kind of person. My major is history and I just never thought art as such a significant thing until now. The painting I find myself most interested in is the Mona Lisa. As it is probably the most valuable and most popular painting in today’s modern time‚ I find it very interesting that nobody really knows who the women is in the Mona Lisa and why paint it in the first place? I think the skeptics of the painting is what drives me to like it so much. I mean you have this painting of what is supposed
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Figure 1: Cash flow comparison for 15 and 25 year term (NY) 9 Figure 2: Cash flow comparison for 15 and 25 year term (HK) 9 Figure 3: Revenue and Operating Expenses (HK) 10 List of Tables Table 1: List of Assumptions made for NPV analysis 4 Table 2: List of Limitations on NPV Analysis. 4 Table 3: Estimation of Resale value of Carrier @15th year 7 1. Introduction 1.1 Executive Summary Ocean Carriers Inc. (OCI) is an International provider of Marine transportation services mainly focussing on
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[February 3 2011] Analysis of the future | Fast-Food industry The fast food industry in Canada is like no other in the world. Canada has long been a country of indulging and not caring about consequences. Stats Canada published that in 2004‚ 23.1% of the Canadian population was overweight. It has also been noted that the obesity rate seen a sharp increase during 1978 to 1980. The fast food industry did begin in the early part of the 1950’s‚ but didn’t truly take off till the 1980’s. In
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Lisa Benton felt like she was put behind the eight-ball from the start in reference to her relationship with her bosses‚ Deborah Linton and Ron Scoville. According to a research article‚ “Are Your Subordinates Setting You Up to Fail?” impressions and expectations made in the first five days are very predictive to what the working relationship will look like for the following weeks and even months to come. In Benton’s case‚ this seems to have happened in the first five minutes. After initial meetings
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Introduction According to this case‚ we know that Lisa Benton is frustrated about her job in Houseworld. She cannot get the marketing training which most attracted her to this company at the beginning‚ and she also cannot build a good relationship with her boss‚ Deborah Linton‚ and the senior associate in her department‚ Ron Scoville. Lisa thinks this is one of most important things in her job. In this case study‚ I will discuss Lisa’s relationship in the Home Care Division‚ how did she use her
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Mona Lisa‚ Finding the Key to the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa‚ a painting created by a legendary painter: Leonardo da Vinci‚ leaves various codes and secrets evident in the painting that adds to its mysteriousness. People today have an obsession to finding out the secrets to unlocking the vault of art history. There are many theories that possibly explain the secrets of the painting: Mona Lisa. These theories are formed by the art experts who are curious on why the Mona Lisa was painted
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The English language is nobody’s special property‚ it is the property of the imagination‚ it is the property of the language itself. For poet Derek Walcott the beauty of the English language lies in every single word he weaves together. His poems “a lesson for this for this Sunday is a metaphorical text on the morality of colonizers and those being colonized. The poem focuses on human nature’s inability to stay pure and the need to bend nature to its will. “The lesson is the same” is an extended
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I have chosen the Mona Lisa to analyze. The portrait of Mona Lisa is also known as La Giocondo‚ she was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting was done in oil paints on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci from the year 1503 to 1506. The dimensions of this painting are 76.2 x 53.3 cm. The painting is now in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. The Mona Lisa is a painting of a woman‚ dressed in a dark green dress with her hands overlapping. The background of the painting is a mountainous landscape
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What ist the key problem in this case? The key problem in the Lisa Benton case is that Lisa isn’t accepted by her team. She feels like that she is not getting enough responsibility und she doesn’t have a good feeling about her future in this company. She got to much problems with her collegues who doesn’t like her because of her MBA. Lisas problm is that she does not contribute enough. She is to “shy” and passiv acoording to the text she try to act like a learner. But she have to stand up for
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Why EVA is better than ROI (ROCE‚ ROIC‚ RONA‚ ROA) and earnings‚ operating profit etc. Equity investors should earn on their capital a return far over risk-free interest rate in order to induce and maintain capital in the company Therefore earnings should always be judged against the capital used to produce these earnings Earnings can be easily increased simultaneously worsening the position of shareholders e.g. if more capital is poured into a company although the return on capital is 5% or less
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