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Cash Out (accounting)
Number of Words: 975 / Number of Pages: 4
... for the owner has a downside. Selling usually means the owner must give up control. Going public often creates an orphan stock. Employee-stock-ownership plans can burden the CEO with "onerous regulatory-compliance issues," and leveraged recaps can load the firm with debt. Company owners come to firms such as Heritage Partners because they want to cash out but at the same time keep management control of their company and the Heritage system allows them to do that and help them grow the business too.
Investing in family businesses and then letting owners keep control of their companies after the sale ...
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Initiation Into American Cultu
Number of Words: 413 / Number of Pages: 2
... wealth, romance, and happy endings. To Foreigners, the phrase "life in America" brings to mind images from the television series 90210 and Melrose Place - perfect people, in perfect neighborhoods, living the perfect American Dream. Those of us who reside in the United States recognize the reality - that for the average population the American Dream is nothing more than a myth. Hollywood and American television advertise freedom, economic and social wealth, and justice. Individuals initiating the transition into American culture see only what the camera allows them to see, a filtered image of Amer ...
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Marketing A New Product
Number of Words: 1761 / Number of Pages: 7
... economic and technological changes. They vary constantly, often with no predictability. Primarily, it is these changes that can cause the most significant threats and opportunities to a business
The Micro- Environment
Competition
The 'No Worries' clothesline is an original product, which people will inevitably copy over time, making competition something to worry about in the next 5 years. Competitors will cause a major threat to business. They can compete with prices making it more attractive to the customer to shop at their outlet. They can make their version of the product more attractive, ...
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COMPUTER SECURITY ISSUES
Number of Words: 876 / Number of Pages: 4
... unless they know where it has been, making them aware that pirated media , shareware/freeware programmes may be potentially dangerous. A talk and leaflet distribution to employees could be useful. If the Alsager decides to connect to the Internet, this would be another potential source for virus and such like. A firewall could be placed on the system to help prevent infection. A more immediate way of preventing virus is to subscribe to a antivirus programmes, although this will not give you 100% percent protection it will help prevent the majority of known virus. An important note to this point, is ...
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Human Nature As Competitive
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... person undervalues them, they will do whatever it takes to be as valued as they would like to be.
There are three principle causes of quarrel in the nature of man. They are competition, diffidence (or distrust), and glory. In human nature, competition is for gain, diffidence is for safety, and glory is for reputation. It is the competitive human nature that renders people apt to invade and destroy one another. The reading gives and example of a man who arms himself when taking a journey, locks his doors when he goes to sleep, and locks his chest even when he’s home. He is trying to protect himsel ...
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Women In Boxing
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... to disprove any common misconceptions about women and their being perceived as the less aggressive sex. For example, when men act in an aggressive manner, most people just write off their actions as an expected part of their being male. Yet, if women demonstrate the exact same aggressive behavior, they are viewed ads being “manly” or acting out of line. “However, in studies using tests to gauge feeling of aggression, no differences between males and females have been found.” This proves that women are no less inherently aggressive than men.
So, what does this have to do with women and professi ...
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Advertising
Number of Words: 1034 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the magazine, in computer magazines there will be advertisements on computer hardware and software, and in beauty magazines there will be advertisements on make-up and beauty supplies. In other words, as Judith Williamson mentions, "Advertisements are selling us something else
besides consumer goods: in providing us with a structure in which we, and those goods, are interchangeable, they are selling us ourselves."(13) Most advertisements have an eye catching picture or phrase that will keep the attention of the viewer long enough to deliver them the message.
The advertisement that I have chose ...
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Stinky Solution
Number of Words: 1865 / Number of Pages: 7
... the price of cigarettes, through increased sales taxes. Kenneth Warner, professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has studied tobacco for twenty years, says, “Price is a significant factor in all products -- as price rises, demand goes down” (Tanamachi n.p.). Other experts believe the tobacco industry’s marketing and advertising should be banned because they manipulate adolescents. Ken August, spokesperson for the California Department of Health, believes, “You can’t tell young people they’re going to get sick...but when you tell them t ...
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Greek Theater Within Their Vas
Number of Words: 2470 / Number of Pages: 9
... in nature. Green asserts that the ancient artists "were not at work
to provide visual aids for textbooks and lectures. We can, with care, use them
in that way as aids to a modern imagination" (Green 1995, p.13). Green's
statement brings to light the importance of cautious research into this area of
history, especially keeping in mind the context in which the vases were made and
used. Certainly, vases exist which are, as Green explains it, "inescapably"
linked to the theatre. A sample of these well-understood vases is examined
below.
Historians often agree on the subject matter of ce ...
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Having Fun While Learning
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... when a person's mind may be more readily shaped and the teacher plays a vital role in developing this young person's mind. It is important for the teacher to not only put out the information, but also to incorporate it into the child's way of thinking, allowing the child to think beyond what he has been taught. The Lost World, a novel written by Michael Crichton, talks about a professor who taught an engineering class that appealed to the student's interests. This professor taught in a way that made his students use simple tools to complete extraordinary tasks. For example, Professor Thorne "hung ...
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