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  • Risk Factors for Anorexia

    Risk Factors for Anorexia

    “Twenty-five percent of the American population are overweight( they exceed their upper weight limit by at least 15 percent), and studies show that 80-90 percent of teenage girls have made one or more efforts to reduce.” That was just one example which Regina Casper used to make her argument on anorexia and bulimia in the world today. As of 1999, is still very concerned with eating disorders. She wrote a piece in The Stanford Daily

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    Essay Length: 1,472 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Mikki
  • International Capital Markets

    International Capital Markets

    International Capital Markets A capital market is a market in which corporations trade long-term security bonds. “Companies search the international markets for opportunities to raise debt capital at the lowest cost. Many corporations list their common stock the world over to increase liquidity for their stockholders.” (Block-Hirt, 2004) One of the most important developments since the 1970s has been the internationalization and globalization of capital markets. (University of Iowa) With the advent of globalization, capital

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    Essay Length: 499 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Victor
  • Child Sleep Disorders: Is Your Child at Risk?

    Child Sleep Disorders: Is Your Child at Risk?

    Sleep Disorders Child Sleep Disorders: Is Your Child at Risk? Recent research has proven that children just are not getting the sleep they need these days. Kids today seem to be doing poorer in school and have less attention spans. Most parents are not aware of a common problem effecting thousands of children in this country: sleep disorders. Parents often fail to follow there children's sleeping patterns which can result in some serious side effects

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    Essay Length: 2,888 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • What Risks Are There for Tesco’s Entering Foreign Markets?

    What Risks Are There for Tesco’s Entering Foreign Markets?

    What risks are there for Tesco’s entering foreign markets? Have they been successful? History Tesco were originally set up in England where they have expanded and gained market share through competitive pricing and a strong brand image of “every little helps”. Their original stores sold only food however due to increasing competition tesco have ventured into different market segments such as: cd’s dvd’s online music downloads and even a catalogue similar to that of

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    Essay Length: 567 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Yan
  • Should Juvenilles Be Tried as Adults for Capital offenses

    Should Juvenilles Be Tried as Adults for Capital offenses

    On May 9th, 2001 Lionel Tate, at the age of fourteen was sentenced to life in prison from a Florida judge. He was charged with the beating that resulted in death of a six-year-old neighbor girl, Tiffany Eunick (Where It All Began: 14-year-old Gets Life 1). Lionel claimed he was performing professional wrestling moves on Tiffany when she stopped breathing (Where It All Began: 14-year-old Gets Life 2). Lionel, along with many others, do not

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    Essay Length: 2,288 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Max
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment - Injustice of SocietyLooking out for the state of the publics satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Todays system of capital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. It was a deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical. It satisfied the publics need for retribution. It relieved the anguish of

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    Essay Length: 1,412 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: June 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    All around the world people have been shot, hung, electrocuted, stoned, clubbed, stabbed, beaten, whipped, and burned to death. Some people feel that the torture and death of an individual who has committed a crime is justice. The simple fact of the matter is that when we impose the death penalty, it lowers us to the same level as the accused person. Capital punishment should be banned from the United States because it is too

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    Essay Length: 1,074 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Capital Structure

    Capital Structure

    Financial decision-makers must find answers to important questions, including; • What long-term investments should the firm undertake (capital budgeting) and how will investment and finance decisions affect the firm’s value (valuation)? • How can cash be raised for the required investments? This is known as the ‘financing decision’ (cost of capital, capital structure and leasing). • How will the firm manage its day-to-day cash and financial affairs (short-term financing and net working capital)? The Capital

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    Essay Length: 1,882 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Artur
  • Both “to Kill a Mockingbird” and “the Power of one” Demonstrate That one Person Who Is Willing to Take Risks and Sacrifices Really Can Influence a Society and Initiate Significant Change in Attitudes

    Both “to Kill a Mockingbird” and “the Power of one” Demonstrate That one Person Who Is Willing to Take Risks and Sacrifices Really Can Influence a Society and Initiate Significant Change in Attitudes

