single receipt of $10‚000 at the end of Year 4. The company has a 16% rate of return. 2. Cash flow calculations and net present value On January 2‚ 20X1‚ Bruce Greene invested $10‚000 in the stock market and purchased 500 shares of Heartland Development‚ Inc. Heartland paid cash dividends of $2.60 per share in 20X1 and 20X2; the dividend was raised to $3.10 per share in 20X3. On December 31‚ 20X3‚ Greene sold his holdings and generated proceeds of $13‚000. Greene uses the net-present- value method
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politics ever written by geographer’ (Sempa‚ 2009‚ p.14). What Mackinder called in 1904 the ‘Pivot area’; he subsequently called the ‘Heartland’ by 1919. The ‘heart’ of Mackinder’s theory is contained in a famous and concise dictum: Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the
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through lynching as there was over 3‚000 accounts of lynching taking place between 1880 and 1930 with the majority on sketchy‚ unproven
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Strange fruit Strange fruit is a song/poem by Billie Holiday which talks about the lynching mob. We have read it and heard it and this is my response to it‚ which includes how the imagery is explained‚ the message of the poem‚ how successfuly the point has been made and the differences between the poem and the song. Imagery The poem describes a gory image‚ Negroes hung from trees by the lynching mob. This scene is a horrible one to make into a poem‚ and writing techniques are used to make
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Reliable Primary Sources Primary sources are original records created at the time or after historical events occurred. Primary sources may include letters‚ manuscripts‚ diaries‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ speeches‚ interviews‚ memoirs‚ photographs‚ audio recordings‚ video recordings‚ research data‚ and objects or artifacts from the time in order for it to be considered reliable. These sources are raw materials that help interpret the past. Not every primary source is completely reliable‚ because they
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traversable‚ Russia blossomed into one of the largest empires the world ha sever seen. Yet the importance and fierce fighting spirit of Russia has been formed by over five centuries of Tsar conquest. Its continual thirst for taking over the Eurasian Heartland has seemed to be the reason for the unification of the Slavic peoples‚ and it still continues today. The formation of the USSR in 1922 brought a scary force to the modern world; nearly 150 million people expanded over nearly 12% of land on earth
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meant that he had to avoid antagonizing the southern democrats in order to gain their support‚ this can be shown by the fact that in 1938 more liberal congressmen tried to pass an anti lynching law Roosevelt refused to give his support to the bill saying that he “can’t take (the) risk." Of supporting the anti lynching bill as even though it may be the right thing to do ethnically for society as a whole‚ its not the right thing to do economically as America was coming out of the great depression and
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Webquest Directions: Use complete sentences when answering the questions. Type in the following web address Feel free to look at the pictures and read the information http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ Click on Jim Crow Stories 1. Click on People and then click on Ida B. Wells. Explain the problems Ida B. Wells faced and her accomplishments. Some problems Ida B. Wells faced were that both of her parents died of yellow fever and she suffered with dealing
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Racism Racism has always been strong in America‚ but in the 1950’s there was more to be concerned about. There were laws for African Americans that would make them not as equal as whites. African Americans were only allowed to use their own bathrooms‚ school’s‚ water fountains‚ hospitals and busses. Racism in the 1950s was far aggressive with segregation and violence from today. Many African Americans lost family members during this time period. Many were adults but there were still children.
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concerns about racism and plans to uplift their race. Ida B. Wells‚ Booker T. Washington‚ and W.E.B. DuBois were three speakers that caught many people attention. In an excerpt from Southern Horrors‚ Wells strongly states how feeling about lynching. She believed that lynching gave the “white man” the opportunity to kill the “black man” any time he feels the need. “Over the course of two years‚ 728 African Americans were lynched” (Wells). A wrongfully accused black man was lynch because the white men thought
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