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Summary of Kroger Annual ReportsKroger was found to be the company of choice to analyze because I was curious as what their accounting records would look like for being such a large corporation. After analyzing the information contained within Kroger's income statements and balance sheet, I determined the company's total assets at the end of the 2014 annual reporting period to be $30,556.00. This is a decently large asset range, so Kroger is clearly a valuable company. The company's total assets are important because it shows the value of the company as well as equity owned that helps generate profit for the company. The previous annual reporting period end showed $29,281.00, which shows profit gain from one year to the next. Out of the total assets, the cash and cash equivalents at the end of the annual reporting revenue showed to b |
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Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnMore often than not, those who others believe have it all are actually hurting beneath the surface. People's appearance and the way they portray themselves to others may be completely different from the real person they are, which can be hidden. In Gillian Flynn's intriguing novel, Sharp Objects, many themes are portrayed. The main character Camille, a news reporter, is sent back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri where she is reunited with her family, while reporting on macabre murders. Some of the themes portrayed upon her hometown visit include that looks can be deceiving and that a troubling childhood can be psychologically damaging. Despite presenting oneself externally positive, internally people can be hiding their struggles and sadness. This is evident in main character, Camille Preaker, who appears as a girl who has it all because of her looks. However, even though Camille is an attractive young lady, people are unaware of her struggles in everyday life. She even admits this as she says, "Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly sw |
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Three Causes of The Civil WarOut of three causes, the first principal cause of the American Civil War was the Compromise of 1850. It was five laws passed to resolve issues about slavery in the crisis of 1850. The issues, mentioned by Henry Clay, were the "Five Bleeding Wounds." In the compromise, the California admission issue was resolved and it was admitted as a free state, also, there would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico ended in favor of New Mexico. However, there is one issue that kind of generated the Civil War even though it was already compromised. It was the way the U.S. handle the Mexican cession was resolved with the "popular sovereignty", the concept that let the settlers of a territory to decide whether they accept slavery or not. This settlement somehow aggravated the problem between the North and the South in congress about the balance of free and slave states, then later on lead to South secession from the Union. T |
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Queen Christina of SwedenQueen Christina of Sweden was known as one of the most diverting women of her age. Best known for having a broad influence on European culture and her grand sponsorship of the arts. Christina was born on December 8th, 1626 to the King of Sweden, Gustav II Adolphus and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg in Stockholm, Sweden. When Queen Christina was born, her mother was ultimately disappointed because she wasn't a boy; so she had little to nothing to do with her while growing up. However, her father ordered for Christina to be educated as if she were a prince. There have been reports that as a young infant, she accompanied her father on journeys. At the age of six, as the expected heiress, she took over from her father on the throne upon his death a |
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The Creek War and the War of 1812The Creek War was part of the War of 1812 between the United States and the British. It was started as a civil war where the natives of the Upper Creek fight against the Creek leaders in Mississippi Territory and later the United States get involve in July 1813. There were few backgrounds that started the war including the separation of the Creeks that became the Upper Creak and the Lower Creek, the large white settlement in the territory, and some economic problems within the tribe. The United States began to involve in the war after the attack in the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek and later the war ended on the Horseshoe Bend with the victory of the U.S. troops that were commanded by Andrew Jackson. This defeat resulted in the Treaty of Fort Jackson where the Upper Creek, the Red Sticks, forced to hand over around 20 million acres of land to America. After the war, Andrew Jackson became more popular as the hero and this helped him to win the president election in 1828. This victory also |
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Loving My Career as a Leader in SportGreetings to you at Jones T Shirts, this opportunity could not have come at a better time and I believe that timing is everything when it comes to realizing dreams. I have had a very long meandering road to get where I am in being in the last quarter of my Masters of Sports Leadership with Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. In order to explain how I have gotten to where I am allow me to tell you what has driven me. The tender elements of desiring to see my family well and wealthy, the power of dreaming, and plain grit has kept me stable in these 29 years of living. I have had my heart broken in two ways that will never allow me to settle for average again in life. The first setback was my mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease and Type II Diabetes from my late teens and into my early twenties. The second setback was my athletic career that went down the wash with my sacrifice to be there for family. You see for a young African-American male with a dream, no college s |
