THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS BY JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER AND THE CHANGING IDEAS OF THE FAMILY UNIT DURING THE COLONIZATION OF AMERICA The Last of the Mohicans is set in the wild woodland frontier of western New York in the late 1750s‚ during the French and Indian War. Cooper uses the setting to display a number of different family dynamics‚ all of which are representative of normal family life during the colonization of America. For my essay‚ I will point out several of these dynamics and compare
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The narrator characterizes the life of Minnie Cooper from her girlhood to adulthood by using tone‚ selection of detail‚ and syntax. The narrator characterizes Minnie Cooper girlhood to adulthood by using tone. In her girlhood the tone stays calm and joyful. " She lived in a small frame house with her invalid mother and a thin‚ sallow‚ un-flagging aunt‚ where each morning between ten and eleven she would appear on the porch in a lace-trimmed boudoir cap‚ to sit swinging in the porch swing until
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Extraordinary Circumstances Stephanie Burg 2/16/2009 Table of Contents Mission Statement 3 Ethical Principles/Tenets 4 Day to Day Operations 5 Cynthia Cooper and the Culture 6 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 10 1)Provide a Mission Statement and brief background about WorldCom. Briefly explain how WorldCom did not honor their statement. WorldCom - "our objective is to be the most profitable ‚ single source provider of communications services to customers around the world. Unstated Mission -
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Introduction and Aim of the Review This review of WorldCom is based on the Extraordinary Circumstances by Cynthia Cooper. The purpose of review report is to conclude whether WorldCom satisfied the Code of Ethics and the Attribute and Performance Standards set forth by the IIA. Background WorldCom was one of the largest telecom companies in the world during 1996 to 2002. The company helped to grow a small regional company that bought and re-sold long distance in the South into an international
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of all time. Worldcom‚ a leading telecommunications company built from over 70 acquisitions‚ found itself ranked at the top of its class for illegal and creative accounting practices. Worldcom leaders successfully managed to erode the company market value from $180 billion in 1999 to approximately $350 million today. In June of 2002‚ Cynthia Cooper‚ Vice President of internal audit‚ uncovered suspicious capitalizing of line costs that had been treated as expenses in prior years. Cooper brought the
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Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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WorldCom: A Culture of Dishonesty Ethics is a term that refers to a code of moral system that provides criteria for evaluating right and wrong. An ethical dilemma is a situation in which an individual or group is faced with a decision that test this code. One of the elements that many believe distinguishes a profession from other occupations is acceptance by it members of a responsibility for the interest of those it serves. . Accounting ethics is a field of professional ethics which pertains specifically
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WorldCom was the second largest telecommunications corporation in the United States. After thriving in a multi-million dollar business they were forced to close their doors. The reason were practices unethical and fraudulent activities which lead to exposing the business. WorldCom was one of the largest accounting fraud scandals in corporate history. WorldCom had to file for bankruptcy after the organization admitted to accounting fraud. How this came up was a long and drawn out investigation
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From the Desk of: Imran Omer Case Study: WorldCom From its beginnings as a long distance call player to handler of Internet data traffic‚ WorldCom was a spectacular firework in the sky before it crashed out as one of the biggest bankruptcies America has witnessed in its corporate history. WorldCom carried more international voice traffic than any other company. It carried a large amount of the world‟s Internet traffic. WorldCom owned and operated a global IP (Internet Protocol) backbone that
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WorldCom: Can you hear the Lawsuits Now 1. Why do suppose Bernie Ebbers was treated more like the leader of a cult than a CEO? Explain. Bernie Ebbers was considered a cult leader for various reasons the total number of people affected by his behavior and direction of individual who just simply did as he requested which is what cult leaders do. He was known as a leader with charismatic is why a lot of his unethical actions were not challenged. Bernie Ebbers was ordered to pay back $6.13 billion
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