Kenneth Waltz

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…

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…

Romeo + Juliet: a summary Imagine that you are to explain the main plot and other interesting details of the movie Romeo + Juliet to a person that you do not know very well. This means that we can be a bit informal in our language, but not our grammar and punctuation. The summary should be around 300 - 400 words, Ariel and 1.5 spacing The summary should include: Film title. Plot: what happens in the film? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy enough to follow? Is it believable?…

Enron Case Introduction After watching the video “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, (Youtube), several issues came into light. It is known that Enron has been the seventh largest company to declare the bankruptcy in the year 2001. The reasons of their bankruptcy were becoming clear as many investors lost millions of dollars, due to which the lawmakers sought to enact some legislation so that these activities could be prevented. Obviously the smartest people from Enron had entered various…

Over the past few years, my interest in yoga has increased greatly since I discovered how useful it is to relieve stress and tension. As a former chronic stressor, yoga has taught me a lot about letting things go and how to really focus and tune into my body. It’s taught me to be in the moment as well as how to enjoy exercise without constantly having to push my body to fatigue and exhaustion. More recently, I’ve heard of a new form of yoga called aerial yoga which allows one to perform poses…