...Charles Dickens Questions 1. From the biography, what incident changed Dickens' life and helped to shape him as a writer? · His father was imprisoned and he was forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory 2. How old do you think Pip is? · Seven 3. Quote the specific language in the selection that leads you to this conclusion. · “As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.” “I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.” 4. Reread the sentence highlighted in orange. Notice the intense descriptive language Dickens uses. What do you think is the author's purpose for including such an extraordinarily long descriptive sentence? · He wanted the reader to be able to “see” the churchyard in which Pip was standing, as well as the man who was approaching him. 5. List 10 words from this same sentence that produce a frightening tone. Now choose synonyms to substitute for these words you have selected and rewrite the sentence with the words you have chosen. Is your new sentence as effective as Dickens'? Explain why you think it is or is not. · Bleak- dreary · Overgrown- overrun · Dead- deceased · Dark- gloomy · Flat- level · Leaden- grim · Savage- rugged · Lair- den · Rushing- surging · Shivers- tremors · At such a time I found out for certain, that this...
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...Financial Statement Analysis The income statement for Sprint Nextel Corp. ( whose fiscal year is January – December, with all stated values in USD) for the years 2009, 2010, and 2011 shows a small increase in sales growth (3.43%) with a larger amount of gross income growth (11.14%) meaning that the cost of goods sold, as well as depreciation and amortization expenses must have decreased. Also, net income fell from 2009 to 2010 by 42.24%, explained by increased income tax and equity in affiliates. Total current assets grew due to an increase in cash and accounts receivables turnover Meanwhile, Vodafone Group PLC (with a fiscal year of April – March, with stated values in GBP) has had a relatively constant net income and EBITDA in 2010 and 2011.Its balance sheet shows an increase in current assets with a decrease in total assets due to a reduction in long-term investments. Consequently – current and total liabilities for Vodafone also fells during the years (Marketwatch, 2012). Financial Performance: Financial Ratios, DuPont Analysis, Additional Factors One of the basic measures of liquidity – the current ratio, displays that both Vodafone’s and Sprint Nextel’s liquidity has been rising in the past three fiscal years with Vodafone’s current ratio increasing from 0.47 in 2009 to 0.50 in 2010 and ending at 0.63 in 2011 while Sprint Nextel’s current ratio in 2009 was 1.27 with a drop to 1.25 in 2010 and growing to 1.59 in 2011. In this regard, Vodafone’s current ratio is extremely...
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...EBizPort: Collecting and Analyzing Business Intelligence Information Byron Marshall, Daniel McDonald, Hsinchun Chen, and Wingyan Chung Artificial Intelligence Lab, Management Information Systems Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. E-mail: {byronm, dmm, hchen, wchung}@eller.arizona.edu To make good decisions, businesses try to gather good intelligence information. Yet managing and processing a large amount of unstructured information and data stand in the way of greater business knowledge. An effective business intelligence tool must be able to access quality information from a variety of sources in a variety of forms, and it must support people as they search for and analyze that information. The EBizPort system was designed to address information needs for the business/IT community. EBizPort’s collection-building process is designed to acquire credible, timely, and relevant information. The user interface provides access to collected and metasearched resources using innovative tools for summarization, categorization, and visualization. The effectiveness, efficiency, usability, and information quality of the EBizPort system were measured. EBizPort significantly outperformed Brint, a business search portal, in search effectiveness, information quality, user satisfaction, and usability. Users particularly liked EBizPort’s clean and user-friendly interface. Results from our evaluation study suggest that the visualization function added value to the search and...
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...Southern Cross University ePublications@SCU Theses 2004 The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency Peter Ellis Southern Cross University, PeterEllis@YSP.com.au Suggested Citation Ellis, P 2004, 'The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency', DBA thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. Copyright P Ellis 2004 For further information about this thesis Peter Ellis can be contacted at peterellis@ysp.com.au ePublications@SCU is an electronic repository administered by Southern Cross University Library. Its goal is to capture and preserve the intellectual output of Southern Cross University authors and researchers, and to increase visibility and impact through open access to researchers around the world. For further information please contact epubs@scu.edu.au. Southern Cross University Doctor of Business Administration The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency Peter Ellis Submitted to Graduate College of Management Southern Cross University, in partial fulfilment of the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration. 2004 Copyright “The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency.” Copyright © 2004 by Dr Peter Ellis, who reserves all rights and asserts his right under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. No part of this work may be used or reproduced...
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