Working Paper # 03-115 Rev. 09/04 Conflicts of Interest and the Case of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction and Strategic Issue Cycling Don A. Moore Carnegie Mellon University Philip E. Tetlock Haas School of Business Lloyd Tanlu Harvard Business School Max H. Bazerman Harvard Business School This paper has benefited from the feedback of Art Brief‚ George Loewenstein‚ and three anonymous reviewers of an earlier version of the paper. This paper was supported by a grant from
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Conflict of Interest 1 Running head: CONFLICT OF INTEREST Auditor Independence‚ Conflict of Interest‚ and the Unconscious Intrusion of Bias Don A. Moore Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh‚ PA 15213 don.moore@alumni.carleton.edu Phone: 412-268-5968 Fax: 412-269-7345 George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University Lloyd Tanlu Harvard University Max H. Bazerman Harvard University The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the American Accounting Association
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Sweat is a great short story written in the 1920’s by Zora Neale Hurston that centers on an abusive marriage. Delia Jones‚ the protagonist in this story enters into a marriage of love only to have her husband change drastically two months later. When you read this story you can see several themes at work including good versus evil‚ hard work‚ marriage‚ oppression and karma. The central idea of this story demonstrates a good women’s struggle within her marriage against an evil‚ oppressive husband
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Race In Zora Neale Hurston ’s‚ "The Conscience of the Court"‚ it is clearly shown that Laura Lee Kimble has at least some awareness of the impact of class and gender in her life. But she does not recognize race and racism as factors that shape her environment and determine her individual identity. For Laura Lee Kimble it is people of color who live racially structured lives. Race is described as body type‚ ancestry‚ cultural differences‚ biological subspecies‚ actual social stratification and the
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In her essay Zora Neale Hurston uses elevated diction as well as manipulation of viewpoint to enrich the audience with her childhood experience. In the beginning of her essay the author starts off with a very detailed description of her house as she details the exact number of trees. By doing this the author is able to provide the author with a rather vivid description of her childhood home. She furthermore emphasizes the importance of the flowers as she states how expensive they are in New York
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In the short story Sweat by Zora Neal Hurston‚ the narrator begins the story with an insouciant tone that transforms into a form‚ assertive tone. This short story‚ similar to others‚ shows the characters growth throughout the story with narration‚ diction‚ imagery‚ and language. Through the conflict Delia Jones faces throughout the short story‚ she begins to development a stronger‚ assertive attitude. Because of Delia’s abusive husband‚ Sykes‚ he inadvertently helped her to gain strength to stand
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Zora Neale Hurston was born in a black family in Notasulga‚ Alabama and moved to an all-black town in Florida in her early childhood. Being born in black society and surrounded by black people all the time‚ she knew nothing about racism. Growing up in the same town she began to note differences between black and whites as she could see some white people passing by her hometown. At the age of thirteen‚ her attitude of being colored changed completely when she come to know about the racial differences
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No Intro + No Conclusion Verisimilitude- in literature‚ the resemblance of fiction to the truth or reality Analogy- a comparison between two things. GOES WITH RELEVANT VOCABULARY……. Thesis statement at beginning + Rephrasing of thesis at the end: Hurston uses many stereotypes and literary devices to help readers experience the world Janie lives in and her journey to self-revelation.I need to… Show ways Hurston forces the reader to experience what Janie/other characters have experienced.(Write about
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The author Zora Neale Hurston illustrated many of her passages by painting a picture that would display a deeper and more beautiful meaning to each word. In each passage‚ she also made each painting flow better by choosing the right symbols to get her point across. In the first two paragraphs of the book Hurston uses her gift in expression to convey the contrasting ways dreams and ambitions are achieved by both a man and a woman. The use of word choice and imagery in the paragraphs are used to depict
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The text is a short story by Zora Neale Hurston describing a little girl filled with joy and is constantly doing things that she wants without letting the color of her skin hold her back from living her childhood days to the fullest. The short story was first published December of 1924 in an issue of Opportunity. The reader would most likely be someone who reads issues published from Opportunity or someone who was looking for articles‚ poems‚ and short stories related to African-American studies
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