Critique Paper: Case 3-1 Maynard Company October 8‚ 2013 Case Overview: Maynard had been surprised that the cash she had increased by $31‚677 yet her net income was only $19‚635. She asked a friend to help her find out what the reason was‚ so consequently she referred to the income statement and said that she could prepare one for Diane. Her friend also came up with the cost of sales figure which was $39‚345 for the month of June. Problem of the Case: Q1: Income Statement Revenue(Cash Sales
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Charles Portis: “I Don’t talk Service No More” In the beginning of the Cold War‚ Korea was divided into two at the 38th parallel. Russia occupied the northern part and the United States occupied the southern part. The two of them both influenced the parts‚ in which they occupied‚ and one day the communist-backed North Korea invaded the South‚ leading to the outbreak of the Korean War. When the war ended‚ many former soldiers were coping with the consequence of posttraumatic stress syndrome‚ because
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No‚ Let’s Talk about Dollars and Cents” the author‚ Ben Stein writes to his son and addresses the most valuable life lesson there is in Stein’s eyes. This life lesson is capital‚ and the positive effects it can provide to your life. Stein is writing to his son to inform him about the “smart way” to invest your money‚ Stein uses past generations as an example to show just what capital can do for you. The purpose of this letter/article is for a father to have a heart to heart with his son and to instill
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love‚ especially uncontrollable love can lead to an awful thing called heartbreak. Many people wonder if love is worth the risk of heart break. Even Tish wonders this in If Beale Street Could Talk. The author James Baldwin over shadows a lot of important topics including racism‚ justice‚ and prejudice‚ but his main point was to show that end the end‚ that risk of heart break was worth the amazing experience of love. To be human everyone feels love‚ but the important part of that human emotion is to
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falling in love for the first time in his life. The narrator is attempting to win the girl’s affection by presenting her something from the Araby bazaar. The boy‚ a narrator of a story‚ is not a static character. His image‚ thus‚ continually evolves‚ as well as the concepts around him. One should point out that Araby bazaar‚ at first‚ serves as an image of shelter from the impeding environment of the boy’s neighborhood in Dublin‚ but then changes dramatically. James Joyce conveys the theme that in man’s
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SMOKING ON CAMPUS Today‚ as in every other day of the year‚ more than 3‚000 adolescents in the United States will smoke their first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults (NCI 1994). A number of students on campus are habitual smokers because smoking is addictive; furthermore‚ unless repressed‚ it leads to many health complications. The report by the National Cancer Institute on smoking declares that cigarette smoking in the United States clearly outweighs any other factor
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world of late-night talk shows with the debut of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. A satirical news show in the vein of The Daily Show‚ Oliver tackles important issues and topics often overlooked by mainstream news outlets. The similarities between Last Week Tonight and The Daily Show are no coincidence‚ as John Oliver spent several years working as a writer and on-air correspondent for The Daily Show‚ including an eight-week stint as guest-host. As with many late-night talk shows‚ Oliver’s show
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“Me Talk Pretty One Day” deals with a 40 year old man trying to learn the language of the French. The main point to me is the fact that David Sedaris would get basically bullied by his teacher but he still somehow learned the French language. At the end of the story he says an insult that his teacher had said to him‚ “ Everyday spent with you is like having a cesarean section” but as the teacher says this to Sedaris for the first time all semester he understand what she was saying to him. Now he
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“ We talk of identity as individual but in reality‚ identity is formed by society” in the light of this comment compare and contrast the ways in which identity is explored in the three texts‚ Skirrid Hill‚ The Road Home and Measure for Measure Our individual identity is shaped fundamentally by the society in which we live. However‚ identity is also shaped by an individual’s sense of self. Society plays a crucial role in forming a sense of identity by influencing the individual through the interactions
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David Sedaris was born in New York in 1956. He writes Me Talk Pretty One Day tell us his experience of going back to school. He returned to school at the age of forty-one and attended it in Paris. David Sedaris “moved to Paris with the hopes of learning a new language.” It only took him ten minutes to walk from his apartment to school. Arriving early on the first day of class‚ he “watched as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. When the teacher marched into the classroom
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