1. Was the 1984 acquisition of the small household appliance business from GE a related or unrelated diversification? Defend your position. What motivated that acquisition? Was the 1989 acquisition of Emhart Corporation a related or unrelated diversification? Defend your position. What motivated that acquisition? The acquisition of the small household appliance business from GE is a related diversification. Because before this acquisition, B&D was the world’s famous power tools manufacturers
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A LATE NIGHT FOR REYES VIDAL . the collective’s most recent run-in with the outcasts was messy : far too messy for the charlatan’s tastes , but the information on their supply ring was worth the risks . with the bodies of sloane’s BAND OF MISFITS lifeless on the ground , it makes the scene at the camp eerily tranquil . subtle beeps from his datapad disturb the silence as his omni-tool finalizes the data transfer but before he hears the notification of completion
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In the past and even today, many people relied on their family name or social status in a community to gain them respect. “According to this system, there is a superior class of people, in which one can locate certain finer qualities” (Owens 1). William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor there are characters to which these attributes apply. In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily is from a proud, aristocratic family only then that had made through
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colony gathers food each season for themselves and a vicious gang of grasshoppers. The leader of the grasshoppers is a cruel and selfish tyrant known as Hopper. (Lasseter, 1998) When the ants’ food offering is accidentially destroyed by the colony’s misfit, Flik, Hopper doubles the food offering requirement and threatens to kill the ants if they don’t comply by the time the grasshoppers return to Ant Island. The ants know that with the rainy season approaching, the requested task is an impossible one
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Nirvana began as a group of misfits that no one would ever dream of becoming the next big thing. Some people may think of this grunge/ rock band as a bad influence but many people thought of them. Although the little band, NIrvana, who started the grunge era didn’t last very long after their lead singer committed suicide, their music is still ongoing and popular today. Nirvana had first started out as a small band created by teenage misfits. Nirvana was often known for their change in music, whether
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birthmark which caused her death. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the grandmother hats symbolizes her demise in life. She held onto her hat the whole story even after death. The town of Toomsboro means day of doom due to the fact everybody died. The Misfits car described it was built like a hearse which symbolizes death. “Battle Royal” theme is when blacks were still being mistreated like slaves. The slaves had been freed but were treated badly because of their skin color. He just wanted a normal life
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower analysis The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the famous book written by Stephen Chbosky about the 15-year-old boy Charlie, who is both the main character and the narrator in the story. Charlie is writing a bunch of letters to his “friend” who we do not know but Charlie is telling this friend absolutely everything he experiences throughout his first year of high school. These experiences include both friends, love, family and death. As mentioned Charlie is a 15-year
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naivety should override money, sex, and power, but clearly in the world he inhabits these qualities have been exiled. Holder desperately clings to and regards innocence as one of the most important virtues a person can have. However, he son becomes a misfit since society is corrupted and he yearns for companionship, any kind of connection with another to feel whole and understood again. Ironically, despite his persistent belittling and denouncing of others, he does not apply the same critical and harsh
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because it is completely different from their time, especially those of the higher social class. In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Conner, O'Conner portrays the difference between the social class of the grandmother, the misfit, as well as the her family and the actual good that is within them. O'Conner describes this through imagery in the old fashioned cultural behaviors and the present cultural behaviors. He shows the difference between the how the children act, as opposed
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