...The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain From The Saturday Press, Nov. 18, 1865. Republished in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), by Mark Twain and published by Harper & Brotherstest In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; and that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up, and gave me good-day. I told him a friend had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley--Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell...
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...NATASHA GARDNER 02/20/2010 CALAVERAS VINEYARDS The other alternative is to support the loan proposal. Although it is true that Calaveras Vineyards is smaller than the majority of the current companies that are in the wine business it appears that they have had a lot of positive growth in spite of the constant change in ownership. If a company is still able to maintain its growth and brand image during challenging times like that, how much more growth can you expect when the company finally gets owners in there that want to invest and stay with it. In the past year, 1992, Calaveras Vineyards did have a drop off in sales but this was due in part to their lack of representation by a sales organization. I agree that Goldengate Capital should invest in Calaveras Vineyard. This is based on several factors such as the Net Present Value of the firm, the projected sales, and the potential growth of the company in their market. Currently Calaveras was currently being held on Stouts PLC books as $7 million and the purchase price of $4.1 million would be considered a significant discount. All of these factors, and more, pointed toward going ahead with the loan. Ninety-five percent of U.S. wine exports are from California. This is expressed statistically in the following manner: $1 billion winery revenues in 2008 (again, a 630% increase from $137 million in 1990), and 55 million cases sold to 125 different countries (which is up 630% from 12 million cases sold in 1990). 526...
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...Warute Phanthumkmol Calaveras Vineyards Case Dear Dr. Lynna Martinez, After reviewing your projections of Calaveras Vineyards, I used the adjusted present value method to come up with the value of the company. With this method, I assume that the whole firm is financed only through equity. Therefore, when calculating the free cash flow, debt was not taken into account. Despite that, the net present value of interest shields is added back to compensate the debt in the capital structure. With this method, the company is valued at $9.62 million. In order to assess Calaveras’ value, I calculated the free cash flow from 1994 to 1998. The free cash flow from each year derived from adding Earnings before Interest and Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization and subtracting the Change in Net Working Capital, and Capital Expenditure. Earnings before Interest and Taxes were calculated from subtracting tax rate of 37% from Earnings before Interest (EBIT), which was projected in the Income Statement. Other values were based off of the spreadsheet attached with this memo. Once I got the free cash flow for each year, I used the Cost of Equity or the CAPM rate to discount it to present value. The rate is calculated by adding the risk-free rate with the product of market risk premium and beta. The risk-free rate of 5.85% is based off of the interest rate of 30-year T-bonds. As for the market risk premium, I chose the geometric mean premium of returns on small-company stocks less returns...
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...Calaveras High School senior Matthew Dahl is a big reason why Calaveras started the year 9-1. The 6-foot guard can do a little bit of everything on the floor and had a big week in two of Calaveras’ wins. On Dec. 12, Calaveras was strulggling on the road against Tokay. He didn’t have a point until the fourth quarter, where he scored nine to help give Calaveras a 52-39 victory. “We were really struggling Tuesday night and at that point, he didn’t have any points,” said Calaveras head coach Kraig Clifton. “He stepped up and made all the difference and helped us pull out a win when maybe we really didn’t deserve it. He saved us there.” Three nights later, in perhaps Calaveras’ most well-rounded victory of the year, Dahl scored 11 points in a 75-45 road win over Lodi. In the win, Dahl pulled down rebounds, dished out assists and played strong defense to go along with his 11 points....
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...his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[3] In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek.[4] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks he filed for protection from his creditors via a bankruptcy filing, and with the help of Henry Huttleston...
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...Last year, as president of the Calaveras Tri-M Music Honor Society, I was tasked with the decision of what service projects the club would be doing for community service. I remembered how when I was six years old I used to go to the local convalescent hospital with my 4-H club to give the patients company. So I decided that Tri-M would go to the convalescent hospital once a month to perform music, play games, and give company to all of the patients. The most impactful visit to me, had to have been the second time we went. My fellow members and I had prepared music together to perform as a band as well as in small ensembles. We also brought games like dominoes and battleship to play. However, some of the patients had games of their own. A fellow...
