... If any of the staff at F & S had seen him buy the cigarettes, they would have been astonished, for it was generally known that Mr. Martin did not smoke, and never had. No one saw him. It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows. The term "rub out" pleased him because it suggested nothing more than the correction of an error--in this case an error of Mr. Fitweiler. Mr. Martin had spent each night of the past week working out his plan and examining it. As he walked home now he went over it again. For the hundredth time he resented the element of imprecision, the margin of guesswork that entered into the business. The project as he had worked it out was casual and bold, the risks were considerable. Something might go wrong anywhere along the line. And therein lay the cunning of his scheme. No one would ever see in it the cautious, painstaking hand of Erwin Martin, head of the filing department at F & S, of whom Mr. Fitweiler had once said, "Man is fallible but Martin isn't." No one would see his hand, that is, unless it were caught in the act. Sitting in his apartment, drinking a glass of milk, Mr. Martin reviewed his case against Mrs. Ulgine Barrows, as he had every night for seven nights. He began at the beginning. Her quacking voice and braying laugh had first profaned the halls of F & S on March 7, 1941 (Mr. Martin had a head for dates). Old Roberts, the personnel chief, had introduced her as the newly appointed...
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...producer of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan. Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. Even during their lifetimes, the couple's depiction in the press was at considerable odds with the struggle of reality of their life on the road, particularly in the case of Bonnie Parker. Even though she was physically present at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow's companion, she was not the machine gun-wielding cartoon killer portrayed in the newspapers, newsreels, and, particularly, the pulpy detective magazines of the day. Gang member W. D. Jones was unsure whether he had ever seen her fire at officers. Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun shooter grew out of a playful snapshot found abandoned by police at a hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide, while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker. Author-historian Jeff Guinn explains that it was these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend: "John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all—illicit sex. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were young and unmarried. They undoubtedly slept together—after all, the girl...
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...existing cost system b. an activity-based cost model using the information in the case 2. What causes any shifts in reported product costs and profitability? 3. Based on your analysis in Question 1b, recommend three distinct actions that Wilkerson’s managers could implement to improve profitability? 4. What concerns, if any, do any have with the cost estimates you prepared in the answer to Question 1b? PREPARE: Case study Komandor. Prepare the following questions for class discussion: 1. Consider each of the following alternatives: a. Capitalize the consulting fees; in other words, following the practice preferred by the Polish authorities. b. Allocate the consulting fees to the plastic products bought by Komandor. c. Allocate the consulting fees to the metal products bought by Komandor. d. Hire a tax official as a “consultant” to ensure that Komandor receives a clean tax audit. e. Don’t invoice Poland for the consulting fee; just deduct the expense in Canada. For each option, estimate the expected cash flow consequences relative to the desired (prohibited) alternative of deducting the full $200,000 cost in Poland. Also, identify the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. 2. In light of your answers in Question 1, which alternative should Komandor adopt, and why? Case: Barrows Consumer Products (Written assignment) PREPARE: Case study Barrow Consumer Products. Prepare AND SUBMIT the following questions: 1. What are...
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...The Fantastic In most cases, it's not an either/or situation with the theories. PB is a good example of a story that clearly positions itself as a Fantastic tale with all those conventions: supernatural/folk tale, skeptical voices of reason, the suspicion of mental disturbance and drug use in the narrator, two possible explanations for the events described and so on. That's because Fantastic is a generic term to describe the structure of particular kinds of fiction whereas Uncanny can refer to a particular psychological state or particular moments in texts without applying to the whole. So the opening of the story, for example, could easily be described as uncanny because it defamiliarises the landscape with specific literary techniques. Conclusion Introduction The light – supernatural/science Uncanny Degeneration –Dorian Gray Fairy Tale Introduction From the book Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Grant Allen’s Pallinghurst Barrows has been the generic and thematic basis for many gothic storylines, however with relation to H.G. Well’s The Time Machine, it has become one piece of writing that had gone unrecognised for a considerable amount of time. Pallinghurst Barrows is a short story assorted with supernatural and scientific themes in which Allen showed great interest resulting in him writing three novels such as Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886) and Physiological aesthetics (1877). Degenerate Throughout Pallinghurst Barrows there is the ongoing motif of Darwin and degeneration...
