...The Red Convertible by Louise Edrich While reading chapter two in Foster’s “How to Read Like a Professor” and the required text, The Red Convertible. I think that the two correlated well and had a lot of similarities and familiar concepts. On chapter two from Foster’s text he described communion as “whenever people eat or drink together.”. The writer really tells us how important it is when characters of a story join to eat a meal. Communion is not always religious. Communion can be a character swapping or sharing feelings where it is intimate or not so intimate. In the Red Convertible, Two Brothers Lyman and Henry decided to make a purchase of a red convertible together. They eventual decide to spend the summer together traveling in their...
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...Assignment 4 12.27.2012 Short Story Analysis When people live in a sheltered environment with a paved driveway and freshly mowed lawn, they forget that they share the world with others, who live in a much darker environment. Their environment lacks much more than paved driveways and freshly mowed lawns. Most of these people are even deprived of the basic needs like a safe community, peace or their sanity. The authors of Young Goodman Brown, The Red Convertible, The Lone Ranger and Sonny’s Blues expose us to an obscure society; one where people find themselves in bleak situations. Life for these people is just a big question mark; a question that doesn’t have a straightforward answer. Many a times, authors hit the touchy topic of God’s existence in their work. Reflected by his puritan heritage, Nathanial Hawthorne wrote about faith, personal salvation and morality in his short-story “Young Goodman Brown”. The main character, Goodman Brown, has an internal battle with his faith throughout the story where he finds himself questioning the very existence of a higher power. Ultimately the bigger question in this story is one that many people ask themselves when they are faced with tough times; Does God really exist? Or is He a mere creation by society to keep face and hide behind their lies? Goodman Brown embarks on a journey against his own will. The author describes this an “evil” journey where Goodman Brown wants to turn back on many occasions but his elderly companion...
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...Statistical Analysis in the Car Market Course Title: Applied Managerial Statistics Course Number: GM 533 Instructor Name: Susan Orr Student Name: Braulio E. Assis (713-382-8789) Home Address: 3833 Cummins St Apt.1328, Houston, TX 77027 Email Address: edmur_assis2005@hotmail.com Title of the Work: “Statistical Analysis in the Car Market” Date: Aug 19, 2011 Introduction Business managers and owners in the car industry need information on which they could anchor their decision to maximize the company’s profit as well as to ensure efficiency and productivity of the operations of their business. One of these factors is the price, which is one the key determinants of demand and supply. Further, it is essential for them to know the various factors that affect the price of cars and how each of those factors influence the price. This report presents the result of the statistical analysis done in order to identify the factors that significantly affect the price of cars. The asking price is in terms of dollars. The predictor variables considered are the following: whether the car is convertible or not (CONVERT), the age of cars in years (AGE), the odometer reading in miles (MILES), whether the car is automatic or not (TRANS), whether the car has air conditioner or not (AIR), the number of cylinder in engine (CYL), the color (maroon, silver, grey, red, blue, black or white), (8) the model of the car, whether it is a GT model or not, and (9) the ownership which is either...
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...and how they affect price will serve as a tool assisting the company with pricing future Ford Mustangs. Ford Mustangs Tom has currently opened a used car dealership. Previously Tom repaired and collected older model cars as a hobby and recently decided to turn his hobby into a career for himself. Tom has a great deal of technical understanding concerning car parts and how to repair certain vehicle parts. However, Tom has little to no experience on the business end of owning a car dealership. It has been reported that Tom’s asking prices for his vehicles are not aligned with the average market price. Ultimately, Tom does not base his prices on the used car market price; instead he bases it on assumptions. For example, Tom thinks, red cars give the impression of being “sportier and can sell at a premium,” he also believes older models normally sell for less. After much dismay and inaccurate rates in sells, Tom tries to systematically price his Mustangs, but due to the multitude of variables, Tom found this task challenging. (Bowerman, 2003, p. 3) This report will provide information obtained through hypothesis confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, multiple and simple regression models, descriptive statistics, and historical background information pertaining to Tom’s Ford Mustangs. This report will pay close attention to the possible relationship between the dependent...
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...Table of Contents Introduction 3 Examples of the buying guides 3-4 General information and definitions 4 Hypothesis test 6 APENDIX A 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Convert 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Age 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Miles 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Transmission Type 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Cylinders 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Color 10 The scatter graph of Mustang Price vs. Grand Tourers 10 How much I want to spend. TO: Tom Jones, Owner of Tom’s Used Cars DATE: 7/26/2011 SUBJECT: Analysis of asking car prices (Used Mustangs) Please find below the results of the analysis of the asking prices of used cars with different characteristics. Introduction Buying cars is one of the most critical things in our life. We need to research different categories before we spend our dollars, and we must establish buying guides. Examples of the buying guides are: 1) I have to know exactly how 2) I have to know what car I want and what car meet my criteria. These guides will help us decide how much you can afford to spend, whether you should look at a fancy car or regular car, whether you should look at car with grand tourer (GT) or without grand tourer, style, transmission type and a myriad of other factors. The borderline that we agreed on as a team is the car reliability, quality, performance, and power. On this specific case study we would like to study...
