Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse The Enron Corporation was established by integrating two major gas pipelines in 1985. The Company provided products and services related to natural gas‚ electricity‚ and communications and it was one of the world’s leading organizations at these sectors with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Throughout the 1990s‚ Chair Ken Lay‚ chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling and chief financial official officer Andrew Fastow transformed
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John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most well know allegories in history. All of the characters in the book symbolize different things. Two characters‚ Christian and Apollyon‚ are two major symbolic characters in the story. Christian is the book’s main character and the hero too. He symbolizes all of the other Christians that are on their journey to find Christ. He wants to find religious truth and the Celestial City‚ which is heaven. Throughout the entire book‚ Christian goes on
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Fast Food Leads To Chronic Diseases Reading an article on the front page of a prominent newspaper caught my eye‚ “Fast Food Leads To Chronic Diseases”. Recently‚ media coverage show how people are very fond of fast food and how they fail to realise its detrimental effects on their bodies. I wondered what it was that made fast food bad. Well‚ it’s like the name suggests it’s made quickly and contains sugars‚ fats‚ salts and the cooking processes have no beneficial effects on our body. Therefore
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When Postpartum Depression Leads to Psychosis Tammy J. Stratton Having a baby is a happy time for new moms! But for some moms it can turn into something worse! Dads helping out with a new baby can prevent new moms from having severe postpartum depression! This is what happens when a new mom doesn’t get help or enough rest. But the end result could lead to postpartum psychosis if this mom doesn’t get enough rest!! The mothers that you see are stressed out from dealing with a new baby. This
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How inspiration leads to overcoming obstacles. This essay is about how inspiration leads to overcoming obstacles. It discusses how obstacles affect our daily life‚ and how one should go about overcoming them without pulling their hair out. People cannot control the obstacles that come about‚ but as people can learn how to control and react to them. People should be able to view obstacles through the eyes of possibility‚ instead of the eyes of defeat. Despite the thought of people wanting to think
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Can Capitalism Lead to Human Happiness? Capitalism is good at meeting many of our wants but has "big blind spots when it comes to others‚" such as family relationships‚ a sense of community. Capitalism‚ by unleashing rapid changes in technology‚ business organization‚ and social and economic status‚ sometimes undermines institutions and systems of beliefs that evolved in quieter and more slow-paced times or cultures. Sometimes this is good‚ as when capitalism helped end slavery and elevated the
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Several factors contribute to school success. A person’s experience with education early in life has a great influence on school success later on. It is vital that infants and toddlers have access to quality education from day one. The socioeconomic status in which one is raised has an immense effect on school success. Wealthier children have access to greater‚ high-quality facilities and resources while poorer children often lack the basic necessities such as proper nutrition and quality education
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mind of the Creole Elites. Though there were other causes of revolution in the area‚ this class rift played part in frustrating the members of the Creole Elite towards action‚ for example‚ Simon Bolivar. It created a foundation of tension that helped lead people like Bolivar to liberate Venezuela‚ Colombia‚ and Ecuador and gain the independence of Gran Colombia. The liberation of Venezuela and Colombia was a war against royalists and patriots‚ with the peninsular Spaniards almost always falling into
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The United States: A Work In Progress On November 5‚ 1768‚ George Washington sent a letter to James Madison‚ which addresses the need for a stronger government. In that period of time‚ citizens of the United States felt a sense of insecurity about what their country was turning into. As Washington says in his letter‚ “We are fast verging to anarchy and confusion... ‘Leave them to themselves‚ and their government will soon dissolve’‚ Will not the wise and good strive to avert this problem?” George
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Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse In the case of Enron‚ it comes down to pure greed and a lack of accountability. From the top‚ there was illegal activity with Ken Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow who raided the company as though it was their own personal bank. On top of that‚ the culture of the rest of the company was to make as much money as they could and employees were rewarded by the amount of profit they could make without questioning the ethical means to do so.
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