VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Teaching Note This case follows the performance-review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail-building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong operating performance of Home Depot with the strong stock-market performance of Lowe’s. Students examine a financial-ratio analysis for Home Depot that acts as a template to generate a comparable ratio analysis for Lowe’s. The students’ ratio
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The color line‚ W.E.B. Dubois viewed it‚ is a line drawn between two groups of individuals (not necessarily of different races) that accentuates the contemptuous discrimination of Western literature‚ philosophy‚ and various other meanings. Du Bois said on the start of his groundbreaking book entitled “The Souls of Black Folk” for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line a statement setting out to show people the strange meanings of being black here in the dawning of the
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Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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capitalaim.com There is a blurring of lines between the urban and rural consumers in the country after economic reforms and it is necessary for companies to engage consumers online‚ according to Jotsna Mukherjee‚ a professor in Texas A & M Intl. University in the US and an expert on consumer behaviour. She was delivering a lecture on the subject here at the Integral Institute of Advanced Management on Wednesday at a programme jointly organised by Business Line and the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH)
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HISTORY 212-2 Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age‚ 1870-1890 Thorstein Veblen‚ Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement‚ wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor’s own effort.” Luther Standing Bear‚ excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for
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The Sun is a star. It is a rather ordinary star - not particularly big or small‚ not particularly young or old. It is the source of heat which sustains life on Earth. Jane Urquhart’s “Shadow” illustrates how important the sun is in people’s lives. Structural device and personification are used throughout the poem with imagery to describe the sun’s importance and its functionality towards humans. These devices work to express a leading understand of how the sun works in our favour and its every human’s
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in society. The text being explored is "out of the Shadows" by Jason Wallace. Change reoccurs throughout the text which helps to develop Robert’s character. Similarly‚ the major connotation of racism also engages readers to relate to the changes of Robert’s and Ivan’s character. Change is evident in the development of Robert’s character as he experiences his journey with Ivan and his friends. At the beginning of the text‚ Out of the Shadows by Jason Wallace‚ Robert has an awkward confrontation
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of the most influential thinkers in world history formed contrasting ideas on the concept of the soul. On one hand‚ Plato’s idea of the soul was created based on his theory of forms‚ as illustrated through a conceptual apparatus called “The Divided Line”. In this diagram‚ concepts of the absolute‚ such as the essence of absolute good‚ come from forms and ideas‚ which are eventually processed into the physical world as images in our minds. These images can then once again be manipulated into forms
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