Lit. & Comp. “Nighttime Fires” pg. 587 “Nighttime Fires” “Nighttime Fires” is a narrative poem written by Regina Barreca. The poet uses powerful imagery which vividly illustrates the lasting impression made upon a girl whose father seeks satisfaction through witnessing the destruction caused by nighttime fires. The poem creates a picture in the reader’s mind of the father’s character as his grown child still remembers from when she was five years old. Although it is obvious that the
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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are
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Fires of Destruction (word count: 1‚245) In the poem “Nighttime Fires” the speaker of the poem is remembering the speaker father’s wild obsession with burning houses at night and how the speaker had to go with the father to these burning houses with the family. The father is a casualty of the rough economy and this anger toward his bad luck is the reason he loves seeing these macabre scenes. The speaker in “Nighttime Fires” vividly illustrates the lasting impression that the fires and his father’s
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REGINA COMPANY POINT OF VIEW: Regulator – National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting CASE CONTEXT: Regina Vacuum Cleaner Co. seemed to be doing excellent as manifested in its healthy 1988 annual Financial Statements. However‚ Regina Company ended up as a tragic story that served as cautionary epic to investors‚ creditors‚ auditors‚ the public and the government. The Company was acquired through a leveraged buyout by a group of Top Executives led by Donald Sheelen‚ former
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Regina Case Regina Company Inc. was known as a complacent slow-growth company and was dominated by Hoover and Eureka within the floorcare industry. Donald Sheelen was a promising young individual when he was hired first as the head of the marketing division in Regina‚ and then became its president. Shortly after becoming company president‚ Sheelen set out to make Regina the industry’s number one company and repeatedly vowed to “bomb” Hoover‚ the number one firm in the industry at the time. Sheelen
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Regina Company Inc. Common Size Income Statement Year 1988 1988 1987 1987 1986 19862 Net Sales $181‚123 100% $128‚234 100% $76‚144 100% Cost of Goods Sold $94‚934 52.41% $70‚756 55.18% $46‚213 60.69% Selling Distribution and Administrative $21‚870 12.07% $14‚621 11.40% $10‚366 13.61% Advertising $39‚992 22.08% $26‚449 20.63% $8‚557 11.24% R&D $2‚423 1.34% $1‚530 1.19% $1‚182 1.55% Total Operating Cost & Expenses
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The legal citation of the case. Regina v [2001] NSWSC 1011 (8 november 2001) The elements of the offence. In order for a trial to be brought‚ the police and prosecutors might be able to prove that the elements of the particular offence are present. In this criminal case both Actus reus‚ Mens rea as well causation was clearly shown through the behavior of Katherine Knight. Actus reus is the term referring to ‘guilty act’ meaning any voluntary actions of omissions that constitutes to a crime
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of View The group decided to look into the Regina Company case using the perspective of a financial analyst who will report to the Electrolux management and board. This decision was due to the following reasons: 1. Any further audit from the side of Regina‚ Electrolux or the SEC will only yield a similar result as the last audit thus being redundant and utterly useless 2. Looking at the case in the perspective of a member of the board of Regina will prove to be useless in evaluating the case
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I have a pretty interesting history that I didn’t know until now. My great grandmother Regina Magier and my great grandfather Alter (Alex) Magier came to America in 1947 after World War II. It must have been hard to regroup after all they went through during the war. Regina and Alter had a tough childhood in Poland being part of the Holocaust. Regina grew up in Warsaw with her parents and her sister. It had been tough growing up with war all around and never truly being safe. She didn’t have an education
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In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher struggles with internal and external conflicts that do not help him grow. In the novel‚ Christopher is a boy who has autism. He lives with his dad‚ and one day he sees that his neighbor’s dog is dead. He decides to be a detective and solve the mystery of who killed the dog. He begins to write a book‚ but his dad finds and takes it from him. When he goes into his father’s room to find it‚ he finds letters from
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