Inkshed #8 - The Boat Alistair MacLeod’s short story “The Boat” is a coming of age account in which the narrator tells of a period in his life when he must choose between what he desires and what his family deems is important. The narrator delves into his relationships with his mother, tradition, and most importantly his father. His family lives in a small Nova Scotia fishing community where his father owns and operates his own fishing boat and his mother stays at home to take care of the seven children. The relationship between his mother and father is conflicted and it is obvious that they do not hold the same views. The narrator is forced to choose between finishing high school and helping his father out on his boat.
Plan A requires $40,000,000 in start-up capital, has annual fixed costs of $4,000,000 and variable costs of $3,300 per unit to open the new jet boat production facility. The attached sheet shows IBC’s projections for the possible sales estimate scenarios. We see that unless sales of the jet boat totally flop, the company has an ROI of 28.5% in the most likely of scenarios but has an ROI of 56% in the most optimistic scenario. The attached sheet provides the figures used in calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) of the new facility. Plan B’s capital requirements are $45,000,000, annual fixed costs of $4,800,000 and variable costs of $3,000 per unit.
Vanessa Benedetto The Boat The short story, “The Boat,” by Alistair MacLeod is written in first person. MacLeod writes about the life in Cape Breton from a boy’s point of view. The man remembers his childhood with his family on the wharf. From the way the man tells the story he gives the reader the impression that as a child he had a strong relationship with his father, and admired his selfless, hardworking actions. Clearly his father had more of an impact on his life because he talks more about his father.
Dexter then finished schooling, and then he had borrowed 1,000 dollars from his degree to buy assistance in laundry. When Dexter had turned twenty seven years old, he had already owned the greatest laundries for the upper Midwest. He then sold his business and had moved to New York. Then once he had turned twenty three, he was announced a pass for the weekend for Sherry Island Golf Club. Mr Hart, who was the one to announce this also had Dexter as his caddying at one time.
For example, “…needles from the pine kept falling,” or “....floor of pine needles.” The pine needles falling from the tree could represent Joe growing up and departing from his father. The pine needles falling from the tree is the same idea of the bird leaving the nest. There is also much description concerning the fishing rod. Characterization of Joe’s relationship with his father is further described in the fathers love for the fishing rod. Joe’s father puts time and money into this fishing rod.
Whilst on holiday they went on family boat trip. It was Mr B’s first experience in being out at sea. Mr B and his 2 sisters decided to play in the sea with a blow up boat that their parents brought them to share. Whilst they were playing, his 2 sisters ganged up on him. He felt rather venerable due to the fact that he was recovering
• Non-traditional retail stores increased their share of consumers food-at-home from 1 7.7% to 30.8 in 2003. • According to the USDA traditional retailers market share declined from 82.3% to 69.2%. • Wal-Mart was both a driver and a beneficiary of this change, as its share of U.S supermarket sales reached 15.2% by 2003. • In 2004, Wal-Mart opened its first California supercenter. • By 2007, the number of Wal-Mart supercenters nationwide were forecasted to reach 2000, translating to 35% share of food store industry.
In 2000, nine of every ten dollars raised by foreign companies were raised in the United States. In 2005, nine of the ten largest offerings were not registered in the United States, and, of the largest twenty-five global offering, only one took place in the US. The number of public companies going private increased from 143 in 2001 to 245 in 2004. Sarbanes Oxley is a, if not the, major reason companies are fleeing America’s capital markets. Furthermore, according to some estimates, Sarbanes Oxley has cost the very investors the law claims to protect at least $1.4 trillion.
Analyzing Managerial Decisions: Setting Tuition and Financial Aid Managerial Economics, MBA 540 March 17, 2013 Abstract In the year 2000, the Board of Ursinus College raised tuition 17.6 percent to $23,460. Inasmuch as 200 more students applied to the college than the year before, the president of the college surmised that applicants assumed the school must be better if it cost more. This school of thought (no pun intended) had been proven at other institutions of higher learning such as the University of Notre Dame, Rice University and the University of Richmond. In contrast, North Carolina Wesleyan College lowered its tuition and fees by 22 percent 10 years ago and saw its number of applicants decrease. Susan Hansen, an Admissions Director at liberal arts college in the East, has recommended to her president that the college needs to increase its tuition and reduce financial aid to students in order to solve the school’s financial problems.
In 2008, the souring economy hit Whole Foods rather hard. Sales increases at Whole Foods stores open at least one year rose only 0.8 percent in 2008 versus 8.2 percent in the previous year. In August of 2008, Whole Foods announced that planned new store openings for 2009 would be reduced. Whole Foods had to back out of signed leases or revise the lease terms of 70 new stores that had been scheduled to open in 2009 and 2010. Whole Foods recently arranges to sell $425 million of preferred stock to private equity investors, which equated to an ownership interest of 17 percent in the event the private equity investors exercised rights to convert their preferred stock into common