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    Profitability Ratios

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    ability to generate earnings compared to its expenses and other relevant cost that are incurred during a specific period of time. Profitability ratios are the most popular metrics used in a financial analysis. The different profit margins are used to measure a company’s profitability in various cost levels, including gross margin, operating margin, pretax margin and the net profit margin. The profit margin is part of a category of the profitability rations calculated as net income divided by…

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    testing seem like it's a bigger deal than It really is. We should not do standardized testing because it does not effectively measure a student’s learning a teacher’s teaching and help colleges to be selective in admissions. The standardized testing does not measure students knowledge of a subject as much as people make it out to believe. The test does not measure other important factors like a student's creativity and critical thinking skills. It…

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    its size. Depending on the design of the overall device, the radius of the inclinometer might be too large. The radius of the digital inclinometer above is 42 mm, which is about 7-8 times the diameter of the sample. A lab that used inclinometers to measure the angle of twist also found that the response of the inclinometer was sluggish5. Using a different inclinometer than the one used in the lab might correct this problem. Torsion Load Cell Another device that could be used to calculate the…

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    Themes In Of Mice And Men

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    guy needs somebody-to be near him”(Steinbeck 72). This quote shows how lonely Crooks gets and how he let Lennie into his room to talk to him, even though Lennie could get into trouble if the boss found out he was in there. So Crooks took an extreme measure and put Lennie in danger so Crooks wouldn't be lonely. As the story continues, Crooks and Lennie talk some more until Candy shows up looking for Lennie. Candy and Lennie start talking about the farm and how they are getting out of the farm in…

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    Prevention measures are aimed at minimizing the impact of a tsunami in terms of loss of life, primarily by reducing the density of occupancy in tsunami inundation zones, especially for tsunami run-up areas. As shown in Table 3, prevention measures mainly refer to land use management such as open land development regulations, planning and zoning, and open space preservation. For example, open space preservation refers to the maintenance or to the conversion of specific at-risk areas to parks or…

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    Eratosthenes Shadow

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    For fulfilling this first task, he hired someone to measure the distance between the two cities by pacing the entire way, which came to be 800 kilometers, (1). Due to the sun’s rays falling vertically down on the Earth, Eratosthenes was able to measure the angle cast from the temple in Alexandria, since the sun was directly overhead in Syene. He either took a sundial, a protractor, or some other contraption…

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    Biogeography

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    Every specie in the earth is came from an ancestor. Their ancestor change over time to adapt to the environment, this theory knew as evolution. Scientist called it a theory not because it just a belief that can’t be prove, but they already found many piece of evidence to prove that this theory is actually true. The three trustworthy evidence for this theory is fossil evidence, homologies, and biogeography. Fossil evidence are the evidence that found in the fossil of a species. Scientist…

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    many people were left to fend for themselves. This novella is Of Mice and Men. In his novella, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses Candy, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks to prove people will go to extreme measures to escape being lonely. First, Steinbeck uses Candy as a symbol of people going to extreme measures to escape loneliness. Candy is an old ranch swamper who is…

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    loss of 54 million GBP divided by its total assets of 45,907 million GBP gives us -0.0012, meaning that each GBP of assets incurred a loss of 0.0012 GBP in net income. The return on equity ratio compares Tesco’s net income to its investments and measures its rate of return on past investments. It is calculated by dividing Tesco’s net income by its common equity. This equates to -0.008 return on equity, which means that Tesco loses 0.008 GBP of equity per 1 GBP net…

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    tests are a waste of valuable school time, because the schools are not improving, it doesn't measure a person abilities, and it is to stressful. My first reason is, that the children in schools are not improving. Standardized testing only provides skills in math and reading. Some children in the world are better at physical sports or other non-verbal way. I believe that standardized testing only measures small portions of student knowledge. This means that, the children are not improving…

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