ISU Short Stories We Can remember it for you Wholesale “We Can remember it for you Wholesale”‚ is a story focused around a man named Douglas Quail. Quail is a store clerk who has dreams of visiting the red planet. To aid in his dream he visits a company called REKAL‚ a company that sells a sort of virtual holiday to its customers. However‚ upon implantation of the “trip to Mars”‚ it is discovered that his new virtual trip and some very real memories of Mars begin to collide. It is here that
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immense pressure. Both internally due to an increase in resistance‚ as well externally due to an intensification of international pressure through sanctions and various campaigns. In order to combat this‚ the government introduced a policy of “Total Onslaught - Total Strategy.” This policy introduced a number of reforms in the hope of winning the support of non-white South African’s in an attempt to undermine the ANC and other resistance groups. One of these reforms included the creation of the Tricameral
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of stock can be viewed in each of the following way: investment‚ financing‚ shareholder distribution and control issue. Repurchase of stock can be a way to use firm’s excess debt capacity. By doing so‚ firm can lower the cost of equity financing. If debt financing is more flexible and cheap‚ replace equity financing with debt financing is a good way to lower the weighted cost of capital. In this sense‚ such action is a financing issue because it controls the cost of financing. On the other hand‚
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Top Five Passages Taken from “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose 1) “Students will float to the mark you set. I and the others in the vocational classes were bobbing in pretty shallow water... mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond” (2). This text stood out to me because it is a simple concept yet abundantly true. A thorough understanding of this passage will lead to the uncovering of a deeper meaning
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Bally total fitness originated as an average health and tennis club in 1962. Who would have thought they would be where they are today. Like many other major companies sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Today they are one of the major companies in a 14 billion dollar health club industry. "They are the third biggest health care chain behind Curves for women and the YMCA".Currently they have around four million members and 420 facilities. They currently have operations in
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TABLE OF CONTENT I. ABSTRACT 1 II. INTRODUCTION 2 III. BACKGROUND 4 1. Definition of debt and equity 4 a) Definition of Debt 4 b) Definition of equity 5 2. Example of mix structure capital 5 IV. TECHNICAL SECTION 11 1. Debt Financing – Pros & Cons 11 a) Definition and Classifications of Debt Financing 11 b) Advantages of Debt Financing 14 c) Disadvantages of Debt Financing 15 2. Equity Financing – Pros & Cons 16 a) Definition & Classifications of Equity Financing 16
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structure by raising the debt and using it to pay the dividends or buy back the shares. As a part of evaluating they wanted to find if they are inefficiently financed or not. Under the proposed recapitalization‚ Wrigley would borrow $3 billion and use it either to pay equivalent dividends or to repurchase equivalent shares. Chandler‚ an associate in Aurora Borealis‚ was calculating the impact of this debt on the company. This would affect firm’s share value‚ cost of capital‚ debt coverage‚ earnings per
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Medieval Period What is it all about? - it is all about the period‚ age or era after the fall of Roman Empire and the beginning of "rebirth" or the Rennaisance period. - it is the bridge with these two very important eras in literature. What is the meaning of medieval and period? - the term medieval comes from the latin word "medium aevum" which means "middle age". Medieval was 1st used in the 19th century and the original spelling of it is "mediavel". -period means a length
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The most important qualities of an outstanding educator are those that improve teaching and enhance student learning. There are several qualities that an educator should possess in order to be an outstanding educator; however‚ one of the most significant qualities that an educator should possess is caring about his/her job. If a teacher does not genuinely care about teaching‚ his/her ideas and knowledge will never be put into place. Without caring about improvement‚ his/her students‚ and content
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Activity 2.2.1 Observing Mechanisms Introduction A mechanism is a device that transmits movements so that the output movement is different than the input movement. It can be used to change the direction‚ speed‚ force‚ or type of movement. The output of a robot or any machine is motion and force in some form. A drill press‚ for example‚ has two kinds of motion: rotary and linear. The drill spinning provides the rotary motion; moving the drill down through the material is the linear motion. The
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