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    In 2015, there were 6,822 receipts filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This number is only the number of times that a charge was filed, this does not take into account how many times someone was sexually harassed and did not report it. Sexual harassment is defined as, “conduct typically experienced as offensive in nature, in which unwanted sexual advances are made in the context of a relationship of unequal power or authority” (Kane-Urrabazo p. 609). There are two main…

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    Introduction Long before all the laws that got women to be able to do things like get the right to vote, have high paying jobs or even be able to wear clothing that were above their knees, they had to go through many hardships. Beginning in the late 50’s though, the women began to get irritated with the way society was treating them and the inability for them to get a job and be equal with the men (“Women 's Liberation Movement” 2008 December)). Between the years of 1963 and 1970, there…

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    Marshall and Wyatt, CPAs is an independent auditor for the publically traded company Interstate Land Development. Interstate has been preparing and filing there own tax returns since Marshall and Wyatt have been auditing their company. While the SEC was processing the registration statement Marshall and Wyatt received a subpoena directing them to turn over all the working papers relating to Interstate for the year 20X2-20x5. They initially refused to turn them over because they did not prepare…

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    the stock industry forever. Over the course of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Jordan Belfort was able to swindle millions of dollars out of his clients and into his own pockets. This, however, did not last long, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and FBI was looming over Belfort and his company, waiting to strike and rightfully charge him for his crimes. One of the first…

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    John Perkins was a former member of the international banking community, very well respected. In his new book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, he describes how he was a highly paid professional, his functions of being an (EHM), he helped the United States cheat poor countries around the globe. He convinced the political and economic leaders to invest in foreign aid by lending them money that could make it difficult for them to repay and allow them to take over their economies. The…

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    The book Turtles all the way Down by John Green takes you through the life of a high schooler named Aza. Her best friend, and partner in crime, Daisy notices a $100,000 reward for the whereabouts of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett. They have an unfair advantage, Aza was friends with Russell Pickett’s son Davis. Throughout the story Aza and Davis grow in their relationship. She has to manage school, Daisy, and Davis. She does all of this will trying to function with her anxiety. Her anxiety…

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    The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

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    Part I : The Introduction, The Rulers, The conspiracy The illuminati is a secret religion found in May 1st, 1776 that follows the conspiracy theory thus meaning they are a group of secretive people that operate behind the scenes to govern the entire world in secret. In a developed context, the Illuminati are extremely powerful people that work in the financial, industrial and media world based in Western Europe and North America and some of their most important names are Rothschild,…

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    The disparate treatment and disparate impact are two theories of discrimination. Disparate treatment is intentional discrimination in the workplace imposing different standards on different individuals on their characteristics of protected class (i.e. sex, race) (Robinson and Franklin, 2010, p. 58). The theory of discrimination of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had only one form of unlawful discrimination, which was disparate treatment. Burden of proof, is one method of disparate treatment,…

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    As of last week albert Bacon Fall had secretly granted Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome in Wyoming on April 7, 1922. After Pres. Warren G. Harding had transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Department of the interior, that’s when Fall granted Sinclair the oil rights. When leases and contrasts went under investigation by committees of the U.S. Senate . Fall and members of his family had received from an unknown source…

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