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and improvement since 2013 suggests that the company may be increasing their level of solvency. They are still in a decent position to maintain their interest and debt payments although they are still below the level seen before the recession. Figure 9: Choice Hotels Interest Coverage Ratios13 The revenue per available room, average daily rate and occupancy rates have increased since 2011 suggesting that they are improving their financial gain as seen in figure 10. For Choice Hotels, the…

Rapson Hall: Sampling and Blending the Past In the first century BC the architect Vitruvius wrote that architecture is made up of three separate elements: Utilitas, Firmitas, and Venustas.5 In ABC of Architecture, James O’Gorman focuses on Utilitas, or the functional aspects of a building, to analyze types of architecture. He does this through examining plan, beginning with a belief that plan is “the developed diagram of function”4 and that the way the building is to be used is created as the…

Henry Ford’s Impacts on Mobilization A major start of the automobile was Henry Ford. He always wanted to help make a way for the middle class to have some of the luxuries of the upper class. His way was the Ford car. One of Henry’s greatest quotes from the book Who Was Henry Ford stated “To do for the world more than the world does for you-that is success” (Michael Burgan 61). This was Henry’s overall goal in life and he thoroughly finished it by allowing people to become more mobile and…

Like many communities in rural Iowa, downtown Mount Pleasant has a wealth of older multi-story buildings and is the economic hub for retail businesses, professional offices, specialty and personal service shops, restaurants, and other businesses. Downtown Mount Pleasant is fortunate to have a core group of beautiful historic buildings, which have been a catalyst for a successful and vibrant downtown. However, this has not always been the case. In 2002 Mount Pleasant became a Main Street…

For this essay, I form another scape drawing directly from Appadurai’s declared scape suffixes existing within the contextual world in relation to the flows of human interaction to their social condition. Identityscape, which would place into a subset overlapping in both “ethnoscape” and “mediascape”, perceives, “shifting the world in which we live” through a pusedo-environment interlinking similar cultural psyches across geographic borders (Appadurai, 297). I am convinced this metaphysical…

Comparing IFRS to GAAP Tony Smith ACC/290 10 June 2015 VICTOR HO The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are rules and guidelines established to attempt to standardize accounting and recording practices across the United States and Internationally. While United States has traditionally used GAAP, the ever changing world market makes it necessary for the US to begin to use IFRS in conjunction with or sometimes in place of…

Bamboo fencing is an improving and earth agreeable contrasting option to steel or wood. Bamboo has a few points of interest as a fencing material. To start with it is a grass and not a wood, so it sets aside less opportunity to develop and renew the supply. Truth be told it just takes 5 to 7 years to grow a develop bamboo plant for gathering while wood takes 50 to 100 years. The second favorable position of utilizing bamboo as your fencing material is that it is solid and strong. At last bamboo…

Who is “Jack”? The problem at hand is as follows: Jack enters a shop and has his mind completely replaced, let’s for now call him Person A. An identical copy of Jack’s mind (the mind that he walked into the shop with) is then put into another person, which we shall call Person B. In the essay I shall argue that Jack is Person B by showing that a person is identified by their consciousness. Arguments have been provided to justify each person, Person A and Person B, as being Jack. Firstly, to…

You decide Per the (UNOS) United Network for Organ Sharing nationally there are over 122,000 people waiting for organs. (WWW.donors1.ord, n.d.) Making an important decision like one who receives a heart ready for transplant, especially when it matches more than one person high on the list is problematic. We utilize many different methods to determine who is the final recipient. This heart almost unheard of, has been confirmed to match three recipients. Several factors amongst fairness comes into…

After helping unanimously pass two initiatives to better welcome LGBTQ+ students to Indiana University we moved to a starkly different conversation. Saving nuance, the head of residential facilities briefed our group on the renovation plans for a campus dining hall. He followed with a question: whether to renew the facility’s existing contract with the chicken sandwich joint, Chick-fil-a. Concerned by the views of the company's late president on traditional marriage, the administrator…