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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Scott Fitzgerald connected many characters through a great adventure of love and mystery. Nick‚ Tom‚ and Gatsby have unique characteristics that develop during the story. However‚ these characters never change even though they go through many experiences. The first character is the friendly Nick Carraway. As a child‚ he was taught to not judge people. Ever since he was a child‚ he has been the man who everyone goes to tell him their secrets to. In this story‚ Nick is friends with some people in
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How does Steinbeck present and develop the character of Curly’s wife in ‘Of Mice and Men’? 1) In the beginning of “Of Mice and Men” we readers are made to perceive Curly’s wife as a vain‚ trouble making bully who provokes people and intends on bringing their anger out‚ especially Lennie and is incapable of seeing the world from any perspective other than her own. We then realise by the end of the novel that she is only a sweet‚ innocent woman who just wanted to be cherished and wasn’t able to
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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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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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presentation of his first person narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ in Chapter 1. Consider: • What the narrator reveals to the reader – personal details‚ reasons and motivations • Narrator’s choice of language and style – vocabulary and imagery • Narrator’s relationship with the reader – how close do we feel to him? Do we warm to him on first impression? By Nikita Schaap In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character of Nick Carraway as his mouthpiece‚ his own little
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was the reality for Nick Yarris. Based on his novel‚ “The Fear of 13”‚ is a documentary which tells the chilling story of Yarris’s life and the mistreatment he faced against the Pennsylvania Prison (2015). Yarris spent two decades on death row‚ on the charges of the abduction‚ rape and murder of Linda Mae Craig‚ a woman he had never met (The Fear of 13 2015). This documentary shows how the labelling theory and low self-control theory can perpetuate deviant behaviour. And Nick Yarris’s story is the
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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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Nick Sousanis’s comic Unflattening is a philosophical look at the importance of expanding perspectives beyond a fixed viewpoint. He made the unusual decision to present his dissertation in the form of a comic not only because the dual perspective of images and words coincides with his message‚ but also to show the potential for the application of comics beyond society’s preconceived ideas of the form. Comics offers a unique combination of the verbal and the visual that can be applied to both narrative
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component to working class culture‚ as detailed in The Wire‚ is the belief that there is virtue in performing an “Honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.” Although Nick and Ziggy gradually descend into the underground economy as the second season progresses‚ their involvement in illicit‚ dishonest work is considered very taboo; both Nick and Ziggy go to great lengths to hide their drug dealings from their families. In stark contrast to white‚ working class culture which generally encourages licit work
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