Nick Scali Limited Question 1. Discuss the overall performance of NCK in 2014 based on the forecast data. Even thought NCK’s top line reflected a 7% increase in sales‚ the EBIT declined by 4% and gross profit remained in the 11-12% range and pretax profit remained steady. With dividends factored in the retained earnings fell by over 200% to just $4‚655‚975. The investment in PPE‚ the reduction of LTD and the dividend had a substantial impact on the 2014 forecast. These three combined shifted
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My primary source is a segment of the sketch The Gunfighter by Nick Offerman. The story took place in a pub‚ where the gunfighter found that a strange voice saying out every character’s mental activity in front of all the others in that pub. After the voice exposed several character’s secrets‚ which were mostly immoral‚ the atmosphere had been driven to the boiling point. At that time‚ the gunfighter made a speech to evoke others to revolt the voice’s control. His words worked for a second‚ then
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came around‚ you could find my brother and I both passed out in our seats. I remember these experiences so vividly even from my childhood because my entire attention was primarily focused on who was playing and I wasn’t distracted by anything else. In Nick Paumgarten’s essay‚ “We Are a Camera”‚ we are introduced to the GoPro camera through the different stories of people using them‚ or misusing them‚ to
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Nick Carraway is an unreliable narrator in‚ the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book he is biased towards all of the characters. He talks negatively about all of the characters except for Gatsby. Nick is constantly praising Gatsby and showing him in a very positive was. All of this leading to the fact that Nick is unreliable because‚ he is biased towards all of the characters in the book except for Gatsby. At the beginning of the book Nick says he is a man who is inclined to reserve
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receive the limited first person point of view from Nick Carraway‚ the narrator. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick’s character in order to influence the reader’s interpretation and perspective of the novel; it also affects how the reader is positioned to respond to other characters in the novel. The reader‚ as only receiving Nicks review of other characters‚ has to believe that this is indeed what these characters are like and must accept that Nick is correct when it comes to judgments of events. Although
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Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway displays that he is singularly appropriate to narrate this story by being a nonjudgmental‚ reserved‚ and clear-minded man. Many people become blinded by wealth and egos. One cannot tell a truthful story with a distorted mind. Nick demonstrates that he is a true‚ unbiased narrator. When he was younger‚ his father tells him‚ “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone‚ just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages you had” (FitzGerald 1). Nick lives
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In The Great Gatsby‚ a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a wide array of seemingly different characters came together through a series of wild events. While these characters all seemed very different on the outside‚ and clearly represented different ideas‚ some of the characters had startling similarities that at first may have gone unnoticed. This was especially true between the characters of Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. While they appeared to be opposites at the beginning of the story‚ as their lives
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In the novel The Great Gatsby by ‚ it can be agreed that the character of Nick Carraway tells throughout the novel by how he see’s the Great Gatsby through his eyes and he explains how he facilitates the rekindling of Daisy and Jay Gatsby’s romance. Firstly he introduces that he is the narrator in chapter one. Secondly he tells us how he came to Long island and how things are after moving to West Egg and moving in next to the Great Gatsby. He progress’s from innocence to finally finding a moral
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There are many aspects to my identity that have to be analyzed and described in order to classify who I am and what I stand for. My social upbringings‚ values‚ cultural practices‚ and worldviews all have had large impacts on me and how I classify myself religiously‚ racially‚ ethnically‚ gender based‚ and social groups I surround myself with. Throughout time‚ my identity has evolved and expanded for the better. I am becoming a better man everyday. Factors like family‚ school‚ and my everyday small
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Is nick a reliable narrator? How does his point of view colour the reality of the novel‚ and what facts or occurrences would he have vested interest in obscuring? Nick’s basic contempt for mankind emerges in what he says and thinks as well as in descriptions of others. The novel begins by Nick insisting that he was “inclined to reserve all judgments‚” and then spends the remainder of the novel forming judgments of all the other characters. Tom is crude‚ Daisy is shallow‚ Jordan is dishonest‚
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