    A shift in the attitudes and beliefs of any ancestral society is most often a convoluted and lengthy task, caused by a combination of many people’s actions. The text “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and the film “The Power of One,” address the extent of influence one person’s risk and sacrifice can have on the ideologies that are adhered to by a society. Both stories contain characters that show courage and morality by acting on their

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    Essay Length: 380 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment First of all I am sort of torn between being for capital punishment and being against it. I believe if we commit a crime, then we should definitely be punished, but is putting a person to death a justifiable act? In my opinion, killing another human being is inhuman, and if we react this way then we are no better than the actual criminal. I know that taxpayers have to pay to take

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    Essay Length: 385 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Has capital punishment outlived its usefulness? Capital punishment is one of the hottest debates of the century and is likely to continue this way as long as the death penalty is an option as punishment for those who commit heinous crimes. Using the death penalty as a deterrent is one of the key issues in this debate however, the broader issue for the United States is whether or not society will be better off with

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    Essay Length: 348 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 12, 2010 By: Yan
  • Risk Identification

    Risk Identification

    Identify project, product and business risks; - Risk analysis Assess the likelihood and consequences of these risks; - Risk planning Draw up plans to avoid or minimise the effects of the risk; - Risk monitoring Monitor the risks throughout the project; Risk identification Technology risks. People risks. Organisational risks. Requirements risks. Estimation risks. Risk analysis - Assess probability and seriousness of each risk. - Probability may be very low, low, moderate, high or very

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    Essay Length: 668 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: August 15, 2010 By: xiaoyu
  • Risk Assessment

    Risk Assessment

    Assignment: Risk Assessment Currently Genericville city council has been debating a proposal regarding the use of the pesticide Malathion within the city. This proposal has been brought up due to the increase in West Nile Virus within the city. The city council is now responsible to make an informed decision that would be in the best interest of the residents of the city, as well the tourist population that visits during the summer. A season

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    Essay Length: 886 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: August 15, 2010 By: n
  • Capital Markets Project - an Outlook of the Future

    Capital Markets Project - an Outlook of the Future

    Economic Growth The gross domestic product (GDP) is a basic measure of a country's overall economic performance. It is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year. It is often positively correlated with the standard of living. The GDP growth rate is the most important indicator of economic health. "Gross" means that GDP measures production regardless of the various uses to which that production

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    Essay Length: 4,533 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2011 By: Muhammad
  • What Are Capital Expenditure (cap-Ex)?

    What Are Capital Expenditure (cap-Ex)?

    Q.1. What are Capital Expenditure (CAP-EX)? Ans. Capital Expenditures are amounts spent to acquire or upgrade productive assets (such as buildings, machinery and equipment, vehicles) to increase the capacity or efficiency of a firm for more than one accounting period. A capital expenditure is always incurred with a view point of getting future benefits. These expenditures are termed as assets and always appear on asset side of balance sheet. Q.2. What is contribution margin? Ans.

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    Essay Length: 1,691 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2011 By: nitin1nitin
  • Cost of Capital

    Cost of Capital

    The cost of capital is a term used in the field of financial investment to refer to the cost of a company's funds (both debt and equity), or, from an investor's point of view "the shareholder's required return on a portfolio of all the company's existing securities". It is used to evaluate new projects of a company as it is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company, thus setting a

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 24, 2011 By: phuongloan13690
  • Ocean Ranger Risk Portfolio

    Ocean Ranger Risk Portfolio

    well its basically important In February of 1982, the rig was on hire to Mobil and was drilling the J-34 well in the Hibernia Field, about 166 miles east of Newfoundland. On the night of 14th February, a major Atlantic storm was forecast and the rigs in the Hibernia Field, including the Ranger, prepared for the worsening weather by hanging-off the drillpipe in the well and by disconnecting the rigs from the sub-sea stacks. At

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2011 By: Kimgenta
  • Continuous Quality Improvement & Risk Management

