largely protected it from the influence of any pre-colonial African empires and from further Islamic influence of the Songhai Empire. The Islamic faith however became common in the 18th century. European contacts with Sierra Leone were among the first in West Africa. In 1462, Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour; naming shaped formation Serra de Leão (Portuguese for Lion Mountains).The Italian rendering of this geographic formation is Sierra Leone
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economics and the European renaissance. Individually these problems may not have been so costly, and perhaps would have been solvable. However they all occurred in the 11th century, referred to as the 11th century crisis, culminating in an accelerated decline in strength and finally collapse. The Byzantine army was huge, in the 4th century numbering 645,000 soldiers. However although this clearly shows military strength, for the soldiers to be paid tax was very high. As Warren Treadgold states in his
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Adolph Coors in the Brewing Industry – Case Study By mid-1970, Adolph Coors Company was extraordinarily successful, posting year-to-year volume gains for the last 23 years and gaining a 16% Return on Sales at its height. However, between 1975 and 1985, performance declined greatly relative to the rest of the brewing industry. In the early 1980’s, Coors faced a key decision, whether to build a second brewery on the east coast. Would an additional brewery improve its position significantly? What
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| | | | Abstract East-West Transportation is known freight Transportation Company. The transportation methods consist of by road and railroad. The East-West railroad division has more than 25,000 route miles across many states. East-West has 4 transportation divisions, which consists of consumer goods, chemicals, coal, and forest products. The transportation company has experienced
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BY LINDA UWAOMA, SHANSHAN LI, REHANA DAYANANDA AND ANDREA VAN DER WEST OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT REPORT- DELL COMPUTERS ! Table of Contents OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT REPORT- DELL COMPUTERS ...................................................1 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT REPORT- DELL COMPUTERS ...................................................2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..............................................................................................2 INTRODUCTION ..................................
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business. Behavioral segmentation In marketing, a means of classifying or categorizing customers or potential customers by their behavioral tendencies. Fundamentals of Marketing Copyright© February 2003 by Purdue University Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907 1 Benchmarking A technique for internal assessment that involves identifying a
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response from consumers. The company grew at a CAGR of 23 percent since 2007 until 2013. In 2013, GameIncorp was valued at Rs. 254 crores. However, in 2014, GameIncorp registered its first decline in sales. Furthermore, 2015 too appears to be bleak as per the forecast. The company has projected a 15 percent decline in quarter-on-quarter sales for Q1. GameIncorp had conducted an in-store survey. The objective was to understand the buying behavior of its target market. Buyers ranked “product quality”
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Colson Introduction Two men, now deceased, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author and critic of the Soviet system, and Charles Colson, the once-infamous Nixon attorney who became a committed follower of Jesus argued that the West has forfeited its responsibility to uphold moral virtue. "When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating terrorists' civil rights." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1978). Two powerful essays
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The Economic Devastation in Sierra Leone The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. This country borders Guinea from left to right and Liberia from southeast as well as the Atlantic Ocean. Formerly, the colony was control by the Sierra Leone Company in 1792, until it became a British colony in 1808. Independence came in April 1961, when Sierra Leone opted for a parliamentary system within the British Commonwealth. Sierra Leone Peoples Party led by Sir Milton's of the led helped
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Introduction of the article From 2013, the global coal price has decreased significantly caused by the declining coal consumption and many researches indicate that the sharp decline in coal price is structural rather than cyclical which means, unlike what the government and the coal fraternity said, demand may not rebound. Under such circumstance, the Australian coal producer, Peabody Energy is under a huge financial distress risk. In four years, the equity market value of Peabody has fallen from
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