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Cash Flow Equity Ratio
1,721 wordsTwo companies taking similar actions that are obtaining very different results What is happening to the debt position? Nortel Networks engaged in several acquisitions in 1998. The effect on their income statement was staggering. Despite $ 17. 575 billion in revenues (a $ 213 million increase from 1997), Nortel's net income before taxes was negative $ 537 million. ROE was negative 4. 64 % compared to the industry average of 13. 8 %. Acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships have become a major stra...
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Royal Air Force World War Ii
1,475 wordsWhen we study history we often encounter many one sided or inaccurate descriptions of the events that we are trying to learn about. This is in large part because the people writing about these events, historians were not actually there when history was being made. They attempt to piece together a history from primary sources of the time period they are studying. Unfortunately these primary sources were often biased themselves. This is a topic that is discussed heavily by Patricia Nelson Limerick...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Blood Alcohol Level
1,595 wordsWhat can happen to a fetus when a pregnant women drinks heavily during her pregnancy? It can lead to permanent, irreversible and incurable effects that will bring a lifetime of pain for both the child and the family. These permanent and unchangeable effects arise from a fetus attaining fetal alcohol syndrome from its mother. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of malformations and disabilities resulting from a pregnant woman drinking heavily during her pregnancy. FAS is unique in that effe...
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Legalization Of Drugs Amounts Of Money
742 wordsOur societies are decaying due to an incessant war against drugs. Effects of this war like assault, property crime, racial and economic decriminalization, murder, corruption, and many other undesirable things are developing and burning through societies fueled by the lack of determination between whether or not drugs should be legalized. This polemic is allowing wars effects to keep growing to the point where societies harmony, peace, and stability are being lost. The time has gotten to make a d...
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Forced To Work Jewish Immigrants
1,347 wordsAmerican society has had to witness the immigration of people who were given asylum as political refugees, as in the case of Jewish women. American society has also had to grapple with the ramifications stemming from illegal immigration, such as was observed on the immigration of Latinas. The groups are comparatively different in terms of their backgrounds and aspirations, but the divergence in their respective patterns of settlement / adjustment in American society cannot be explained in terms ...
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Kim Dae Jung Kim Il Sung
1,019 wordsDeath, destruction, loved ones lost, and separation are all phrases commonly heard in North and South Korea for over the last fifty years. The division of this Asian peninsula into the independent nations of North Korea and South Korea brought terror and torment to the people living there. But now in a new era, words like hope, peace, and reunification can be heard from these same people. Reunification seems to be the most logical course of action to heal the rift at the 38 th parallel. The heal...
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Coming Of Age Similes And Metaphors
1,060 wordsRita Dove: Literary Analysis Rita Dove has written many different kinds of poetry. She also wrote books, short stories plays and all types of literature. This essay will focus on specifics of her writing by analyzing three pieces of poetry that Rita Dove has written. The works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove's use of home in her poetry, her use of figurative devic...
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Greenberg And Douglass On Slavery
1,446 wordsGreenberg and Douglass on Slavery Even though Kenneth Greenberg and Frederick Douglass belonged to the different epochs of literature, these two writers are united by the same theme in their writings. The Honor and Slavery of Greenberg provides a thoughtful insight to the slavery past of the United States through the prism of historic understanding of those events. And the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by the second author, is an autobiographic work of a slave who lived in the mid...
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18th Century American Domestic Architecture
2,608 words18 th Century American Domestic Architecture Architecture is the art or practice of designing and building Structures. American architecture varies significantly from architecture of the ancient world. American architecture began around the seventeenth century. Settlers from different European countries brought with them, during the North American colonization, the different techniques and forms from their homelands. Domestic architecture is produced for the social unit: the individual, family, ...
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Third World Countries U S Banks
2,204 wordsThird World Debt The overwhelming debt burdens of poor countries are a major contributor to the crisis that grips the economies of most developing countries today. For the 41 most heavily indebted poor countries, total external debt rose from $ 55 billion in 1980 to $ 215 billion by 1995. (Rich, p. 189) Debt has continued to climb in most countries. African governments alone now have $ 350 billion of foreign debt and they have to spend two-fifths of their revenues to service it. As a result, gov...
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Middle Ages Roman Empire
1,692 wordsRome and Christianity The human species is one that is heavily based on tradition. Most of our kind subscribe to the idea of If it aint broke, dont fix it. This simple statement embodies the most basic of principles we as humans live by. Our empirical outlook on life is what has led us to where we are today, technologically, socially, as well as religiously and psychologically. We take an idea that has worked for others in the past and either incorporate it or elaborate on it. This has been a st...
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European And Pacific Wars
1,488 wordsEuropean and Pacific Wars World War II was fought across more land and involved more men than any other war in the history of human civilization. Never before or since has there been a war of such vast importance and of such a large scale. The United States had an absolutely crucial role in the outcome of this war. The U. S. was faced with the colossal challenge of waging two wars at the same time on two very different parts of the planet. The European front was, of course, the more obvious of t...
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Grace Of God Vita Nuova
1,660 wordsThrough Dante 2 Dantes Influences Through out the course of literature, various authors utilize their own past experiences and histories to enhance the plot of their works. Anything from their childhood to a random person that they meet on the street can create a spark that will create a character or a thought in a piece of literature. Dantes environment was full of people and events that could have influenced his writings. In the Inferno Dantes perception of hell is heavily influenced by the pe...
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Emile Durkheim Michel Foucault
4,310 wordsThis paper is an attempt to do something that is probably not a good idea. I am going to try and take the ideas of some of the most prominent postmodern Sociological thinkers and mesh them together in some sort of coherent format. The purpose of this paper is to provide a starting place for people interested in postmodern Sociological thought. There really is no one all-encompassing postmodern theory, or a group of like-minded postmodern theorists. In fact this notion is antithetical to much of ...
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Royal Air Force World War Ii
1,485 wordsWhen we study history we often encounter many one sided or inaccurate descriptions of the events that we are trying to learn about. This is in large part because the people writing about these events, historians were not actually there when history was being made. They attempt to piece together a history from primary sources of the time period they are studying. Unfortunately these primary sources were often biased themselves. This is a topic that is discussed heavily by Patricia Nelson Limerick...
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