...When most people hear the name J. Edgar Hoover they think of a man who was very powerful. He was a criminologist and became the man who changed the Bureau of Investigation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and remain at his position for 48 years until his death in 1972. Hoover worked hard to achieve his prestige and success, but he was not an honest man. Hoover was a blackmailing, prejudice, and manipulating man who was jealous of other people’s accomplishment and used his position to benefit himself and burry who he once was. J. Edgar Hoover was born in born in Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1895. Born to Dickerson Naylor Hoover and Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover, Edgar was the youngest of the three. Hoover did well during his time in high school, playing an active role in the school’s ROTC program he was always very focused and became the valedictorian of his class. After high school he took a job at the Library of Congress, and in three years made it through George Washington University’s law program. After Hoover had successfully passed the bar in 1917 in that same year he joined the U.S. Department of Justice. Hoover’s first job in the Department of Justice was as a clerk in the files division, in less than a year he was promoted. He was known for his enthusiasm and his strong attention to detail. After many men of Hoover’s age group registered for the war his promotions came one after another until he reached the top and became...
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...Essay: R.J. Reynolds International Financing (HBS 9-287-057). Page 1 of 7 "Cour sew or k.Info offer s a ver y valuable tool to students." Dr Yaakov Wise, Univer sity of M anchester LO G I N JO I N N O W ! SEARCH Adv anced search Search Coursew ork .info You a re he re : Universit y > Business and Adm inist rat iv e st udies > Finance > R.J. Reynolds I nt er nat ional Financing ( HBS 9- 287- 057) . N O M ORE BRAI N FREEZE - j ust love ly ide a s j uice ! W e 've got 1 ,4 6 2 GCSE Gr e e n Pla n t s a s Or ga n ism s Essa ys on lin e r ig h t n ow t o in sp ir e you St udy t he w ork of t he bright est st u den t s in t h e u k , a ll for le ss t h a n 1 7 p a da y. Accoun t ing ( 513 Essays) Econom ics (1,080 Essays) Fina nce ( 1, 083 Essays) H um a n Re sour ce M a na ge m e nt ( 1,012 Essays) M a na ge m e nt St udie s ( 1, 723 Essays) - I n t e r n a t ion a l Fin a n cia l R.J. Rey nolds I nt er nat ional Financing ( HBS 9- 287- 057) The case is set in t he cont ext of RJR’s 1985 financing of it s $4.9 billion acquisit ion of Nabisco Brands I nc. To finance t he acquisit ion, RJR was pr oposing t he issue of $1.2 billion of 12 year not es and t he sam e am ount in pr efer r ed st ock . I t had alr eady funded $1.5 billion of t he acquisit ion leav ing $1 billion m or e t o finance. Challenges facing RJR: Of t he $1.5 billion t hat had been funded, $500 m illion cam e from cash and t he r em aining was t hr ough bank bor r owings and...
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...J.K. Rowling Bobbie Sue Hill AIU Online J.K. Rowling From living in poverty, on public assistance, to widely famous, accomplished writer, J.K. Rowling has had a roller-coaster of a life. Rowling is known world-wide by her ever popular Harry Potter books. There is, however, more to Rowling than meets the eye. The struggles she faced and the end result of her fight for a better life has made for a wonder experience for me to research. Joanne Kathleen Rowling also known as J.K. Rowling wrote a series of books that has made her more money than she could have ever imagined. Some have said it to have made her wealthier than the Queen of England. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” began as “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” which contained Rowling’s personal annotations and illustrations. Sold at a Sotheby’s auction to an anonymous bidder, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” raised $239,932.44 for her own charity and English PEN. (jkrowling.com) Her first book was “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” published in 1997 and was an immediate success. Following was “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” published in 1998, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” published in 1999, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” published in 2000, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” published in 2003, and finally “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” published in 2007. All of these books are available in more than 200 countries and some 60 languages. (jkrowling...
