In An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott‚ Polly Milton is a simple country girl who journeys to the city to spend a month with her friend‚ Fanny‚ and her family. In the beginning of her stay of her stay‚ she was fascinated by all the pretty things that came with the life Fanny had lived‚ as she had been so used to a basic life in the country. However‚ as the days go by‚ Polly finds herself more and more uncomfortable with the city life and all that comes with it. After what seemed like countless
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companies are required to publish their business activities in their annual reports. However‚ some companies in UK such as Polly Peck‚ Bank of Credit and Commercial Bank (BCCI) and Maxwell group‚ have failed to meet these required regulations. These firms have failed because the directors were acting against shareholders’ interests. Most famous corporate scandals have been companies like Enron‚ WorldCom and Barings Bank. There was poor governance in these companies‚ which has been the main
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comes naturally to him. From the beginning of Wilsons first marriage to Polly‚ Polly’s family figures out what kind of man Wilson really is. Polly never caught on to Johns lying‚ “Polly’s family noticed Jack’s [John’s] tendency to lie when it suited his purposes‚ but Polly seemed oblivious to it” (8). Polly never realized that he constantly lied to her. Wilson left his family in Scotland‚ because he had stolen from his family. Polly was celebrating her sixth wedding anniversary without seeing her husband
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boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirts with them. Mrs. Mooney learns that Polly is dating Mr. Doran‚ a man in his mid-thirties who has worked in a Catholic wine-merchant’s office for many years. Mrs. Mooney bides her time before she intervenes‚ which indicates that she is deliberately trying to trap Mr. Doran. On a warm Sunday morning‚ she intends to talk to Mr. Doran and demands that he marry Polly or else he will risk open disclosure. The narration
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with her two children‚ Jack and Polly. In another angle‚ we can see Mrs. Mooney boarding house is actually a ‘tool’ that was used by Mrs. Mooney to look for an ideal husband for Polly. She tried some ways to get a man with good financial to be Polly’s husband before. She sent Polly to be a typist in a corn-factor’s office in purpose to make bosses fell in love with Polly. Nevertheless‚ Polly was been flirted by a disreputable sheriff’s man‚ so Mrs. Mooney took Polly back to the boarding house and
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with his children. Mrs. Mooney sent her daughter to be a “typist Jones 2 in a corn-factors’ office” (Joyce 414) but as soon as she received word that her ex-husband was repeatedly visiting the office she made Polly‚ her daughter‚ come home and “set her to do housework”(Joyce 414). After divorcing‚ Mrs’ Mooney opened up a boarding house which consisted of men from all over. She “governed her house cunningly and firmly‚ knew when to give credit‚ when to be stern
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The main issue relates to corporate entity or personality‚ a company being a legal entity independent of its members‚ can enter into contracts and own property in its own right‚ can sue and be sued and also taxed in its own name. The principle of corporate entity was established in the case of Salomon v A. Salomon ‚ now referred to as the ‘Salomon’ principle. The facts of this case were that the owner of a business sold it to a company he had formed‚ in return for fully paid-up shares to himself
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perspicacious‚ acute‚ and astute” individual whose goal during this story is to obtain‚ from his friend Petey Burch‚ a girl by the name of Polly Epsy. Petey is an illogical young man who desperately wants a raccoon coat‚ and he makes a deal with the narrator to give him Polly for a coat – because anybody who is anybody at the time has a raccoon coat. Polly is a beautiful girl whom the main character is infatuated with‚ as he sees her as a girl that would be fitting for the man he was to become
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In “A Thousand Pieces of Gold†Polly had many homes. First she lived in China with her family. Her family is poor so she fears that she is going to lose her home. When she gets sold she loses her home and her family. She wants to escape from the bandits and run back home‚ but she can’t escape. Then she get’s bought and sent to the United States. She still thinks her home is back in China and she plans to gather gold and use it to buy her way back there. She meets Jim‚ who
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exchange. Max Shulman’s piece is neither anti-women nor anti-men and is‚ therefore‚ meant to be irony. This piece is rather ironic because of fallacies appear throughout the piece‚ the main character Max has fallacies in his thinking‚ and the character Polly speaks of the fallacies in Max’s reasoning. Out of all the characters‚ there are only three characters‚ these three have at least one fallacy in their reasoning. The piece is mostly ironic because there are fallacies found throughout the work. It is
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