    Continuous Quality Improvement & Risk Management

    Many teamwork in the different of growing health care organizations who have been showing the evidence to support the health strong many cases of Information Technology (IT) to improve quality of care and safety while reducing costs of health care. However there are still obstacles to the Information Technology (IT) approval such as correct of conflict of return on deal between those the examines which are involved, who pay, those who benefit, many challenges to

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    Essay Length: 406 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2011 By: Gbascome
  • The Relation of Inner-Worldly Asceticism to the Rise of Capitalism in Western Europe

    The Relation of Inner-Worldly Asceticism to the Rise of Capitalism in Western Europe

    In this paper, I would be discussing the relationship between the protestant ethics (mainly with reference to one of its ethics, i.e. the inner-worldly asceticism) and the rise of capitalism in Western Europe. The answer has been divided into six parts. The first part is the introduction, the second part attempts to give a brief explanation of what Weber meant by capitalism, the third talks about the protestant ethics, the fourth deals with the

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    Essay Length: 2,045 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2011 By: swatz1990
  • Capital Bugeting

    Capital Bugeting

    Bauer Industries is an automobile manufacturer. Management is currently evaluating a proposal to build a plant that will manufacture lightweight trucks. Bauer plans to use a cost of capital of 12% to evaluate this project. Based on extensive research, it has prepared the following incremental free cash flow projections (in millions of dollars): a) NPV of the plant to manufacture lightweight trucks? b) Based on input from the marketing department, Bauer is uncertain about its

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    Essay Length: 287 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2011 By: Rob28
  • Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

    Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

    In essence, EWRM drives value creation through Earnings, Growth, Capital, Efficiency, Volatility of Earnings & Capital, Management Competence and Shareholder Value. Thus, EWRM is a multi-step process that involves both the upside and downside impact of all potential sources of risk and also serves as an integrated enterprise-wide correlation-adjusted approach of managing risks (Hoyt & Liebenberg, 2006). As a value-added tool, EWRM provides an essential framework for better management of shareholder value. In addition, EWRM

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    Essay Length: 861 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2011 By: cleoli00000
  • Risk Tolerance

    Risk Tolerance

    As mentioned by Garble (2000), risk tolerance is the largest limit of uncertainty which investors can accept when they decided to invest on some kinds of assets. Besides, it is also defined as the way an investor behaves to risk in the planning industry (Hallahan et al, 2003). Harlow and Brown (1990) stressed that estimate the risk tolerance degree is significantly helpful because it presents investors attitude in the exchange of what investor can achieve

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    Essay Length: 1,536 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2011 By: nguyentuegiang
  • Revenue Management 2006 - the Risks & Rewards

    Revenue Management 2006 - the Risks & Rewards

    I know that you are out there – the ones who will address that nagging worry in the back of their mind after the holiday hoopla is over – can we really achieve that budget in 2006? ??The answer is yes and no – there is no reward without risk. If ever there ever was a year with a little wiggle room for taking risks in your revenue management strategy, this is it. Your staff

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    Essay Length: 720 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2011 By: yashaer
  • Indonesia Risk

    Indonesia Risk

    6. Country risk analysis POLITICAL RISK The Courting Has Just Begun US President Barack Obama's visit to Indonesia on November 9 came as Indonesia's strategic importance is on the rise, in tandem with its belated economic emergence. Indonesia was somewhat marginalised after the Asian crisis of 1997-1998, and the country experienced several years of instability and near civil war. As of 2010, Indonesia has staged an impressive economic comeback and is once again being courted

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    Essay Length: 347 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2011 By: L_s4d
  • Bhp Foreign Exchange Risk Management Tool and Policis

    Bhp Foreign Exchange Risk Management Tool and Policis

    International financial management BHP Billiton Group is the largest diversified natural resources company in the world. It was formed in June 2001 from the merger of BHP Limited and Billiton Plc, which are located in Melbourne and London. The company has the same board of directors and management team. BHP Billiton Group operates nine business segments, that called Customer Sector Groups (CSGs), these segments are petroleum, base metals, aluminium, diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel

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    Essay Length: 356 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2011 By: dhien2412

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