teamed to tell the true story of Richard Philips a US cargo ship captain who surrendered himself to the Somalia pirates so that his crew would be safe. The movie shows how Lots of men and women risk their lives to make and deliver goods that some people take for granted. A world away‚ some other people covet what those goods signify. A few of those people become pirates. And‚ astonishingly‚ this movie is as much about them as it is about their victims. In the movie‚ various elements of movie making
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Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups “For fiscal year 2008‚ Medicare adopted a severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group system called Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups or MS-DRGs. This was the most drastic revision to the DRG system in 24 years.” (Schraffenberger‚ 2016‚ p. 702) MS-DRGs had a single goal to which was to improve the ability to recognize the severity of a patient’s illness for inpatient hospitals. Within this system hospitals with the sickest patients
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EVALUATION OF VIRGIN GROUP ACCORDING TO THE 7-S MODEL. According to Waterman and others‚ 7-s model is a framework for change identifying seven key factors that adversely affect change in an organization. Virgin Group can be analyzed according to this model as follows: 1. STAFF The staff of Virgin Group is highly motivated. Richard Branson‚ the owner of the group serves as a good example to the employees as he leads by example by not living an extravagant life which may make the employees
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Strength is a quality exhibited and possessed by the characters in Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. While on a chase during a rainstorm to escape a monster from taking them alive‚ lightning strikes their car and are stuck to fight with the monster itself. His mother is killed after the monster takes her in his grip and Percy furiously takes on the monster and grabs its horn to stab it‚ even if it was twice his size. Even if the monster is something nearly impossible to win against‚ he pushes himself
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starting with letters at the end of the alphabet. This person doesn’t want to admit that it could start from Z to A. Alphabetical order is an easy system and should not be banned because of the ludicrous thought of unfairness. One of the strongest arguments against this system is that people with last names starting with letters found at the end of the alphabet always get picked last. This might happen more‚ but the system of organizing this information shouldn’t be affected. If people with names starting
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another culture in a different place‚ or even both. “The Walking Dead” is one example of this. Several guys are trying to prevail in an apocalyptic world controlled by zombies. The fourth season of The Walking Dead finds Rick Grimes desperate to find his own humanity and preserve what he can of his son Carl’s childhood through reinventing himself as a farmer while a counsel including Carol and Daryl in addition to several Woodbury ex-pats take on leadership roles. His newfound sense of peace is quickly
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Adjusted Present Value Normal NPV calculation: NPV = −investment + CFN CF1 CF2 + +L+ 2 (1 + WACC) (1 + WACC) (1 + WACC) N where‚ in a simple situation: equity debt WACC = equity + debt (cos t of equity ) + equity + debt (cos t of debt )(1 − tax rate ) Using debt for financing has a tax advantage in that interest payments are tax deductible. This tax deductibility is a source of value for the firm. In the normal NPV calculation‚ this additional value is accounted
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a place where students go to explore and expand the mind. Nonetheless it’s slowly becoming an unreachable goal for most people. It has become widely known that the cost of college has been rising the last few decades and continues to rise‚ and the rates will only continue to of increase. As the cost of college rises‚ families have to either change their way of life to be fortunate enough to send their children to college or take out extensive amount of loans. When the time comes to talk about college
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Q: In your own words‚ details the ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments with regard to innate and learned behaviour. A: There are two types of behaviour‚ innate and learned. Innate behaviour (also known as nature) is defined as natural and instinctive. It is the behaviour present at birth‚ the fixed‚ unchanging behaviours.Nativists believe that various aspects of behaviour are innate. They argue that behaviour is due to genetics as we inherit the qualities that decide the kind of person we will be. For
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1. Estimate of the risk-free rate pf interest ("U.S. 10-year Treasury" bond rate = 4.78%. Assumed Market Risk Premium = 7.5%. 2. IBM Stock Information a. IBM’s Beta = 1.64 b. IBM’s current annual dividend = $0.80 c. IBM’s 3-year dividend growth rate (g) = 8.2% d. Industry P/E = 23.2 e. IBM’s EPS = $4.87 3. With the information you have‚ use the CAPM to calculate IBM’s required rate of return or ks. CAPM: ks = RF +{ (kM Krf) x Beta} = ks = 4.78% + {7.5% x 1.64) = 17.08% ks
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