Short
Essays

¶ … web-based surveys and their usefulness in reducing the cost of business research. The writer explores several aspects of web-based surveys including performance and comparison to traditional type surveys.

The paper if focused on the concept of wheel of retailing (WOR). The paper starts off by giving a background of the WOR concept and then focuses on countering the argument presented in the concept of WOR by using the example of City Super – Hong Kong. The paper also gives recommendations.

This paper answers specific questions regarding business performance ratios, particularly regarding large vs. small firms, relative risk as measured by ‘beta,' and return on various possible investments. The answer to which performance ratios were especially important to small firms were the ROA short version of the DuPont equation, where the larger firm would consider ROE, given public ownership; both would want to maximize fixed asset turnover ratio for plant heavy firms or inventory turnover rate for retail and also plant-based value generation. Various benefits and costs of debt vs. equity were compared along with methods to calculate required rate of return given various capital structures.

Annie Dillard's essay on "The Giant Water Bug" begins as an example of nonfiction, meditative nature writing and ends with a murder. Dillard's text moves from a contemplative and humorous meditation on the nature of the…

Man is born free, but everywhere, he is in chains. Jean Jacque Rousseau's famous opening lines in The Social Contract conveys how individuals voluntarily give up their personal freedoms in order to reap the benefits of…

Gustave Flaubert writes Madame Bovary as a realist who is particularly enamored with certain aspects of romanticism. In other words, he tells his story from a realists' perspective, but is also very conscious of the…

Throughout Islamic history, Shi'ites developed a denomination distinct in various significant ways from that of Sunnis. The differences between Islam's two major denominations arose as early as the beginning of Islamic…

¶ … September 11, 2001 changed everything. We hear sentiments such as this one often; what do they really mean? Other than the obvious -- stricter security at airports, increased demand for Middle East experts -- what…

Oscar Wilde, despite having lived and died in the first half of the twentieth century, that is, in the year 1900, when he was just about 46 years old, remains, to this day in the twenty first century, a man whose…

Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working with more than 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to fight poverty and related injustice around the world (Oxfam International 2002).