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    exclusive of clients. He created an allure to his name by stirring the desires of his potential investors, essentially, by frequently using the most powerful word in the English dictionary. No. He would only take the most pristine clientele; if George Clooney walked up to him and asked him to take his money to invest, he probably would’ve made up some bullshit excuse for being unable to accept it at that…

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    The Natural, authored by Bernard Malamud is an incredible novel that touches the surface on many human emotions such as insecurity, love, and most profoundly pride. Pride and overconfidence are two obstacles the main character Roy Hobbs faces through the entire story. Roy has a dream, though he may be older he feels now it is his time to become the greatest baseball player to have ever existed. Roy has had earlier setbacks and therefore is not allowing anything in his way this time around. He…

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    1. There are many decision-making traps WorldCom’s board has succumbed to. One of these trap is relying on one individual to lead and decide the future of the company. The leader of the company, Ebber was conceited, refrained from the truth, and short tempered. He made it visible throughout the company that he did not like negative and only accepted numbers that represent profit. With a similar image to Mao Zedong during the Great Leap Forward, the company was put through an economic crisis…

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    Crazy Eddie Eddie Antar, better known as “Crazy Eddie,” is a very prevalent fraudster in the world of accounting. Antar is well known for his schemes regarding Crazy Eddie Electronics, the company he cofounded with his father. Eddie was a family man, a ladies man, and a rich man. Eddie was a millionaire, with roughly 53 million dollars in swiss bank accounts until he was caught by the downfall of his family Antar was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 18, 1947. He grew up in Brooklyn, with his…

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    The Madoff Ponzi Scheme

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    Ponzi scheme was not yet discovered, it all goes back from the beginning when Bernie founded the company with $5000.00 in 1960 from his lifeguard job back in the day. Bernie commented that he did not begin his company with such scheme. In fact, the Bernard L. Madoff Investments Securities, LLC was started with good investors and new money. After a couple of years, the firm wasn’t getting new money as it used to and returns still had to be paid out to large investors, that’s when the Madoff…

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    John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China,” is a great movie. Overseen by a successful director, performed by excellent actors, containing dynamic characters, and a full story line, it was and is a well-made film that unites Chinese legends to the modern world. “Big Trouble in Little China,” is an action, adventure, comedy that was directed by John Carpenter, who also directed films such as Halloween, Christine, the Fog and several more from 1962 to 2017. From 1962 to 1969, He directed…

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    In the classical Hollywood area and beyond there is a clear and obvious depiction of the male gaze in film and it has become particularly synonymous with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, most notably in his 1958 film Vertigo. In many of Hitchcock’s films the male gaze is not only evident but is what contributes largely to the storyline. It is used to highlight the importance of the men and objectify woman to only be seen as an object of male desire. This is successfully done in Vertigo through…

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    A Few Good Men Analysis

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    A Few Good Men The film A Few Good Men by Rob Reiner is the best example of the judicial drama, a very popular genre in American cinema. It is a dynamic, uninterrupted even for a second, detective intrigue with a great actor's play: one of the best performances of Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and Jack Nicholson. The movie, edited in 1992, contains some ethical and moral issues related to the judicial system and immoral army orders, which turn into a crime against humanity. On the one…

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    Research on communication during the Revolution must include Bernard Bailyn’s work, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, (1967). Bailyn’s study looked to peel back the myths and legends about the origins of the Revolution, to get to the real heart of the matter by looking at what was on the minds of…

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    Is Technology Interfering with Reading? Literacy begins at different levels. Some learn to read and write from their parents at a very young age, and some learn from TV shows or from hearing other kids speak at school. We all have our own story when it comes to how we adapted literacy as children. However, there could very well be a completely different story for today’s modern kids than kids in the past. With all of the distractions from the new waves of technology, they simply do not read…

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