In Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window”‚ the building of suspense and the use of a cliffhanger creates an uncomfortable mood for the reader. Bierce starts her short story having the narrator tell a tale about a man‚ Murlock‚ who lives in a cabin deep in the woods with his wife. Murlock’s wife soon gets very ill and dies. Bierce starts the suspense by having Murlock show little to no emotion when his spouse passes. Murlock didn’t grieve for his wife at the time of her death because despite the fact
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Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value The goal of countless corporations around the world is to create value for their shareholders in the most profitable ways possible. In this article‚ Rappaport put together some familiar business wisdom to present ten simple principles to help company to create the most effective shareholder value. The first principle urges companies not to manage earnings or provide earnings guidance. Companies unable to adopt this principle of shareholder value are unlikely
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How does Levi Roots use language to sell his product to the dragons? Levi Roots uses spoken language devices to persuade the dragons to invest in his product. He uses a variety of spoken language techniques such as pausing‚ overlapping‚ turn taking and accent in order to persuade the dragons. The dragons respond in a warm way‚ and join in the humour Levi creates throughout the interview; this suggests that Levi root was successful in persuading the dragons. His use of language also sets mood and
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information‚ putting an important character in peril‚ or the character must choose between two dangerous courses of action‚ or reversals. In the short story August Heat the author creates suspension through the use of foreshadowing and withholding back on some information and through assumptions. The story begins off and does not introduce the protagonist‚ but instead they introduce us to the settings. The author suggests
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In order to create a hypothetical utopian society‚ Aldous Huxley projects the future progression of technology and bases the direction of his novel Brave New World on those predictions. He shows how social standards and beliefs can be changed‚ and how a few upgrades over a few decades can cause society to be nearly unrecognizable‚ vastly dissimilar‚ and frankly quite strange from an outside perspective. Huxley predicts that technological advances can lead to views on birth‚ sex‚ and relationships
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preeminent customer value which will help the companies consolidate their competitive advantage and achieve long-term profitability. Companies have responded to customers’ expectation by increasing the value offered to them through improving products quality‚ reducing prices and intensifying customer services (Bill Dodds‚ 2003). In the transportation industry‚ there are more and more budget airlines and they are fiercely competing. Budget airlines dropped their prices to attract customers and price
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The realisation of the reader from this extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to
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CHAPTER 2 How to Calculate Present Values Answers to Problem Sets 1. If the discount factor is .507‚ then .507*1.126 = $1 2. 125/139 = .899 3. PV = 374/(1.09)9 = 172.20 4. PV = 432/1.15 + 137/(1.152) + 797/(1.153) = 376 + 104 + 524 = $1‚003 5. FV = 100*1.158 = $305.90 6. NPV = -1‚548 + 138/.09 = -14.67 (cost today plus the present value of the perpetuity) 7. PV = 4/(.14-.04) = $40 8. a. PV = 1/.10 = $10 b. Since the perpetuity
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In the Lord of the Flies by the author William Golding‚ he creates an allegorical novel based on stranded children abandoned on an island. In order to create an allegory‚ it’s a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters‚ figures and events(Allegory). The novel Lord of the Flies it begins with a group of children that were stranded on an remote island without adult supervision. They start to develop their own civilization but however as they continue
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crisis. In this analysis‚ I have analyzed several fractured narratives in the novel. Andres is the main character in the novel - and is someone that the writer wants to sympathize. Therefore‚ the writer used a fractured narrative so that he could create tension and sympathy in his novel. The writer had made a huge contrast - from a stadium of triumph and glory to people being shot. In the scene when introducing the Silver Lion‚
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