This paper discusses the film “Office Space” featuring Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons who is an average white -collar type of employee working for a software company called Initech (Judge‚ 1999). Peter Gibbons and his fellow co-workers loathe working at Initech‚ and Peter hates his boss Bill Lumbergh‚ most of all. After being convinced to go to hypnotherapy by his girlfriend‚ Peter gets stuck in a trance like state after the hypnotherapist suffers a heart attack and fails to snap Peter out of
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Alex Eisemann Professor Aaron Potter English 1B section 28 January 2016 He Doesn’t Read Our Titles When looking at all the possible candidates for the upcoming 2016 presidential elections‚ one has to look no further than Bernie Sanders to find the best candidate. Since the 60’s Sen. Sanders has consistently fought for equal rights of racial minorities‚ women‚ people in the LGBT community.‚ and the disabled. He has also fought to lessen income inequality by focusing on creating more jobs‚ increasing
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1. What are the ethical issues involved in the Madoff case? Bernie Madoff was a thief‚ plain and simple. He was a greedy‚ selfish‚ self-indulgent con artist‚ no different from any other grifter that you meet‚ except because of who he was‚ he was able to pull the con off on a grander scale. Madoff used his name and position and the legitimacy of his first business to draw people into his Ponzi scheme (like a pyramid scheme where one takes money from newer clients to pay older clients). He misrepresented
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No Angel by Bernie McGill It’s painful to experience losing someone you deeply love. It can be a difficult situation to accept and overcome. One the one hand we want to rememeber the one who passed away‚ but on the other we don’t want to accept the fact that they never will be with us physically again. Sometimes our loss can even be so great‚ our imagination creates person who passed away and makes us able to talk to them is if nothing happened‚ as if they never passed away. This is exactly the
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Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is a current United States Senator and Democratic political candidate. He has been a constant supporter of complete social‚ economic‚ and political equality for everyone. Sanders has consistently stood up for civil and minority rights. Throughout his 74 years of life he has had many great achievements involving his career; such as‚ being the longest serving independent member of congress in United States history. Senator Sanders looks like a sweet old man with his wispy
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The Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme Describe three types of illegal business behavior alleged against Mr. Madoff and for each type of behavior‚ explain how the behavior is illegal or unethical in the conduct of business. Three illegal business behaviors by Madoff were conspiracy‚ securities fraud‚ money laundering‚ and perjury. Conspiracy is “Agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ 2011). Although
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The Globalization of White Collar Crimes: An Inside Look of How Fraud‚ Embezzlement‚ Cybercrime‚ Identity Theft and Forgery Are Increasing World-Wide In this paper I will examine some of the aspects of white collar crimes such as: fraud‚ embezzlement‚ cybercrimes‚ identity theft and forgery. I will explain what each of these are pertaining to criminal justice and how they relate to one another. And I will conclude by how each of these topics are growing into global problems. According to Criminal-Law-Lawyer-Source
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file:///E:/Geographic Research/Topics/1 Introduction/Introduction_Blue C... AUTHOR: MIKE ROSE TITLE: Blue-Collar Brilliance SOURCE: The American Scholar 78 no3 43-9 Summ 2009 COPYRIGHT: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. To contact the publisher: http://www.pbk.org/pubs.htm My mother‚ Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie)‚ shaped her adult identity as a
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Question: What are Blue-collar Workers? Blue-collar workers refer to employees performing manual labor generally‚ their jobs entails physical labor‚ such as in a factory or workshop. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ construction‚ mechanical‚ maintenance‚ technical installation and many other types of physical work. A higher level academic education is often not required for many blue-collar jobs. However‚ certain fields may require specialized
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Many of us ask ourselves “Why vote for Bernie Sander?”. Many may argue that Bernie Sanders is way too old to be President‚ but truth is that the older they are the wiser they are. Bernie Sanders has stated that he’ll change many things‚ but that’s what every candidate says‚ the real question is will he has really done everything he has said he’ll change? Bernie Sanders has stated that he’ll change the minimum wage to $15‚ do public college free/affordable‚ universal healthcare‚ transform our energy
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