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    You Are An Entrepreneur! Ariel Keaton Professor Kenneth Guyette ACC 557 – Financial Accounting Abstract The paper presents a business plan for Nouveau riche. Nouveau riche Boutiqueis a fashion retail store located in Charleston, SC. It is a sole proprietorship and is managed by the owner. It sells fashionable clothing, shoes, purses and accessories. The business plan will also presents the projected sales analysis, projected profit and loss, and projected balance sheet in the next five years

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    Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth serves as a strict model of etiquette for high society in the Gilded Age. It teaches one the intricate art of keeping up appearances and assimilating into the fickle leisure class. At the same time, the novel’s underlying purpose is to subtly critique this social order. Lily Bart’s perpetual, although often reluctant quest for financial stability and mass approval is a vehicle for demonstrating the numerous absurdities and

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    The 17-2018 California budget is two hundred million dollar in deficit. I would assume there no agreement on the size of the deficit. I decided to cut on other spending and on criminal justice. Reasons as to why I had decided to cut on these spending are because for me other spending means spending money on things that we want and not need. If it is a need then yes, it is okay to increase on those other spending, but if it is only a want then I will just cut it. As for cutting the criminal justice

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    The “Roaring Twenties” is an era in American history characterised by a vast increase in wealth, especially among the middle class. It was during this time period that the “American Dream,” truly became a reality for many people in the United States. The novel The Great Gatsby documents this time period with a precise attention to the culture clash that resulted from this era. This culture clash is emphasised by the climax of the novel, with a conflict between Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. The division

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    The American Dream is like a beautiful yet poisonous mushroom. Its colorful appearance lures humans and animals to consume it, but the outcome results in death if left untreated. The American Dream lures people into thinking that their dream and their social class can be changed with hard work and determination. However, the results are deadly in The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald with all that tried. Through the use of imagery, Fitzgerald characterizes Jay Gatsby as ambitious, naive, and selfish

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    Analyze how settings in The Great Gatsby contribute to the novel’s themes. F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibits a glimpse of the American society in the 1920s in his novella The Great Gatsby; set ‘In the city that never sleeps’, he exposes the social hierarchy full of injustices, consumerism and excess. The novel tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a man whose desire to be reunited with his long lost love brings him from poverty to unimaginable wealth. Sadly being married to Tom Buchanan an arrogant, unfaithful

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    Marlayna Mcarthur 2nd, lit Mrs .Watler 12/9/2015 The Color Gold symbolize In The Great Gatsby Colors have many shades, along with various meanings and emotions. When you look at the shade of a color and what it means in books each color has its own meaning and emotional attachment to each character. the color gold has been mention in the book The Great Gatsby. Gold has a connection to everything in this book. It has several different meaning: happiness, richness, extremely

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    The green light at the end of daisy's dock is the symbol of gatsby's hopes and dreams. It represents everything that haunts and beckons Gatsby: the physical and emotional distance between him and Daisy, the gap between the past and the present, the promises of the future, and the powerful lure of that other green stuff he craves money. The light is something that is a key part of gatsby's character, even the very first time the books protagonist nick sees gatsby he is down at his dock staring at

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    Deep Patel The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald descomteratits the idea that people are unable to accept their true reality so they tend to put them self into the a false reality that they believe is true. This idea can be examined through three different literary devices; character, symbol and motif. This idea can be shown through two characters throughout the novel, Gatsby and Myrtle. As they are both stuck in a false reality that was created by themselves

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    As Fitzgerald started to build the base of his storyline, one element that stood out to me was his characterization of Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan. Nick followed a motto in life, told by his father, ‘"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had”(1).’ Right off the bat, Fitzgerald portrays Carraway as an objective and nonjudgmental human being. As I read further through the chapter, I noticed

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