Bohannan‚ the narrator of the story has an argument with a colleague on whether or not that the interpretation of Shakespeare could be understood the same way everywhere in the world because “human nature is more or less the same universally”. Her statement would then be proven invalid‚ because a person’s perception will always differ from someone else’s due to their cultural upbringing. While preparing to travel to Africa to study a tribe by the name‚ Tiv
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Guest explains how hardships display the true nature of a person. Similarly‚ Patrick Kohan highlights in his article‚ “The Importance of Adversity in Growth and Development‚” how obstacles should not be removed to help a child succeed. Furthermore‚ Laura Hillenbrand’s novel‚ Unbroken‚ showcases the worst challenges elicit of one’s character. Ultimately‚ one should use adversity to discover hidden talents that once never existed‚ as well as change the perspective of a convoluted idea. Challenges can
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The house for the lost soul. Absent-mindedly‚ 17-year-old Trey Fierce read the line of words carved on the wood plank on the wall which were a subtle depiction of everyone whose life thrown into this place; the facility for the mentally incompetent‚ the unbalanced person‚ the deranged - those were just a few of the names. Whoever had said that madness was always in the form of frenzy and hysteria‚ must have never dealt with madness itself. It was often soundless and discreet‚ appeared in many tender
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This reading relates thematically to the reading “Landscapes of Racial Violence‚” authored by Laura Pulido‚ through its discussion on the racially motivated violence that has been a major aspect of California’s history. Pulido briefly discussed the systematic racism and discrimination that Mexicans and Latinos faced in California during the twentieth
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resisting arrest (Laura Jane Grace). Three years later this same boy begins writing songs under the title Against Me! where he voices his political opinions. Later in his writing he begins to express his inner feelings conveying that this boy is not
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along with his wife Andrea establish their own film company. The film company is called Renascent Films LLC. They have current published three films. The first film was a documentary called La Cucaracha. The second film is another documentary called Soul of the Samurai which tells the history of the Samurai lifestyle. The third production was called Deep Sea Diving that was a one-woman show.
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