from a female players perspective. In the autobiography "She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey" by Cynthia Cooper it shows the reader just that‚ the dedication being brought by a woman into the game of basketball. Cynthia Cooper is one the best female basketball players America has produced. In the past ten years she has accumulated MVP awards‚ scoring titles‚ gold medals‚ and championships. Cooper shares how she made it to the top of her profession after growing up poor in Watts and wining a scholarship
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WEEK 5 QUIZ- DIVERSITY AND RACE: HISTORICAL INSTRUCTIONS This Quiz is made up of Multiple Choice and Essay Questions based on this week’s discussion‚ reading and video assignments related to your assigned readings in your text book Racial and Ethnic Groups. This quiz is a possible total of 100points. Place a mark next to your choice of response or use the highlighter. Do not underline or place an asterisk or mark more than one response‚ if you do your response will be counted as incorrect
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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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“Ethics/125 Final Assignment” The information that I have learned about diversity in the United States of America has helped me better understand and relate to others in many ways. The United States of America is a giant melting pot of several different races‚ ethnicities‚ and cultures. What I have learned is that each group has their differences and similarities. With these differences in culture they have taught me how to be tolerant and accepting of them no matter how different from me they
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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 - Increase
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AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Aman Verma 2-11-2013 Phoenix University ETH 376 Every industry has a set of rules‚ or code of conduct‚ that guides it and establishes rules to prevent professionals‚ as much as possible‚ to be ethical and true to their work. In the accounting world the AICPA‚ The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants‚ Code of Professional Conduct is considered to be the foundation
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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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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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ACCT7102 Case Study- WorldCom 1.0 Background WorldCom as one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies‚ filed for bankruptcy on 2012 after numerous accounting irregularities were disclosed. It is essential for us to analyze the several underlying issues from WorldCom case to avoid its repetition. The origin of WorldCom can be traced to a LDDS provider in 1983 and it became officially known as WorldCom in 1995. The company maintained a rapid growth through a series of acquisitions using
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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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