The share prices of Valeant dropped in just a few weeks from $ 262 to $ 27. This was due to the main reasons – the company's pricing strategy, the company's $ 600 million overestimation of its target earnings and the debt problems. Valeant used a pricing strategy where they increased the prices of the drugs of the acquired company to abnormal amounts every time an acquisition occurs. It was noticed that there was a 5500 percent increase in one...
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‘Purple Hibiscus’ falls under multiple genres like Bildungsroman and Romance that we see though Kambili’s character but is also a Novel and Domestic Fiction piece. The genres establish many themes and Adichie challenges readers to not just to think about violence, but about religious hypocrisy, family, and politics. The novel is broken up into four parts but does not follow a chronological order. Adichie includes many stylistic elements such as imagery, foreshadowing, flashback, repetition, and allegorical examples. The story is...
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On average, schools in Canada start at 8:30 a.m. but some schools in our region such as Silver Stream start at 8:05 a.m. and others such as in the United States even start at 7:30. Even though this may not seem like a big difference, it actually is, and even the Center for Disease and Prevention (CDC) is concerned about kids that go to schools that start early. Furthermore, physicians recommend teens to get at least 8.5 to 9.5 hours...
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The story ‘Eveline’, by James Joyce, talks about a young girl who faced with a choice between whether to stay in Dublin with her family or leave with her boyfriend for a new life in Buenos Aires, up to the last minutes to stay behind. The story is divided into three sections: in the first section, Joyce introduced the reader to Eveline, her house, her environment and her childhood memories. In the second section, we meet Frank. Frank invites Eveline...
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Nursing is a career that I would have never seen myself, until I realized along the way that it is where I belong. I have always been the kind of person who needs to help. I tend to go out of my way and in many instances put others’ before myself. This is just in my nature to do so. I never ask for a reward in return, I choose to help because everyone needs to know that they are...
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Scientific management is also widely recognised as Taylorism. Taylorism was used in industrial firm to solve the complex problem about increasing the labour productivity. Scientific management allows absolute uniformity to a greater extent within the labour’s working in an industry. this eventually enforced great deal of burden, responsibilities, duties to the managers which never took place in the past. Frederick W. Taylor an American Engineer developed the scientific management theory in United States during the late 19th century. After working...
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After the release of Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive in 2016, the technological community has seen a growth in virtual reality products. On September 2018 Oculus released their new Oculus GO headset, which makes it even easier for customers to take their VR experience wherever they please. These products are now more affordable than ever and more accessible to the businesses and the public. In turn, they are changing the way individuals and businesses involved in the technological...
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This book analyzes on the diplomats’ service transforms in promoting different perspectives in internal organizations in politics and the author have emphasize on the states position which played a role and the current challenges in using new tools in order to archived the common goals. The overall structure has been focused on diplomacy, diplomatic and consular services, international organization and international relations, apart from that, this book consists of 23 subtopics that author has argue and focus on the how...
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Do you know according to science, only humans tears can come out when they become emotional? There are two reasons for tears: 1) maybe he/she is too much sad; 2) maybe something went into her/his eyes (or maybe he/she lying that something went into eyes). But if you are interested in science then science can tell you if he/she lying or something went into eyes! How? let's find out. Sadness, pain, hurt makes us cry, but why? Tears come out...
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Prejudice has been an innate concept which has been growing in an individual since time immoral. It is a negative attitude and feeling towards an individual based solely on one’s membership in a particular social group. Prejudice is the broader term which has shaped certain elements such as stereotype, discrimination, etc. But prejudice includes all the aspects such as the affective, behavioural and cognitive style of thinking in shaping opinion. This has been developed with the onset of social norms...
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The expansion of international trade and modern technology has assisted organizations around the world in the creation of large supply chains that have helped them compete with their rival companies across the world. In the business world, every detail can make a difference, and when innovation is brought into operation, it plays a crucial role in getting a competitive advantage over rival companies. Because logistics, supply chain, and distribution fields provide excellent results, new ideas are important if they are...
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Our life can be hardly imagined without modern technology. Every day some scientists and engineers create new devices, which amaze and make us marvel. Thus, virtual reality or shortly VR is one of such incredible innovations. It’s actively used by the youth for fun and entertainment. It’s a new revolutionary kind of games. However, some educators use it for educational purposes. Should we use virtual reality in education? It’s an interesting question and we’ve tried to investigate it. This matter...
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Civil law systems, also called continental or Romano-Germanic legal systems, are found on all continents and cover about 60% of the world. They are based on concepts, categories, and rules derived from Roman law, with some influence of canon law, sometimes largely supplemented or modified by local custom or culture. The civil law tradition, though secularized over the centuries and placing more focus on individual freedom, promotes cooperation between human beings. In their technical, narrow sense, the words civil law...
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Morality is the yardstick with which we judge our actions to be right or wrong. It is also the code of values to guide man’s choices and actions (Rand, 1957). There are two main views to morality; objective morality and subjective morality (Novella, 2013). Objective morality holds the belief that there are universal set laws that determine the rightness and wrongness of an action or choice while subjective morality believes that there are no set laws and that judgement of...
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In 1858, as the country drew ever nearer to disunion, two politicians from Illinois pulled in the consideration and attracted the attention of a nation. From August 21 up until October 15, Stephen Douglas battled Abraham Lincoln in a series of face to face debates around the state. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series and progression of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United...
