...occurring regularly. According to the Puritans, a witch was a person who made a pact with the devil in order to gain supernatural powers. The powers they believed were obtained were mostly things that happened in their colony that could not be easily explained. For example, stillborn babies were seen as a result of a woman using witchcraft. Salem was praised upon for its religiousness; therefore, many believed that the devil was going to prey on the godly in their colony. These settlers were constantly worried about being taken by the devil and suffering an eternal damnation. There are a couple of different versions of how the Salem Witch Trails began, each version involving girls and their ability to be taken over by the devil and do his work. Ultimately, these girls were seen as possessed and were eventually arrested. This started the uproar of accusations against many women living in the colony. Once someone was accused of being a witch, there were depositions that took place in order to confront the accused witch and the witnesses who were testifying against her. “It was also common in witchcraft trials to have a medical examination of an accused witch, in order to look for physical anomalies that might...
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...her sign his book to do his work. Her confession saved her from becoming a scapegoat, but was now the center of attention. On March 20, during a church service, Ann Putnam suddenly shouted “Look where goodwife Cloyce sits on the beam suckling her yellow bird between her fingers!” After that Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, and Mary Easty were accused of being witches. After the 4 women were accused, many people started to believe that there were actually witches in Salem. Also meaning there were more people to be examined and later on accused. The jails in Salem had reached their capacities and the colony “teetered on the brink of chaos”. This was when Governor Phips returned from England and decided that immediate action must be taken. Phips assembled a new court called “the court of oyer and terminer” to hear the witchcraft cases. It consisted of 5 different judges and the Chief Justice, William Stoughton, who was the most influential member of the court. In this court they would conduct physical examinations for witch marks, and would conduct a touching test where defendants were requested to touch the afflicted person to see if their touch would stop their contortions. Bridget Bishop, who was almost sixty, was the first person to be brought to court. Thomas Newton thought her to be a strong candidate to be accused of witchcraft. Deliverance Hobbs and Mary Warren confessed to being witches and testified that Bridget was also a witch. She was found...
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...Running head: ANALYZING PRO FORMA STATEMENTS Analyzing Pro Forma Statements Bridget Harvey and Keva Paul FIN/571 February 09, 2015 Ms. Wendy Thomas 1 ANALYZING PRO FORMA STATEMENTS 2 Introduction The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement retailer. The tagline for The Home Depot is “More savings more doing that’s the power of The Home Depot.” The catchy and recognizable tagline can be heard on nearly every TV and radio station in the United States. The Home Depot realizes that in order to maintain its title as the world’s largest home improvement retailer the company will need more than its catchy tagline. Therefore, The Home Depot has decided to extend the time in which small household appliances are available to its customers. Analysis of Pro Forma Data The Home Depot does not usually sell small house appliances like coffee pots, toasters, mini convection ovens, blenders, and irons through the year. The mentioned small appliances were only sold during the Christmas season. The Home Depot has decided to extend the time frame in which small appliances could be purchased. In 2014, The Home Depot sold the small appliances from the Christmas season until March 2015. The extension of the availability of the small appliances increased sales revenue by %. The increase in revenue prompted The Home Depot to employ the idea for the 2015 Christmas season until March 2016. There was an increase in revenue of % for 2016. The same model was used...
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...1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (plans of finishing to be exact) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger — WISHLIST 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame —unfinished ulit. :( 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled...
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...Louisiana Purchase 1803 Bridget Cochran 01/28/2012American InterContinental University |...
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...During the 1940’s through the 1950’s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing in Easter Europe and China (Goss 20). The anti-Communist McCarthy hearings of the 1950’s and the witchcraft trails of 1692 both were known for accusing and imprisoning people with little proof. This is shown in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. He was able to capture the panic and simple madness of many Americans in a symbolic way. McCarthyism is very similar in the way that Joe McCarthy accused Americans of being communist and in The Crucible the people were being accused of being witches. Joe McCarthy, born on a farm to Irish-American Roman Catholic parents, was a relatively unknown U.S. senator from Wisconsin. He was the youngest member of the new senate and his voting record was conservative, even though he didn’t follow the Republican Party line (Appleton Public Library, pars 2). He later became a chairman of the committee on government operations. With that he became the leading spokesman of the post war anti-Communist Crusade in 1950 to 1954 (Klingaman 253). McCarthyism was a search, or “witch hunt”, led by Senator Joe McCarthy, for Communists in the 1950’s United States Government. McCarthy continued to make accusations of communist infiltration of the U.S. government, though he had failed to provide evidence. On December 2, 1954 the full senate, by vote of 67-22 passed a resolution, condemning McCarthy for abusing his power as senator. He remained as...
