Minority Report

Non-fiction is something we consume everyday: in the news, in history books, on the television, or in everyday conversation. What makes the choice of nonfiction for a performance interesting is how the performance subjects are often already known by the audience. How can a performer on a stage hope to compete against a new story, a photograph, or a video clip? This need, an abundance of available information and documentation to scrutiny a performance against, make construction of the…

underlines the importance of being independent in appearance. Auditors have the responsibility to exercise professional judgements when auditing financial statements and the public must trust that their professional judgement is without bias otherwise the reports would be potentially materially misleading. 2. There are number of standard setting bodies, such as the AICPA’s ASB and the PCAOB, that establish independence standards for CPAs. In general, describe the basic rules of independence…

Evidentiary privileges shall be governed by the principles of the common law in the light of reason and experience. It is aimed to encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients to promote public interest in the observance of law and administration of justice. Attorney-Client Privilege It is the Client’s right privilege to refuse to disclose or prevent others from disclosing confidential communications between the client and the attorney. Here, Carolyn (C) hires…

1. Introduction The auditor 's report is one of the crucial means by which the auditor provides a judgement and acceptable assurance on the financial statement to investors and other users of financial statements, which has not changed much since the 1940s. To correspond to the size and complexity of markets that have greatly increased in the past seventy years, and to attract a greater percentage of households to invest in the stock market, a new auditing standard and related amendments to…

1999, the beginning of a new outlet for information began, With the use of satirical techniques many new news show had begun to shake the standards the news had previously had. Starting with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and even websites like the onion all having a unique and ever evolving standards of their own. These news television programs unifying news and comedy into something new shocked people. Some of the technique utilized for…

Here are the compliance concerns/questions that I think we need to investigate (You may have already done this): How did anyone know of Ms. Preston’s compliance link? Does the sales person on the account have a history of compliance issues? Who wrote the letter? The client or the Sales Rep.? Did Jeanne forward you the letter from the client? Who are the BRLI players invovlved? My questions for each BRLI employee involved would be (including Gail Colon): Confidentialy --Did you ever…

Let’s Talk About Israel On an episode of “The Daily Show” this summer, Jon Stewart spoke about Israel. In this specific segment, Stewart informed his viewers how America was re-supplying Israel with ammunition to defend itself against Hamas. In response to this, he said, “We cannot be Israel’s rehab sponsor and it’s drug dealer. It’s not going to work.” Well, I am sure you can imagine the backlash Stewart received. To many, this was unjustified criticism of Israel. To others, it was spot on…

actually vital to the country. Also, the witty usage of “only” highlights the groups of people who are affected by those non-American issues to illustrate these events are definitely not non-American issue. Another funny example comes right after a report video that showed how America have more than a quarter of the world’s prisoner population. Trevor commented, “America really loves prison. No, no, going to jail is such a big part of American culture that you even have it included in your board…

Is Kakutani’s point right or is it wrong? Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart…

Institutional Disparities Data Report On the off chance that we consider back the historical backdrop of the United States, we appear to have made some amazing progress in the battle against racial disparity; we even have our first African American president in office. No doubt we are near accomplishing the equity we have been exercising as a country, if we have not as of now accomplished it. In any case, despite what advancements we have made, the racial disparity is still a critical issue…