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Natural Hazards and Physical EnvironmentsFirstly the definition of a natural hazard is "those elements of the physical environment, harmful to man and caused by forces extraneous to him" (Burton et al 1978, cited by www.oas.org). These can include hazards ranging from droughts to floods, from earthquakes to volcanoes. This essay will examine whether these natural hazards are caused by the physical environment (out of our control) or whether they are caused by society's decisions. The physical environment is a clear reason why natural hazards take place. With earthquakes as an example, major pressure releases at plate boundary fault lines caused by plate movement. As this happens deep within the mantle it can be argued that this is out of our control and therefore caused by the physical environment as nothing we can do could prevent it, especially as the plate movement is caused by convection currents. Plate movement is also the cause for the natural hazard-volcanoes where destructive and constructive plate boundaries cau |
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Moonrise Kingdom - Character AnalysisSam Shakusky is a 12-year-old boy who grew up in New Penzance as an orphan ever since both his parents passed away. Sam has some very unique qualities and is unlike any other character in the movie. Sam always keeps his chestnut-brown hair unkempt under his raccoon hat along with his tortoise-shelled glasses that compliment his brown almond-shaped eyes. He is often seen wearing his Khaki Scout uniform with his yellow scarf tied around his neck and socks that reach just below his small knees. Sam is very confident and walks with his chin up. When speaking, Sam speaks straight to the point and tends to be blunt. His hobbies include watercolor painting and adventuring wherever. As a former member of the Khaki Scouts, Sam has extensive knowledge on camping, survival skills, wildlife and cartography. Sam grew up being very lonely and abandoned since his parents died when he was very young. He has learned to cop |
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Has Technology Ruined Childhood?There was a time I read books, climbed trees, went fishing, played cricket, made kites and watched how awesome they were. I was a happy kid and spent my days with friends and made lifelong memories. I did not even know that there was something called internet when I was a kid and I had a great many things to do than stay in front of a machine and waste my time. Time has changed now and everything we see do involves technology. Almost everyone got a mobile phone, an Ipad or a computer. Technology has invaded the world and most of us can not live without it, not even for a few hours. Parents give their phones and new gadgets to kids to keep them calm and kids play games and use internet. Eventually they are getting addicted to technology. Young people love to use social networks and they think that they have new friends when they get a thousand names in their friend list. They just forget their real friends who are around them all the time, they just forget their parents, family and everyone else because they are too busy with this t |
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Brighton Rock by Graham GreeneGraham Greene, the author of the novel 'Brighton Rock' uses a variety of methods to create narrative interest in what can be described as 'bleak', 'depressing' or 'hopeless' material. Greene uses the idea of setting, characters, dialogue and language techniques such as juxtaposition, euphemism or contrast to create the narrative interest in the reader. It is significant to comment on the development of what might be viewed as bleak, depressing and hopeless material and how that is effective. All of the three adjectives can be associated with the same image of misery, sadness and desperation which as readers can link to some of the scenes or characters in the novel. The use of the setting allows to create narrative interest to present what might be considered to be bleak, depressing and hopeless. The disturbing images we are presented with such as 'the grinning skeletons' which builds strong emotions in the readers as it suggests the hidden crimes that ar |
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Homeostasis Mechanism Lab - Body TemperatureThis report discusses an experiment that studies the homeostasis mechanism of body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and appearance before and after an aerobic exercise. Most body systems maintain homeostasis by using positive or negative feedback mechanisms. When the brain receives messages from the body about an internal change in one of its systems, it works to restore the system to its normal state. Negative feedback mechanisms are found in the regulation of blood pressure, heart rate, and internal temperature controls. For example, the normal internal temperature for the human body is approximately 37 ̊C (8.6 ̊F). If the body temperature rises because of exercise, the body will start to try and cool itself off. Signals are sent that allow blood vessels to return to the normal state, sweat to be produced, pores to be dilated, and heart and breathing rate to normalize. This is very similar to the way a thermostat works. When the temperature of a room becomes too warm, the thermostat will switch o |
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Preferred Mate CharacteristicsThis study's purpose is to draw conclusions about the correlation between expressed and demonstrated mate preferences. They examine the sex differences in mate preferences and the relations between ideal and real mate characteristics. Usually males are thought to value physical attractiveness higher than other characteristics and women to look for stability. Some characteristics are wanted by both males and females. Such as dependable character, pleasing disposition, and emotional maturity. A lot of studies previously done have come out inconclusive and contradictory when testing these things. The conclusions of their study came out with no significant sex differences between the value of general physical attractiveness, popularity, shared activities, shared values, family dynamics, and masculine and feminine qualities between men and women. There was however, sex differences in specific characteristics. Men were more likely to value a partner's weight eye or hair color. While women va |
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Short Story - Tell Me Your StoryThe dawn turned night into day, cold air breeze splattered right through my window. I can hear the birds chattering and my clock ticking. It's 5 o'clock when I woke up in the morning, September 27, 2057. "Today is another special day," I muttered, so I get off of my bed and put on my glasses. I was supposed to hear noise from every corner of my house, but there's no noise at all, it's a total silence instead. I am expecting something for today but I am all alone, nobody's home except for the housemaids. With a bit of disappointment drawn in my face, I took a blanket, get into my comfy chair and picked one book on. Special day? Is that it? Well maybe I made them forget, or maybe this is all I got. Here I go again, at times when I'm all alone, I continue to read this book, trying to draw a blank on what day is it. Well intimately, this book has a never fading scheme. The usual thing, I shed tears, laughter and fulfillment whenever I read every line from this book. A couple of h |