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...Salem witch trials This research paper is to show the events of the Salem witch trail of 1692 and how it affected American literature. Authors who were inspired to tell the story have written multiple books. The authors wrote about how the resident turned on each other to get what they wanted, and the strict supersticous religious practice they followed. And to tell the personal conflicts that had existed throughout the community. The Salem witch trail began in February 1692 due to a group of teenage girls playing fortune-telling game to see whom their future husband would be. They were caught in the act of fortunetelling game witch is not acceptable in there puritan society. After these event Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam Jr, Mary Walcott and Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Susannah Sheldon, Mary Warren and Elizabeth Booth started to show symptoms. The symptom the girls started to experience fits, hiding under furniture, uncontrollable pain and experiencing fever. In February Samuel Parris called for doctor to come and check if there was anything medically wrong with the girls. The doctor was unable to find any problems with the girls. The doctor later suggested that The girls might be bewitched. The girls later began to name people who they believed bewitched them. They named the social outcast of Salem. They accused three women, the three women they accused were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborn and a slave named Tituba. These women were seen as easy target to...
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...failed business attempts, and while in the armed forces went to war as a captain and was degraded to a private when he returned.(Michalko, 6,8) Success takes hard work, dedication, long hours, pain, and a lot of disappointment. If some of the most influential people in American history have failed then why are others so afraid of it? When I asked a group of people about what they feared most when they tried something new most of them replied “failing.” When asked why, they didn’t really know. They just didn’t like the idea of not being successful. Successful people like to achieve high standards; they become so afraid of failure that it turns into a handicap. We let the fear hold us back from our true potential. This fear causes some people to not try something altogether because they are so afraid of the feeling associated with not accomplishing something. Today, we live in a society where failing or messing up is viewed as unacceptable, people want to do something right the first time no matter what it is, but that isn’t something that is attainable one hundred percent of the time. Just as Confucius said in the quote above “… without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” If you are not prepared then you are more likely to fail than if you were prepared. Some things though we cannot always prepare for. Thomas Edison had over a thousand failed...
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...“Jane Austen’s sharp, satirical eye and brilliant dialogue have made her enormously popular today” (Kinsella, 778). All of Austen’s novels have been made into feature films, some even more than once (Kinsella, 778). There were movie adaptations of Pride and Prejudice in the years 1940 and 2005 (Warren par 2). She also influenced many authors such as: Sophie Kinsella who wrote the “Shopaholic” series (Hernandez par 5). Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary was directly based off of Austen’s work (Hernandez par 6). People have also expanded her works: Linda Berdoll expanding on Pride and Prejudice with Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and Darcy and Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberly (Hernandez par...
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...of more than 20,000 different products in each of stores. The first Countdown supermarket opened in Northlands, Christchurch at 31 December 1981. This business was established by Rattrays Wholesale and gained momentum through the 1980s. The Rattrays Wholesale Group included the Rattrays Cash and Carry warehouses, tobacco vans, now known as the Red Arrow Distributors fleet, and the SuperValue group of franchised supermarkets, now operating as SuperValue/Fresh Choice. Countdown is part of Progressive Enterprises, a subsidiary of the publicly-listed Australian company, Woolworths Limited. In addition to Countdown, Progressive Enterprises is also the franchise co-ordinator for the Fresh Choice and SuperValue banner groups. Countdown works with over 800 food producers and suppliers throughout New Zealand. In-store teams are supported by four dry grocery distribution centres, three fresh produce distribution centres, two meat processing plants, one seafood processing plant and a central support office. Q2---a – internal environmental factors Strength 1. Strong Marketing and advertising teams. Countdown has excellent marketing plans that promote their products in various forms. For example discounts, TV promotions, door to door leafleting, in-store promotional activities (e.g. spending X dollars in exchange for household products), free gifts etc. Their promotional activities are very innovative compared to traditional discounting product price. These activities are...
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...that the "Mr. W. H." of the dedication was this young man, rather than the collector or editor of the poems. The only theories concerning the young man (whether "Mr. W. H." or not) that are worthy of serious consideration are that he was William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, or that he was Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. As early as 1819 Mr. B. H. Bright suggested that Herbert was the man, and this theory has steadily gained favour with biographers and critics. The editor of the "Temple" edition, who accepts the Southampton theory, writing a few years ago, believed that the Herbert theory was "in the ascendant." He added: "Many a former ally of Southampton has rallied round the banner unfurled by Herbert's redoubtable champion, Mr. Thomas Tyler." But more recently (in 1897) Sidney Lee, who had been on the side of Herbert, has now (in his article on Shakespeare in the Dictionary of National Biography, and in his Life of Shakespeare) gone over to the Southampton party; and Mrs. Stopes and one or two other recent writers have also joined that faction. William Herbert was born April 8th, 1580; and in the spring of 1598 he came to reside in London. He was brilliant, accomplished, and licentious; "the most universally beloved and esteemed of any man in London" (Clarendon). To him and his brother Philip, Earl of Montgomery, as two patrons of the dramatist, Heminge and Condell dedicated the folio of 1623. The "Herbertists" assign the Sonnets to the years 1597—1601. The most serious...