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...KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | HOSP 582 – Survey of Hospitality Management | Week 1 Homework | Professor: Eva Smith | 1/9/2016 | | Email address: Halander@gmail.com Chapter 1 1. What is the role of a manager in the hospitality industry? The role of a manager in the hospitality industry is wide and varied. However, the manager must focus on 3 main objectives, namely; a manager must be able to direct the operations of business to achieve goals on schedule, within budget and make a profit. Secondly, a manager must also be able to relate to employees and guests to create a successful work environment and experience for the guest. Lastly, a manager should always make sure that guests feel personally welcomed and everything in the facility is working smoothly. According to our text, “there are three general kinds of hospitality objectives with which management must be concerned: 1. A manager wants to make the guest feel welcome. Doing this requires both a friendly manner on your part toward the guest and an atmosphere of “liberality and good will” among the people who work with you in serving the guest. That almost always translates to an organization in which workers get along well with one another. 2. A manager wants to make things work for the guest. Food has to be savory, hot or cold according to design, and on time. Beds must be made and rooms cleaned. Gaming facilities must be service oriented. A hospitality system requires a lot of work, and the...
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...on October 1, 1910 and grew up in her grandparents’ home in a place known a Cement City with her widowed mother, older brother, and younger sister. Bonnie was an honors student diligent in her studies and had a deep interest in literature and poetry. She was considered an exceptionally pretty girl and had dreams of becoming an actress telling her friends they would someday “see her name in lights.” Bonnie was married just before she turned sixteen to Roy Thornton, a boy she met in highschool. The marriage lasted just three years. Thornton began being physically abusive and when Thornton met a sentence of five years for robbery Bonnie was more than happy to see him go. The two never saw each other again but never divorced. Clyde Chestnut Barrow born on March 24, 1909 the fifth child to a poor but very close-knit family of seven. He developed a passion for music at an early age, teaching himself too sing, and play the guitar and saxophone. He had dreams of becoming a muision. At age sixteen he dropped out of high school and turned to a life of petty thievery. Eventually, under the heavy influence of his older brother, Buck, Clyde was participating in auto theft and armed robberies. By time he meet the gorgeous nineteen year old waitress Bonnie Parker, twenty year old Clyde was already a fugitive. January 1930, Bonnie met Clyde through a mutual friend and the two fell in love at first sight. However it was not long before the law caught up to Clyde and prison bars stood firmly...
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...LEGAL BRIEF DATE: 1st July, 2012 TO: Mr. Orendorff FROM: Jinlin Dai RE: chapter 9, #5, pg.243 Relevant Facts: You want to lease your automobile to a friend for the summer but do not want to pay a lawyer to draw up the lease. Joanna, a neighbor, is in law school. She is not licensed to practice law. She offers to draft a lease for you for $100, and you unwisely accept. Later, you refuse to pay her fee and she sues to collect. Problem or Issue: Who will win the lawsuits, and why? Apart from the law, was it morally right for the law student to try to help out by drafting the lease, and why? Was she acting helpfully, or foolishly, or fraudulently? Is it just for you to agree to her fee and then refuse to pay it? What is society’s interest in this dispute? Should a court be more concerned with the ethical issue raised by the conduct of the two parties or with the social consequences of this agreement? Answer or Resolution: I will win the lawsuit. Joanna and I have no contract of leasing. It is right on morally to try to help me out by drafting the lease. She has no license of a lawyer, so she acts foolishly. It is not just for me to agree to her fee and then refuse to pay it. The society interest in the law school student whether or not can draft a lease. The court should be more concerned with the ethical issue raised by the conduct of the two parties. Analysis: A car sale contract passes ownership of the car from seller to buyer. The contract can be drafted...
