profits in its financial reports. In addition‚ Enron’s trading business adopted mark-to-market accounting‚ which meant that once a long-term contract was signed‚ income was estimated as the present value of net future cash flows‚ even though in some cases there were serious questions about the viability of these contracts and their associated costs. Author Andersen provided both consulting and auditing services which created an inherent conflict of interest. On one hand‚ Andersen was auditing an
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English 3 AP 21 October 2011 The Struggle for the Soul of Arthur Dimmesdale In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne relates the struggle of Dimmesdale’s soul to the classic model of good vs. evil. Arthur Dimmesdale has committed a sin that is heavily frowned upon throughout his community‚ though; nobody in the community knows what that sin is besides Hester Prynne. Dimmesdale is the minister of the community and he has committed the sin of adultery‚ partaking in an affair with
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Michael “Chuck” Jacobs 9/19/2012 ENG 261-ND1 Mrs. Kaylor Sir Arthur Evans and the Palace of King Minos In the early 1900s‚ an archaeologist and scholar by the name of Sir Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of King Minos. After Crete claimed its independence‚ Evans purchased five acres of hilly land‚ which he and his assistants began to excavate. This project kept his attention for about thirty years. In this period of time‚ he and his team made many discoveries that are related to the epic
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Unethical Practices of Arthur Anderson: Week 2 Checkpoint ACC/260 – Accounting Ethics: Keeping It Clean September 26‚ 2013 Thomas Scholz What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Assistance! Arthur Andersen assisted Enron in deceiving stakeholders by revealing ways to generate false profits and hide losses through the development of Special Purpose Entities (SPEs). Enron’s consolidated financial statements did not depict or clearly
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the characters are concerned with their own positive reputations which causes them to be deceptive‚ hang at the gallows‚ and act smarter than they were. In The Crucible the characters are very concerned about their reputation‚ because of this it caused some characters to lie about who they really are. This comes out in the story when characters are being accused of being witches‚ giving them the choice to either lie to save their lives or tell the truth and be killed
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the reader gains insight into the background and personalities of the characters through Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. These two characters show us the evil in the novel‚ the unfolding sin‚ and add a special romance to the novel Arthur Dimmesdale is the preacher in the Puritan settlement. He becomes involved with Hester Pyrnne‚ the wife of Roger Chillingworth. Pearl‚ Hester’s daughter comes to her from Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester is
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Port Arthur massacre Outlines the nature of the contemporary issues. On Sunday‚ 28 April 1996‚ Martin Bryant set off for Port Arthur‚ about an hour drive from his home in Hobart. On his way he stopped off at a guesthouse called the Seascape cottage where he killed the owners‚ David and Noelene Martin. Once Bryant had made it to Port Arthur he had a meal at the Broad arrow cafe. After finishing his meal‚ Bryant walked back into the Broad Arrow cafe‚ took out an AR-15 semi automatic rifle and opened
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from Arthur Grey and On Murder‚ one being a personal account and the other an eye witness‚ but both focus on the beauty of murder. Montague begins the poem by letting Arthur‚ the murder‚ speak for himself and the motive behind his crime. She does this to display Arthur’s logical process to appeal to the aesthetics of her readers. In the poem‚ Montague communicates through Arthur’s language that “my only hope of ease” (64) is to murder the woman‚ his victim‚ because she is too much for Arthur to endure
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John Proctor vs. Arthur Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible both have main characters that can relate to each other even though they are in two different stories. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ one of the main characters of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a respected reverend in society that commits a horrendous and sinful act‚ adultery‚ with a woman named Hester Prynne. John Proctor‚ a main character from The Crucible‚ commits adultery as well with his servant‚ Abigail Williams. These two characters‚ aside
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Countless Supreme Court cases‚ riots‚ and continuing occurrences of discrimination have caused many people to wonder if celebrating differences might actually be more harmful to the United States of America than it is beneficial. Nobody seems to advocate for the complete eradication of diversity in the nation‚ but there are some intellectuals like Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.‚ the author of “The Cult of Ethnicity”‚ who believe an overemphasis on diversity decreases the solidarity of American nationalism
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