Rationalization

and sufficient internal control is also another reason for this accounting fraud in 2003. The accounting scandal of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is strongly related to two of the three main points of the fraud triangle, which are opportunity and rationalization. The fact that these two enterprises are implicitly backed…

he uses logos when he gave actual texts from the bible that explained that wealth meant gold and silver in Ezequiel 16:17.Also , he used evidence from John 4:8 to demonstrate that “love is the bond of perfection”.John Winthrop talks about his rationalization for the people’s behavior in the community. Secondly , he uses…

Several major themes, ideas, arguments that were presented in chapter 1 that has introduced the discipline of sociology to me are Social Darwinism, conflict theory, and Weberian theory. Social Darwinism is essentially the application of Charles Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory to society. The incorporation of Social Darwinism in sociology helps my understanding of the social world by observing people who have different intentions of how to reach their goals. An example would be someone…

He used his scientific background in an attempt to rationalize his bias towards those of African-descent. He began with an investigation on their anatomical differences. However, these rationalizations are the myths commonly associated with Blacks at the time. They bring no new light to the discussion, nor do they contain any actual scientific information to back it up. Jefferson writes that “They [Blacks] secrete more by the glands of the skin and less by the kidneys which gives them a strong…

The argument presented by Olson in favor of animalism, that humans are animals, was flawed and confusing. Saying that humans and animals are not only similar but the one and the same is problematic due to many reasons. I found the author's position to be lacking in clarification and irrefutable evidence. Olson never defines what an animal is and without a clear definition there are a lot of assumptions that are being made. One of Olson's defenses is that if humans are not animals than what are…

What the Meaning of the Word “Is” Is. Trevor Getz’s and Liz Clarke’s Abina and the Important Men takes place along the Gold Coast of Africa in the late 1870’s after the proscription of slavery in the British colonies. This graphic novel predominantly follows a court case in which the titular character Abina Mansah accuses Quamina Eddo of subjecting her to slavery. Through a misrepresentation of slavery and a misplaced sense of personhood, the court rules Eddo not guilty of the accusation of…

up. An important topic was pushed to the back burner because another topic, which was much less important, appealed to the masses much better than their own privacy. Numerous aspects factor into why the masses are as docile as they are today; rationalization and a form of opiates for the masses play big roles in the…

The first source that I opened was the Ted Talk. I usually really enjoy Ted Talks, and this one was no different. The part that I found extra captivating was the section where he said that not everyone's opinions are valid. This reminded me of the article we read earlier in the semester about how not everyone is an expert. I think that this is a very important point. We live in a society where everyone is entitled to their own opinion: it is frowned upon to tell someone that their opinion is…

Black women have a long history of sexual victimization in the United States. Many enslaved women were victims of forced rape and breeding, committed by both slave masters and enslaved men (Donovan, 96). During slavery, Black women were viewed as “physically strong, exuding a warm animal sensuality, and inferior subspecies of the female sex” (Bush, 15). This image was created as the counter image of a White women, everything that a White woman represented, the Black woman was opposite. Therefore…

narrative as myth or history problematic, an issue that Herodotus, one of the great ancient Greek historians, attempts to deal with by rationalizing myth, so as to still incorporate it into his accounts, and actively distinguishing myth from history. Rationalization boils myth down into its most fundamental components, supporting the argument that myth is simply history spun out of proportion or misremembered by exposing myth’s basis in real life events. Recognizing this, Herodotus rationalizes…