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...Case Study for Final Exam Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal (voluntary) muscles of the body. The name myasthenia gravis, which is Latin and Greek in origin, literally means "grave muscle weakness." With current therapies, however, most cases of myasthenia gravis are not as "grave" as the name implies. In fact, for the majority of individuals with myasthenia gravis, life expectancy is not lessened by the disorder. The hallmark of myasthenia gravis is muscle weakness that increases during periods of activity and improves after periods of rest. Certain muscles such as those that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, chewing, talking, and swallowing are often, but not always, involved in the disorder. The muscles that control breathing and neck and limb movements may also be affected. Myasthenia gravis is caused by a defect in the transmission of nerve impulses to muscles. It occurs when normal communication between the nerve and muscle is interrupted at the neuromuscular junction - the place where nerve cells connect with the muscles they control. Normally when impulses travel down the nerve, the nerve endings release a neurotransmitter substance called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine travels through the neuromuscular junction and binds to acetylcholine receptors which are activated and generate a muscle contraction. ...
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...kinds of ways like the way we can smell a flower; it has that sweet smell just like when you are awake. Or when you go free falling in your dream and you wake up because you had that sensation of falling. Not only can we use our senses in our dreams but our dreams also barrow from the real world so it makes it almost undistinguishable. I believe that sometimes dreams undermine the possibility of certain knowledge because most of the time you don't realize you are dreaming when you are asleep, so how would you be absolutely certain about what is going on right now. For example, if you understand the concept of hallucination, then how can you guarantee yourself that everything isn't a hallucination? I could be dreaming or even hook up to a machine that's making me perceive a false reality; I only have my senses to rely on, that what I am doing right now is all real. That's what makes me question if I should trust my senses to the up most certainty. The only things that I can be upmost certain about is that I exist and that a square has no more than four sides. I agree with the Descartes because when I wake up from a dream, only then do I realize that it was just a dream. There have only been a few cases that I have realized I was dreaming. I have had a dream where I was halfway through my day and I woke up confused because it was still dark outside, then I realized it was all a dream. There's a possibility I am dreaming of writing this paper right now but I am just relying...
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...Mark Haddon; behind the scenes By: Patrick Rohling English 12 Mrs. Cox Block 4 A/C Mark Haddon has gone through many things in his life. He once aided those who had Multiple Sclerosis and autism. However, his main ambitions were writing and drawing. Haddon has written many successful children’s books but wanted to pursue a new path, so Haddon set out to write a new book to please this new desire. He did not know this book was going to turn out to be about a fifteen year-old autistic boy. Haddon, known for his children’s books, was highly recognized for his most recent piece of literature, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and received multiple awards, but was mostly heavily criticized for the piece of literature. These criticisms are still present and haunt the novel. Mark Haddon was born September 26, 1962 in Northampton, England. Marathon canoeing, writing, and abstract painting are his biggest passions. During his early career he used to assist patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Autism, and worked many other part-time jobs, including a theater box office and a mail-order business. Haddon obtained a formal education at Merton College, Oxford, and Edinburgh University. Haddon also worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for many periodicals. One of his most famous cartoon strips is one called “Men a User’s Guide”. He also wrote several children’s television series, like Microsoap, and Starstreet. But, he is most famous for his children’s books...
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...Seat” by James Thurber introduces main character, Mr. Erwin Martin. He has an established reputation of one who can do no wrong at F&S, where he has been employed for 22 years. Employees at his job know he does not smoke or drink, but they are unaware of what he is capable of. Mrs. Ulgine Barrows, a new addition to F&S, has only been decides it is upon her to take over. Each day she pushes his buttons more and more, even he hoping to “rub her out,” in order to be free of her and her ideas(1). This is his justification for his idea to murder her. Although he is debating whether it is necessary, he finally decides and his intentions are unmistakable when he analyzes his plan of action, overlooks thoughts in his head,...
