"I would like to point out that you have what appears to be a teenage boy tied up in your basement. I knew I shouldn't come here on the promise of candy!", joked Obsidian as he is currently incapacitated by rope. In response to his comment, he received a glass bottle to his head. "God dammit, doesn't this guy ever shut up?", complained the thug that had recently harmed Obsidian. "Depends... Got a gag anyway?", Obsidian quipped weakly as he was recovering from having a glass bottle break on his…
Ingram states that this new study proves further that Duke’s study was flawed. The University College of London took 2,612 individuals to study; compared to a weak number of 38 individuals done by Duke (Ingraham). Also the new study took a total of seven years to complete. In the end, they concluded there was no relationship between cannabis use and lower IQ…
Non-Financial Performance Analysis: A company’s performance is also based on the services it provides to its customers, employees, shareholders. The key performance indicators that help to analyse the performance for this service area are the Customer, Employee, Shareholders, Operational excellence and Environment. There are many criteria that pins a golden feather to the service of easyJet. The important goal is to make traveling easy and affordable through customer satisfaction and safety.…
Edith Cavell was born on December 4th, 1865. Her father, Fredrick Cavell was a minister, and her mother was his housekeeper’s daughter. She obtained extra education before marrying Fredrick in order to become accepted as a minister’s wife. Edith and her siblings grew up in a house built next to the Swardeston Church her father worked at. They grew up with little money, but plenty of maids. As Edith was growing up she became a wonderful painter. She loved the outdoors and would draw and paint…
Last December record amounts of snow and cold temperatures hit the U.S. and most part of Europe, which led to chaos in the whole travel industry (Jainchill, 2011). Many flights all over the world were cancelled and some of the airports were shut due to the adverse weather conditions. Moreover, even train or bus services, namely in United Kingdom, were not fully operational due to the same reasons. Such things like terrorist attacks or natural disasters always have big influence on travel…
Capstone Investment Alternatives In order to properly utilize the assets of an organization, an organization needs to understand how to properly analyze various investments, how to project cash flows from alternative investments and how to raise funds to finance alternative projects. Having a thorough understanding of how the stock market works and how individual stocks are performing in comparison is a key to making sound investment decisions. The alternatives explored in this case are…
The idea of sustainability to business has become an increasingly common term for corporates as this pro-active method guarantees business long term-term viability and integrity, it can be defined as the quality of not being harmful to the ecosystem so we can support long-term ecological equilibrium. In the world of business, it also refers to the triple bottom line: ‘people, profit and planet’ (John Elkington, 1994) Presently, global warming is reaching an astounding record high that actions…
reliable. This article first describes the events right before Pepys wrote his diary, when Cromwell died, and the government was unsteady. It then gives an overview of each month Pepys wrote his diary during. Some of the events include the great fire of london, and Pepys’ bladder stone operation. Finally, the article concludes with some events after Pepys stopped writing the diary, such as his travels with his wife Elizabeth and her death, as well as his presidency of the Royal Society. This…
work of “Alice in Wonderland”, is one of the hundreds that have been accused of being the murderous Jack the Ripper. The mystery began when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, made his first killing around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name “Jack the Ripper” came about when a letter was written by an anonymous person claiming to be a murderer. However, the letter was thought about as a joke. The killing continued, leaving everyone in horror. Every…
In New York museums are buildings whose histories are tied into the fabric of the city. While some buildings of a different program might slide under the radar, a new museum could not be commissioned in the city without fanfare or skepticism or protest. The controversy can be credited to the fact that even in our contemporary time critics, architects, artists, and the sponsoring agents, and even the public all have different expectations on what a museum should be. It has been a challenge to…