ARE E-COMMERCE VALUATIONS UNREALISTIC There are expectations of a $100 billion firm in the e-commerce industry. The valuation bar has only been raised with every round of funding in e-commerce. A firm that is valued at $1bn in November 2013‚ reaches a valuation of $3bn within four months‚ it jumps to $7bn figure again four months after that? Nothing surprising there given the potential of the sector. But all this rush of money into the system‚ in a short span of time is what worries one. Investors
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Alone”‚ Poe reveals that egocentrism can lead to loneliness because of an inability to see beyond oneself and truly know and understand others and experiences. In the poem‚ the persona speaks about how he has felt different ever since his childhood; he focuses on himself and his own problems instead of trying to have positive outlook on life. Excessive use of the words “I”‚ “my”‚ and “me” projects the idea of egocentrism and also portrays the inability to understand
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Edgar Allen Poe’s “Alone” asserts the overall meaning that one’s acceptance of their own personality‚ different or similar to people around them‚ ultimately results in their seclusion. At the start of the poem‚ the narrator declares his childhood isolation through an ominous tone as he affirms his dark feeling of loneliness when he compares himself to the children around him. He is an outcast‚ an outlier; “all [he] lov’d—[he] lov’d alone”(8). The repetition of “I” and “alone” and the stress of
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Living Alone or Living with Roommates Nowadays‚ a lot of attention has been drawn to the issue of whether college students should live alone outside the campus or live together with other roommates in the students’ dormitory. Opinions are divided on this issue. Those who are in favor of living with roommates have their own advantages. With several students sharing the same room‚ they could learn how to tolerate the difference between individuals. However‚ others argue that students who live outside
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my heart beating‚ pain shooting down my body and people rushing over to help me; before I finish this sentence let me rewind and share what happen to me this day. I was 14 years old‚ excited‚ but nervous entering my first year of High School. For the first month or so‚ things were going great‚ but then the week of homecoming started to come upon the school and what started as a great week was about to take a turn for the worst. As accustomed to most high schools‚ it was Friday night and the homecoming
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“One is One and All Alone” by Nicholas Fisk is a science fiction story‚ set in 2045. The main character is Trish‚ an 11-year old girl who is the only child on a spaceship to Trion. Her father is the Executive Officer of the spaceship and her mother is in Trion helping to set up a space station. She will only meet her mother in mid January 2047. After three months‚ she feels lonely and bored as she does not have any real friends to talk to except her private‚ multi-functional diary: the Voice
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Today‚ your honour‚ I stand before the courts to appeal for justice for my client‚ the young Prince Hamlet who is accused of murdering our Principal Secretary of State‚ Polonius‚ in cold blood. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury‚ the prosecution have presented a flimsy case against the prince; most significantly they failed to mention the fact that my client‚ Hamlet‚ may indeed have been clinically insane at the time of the Principal Secretary of State’s murder. If my client is found to be unable to
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NASA has identified many planets outside our solar system. According to the article “Out of this world‚” the organization has discovered over twelve hundred thousand exoplanets throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. The TedX video “Are we Alone” explained that there are millions of planets in our universe. Astronomers discovered these planets by measuring the brightness of distant stars over time. Moreover they measured the brightness using advanced telescopes such as the Kepler. If the brightness fluctuates
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Not for Ourselves Alone‚ an exciting novel written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns‚ describes the story of the intellectual pair of two very determined women‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Throughout the novel‚ the author describes the many hard ships the two individuals had to face throughout their journey to bring rights to women. For more than 50 years‚ Stanton and Anthony led the battle of securing women’s rights and helped create a movement that would forever be remembered by
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This poem is written based on fear of our contemporaries and this is a moment when they looked back themselves suddenly‚ that’s why this poem is titled “Alone”. Sometimes people look back self suddenly just because by a chance to reflect their lives. Based on that concept this poem narrates the moment when they reflect themselves in first stanza‚ when we recognized it is time to rest their body and away from something that makes us tired in second stanza. And then‚ the third stanza talk about the
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