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...Date: 06/17/2016 Essay #2: Is Gender Bias Noticeable in Literature? In this essay I would be investigating if there are any gender biases in the short stories and the movie Gone Girl. By definition gender bias is, “Inclination towards or prejudice against one gender” (Collins). Although gender bias is mostly thought of being against women there has been a subtler bias against men most recently in movies. Therefore, in this essay I would be considering gender biases of both men and women. In the short story “The Short Happy life of Francis Macomber” the author Ernest Hemmingway treats both genders equally. Both Wilson and Mrs. Macomber are portrayed as opportunists. He has no compunction in accepting the silly advances of Macomber’s wife. She marries Macomber for his money and social position. They both have a cruel streak. He (illegally) beats his helpers, knowing that they would rather take the beating than lose money (fines). She is cruel to her husband, openly despising his weaknesses, and deliberately flaunting her infidelities. In contrast, “I Want a Wife” the author Judy Brady has gender bias. The woman portrayed in the composition is resentful of the quality of life experienced by women in general, who, as wives, have to cater to their husband’s every need and whim. Husbands are portrayed as lazy, selfish and inconsiderate, not even pulling their weight as fathers of their children. Moreover, in the short story “Shiloh” the author Bobby Ann Mason has gender bias...
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...The media as a whole has many hidden messages or ideas that the entertainment world wants to get across. The media uses subliminal messages through radio, television, and advertisement. “A subliminal message is a signal in the form of a picture or sound that is designed to pass the normal limits of perception,” which means when people receive images or ideas consciously they also receive it subconsciously in their mind (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). There have been many controversial issues concerning the usage of this technique (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). There were rumors stating that Bush has used subliminal messages in some of his campaign speeches in order to deliver hidden messages to the world (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). One example of this would have been when; “A similar accusation was made against a promotional film of the Liberal party of Canada, where after dissecting their ad, one could clearly see a gun being fired at the viewer” (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). The Bush promo is rumored to be filled to the brim with subliminal images of a disturbing nature: fire, explosions, terrified children, mutilation, ghost-like figures and several acts of violence” (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). In the manipulation of many viewers, it was first to be just a tested experiment that could determine the facts of subliminal messages (Subliminal Messages in Movies and Media). A movie theatre in New Jersey did an experiment...
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...Is it appropriate for students and teachers to be friends on Facebook? English Composition 101 August 29, 2011 Is it appropriate for students and teachers to be friends on Facebook? Facebook is a social site that was launched with noble intentions of simplifying social interactions. Its success in different fields has seen it adopted by both students and teachers. Although the Facebook student-teacher interaction is noble, it has faced its fair share of challenges that are attributed to all forms of social media interactions. Cases of teachers using Facebook or similar cyberspace sites to interact with students whom they later exploit sexually have become common. In my opinion student and teacher interaction should be restricted and where necessary outlawed. This will protect students from sexual predators and allow free interactions of students among themselves and their friends. Furthermore, it will help protect teachers from accusations of inappropriate interaction with students. First, student-teacher interaction may expose students to sexual predators. Sexual predators may include teachers. Most students will do all that teachers ask them to do. As a result, some of these teachers will misuse that trust to exploit the students (Richardson, 2011). In addition, the students and teachers may engage in inappropriate sexual dialogue that can erode the respect between the student and...
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...(Cole 5) Some feel no matter the crime, the rich and famous will find a way to settle out of court, pay off witnesses or just erase some or all charges against them. Celebrities get the best lawyers and the best chance at justice that money can buy”. (“Times”) There are many court cases that lead people to believe the justice system is unfair. Celebrities, in the eyes of the public, receive less time than the average American citizen for the same crime. Furthermore, celebrities also receive more publicity than the average American citizen. Why do celebrities receive more camera time and less punishment time? However, our judicial system claims that all men are equal in the court of law. For example, in the court case of Marcus Dixon, a high school football player at Pepperell High School in Floyd County, Georgia, the state Supreme Court sentenced Dixon to ten years in prison. He was a black athlete accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old white girl in a small Georgia town. In addition, many believe that the justice system is not equal because of the outcomes of celebrity court cases. Some may disagree with the fact that celebrities get special treatment in the courtroom, but their court cases seem to prove contrary. Celebrities in America are able to get any and everything that money can buy. Hence, wherever they go they get...
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