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Long Term Debt Past Three Years
1,544 words... serves. As a result, total property, plant and equipment was 85 % of total assets in 1998 compared to 77 % in 1997. In comparison, Unocal's PP&E was 66 % and 64 % of total assets respectively. Long-term debt increased over $ 400 million in 1998, totaling $ 920 million compared to $ 510 million in 1997. The $ 920 million was 113 % in relation to total liabilities and owners equity of $ 813 million. In 1998, current liabilities were $ 131 million compared to current assets of $ 118 million. Th...
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Light And Dark Elizabeth Jane
1,168 wordsIn Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, the author devotes a large amount of energy and attention to making the setting of the novel as detailed as possible. The city of Casterbridge can almost serve as a character on its own, having its own personality and affecting other characters in the novel. Hardy uses the setting as a literary device to strengthen the personalities and complexities of characters in the story. Throughout the novel, Hardy uses the setting either to reinforce character ...
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Alzheimer Disease Family Members
1,594 words... lings related to dementia from both groups include: anger, anxiety, stress, acceptance, and frustration. The number of individuals who report negative feelings greatly outweigh those of acceptance. At initial meetings, bonding is established through the sharing of early memory experiences. Gradually, comfort comes from knowing that the victims are not alone; there are others with the same limitations. The realization that the victims are ordinary people with a chronic illness, rather than an...
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Lady Macbeth Influence Kill King Duncan
465 wordsThe character of Macbeth is a example of a tragic hero. There are many factors which contribute to the deterioration of Macbeth of which three will be discussed. The three points which contribute greatly to Macbeth's deterioration are the prophecy which was told to him by the witches, how Lady Macbeth influenced and manipulated Macbeth's judgment, and finally Macbeth's long time ambition which drove his desire to be king. Macbeth's growing character deteriorates from a noble man to violent indiv...
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Parkinson Disease Nerve Cells
670 wordsJames Parkinson first discovered Parkinson's Disease in 1817. Parkinson's Disease is a common neurologic disorder for the elderly. It is a disorder of the brain characterized by shaking and difficulty with walking, movement, and coordination. This disease is associated with damage to a part of the brain that controls muscle movement. Parkinson's Disease is a chronic illness that is still being extensively studied. Parkinson's Disease has caused problems for many people in this world and plagued ...
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Act Three Scene Suicidal Thoughts
1,042 wordsThe Shakespearian play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark offers a puzzling main character by presenting an apparent sane man portraying an insane one for revenge. The question of Hamlets lucidity is perceptible throughout the play. At first glance, the view of Hamlet is simply a heartbroken individual bent on revenge. He is seen having lost a father to death, a mother to remarriage and a kingdom to his uncle in a span of two months. However, as the play progresses extenuating circumstances and events ar...
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Rose For Emily Past And Present
1,260 wordsIn the short story, A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily Grierson, had a death and funeral that drew the attention of the entire town. The story is set during the changing times after the civil war, and there are many symbols in the story that bring out the theme of change. The story opens with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral, which foreshadows the ending. The outcome is further emphasized by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Emily's physica...
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Parkinsons Disease Nerve Cells
2,155 wordsHistory of Parkinson's Disease Parkinsons Disease (PD) was first described and named after by an English physician named James Parkinson in 1817. This disease is a disorder of the central nervous system and effects one to one-and-a half million Americans. For reasons not understood completely, nerve cells that produce dopamine (the substantia nigra) decrease in number with Parkinsons disease. As a result, there is a decrease in the quantities of available dopamine. In PD, there is a lack of dopa...
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Lord Of The Flies Golding Shows
935 wordsThe Demons Inside Latent in every man, there resides a demonic force. This so-called force is generally kept in check by the rational part of human nature, but in the absence of reason or social pressure, it breaks out in barbaric bloodletting. William Golding said this and displayed his beliefs in his novel, The Lord of the Flies. The boys start out very much civilized, but by the time of their rescue, have lost all hope of order. Golding uses many symbols in his novel to represent the deterior...
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Heart Of Darkness Frame Of Mind
2,248 wordsJoseph Conrad once wrote, the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment (Watt 78); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both his Heart of Darkness and Coppola s Apocalypse Now undergo as they travel up their respective rivers, the Congo and the Nung. Each journey up the tropical river is symbolic of a voyage of discovery into the dark heart of man, and an enc...
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Death Penalty Deters Death Penalty States
1,497 wordsCrime and the Death Penalty For most crime committed in the United States a fine, sentence of time in jail or execution is the punishment. However, the death penalty is the most questionable punishment. Is it morally right? Is it effective in deterring crime, primarily murders? Whether or not you agree if it is moral or not, one issue remains. The death penalty is not an effective way to deter crime. The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote, an eye for an eye is fo...
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Alzheimers Disease Parkinsons Disease
704 wordsI Dementia Dementia Taken Bradford I decided to do a paper on Dementia because I found out about a month ago that my grandmother is suffering from this neurological disease. Dementia is the deterioration of mental functioning resulting from a brain disorder. It is severe enough to interfere with the ability to perform routine activities. This deterioration stems from diffuse bilateral subcortical and cortical brain injury or atrophy. Dementia is caused by infectious diseases, tumors, multiple st...
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American Dream Beautiful Shirts
467 wordsThe Great Gatsby Essay The Great Gatsby captures all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age in its portrayal of a young man and his tragic search for love and success. F. Scott Fitzgerald had depicted his idea of the American Dream in one of his most famous novels The Great Gatsby. The American Dream was associated in its purest sense with Gatsby at his idealistic best and it [The American Dream] was also depicted in the essence of how it has deteriorated in many ways by the summer of 1922. Fin...
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Edgar Allan Poe Beautiful Annabel Lee
1,867 wordsSearching For Beauty Edgar Allan Poe is a man constantly searching for beauty to depart from the mental and moral ugliness in his life. This reflects in his the poetry and short stories. Poe sees evil as a major threat to himself and to man due to the fact that he lives in its presence. It is easy to establish this fact when looking at the tragedies in his own life relating to the deaths of his young mother, wife, and others he loved. It is no wonder that he sees the absence of beauty as evil, b...
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Murder Of Duncan Downward Spiral
698 wordsThe Downward Spiral: Macbeth's Internal Deterioration Essay, The Downward Spiral: Macbeth's Internal Deterioration Your own soul is destroyed when you are cruel (King Solomon). Macbeth destroyed his soul over the course of William Shakespeare's Macbeth through his presumptuous ambitions and he murders he committed in order to become and remain king of Scotland. His downfall can be seen through Macbeth's actions, his statements, physical descriptions of Macbeth, and other characters statements. M...
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Heart Of Darkness Frame Of Mind
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Studies Have Shown Infected With Aids
1,262 wordsReview Of Literature Women/Mothers Infected with AIDS As stated by Ruth Ann Van Loon in Redefining Motherhood: Adaptation to role change for women with AIDS women represent 16 % of all adults infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, more commonly referred to as AIDS. In 1998 studies revealed women were being infected with the virus at a faster rate then men. A staggering 57 % of females infected with the disease are African American and 27 % of those infected are Hispanic. 21 % of wome...
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Oxford Oxford University Kind Of Life
2,628 wordsIn his works, Plato writes about truth, justice, and reality in full detail. His ideas are greatly deep and persuasively argued. It is from him that all western philosophy is a footnote. He describes his view in a series of numerous dialogues. For my report, I have chosen four of his works to study, which I think were his most important. The Republic is a dialogue composed of 10 books. The theme in its entirety is justice. The characters of the dialogue are Socrates, who is the narrator; Glaucon...
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