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...portfolio Decision Joshua Boger, CEO of Vertex has to decide on two out of four R&D portfolios that are to be fully funded by Vertex and to decide on the fate of the other two portfolios i.e. whether to partner or hold them as backups. In order to decide on the R&D portfolio, an objective quantitative analysis might not be suitable considering the high levels of uncertainities and consequently the risks involved in pharmaceutical research projects. It is important to have a qualitative analysis of the situation as a whole that includes Vertex’s own financial position, strategic implications, a quantitative analysis of its Portfolios with realistic estimations and a risk analysis of the portfolios. 1. Vertex finacial analysis As per Vertex’s income statement(exhibit- 2B), it is clear that Vertex R&D expenditures in most of the preceeding years until 2002 has exceeded its revenue to the tune of 120% of its revenue in 2002 . The net income has been negative for all these years and the company is yet to prove itself in the stock market and gain investor’s confidence (exhibit-5). As per exhibit-2a, though Vertex’s cash position is strong, most of it (~50%) is through convertible debt and unless Vertex creates a breakthrough in the market through block buster drugs or substantial revenue it is unlikely that Vertex can attract funds or generate interestes in the market for additional funding for its projects. Also in oder to scale its operations e.g. sales and marketing, additional...
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...competition among securities analysts helps ensure that __________. I. security prices approach informational efficiency II. riskier securities are priced to offer higher potential returns III. investors are unlikely to be able to consistently find under- or overvalued securities A. I only B. I and II only C. II and III only D. I, II and III 4. The material wealth of society is determined by the economy's _________, which is a function of the economy's _________. A. investment bankers, financial assets B. investment bankers, real assets C. productive capacity, financial assets D. productive capacity, real assets 5. Asset allocation refers to the _________. A. allocation of the investment portfolio across broad asset classes B. analysis of the value of securities C. choice of specific assets within each asset class D. none of the answers define asset allocation 6. An investor in a T-bill earns interest by _________. A. receiving interest payments every...
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...Ford Mustangs, we need to select the independent factors or variables to test the hypothesis to see if these factors do have any affect on the selling price of Ford Mustangs cars. In this case I have selected nine Independent variables that we have used to study the relationship with selling price are (1) Whether the car is a convertible or not convertible (2) Transmission Type (3) Presence or absence of air conditioning (4) GT Model or not (5) Private owner or dealer owner (6) Age of car (7) Mileage (8) # of cylinders (9) Color. We want to start by conducting a hypothesis test to study the relationship of each independent variable with the selling price at the 0.05 significance level. To study the affect of the independent variable “CONVERT” on the selling price, we have set the following Null and Alternate Hypothesis. The null hypothesis tested is H0: The mean price does not depend on whether the car is a convertible. The alternative hypothesis is H1: The mean price depends on whether the car is a convertible Using the independent variable CONVERT and the dependent variable Selling price, following Regression output is generated by Excel Data Analysis. SUMMARY OUTPUT | | | | | | | | | | | | | Regression Statistics | | | | | | Multiple R | 0.386986 | | | | | | R Square | 0.149758 | | | | | | Adjusted R Square | 0.123993 | | | | | | Standard Error | 3541.151 | | | | | | Observations | 35 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ANOVA | | | | | | | | df | SS | MS | F | Significance...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Analysis and evaluation Limitation Conclusion and recommendation References lists Appendices Excusive Summary The aims of this report is to analyze and evaluate the BEACH ENERGY LIMITED, this report will identify the limitation and benefits of the Beach ENERGY LIMITED, In particular, this report will analyze the Ratio of the company, the Horizontal analysis, Vertical analysis and also the trend analysis. Finally, the report will provide conclusions and recommendations. This report was based on the balance sheet, income statement and some professional information from BEACH ENERGY LIMITED. Introduction BEACH ENERGY LIMITED is a long established oil and gas exploration and production organization. The company is based on the Adelaide, South Australia and Beach Energy Limited (ASX: BPT) is a creation of the long-oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company is headquartered in South Australia in Adelaide, through balanced global portfolio of tenements held by the oil and gas reserves and ongoing exploration projects. BEACH ENETGY LIMITED is the major Australian company and was established in 1961. Beach Energy, original beach Petroleum, founded in the early 1960s, registered by the late Dr. Sprigg, a highly regarded Australian oilman, geologist, explorer and environmental experts. With the election of a new board of directors in the 1990s, the company has...
