uses statistical data and refers to experts such as a Princeton criminologist and a former Supreme Court justice in order to further convince his audience. He makes an appeal to emotion by mentioning rape cases within prisons. Through effective rhetorical strategy‚ Jacoby argues that imprisonment contains too many flaws to be used in the American criminal justice system‚ and suggests flogging as an alternative. Jacoby uses ethos within his essay by displaying a conservative yet credible persona
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Super Project Case What are the relevant cash flows that General Foods should use in evaluating the Super Project? In particular‚ how should management deal with such issues as Test-market expenses? Overhead Expenses? Erosion of Jell-O contribution margin? Allocation of charges for the use of the excess agglomerator? The relevant cash flows that General Foods should use in evaluating the Super Project are considered Incremental cash flows and are “the changes in the firm’s cash flows
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Silvia Torres Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – Rhetorical Analysis Outline: I. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in which she took the opportunity to note that in the 15 years since the Fourth Worlds Conference on Women held in Beijing a lot of progress had been made by women worldwide to help provide all women with more opportunities. Nonetheless‚ just because advancement
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The Super Project The Super Project case mainly deals with the efficiency of project tool analysis in capital budgeting process. The three techniques that General Foods management used to determine whether Super Project was a worthwhile project were: • Incremental basis • Facilities-used basis • Fully allocated facilities and costs basis The three techniques mentioned above will be discussed in more details in question 4 below. Questions: 1. What are the relevant cash flows for General Foods
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Super Bowl: a case study of buzz marketing Keywords Super Bowl event marketing internet advertising buzz marketing word of mouth advertising tools Abstract In the US‚ the Super Bowl is annually the nation’s highest-rated TV programme and the most watched single-day sporting event. But could the Super Bowl‚ like other sporting events that traditionally attracted millions of people‚ fall prey to competition? This case study argues that despite the increasing fragmentation of viewing audiences
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The Super Project Flows: 1) Test Market Expenses: Do not Include it is a sunk cost and cannot be recovered if the project were not to become operational. 2) Overhead cost: The Super project will initially not require incremental overhead costs. However‚ if and when the project grows‚ incremental overhead expenses will be incurred specific to the project. This has to be captured in capital budgeting to accurately assess the project. Here we assume that the project will not require considerable
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Working Paper Series‚ Paper No. 10-01 Economics of the Super Bowl Victor Matheson† January 2010 Abstract The Super Bowl is America’s premier sporting event. This paper details basic economic facts about the game and examines the controversy surrounding the purported economic impact of the game on host communities. While the league and sports boosters claim that the game brings up to a $500 million economic impact to host cities‚ a review of the literature suggests that the true economic
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Criticism of Healthy at Every Size On October 11th‚ 2008‚ nutrition professor Linda Bacon’s book‚“Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight‚” was published. Within the pages lies the “HAES Manifesto‚” a short‚ three page pamphlet which details why fat individuals should learn to accept their weight. The manifesto’s end goal is to promote Health at Every Size‚ or HAES‚ a new “peace movement” to end the “war on obesity” (Bacon 274). Fat acceptance is not a new notion‚ the original
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The Super Project Introduction General Foods (GF) expects Super‚ a new powdered dessert‚ to capture 10% share of the total dessert market (2% coming from the erosion of Jell-O sales). The company’s Financial Analyst has issued a memo comparing three alternative techniques for project evaluations‚ illustrating the problems and limitations inherent in using ROFE (return on funds employed) and payback as evaluation methods. The disparate ROFE results obtained with these methods are due to differences
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WIght 8 May 2015 Rhetorical Analysis Reflections: Richard Rodriguez I struggle with Rhetorical Analysis essays‚ but this particular paper seemed to puzzle me more than the other rhetorical analysis essays that I have come across this year. The score I received was an 8‚ and I was honestly quite surprised to see that. I knew I had written a paper to pass‚ but to show that I had sufficiently written the paper shocked me. This essay was tough in particular because the rhetorical strategies were very
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