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Poems exists for sharing an experience, telling a story, and are precious journeys to be shared. In the poem “The Day” by Geoffrey Brock functions perfectly in this way, sharing his view of life by comparing it to a transitory plum hanging on a stem. He describes a scene of a young man trying to capture a ripe plum. He comments on the element of time and truly is a masterpiece for readers. With some similarities to a sonnet Brock raises two components in his poem about life and morality. Brock…

In Robert Frost’s sonnet Acquainted with the Night, the speaker finds himself questioning the greater triumphs of darkness and light. Throughout the poem, the speaker goes on a journey of self-discovery, but finds loneliness on his walk. The speaker goes on to contemplate life and his place within society. It is of common knowledge that Robert Frost often dealt with complex depression due to many events in his life. Frost’s father died when he was just a boy and only two of his six children…

The fraud that Bernard Madoff committed was discovered in December 2009, which was based upon a Ponzi scheme. He did so by taking money from new investors to pay earnings to old customers. The higher the number of his clients who wanted to withdraw of retire their investment, the more revenue he would need. Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi whose crime was discovered in July of 1920 by the Boston Post. Madoff started in the investment business legally by buying and selling stocks that…

the defrauding of the investors of amount $50 billion which he was running the biggest Ponzi scheme for around two decades. In 2008 December when there were economic disturbances and meltdown in the United States Madoff couldn't carry his functions and satisfy his Investors requests of cash. He decided to come clean and accept the fraud he has committed. The Wall Street has collapsed due to the Ponzi scheme as it was the massive investment fraud which has affected many people including the high…

From times long ago to today’s time, everyone’s common goal is to achieve happiness. Happiness for someone, however, can be love. In the poem “Villanelle” by Marilyn Hacker, Hacker uses the title to inform her readers that this is a specific poetic structure. This type of structure takes a form in which the first and last line of the first verse repeat throughout the poem. Hacker creates these repetition of words to make the reader become aware that the lines are important. By making this poem a…

The poem “The Names” is a detailed experience written around the thoughts of the writer Billy Collins as he walks around in the night after the events of September 11th 2001. The poet Billy Collins puts the readers in a different place in his poem “The Names” by the usage of imagery, diction, and ethos. Collins use of imagery brings the reader closer to the scene of the first anniversary of the tragedy that was 9/11 by giving great detail to his personal experience. He does this by describing…

Sundiata selects and arranges words in ways that develop rhythm which contributes to the audience’s understanding of the theme of racism by criticizing it as a form of injustice. The poet develops the rhythm using long and short words with stressed and unstressed syllables. The long and short words also pace the poem differently in different sections. For instance, the first few lines, the poem has a fast rhythm because most of the words are short. For example, the first three lines read, “I was…

The sonnet is a special form of the poetry that originated in Italy but found many supporters in other cultures. The peculiarity of the sonnet form is its adherence to definite rules. For example, the traditional Italian sonnet includes two quatrains and two tercets. However, many authors played with the sonnet forms and introduced something of their own. For example, William Shakespeare known as the master of sonnets has introduced his own form of the poem and the rhyming system. The sonnet…

Red Flags: Madoff’s ponzi scheme lasted from 1991 to 2008. During that time period, there were several red flags that showed that Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was involved unethical behaviours. Whistleblower Harry Markopolos attempted to prove that Madoff Securities was involved in fraud from the late 1990s to Madoff’s arrest in 2008. Markopolos approached well-known economists, market analysts and the Security Exchange Commission multiple times in order to incite an open…

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