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...The Pressures of Family Living up to family expectations and obligations can be hard and take a toll on anyone. They may be pushed on you by other people or you might have put them on yourself. Disappointing the ones you love has a big impact on one’s self esteem and can possibly lead to self-destruction. I believe this was exactly the case in “The Red Convertible”. Before Henry goes off to war he is full of life and seems very happy without a care in the world. He and his brother have a close relationship and spend a lot of time together doing things. After Henry returns from war he is a very different person than the one that left. The spark of life had left him and he was an empty shell. The final scene of this story was heart-wrenching. As Henry and Lyman sat watching the river flow you could see Henry was struggling with his inner demons. Lyman tries to pull Henry out of his depression but Henry says he can’t. I believe Henry is feeling too much pressure to return to his old self. I think he wants to but doesn’t know how to get back to that person. The family doesn’t understand and seems to expect the same Henry to return as the one who left. No one knows what he has been through or what the enemy did to him when he was caught. Henry knew he was letting his family down and hurting them by his actions. He didn’t want to disappoint them any longer and made a drastic decision. Henry was tired of hurting his family and did his best to become his old self long enough...
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...Integrated Company Analysis December Integrated Company Analysis15, 2010 December, 15 2010 Scott Meyer Scott Meyer Angela Faloye Anjali Krishnan Nathan Schaff Matt Reuer Scott Meyer 26 Table of Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Marketing Analysis ............................................................................................................................................. 3 - 7 Competitive Analysis and Positioning ................................................................................................................... 3 Target Segments ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Product ................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Price ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Marketing Communications ...............................................................................
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...Bag it Today Rs 27789 . 1.1% Home Money Today Investment September 2014 Story Between the numbers We bring some key ratios that you can use to analyse companies Rahul Oberoi/Money Today Edition:September 2014 Commerce Ministry wants sunset clause for SEZs to go 27 PSU banks write off Rs 1.14 lakh cr bad debts during 2012-15 Impose antidumping duty on ceramic tiles from China Raise public healthcare spending to 2.5% of GDP Lenovo launches Yoga 900 convertible laptop, Tab 3 Pro tablet MORE ECONOMY CORPORATE MARKETS MONEY INDUSTRY TECH OPINION PHOTOS VIDEOS MAGAZINE MORE Railways' make in India: A look at 24coach train features Netflix launches in India, plans start at Rs 500 Vodafone's 4G services in Delhi, Mumbai by March Maruti releases first sketch of its compact SUV Vitara Breeza Supreme Court extends ban on 2000cc diesel cars Delhi-Agra train fare less than a kg of apples PHOTOS VIDEOS MORE 'Ratio analysis is crucial for investment decisions. It not only helps in knowing how the company has been performing but also makes it easy for investors to compare companies in the same industry and zero in on the best investment option', says DK Aggarwal, Chairman and Managing Director at SMC Investments and Advisors 'A high P/E ratio may indicate that the stock is overpriced. A stock with a low P/E may have greater potential for rising. P/E ratios should be used in combination with...
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...processes. The machines were very costly and it took 5 years to complete the computer portion of the project. There is the development of major systems in Solid Works software which include two refrigeration systems, a pneumatic system, a consumer interface, a pumping system, and a dry-goods distribution system. With Solid Works Premium, they will have all the modeling capabilities they need to design each different type of component, whether it’s made of sheet metal, plastic, or multiple materials, such as refrigeration systems. Furthermore, Solid Works software also lets them assemble all of these components together and make any changes quickly and easily, therefore, MooBella plans to utilize SolidWorks Simulation design analysis and the mold design and analysis tools found in Solid Works software on future models of its precedent-setting...
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...Tesla Motors 3500 Deer Creek Palo Alto, CA 94304 650-681-5000 650-681-5101 I. I. Background and Introduction The focus of this analysis is on Tesla Motors and the electric vehicles they design, develop, and manufacture. Tesla Motors was incorporated in 2003 and using technology developed at the headquarters in California the company introduced the Tesla Roadster in 2008 (Tesla Motors, 2010b). On June 28, 2010 the company filed an initial public offering that was accepted by the SEC. They have also become business partners with Toyota Motor Corporation to develop an electronic version of the Toyota RAV4 to be sold in 2012 (Tesla Motors, 2010b). The importance of this analysis is two-fold. First, if a company can successfully develop a fully electric vehicle that is affordable and has mass market appeal it would mark a realistic solution to the diminishing worldwide oil supplies. Second, the technology that would be developed could be used as a springboard for the entire automotive industry. As with any business that is being hinged on new technology, there are significant risks and issues that could potentially be detrimental to the company. Being a new company, there is a very limited operating history for potential investors to go by (Tesla Motors, 2010b). Therefore, future earnings cannot be predicted based on past earnings. The company is losing money and in the SEC filing for the last quarter they state that they expect to keep losing money for...
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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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