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Lockheed Martin is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as LMT. The 2016 Lockheed Martin Annual Report provides a wealth of information regarding financial reporting and analysis. In this paper, I will look at my chosen company, Lockheed Martin, and the use of stocks by Lockheed Martin in the overall financial strategy of the corporation. In this analysis, I will analyze Lockheed Martin’s stock structure, history of the company’s growth, and how the corporation’s stock compares to the market…

The Looking Glass alternatively known as the Voyage of the Space Bubble is a hard military science fiction series of novels by John Ringo. The first novel of the series was Into the Looking Glass that was first published in 2005 to much critical acclaim and commercial success. The Looking Glass series centers on the creation of “looking glasses” a type of trans-space portals. The glasses have recently been discovered and the narratives are based on what effect the discovery has had including…

“Those who are not for us are against us,” was a mantra often used by Andrew Jackson. As a general and a president, Andrew Jackson frequently engaged in violent interactions. Jackson indulged in stepping over boundaries when he did not have the authority to do so. Before Jackson became president, he showed his competence in New Orleans. General Jackson enforced martial law, and ruled out writ of habeas corpus. These two illegal actions completely defied the Constitutional Rights of the…

redefine our society and ourselves in society. In this paper I will be examining the relationship between sociological imagination, the Clinton and Lewinsky scandal, and the break-through of the Euro in eleven countries. What is sociological imagination? C. Wright Mills (2001) describes it as estimating our own destiny by discovering ourselves in this century. In order to do this we have to view ourselves through a different sociological lens we normally wouldn’t see with our own eyes (Macaluso,…

of him. He had finally gotten himself to conform to the world around him when he came to the conclusion that the world could not function is he did not give justice to those who were doing wrong. Dexter Morgan is a reimagined, twenty-first century C. Auguste Dupin. Although they have very different backstories, Dupin and Dexter are two characters with extremely similar character traits. Their difficulty to communicate and form relationships to the people around them allows them to form a…

In Poe’s detective stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin serves as a model of rational deduction. Dupin seems to have almost supernatural deductive ability in solving mysteries. Since Dupin’s use of reason to solve mysteries is central to these stories, determining Poe’s views on the nature of reasoning is critical to an understanding of their meaning. Hurh (2012) argues that the description of Dupin’s dual nature of “the creative and the resolvent” (Poe,…

Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is a tour de force of filmmaking, and unquestionably, one of the all-time best science fiction films ever made. Kubrick takes the audiences from the dawn of mankind to the farthest region of outer space, he skillfully orchestrates every scene for us to ponder on, to question, to fathom, with meticulous and yet, casual detail that explodes visually upon our senses by the sheer scope of imagery. Critics and audiences, past and present, considered…

and gossip about Peggy marrying out of her social class. Floride Calhoun, the wife of Andrew Jackson’s vice president, was the ringleader of the slander and gossip surrounding Peggy Eaton. The result was tension between both Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. The reason tension arose between both men was that Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel, had died early in his presidency, and Andrew Jackson blamed his opposing political party for Rachel’s death because they criticized and degraded her during…

Every Christian will face temptation at some point in their life. The devil wants their soul and tempts them according to their sin nature. Each human is created differently and with that, each person has been given their own set of obstacles which can benefit God, or the devil. Although everyone has different battles, there is one shared by all: choosing God or the devil. This internal struggle is known as psychomachia and is analyzed by C.S. Lewis in the Screwtape Letters. The Screwtape…

The Blood Pit Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich its plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries but also with interesting facts about history of the medieval times. The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend, it is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she…