Bernard Ebbers

Psycho English Assignment 1:) The opening moments of Psycho suggest a documentary, with exact time and place indicated. What might be a viewer’s expectations after such an opening? 1.) Answer: The opening moments of the film may be shown or hinted to be a documentary because they want you to be involved in the life of the characters of the film for example: A documentary involves You in the life's or events of whatever the documentaries about. The viewers of the film when involved in with…

Akamai Technologies Incorporation, Polycom and People Support. His idea of doing business was just to receive the price information about a stock and then buy it right before it is up in the market for sale and then sell it to the price of his choice. This idea not only made him a wealthy rich person in the wall street but also a celebrity who featured in numerous business magazines and reality shows and once he was start being a role model in wall street to look up to since he rose the ranks…

Tay-Sachs is a deadly disease present in infants and newborns. The disease is passed on by people from many different descents and regions. There are no known links to an explanation why these descents are known carriers of the gene. The gene is known to not be present within the first 3-6 months, growing and thriving like a healthy child would. A tay sachs kid gets its genes from if both the parents have the tay sachs gene and hand it off to the child. A kid can get the gene passed down to them…

In 1960 Bernard Madoff started in Manhattan at his wife’s dad’s investment place until he started his own firm, which was very small in the beginning. He would make his money off of the variances between the offer price and sales price of stock. As Madoff became more successful he gained more clients and they were starting to work that they would lose their licenses through the SEC. According to the film this investigation was only a “bump in the road” they paid the money back and continues on…

Mega-star music producer Scott Storch filed for bankruptcy yesterday, officially claiming a meager $3,600 in assets and $100 in cash. In 2010 he was worth $70 million. Storch's fortune came from producing blockbuster hits for artists like Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, but he has allegedly blown it all on cars and cocaine. In 2010, Storch counted a total of 13 cars in the garage of his Miami mansion, including a $600,000 Mercedes SLR and a $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron. He…

Social Attitude of the Investment Industry after Bernie Madoff Bernie Madoff could be described as an ethical egotist, one who is heavily involved in an organization that does nothing but take advantage of others for personal gain (Bethel, 2015). As for his co-offenders, their personal values were more from an economic value orientation because they deemed his behavior as ethical and acceptable based upon their own financial gain (Bethel, 2015). Even today, Madoff continues to try to justify…

The ethical issues involved in the Madoff case were moral philosophy and value. The moral philosophy that Bernie Madoff portrayed completely defies the moral compass that most people use. Most people rely on their instinctive nature of honesty and trustworthiness. Bernie Madoff claims that he and his sons built a great investment firm to which there was no intention of unethical behavior. His unethical behavior got out of control and he didn’t know how to stop. The facts of the case prove…

The film vertigo which was released in 1958 which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is about a detective which has a fear of heights which is portrayed in the opening credits as the spinning and the spiral’s symbolises the detectives fear of heights as the detective suffers from an illness which is called ‘vertigo’. This is portrayed through the opening credits as the spiral’s convey the detectives emotions in the film through the opening credits we know what type of genre the film will…

Moving along with the documentary, they begin to talk about the operation on the 19th floor which as known as the lipstick building. This was very interesting because no one would suspect anything from a lipstick company. That was very genius of Madoff to do. Inside the building there were 20 to 30-year-old working making millions of dollars a year. Madoff “company” was run by Madoff family members like his two sons and brother. Where the actual fraud was taking place was in the 17th floor by…

based on, information on the role of women in 1960s China, and information on the opera Madama Butterfly would be provided to them. The characters Rene Gallimard (Hwang, pg. 1672 line 1) and Song Liling (Hwang, pg. 1679 line 4) are based loosely off Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, respectively, and their relationship in the 1960s followed by the discovery of Shi Pei Pu’s deception and then the resulting case of espionage that they were convicted for by the French Government. Also, while the…