Stanley Black & Decker‚ Inc. February 7‚ 2013 Introduction From the start‚ the merger announced November 2‚ 2009‚ looked good on paper. Stanley Works agreed to buy Black & Decker for stock valued at a 22 percent premium in exchange with $3.6 billion in its stock. That was justified because Stanley got management and board control‚ and its shareholders were to own more than half of the stock‚ with the 50.5% of the stock in the combined company. This case not only explores shareholder
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food. Fish & Sustainability Fish is a common food item enjoyed by many globally enjoyed in their respective cultural cuisines. It is estimated that there are over 32 000 fish species in the world. They are one of the most diverse kingdoms in ‘animalia’. Many species are threatened with extinction due to over-fishing of their kind‚ and disruption of the food chain. Overfishing eventually leads to population collapse‚ meaning the survivors cannot produce enough offspring to replenish the fish which
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In the poem "The Fish‚" Elizabeth Bishop uses a fish as a symbol to express the theme of life and experience. The poem by itself has little structure to it. There are no apparent rhyme schemes‚ nor any clear meters. However‚ Bishop uses very powerful diction and ideas in the poem‚ forcing the reader to think and relate it to a greater aspect of his/her own life. The persona has a very mature and serious tone‚ and some gloomy element to his/her mood. The poem uses a significant amount of imagery.
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Nike and Flying Fish Nike and Flying Fish is a 1998 artwork fathered by Ke Francis ;an art teacher‚ owner of Hoop snake Press‚ and manager of the university of central Florida’ publishing company‚ Flying Horse Press. A layered style supports the arrangement of items painted. “A rabbit trap layered under a funnel with a flying fish that’s face to face with a drawn image of Nike‚ the Winged Victory of Samothrace‚ a Greek pagan goddess. Francis’s work is a seventy-two and a forth by seventy-eight
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It is a tremendous mystery whether humpback whales migrate long distances by using the ability for stars navigation. Even though the reading passage shows three possible reasons for the hypothesis‚ the lecturer severely illustrates the refutations of each theories. That is‚ the reading is strongly contradicted by the speaker. First and the foremost explanation in the passage indicates that humpback whales have enough intelligent to use stars to navigate. However‚ the professor totally disagree with
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and 77 percent of those who never use social media‚ the study found. The research report said the relationship between social media usage and support for free expression holds up "even when other possible factors are controlled for." The study also found that the higher the student’s grade point average‚ the greater the support for free speech. Social media users were also more likely to support student expression on school issues: "Seventy-two percent of daily social media users agree that students
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Albert Fish was born in Washington D.C. on May 19‚ 1870. Fish was the youngest child and he had three living siblings. His christened name was Hamilton Fish but went by Albert‚ the name of a dead brother. Fish spent from the day he was born‚ lived at an orphanage until his mother picked him up at the age of ten. Two years later‚ things changed for Albert Fish at the age of 12. He was in a secretive relationship with a boy who was the one that introduced him into paraphilia. By the age of twenty he
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Lolita Kubrick’s Lolita‚ in my opinion‚ is an excellent example of Kubrick’s attempt (and success) in transforming one of the best literary works in history into a cinematic work. Kubrick’s use of innuendo and visual storytelling truly conveys the novel’s spirit‚ feel‚ and irony. The characters in Kubrick’s Lolita are the driving force to the story and are managed by superb actors and actresses. That aside and more importantly‚ it is Kubrick’s use of relationships‚ staging‚ environment‚ suggestion
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The lesson being taught in this poem is that there is a price for everything we have‚ and knowledge cannot be captured in a "bottle". The dragonfly is described in the poem as this little delicate creation which is very maneuverable and acrobatic. Less image than thought is saying the dragonfly has very little to show on top where things are obvious‚ this is an effective simile because people tend to think of bugs as having a very small brains. The dragonfly later on becomes the victim of the father
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terrestrial‚ seek to avoid stressful thermal environments or to compensate for the temperature change by mostly lowering the metabolic rate (1979). Lowering the metabolic rate allows certain enzymes to be produced and chemical reactions to happen within the fish that actually warms it up. While lowering metabolic rates are important‚ respiration regulation is also important. Stephen C. Wood also believes that ectotherms need behavioral mechanisms for temperature control. These mechanisms could include slowing
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