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    Cam Czerwinski History Summer Reading No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Questions 1. Conventional mystery novels usually contain one long and riveting mystery throughout the course of the whole story. This may or may not be successful in many cases based on the author’s interest in that one mystery. With this book containing many different mysteries and crimes to solve it allows readers to become more engaged in each one instead of one mystery carrying out through the whole story. This made the pacing

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    “True Detective” “True Detective” is a crime drama TV series that premiered in 2014. The drama series revolves around the lives of Rustin and Martin‚ who work as homicide detectives with the Louisiana Police State Department (Stubbs‚ 2015). The series presents law enforcement officers as hardworking. It focuses on the challenges that law enforcement officers often encounter in their work‚ such as utilizing scant evidence. The show portrays a positive image of the law enforcement officers. For instance

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    The Financial Detective 2005

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    Part 1 : Examine and analyze the financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and match the description of the company with the financial profile derived from the financial ratios. Beer Company D has higher current ratio and quick ratio which is higher 2.43x and 2.3x respectively. This was because Company D had higher cash and short term investment which was 55.6% while Company C only has 1.4%. It proves that Company D is financially conservative and it matches with the second described

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    In the example scenes from True Detective (Cary Joji Fukunaga‚ 2012) analyse and discuss an ontological shift from movie theatres to home-based cinema ‘screens.’ “The Golden Age of Television” is a phrase often used to describe today’s entertainment landscape‚ with successful shows such as ‘Breaking Bad’‚ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of Cards’ getting huge viewing figures underpinned by undeniably high quality content. This shift in the quality and ambition of television marks a change in its ontology

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    case‚ our group using some tools which are Payback Period‚ Net Present Value (NPV) ‚ Profitability Index (PI)‚ and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). We are only using quantitative considerations that we think to be relevant and no other project characteristics are deciding factors in our selection of the best four projects. Payback Period NPV PI IRR Sum of Cash Flow Benefits Excess of cash flow over initial investment Project 1 6 years 22 days $ 73.09 104% 10.87% 3310 1310 Project

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    Short Detective Story

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    Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ Burma‚ china‚ Nepal‚ Pakistan and Afghanistan are all of India’s neighbouring countries. To get to India people usually take a plane. Mumbai (Bombay)‚ Kolkata (Calcutta)‚ Chennai‚ Bangalore‚ Hyderabad and Ahmadabad are all large cities in India and its capital New Delhi. India has many attractions such as the Taj Mahal‚ Qutub Minar‚ Red fort‚ Lotus temple‚ Golden temple‚ Dal Lake and India Gate are only a few of India’s many tourist attractions. Like India’s culture its food

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    In her quick stolen glance‚ she searched for Detective Willams. Stealing a second glance‚ she finally found him. He had stepped off of the scene to converse with a pair of brawny men. Willams appeared to hand something over. As this event unfolded‚ the conversation appeared to be becoming increasingly

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    Detectives and criminal investigation is highly appealing due to many reasons. Detectives help to ensure justice while protecting the victims at hand. Detective work is interesting because it entails much fact seeking and clues which together create a solution to a complex problem. The cases that detectives run into are very interesting at times. The job entails a lot of concentration of detail and much theory. Detectives deal with more of the paper work side of the rather than the practical. It

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    Detective Smug Case Study

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    apparent in Detective Smug? As a skilled manager‚ Lieutenant Smith should be cognizant of the following potential signs of stress: increased anger‚ frustration‚ depression‚ social withdrawal and isolation‚ and reduced work efficiency/ productivity. 2 Identify three obvious sources of stress in Detective Smug’s life. Some sources of stress in Detective Smug’s life include his wife leaving his months prior‚ being passed over for detective sergeant‚ and the rumors that the detectives are going to

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    According to Portsmouth Police Detective Holley the following occurred in the city of Portsmouth “On January 14‚ 2016 at approximately 1010‚ Detective Holley came into contact with Taylor Baker (suspect) at 2801 Turnpike Rd (New Directions). Detective Holley was called to the office due to Taylor Baker’s defiant nature and failure to obey the commands of the Office Manager K. Diggs. Detective Holley observed Ms. Diggs ask Taylor to leave her office and even attempt to close the door to keep her

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