Good Cop or Bad Cop? “Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?” Many have heard these lyrics for over 30 years from the theme song of a very well-known African American detective movie. The answer is Shaft‚ John Shaft to be exact. The 2000 version starring Samuel L. Jackson proved to be just as good as the first. Although‚ this Shaft happened to be the nephew of the original one‚ played by Richard Roundtree‚ Samuel L. Jackson did not disappoint. Shaft showed even more cleverness
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Genesis Leggett Mrs. Marshall AP Language October 28‚ 2014 History of Detectives A detective’s duty is to capture criminals and solve crimes through in depth investigations. In modern times the job of a detective may seem difficult‚ but throughout history detectives have constantly struggled with investigations. Due to the advancement in technology and science‚ along with the contributions made by scientific and undercover detectives; the criminal justice system has been able to evolve into a more dependable
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Case 17 – The Investment Detective The case of the Investment Detective laid out the cash flows for us in each of eight different projects. Before doing any calculations we came up with the assumption that we could not rank the projects simply by inspecting the cash flows. Without the ability to rank the projects based off of cash flows solely‚ we had to use some analytical criteria as a capital budgeting analyst to provide some thorough support and reasoning for how we ranked the four best
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Detective story Once about 2 years ago I read out to my cousin a detective story. It was the story of an English magazine for children. The plot began at 11 o’clock when the inspectors telephone started ringing. The inspector picked up the phone and said‚ "hello". The person on the other side of that call informed about the murder of the rich man in that town. The police inspector was shocked to hear that. He immediately asked his constables to follow and went to that rich man’s house. When
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“Detective Olson! Thank goodness you’re here. My necklace is missing! You have to find the person who took it!” Detective Monica Olson had just reached the door when Anita Ray burst it open in terror. Monica followed Mrs. Ray into a beautifully decorated room where two professionally dressed men stood. On the table next to them was an empty jewelry box. Through a large‚ opened window behind the table‚ Olson could see someone out back cutting the grass and a small child playing with her dolls.
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Autopsies are vital to homicide investigations as they are the examination of a corpse by dissection and evaluation to determine the cause‚ mechanism‚ and manner of death. Geberth’s Practical Homicide Investigation does an excellent job in explaining these concepts. Cause of death is anything that is resulted in an individual to have died‚ which can be caused by an injury‚ illness‚ or anything that could cause harm to the body (Geberth‚ 2015‚ pg 815). Examples of causes of death are people dying
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Resource Allocation 17. The Investment Detective © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2003 CASE 17 The Investment Detective The essence of capital budgeting and resource allocation is a search for good investments in which to place the firm’s capital. The process can be simple when viewed in purely mechanical terms‚ but a number of subtle issues can obscure the best investment choices. The capital-budgeting analyst is necessarily‚ therefore‚ a detective who must winnow good evidence from bad
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The Financial Detective As rightly said in the case‚ the financial statements of no two companies are alike. The financial statements of companies in a particular industry‚ however‚ have many similarities and follow certain financial norms unique to that industry. Our analysis focuses on identifying these similarities. Company A: Manufactures and markets a broad line of name brand toiletries‚ nonprescription drugs‚ and consumer and baby care products. When compared to company B‚ it has: •
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The Investment Detective Case We can use normal investment to calculate the data‚ but we also can do it as reinvestment to invest every project for the same years. For every question‚ I will give answers for both normal investment and reinvestment. 1. We can rank the projects simply by the cash flow data. Normal investment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Project number 3 8 6 1 5 7 4 2 Cash flow 8000 2150 200 1310 2200 560 1561 165 Reinvestment: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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The Financial Detective‚ 2005 proportion Financial characteristics of companies vary for many reasons. The two most promi_ nent drivers are industry economics and firm sfategy. Each industry has a financial norm around which companies within the industry tend to operate. An airline‚ for example‚ wourd naturary be expected to have a high of fixed assets (airplanes)‚ manufacturer would be expected to have a lower gross margin than a pharmaceutical manufacturer because commodities such as
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