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...11/19/2014 Offensive Language in D.H. Hwang's Play, Trying to Find Chinatown - Wattpad Join Wattpad to read and share books and stories (for free). Choose a username Offensive Language in D.H. Hwang's Play, "Trying to Find Chinatown" Reality is what it is...real. To ignore any aspect of what is real sends us on a fool's errand and limits our exposure to ideas and ideals of individuals who do not meet our own "acceptable" criteria. This is part and parcel of the conflict spotlighted in the thought provoking play "Trying to Find Chinatown" by David Henry Hwang. The play centers on a chance encounter between two 20-something men on a New York Street. From the beginning their interaction is fraught with misunderstanding and prejudice. Ben, an out of town Caucasian is merely looking for an address when he happens upon an Asian, nearly his own age, working his heart out as a street musician on an electric violin. After showing his appreciation of the music with a few coins, he is instantly attacked when he asks for directions. The attack by Ronnie is full of insolence, malice, and seething hatred directed toward his "white" tormentor. Ronnie's tirade is peppered with profanity and frequent references to stereotypes of the rural inhabitants of the non-urban American South, twice referring to Ben as a "cousin fucker", completely ignoring Benjamin's own admission of being from the Midwest. Ronnie makes the assumption that due to Ben's skin color and rural background that he is the...
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...A Joker’s Mind In “Hop-Frog”, a short story about two friend’s revenge on a tyrannical king, Edgar Allan Poe applies the romantic features of imagination and individualism in his writing as he portrays the mind and personality of a dwarf working for the King. The main character, Hop-Frog, is a dwarf who is a joker for the King. When Poe describes him in the story, he uses the phrases, “[s]omething between a leap and a wriggle” and “a movement that afforded illimitable amusement” (159) to describe how he walks and a way he provides entertainment to the King. Here, Poe demonstrates imagination by telling his audience made up characteristics about his character to develop the character and give a glimpse into what the rest of the story will be...
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...In the story, “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog’s actions are justified. First of all, the king is unethical and evil. He valued humor over everything else and found it funny to make fun of other people’s flaws or disabilities, even if they couldn’t help it. One of the king’s last actions was the thing that pushed Hop-Frog over the edge: “without uttering a syllable, he pushed her (Trippetta) violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face” (Poe 3). Trippetta was only trying to ask the king to leave Hop-Frog alone, but the king responded with violence. Trippetta was Hop-Frog’s only friend, so when the king pushed her and threw wine in her face it made Hop-Frog furious. A reader could tell that Hop-Frog was...
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...Calaveras Vineyards Case The appropriate TBV equations to calculate the firm’s WACC and FCF are: * R(after tax, wacc) = (E0/V0)rE + (D0/V0)rD (1-T) * FCF = TCF – corporate tax savings from deductable interest expense or * FCF = -NCPFA + Debt interest payment – corporate tax savings from deductible interest expense Below are the calculations for Calaveras Vineyards: * V1/1/1994 = (2,500)/1.126 + 357,000/1.126^2 + 463,000/1.126^3 + 590,000/1.126^4 + 780,000/1.126^5 + (1/1.126^5)(905,000/.1260.04) V1/1/1994 = $7,219,840 = Value of the Calaveras * E1/1/1994= V1/1/1994 – D1/1/1994 = 7,219,840 – 3,122,000 E1/1/1994 = $4,097,840 = Equity of the Calaveras Assuming the additional information on employee stock options, those calculations would be altered to: * V1/1/1994 = 7,219,840 – [233,000 + 54,000/1.14 + 67,000/1.16^2 + (1/1.16)(80,000/.16)] V1/1/1994 = $6,458,650 = Value of Calaveras with stock options * E1/1/1994= 6,458,650 – 3,122,000 = E1/1/1994 = $3,336,650 = Equity of the Calaveras with stock options Equity Valuations 1. Price Earnings ratio: This ratio values the company by dividing the Market Value per share by Earnings per Share. This measures the company’s past performance as well as expectations for company’s growth. 2. Book Value: This values a company by subtracting the cost of total assets minus intangible asset and liabilities. It is the total value of a company in the situation that the...