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...E & J Gallo Case Study Thirumavalavan Murugaiyan Marketing Dr.Mango Dec 2nd 2010 Topics Summary of Situation: Problem/Opportunity Identification: Alternative Actions: Identify at least three possible courses of action to address problem: Key Decision Criteria: Identify specific criteria used to evaluate alternatives: Analysis of Alternatives: Recommendations: Initial Implementation plans for the Delivery alternative : Monitoring/Control procedures E & J Gallo Winery Summary of Situation: Identification and brief explanation of key information in the case affecting eventual decisions: The below information’s I believe to great extend affects the eventual decisions of the case. Ernest and Julio Gallo were the founders of E. & J. Gallo Winery. Since its establishment in 1993, E. & J. Gallo Winery had undergone rapid growth from a small-scale firm to an equivalent “Campbell Soup company of the wine industry”. Today, the company stands as a global wine producer. Its well-reputable brand name stems from its well-diversified product line, manufactured under various labels for a number of different price ranges to attract all types of consumers, and global recognition and awards. E. & J. Gallo was the first American company to date to be recognized three times as International Winery of the Year. In 2006, Gallo received the Gold and Best of Class awards at the San Francisco Wine Competition and won individual awards for its cabernet...
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...century J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most powerful officials in the Federal government of the United States. As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, he was the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. His intimate knowledge of politicians and government operations made him a man to be feared by elected officials, and none of the eight presidents under whom he served dared fire him. J.Edgar Hoover was born on January 1, 1895, in Washington D.C. He attended George Washington University and earned a degree in 1917. In 1919 he became assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in the Department of Justice. It was Palmer who instigated the post World War I “red scare,” an anti-Communist hysteria that led to the deportation of many aliens. Hoover was put in charge of the deportations. When Hoover became director of the Bureau in 1924, he quickly formed an elite force of powerful law enforcement officers. He enhanced the FBI’s fame by capturing many gangsters, bank robbers, and other lawbreakers. After World War II he waged a relentless fight against internal subversion. The 1970’s often criticized Hoover for his authoritarian methods. He died in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1972. In the rest of the paper I will explain more in depth of how J. Edgar Hoover rose to power and why he is considered one of the most corrupt men to ever hold a government position. It is not very difficult to figure out the most outstanding characteristic of J. Edgar...
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...Johnson & Johnson: Successfully Strategizing for the Changing Global Business Environment April 27, 2009 IBE – D Kara Findley Emily Manz Alex Thompson I. Introduction Johnson & Johnson is the world's largest healthcare company. Founded in the United States in 1886, the company has been profitable for 75 straight years and currently operates 250 subsidiary companies in 57 countries. Its products fall into three segments: pharmaceuticals, with 39% of total sales; medical devices and diagnostics, with 36%; and consumer products, with 25%. Additionally, the company employs 119,200 people worldwide and sells its products in 175 countries. A truly global corporation, Johnson & Johnson has securely positioned itself to overcome the challenges its ever-changing business environment poses, as well as take advantage of the opportunities presented. With a focus primarily on Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical segment, this paper seeks to explore the complex multinational environment within which the company operates as well as the opportunities and threats that the environment poses. Next, the paper will analyze Johnson & Johnson's current positioning, describing its value-chain and competitive positioning. The paper will close by evaluating how Johnson & Johnson both can seize these opportunities to realize the goals of the company. II. Analyzing the Environment In industries as competitive...
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...James J. Braddock got the name of Cinderella Man. He was a strong, powerful man. Some people can call him a role model for a lot of reasons. He can be a role model because he can help many people, and overcome many hard obstacles. One reason Jim could have gotten the name Cinderella Man is because he was a very poor person, and many years later, he became a hero. He ended up being a bum to a champion. He showed people wrong, and that he could succeed. He achieved many goals he tried to accomplish. Thus, showing how he became from a very poor person to a very popular person can be one way he got the nickname Cinderella Man. Another way he can be called Cinderella Man is by showing all the hard obstacles he had to accomplish. One obstacle...
