Bernard of Clairvaux

George Eastman, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie were captains of industry. Eastman, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie were all captains of industry because they all gave back and donated money, each of these four men donated money or items to business, charities, and founded their own schools or business. George Eastman was a very generous man and gave money to schools, businesses, and even gave away scholarships/internships to M.I.T which stands for Massachusetts Institute of…

Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York based "over-the-counter” brokerage company founded by Jordan Belfort. Stratton Oakmont is one of the well known and most controversial stock scandal of all times. Jordan Belfort also known as “wolf of wall street” was a stockbroker who ended up doing a big stock manipulation. He looted his clients by underwriting an initial public offer(IPO) for a company that doesn’t exist then they used pump and dump scheme to sell its self-owned stocks by…

Psycho is a classic among the entire horror movie genre with many memorable iconic scenes by the only Alfred Hitchcock in the history of Cinema. Tense, horrific and a superb lesson in filmmaking, it offers complex characters and revealing dialogue with a huge regard for details. Psycho also features glorious use of mise-en-scene, a fancy French term for all of the visual elements in the frame used to infer meaning. Hitchcock famously uses this concept in the parlor scene, where Marion and Norman…

The cognomen Madoff has been stained with deception as it relates to American investment fraud history. Bernie Madoff masterminded a modern day Ponzi scheme, which was the biggest investment fraud known to Wall Street that amounted to $65 billion swindled from investors for a 20 year period (Graybow & McCool, 2009). Madoff, 77 years old, is currently serving a 150-year prison term at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan; 150 years was the maximum sentence for his crimes (Henriques…

TWhy do you think that people would steal art? To get money, to help a friend, to just get attention? Everyone has there reasons that we might never know. That is one of the challenges authorities have, trying to figure out why people steal the ear that they steal. Another major challenge is having to locate the art and the people who stole it. The masterpiece Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen. It had a five million dollar reward for whoever could find it. At the…

collar crimes “Bernie Madoff’. The man who almost got away with billions of dollars of innocent investors. We will dive into the shocking story of Bernie Madoff the man who embezzled billions. The shocking story that prominent investment manager Bernard Madoff’s hedge fund, was a huge scam which forced to liquidate holdings and increase stock prices. The arrest of the 70-year-old Madoff, widely considered to have the perfect…

Chapter # 7 Assignment 1. What factors do you feel define the moral values you have today? The factors that define my moral values I have today are mostly based on my religion and Upbringing. My religion says that never hurt other person by taking away their rights or stealing from them. What I have not earned is not mine and I have no right to keep that monetary item for my own selfish reasons. My religion always teaches about spreading your wealth to the people in need, we are not here in this…

The Men Who Built America Episode 1 starts 5 Days after the Civil War, which was known as the bloodiest conflict with 6,000 deaths adding one of the greatest, Abraham Lincoln. This episode was about how the railroads had come together. The railroads started with Cornelius Vanderbilt. He began his journey starting with a single ferry that had later on become many ships. His ships were used to transport goods. Vanderbilt later on in life then decided to sell all of ships and invest in railroads.…

As General Bernard Law Montgomery once said, “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” It is the make or break skill factor in a multitude of scenarios. In regard to his conduct in leadership, he was not short of critics, for he was a widely contested person of interest. Despite his critics, Montgomery deserved his praise, because of his extraordinary impact due to his leadership during the Battle of El Alamein,…

Hitchcock’s film generates the suspense and curiosity in Psycho. He demonstrates in various and specific ways that we would not expect to happen. It has happened to be one of the biggest hits ever in the 60’s. He has been one of the first people to introduce many things in the film industry, especially the toilet scene. In a way Hitchcock makes us want more and it gets us to anticipate and to expect for more things to happen. Alfred Hitchcock turns our stomachs upside down and leaves us wanting…