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    Price Hail! King Arthur: Long Live Who? It is hard to adequately explain how long scholars‚ writers‚ and historians alike‚ have extensively researched the topic of King Arthur. Who was he? Did he exist? Was there really a Camelot and Guinevere? When I first began this study myself‚ my opinion was pretty concrete: of course there was a King Arthur and the chivalrous stories must be true. To my surprise‚ my thoughts went in a completely different direction the deeper into the subject I got. I

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    We have read King Arthur and the knights of the round table. It’s a fantasy/history book. Here is a short summary: After Uther Pendragon’s death‚ Merlin the druid forms a stone‚ and in it‚ a sword. On this sword‚ it is written that anyone who can pull it out of the stone will become the new king of England. After many years‚ the young Arthur‚ (secretly the son of Pendragon)‚ pulls this magical sword out of the stone‚ and becomes king. Together with Merlin‚ he constructs a round table‚ where only

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    Arthur Andersen: Questionable Accounting Practices 1. Describe the legal and ethical issues surrounding Andersen ’s auditing of companies accused of accounting improprieties. The legal issues that surrounded Andersen ’s audition were that there was conflict of interest and there was lack of independence on the part of Andersen. In this context‚ Andersen took up lucrative management consultancy projects for the clients of whom it was the auditor. From the deontological ethical perspective

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    IN DEPENDENCE OF AUDITOR – ENRON AND ARTHUR ANDERSEN CASE Introduction The world economy in recent years has got some significant growth but also had quite serious scandals. They caused the shakes for many‚ both citizens and authorities. Therefore‚ it is a challenging time and it is the time for change. An absolutely necessity is to enhance the true reliable financial information because the success on the capital market depends on it. The key factor is to assure that auditors must take a completely

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    Arthur Shawcross: Portrait of a Killer and Pathological Liar Mark O ’Brien Serial Killers Professor Jim Reynolds Florida Institute of Technology June 16‚ 2012  Abstract Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross‚ also called the Rochester Strangler or the Genesee River Killer‚ was prolific in the short time that he was an active killer. From March 1988 to December 1989‚ Shawcross is believed to have killed 12 women‚ mostly prostitutes in the Rochester‚ New York‚ area

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    have been passed down to many groups of people. Excalibur and the Bible are two of the most commonly known stories to have survived through generations. The similarities between King Arthur and Jesus Christ start when they were conceived. They were said to have been conceived unusually and almost magically. King Arthur grew up in a place where many people needed help. In the Bible‚ Jesus grew up only to find out that he was born to save the world from sin. Despite the seemed inability to do such

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    Planning on the Demise of Arthur Andersen The planning function of management is critical to the success of any organization. Innovative ideas‚ perfect products‚ and highly skilled employees fail to become assets if no plans are in place for how these assets will be used to achieve the organization’s goals. In the case of the once‚ highly successful accounting firm‚ Arthur Andersen‚ management’s failure to plan effectively for crises led to its demise. Management Planning at Arthur Andersen In today’s

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    Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was born October 17‚ 1915 to Jewish-American parents‚ Isidore and Augusta Miller. Due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929‚ Miller’s father lost his clothes and coat manufacturing company. Arthur Miller graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1933. His family had no money to send him to college because of the effect of the Great Depression. Miller went on in life having many ups and downs but still prevailed and that is what made him the great play writer he is today

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    Merlin had become an expert at concealing his feelings. However‚ today‚ at Arthur and Guinevere’s wedding‚ it grew difficult to suppress the pain and yearning that gnawed at his insides. It was a foregone conclusion that Arthur would wed Guinevere‚ and Merlin had accepted their inevitable union long ago. Why‚ then‚ had the pain grown so intolerable? Perhaps it was the finality of it all‚ the fact that Arthur and Guinevere would share a name and a bed and be linked by an irrevocable bond from this

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    One Life as a Play: Arthur Miller’s Life in Relate to his Plays With The Death of a Salesman during 1949 on Broadway of the winter‚ Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century ’s three great American dramatists by the people of America. He had been born on October 17‚ 1915 in Manhattan‚ to Agusta and Isadore Miller‚ a Jewish couple. Arthur Miller was a weak scholar and a fierce athlete. All through his childhood he

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