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Creating and Designing Motivating JobsExecutive Summary This paper explores four theories of motivation and how they relate to Picerne Military Housing. Keeping employees motivated is important for every organization, including Picerne Military Housing, because motivated employees are the key to maintaining a productive and successful business. Therefore, managers must find ways to motivate employees and make them want to live up to their full potential. To do this effectively, managers need to understand what motivates employees within the context of their respective roles. Motivating employees can be one of your biggest challenges as an employer. Constant pressure to increase productivity, profitability and revenue growth can often overshadow the importance of how an unengaged workforce can negatively affect corporate performance. However, researchers of organizational behavior have been studying motivation within the workforce for decades, and several motivational theories have been popularized. This paper will examin |
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Friendships in The Epic of GilgameshThe Epic of Gilgamesh, is not only a story about a man in search of immortality, but also the story of a deep friendship between two men named Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Their friendship symbolizes the embodiment of brotherhood, comrades, and companions. Enkidu and Gilgamesh had a deep connection for one another. From the start Enkidu was created by the gods to be Gilgamesh's equal and companion. And although Enkidu was created to be a companion and equal he was equally a second self for Gilgamesh. In the same way Gilgamesh is not only a friend for Enkidu. As Enkidu leaves the wilderness he becomes aware of himself, meaning he understands his position as a human being. At the same time of his understanding Enkidu seeks a friend. Therefor for the both of these men the relationship is a reflection for their own selves. After the two embark on a journey to kill the giant Hambaba, Enkidu dies shortly after. The loss of Gilgamesh's good friend is difficult for him to bare. The separation from |
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Friendships in The Epic of GilgameshThe Epic of Gilgamesh, is not only a story about a man in search of immortality, but also the story of a deep friendship between two men named Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Their friendship symbolizes the embodiment of brotherhood, comrades, and companions. Enkidu and Gilgamesh had a deep connection for one another. From the start Enkidu was created by the gods to be Gilgamesh's equal and companion. And although Enkidu was created to be a companion and equal he was equally a second self for Gilgamesh. In the same way Gilgamesh is not only a friend for Enkidu. As Enkidu leaves the wilderness he becomes aware of himself, meaning he understands his position as a human being. At the same time of his understanding Enkidu seeks a friend. Therefor for the both of these men the relationship is a reflection for their own selves. After the two embark on a journey to kill the giant Hambaba, Enkidu dies shortly after. The loss of Gilgamesh's good friend is difficult for him to bare. The separation from |
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Vietnam - The Moment the War Comes HomeThe Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bodies, villages being destroyed, farms being burned by bombs. US soldiers were awakened only to find that they came here just to kill people rather than building a new world on which they were preached. Strong will and belief in independence and justice of Vietnamese people made the Americans more skeptical about the real purpose of this war. And then along with depression, fatigues of soldiers in the battles were anti-war movements rising in America. The war was not only limited in Vietnam, but it also took place in America, on the streets, in schools, universities, and slipped in every family. It had torn America with deep divisions in political circles, in social classes and above all in ou |
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Music and the Brain: Instruments and IntelligenceWhat is it about music that seems to captivate the attention of various groups of people around the world? Could it be the rhythms, or the lyrics that they listen to? Music has been around for thousands of years and continues to add energy to the lives of many. The impact that music can have on an individual is remarkable and can change lives in a myriad of ways, including: assisting with academics, improving life skills, and utilizing the mind. Although learning to play an instrument can be a rigorous and laborious task, the benefits that will come from learning can help you in many aspects of life. One benefit that music can offer is aiding with the arduous and stressful part of life called school. People tend to overlook the ways that music impacts the success on their education. Nadine Gaab, a neuropsychologist, has been working with her team showing improved life skills that link with music. "There's a lot of evidence," Gaab explains, "that if you play a musical instrument, that |
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Letter to the Department of the TreasuryDear Secretary __________, I am currently enrolled in a Principles of Finance class at Jesse BetheI High School. I am writing to you today about the importance of financial literacy. Many Americans don't know much about the financial world and continue to get scammed. With this knowledge we students will be prepared to face the real world challenges without being tricked or robbed of our hard eared money. Being financially literate also benefits us at all stages of life. Savings are really important to majority of us and being well educated about the financial world can be helpful. There are many reasons why financial education is important. To begin, financial education helps us avoid fraud and gives us the knowledge to make appropriate decisions. Being financially literate is a big step into avoiding frauds because sometimes people get overwhelmed by big words and assume that the person that is scamming them is probably really intelligent and knows what he or she is doing. Little do they know that not paying attention or not taking the Principles of Finance class has cost them a lot money that could be used |
