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Female sexuality has often been a topic of immorality in hardboiled novels. However, in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce, female sexuality is a means to get to the top. In order to please her intransigent daughter, the protagonist of the novel decided to put her aptitude for cooking to good use and open up a restaurant. One restaurant turns to three, and it seems that Mildred’s success knows no bounds. All of this occurs, of course, due to Mildred’s tenacity and perseverance, but also because she…

to just pack up and give up! How Does All of This Happen? Let me begin by saying that no one begins a business with failure or financial ruin as the main goal. Or any goal for that matter. However, without the proper mindset or planning, many small businesses will fail. According to the Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 businesses fail within the first 18 months. Most will never make it past the 6-year mark. We have all heard some of the reasons. Some of the major reasons are: • Insufficient…

307). In the creative age, small businesses have to initiate strategies facilitating organizational change using creativity and innovation. Bilton (2007) recognizes that organizational change is similar to a pattern emerging from chaos “what looks from the outside like a sudden radical…

As we are dealing and focusing on retail businesses, understanding this ratio is paramount to the industry, as this is the heart of the business. The inventory turnover is calculated by taking the cost of goods sold divided by the average inventory for the year. This ratio measures the efficiency of a company's inventory management and should be compared against industry averages. A low turnover implies poor sales and therefore, excess inventory. A high ratio implies either strong sales or…

Compare and contrast: The Hunger games There are many books that then make movies based on it, but sometimes they don’t make a good movie, but sometimes they do a good movie, an example of it is The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins and the movie by director Gary Ross. The hunger games is about 12 districts that every year each district have two tributes and fight for their life, Whoever is the final one alive receives fame, fortune, and their district gets privileges rained…

It does not matter if you are a work-at-home mom, a small business owner or a salesperson at a retail establishment, without a plan, you may never achieve your full potential. The most successful businesses have a plan in place that helps them set goals and measure their progress by way of results. They have achievable goals in sight that they are directing their efforts towards reaching. Since this is the model for the most successful businesses, it only makes sense that your business should…

aim to extend current understanding of small business growth in a transitional economy by concentrating on the sub-group of growing firms in the same dataset. We investigate the impact of the same determinants of growth in the sample of growing firms and also by conducting separate regressions for three main sectors (manufacturing, services and trade) and two size categories (micro and small and medium firms). Testing the impact of the same factors on small growing businesses and controlling for…

Heal Leaky Gut Syndrome Naturally If you 're living with autoimmune disease, allergies, or chronic pain, these conditions could be your body 's way of telling you that you have leaky gut syndrome. Under ordinary circumstances, your gut has just enough permeability to allow the absorption of vital nutrients. However, certain dietary and environmental factors can greatly increase your intestinal permeability, allowing bacteria, undigested food, microbes, and candida to leak into the rest of…

Currently, there is a debate that the federal minimum wage should be increased to a livable wage. A livable wage is an amount of money paid to an individual in order to cover basic needs, the livable wage proposal is $15.00 dollars an hour. The Republican Party believes a federal 15-dollar minimum wage will be detrimental to the economy. On the other hand, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, on the Democratic side, says a 15-dollar minimum wage is just the realization of the minimum wage in…

I. THEORY OF THE BUSINESS To better address an organization’s theory of the business, we need to make three assumptions: environments in which the organization is operating, the specific mission of the organization and its core competencies in which the organization must excel to maintain leadership (Drucker, 1994). They are discussed in the following subsections. EXTERNAL MACRO TRENDS While analyzing Whirlpool’s business environments, we are mainly concerning external macro trends from three…