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...Calaveras, or sugar skulls, are an important aspect of Dia de los muertos. They have a long history with the holiday, and are growing constantly in popularity. The original meaning of these calaveras is important to Mexican history. They represent what the holiday stands for. Calaveras were originally brought to Mexico by Italian missionaries in the 1800s. They were mixed into the holiday like many other aspects of it. The decorating of these skulls became a tradition to go with the days of dia de los muertos. Later when the Spanish took over however, they tried to erase sugar skulls from the culture as well as the entire holiday of dia de los muertos. But the calaveras made it through, and are still around today, even after all the religion-mixing....
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...The piece of technology I will be adding to the story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is anabolic steroids.They will arrive in this story by a travelling salesman who was passing through the town, carrying a ‘miracle drug’, promising that it can boost performance and do other amazing things. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic version of testosterone and can be used to enhance a person's performance, boost muscle growth, and decrease the amount of rest muscles need to recover. The steroids will be given to the frog by Jim Smiley to boost his performance so that he can bet on him and always win. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic version of the male hormone testosterone and can be used to enhance a person’s performance. They are used to treat to treat hormone problems in men, though using them to boost performance is illegal and can cause damage to the body. Anabolic steroids affect the skeletal muscles by activating cells to produce more protein to build more muscle cells. They also inhibit glucocorticoids, which decreases the time your muscles need...
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...Luis Aldana Professor Snowberger AML2020 February 6, 2013 Cultural Division Between The East and West Coasts in the United States Mark Twain uses a great deal of satire and humor in his literary writings. In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain pokes fun and brings to light the grand cultural divide in which the United States was experiencing at this time. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” highlights several differences of late 19th century American culture and society. The culture clash introduces the theme of the overall story in which Twain makes fun of and challenges the stereotypes that the Western United States had for Eastern people and to this day, some of those stereotypes still exist. In the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain depicts many aspects of the East and West, the settlements in which the main characters were set in, and the language that each one uses. The story was published in 1865, during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. Most of the economic development had begun in the East Coast, but despite the increasing amount of growth westward, Americans still had a psychological divide between the eastern and western parts of the country. During this time period the West was thought to be rough and populated by survivalists. The East on the other hand was assumed to be more advanced, educated, and polite. Twain uses language and punctuation to highlight the...
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...keeping family close. On the afternoon of November 2nd the festivities are taken to the cemetery. People clean up their loved ones graves and listen to the village band and think about their loved ones. During the Day of the Dead festivities food is eaten by the living and given to the spirits of their departed ancestors as ofrendas. Tamales are one of the most common dishes prepared for this day for both purposes. In addition to food the drinks are also important to the tradition. Historically the main alcoholic drink was pulque while today most people just drink the favorite alcoholic drink of their loved ones who have passed. Pan de muerto and calaveras are also associated with the Day of the Dead. Pan de muerto is a type of sweet roll shaped like a bun, topped with sugar and usually decorated with a bone-shaped phalanges pieces. Calaveras display colorful designs to represent the individual personality of the departed. The Day of the Dead is still a major holiday in many countries and it holds as much meaning as when it was first celebrated. ...
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...Victor Moore had a wrestling career that most could only dream. In his final year of wrestling at Calaveras High School, finished with a record of 47-9. Moore was a two-time Mother Lode League champion, a two-time CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division V champion, runner up at the Masters Tournament and a CIF State qualifier. Now that Moore has finished his Calaveras wrestling career, he can see how it shaped him into the man he is today. “It means a lot because before I came here, I wrestled at my old school and it was just a side thing to do because I was board,” Moore said. “But here, I learned that wrestling isn’t just a sport you do in high school. It’s something that helps you with your work ethic.” Moore finished in the top 12 at the State...
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