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    Bernard Berenson was born in Lithuania in 1865, and moved to America when he was 9 years old. Berenson studied art history at Harvard on scholarship, and set off traveling Europe in 1887 with monetary help from patrons, specifically Isabella Stewart Gardner. When money started to run out Berenson still desired to stay in Europe, so he became active in the art market. In 1890 England, Berenson met his future wife, Mary Smith, and with her collaboration, began writing books on Italian art. His…

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    QUESTION 2 Start the question by defining a Ponzi and a Pyramid scheme; A Ponzi Scheme: "A con artist offers obligations that promise very high returns at seemingly very low risk from a business that does in fact exist or a secret idea that does not work out. The con artist helps himself to the investors' money, and pays a promised high returns to earlier investors from the money handed over by these and later investors. The scheme ends when there is no more money from the new investors"(Frankel…

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    statements were all illusions. Bernard Madoff was actually running a Ponzi scheme, using money from some of his investors to make payouts to others. During the stock market meltdown of 2008 and client desires to retract their investments, Madoff exposed his now failed scheme and confessed to his sons who alerted authorities. He was arrested and sentenced to serve 150 years in prison (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Farrell, 2015). Many of the investors that had trusted Bernard Madoff were now broke and…

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    Citizen Kane was made in 1941 directed by Orson Welles, it is one of the best films of all time, created by one of the best film directors and cinematographers of all time. The movie contained several sequences and famous scenes that make this film a remarkable masterpiece. Mostly imply wonderful sound, lighting and shadowing, and camera angles. As a result of the actors performances play a big role of making this film very memorable. Therefore, I will personally explain why I enjoyed…

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    The fraud that Bernard Madoff committed was discovered in December 2009, which was based upon a Ponzi scheme. He did so by taking money from new investors to pay earnings to old customers. The higher the number of his clients who wanted to withdraw of retire their investment, the more revenue he would need. Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi whose crime was discovered in July of 1920 by the Boston Post. Madoff started in the investment business legally by buying and selling stocks that…

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    INTRODUCTION Bernard Madoff was a former chairman of NASDAQ stock exchange. He started his investment advisory firm on his own. He has be guilty for the defrauding of the investors of amount $50 billion which he was running the biggest Ponzi scheme for around two decades. In 2008 December when there were economic disturbances and meltdown in the United States Madoff couldn't carry his functions and satisfy his Investors requests of cash. He decided to come clean and accept the fraud he has…

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    this editing was not about taking 50 clips of a scene and moving the about to make a story, but rather to just get past censorship. Music in different genres each have their own classical, memorable moments. But none come close to as how influential Bernard Hermann’s shower scene music is. Even though for the particular movie, it wasn’t one-hundred percent necessary, it helped elevate the title of the film as being one of the most recognizable to date, but it also helped revolutionize the horror…

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    The Glen Ridge Rape

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    Our Guys: the Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb, an outstanding novel based on the Glen Ridge rape case by Bernard Lefkowitz, explains in the great detail about the rape between the victim and the suspects. Lefkowitzs goes into great detail about the Glen Ridge rape by explaining the social problems of the town, how the community heavily influenced a social role for young men and women. The all-star jocks in Glen Ridge picked Leslie Faber to be their victim of rape…

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    The Evil Dead is one of the best horror films of all time. Its greatness due to a great original screenplay and directing. The film Evil Dead has a cult following and for good reason. It is highly praised by names like Stephen King. Evil Dead was written and directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Bruce Campbell in the leading role as Ash Williams. The story is about a group of five college kids go who to a cabin in the woods for a vocation. Once there they find an audiotape that unleashes evil…

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    Tim Burton Camera Angles

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    Tim Burton has several angles in the movie.Tim Burton uses amazing camera angles.What I mean by that is some camera angles that are really far but look like they're close to the object .In Burton’s film he uses camera angles that show every detail of the film .Let's say the author is saying or explaining something about the factory the camera with go there and film the part the author is talking about.Tim Burton also uses amazing exaggerated sound effects there nice an loud and they are very…

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