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...John Nicholson Professor Ellenberg English 1102 12 November, 2012 The Depressing Poem of J. Alfred Prufrock Historically love songs were romantic songs written by young men to young women in order to court them. These love songs often contained an aura of sensuality and grace that emphasized passion, youthfulness, life and heroics. T.S. Elliot’s poem, ironically titled “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, simply does not follow this classic formula. J. Alfred Prufrock, the protagonist of the poem, is not the epitome of physical attractiveness, boldness and passion. Instead he is a man who wallows in his self-pity over his failure in life. T.S. Elliot uses symbols, allusions, imagery and repeated phrases to emphasize the loneliness, isolation and despair of J. Alfred Prufrock. T.S. Elliot uses allusions to contrast the greatness and grandeur of some of the figures in classic literature with the lackluster J. Alfred Prufrock. In line one hundred and ten, T.S. Elliot contrasts Prince Hamlet, a passionate and powerful figure from Shakespearean literature to Prufrock. “I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be” (line 112). “I have heard mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. In the epic “The Odyssey” mermaids used their voices to lure sailors into the water and to their deaths. However, Prufrock thinks himself as so pathetic that mermaids would not think that it would not be worth the time and effort to drown him. A more drastic moment...
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...The question one must face later in life is why must someone need to lose innocence to mature? Innocence in a deeper complex understanding means absence of knowledge and our understanding of the fast paced life. Ordinarily one must face a fear and or take a leap of faith towards a dream to unmask oneself to the real world. Wrongfully some don't take those risks that life requires and can't accept that adolescence is a part of life. In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, Holden the main character displays the moral message of how adolescence plays a tremendous role in creating fear of the future. Salinger talks about himself as the 3rd person of a 16 year old boy who has many struggles of the everyday life. Holden had been kicked out...
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...E & J Gallo Winery is a winery and distributor in Modesto, California. Two brothers Ernest Gallo and Julio Gallo founded E & J Gallo Winery in 1933. In 2006 wine in the United States represented a $28 billion industry with 716 million gallons sold. 92 million gallons were desert wines. The desert wine segment is 8% of US wine sales so it’s not that important in the wine industry. According to time Thunderbird and Night train account for less than 3% of sales for Gallo, although Gallo's brands make up 16.1% of the dessert wine category. The redeeming features would be both brands, although thought to be "wino" drinks, provide an entry to the market place for some drinkers. They are sweet, and more palatable to the new drinker as well as readily available. The key success factors in the dessert wine segment have been placement of this product. Supermarkets, corner liquor stores, warehouse clubs carry it. Like it or not it is a staple on the shelves. These wines were the beginning of Gallo and it was not until the late '70's that Gallo started doing premium wines and wine coolers (80's). At first the premium wines were marketed without Gallo's name on them. Now, as years have passed and Gallo's various premium wines have won acclaim the Gallo name is on the premium wine, and not on the dessert wines. While there is not a strategic fit per se between the two there is an economy of scale present and both Gallo and the liquor distributors/ retailers benefit by the company offering...
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...There are two Holden's in this play. One is the character and the other is the narrator. His honesty is entirely internalized. He admits his faults and lies in narration, but can't do the same with other people. I personally like reading stories where the main character is telling the story. In this way, I have noticed some contradictions in Holden's personality. He criticizes everyone in society because they are being phonies when he lies all the time leading him to be a phony himself. Right from the beginning of the story he starts to "shoot the bull" with his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, who had flunked him. In chapter 3, his first line is "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life." Even as he's leaving Pency Prep, he gives a fake name to the mother of one of his classmates. It seems to me, his criticism of the world first lies within himself. He has shut himself out from the world, which makes him an outcast. And by criticizing everything around him, it seems to be a way for Holden to justify how the world is a bad place and to grow up and leave adolescents behind is just something that no one should do. Holden's journey takes him though a cross section of American society. From school, to bars, to the city, to his family, I think Salinger wants to portray how widespread phoniness has become. His relationship with his brother D.B. used to be something he respected until he moved out to Hollywood. Hollywood was a good place for Salinger to use because it's a...
