cold damp hallows eve three children Avon‚ Wyatt‚ and Cynthia stood before a forested wood‚ each tired from a night of trick or treating‚ Avon is the first to speak “What’s the haul guys?” he says‚ “about 10 pounds of pure sugar” Cynthia chimes “wanna scare some kids since we are near the haunted woods” they all look at each other with evil grins that would burn the soul out of any who watched and then burst out with laughter. “Ok lets go.” Cynthia says leading the boys into the forest on a small path
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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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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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WorldCom: Organizational Culture and Unethical Safeguards Organizational culture is one of four influences whether an ethical or unethical behavior will be made. WorldCom’s demise‚ deliberately overstating their income by $7 billion between 1999 and 2002; and their once valued stock of $180 million becoming nearly worthless‚ can attribute a significant amount of their failure on their “dis”organizational culture. Corporations worldwide who do not think this type of fraud can happen at the hands
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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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The financial world was rocked by accounting scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Companies such as Enron‚ Global Crossing and Tyco International collapsed under the weight of fraud and destroyed investor confidence in corporate accounting. But the biggest collapse was that of WorldCom. In 1983 Bernie Ebbers and several other people invested in a newly formed company in Clinton‚ Mississippi called Long Distance Discount Services‚ Inc. (LDDS). LDDS was a provider of long distance telephone
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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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WorldCom Case Study Update 20061 by Edward J. Romar‚ University of Massachusetts-Boston‚ and Martin Calkins‚ University of Massachusetts-Boston Read the original case. In December 2005‚ two years after this case was written‚ the telecommunications industry consolidated further. Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation‚ which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior
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