my father’s fellowship. I turned to my mom to get a sense of what was happening. However‚ Linda told me to go back to my room‚ and that she would talk to me shortly. When my mother walked into my bedroom‚ tears freely streaming down her cheeks. She immediately sat down and gave me a comforting hug‚ and a gentle kiss. She said‚ “Your father was coming home from work when a car lost control on the snow covered winding roadway and hit his car”. “He has passed.” Her eyes were full of sadness while saying
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Breaking Down ROE Using the DuPont Formula By Z. Joe Lan‚ CFA Article Highlights • ROE calculates the return a company earns from shareholder’s equity. • The DuPont formula reveals the source of those returns: sales‚ marketing or debt. • Comparing a company’s financial performance to its peers can provide a useful context for analyzing ROE. R etur n on equity (ROE) is a commonly used profitability ratio that measures the effectiveness of management in generating earnings for shareholders
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’s controversial commercial or Snoop Dogg ’s latest drug related arrest. At one point in time people knew what was really going on in the world. It seems that the new infatuation with the popular and the scandalous has dumbed down our society. We ’ve been dumbed down enough to know that we have a problem and instead of trying to solve it we instead make fun of ourselves with reality game shows where our obvious lack of knowledge is a form of entertainment. Instead of being ashamed of not knowing
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Breaking Down Constructs: The Path from Resistance to Reconciliation What is the purpose of a border? Is it more than a line that separates two things? In an interview‚ American-Canadian author Thomas King explains how “borders are these very artificial and subjective barriers that we throw up around our lives in all sort of ways. National borders are just indicative of the kinds of borders we build around ourselves” (qtd. In Andrews‚ 172). His short story Borders documents the journey of a Blackfoot
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Challenge the Boss or Stand Down THOMAS set predictable problems that he failed to forestall. Instead of further poisoning his relationship with his boss by seeking to “expose” him‚ Tom should now start to repair the damage he’s done to both his professional relationships and his career prospects. Tom’s first mistake was in neglecting to consider that he was not his boss’s choice for the position of senior marketing specialist. From the outset he should have recognized the significance of that initial
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What causes Down syndrome? Charlie Zammit To this day‚ there aren’t any known environmental or behavioral factors that cause Down syndrome. The human contains 23 pairs of chromosomes‚ so 46 individual ones. From each pair‚ one comes from your father‚ the other‚ from your mother. Down syndrome involves an abnormal cell division in chromosome 21. There are three types of abnormal cell division that can occur to cause Down syndrome; all of the three cell division abnormalities create a problem being
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I do not agree that the government should shut down the fast food industry. If the people of America want their eating habits to be unhealthy and don’t care about the consequences then let them go for it. Also if the government does shut down the fast food industry then he is shutting down so much jobs and job opportunities like a fry cook‚ a cashier‚ a drive-thru talker‚ a doctor and so many more (not really) job opportunities. And if the people of America don’t know that the food they eat kills
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Down syndrome is a genetic disorder‚ often referred to as trisomy 21 because the cells for chromosome 21 are trisomic‚ meaning an individual with Down syndrome would have 47 chromosomes in all of their body cells. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder‚ there are 3 different types of chromosomal changes which can lead to Down syndrome: complete trisomy 21‚ whereby the nondisjunction occurs during the formation of the egg or sperm cells meaning all body cells will have 47 chromosomes. This is the most
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Who Brought Bernadine Healy Down? describe the various cross-pressures and multiple responsibilities that Healy faced. Why do these persisting cross-pressures and responsibilities make it so difficult to frame a clear‚ consistent motivational system in government or nonprofits? In 1991 Dr. Bernadine Healy took over as president of the Red Cross from Elizabeth Dole. Dr. Healy style of leadership was more like that of an entrepreneur rather than a bureaucrat. She was encouraging of change‚ shrewd
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leading up to the Berlin Wall crashing down that on November 9th 1989 yet no one ever expected to wake up on that day only to find out that the wall was open and a divided Berlin‚ a divided Germany‚ was no more. Some say that the wall fell down gradually then all at once‚ and some Americans say that the wall fell down thanks to President Ronald Reagan’s speech by the Brandenburg Gate‚ West Berlin in 1987 where Reagan demands “Mr Gorbachev‚ tear down this wall”. This speech from Reagan was
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