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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If you’re an avid Good Witch fan‚ or if you loved Ties the Bind‚ you are probably quite familiar with the young man who portrays Nick Radford and breathed life into Cameron Olson. At almost eighteen years of age‚ he has had the good fortune to play some stellar roles‚ work with some gifted actors‚ and interact with fantastic fans. In spite of his hectic schedule‚ Rhys was kind enough to recently take some time to discuss his experience in these roles as well as within the industry as a whole. Credit:
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The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms‚ for example the English second-person pronoun "you"or "your". Example: You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are‚ and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar‚ although the details are fuzzy. —Opening lines of Jay McInerney’s
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An intriguing exchange between Nick and Gatsby takes place near the end of Chapter Six: “I wouldn’t ask too much of her‚” Nick says “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” Gatsby cries out. “Why of course you can!” (p. 110). How does the past impinge upon the present in the lives of both Nick and Gatsby? Should we see Gatsby as eccentric in his view that one cannot merely repeat‚ but change‚ the past by starting over? Past and Hope in The Great Gatsby Mason Scisco “So we beat
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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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The article is about Nick Sissa‚ a man from Huston‚ TX who saved hundreds of people’s lives during Harvey using a military truck he bought in 2016. The article tells you a little about his family in the sentence‚ “His wife Martha tells of how he departed in the military truck…” More about his life is found out at the beginning of the following sentence‚ “A Houston father made an impulse purchase a year ago not knowing it would allow him to save more than 300 stranded people during Hurricane Harvey
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The Unreliable Narrator The impact of the narrative point of view and subsequently‚ the narrator’s control over his story-telling cannot be ignored. Mastery in presenting the story gives the narrator control to direct his readers as he intends‚ and hence it is important to penetrate the façade of the writing to truly understand what is going on. In Lolita‚ this is especially crucial as Humbert paints a sympathetic and sorry picture of himself to gain empathy from the readers. Yet‚ at the same
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Holden Caulfield: An Unreliable Narrator In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is the narrator; throughout the story he shows to be an unreliable and reliable narrator. Caulfield is a teenage boy‚ who is psychologically depressed and confused. To be an unreliable narrator‚ the narrator must be biased‚ a liar‚ and unable to associate with other characters in the novel. These are all characteristics that prove the Holden is an unreliable narrator throughout the development of the novel. http://search
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Doodle and the narrator wants to teach Doodle to run so he will “fit” in. But‚ when Doodle is not able to accomplish these activities in time the narrator becomes spiteful. The narrator believes Doodle being not being able to run is in his head and purposely runs faster and ahead of Doodle to make Doodle strive to catch up with him. Soon after Doodle collapses‚ instead of turning around to help him‚ the narrator chooses to leave him behind in the forest. But‚ the spitefulness of the narrator eventually
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barred black Americans from enjoying the same basic human rights as their white counterparts‚ the novel opens in the South (Greenwood‚ South Carolina)‚ although the majority of the action takes place in the North (Harlem‚ New York). In the plot ‚ the narrator — speaking to us from his underground hideout in the basement (coal cellar) of a whites-only apartment building — reminisces about his life Next About Julius Caesar The action begins in February 44 BC. Julius Caesar has just reentered Rome in triumph
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