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Underlying Assumption There are two possible solutions that we suggest earlier to solve this case, the first one is for Temasek to keep their shares in ABC Learning and the second is to sell it. We have several underlying assumptions to support each of our proposed solutions, that will help us to weigh the cost and benefit of them in order to rationalize our final decision. For keeping their shares, we have two main reasons. The first one is because Temasek has acquired a significant percentage…

Climate change is a series of phonemes ranging from rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers to global warming. In the past, the government of Canada developed plans to meet Kyoto targets, and the plan included mandatory emission reduction for factories and raise funds to invest in projections that could effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the government of Cananda Canada’s current plan to reduce greenhouse gases is insufficient. The report from Environment Canada…

I. Attention Getter: Imagine a world where no one cared about their actions. We did what we wanted and we never considered the consequences of our decisions. That sounds very depressing and dangerous doesn’t it? This is happening today in regards to our Earth. Everyday people are regrettably not considering the environment with their actions and are continuing to do harmful things to our Earth. II. Connection to audience: The environment is something each of you should care about. We only have…

Question 1 The article illustrates how the High Court handled James Hardie’s case, focusing on the legal issues of misleading statement, director’s duties as well as issues regarding continuous disclosure. These issues will be explained with supporting case examples and relevant legal principles. Misleading or deceptive statements “… James Hardie non-executive directors breached Corporate Law by making a misleading statement…” A misleading or deceptive statement can be described as…

conditions. The own-name condition analysis showed a wider cone of gaze. The F-test for the two conditions equaled 4.61, with a p value of less than .05. The average for that conditions was 7.5 pixels with a standard error of 0.47. The average for the other-name condition was 6.8 pixels, with a standard error of 0.41. Although there was a greater difference between the rightward deviations for the two conditions than the leftward deviations, it was not significant according to the t-test…

During the time after the Reconstruction era, an era that mended the country from the destructive Civil War, large corporations, wealthy business tycoons and even the federal government took advantage of the weak economy to establish a strong and secure basis in the rejoined nation. While new inventions and innovations aided the creation of new businesses in a variety of fields, including manufactured ice for long distance food transportation, large corporations began to stabilize monopolies on…

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“Waiguoren” and occasionally in a hush tone “Laowai,” from a few annoyed costumers, are two terms uttered every so often while interning at Hotwind, a widely-known fashion store in Shanghai. As the semester forges ahead, my classmates and I are grasping a greater understanding of how consumerism is shaping people’s lives in Shanghai today, through our first-hand perspective working in a Chinese retail outlet. We are fully immersing ourselves in an uncommon and unheard-of working environment for…

mean, standard deviation, and variance as well as skewness and kurtosis. For example, the variable Age contained 320 valid cases, with respondents ranging in age from 18 to 35 years. The mean age was 28.02 years with a standard deviation of 4.76 years. Emailtime and Wwwtime consisted of 320 and 317 valid cases, respectively. The mean for Emailtime was 383.99 minutes spent on email per week, whereas Wwwtime had a mean of 568.57 minutes per week. Interestingly, both displayed a large standard…

of data lies at the lower end of the graph. This signifies that majority of the respondents have two to three adults in the household. Descriptive Analysis We calculated descriptive statistics for both the variables, including mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, range and many more. Further, we determined an appropriate measure of central tendency, based on the distribution displayed by graphs. We also mentioned an appropriate measure of dispersion based on the type of variable and…