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...One cannot hold onto innocence forever, the longer he or she holds onto it, the more they can lose sight of themselves. In The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield struggles with accepting his loss of innocence which leads towards his downfall. Holden is a struggling 16 year-old boy, trying to find his place in this world, clinging onto his innocence in urgent desperation. Over the span of three days, the novel follows Holden where he eventually accepts his loss of innocence, but not without going through many struggles along the way first. Through Salinger’s use of symbols, the reader is able to clearly identify Holden’s reluctance toward becoming an adult and surrendering his innocence. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, the author uses the Museum of Natural History, the erasing of profanity and the carousel to reveal that a person cannot avoid his or her loss of innocence. Holden visits his childhood spot, Museum of Natural History, symbolizing a world in which nothing has to change. While reflecting on his memories from the museum he realizes that the reason he loved it so much was because he could count on everything staying the same, “the best thing though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move…the only thing that would be different is you” (Salinger 121). Just like the thought of preserving innocence, Holden revels in the thought of everything staying exactly the same, forever. However, Holden knows he has...
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...Summers Daniel Vijayakumar SUMMARY Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”), one of the largest, well-known organizations in the world, produces products for consumer health care and for use by medical professionals in care and diagnostics. Some of their most recognizable brands include Tylenol, Neutrogena, Listerine, Band-Aid and Reactine. These, along with their many other brands, are produced in over 60 countries by more than 250 different operating companies that make up the J&J organization. In total, more than 114,000 employees are part of the organization, and they are managed through a system of decentralized management with a wide span of control. J&J faces the unique challenge of trying to create one corporate culture that all parts of their organization believe in and adhere to. One of the strategies used to combat these obstacles is values-based leadership and linking employees and subsidiaries under a common set of values, as outlined in "Our Credo". J&J works extremely hard to uphold their Credo, which was written by Robert Wood Johnson – one of the founders of the organization – in 1943. It is a set of values that J&J vow to work by and which lend to the present culture that is so important in the organization today. J&J also attempts to induce a culture of innovation and promote diversity and acceptance of differences throughout its subsidiaries. Since organizational culture is such a vital piece in connecting J&J’s subsidiaries, a very strong culture has developed. In most...
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...To: Date: December 2 At the meeting last week, J&J was considering how it should account for the Shiny Teeth coupon drop that took place on October 1, 2012. As discussed of your concerns, we conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards general accepted in the United States of America. My responsibility is to express an opinion on our findings of the audit. I believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our focus was on the Shiny Teeth coupon drop. The accounting issue is determining redemption rate offered on September 1 and drop on October 1, 2012. According to FASB Accounting Standards Codification 605-50-05-1a a vendor's accounting for consideration given by a vendor to a customer (including both a reseller of the vendor’s products and an entity that purchases the vendor’s products from a reseller). Such consideration (including sales incentives) offered by a vendor on either a limited or a continuous basis to a customer may take various forms including discounts, coupons, rebates, and free products or services. The accounting issue is the correct recognition of coupons offered on the sale of toothpaste. We will address the issue of timing and measurement of the revenues and liabilities resulting from the coupon. Next, we looked at the effect of the Shiny Teeth coupon drop on its financial and how it should be recognized. The sale incentive (coupon) offered by the company and retailer reduced the price of the product...
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...J.R.R. Tolkien was an influence on many through his renowned fantasy novels, including The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. His work has inspired many and millions of copies of his work have been sold across the world. There were many aspects in Tolkien’s life that guided him in writing fantasy pieces for all ages. J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892 in present-day South Africa. Both of Tolkien’s parents died of disease when he was just a child, and he was forced to live with another family member. He started taking courses in language, and soon enlisted in the Army and served in World War I. While fighting in the war, Tolkien caught trench fever, a deadly disease that killed many. While he was...
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