Kenneth Burke

There are many iterations of the Hamlet story that have been filmed dating from 1907 up until the year 2009 yet only five of those many movies portray a good feeling and meaning for the“To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. The five movies in mention are the Branagh, Gibson, Blockbuster, Olivier, and Doran’s versions. In the five movies the camera angle, actions of Hamlet, and the music do well at producing emotion in the viewer. But only one is superior to all. The Branagh version is the most…

Ricky Heidt Frankenstein Essay Collins 3 1/22/17 Robotic Humans: The Frankenstein of the Future In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the main character, Victor, plays around with the science of human ethics and nature and make a monster. Victor claims throughout the story how “Superhuman” the Monster was by its superhuman speed and strength and take on extreme harsh conditions that a regular human could not. With robotic technology engineering evolving at the rapid pase it has been, the thought of…

When the American heavy metal band Metallica, unleashed their self-funded movie, the 2013 American IMAX thriller concert film - 'Through The Never,' it stimulated the interest of Metallica's fans, only to leave them perplexed and confused by its plot, which is extremely complex and difficult to follow. The 'Through The Never' film was such a commercial failure that the members of the Metallica band lost millions of their own money. In an interview with the Metallica's fan club magazine, the…

The Chief Financial Officer David Dyck discovered $300-million in expenses were misclassified after he attempted a re-examination of the company’s accounting practices. CEO Dave Robert gained an “individual account” of 185%. When working out the full compensation, his total compensation roughly totalled $3.5 million for the year. After news of accounting irregularities, Penn West Petroleum Ltd. shares falling 17.4% before pulling back. Penn West shares closed at $8.57, down 13.78%, still some…

Brian Cruver was a firsthand witness to the disturbing, surreal, and hilarious moments of Enron's long dance with death. When he first entered Enron's office complex, "the Death Star," he was the epitome of the Enron employee: young, brash, sporting a shiny new MBA, and obscenely overpaid. From his first day, however, when he was told that some colleagues hadn't really wanted to see him hired, he found himself in the middle of a venal greed machine whose story unfolded with all the absurdity and…

file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. After this was brought to light, an investigation was started to find the reason of why such a large amount of money in losses was never found. The executives; Jeffery Skilling, Kenneth Lay, Andrew and Lea Fastow, Richard Causey, and David Delainey; were later trialed and found guilty on a many different counts of a multitude of different illegal acts. Skilling’s sentenced came to be the longest at 24 years and 4 months with…

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke was born on October 19, 1901, in Boulder, Colorado. Burke grew up in Boulder in a fairly difficult environment – “He attended a one room elementary school through the eighth grade and then high school…”(“Admiral Arleigh A Burke”). Arleigh had other ideas for his future – “…farming fitted neither his talents nor desires, he sought and received a congressional appointment to the US Naval Academy.” (“Admiral Arleigh A Burke, USN”). Upon his high school graduation, he…

Culture of Enron The whole documentary was based on the failing of the ENRON Corporation. Enron was a company that was doing many illegal schemes and also was involved with the California energy crisis just to make the utility costs set out to be what the average American price was. Enron did anything they had to do, no matter if it was killing off the whole world, just to make money and keep themselves rich. People were getting robbed blind. No one could actually see all of the damage that they…

For Field Work Term this year, I went to New York City to work for I’m From Driftwood, a nonprofit LGBTQ storytelling archive. Primarily, I chose this internship because of the Huffington Post articles that I would be responsible for, which I did find worthwhile. I knew ahead of time that I’m From Driftwood was a small operation: consisting of its founder and board members that would scramble to find new opportunities and contacts to use for their events. There was no office space for the…

Disaster capitalism, as coined by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine, is the exploitation of a community suffering from a state of shock as a result of a natural, political, or biological disaster in order to make a monetary profit. The collective people sharing in this catastrophe are in a state of shock rendering them into a position of heightened vulnerability. This heightened vulnerability opened the door for major worldwide corporations to come in under the guise of providing aid…