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    1. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was banished from Florence in 1302 and was a soldier in the battle of Sienese and Campaldino. 2. There was a lot of political unrest during Dante’s lifetime, as well as a horde of new poetical and literary movements that arose. This was due to the Guelfi Party’s split into two: those in favor of the pope and those in favor of the emperor. In addition, the new poetical movement that came about was called the “Stilnovo”, and was basically a style where poets would discuss

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    Machiavelli as a Humanist

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    A humanist is defined as one who is concerned with the interests and welfare of humans. Niccolo’ Machiavelli can be thought of as a humanist. Although opinions on this differ greatly depending on whom you speak with. Machiavelli’s life consists of so many examples and lessons that he has learned throughout his life. Through my paper, I intend to examine his perception of morality based on his political writings and life experiences. Niccolo’ Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469 and died in

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    of the means to ensure this stability could be deemed cruel and an abuse of power, for him the ends justify the means, and the requirement of the sporadic use of immoral methods to help end the instability that plagued the lives of innocents is a price worth paying. The World of Machiavelli: When individuals think of the Italian Renaissance, what often first comes to mind are the works of artists such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Few however, consider the tumultuous state of Italian politics. Due

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    The Renaissance Period

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    Venice. Venice was a producer of fine glass. The capital of textiles was Florence. The pandemic Black Death happened in the fourteenth century in Italy. The plaque was carried by fleas on ships. Due to the lack of proper sanitation it spread quickly. About 1.4 million people in England died. It was also called the bubonic plaque. The value of working class increased and workers traveled to more favorable positions. The price of food dropped and land value decreased. The disease spread more rampant

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    Venice. Venice was a producer of fine glass. The capital of textiles was Florence. The pandemic Black Death happened in the fourteenth century in Italy. The plaque was carried by fleas on ships. Due to the lack of proper sanitation it spread quickly. About 1.4 million people in England died. It was also called the bubonic plaque. The value of working class increased and workers traveled to more favorable positions. The price of food dropped and land value decreased. The disease spread more rampant

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    Gulf Real Estates

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    the population mean sales price and population mean number of days to sell for Gulf View condominiums. Interpret your results. 5. Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean sales price and population mean number of days to sell for No Gulf View condominiums Interpret your results. 6. Assume the branch manager requested estimates of the mean selling price of Gulf View condominiums with a margin of error of $40,000 and the mean selling price of No Gulf View condominiums

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    1. Why is Soren Chemical struggling to sell Coracle? In particular, please discuss how the channel structure affects the sales of Coracle. Soren Chemical is new to developing a consumer brand (it partners with formulators to use private-label branding for its Kailan MW line). Therefore, they are relatively inexperienced with marketing consumer-oriented brands whereby they have to handle directly with wholesalers and also market to retailers, pool service professionals and consumers. This inexperience

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    unfair representation of profitability for the two cost centers. In terms of which to use for Polysar Limited’s Rubber Segment, setting prices at cost hereby benefits the EROW center, whereas using market price would benefit the NASA segment. This is because then NASA is recording revenue for the units transferred, whereas EROW will not, (provided that the prices in both markets are similar – international arbitrage). With Polysar’s company wide profitability in mind, as well as spirit of fairness

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    MKT 370 Spring 2011 Hurricane Island Outward Bound Individual Case Analysis Outline Note: When "bullet point" is specified you will typically provide one or two sentences per bullet point. Be sure to describe your responses quantitatively as well as qualitatively. What are the problems facing Philip Chin and the Hurricane Island Outward Bound? (two to three bullet points) (5 points) Phillip Chin and the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School are trying to find a balance between increasing revenue

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    12,000 comments of dissatisfaction. However, at this point, Netflix’s stock prices still rose. Unfortunately, on September 18, 2011, Hastings posted a new announcement to the company blog, trying to separate and over-complicate the two services. He then reversed the changes, in yet another memo, on October 11, 2011. By this point, however, it was too late; more displeased customers had left and Netflix’s stock prices had plummeted. Personally, I believe this situation caused a short-term public

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