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    Tay-Sachs Disease

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    Tay-Sachs Disease Tay-Sachs disease is a rare inherited autosomal recessive disorder first discovered in 1881. It is a disease that is found in many populations‚ but commonly affects the populations of the Ashkenazi Jews. The disorder is caused when there is an absence of enzyme called beta hexosaminase A that is found on chromosome 15. The most common mutation occurs in mostly 80 percent of Tay-Sachs patients is the four base pair addition (TATC) on exon 11 and a G to C inversion

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    Accounting Fraud at Worldcom

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    9-104-071 REV: SEPTEMBER 14‚ 2007 ROBERT S. KAPLAN DAVID KIRON Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in which few persons took responsibility until it was too late. — Richard Thornburgh‚ former U.S. attorney general1 On July 21‚ 2002

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    The Natural Essay

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    “Roy‚ will you be the best there ever was in the game?” “That’s right.” (p.33) In The Natural‚ by Bernard Malamud‚ Roy Hobbs intends to be the best baseball player there ever was‚ breaking all of the records and enjoying the fame that came with it. He started playing for the Knights under the management of Pop Fisher as a rookie at the age of 34. His career started slowly but eventually he became the most liked and most watched player in all of baseball leading his team from last place in the standings

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    Mandeville Analysis

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    Mandeville Analysis Getting Ahead in Business: How Vice Drives the Hive In his doggerel The Grumbling Hive: OR‚ Knaves Turn’d HONEST‚ Bernard de Mandeville makes the case that it is our vices (our wishes‚ wants and desires) that drive society and the economy‚ and without these vices‚ the economy will fail. Although Mandeville’s views as expressed in The Grumbling Hive seem harsh or overstated‚ it appears that the United States economy really cannot flourish without his concept of

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    Communism was slowly building up in the time after the Vietnam War. Soviet Union and the US were splitting up their alliance and most countries were still bouncing back after the recession. Ronald Reagan one the most iconic presidents to sit in the oval office was president at the time. Reagan’s skills got tested from the very start. Few days into his first term there was a huge bombing in Lebanon and just days after that a small Caribbean island started to lose its socialist views and gained communist

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    Weisberger. Bernard A. America Afire: Jefferson‚ Adams and the Revolutionary Election of 1800. New York: Morrow‚ William and Company‚ 2000. Allen Bernard Weisberger was born in August 15‚ 1922 in Hudson‚ New York‚ United States. In September 9‚ 1951 Weisberger married an attorney June Miller‚ they had a total of three kids Jonathan‚ Lise‚ and Beth but in January 1970 their love fell apart when both agreed to file a divorce. Allen Weisberger attended Swarthmore College located

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    Ethical Behavior Analysis of Bernie Madoff & Enron Ethics‚ ethical values‚ and social responsibility should all work in unison in a corporate business structure. These key traits are better defined as maintaining overall good business morals‚ obtaining employees who possess personal ethical values‚ and finally to behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social‚ cultural‚ economic and environmental issues. For a business to better ensure these quality business traits a code of ethics should

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    Bernie Madoff did not work alone. One reason is because a scheme of this magnitude would have been difficult for one man‚ even one as smart as Madoff‚ to pull off alone. Because of his long career and the amounts being traded at the end of 2009‚ the probable answer is that some people involved with Madoff were knowingly skirting financial rules and procedures. Some should be made aware of the legal fuzziness that exists within the financial sector. Such fuzziness has‚ in part‚ been deliberately created

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    An inmate by the name of Bernard Coy‚ bank robber who was serving 25 years at Alcatraz was the mastermind. Bernard coy studied the routines and patterns of the guards for months before he acted out on his plan. Some believe he intentionally starved himself so he can fit between the bars. “Coy smeared axle grease over his

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    Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen

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    Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910)‚ usually known as Dr. Crippen‚ was hanged in Pentonville‚ England‚ on November 23‚ 1910 for murdering his wife. He has gone down in history as the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless communication. Brief biography Crippen was born in Coldwater‚ Michigan‚ USA to Andresee Skinner and Myron Augustus Crippen. Circa 1885 Crippen became a homeopathic doctor and started working for a homeopathic pharmaceutical company

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