“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s question “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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CHAPTER 12 RISK TOPICS AND REAL OPTIONS IN CAPITAL BUDGETING FOCUS Traditional capital budgeting techniques compute point estimates of NPV and IRR with no measure of variability. Hence they don’t give managers the information necessary to include a tradeoff between risk and expected return in their decisions. This chapter is concerned with modern approaches to incorporating risk into capital budgeting. The techniques considered include probabilistic cash flows‚ risk adjusted discount rates
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Do you remember your first day in the university? Well‚ I remember my first day I was waiting all the summer to start at the university and my new life. I felt happy because I was going to start studying what I want but at the same time I was very nervous because it was my first day in the university and I didn’t know any person so welcome to my life as a college student that change my life forever and also the best experience in my life. In the first day I was lost and I had to ask one person
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My favorite time of the day is between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. This is the time when the sun is setting and the air is cooling down. At this time I either go for a stroll‚ play some games or sit quietly watching the activities around me. Sitting quietly doing nothing in particular is what I like most. The compound surrounding my house is a fairly large one. So my father has planted many trees in it. Birds of all sorts come to the trees in the evening to sing their sweet songs. I just sit under my favorite
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not at home. They can also occur due to the carelessness of house-owners. So the first thing to do is to fix grilles and to get reliable deadbolt locks. In some isolated cases‚ there have been reports about burglars prising grilles open. Installing a burglar alarm reduces the risk of forced entry.The next precaution that should be taken is to avoid providing any telltale signs of your absence. Should you and your family go on holiday or outstation‚ inform your immediate neighbors. Ask one of your neighbors
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McCombs AP US History Starling From Days Before Time Before Europeans even knew about the Americas‚ Native American tribes were the first inhabitants. These first inhabitants were a people group united by kinship and called Paleo-Indians and they settled in the Americas between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. Large mammals and an abundance of plants drew hunter-gatherers to the Americas‚ which provided the sustenance necessary for survival. Agriculture takes hold in a portion of the Americas
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The Day You Were Born I was forty-one weeks and one day pregnant‚ lying in an uncomfortable hospital bed‚ wearing a hideous pink gown‚ and counting the minutes until my next contraction. Apparently‚ you were very comfortable in my tummy because there was no sign of you making your appearance any time soon. I was having plenty of contractions but was not dilating; our doctor was looking for a count of at least 60 on the room monitor‚ but I was only in the mid-20s. Before long she ordered that
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Dinoflagellates 1. Name two types of sickness you can get from phytoplankton in Florida‚ and describe how you can get them. What symptoms led to the diagnosis of our patients? One type of sickness is ciguatera fish poisoning‚ which a food poisoning by eating a fish which include tuna or other type Another type is neurotoxic shellfish poisoning which is cause by different types of algae and is obtain when algae may be located on some shellfishes‚ which you digest 2. Explain how an HAB outbreak can have a devastating
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is used to describe achieving two objectives at the same time. The term references a common hunting tool‚ the slingshot; slingshots continue to be used to hunt small birds‚ and at one point‚ they were very common. As you might imagine‚ killing one bird with a stone requires an excellent aim and control over the slingshot; to kill two could be considered even more difficult‚ a task for only the most skilled of hunters. This idiom dates from the 1600s‚ and it was initially used in a somewhat pejorative
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Key Take aways from THE GOAL 1: The goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. Thus‚ any actions that help the organization to make money are productive‚ in opposite‚ any actions that take the organization away from making money are non-productive. 2: Making money by increasing the net profit‚ while simultaneously increasing return on investment‚ and simultaneously increasing cash flow. 3: To achieve the goal of making money‚ organizations should increase throughout while
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