150 years in prison. When did it all start? According to Madoff‚ his Ponzi scheme began in the early 90’s. Madoff created a scheme in which new investments were used to finance payoffs to earlier customers‚ to falsely make it seem like there were genuine returns. He never imagined that it would last as long as it did but he realized that the snowball was way too massive to stop. What is a Ponzi scheme? “A Ponzi scheme is a type of securities fraud where the promoter makes some sort of false or
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chimney sweeper boy‚ and the second [Experience] is written from a third person standpoint. The Chimney Sweeper [Innocence] utilizes an AABB rhyme scheme‚ making it seem like a nursery-rhyme style poem which points to a childish nature; this is appropriate for the poem because it is from the perspective of a child. Chimney Sweeper‚ however‚ has an ABAB rhyme scheme which is associated with more mature poetry- The Songs of Experience engages with a higher level of knowledge of the world‚ many of them explore
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no matter how much time hates love‚ love will keep on making gold constantly hence the repetition of the word ‘gold’ and that love is not a fool of time respectively. Another structural feature is the rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme in ‘Sonnet 116’ is ABABABABABABAA. Likewise the rhyme scheme for ‘Hour’ is ABABABABABABAA. The effect of this is to show how each of the poems has a consistent relationship running throughout the poems. Also there is enjambment in the poem from lines 5-14 of ‘Hour’‚ ‘For
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Comment on the Ways Hardy Presents a Sense of Loss in “Your Last Drive” The sudden loss of a loved one can reveal that a seemingly intimate‚ idyllic relationship can in fact be complex‚ distant and lifeless. In "Your Last Drive"‚ by Thomas Hardy‚ it is indicated that although there may be no afterlife‚ the dead live on in our memories and through imaginative recreation. Hardy manages to depict these concepts through his intricate control of language. One of the foremost ways in which Hardy expresses
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Paul Fussell begins the chapter by stating any poems two kinds of basic organization. The poem may either be stichic or strophic; in a stichic arrangement‚ line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas. In strophic organization‚ the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical complexity. A compromise between these two can be found in heroic couplets‚ which are best thought of as stichic‚ with a line of twenty‚ rather than ten syllables. Stichic
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someone. It describes a raven that comes trying to get his soul as the sadness sinks in for the lost one. One of the different things that the poems both have is there rhyme scheme. Although there is not many differences that the poems have this is one of them. The rhyme scheme for the raven is abcbb‚ while the rhyme scheme for Annabel Lee is ababcd. This is just one of the ways that the poems are different. Both of the poems have a similar theme though. Both of the poems talk about how someone was
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Bernard Madoff The fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff which was discovered in December‚ 2008 is based upon a Ponzi scheme. Madoff took money from new investors to pay earnings for existing customers. The greater the payout to retiring and withdrawing customer‚ the more revenue or clients he would need to start and “investment relationship” with Madoff. The Ponzi scheme was named after Charles Ponzi who in the early 20th Century‚ saw a way to profit from international reply coupons. International
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Analysis: "The Good Morrow"consists of three stanzas which include 7 lines with an ABABCCC rhyme scheme. Donne’s use of figurative language‚ along with the point-of-view and tone of the speaker‚ enhances his poem. Sexual imagery is present in the first stanza with words such as ‘wean’d’ and ‘suck’d’ elicit breast images. These loaded terms also help identify pleasures as a metaphor for breasts. Another example of metaphor is the word ‘beauty’ in line 6‚ which actually represents the woman. In the
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the word “Worship” deals with the ideal belief that there is or was something in which created all things. Also‚ society and order can be compared to nature in such a way that nature is everything that is‚ was‚ or will be created. Within the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearian sonnet‚ John Greenleaf Whittier has focused this poem under the theme of Creator and his Creation. Beginning his first stanza with: “HE harp at Nature’s advent strung” (Nature line 1)‚ Whittier emphasizes “HE” in which it represents
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Leda and the swan word choice Word choice of course always has to do with what you want to say and how you want to say this. For example the last words of the first two paragraphs follow the abab rhyme scheme so they are kind of set already. Words are also very particularly chosen to create a certain mood. In the first sentence the mood of the poem is already very clear‚ a dark‚ mystified‚ mood and to do this it uses the word sudden. This tells the reader that an unexpected thing is happening
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