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Is Profitability and Survival of a Firm Dependant on Financial Structure?

capital (Modigliani and Miller, 1958). This latter proposition is defined as the ratio of its expected returns to the market value...

The Importance of Statistics to the Insurance Industry

or the beneficiary, will receive a payment. For some policies, such as life insurance policies, this is a fixed amount, for other ...

Trade Barriers Non-tariff

the United States (Doxey, 2009), if such measures are not taken in order to ensure contractual cooperation, countries would be lef...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

'Still Alive': Ruth Kluger's Holocaust Survival

thirst within days" (Kluger 100). Therefore, the survival skills young Ruth acquired were comparable to those of a petty thief. ...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Airline Industry Trends

information systems. Even with these techniques, Zea (2002) argues that airlines in general have done little to manage risk...

The Threat of Global Warming

atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...

Incas: Ethno Profile

belief stemmed from these aforementioned considerations, as well as with the inherent conclusion that proper behavior is an instru...

Survival: Roy and Coetzee

other and as such their need to survive was often driven by their separation. Another example of survival can be seen in the rel...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

The Effect of Stress on Women

often), this may account for the higher stress factor (Goldman et al, 2005, p. 95). But no matter the underlying cause, stress see...

The Extinction Vortex in Regard to Bees

found that a certain number of individuals in a population that was within a decade of going extinct "was somehow less valuable to...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Ten Years After the Second World War, Human Endurance and Human Cruelty

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

Cats and Their Strategies of Survival

their desire to continue the species (Turntide, 2003). This is one reason that feral cat colonies increase at incredible rates, a...

Organism Success and Survival and Influential Variables

function and environmental changes that improves the capacity of the toad to maintain physiological health in the midst of change....

Treatment and Outcomes for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...

Logotherapy, Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning

concentration camps that has become a classic, and a testament to the human spirit. But it also shows what survival entails; its n...

Chapter 2/Equiano

course of these exchanges, indicating that he does this easily due to similarities between the tongues. However, the fact that he ...

Life of Pi, an Overview

This paper pertains to Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" and discusses the ways in which Pi's ordeal of survival affected his perspective...

Personal Account of an Abusive Childhood

This personal essay relates the abuse that a student suffered as a child and the factors that aided her survival. Five pages in l...

Do We Own Our Bodies

This paper considers separate and distinct issues. The first section discusses what the Food and Drug Administration does and what...

Literature Portrayal of Extreme Experience

and to bear up under the influence of extended stress. This aspect of extreme experience can be seen in many ways in the three sel...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

Religious Faith and Elie Wiesel

In six pages this research paper examines how Wiesel's religious faith is reflected in his writings and the role of religion in hi...

Canadian Literature and Violence

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

the belief in those things that could not be seen, felt or proven by scientific means. Not content to blindly believe in that whi...

Anne Frank as a Role Model for Hope and Survival

In an essay consisting of five pages the promise of hope and survival that Anne Frank's diary represented during the Second World ...