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- 1081: Cash Out (accounting)
- ... to plan for the inevitable, he has minority shareholders or kids who don t want to run the business. Every option for the owner has a downside. Selling usually means the owner must give up control. Going public often creates an orphan stock. Employee-stock-ownership plans can burden the CEO with "onerous regulatory-compliance issues," and leveraged recaps can load the firm with debt. Company owners come to firms such as Heritage Partners because they want to cash out but at the same time keep management control of their company and the Heritage system allows them to do that and help them grow the business too. Investing in family businesses and then letting owners keep control of their companies after the sale is a novel concept but it s risky. Heritage Partners plan gives cash to owners which usually amounts to about 85% of what their companies are worth, providing ...
- 1082: Concentration Camps
- ... exterminate the entire Boer race of South Africa. Concentration camps were well organized and run very orderly. In order to do this they had to be run by specially trained individuals. These people have complete control over the life and death of the inmates. These men had to be ruthless and cold hearted a machine. Perhaps the most famous breed of concentration camp Military camps have been seen many times throughout ... infants and there was no clean water. Because of the concentration camps the Boer men eventually signed a peace treaty. The remaining Boers in the camps were released. Unfortunately the Boers were still under English control. In 1914 the Boers were called on by the English to fight in the first World War. Political Camps Political concentration camps are the more well known type of camp. The most famous example of camps (the German camps) was a political camp. Political camps were created to keep control over political enemies and people that were considered "politically unreliable". Politically unreliable people were usually a race or culture that was treated badly that had a lot of people that were prejudice towards them. ...
- 1083: Analysis -compare And Contrast
- ... We humans can't handle the truth. We think we know what is the truth. What that really is just bullshit. It's arrogance-playing tricks on our minds making us think we are in control of our lives. If we really were in control of our lives then why can't we control every little aspect of it that gives discomfort? Because we can't, because we don't know how, and eventually the truth will show that is we don't what the truth really is. ...
- 1084: Themes in William Golding's Novels
- ... In The Inheritors man went back a step in the terms of being savage. In Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors has two tribes fighting against each other to demonstrate that man is in control if his own destiny. “ Thigns are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then-...Then people started getting frightened” (Ralph pg82) At the end of The Inheritors, one ... in man supporting Golding’s theory that man is savage at the beginning of their lives. In the novel there is a struggle for power between two groups. This illustrates man’s fear of losing control. The fear of the monster is natural, anyone would be scared of an monster, but the fear of losing power is installed. Golding uses this to prove the point that any type of uncontrolled fear ... them. The inheritors reaction to their terror was not thought out. In this book Golding wants the reader to know that fear makes man do things they will regret later on in life. Humans cannot control their fear, and this also supports Golding’ s theory that man in not in control of his own destiny. Christpoher Martin was afraid of higher power. Losing power is not an issue in this ...
- 1085: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- ... the worse. He turns man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science ... him. This relationship and living arrangement, with its lack of love, is Bradbury's way of showing what life could be like if people not only stop communicating but stop thinking and choosing, thus loosing control over their lives. Montag and his wife continue to live together though people in that situation today would not hesitate to terminate such a relationship. Montag's wife apparently accepts this relationship because it is ... watching a sophisticated form of television. This television system covers three of the walls of the Montag's TV room (they can't afford to buy the screen to cover the fourth wall), has a control unit that allows the watchers to interact with the characters on the program and another unit that inserts Mrs. Montag's name into specific places, thus creating the image they the characters are actually ...
- 1086: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
- ... Apter also hypothesizes that adolescents of non-Western ethnic origin less exposed to Western ideology would have less of a chance of attaining an eating disorder. Using a selected group of hospitalized anorectics as a control, they tested their hypothesis by surveying 783 adolescent girls in 10 Israeli subpopulations as well as a group of hospitalized anorectics. The first test conducted in the survey was the shortened form of the Eating ... as the EAT-26. This test was administered by school nurses and is proven to detect instances and levels of eating disorders. The determining factor in this test, as stated by Apter, "was the oral control factor - an indicator of impulsivity and presumable of sexuality." The second test conducted, was a 17-question survey that dealt with the way they subjects viewed their body. As indicated by the control group, the higher the scores on the tests, the more likely the subjects have an eating disorder. In the results of the survey, Apter et Al found that the Kibbutz resembled the scores closest ...
- 1087: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... a more radical stand -- both for their philosophical vagaries which he rejected as idealism, and for the utopian purism of their refusal to take tactical advantage of the Duma. The real issue was Lenin's control of the faction and the enforcement of his brand of Marxist orthodoxy. Lenin demonstrated his grip of the Bolshevik faction at a meeting in Paris of the editors of the Bolsheviks' factional paper, which had ... Other soviets formed in towns and villages all across the country. All of the soviets worked to push a three-point program which called for an immediate peas, the transfer of land to peasants, and control of factories to workers. But the provisional government stood in conflict with the other smaller governments and the hardships of war hit the country. The provisional government was so busy fighting the war that they ... shipyard, the telephone company. The endorsement of the coup was secured from the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which was concurrently in session. This was known as the "October Revolution" (Luttwak, 74) Through this, control of Russia was shifted to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. In a quick series of decrees, the new "soviet" government instituted a number of sweeping reforms, some long overdue and some quite revolutionary. They ranged ...
- 1088: An End To Genetic Diseases
- ... tiredness, slow healing sores, frequent urination, as well as feeling hungry and thirsty often, losing weight, and feeling weak (Medinex). When a person has diabetes, "something goes wrong in the pancreas where the hormones to control sugar levels are made" (Brown 71). During digestion, our bodies change food into glucose, a sugar (Copeland and Hamer 34). Glucose is "the main fuel that the body burns for energy" (Brown 70). When glucose ... at all necessary to the world, or the United States. Furthermore, "the technology and science behind this is growing too fast" (123). If everything keeps changing at this speed, our technology will be out of control. We do not understand what we are doing by creating a human. We do not understand the technology behind it, and it may end up that our technology is ruling us. "Humanity should not try to control its own destiny" (Lutz 10). Creating a human by NST is too much like playing God. People are making people unnaturally (Copeland and Hamer 112). "Man can not create, kill, and reproduce itself as ...
- 1089: How Richard Selzer Is A Philos
- ... only are you killing a living being, you are also effecting your own body as well. I have a friend, 21, that has already had four abortions. She does not use any form of birth control. She told me, “It doesn’t feel good when using a condom.” I told her there are other forms of birth control out there, such as the birth control pill. No, it is not a hundred percent accurate, but it is much better than having unprotected sex the way she does. She then answered me by telling me that she has tried but ...
- 1090: An Analysis of Several Works of Literature
- ... of education does not mean a poor and unhappy life for Rama, who was said to be "earning more money than graduates". At times, external circumstances overturn previously happy lives and characters are not in control of their destiny. In "The Axe", the appearance of the developers literally tear down Velan's happy existence and forces him to leave the house. In "The Martyr's Corner", Rama is forced to become a waiter when his life starts on a downward spiral after his "old spot" was taken up by a statue of a dead political leader. Yet, while the characters are not in control of external factors, they still have control over their inner lives. Rama lives with and adapts to his new environment and still retains his usual, placid manner. People also seem to be manipulated and exploited by other people. In "Selvi", Mohan ...
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