Case 10-10 An Offer You Can’t Refuse Fast Eddie, a publicly held company, manufactures and installs refrigeration systems for governmental and commercial applications. Fast Eddie is being investigated by a governmental agency for overpricing on government sales during the period from 2007 through 2009 as well as allegations of misrepresentations by one of Fast Eddie’s former officers, Sweet Lou. The criminal and civil investigations began in late 2009. In the prior fiscal year, the company’s auditors
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Case 10-10: An offer You Can’t Refuse I. Overview of case facts: * Fast Eddie is a government contractor of refrigeration systems. * It is being investigated by a governmental for overpricing on sales from 2003 to 2005 and allegations of misrepresentation by its former officer, Sweet Lou. * The criminal and civil investigation began in late 2005. * The government obtains a subpoena for all of Fast Eddie’s corporate record related to the case. * The company’s auditor issued
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I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Analysis: This sentence became well-known instantly after the release of the film “The Godfather”. It is originally comes from the novel 《The Godfather》. The intended audience is the reader of the book who is seeking to feel the power and influence of the “godfather”. In fact, the “ offer he can’t refuse” is used several times in the whole story but varies slightly by its meaning. Especially, “ make him an offer he can’t refuse” sends the audience a
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Case 10-10 An Offer You Can’t Refuse Fast Eddie, a publicly held company, manufactures and installs refrigeration systems for governmental and commercial applications. Fast Eddie is being investigated by a governmental agency for overpricing on government sales during the period from 2003 through 2005 as well as allegations of misrepresentations by one of Fast Eddie’s former officers, Sweet Lou. The criminal and civil investigations began in late 2005. In the prior fiscal year, the company’s auditors
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creation instead. The term “retail therapy” is an attempt to shop when people usually feel boredom, sadness or anxiety. The article gives 5 scenarios of impulsive shopping. They are The Bored Buy, The Bummed-Out Buy, The Far-Flung Buy, The Offer-You-Can’t-Refuse Buy, and lastly, The Someday Buy. These strategy tips are very useful and effective for understanding consumer’s actions and can help tackle this behavior before it becomes habit. Concept Implication The Bored Buy The first scenario given
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in farming. Walter can also be considered knowledgeable about farming because of how long he’s been helping his father harvest his crops. Although Walter is only in first grade, he’s as old as Jem, a fifth grader. Walter explains that the “Reason I can’t pass the first grade, Mr. Finch, is I’ve had to stay out ever’ spring an’ help Papa with the choppin’” (31-32). Usually, when someone has a lot of first hand experience with something, they are very well learned in that area. In this monologue, Walter
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submitted to private medical exams. The company offers an abstract of the records, but the government insists on the complete files, with employee names. Then the company tries to obtain releases from all the workers, but some of them refuse. If you give the records to the feds, the company has broken its commitment of confidentiality. What would you do? Assuming that a federal health investigator wanted a report of your employee medical records, you know it’s wrong to give out information without
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print. You may think you’re signing a contract, but really you’re accepting a job with a specific title, job description, stipulations and salary. The economy is structured on the freedom to draw up a contract with a system of laws that can be enforced. Contracts that are freely entered into are not always read carefully by the signer. The signer may not be aware of the elements required to make the contract enforceable (Seaquist, G. and Coulter, K.). For example if the Fabulous Hotel hires you as head
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In “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, Herman Melville tells a tale about Bartleby, who works for a law office and abruptly refuses to write. When the narrator, the boss, asks for the reason, all Bartleby says is “I would prefer not to”. The narrator migrates his office to get rid of Bartleby after a long stretch of thought. Toward the end of the story, Bartleby refuses to eat and starves himself to death in prison. In spite of the fact that Bartleby is dead, his soul is still alive as the narrator is spooked
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Key Concepts * Imagery ( Literal and Figurative) * Symbolism * Simile/Metaphor * Connotation/Denotation * Couplet Poetry Forms (You should be familiar with one longer and one shorter form) * Terza Rima * Sonnet ( English and Italian) * Villanelle * Viator * Ode * Concrete Poetry * Computer Poetry * Haiku * Ballad * Canticle * Sestina * Tanka * Ghazal * Rubaiyat stanza * Clerihew * Epigram Sound Devices * Rhyme/Meter
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