“criminalize high-risk and aggressive trading,
The lawyers are trying to make his allegations seem like it is legal
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- Dec 2024
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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“lied to banks to obtain billions of dollars that they then used to inflate the stock price of a number of publicly-traded companies,”
This shows a major part of his personality
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apnews.com apnews.com
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Want to cause fear
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The risky maneuvers
what makes them risky maneuvers?
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massive
wordplay. what makes it massive?
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unusually long
plays into the feeling of confusion
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www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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The bubble burst," said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams. "The prices dropped. And when they did, billions of dollars of capital evaporated nearly overnight."
This quote is a great representation on what happened to Archegos
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aggressive
What makes it an aggressive investment strategy?
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downfall
This points to a detrimental turn
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'house of cards'
Already in the title, "house of cards" is being used as a metaphorical situation. In addition, it points to his business being an insecure situation or plan. The media is using wordplay to tear apart Archegos
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www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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His downfall occurred when Hwang was unable to meet margin calls, as the prices of some of his favorite stocks began falling and various banks unloaded stocks that had backed his so-called total return swaps.
The reason of the downfall
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national calamity
word imagery
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www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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Prosecutors accused Hwang of lying to banks about Archegos’s portfolio so he could borrow money aggressively and make concentrated bets on media and technology stocks such as ViacomCBS, now called Paramount Global.
This can be accounted to his narassitic personality
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“It stands among a rare class of cases that truly could be described as a national calamity,” prosecutor Andrew Thomas said at the sentencing hearing before Hellerstein.
Example of public relations. The prosecutor i choosing to be very careful with the words he is saying.
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In a statement to the court before Hellerstein announced the sentence, Hwang said he hoped the punishment would “allow me to serve as much as I can given the circumstances”.
Trying to gain the trust so he will get a lesser sentence
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nypost.com nypost.com
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national calamity,
Harsh term
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Disgraced
This is a result of what happened
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stunned
Pulls the audience in for the rest of the article
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fortune.com fortune.com
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wang faces the prospect of spending potentially the rest of his life behind bars after a federal jury in Manhattan found him guilty on multiple counts of fraud
Hwang has faced consequences
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Its buying was so prolific that Hwang ended up inadvertently triggering his own financial demise when the media company took its rising share price as a golden opportunity to issue new stock that could fund the heavy cost of content production.
This is an example of scapegoating narritives
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www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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unrepentant recidivist'
This is an example of an opinion statement. Also possible title of paper.
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judged himself blameless.
This shows that he feels remorse for what he has done
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And even now he has no remorse."
Conflicting evidence because earlier the article said he had remorse so it would be interesting to investigate
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deserves
What is the determining factor that makes Bill Hwang "deserve" 21 years in prison?
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- Nov 2024
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An appetite for climate finance?
During this poll/survey there was no evidence of anecdote fallacy. The poll/survey remained objective and did not jump to any conclusions.
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What do t
The limitiations for this poll/survey are that it may be difficult to be objective about climate change.
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86 per cent
A concept from class that I learned about was statistics.
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Four in five people
A concept from class that I learned about was random selection.
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- Oct 2024
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georgetownvoice.com georgetownvoice.com
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I attack the enemy within. A murderous array of disease has to be fought against, and the battle is not a battle for the sluggard.”
Example of a medical metaphor. The entailments of this metaphor are graphic. The words written depict a vivid image.
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It’s going to be our 9/11 moment.”
Example of a a war metaphor. The entailments of this metaphor are visual. It brings up the vivid pictures in your head about 9/11.
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams
Expert example.
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www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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She added that federal regulation that would require companies to abide by specific protocols is also needed to keep up the rapid pace of AI advancement.
This can be taken as a fact because there is evidence that will be able to back it up.
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But not all users dislike the feature.
This is a conclusion. The user's who are in more favor of the AI tool do not pay the fee to remove it as stated above.
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www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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But the contest falls into a legal gray area and could potentially violate election law, according to interviews with several election law experts. While paying someone to vote or to register to vote is explicitly illegal under federal law, the lottery is contingent on signing a petition rather than merely registering to vote.
This is crucial to note because although the competition seems cut and dry there is a loophole for legal action.
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The DOJ spokesperson declined to comment further and would not say whether the department had opened an investigation.
This is important because if the DOJ decided to speak it could of backfired and caused chaos.
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