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The Wisconsin minimum mark-up law (also known as the Unfair Sales Act), sec. 100.30, is a law that was passed in 1939 forcing retailers (gas stations) must markup their prices for motor vehicle fuel either 6% above what they paid for it or 9.18% above the average terminal cost advertised in their area, whichever is greater. One point to note is that the 9.18% is not the retailer’s marginal cost but it is a terminal price, which is more than likely higher than the gas station’s actual cost, putting

Mr Fallas, the defendant, accidentally shot his friend, Mr Mourlas, the plaintiff below, in the leg while hunting kangaroos. At the time of the accident, the four men were participating in an activity referred to as “spotlighting” or shooting kangaroos at night with the aid of a spotlight. Before the activity that took place at 10:30pm, all the men, four in total. Were drinking one or two drinks where Mr Fallas himself had a couple of drinks. The men were driving a vehicle where Fallas was the driver

Hugo is the story of young boy living in Paris who lives inside the walls of a train station. The story is centered on Hugo as he deals with the loss of his father, his obsession with rebuilding the automaton, and his discovery of new friends and family. Director Martin Scorsese interweaves Hugo’s struggles with that of a toymaker who owns a shop inside the train station where Hugo lives. This toymaker is actually the filmmaker George Melies. As the plot unfolds, it becomes apparent that Hugo and

The Ford Flex is an outlier among utility vehicles — one part wagon and second part SUV. This mid-size model’s uniqueness means it has no direct competitor, although its three-row, seven-passenger space puts it head-to-head with SUVs from Nissan, Chevrolet, Dodge and others. The 2014 Ford Flex is a midsize sport utility vehicle that’s available in SE, SEL and Limited trim. You’ll find standard front-wheel drive with a V6 engine. For 2014, the Ford Flex offers only minor changes, including a slight

With a growing competitive market in fuel efficient compact automobiles, Ford undaunted desire to compete with major automobile manufactures like Volkswagen and Japanese Imports. Released the compact and fuel efficient Ford Pinto in 1971, determined to be the most competitive and desirable subcompact model. Ford’s president had the vehicle designed to weigh only 2,000LBS and cost the consumer roughly $2,000. And with these strict guidelines the Ford Pinto passed federal safety standards. Unfortunately

The Ford Pinto, a compact car produced during the 1970s by ford, it was well known for its tendency to cause an explosion when rear ended from another car because it would leak fumes. this cause multiple deaths and people wanted justice for the damages and deaths this caused, and why there was not more actions taken by ford. In the late 1960, s people wanted to start buying small cars and they were becoming more and more popular, people wanted better gas mileage so that’s when different car dealerships

their own. In the story, the male who is known as The American, objective is to reason the female character Jig into going along with the operation. The story pans over to the only bar at a train station. A bar made of strings of bamboo beads, the only service area with enough shade at the train station. The American and Jig arrives at the bar; they are in wait for the express train to Barcelona. This express train I presume is the train that will bring them to the location where the abortion would

In “Hills like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism in both description and dialogue that convey the real meaning of the story; Abortion. Hemingway doesn’t state that the Man and Jig are talking about abortion we have to infer it thought the symbols he left for us. The setting and scenery are a huge role in this story, the hills that appear in the back are appearing to look like white elephants as Jig states and this is supposed to represent the producing belly of a fertilized woman.

In this essay I shall be analysing Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, and how he shows his character Jig gaining power in her relationship with the American, throughout the story. Hills Like White Elephants has created a <huge> amount of debate since its publication in 1927 around what actually happens after the story ends and what Hemingway was trying to convey about Jig and the American’s position within their relationship. It needs to be kept in mind that the attitudes surrounding

Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” describes a couple - man and woman - held up at a train station in Spain. They begin to waste time on drinking beer and liquor in order to forgo the possible circumstances that has been placed upon them. The American tries his best to persuade the woman to have an abortion, but she is ambiguous about the challenges she might be faced with.Earnest minimizes his words throughout the story in order to exemplify a greater thought, called the Iceberg Theory