Capturing The Friedmans Andrew Jarecki’s 2003 documentary‚ "Capturing the Friedmans"‚ is the tragic story of an affluent family from Long Island‚ NY.‚ that is falling apart after Arnold and Jesse Friedman are both charged with unspeakable crimes against children. In the opening interview‚ David‚ the eldest of three sons‚ begins to tell the viewer of his fond childhood memories‚ and the film appears to be about the life of a clown. But the theme quickly changes direction only moments later
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Steward 1 Melissa Steward Research Essay English 367.01 12/8/04 Capturing the Friedmans "Home movies are about innocence--our lost fuzzy‚ glowing personal pasts‚ all horseplay‚ and funny hats and the promise of youth" (Cooper‚ 23). Andrew Jarecki’s remarkable film‚ Capturing the Friedmans captured just what is clearly a case study of extreme family dysfunction through such home videos. At first Andrew Jarecki just wanted to do a nice little documentary
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Multiculturalism: Educating Society Reduces Racism John Doe Jstep University HSER 509: Multicultural Issues in Human Services Abstract Multiculturalism in education is an essential element in shaping America’s increasingly diverse society by reducing racism. This research takes a look at the relationship between multiculturalism and how educating the youth would cure racism. Multiculturalism is the view that cultural differences should be respected or even encouraged. The concept of
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Business Strategy Apple Case 09 March 2012 “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer‚ But what none can see is the strategy Out of which victory is evolved.” Sun Tzu (1) 1 Executive summary 2 2 Introduction 3 3 Apple INC.: An overview 3 4 Strategy Analysis 4 4.1 Branch of economic activity 4 4.2 The 8 key concepts 4 4.2.1 Competitive advantage 4 4.2.2 Long term 4 4.2.3 Organization 4 4.2.4 Scope 5 4.2.5 Environment
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listed in Table 2. Team 1 compared this rate to real-world data using the average annual total return on common stocks from Yahoo! Finance and the risk free rate from Exhibit 1. EMRP= rm-rf EMRP=10.3%-4.85%= 5.45% 6.0% is reasonable for the Market Risk Premium in the WACC calculation. Midland’s Equity Market Value from Exhibit 5 =E= $134‚114 million Midland’s Net Debt from Exhibit 5 = D = $79‚508 million Midland’s Total Market Value = V = E + D = $213‚622 million Weight for the cost
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Creating Shared Value Michael E. Porter‚ Mark R. Kramer; Harvard Business Review Summary The article “Creating Shared Value“‚ written by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer and published in the “Harvard Business Review“ in January 2011 deals with the idea of innovating the purpose of a corporation and their relationship to the government and social environment in order to identify unknown customer needs and expand the total pool of economic and social value. In the introduction the authors
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Springfield Express is a luxury passenger carrier in Texas. All seats are first class‚ and the following data are available: Number of seats per passenger train car 90 Average load factor (percentage of seats filled) 70% Average full passenger fare $ 160 Average variable cost per passenger $ 70 Fixed operating cost
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to be equal to 10y US Gov Interest Rate as of April 1988 (Table B) Same 3 Current Leverage Using financial statements (Exhibit 1)‚ we estimated the market value of debt and divided by market value of assets. Market value of debt is estimated to be equal to its book value. Market value of assets is equal to market value of debt + market value of equity (number of outstanding shares * price per share) N/A 4 Market Risk Premium From table of returns (Exhibit 5)‚ taken as the average of spread between
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Chad Ogle MGMT 620 HBS Case 9 Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service History In 1971‚ Starbucks started as a small coffee shop which targeted a specialized market of coffee purists. Howard Schultz‚ who later owned the company and initiated the high growth period‚ joined Starbucks’ marketing team in 1982. Main concept of Schultz marketing strategy was too make Starbucks “America’s third place” considering home and work the two other places where Americans spend
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growth and other companies is in how they view the five dimensions of strategy. As indicated in the table of the article‚ value innovators view strategy in an entirely differ way than companies using the conventional strategic logic. Value innovation is defined as "the simultaneous pursuit of radically superior value for buyers and lower costs for companies." To promote value innovation‚ a company must do the following. First‚ identify and articulate the company’s prevailing strategic logic. Second
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