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    Imagine living in a society where the media skewed the accuracy of information only to manipulate the audience and boost ratings, now realize that the society described isn’t an imagination but rather a reality. Currently, the majority of individuals depend on news networks to further understand the happenings around the world. However, receiving news from one source feeds the viewer with biased ideas, intended to make the viewer think a certain way. The reason behind this lies on the ideologies…

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    Rappaccini's Daughter

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    Though there are countless interpretations of the short story “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the most predominant is the parallelism to the Garden of Eden found in the Old Testament of the Bible. For example, the main character, Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, tends a beautiful garden full of lustrous colorful plants, much like God is the creator of the Garden of Eden. Similar to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the center of the garden contains a magnificent plant covered…

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    The Madoff Scandal At one point in time owning the last name of Madoff was a very powerful and respected title, on a cold winter’s day that all changed. When my Father Bernie Madoff came and confessed to my brother and me about a multibillion scandal he has been running since the early 1990’s it changed everything. This grand truth swept the legs from under me. I remembered that it came as such a blow that I had to sit down. I could not even process the magnitude of what he had just told me.…

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    Theft, lying, stealing, being a criminal, and destroying lives of people are a few ethical issues that come to the surface in this white collar crime. Bernie Madoff is the epitome of unethical business practices and how the fallout is not worth the crime. Madoff has admitted that he knew he would eventually get caught and in a recent interview from jail has suggested that he could have had a successful career. The ethical issues and what made a human being do this is insurmountable. Madoff…

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    Charles Ponzi is probably one of the most well-known con artists America has ever encountered. Beginning his crimes with forging bad checks to smuggling Italian immigrants into the U.S. He was cunning and had a slick way with his speech to trick people into believing his scams. Unfortunately for him, his charm wasn’t enough to keep him out of jail. Charles Ponzi was born in Parma, Italy, in 1882. He came to America on the S.S. Vancouver in November of 1903, when he was 21 years old. It’s said…

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    Bernard Madoff Essay

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    In what is considered one of the largest fraud cases in history, Bernard L. Madoff stole billions in not only savings, but investments and retirement funds from a wide range of individuals, businesses and not-for-profit foundations. The size and scope of this scam went way beyond anyone’s knowledge of occurrence at the time and ultimately caused a widespread financial crisis for all victims involved. Bernard Lawrence Madoff, American stockbroker and investment manager, graduated from Hofstra…

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    Failed Redemption in The Natural Bernard Malamud’s The Natural is based on the true life of Eddie Waitkus, a Philadelphia Phillies first baseman whose career was nearly destroyed in an unexpected shooting incident. The kick-start to Malamud’s career, this roman a clef portrays Waitkus as Roy Hobbs, a young pitching prodigy who hopes to one day be the best player in league history. However, his aspirations soon go awry after he is shot by a mysterious woman whom he has fallen in love with.…

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    and in 1953 the College was named in honor of Bernard M. Baruch, benefactor, statesman, financier, and alumnus of the Free Academy. In 1968 Baruch College was established as an independent senior college of the City University of New York. US News & World Report, Forbes, and The Princeton Review, among others, rank Baruch College among the top colleges in the United States. Today, Baruch College enrolls more than 18,000 students representing over 168 countries; its student body continues to be…

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    The Madoff Ponzi Scheme

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    There are no heroes in the Madoff story, just villains and those who lost millions of dollars in what is known as the “con of the century”. The scary truth to the story is that if Madoff hadn’t faced seven billion dollars in redemptions his Ponzi scheme might not have been discovered. Everyone in New York City wanted to know how he could’ve possibly pulled off such a stunt. Madoff was one of the most active traders in the marketplace and the list of victims grows longer and longer by the day. On…

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    ernard Madoff is the stockbroking companies which ran his multibillion dollar as a grand-scale Ponzi scheme. He is now serving 150 years in prison. Who Is Bernard Madoff? Bernard Madoff was born on April 29, 1938, in Queens, New York. In 1960, he uses $5,000 obtained from lifeguarding and installing sprinkler system discovered his investment company. The Madoff firm offered reliable returns, and the list includes celebrities such as client's son Steven Spielberg. Arrested for running a Ponzi…

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