I interviewed my grandmother‚ Cynthia Bonsey. She is 78‚ has six children and 10 grandchildren. She was a teacher in the early 60’s and married her husband‚ Roland‚ in 1961. She retired‚ in Lisbon‚ Maine in her early sixties‚ staying in the same house she raised her kids in. She was my biological grandmother’s best friend before she passed. After my grandmother’s death‚ Cynthia (or Grandma Bonsey) took over the role as my grandmother. Cynthia was mostly concerned with her arthritis when I asked
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high-performance targets and grant large rewards for achieving these must have strong control systems to ensure that people are not tempted to cross boundaries. What are the four important control systems? Please identify each control by name. Strategy WorldCom never really had a strategic plan‚ committee‚ or framework. Their plan was rapid growth and maintaining that 42% E/R ratio. From the beginning it committed itself to high growth strategies that relied on aggressive corporate and fraudulent accounting
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The Ramos family came to counseling for multiple reasons. The children have had a difficult time dealing with their parent’s divorce. Jose and Cynthia have struggled with communication prior to their divorce‚ but since the divorce‚ it has become worse. Part of this is due to Jose’s very busy work schedule‚ in which he does not make much time to communicate with his family or spend time with his daughters. In addition to the parents challenges with the communication‚ Maria has been sneaking out of
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following excerpt is from an interview with Cynthia Harper a UCLA dance teacher. The Salsa floor is a unique community because there is always someone who will dance with you no matter what your skill level. If they realize that you are a beginner they may start teaching you some moves or let you know about a class they are teaching. Even then they will teach you moves that are your level so they still make you look good on the dance floor. (Cynthia Harper) This idea of an open dance floor
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“I remember having certain detached and disbelieving concern in the actions of “Cynthia”‚ but certainly no responsibility” (Rau 114). Rau had no interest on being Cynthia‚ as she said she felt detached and disbelieving from that “Cynthia”. Rau had high virtue and values for her culture and didn’t think she should participate in the British culture‚ but she really didn’t have choice. But she just thought that “Cynthia” was a nobody that she had to be a part of it. In addition‚ Indian culture is still
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was related to it. I will start off with a prologue of what the Sarbanes Oxley Act is‚ and later going in detail about the Act. Prologue The corporate scandals in the year 2001 of Enron and WorldCom‚ where Enron was able to produce fake reports of high profits with false accounting methods and WorldCom‚ who artificially reduced their expenses to falsely increase in the appearance of their revenues‚ created a market failure. Major stakeholders such as investors‚ government‚
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grounded in natural law‚ religious tenets‚ parental and family influence‚ educational experiences‚ life experiences‚ and cultural and societal expectations. The days of when people were simply trusted to always do the right thing are over with ENRON and WorldCom and the devastation that followed in the business world you are now guilty until proven innocent. Ethics are now written clearly out in agreements that are signed when people are newly hired and the employee is expected to follow those guidelines
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Throughout his career‚ director Mike Leigh has focused on creating believable‚ powerful characters. Leigh has characterized his films as “emotional‚ subjective‚ intuitive‚ instinctive‚ vulnerable” (Gordon‚ 1994). His 1996 film Secrets & Lies focuses on a successful black middle class optometrist tracking down her birth mother. Vera Drake (2004) follows a 1950s housekeeper providing illegal abortions to local women. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) centers on Poppy‚ a school teacher with a compassionate nature
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names were too hard for her to pronounce. She gives them the new names of Pamela and Cynthia. Her sister is silent and does not respond to this event‚ yet Santha says in a tiny voice she accepts the new name probably because she is scared to disagree. Santha believes when she is Cynthia‚ she does not have care about the day to day activities at school or her actions. The title “By Any Other Name” refers to Cynthia having to loose her identity and her cultural qualities to be at this school.
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stock within NYSE has specialists to manage that specific stock‚ this feature is not incorporated in to the NASDAQ. The NYSE is not publicly traded while the NASDAQ is‚ allowing the public to trade stocks on it (NYSE And NASDAQ‚ n.d ) WorldCom Inc. The WorldCom Inc was a telecommunication corporation. Bernard Ebbers was the former Chief Executive of the corporation. He was ultimately found guilty of accounting crimes which lead to a huge scandal. He constructed the unification with MCI‚ which
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