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...FASHION RESEARCH, MARKETING AND TREND FORECASTING Academic Year 2012/2013 BSc 3 year Term I Lecturer: Rossella Beato Student: Ina Bozhinova Date: 19th December 2012 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 4 ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO-CULTURAL FRAMEWORK 5 PEST ANALYSIS 5 LEGAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES 5 ECONOMIC GROWTH 5 SOCIOCULTURAL TRENDS 6 TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS 6 ANALYSIS OF THE FASHION TRENDS 7 BRAND SCAN 8 TARGET MARKET ANALYSIS 8 DEMOGRAPHICS 8 PSYCHOGRAPHICS 8 CONSUMER CONSTELLATION 8 USAGE BEHAVIORS 8 GUESS? INC. SWOT ANALYSIS 9 COMPETITION 10 FORECASTING PLAN 10 BUSINESS GROWTH STRATEGIES 11 LEVERAGING THE BRAND 11 INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION 11 CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE LICENSEE PORTFOLIO 11 E-COMMERCE………………… …………………………………………….12 CONCLUSION 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 INTRODUCTION Jeans wear manufacturer GUESS? Inc. exploded onto the fashion scene in 1982. The brand had the simplest vision to turn the dated denim jean into a sexy, glamorous fashion statement. The company’s three zip “Marilyn” jeans were an instant hit and defined the brand’s attitude-strong, sensuous and chic. GUESS? Is a 600 million dollar multinational retailer that sells clothing, jeans, eyewear, and watches, designed to improve the ordinary lifestyle of people with flair of individualism. Maurice, Paul and Armand, the Marciano brothers, are the people that stand behind...
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...REFERENCE LIST 10 ANSWER-01(A) Fringe Benefit Tax Assessment Act, 1986 (FBTAA, 1986), states that entertainment is not allowed as a tax that can be a deductible expense, as given under section 955-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act, 1997 (ITAA, 1997). This is however only, unless till the time a Fringe benefit Tax (FBT) @ 46.5% has been paid upon the same. One also has to keep in the considerations important factors such as: * GST to be levied at 10% of the fringe benefit amount. Section 136 of FBTA also states that if there is a benefit which is provided to the employee or to the third party who is related to the third party who may be the spouse, and such a benefit has been provided in a manner which is either full or in part, as a work benefit and a liability that arises for the payment of FBT then Goods and Services Tax may also be applied on the same and the tax payer denied of the GST credits, it may also apply the lower gross-up rate for FT. There are many Companies which may organize entertainment functions for the people employed under them and the third parties with respect to these employees in the form of either gifts or parties. The party maybe on the site or offsite and include food and drink with recreations like banks and gifts may also form a part of this entertainment. The implication of income tax such as FBT and GST would be dependent on the factors that apply to the said situation. The implications are also dependent on the factors like the gift and...
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...Bering strait- earliest settlers to the new world came from Bering Strait. Paleo-Indians- earliest combinations of N. tribes * Survived largely by hunting, fishing, and collecting edible plants. Archaic Era- period beginning approximately 9,000 years ago lasting an estimated 6,000 years. * It was marked by more intensive efforts by ancient societies to shape the environment to enhance food production. Incas- Peru, S. America, very complex political system. * Kept record of deaths and births Mayas- Yucatan peninsula, Central America, and written language and calendar. Aztecs- México, Central America Largest language groups 1. Algonquin- largest spoken language 2. Iroquois- upper New York State 3. Muskogeon- southern most regions of the east coast League of five nations- see notes Effects of Europeans on Native Americans- * Goods- metal, cloth, reintroduced horses, food, Negative- diseases Effects of Native Americans on Europeans * Goods- corn and how to preserve foods Negative- diseases Influence of Islam on early European trade- Impact of Islam on earl African tribes- Muslim introduced the concept of slavery and dominated the slaves in the Mediterranean * Slavery was not based on race but on the losing side Impact of Roman Catholic...
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...The longitude of Ireland extends four degrees, from the meridian of eleven degrees and a half to that of fifteen and a half, and the latitude extends also four degrees, from the parallel of fifty-four degrees to that of fifty-eight degrees. In the geographical description I will follow Cambden as formerly.4 This famous island in the Virginian sea is by old writers called Ierna, Inverna, and Iris, by the old inhabitants Erin, by the old Britains Yuerdhen, by the English at this day Ireland, and by the Irish Bards at this day Banno, in which sense of the Irish word, Avicen calls it the Holy Island; besides, Plutarch of old called it Ogygia, and after him Isidore named it Scotia.5 This Ireland, according to the inhabitants, is divided into two parts, the wild Irish, and the English-Irish, living in the English pale. But of the old kingdoms, five in number, it is divided into five parts. 1. The first is by the Irish called Mowne, by the English Munster, and is subdivided into six counties—of Kerry, of Limerick, of Cork, of Tipperary, of the Holy Cross, and of Waterford—to which the seventh county of Desmond is now added. The Gangavi, a Scythian people, coming into Spain, and from thence into Ireland, inhabited the county of Kerry, full of woody mountains, in which the Earls of Desmond had the dignity of palatines, having their house in Trailes, a little town now almost uninhabited. Not far thence lies p.215 St. Mary Wic, vulgarly called Smerwick, where the Lord Arthur Gray...
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