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Optimal Capital Restructure Abstract: William Wrigley Jr. Company is exploring whether it is optimal to recapitalise with taking on $3 billion of debt. Three options are revised; borrow and repurchase shares, dividend payouts or continue to function with full equity. Debt will provide a tax shield of $1.2 billion given the tax rate is 40%, this should increase the market share price to $61.53 per share. The viable method for the company is to utilize this debt to repurchase shares. The will not
“When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without but rather because of enemies from within” said Joseph McCarthy, on February 9, 1950 (Enemies from Within). McCarthy may have missed the mark in claiming that communist infiltration was the enemy from within, but his statement was accurate: the rise of demagogues can erode the rights and freedoms upon which democracy is built and without which they could not gain power. From the 1920’s on, ‘red baiting’ had produced
sources concerning African American equality are legal documents and show little opinion, however his interpretations of the documents are very reserved in any celebration or commendation for legal recognition of Blacks. Free At Last by Berlin, Fields, Miller, Reidy and Rowland takes the pro-military approach to the growing political gap.
had “new opportunities suddenly opened in industrial, professional, and government positions” that were “previously restricted to men” (Foner 867). This newfound independence of women influenced the creation of “Rosie the Riveter,” created by J. Howard Miller. In the poster, Rosie is depicted as a strong, independent, industrial worker with the famous catchphrase “We Can Do it!”. However, when the war ended, men returned to their pre-war occupations and women were pushed out out their temporary industrial
War II propaganda poster exclaiming “We Can Do It!” featuring Rosie the Riveter, women were able to prove that they had the same abilities as men and began a revolution in the U.S. workforce. The poster was first introduced to the public by J. Howard Miller in 1942 for an ad agency that was commissioned by the Westinghouse Power Company. The poster was one of many other commissioned posters to aim at boosting morale amongst both women and men employees. This project was also aimed to convey the
Fact, Fiction, and Perception: Understanding Schizophrenia Tia M. Hunter Understanding Schizophrenia 1 Salem College Understanding Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a disorder of varying symptoms, in fact until the current edition of the DSM-V this disorder was broken into subtypes such as catatonic, disorganized, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual. There many facets of schizophrenia such as auditory hallucinations, delusions, social isolation, as well as intense suspicion or agitation, each
is of Rosie the Riveter, the “We Can Do It!” poster. This poster went around during the World War II to encourage all women to fill the jobs located in a factory named Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. An artist by the name of J. Howard Miller first created this in 1942. His reason was to build confidence by others who misunderstood women’s rights. Representing women in early 1940’s wartime workforce produced Rosie’s character that served as a cultural icon during this time. Today
market, strategic marketing planning has become more and more significant whether of the functional or the fundamental. Especially, although financial crisis leaded economy growth slowdown, it did not cause a serious influence for chain coffee shop. As Howard Schultz said, CEO of Starbucks, “I don't think we had a business plan for the severity of what has taken place. History demonstrated to us that a downturn in the economy would not affect us, and in fact, we would be recession-proof.” (Katie Couric
Stacy* and I met with each other in her office on a Friday morning in February. She owns a small, quaint flower shop in a city about an hour south of Houston. Her shop, which has been in her family for almost a hundred years, had not yet opened for business that day. While Stacy prepared herself for our interview, I occupied myself by admiring the thick piles of paper on her work desk. She had invoices, emails, check stubs and letters of appreciation covering the surface entirely. Empty and half-full