From a new historicist perspective‚ every text exhibits the cultures and values of its historical context. It reflects the attitudes and beliefs of their time‚ providing a critical insight of society’s structure. The success of an appropriation is seen through its capability to transcend the original values of a text‚ recreating them for a modern day audience. The original texts of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ and Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ expose the societal beliefs of the ‘ideal
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Order Code RS21135 February 4‚ 2002 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues Mark Jickling‚ Coordinator Specialist in Public Finance Government and Finance Division Summary Only months before Enron Corp.’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001‚ the firm was widely regarded as one of the most innovative‚ fastest growing‚ and best managed businesses in the United States. With the swift collapse‚ shareholders‚ including
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Take Pyrex Vision and Astrid Andersen‚ two emerging labels representing sportswear-influenced menswear‚ both basking in favor of buyers. Virgil Abloh‚ the designer behind American Pyrex Vision is a shop owner and publicist of hip hop superstar Kanye West. He uses classic sportswear garments
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Bibliography: Grant‚ Michael. The Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Collier Books‚ 1990. Ferrill‚ Arther. The Fall of the Roman Empire. New York‚ N. Y.: Thames and Hudson‚ 1986 Gibbon‚ Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ed. J. B. Bury. New York: AMS Press‚ 1974‚ vol. 7 pg 348-364 Perry‚ Marvin. Western Civilization: A Brief History
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterised by unreasonable and invasive impulsions‚ images or thoughts. OCD encompasses two factors: obsessions and compulsions to which individuals may experience obsessions‚ compulsions or both (Andersen and Bech‚ 1981). To relieve these unwarranted desires individuals with OCD perform behaviours or acts that they feel compelled to do. There are multiple theories concerning the development and maintenance of OCD including: the behavioural theory
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The unethical and illegal activities in Enron The unethical and illegal activity is the management team of Enron manipulated the accounting rules. Firstly‚ it is related about the long-term contracts. Because when a long-term contract was signed‚ the inflows of the future contract and the expected cost of the contract were recognized in Enron’s Balance Sheet. The problem is because of the fix rates of price of the contract‚ Enron could easily estimate their inflows‚ but for the costs of contract
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002(SOX which is also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act was enacted in July‚ 30‚ 2002 as a prompt response to the financial crimes scandals (Adelphia‚ Enron‚ WorldCom‚ Peregrime Systems ‚ Arther Anderson and Tyco International). SOX establishes new‚ stricter standards for all US publicly traded companies. It does not apply to privately companies. The Act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)‚ which deals with compliance
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131 of the Companies Act 1993 discusses the duty a director has‚ to act in good faith and in the best interests of the company. The fiduciary duties of directories have been clearly formulated from the cases of Pacifica Shipping Co Ltd v Andersen[1](where Andersen [the director of Pacifica Shipping Company Limited] took a deferred opportunity of the company for himself) and Canadian Aero Service Ltd v O’Malley[2]. They were restated in Kawhia Offshore Services Limited v Rutherford[3] where Rutherford
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projects. The fraudulent actions taken by the Enron executives deceived the board of directors‚ shareholders‚ who lost billions when the stock prices dropped‚ and the audit committee of Arthur Andersen who they had overlook the financial concerns of the company; this cause the collapse of Arthur Andersen
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A careful analysis reveals what went wrong with FoxMeyer that transformed the pharmaceutical giant into the biggest liquidation case in US Bankruptcy History FoxMeyer sued SAP‚ Andersen and Pinnacle. This is just a knee-jerk reaction of a business entity that had gone down. It wants to take others in its fall. It is easier to pass the blame on to something else because the hardest thing in the world is to call one’s self stupid and claim full responsibility. After all‚ FoxMeyer is an American
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