The Big Short by Michael Lewis is about the lives of a few investors that foresaw the biggest credit bubble Wall Street has ever seen. Reading the Big Short has taught me a lot about subprime mortgages and credit default swaps. Before I read this book I had no idea what subprime mortgages even were‚ much less that there was such thing as betting against them. Lewis addresses the fact that most people on Wall Street have no clue what they are actually doing. This is evident with how the market
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MARKETING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF JOHN LEWIS PLC Table of Contents I. Executive Summary……………………………………………………...….......pg. 3 II. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..…pg. 4 III. Performance from the Marketing Perspective..……………………………………pg. 5-7 IV. Performance from the Financial Perspective...……………………………………..pg. 7-9 V. Performance in the Future……………………………………………………………….pg. 10-11 V. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….…..pg. 12 VI
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Maud Lewis Maud Lewis In her Early Life Maud Lewis suffered from disabilities as a result of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. She began her artistic career by hand-drawing Christmas cards. These proved popular with her husband’s customers as he sold fish door to door and encouraged her to begin painting. She used bright colours in her paintings and subjects were often of oxen teams‚ horses‚ or cats. Many of her paintings are of outdoor scenes. Her house was one-room with a sleeping loft and is
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Pricing&RevenueOptimization(PRO) – how companies and adjust the right prices for all their products to all their customers through all their channels ALL the time. Role of PRO – *Strategic Pricing Decision – “What is the positioning of out hotel in the market? How do we differentiate from competitors? – long term‚ strategic(therefore consistent‚ qualitative‚ art *Tactical Pricing Decision – “There is this huge football game coming this weekend‚ and we have 90 rooms left‚ what rate should we post
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Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll This book was published in 1865‚ and the numbers of page are 124‚ including extras. Genre: Story‚ Fiction. Alice in wonderland is a story that Carroll created from a little girl that he met‚ called Alice Liddell. In this book it tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures‚ there she begins her adventures. The tale plays with logic‚ giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children
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C.s Lewis is one of the greatest Christian and British Authors thought history. Part of University of Oxford’s Inklings‚ which also consisted of C.s Lewis‚ J.R.R. Tolkien and two other members. This group would read each other parts of the manuscripts of their books. One of the books C.s Lewis read to this group was “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”‚ J.R.R Tolkien did not like this book‚ he did not think it would do well‚ but he was wrong. Two of C.s Lewis greatest works‚ The Lion the Witch
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Subject: Southern University vs. Delta Community College Background information: Education? College life? Career Options? Thesis statement: Even though Southern University and Delta Community College are both great colleges‚ they differ in their opinions about education‚ college life‚ and career options. The reason I am writing this contrast and compare essay is to compare the colleges to choose which college environment is right for me. http://www.education.com/reference/article/compare-community-college-four-year/
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 1. The success of John Lewis in keeping customer satisfaction 2 2. California Fitness & Yoga Centers Vietnam - A real example of bad practice of customer service 3 2.1. About California Fitness & Yoga Centers Vietnam 3 2.2. California Fitness & Yoga Centers Vietnam’s customer service problems 3 2.3. Causes of bad customer service 4 2.4. Recommendations 5 3. Conclusion 5 4. References 6 INTRODUCTION Customer service is the provision of service to customers
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Morality is the human attempt to define what is right and wrong pertaining to our actions and thoughts. Conferring to C.S. Lewis‚ he describes the behavior on three levels: First is to certify fair play and agreement between persons; second is to help make us better people in order to have a decent civilization; and the third is to keep us in a good connection with the control that created us. We can become moral by ourselves by expanding those things that can help us pursue our dreams and by believing
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Puzzle of Emergence The puzzle of emergence is a very controversial and complex‚ scientific puzzle. This concept of emergence has been a baffling topic that has stumped many scientists and philosophers throughout the past centuries. George Henry Lewis was the first theorist to give wisdom to this puzzle in the late 1800s and so have many other theorists after this puzzle was first proposed. The term emergence can be defined differently in both a scientific or philosophical situation. It comes
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