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My Sister, RosaWhile on an electric scooter I noticed my older sister Rosa catching up to me. As we're racing each other our mom is holding our baby sister Emilia in her arms and at the same time yelling at us "Stop fooling around or you're going to hear a mouth full from your dad!" Giggling, we turn our scooters around and start heading back to our house. It was a very hot and humid day that summer, every day was spent as if it were our last one with each other. There wasn't a day where we weren't enjoying each other's company as sisters. You would think that with Rosa being thirteen years older than me it would be like fire and ice, not a great combination to start with. What made our bond worthwhile was having a younger sibling in which we both shared the role as older sisters. The bond you share with a sibling can never be tampered with. Rosa found everything amusing, when she laughed she would turn red as a tomato and it would eventually leave her without breath. She had a heartwarmin |
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The Sun Rising by John DonneIn "The Sunne Rising," the poet John Donne dramatizes the conflict between the sun and the speaker, an egotistical young man in bed with his lover. This conflict emerges as the sun rises and shines into the speaker's room. The speaker is angry, annoyed, and astounded that the sun would have the audacity to so rudely awaken bringing his night of passion with his lover close. The speaker then proceeds to put the sun in its place by informing it that it has no right to barge in on him and his lover and that it isn't as big and powerful as it thinks. As the title suggests, this poem begins during the sunrise as the first beams of sunlight begin to shine into the speaker's bedroom. The speaker addresses the sun as a noisy intruder, upset that the sun has come through both his window and his curtains, which are meant to be barriers that separate him and his lover from the outside world. The speaker, irritated by this intrusion, asks the sun what gives it the right to tell him an |
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Case Study - Abnormal PsychologyThis is one of those unique moments in history when the personality and political behavior of one key political actor are of determinative significance. The answers to many of the key questions with which this committee is grappling depend upon a clear understanding of the motivations, perceptions, and decision making of Saddam Hussein. To provide a framework for this complex political leader, a comprehensive political psychology profile has been developed. Saddam Hussein was a dictator who ruled Iraq for thirty-five years with an iron fist. He was a manic and blood seeking person and strove to be the greatest of all time. During his time in power, he waged war with Iran, Kuwait, Kurdistan, and the United States of America. Iraqis suffered from hunger, humiliation, and were treated like slaves in order to help pursue his vision. He had palaces and statues all over Iraq, cars plated with gold, women from all ethnicities serving his pleasure, even though his people were dying from extr |
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Clara's Death in The House of the SpiritsIn Isabel Allende's novel, The House of the Spirits, the important event of Clara Trueba's death serves as a structural division in the plot. Clara's death changes the diction, ambience, and mood in the setting of the novel. Clara's clairvoyance is also revealed to us through Allende's skillful use of magic realism, a literary technique used to incorporate mythical elements into an appearance of reality. Clara, with her supernatural powers, forms a sense of protection for her family. Clara's death also transformed the rebellious nation's political system, the lives of the different family members, and even the spirits in the house; from the translucent images and surreal tone, before Clara's death, to absolute realism of panic and chaos after her death. Through Allende's tone and diction, the reader is aided in realizing a shift in the plot, "Alba knew that her grandmother was the soul of the big house on the corner, everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house |
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Civil Rights: Same-Sex MarriageSame sex marriage is a pressing issue in today's modern society. People of the same sex deserve the right to marriage, given that people of opposite sex are allowed the right to marriage. Same sex couples are denied important benefits that are given to heterosexual couples. Personal moral disapproval of gay marriage is not a legitimate reason to deny same sex marriage. Denial of same sex marriage sends the message that it is alright for our people to discriminate and look down on the gay and lesbian communities in America. America is a country based on equality, and homosexuals should be allowed the same rights as those given to heterosexuals. People of the same sex deserve the right to marry because without marriage, they are denied many important rights that go along with be |
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Absolut Vodka - Image DescriptionThe image depicts a giant bottle of Absolut Apeach vodka with the words "Find Your Flavor" floating above. The bottle has a silver cap on the top and some kind of symbol on it. The bottle also has white words written down it in cursive and at the bottom "IMPORTED" is printed larger and bolder in print. Around the upper portion of the bottle, there appears to be slices of a peach along with some spritzy bubbles floating about. Also behind the giant bottle of vodka the sky appears to be a sunset with beams of light coming up from behind the bottle. In the background rough, jagged mountains seem to be emerging from a dessert. The whole entire background and the bottle convey the color of peach in a sunset setting. Directly on the sides of the enormous vodka bottle, there are two groups of people. The people are much smaller compared to the size of the bottle. You can maybe depict that some of the people are male and some are female, but they are only black like shadow |
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