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    Mutual Fund Summary

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    Vanguard REIT Exchange Traded Fund (VNQ) Fund Summary Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that invests in equities issued by real estate investment trusts (REITs) which firms focus on purchasing office buildings or any other real properties (Investopedia 2015). Until 2016, the fund total net asset is about $64.2 billion and net asset value is around $80.2, moreover, it has a nearly 100% stocks as its assets (see Appendix 1). Its issuer is Vanguard which is one of the…

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    Azalea Thomas Class Project Topic Paper: Truman and the Atomic Bomb On August 6 and 9, 1945, the President of the United States , Harry S. Truman, ordered the “dropping of atomic bombs” on ‘Hiroshima’ and ‘Nagasaki’ Japan. The Japanese were defeated due to the dropping of the atomic bombs which drastically ended World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed from both of the bombings. Most people that perished were civilians. The dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” have remained still…

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    In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…

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    Walmart Issues

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    Wal-Mart is an eminent American enterprise that operates retail stores including, discounts warehouse clubs, grocery and other all-purpose merchandising stores. The original Wal-Mart store, founded in 1962 by Sam Walton along with his wife Helen and younger brother Bud in Rogers, Arkansas (Walton, 2003). With all his experience within other stores Walton decided to come up with his own business model with the intention to be different from other merchants not only in relations of discount but he…

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    T.S Eliot and Langston Hughes were working poets in the early 1900’s. They project their personal thoughts and fears into their work and construct poems that defy definition. Their technique is alike and both are key figures in the history of poetry, yet they focus on very contrasting themes and motifs. When attempting to understand the meaning of a poets work many aspects of the poets lives is analysed to gain a greater understanding. How significant is a poets race when understanding their…

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    There were high hopes for the Reconstruction era, after the civil war, in 1865. Throughout the eleven year Reconstruction era, newly freed African Americans had hopes of a better life with radical Republicans on their side. By the end of Reconstruction in 1876, the hope for African American equality had been lost. The goal of Reconstruction was to rebuild the south, reestablish the union, and rebuild southern society without slavery. However due to prejudice in the south and a lack of care from…

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    George Washington vs. Abraham Lincoln (A Comparison of Presidencies) Two of the most famous presidents in United States history are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. These well known, and well respected presidents have a lot of similarities, but they also have quite a bit of differences. How they compare is very interesting, and very important, to our nation’s foundation. George Washington President Washington played an enormously important part in shaping the function of the job and…

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    When Keats says the poet of negative capability is “informing” and “filling some other Body,” he sounds as if directly quoting from Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. “By the imagination . . . we enter as it were into his body, and become . . . the same person with him, and thence form some idea of sensations.” This is from Smith (11), but it can be put into Keats’s mouth without a great stretch of imagination. The only significant modifications in Keats’s portrait of the ideal poet, the…

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    Puuram Poetry Analysis

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    Under Akam poetry comes what is supposed to be the most internal, personal and directly incommunicable human experience, and that is love and all its emotional phases. All that does not come under this internal and interior experience is classed as Puram. While love poetry is Akam, all the other poetry, elgiac, panegyric and heroic is Puram. In Puram poetry, the study of Nature is mainly objective and consists in similies and metaphors,whereas in Akam poetry Nature is background and sympathetic…

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    Market Plan for new Cadbury Chocolate Executive Summary Chocolate is an essential commodity its industry is worth close to a $100 billion dollars. Its known bought by men and woman of all ages as a guilty pleasure. Cadbury is one of the world’s leading chocolatiers and is a subsidiary to the vast Mondēlez Group. Market Research - The very first step is to gather information ago ut the market and the consumer. If there has been a change in the consumers taste or preference. This would also…

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