Bernard Montgomery

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A tall lone figure was at an unknown location in New York. The mysterious individual was dressed in a thick coat that was as black as the night sky. Sitting at his grand desk, he started to plan his revenge. This evil villain’s name was Sin Rostro.Also in New York lived an honourable hero. He was named NINDROID 27. He had humongous muscles and was the local hero of the people in the ‘Big Apple’. Fighting villains was his life. NINDROID 27 could lift 50 cars with ease and could fly speedily in…

Warren Tay (1843-1927) he was a british ophthalmologist who in 1881 described a patient with a cherry-red spot on the eye. The first name of the disease was the first man who discovered it then another man discovered it in New York, his name was Bernard Sachs, he was a neurologist whose work several years and later provided the first description of the cellular changes on Tay-Sachs disease. The disease was named after the two men who discovered this…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Brontë’s choice to associate Jane Eyre or Edward Rochester with birds represents their dependency on one another. In the beginning of their relationship, Jane is dependent on Rochester for financial and social reasons. As their relationship develops, she becomes more dependent on his love than his money. In both of these cases, Rochester describes Jane as a bird. But when Jane asserts her independence, she realizes she cannot identify as a bird anymore because…

In the case of Bernard Madoff, the problem was to learn how to avoid unethical behavior amongst businesses. Bernard "Bernie" Madoff's Wall Street career began in 1960 and ended Dec. 11, 2008, when he was arrested amid allegations he operated a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. He pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts on March 12, 2009, and was sentenced on June 29, 2009, to the maximum sentence of 150 years behind bars. The “Ponzi Scheme,” named after the 1920’s swindler Charles Ponzi, is a ploy where…