Barry Minkow – Misrepresentation and Ponzi in 1987 Establishment of ZZZZ Best Company When he was a sophomore in high school‚ Barry Minkow founded a carpet cleaning company - ZZZZ Best Company in his parents’ garage. At that time‚ the carpet cleaning industry has few entry barriers and all Minkow needed was a small amount of start-up capital. However‚ he soon found out that his firm was actually tough to survive in the industry as the ease of entry means fierce competition. The young man encountered
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In Barry Strauss’‚ “The Trojan War: A New History”‚ he discusses a topic that has been talked about for thousands of years‚ yet is able to bring new interpretations and arguments about it. While Strauss shows that many of the accepted ideas about the Trojan War can be disproved‚ he also fails to support his claims with adequate historical references and analyzes. To begin the book‚ Strauss introduces Helen of Troy. Helen was the wife of King Menelaus and had attracted the attention of the Prince
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Reaching Out The two essays‚ "The Sanctuary of School‚" by Lynda Barry and " ’I Just Wanna Be Average‚ ’" by Mike Rose‚ are two essays concerned with children and the way a school system affects a child ’s life. Barry and Rose use situations in their own life to help readers understand their point of view. The responsibility of parents‚ the assertiveness of their teachers‚ and the way they used their unique situations to help solve problems in our fallible society. Parents can have a profound effect
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Lynda Obst is a seasoned film producer and book author. In her book‚ sleepless in Hollywood tales from the new abnormal in the movie business‚ she describes the problems associated with the modern movie business. According to Lynda‚ Hollywood is abnormal. The abnormal was undergoing a transformation from what it previously was to becoming a place where studios concentrate on foreign markets to make money. They forget to produce films that are not as entertaining as before. The studios are also producing
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Two Questions by Lynda Barry is a comic strip about how she ends up losing her passion for drawing and writing. As a kid she never cared about how her drawings looked because she drew for fun. Then one day all of that changed when people started to give their opinions about what she drew. She enjoyed drawing so much until two questions got stuck in her mind; does this suck or is this good? This resulted in a drastic effect; a drawing that she thought was good was actually bad. Barry was more concerned
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Communication is the imparting or exchanging information and news with people around us. Therefore‚ communication is an important theme for our daily life. Without communications well in this generation‚ people may cause conflict between each other. Communication as well contains barriers like non-verbal signals‚ language‚ pre-judgement‚ relationships‚ listening‚ systems and emotional responses. According to my past communication barriers that I have experienced‚ in the past‚ I do not know how to
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I brought in a picture of an ostrich as it symbolises Barry’s lack of intelligence. The ostrich relates to Barry since he is portrayed as a thick-headed bully and ostriches are known to have brains smaller than the size of their eyes. Some acts of ostriches also proves their stupidity; for example‚ an ostrich digs its head underground when it sees a predator as it thinks that if they can’t see the predator‚ the predator won’t be able to see them. This relates to the theme‚ ‘Bullying’‚ because it
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Case Study #1: Non-tariff Barriers to International Trade 1. In the Xia case‚ if the WTO were to rule in favor of Brazil‚ which of the WTO trade agreements would contain the justification and why? Answer: Brazil banned imports of Xia goods from China because there was allegations and unconfirmed speculation pertaining to China’s use of hazardous materials (for example‚ lead paint and potentially carcinogenic plastic and rubbers) to manufacture toys cheaply‚ which sparked consumer panic around
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In this excerpt of “Dave Barry Does Japan” Dave Barry shows the lack of care American tourists have for the culture and country they are visiting and satirizes stereotypes of both American and Japanese people through his use of repetition‚ anecdote‚ and self-deprecating humor. Dave Barry uses repetition throughout his story to add focus to specific ideas. An example of this is in the beginning of the story when he repeats his overexaggerated versions of the Japanese word for thank you‚ to satirize
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Dave Barry wrote a letter to his grandson with all the thing important knowledge and advice he believes his grandson should know. When writing this letter Dave had realized the most important thing he knows. In the article‚ “Dave Barry teaches his grandson life’s lessons - beginning with the ketchup”‚ Dave Barry uses high comedy in the form of sarcasm and hyperboles to prove that sometimes you have to learn the hard way. When saying something he did not actually mean in the letter‚ Dave Barry used
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