Irregularities at WorldCom and Arthur Andersen…No More: What Went Wrong? (Business Ethics 4th Ed: Cases 5 & 6 pg.101-109)‚ both clearly present various moral and ethical problems that arise that are real life business scenarios as well as question the impact of certain ‘special’ duties/obligations that apply to particular individuals and employees who choose to engage in these activities in the organization leading to their downfall. The WorldCom case and scandal occurred because accountants as well as
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HOW AND WHY DID ISLAM SPREAD SO QUICKLY? In 610 C.E.‚ a local merchant named Muhammad completely changed all of Middle East through the religion of Islam. He fled to Mecca‚ in a cave where he was given the words of Allah and by this‚ introducing the religion. Overtime‚ the religion continued to attract new followers‚ which leads to question- how and why did Islam spread so quickly? Three of the reasons to how this happened were due to trade‚ the message passed on from God and the conquest of land
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into adulthood was just around the corner for a lot of people. A time to grow up and start making some important life decisions. Did I plan on going to college? Absolutely! Although‚ unfortunately the money wasn’t there for it and my family needed me during a tough period after I had graduated. About a month after I received my diploma‚ my mother broke the news to me that her and my step father were getting a divorce. This was something I definitely did not see coming. She explained why and I eventually
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One of the first ships to sail under the American flag was the Empress of China‚ which left the New York harbor on February 22‚ 1784‚ to become the first U.S. ship in Chinese waters when it landed in Guangzhou‚ China. That first voyage opened a door to both the United States and China‚ a door that would lead to centuries of trade‚ and would make both nations the largest economies in the modern world. Later‚ the U.S. saw China for what it was: a huge mass filled with natural resources ripe for the
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Why was Stalin able to defeat his political rivals so easily in the years 1924-1929? Stalin started his prominent rise in the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1924 after Lenin died of Neurosyphilis and a Stroke. During Lenin’s final years as leader of the Bolshevik party‚ Stalin was one of the main men to take care of him‚ which is one of the reasons why Lenin made him the General Secretary in 1922‚ a job which later on in his career greatly helped Stalin further his cause to become the dictator
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a defined reason why Japan decided to go into war with America: there was no fully developed rationale presented in the movie‚ which would have helped provide a context for Japan’s declaration of war and their military attack on the US military forces in Hawaii on December 7‚ 1941. There some tweets that referred to Japan becoming the third “axis alliance” of the world‚ but there is no discussion of why Japan joined the pack and why Japan became an ally with Germany? There was a subtle suggestion
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It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter is just asking to be beaten by someone else in the presidential election. Lo and behold‚ Ronald Reagan comes in and wins the presidency. But Reagan succeeded largely by having the sheer charisma and policies that the people of America were magnetized to. In the time of Reagan’s presidency‚ he became incredibly popular with the people for a variety of reasons from his good looks to the way he speaks. Reagan lives up to the appraise by considered as one of the most influential
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question I have to answer with evidence is “Why did the slave trade last so long and what values were found in the slave trade?” An evidence I have is from “Roots” it is‚ in Roots while they were sailing to the new land they had a flood. The flood caused the tobob to close the air vents and they couldn’t get any fresh air‚ many of the slaves ended up dieing. As a result‚ they had to take very good care of the slaves they ended up with so they can make the whole experience worth the money they get
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author‚ Ignatow makes me want to answers his question at the end because he gives the readers all the evidence of why he should get live longer and then he asks us as the readers and ends the poem right there. In this poem the speaker is someone lives a boring life and not at all spontaneous. He might be afraid that something will go wrong because he always does what people tell him to do. He his not really looking forward to tomorrow‚ even though in this line it says that he is‚ “as I was told‚ and look
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bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1780075.stm; http://finance.laws.com/enron-scandal-summary Enron is an energy company that successfully grew from nowhere to be America’s seventh largest company‚ which has 21‚000 staff in more than 40 countries in 15 years. It was one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies‚ with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. But the firm’s success turned out to have involved an elaborate scam. Enron was attributed
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