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    Worldcom Research Paper

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    The Overall Impact of WorldCom’s Violations WorldCom’s violations had an impact on so many things. First of all, in the summer of 2002, they were a leading carrier of internet traffic, and then they filed bankruptcy on July 21, 2002. This was the largest bankruptcy in the United States history at that time. WorldCom filed bankruptcy as a result of, accounting errors that totaled over $7 billion, which led to its demise. The demise of WorldCom had profound effects on an entire industry.…

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    The Tay-Sachs Disease

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    The Tay-Sachs disease was named after ophthalmologist Warren Tay he was the first to spot the cherry- red retina and now it the marker of this bad disease. Another man Bernard Sachs a neurologist was the first to describe the changes in the brain prevalence. Tay-Sachs the disease is something that is inherited from both parents it is when both parents carry the Tay-Sachs gene and both parent transmits the gene that is defective to their child. If a child inherits two Tay-Sachs genes from both…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Pygmalion Research Paper

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    An Analysis The History of Shaw: The Shaw Festival, created in 1962, is a defining attribute of the Canadian theatre scene. Founded by Torontonian lawyer Brian Doherty, a mere twelve years following the death of the festival’s name sake, George Bernard Shaw, the festival started as what Doherty referred to as “something (they) believe in” (Henkin). Snowballing faster, the originally small courthouse performance troupe grew into a non-profit organization with a theatre sitting just over 320…

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