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L A Confidential Things That Make Ellroy
1,145 words... Jack Vincennes to help him just as Jack is going through some papers dealing with the Matt Reynolds case. This scene is perhaps the central one of the movie, We find out that, just as Exley has a side that is like Jack Vincennes, he also has a side that is like Bud White. He too is driven by a private demon. Commonly, when we make value judgements about people we speak as if there were a single norm towards which everyone ought to be growing. They " re supposed to succeed in becoming perfect...
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Holy Roman Emperor Fibonacci Sequence
1,088 wordsFibonacci born in 1175 AD, one of the greatest European mathematicians was born. His birth name was Leonardo Pisano. Pisano is Italian for the city of Pisa, which is where Leonardo was born. Leonardo wanted to carry his family name so he called himself Fibonacci, which is pronounced fib-on-arch-ee. Guglielmo Bonnacio was Leonardo's father. Fibonacci is a nickname, which comes from filius Fibonacci, meaning son of Fibonacci. However, occasionally Leonardo would us Bigollo as his last name. Bigoll...
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January 1 2000 Year 2000
1,710 wordsThe year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you don't own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a "bug" or "virus, " but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC's, mainframes, and software out there are not designed or programmed to compute a future year ending in double zeros. This is goi...
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Arundel Partners Case Analysis
1,430 wordsExecutive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studios entire production during a specified period of time or purchase a specified number of major films. Arundel's profitability is dependent upon the price it pays for a...
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The Concept Of Communication Style
1,064 wordsThe concept of communication style has been defined by Rober Norton as 'the way one verbally, non verbally, and para verbally interacts to signal how literal meaning should be taken, interpreted, filtered, or understood' (1996. p. 229) In this, Norton has identified nine communicator styles. A persons style may be dominant, dramatic, contentious, animated, impression leaving, relaxed, open, or friendly. These dimensions measure how you interact in various situations. For example, if I speak freq...
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Correct Reasoning Requires Beliefs About Incontinence Arabia
1,159 wordsEDUCATING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: ARISTOTLE'S VIEWS ON AKRASIA Deborah Kerdeman University of Washington "Can the teaching of ethics really help cleanse the business world of shady dealings?" Asked by Newsweek magazine during the height of the recent Wall-Street scandals, 1 this query resonates with perennial concerns about whether or not virtue can be taught and how such instruction might best be effected. The problem, Newsweek declares, is not that students lack ethical standards or are incapable of...
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National Average Statistical Analysis
1,123 wordsPage Number Contents 2 Introduction 3 Procedure 4 Market Survey 7 How the Survey is conducted 9 The Survey 9 The Results 9 Survey Conclusions 10 Final Summary 12 Appendices 13 Bibliography 14 Introduction The purpose of this report is to research a local ward in the Southend-On-Sea area and investigate the enterprise possibilities for a small or medium sized business. I intend to prove by statistical analysis, sampling from a target population, and by calculated judgments that a particular busin...
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Abuse And Neglect Elder Abuse
1,834 words... times more than one data form was received for the same maltreated elder, describing either the same or different abusive incidents. It was necessary to identify such duplicates and count each person only once for purposes of this study. Out of a total of 1, 699 APS and sentinel reports, study staff identified 93 sets of genuine duplicates, resulting in 1, 606 unduplicated reports (1, 466 APS and 140 sentinel). Duplicate cases reported both to APS and sentinel agencies were removed from the ...
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Thousand Dollars Six Months
3,056 wordsPrivate Placement Investment Planning is a principle of the activity of any enterprise. The business - plan needs to be used with a view of perfection of economic efficiency decisions calculation methods and commercial expediency of investments in designing and construction of objects and town-planning complexes. The Business - plan acts as an objective estimation of the firm activity and necessary tool of the investment decisions according to the market requirements. Basic aspects of the commer...
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Place Value Value System
1,626 wordsThe Development and Use of Zero as a Number The history of the number "zero" is not easy to track, since we have little written evidence. Books were not widely used, even for study, until after the invention of the printing press, which is why we have so little recorded history prior to the fifteenth century. However, it seems that there were several areas of the world involved with using a "zero" by the third century. The Babylonians are generally thought to be the earliest to use a zero, aroun...
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Rate Of Return 000 Per Year
1,231 wordsDetermine if CU box, Inc. needs new machine. 2. What method - NPV or others. At present almost every organization tries to use any opportunity (external or internal) with the purpose to attract, reward and retain its shareholders and potential investors. A competitive environment makes companies estimate all possible ways to reach better results and make greater profits. The simplest way is to add up the costs and then to compare the result with expected revenue increases and cost savings. It ca...
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Overhead Costs Management System
1,452 wordsGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice The main purpose of searching for a new method to estimate cost if due to the erroneous practices of accounting. There is a wide recognition of this problem but most companies still have not gone to a different approach. The GAAP principles do not provide the kind of cost detail and information focus required in todays capital intensive, automated, and complex manufacturing and distribution. It generates an erroneous and inverse relationship between compute...
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Cash Flow Fixed Assets
816 wordsTitle: Discuss the importance of depreciation expenses. Depreciation as a concept and in practice plays a very important role in a company? s cash flow hence in funding. The reason? s are basically two, firstly because depreciation is a way of self finance for an organization and secondly because is a way of decreasing taxes that the government claims as the company doesn? t have to pay taxes on depreciation which consequently enlarges the cash flow of the company. As a term depreciation in acco...
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Null Hypothesis Insurance Rates
2,050 wordsABSTRACT The problem under investigation is to determine whether or not there is a statistically significant difference in the insurance rates by company and driver type. Data on the insurance rates were obtained from the Missouri Department of Insurance. The two-way analysis of variance procedure was used to reach valid conclusions. The study concluded that there is actually no difference in insurance rates among companies, but a difference in insurance rates among driver types. Therefore, ther...
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Operating System Information System
715 wordsThe Millenium Bug Millenium Bug The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you don t own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora s Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a bug or virus, but is more a computer industry mistake. Many of the PC s, mainframes, and software out there are not designed or programmed to compute a future year ending i...
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19 Th Century 18 Th Century
1,339 wordsThe History of Pi A little known verse in the bible reads? And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about (I Kings 7, 23). ? This passage from the bible demonstrates the ancient nature of the irrational number pi. Pi in fact is mentioned in a number of verses throughout the bible. In II Chronicles 4, 2, in the passage describing the building of the great temple of Solomo...
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Light Bulb R 2
861 wordsABSTRACT Ohms Law and Kirchhoff's rules is fundamental for the understanding of dc circuit. This experiment proves and show how these rules can be applied to so simple dc circuits. INTRODUCTION In the theory of Ohms Law, voltage is simply proportional to current as illustrated in the proportionality, V = RI. As shown in this relation, V represent voltage which is the potential difference across the two ends of a electrical conductor and between which an electric current, I, will flow. The consta...
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