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At its most basic level, macroeconomics studies the interaction among the main aggregate economic variables such as: unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, etc. It also simplifies and summarizes the interactions between the structures of the economy of an entire nation, taking into account things that apply universally to it. Considered as an important method in economic analysis, macroeconomics is highly useful for understanding economic policies, providing relatively rich information with regards to the variables and in reviewing the overall...
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Apple is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious companies in the world, but behind the great success they have had, hard work is hidden by its founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, since they were people with few resources and with a dream that which over time they could get little by little. The key to the ascent of this company was due to the union of qualities of its founders, Jobs was a visionary in the business world and...
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Virtual reality and augmented reality have entered an era and set a new environment where physical and virtual objects are coordinated at various levels. Virtual reality is a computer technology that imitates completely vivid experience and transports one into an intuitive computer-generated world. Virtual reality artificially creates sensory experience which incorporates sight, touch and hearing. This technology’s main purpose is to allow people to experience the environment as if it is the real world. Whereas, augmented reality is the blend...
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Once everyone has tried to hide up lies in order to not reveal the truth, knowing it would ruin him/her at some point but soon the truth comes out bringing big conflicts. In ‘The Crucible’ John Proctor's lie, unfortunately, came out affecting him for life. One theme in ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller is an honesty to oneself, lies and making tough choices. In the play ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller there are a series of events that truly test...
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Cinema is one of the youngest and at the same time one of the most popular arts. Its history is short compared to the thousand-year history of music, painting or theater. At the same time, millions of viewers fill the cinema halls every day, and even more people watch movies on television. Cinema in our time has become a very powerful information source. Everyone can turn on the TV and watch a movie they like. Like cinema around the world,...
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As we discuss the difference between ‘marginal product’ and ‘marginal cost’ in this write-up lets quickly look at the definition of these two words. According to “the marginal product of labor refers to the number of products a company can manufacture if it hires more workers or assigns its current workers additional hours. The marginal cost refers to the number of amount it costs a company to produce each additional item”. Let’s check an example for better understanding. Marginal product...
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For as long as I can remember I have been a patriot. When I was very young, my grandfather would tell me stories about Spain, it’s history and accomplishments and I remember how proud I felt to be Spanish. I love my country and would do anything to protect it. But I am also a citizen of the world, I have lived in ten different countries throughout my life and thus been gifted with the ability to look at the...
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“Life requires movement'”- Aristotle. Movement doesn’t have to be moving from house to house or country to country. Movement can be as simple as changing schools or changing classes. Movement has been something that has been going on since the beginning of time. From the birds migrating to warm areas when it's cold in their current environment to people moving in order to get resources that their area lacks. Changing cultures, spreading ideas, and sharing resources are ways that movement...
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‘The Crucible’ is a playwright that was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller which is a true story that reflects on the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions that took place in different towns of Massachusetts between the years of 1692 and 1693. Joe McCarthy was widely involved and responsible for the time in which the Red Scare took place in the United States which was intense during the late 1940s and...
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Dudley Randall and Langston Hughes both lived through racial inequality for African Americans during the Postmodernism era and portrayed it in their poems. Dudley Randall wrote ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ and Langston Hughes wrote ‘A Dream Deferred’. They both use imagery to depict the main message of their poems. Dudley Randall experienced a lot while growing up. His life was filled with a lot of education. According to Michael Loudon, Dudley was born in 1914 and spent his childhood in Washington,...
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I personally love Greece and there are numerous reasons why I love this beautiful country. Not only about their history but how the country is so beautiful and how is located at the southeast end of Europa, and geographically. You can see where its located on a map, and surrounded by neighboring countries such as Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and Turkey. There are numerous reasons and interesting things to do in Greece, those you can discover about this country and you...
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A lot of development in devices is rapidly growing, enabling us to interact instantly worldwide. Nevertheless, not everyone in the virtual world uses ethics. In real world we have protection to prevent crimes that may occur, but also, we have cybersecurity to mitigate the digital world’s crime. Confidentiality means that only the people who have the right of access who were the one who will be able to view or read sensitive information and systems. Infringements of records are example...
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After graduating as the class president and valedictorian of her high school, a young Asian-American woman was rejected from every medical school for which she applied. How could someone so intelligent and driven be pushed away from their incredible potential when they exhibited all the ideal traits of a successful individual. The facts concluded that many of the top schools were snubbing women enrollers because they “used quotas to limit female enrollment”. Little did these schools know, the very woman...
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The emergence of American Pop Art thoroughly reconstructed post-war culture by conjoining the relationship between art and mass culture, redefining the advertising industries as mediums of art, becoming one of contemporary art’s most recognizable styles. Based on the abstract expressionism of 1940’s, pop art is a creative arts movement which incorporates imagery and themes of popular culture. It marked a new age of artists who focused on the mundanity of reality, mass society, and capitalistic images. The movement spread from...
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A monopoly is an exclusive possession of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. After being offered the position of Junior Executive and thinking about the pros and cons of each side, I have concluded to accept the role of Junior Executive at Mega Avocado Corporation. Three main points that support my claim are the data from our 2008 and 2009 production, our general knowledge about what a monopoly is and how it works, and the power...
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