Rite Aid

of Rite Aid, we must calculate various debt-related ratios. These ratios help find Rite Aid’s leverage and solvency. They also allow us to be able to compare Rite Aid to the industry average. Rite Aid’s ratios and the industry averages are shown on the next page in Figure 12. Looking at these ratios, the biggest concerns lie in the common-size debt, debt to assets, as well as long-term debt to equity. The company is doing very poorly in both categories. The common size debt shows that Rite…

Rite Aid Corporation’s debt also includes 9.375% senior notes. The face value of these notes is $410,000. The current carrying value is $405,951. Carrying value or book value is the face value plus any premiums or minus any discounts. Thus, the difference between the face value and carrying value for these notes is due to an unamortized discount of $4,049. The cash interest payment on these notes during fiscal 2009 equals $38,438, and this number can be calculated by taking the face value of…

Bodily Movement: The movement within the service was smoothly done. I will acknowledge that there was a great deal happening during the service that required movement. The children’s dance set the tone for the movement to come. I did appreciate that the Rev. Kletzing entered via the center aisle rather from somewhere in the back of the church. The passing of the peace is always a nice opportunity for the people to greet one another. I am of two minds though, is it a nice break for the…

To begin with, rites of terror are rituals that cause intense negative emotions for the people who are about to go through it. The rites of terror are performed in many cultures around the world and there are many reasons why these rituals occur. The main one I would say is to officially integrate the performer into society. The actual terror is what leaves a long lasting memory for the performer so they can remember what they have gone through. In the chapter “Terror” by Harvey Whitehouse he…

weather. Even her brother, the hunter, transformed into a mountain lion and kept Tayo from capture by the cowboys. The idea that everything’s spirit connects it to everything else supports a key concept to the Laguna people’s magic and religion. Tayo’s rite of passage from agony to peace followed the steps outline in our textbook perfectly. First, after his modern ritual performed by Betonie, Tayo goes to Mount Taylor initiating the isolation phase. The liminal phase followed, showing Tayo’s…

Fasting is a Christian discipline for one who wants “to let go of an appetite in order to seek God on matters of deep concern for others, myself and the world” It is a discipline that is to be done for God and seen only by God. At the commencement of Bible College I understood fasting to be a practice that people in the church did in order to get God to hear their prayers and move on their behalf and answer the prayers that they had placed before Him during the time of fasting. It was…

The Conformation is the last of the three initiation rites (the first two being Baptism and the First Holy Communion). In the sacrament of confirmation, “the faithful are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit and are strengthened in their Christian life” (“Confirmation” 1). In other words, the purpose of…

In Europe, from 1450 to 1700 about half of the population were labeled as poor. To be considered poor one must have the bare minimum to be able to maintain life. The amount of people living in poverty increased, during times of war, famine, and plagues, up to eighty percent of a region’s population. In Europe between 1450 to 1700, the poor were approached in many different ways, based on other’s sympathy or disdains; these included compassion, intolerance, and appealing for disciplinary actions…

Priestly Celibacy Certainly, celibacy, as a disciplinary norm of the Roman Catholic Church, is often subject to scrutiny and analysis in the modern age. It is due to the differences that occur within our communities and the divisions. These differences and divisions are often caused by the disapproval of some of those who have freely embraced the so-called priestly ministry in our Church. However, most of the time the ecclesiastical practice of priestly celibacy is not discussed under the right…

No family is perfect…We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end family is family…The love will always be there.” This quote by an unknown author relates to the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and to my family in many ways. Although my Family has very different beliefs than the family in the movie. One big difference in the parenting roles between my family and the Portokalos family is that I come from a divorced house hold which is very different from a…