Bernard Ebbers

IT’S hard enough to believe that beneath the sincere image of a contemporary investor, Bernard Madoff, is an exploiting individual. After taking a glance at the decisions he made under his economic façade, there seems to be more than what meets the eye. During a past family breakfast, I remember hearing his name constantly brought up on 9 News. When we heard the broadcast, it appalled me to learn that Madoff was involved in a scandal where he deceived legitimate contacts into pooling large sums…

White Collar Crime: Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme We have all heard of a Ponzi scheme and may know of someone who has fallen victim to this type of fraud but we may not all be familiar with the definition of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud in which funds from a new investor are taken to pay an existing investor an alleged return on their investments. New investors are recruited by being guaranteed high return rates with little to no risk for loss. The organizer of the…

In 2009 in America, Bernard Madoff, one of the most famous business men in the United States and a part-builder of the largest financial pyramid in American history, was convicted. It was one of the most known and big investment scandals in the history of Wall Street. Bernard Madoff, the founder of the Financial Pyramid, which attracted a huge sum around $50 billion, threw the USA in shock. Since the mid-60s of the last century, the name Madoff was synonymous with scrupulous honesty and…

An existential legend is somebody who makes his own particular quintessence (like "character" or 'life significance '), as opposed to assuming that she was conceived with one. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that demonstrates an incredible change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in neediness, she offers blossoms to acquire her living. Eliza does not have a training. This shows through the way that she doesn 't have the most legitimate method for talking. This happens…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

The myth of the Pygmalion and Galatea us one of the most influential and inspiring ancient Greek myths, and became the main theme for theatrical plays, movies, and artistic paintings. The main idea of the mythological story can be traced from ancient times, all the up to very modernized productions and literature. The themes of the original story and all of the reinterpretations have to do with a metamorphosis of some kind, and the ideas of how a woman should look and behave. Pygmalion is a…

In class we read a play, Pygmalion, and learned about the greek myth to compare and contrast the two. There was a lot of differences between the two, but there was also a few similarities. I thought that the play was different then the myth because a lot happened in the play. The greek myth was about Pygmalion who fell in love with a statue. The play was about Higgins who turned a flower girl into a lady. They are both have the same concept just different ways of going about it. In the play and…

Breaking Social Norms in the 19th Century Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Bernard Shaw is a play about a 22 year old named Vivie Warren who has been at several different boarding schools all her life, because of this she doesn’t have much of a relationship with her mother, Mrs. Warren, who is a former prostitute and now owns a string of brothels yet she has always left her daughter in the dark about what her job is and what’s paying for her to go to Cambridge.Vivie Warren defies the norms for a…

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, The Razors Edge by Edmund Goulding, and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde all portray an example of Corruption Trivializing the Rich. Each one of these movies has characters that are corrupted or doing the corrupting due to their wealth. Whether they are corrupt and wealthy due to their upbringings or are recently becoming corrupt, all these movies portray the life of the rich and their behaviors to find who they really are. The story of Pygmalion…

The people of the earth go through changes all of the time, whether the person being a real person or if it being a character in a video game, television show, or even in a book. In books, most characters experience some kind of change. In George Bernard Shaw’s book Pygmalion the main character Eliza Doolittle experiences many different changes, presented by the themes of the book. The three main themes Eliza Doolittle experiences are, class separation, transformation, and as well as the…