C A S E 3 Asian Journal of Case Research 4(S): 27 – 44 (2011) Flight of Funds MOHD NOOR ABU BAKARa‚ MARIATI NORHASHIMb* AND ABDUL HAMID MOHAMED GHOWSc ABSTRACT In 2006‚ Malaysian Travels Sdn Bhd‚ a subsidiary of a public listed company‚ purchased 40% equity in Turkistan Global Services Sdn Bhd on the basis of a project paper which outlined a potential travel business to exploit opportunities in Turkistan. Turkistan Global Services Sdn Bhd purported to have acquired the opportunity through a Memorandum
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Michelle Wong 12 October 2015 AP Literature Ms. Taylor The Century Quilt Response The poem The Century Quilt by Marilyn Nelson Waniek serves as a nostalgic reflection of the history of a cherished quilt‚ which connects the speaker’s life to her diverse heritage. Wainek’s use of enjambment‚ personification‚ and colorful imagery develops a speaker and a character that demonstrates affection for the quilt’s qualities and reveals a more complex underlying message about the quilt’s impact on how the
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The message of the poem‚ “Sadie and Maud”‚ is that the success and happiness is not determined by a structured path‚ but the one we create. In the poem it says “Maud went to college/Sadie stayed home/Sadie scraped life/With a fine-tooth comb/She didn’t leave a tangle in” (Lines 1-4). This is saying that Maud went to college and Sadie did not go to college. It is also significant because it compares Sadie with a fine-tooth comb because fine-tooth combs take everything in and does not leave a tangles
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A poet relates to the world by constructing their identity through their performance in public spaces. At Outspoken Live‚ poet Lisa Luxx performed ‘He Sounds Just Like Me’‚ a moving poem about her being adopted by a British family and her longing for the “absent root” in which she came from Syria. The audiences’ mood changes when Luxx says “[Syria]…is followed by silence”. This eerily captures the atmosphere in the venue. The silent audience shows their awareness of the conflict in Syria‚ brought
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virtually indistinguishable. The poem‚ To a Mouse by Robert Burns‚ in which the mouse thought she was prepared‚ but in reality her home is destroyed‚ is where the two pieces are found similar. "Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ west‚ An’weary winter comin fast‚ An’ cozie here‚ beneath the blast‚ Thou thought to dwell‚ Till crash! The cruel coulter past Out thro’ thy cell" (Burns 5). To represent the relationship between Of Mice of Men by John Steinbeck and the poem the first piece of evidence used
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B. Book Critique Criteria # 4 Poems for young children should tell simple stories and introduce stirring scenes of action. The poem itself is fairly long‚ however on each page the text is fairly simple and easy to read. The story has made-up vocabulary such as‚ moose-moss and Lake Winna Bango‚ but this does not distract from the central message. The story begins “Up at Lake Winna-Bango..the far northern shore…”‚ and it does not leave there until the end of the story. The true action of the
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affair. This abruptness is supported by the following line because the phrase “a slap in the face” can be used to imply the element of surprise. The lake in Mirror ‘has drowned a young girl and replaced her with a middle-aged woman. Throughout the poem the mirror/lake appears as quite a sadistic character who takes delight in the girl’s sadness. This text informs us that her youth is passing and age is gaining on her; the word ‘young’ puts particular emphasis on this fact. The drowning could suggest
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“After Auschwitz” is a poem by Anne Sexton; the poem is about an individual that is in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Auschwitz concentration camp was known as a death-camp‚ a camp that was made for the extermination of the Jewish peoples. Since death was a normal occurrence there‚ the speaker expresses the anger and despairs he or she feels towards humanity as a result of all the death that is taking place in the camp. In the beginning of the poem the speaker says‚ “Each
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening When you think of a dream‚ how do you analyze it? Is it just something you do while sleeping and then forget about later? To Salvador Dali dreams were very important and were constantly seen in his artwork. He painted oil paintings that were small collages of his dream images. His work displayed the "unreal dream" space that he showed with strange hallucinatory characters. When looking at the painting that is the subject
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In the poem Sympathy for the devil‚ the speaker uses many different historical allusions and understatements to gain the readers sympathy for him. The speaker of the poem is the Devil and he tries to make it sound as though he is forced to be around all of the death and despair so that the reader might feel bad for him. He uses the historical allusion of “I was around when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain” to show that he has been around for a very long time and he has seen some of
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