In the story The Gun Without a Bang by Robert Sheckly‚ a man named Dixon is testing a new super pistol. I think that the theme of this story is that it isn’t the power of a weapon to the effect of visual pain it has on others. On page thirty five‚ Dixon is going on about how great of a weapon it is. His only complaints were that the gun was heavy and unbalanced. He said one of the greatest features was that it didn’t need to be reloaded. The gun was so great in his eyes that he said it was the
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Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich‚ Connecticut‚ January 14‚ 1741. Arnold was born the last of six children to Benedict Arnold III (1683-1761) and Hannah Waterman King. He was named after his great-grandfather Benedict Arnold‚ an early governor of the Colony of Rhode Island‚ and his brother‚ Benedict IV‚ who died in infancy before Benedict Arnold V was born. Only Benedict and his sister Hannah survived to adulthood; his other siblings succumbed to yellow fever in childhood. Through his maternal
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came from Krakhozia‚ a country which in the middle of a war. His name was Victor Navorski. According to the rules‚ he neither could went to New York nor back home. He met the head of the airport‚ Frank Dixon‚ to solve his case‚ but the regulation kept him to stay in the airport terminal. Dixon gave him a lot of facilities like meal coupon‚ pager‚ and much more. Unfortunately‚ when he was helping a girl to close her suitcase‚ the meal coupon was blown by the wind and was swept by the janitor‚ Gupta
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disinhibited‚ impulsive behaviour that is responsive to the immediate demands of the situation’ (cited in Dixon et al.‚ 2012‚ p.6). They and others were inspired by the work of Le Bon who argued that ‘individual rationality is lost in crowds’ (cited in Dixon et al.‚ 2012‚ p.5) and put forward a process he termed ‘contagion’ to explain how ideas and emotions spread through a crowd (Dixon et al.‚ 2012). A number of studies have examined the links between group immersion‚ anonymity‚ and
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and freed Blacks played in the Revolutionary War • The effect the Revolution had • The political economic and social effects of the war • Conclusion The role Black slaves and freed Blacks played in the Revolutionary War • They fought at Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Bunker Hill. • Altogether‚ some 5‚000 free blacks and slaves served in the Continental army during the Revolution. • By 1778‚ many states‚ including Virginia‚ granted freedom to slaves who served in the Revolutionary war. The
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after successfully acquiring 91% of the shares of Universal Paper Corporation. Dixon Corporation‚ a specialist chemical company with customers primarily in the paper and pulp industry agreed to the possibility of purchasing the Collinsville plant for $12 million. This purchase will diversify Dixon’s product line‚ adding the sodium chlorate chemical‚ produced at the Collinsville plant‚ needed by its existing customers. Dixon is evaluating different streams of cash flows for the possibility of purchasing
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Criminal Law Paper In this essay I will be discussing the case of David Bobby‚ Warden vs. Archie Dixon‚ I will express my feelings of the case and what caught made me interested in the case I selected. The sources‚ purposes and jurisdictions of the criminal law related to this case will also me mentioned within this essay‚ I will define accomplice liability and criminal liability and express how it relates to the case that I will be discussing. The difference between the various elements of crime
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the firm’s debt V = E + D Tc = corporate tax rate D/V and E/V Ratio: Since the target debt ratio of Dixon is given to be about 35%‚ we assume the target D/V ratio for Colinsville investment to be the same. Hence the E/V ratio = 1 ’ D/V = 65%. Given the fact that Dixon and Collinsville are both specialty chemicals producing operations‚ the target leverage ratio of 35% for Dixon is reasonably assumed to apply to Collinsville. Cost of Debt: Cost of debt for Collinsville is estimated
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Case: AMERICAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Dixon‚ an American specialty chemical producer‚ wants to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation‚ another typical chemical company in 1979. Dixon wants to diversify its product line buy acquiring the aforesaid plant‚ which produces sodium-chlorate to supply to paper producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency
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