Kenneth Lay founded Enron in 1985. Two years after its founding‚ the company becomes embroiled in scandal after two traders begin betting on the oil markets‚ resulting in suspiciously consistent profits. Enron’s CEO‚ Louis Borget‚ is also discovered to be diverting company money to offshore accounts. After auditors uncover their schemes‚ Lay encourages them to "keep making us millions". However‚ the traders are fired after it is revealed that they gambled away Enron’s reserves‚ nearly destroying
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Freaks and Geeks is a TV show that takes place in 1980 Michigan following the freaks and geeks of William McKinley High School. In the first episode “Pilot”‚ we follow Lindsay and Sam Weir‚ sister and brother who are both students of McKinley. Lindsay‚ who is struggling with her grandma’s death‚ quits being a mathlete to start hanging out with Daniel and his friends‚ the “freaks”. While Sam is being terrorized by his bully‚ Alan‚ and is desperate for his friends to stand up for him. We watch as Lindsay
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FIRST PAPER REQUIREMENT Movie Analysis Prepared by: LEONILA C. MIRANDA 2011-79515 Title: I NOT STUPID TOO Director: Jack Neo Producer: Chan Pui Yin Seah Saw Yam Writer: Jack Neo Casts: Shawn Lee (Tom Yeo) [pic] Ashley Leong (Jerry Yeo) Joshua Ang (Chengcai Lim) Jack Neo (Mr. Yeo) Xiang Yun (Mrs. Yeo) Huang Yiliang (Mr. Lim) Studio: Media Corp Raintree Pictures Distributor: United International Pictures Release date: 26 January 2006
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"A Good Man is Hard to Find" In Flannery O ’Connor ’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find‚" O ’Connor uses a gruesome and violent situation to reveal the true nature of her characters. In some cases‚ the natures of her characters are duplicitous to their initial descriptions in the first half of the story and in others‚ they stray very little from what is understood of them in the beginning. It can be argued that "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is duplicitous in its own right‚ beginning with a comical
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Andrew Niccols film Gattaca‚ Highlights the importance of human ambition and willpower as the key to deciding and changing your life/fate‚ by depicting a society that encourages upon genetic profile to decide the future of an individual instead of their determination and ambition. The protagonist‚ Vincent Anton Freeman “A limited invalid” demonstrates how genetics have little influence over sheer determination and grit. Similarly‚ minor characters such as Jerome Eugene Morrow‚ is ultimately liberated
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The Roaring Girl Act 1: Scene 1: Mary Fitzgerald visits her love Sebastian‚ dressed as a sempster. They were betrothed and something has happened to stop the marriage. Sebastian tells Mary about Moll‚ whom he’s pretending to love to trick his father. Scene 2: Sir Alexander (Sebastian’s Father) is having guests over. He takes them on a tour of his home and then tells them a story of a man who is in love with a Moll! (Mary and Sebastian were betrothed until his father discovered how low the dowry
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Shuo Zhang Writing 1 05/6/2011 A new look on homosexuality-analysis of Farewell My Concubine Although homosexuality exists in social reality‚ the lack of its own “truthful” representation in terms of books or films creates numerous misunderstandings that prevent the development of a positive homosexual sensibility in Chinese culture. Therefore‚ the most impressive and controversial part of the movie Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen‚ 1993) is its effort to break the language-less silence
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"A crooked childhood it’s what the way I am‚ It’s got me in the state where I don’t give a damn‚ Somebody helped me but now they don’t hear me‚ I guess I be another victim of the ghetto So I guess I gotta do what so I ain’t finished I grew up to be a streiht up menace‚ geah." -"Streiht Up Menace" by MC Eiht The song lyrics above are from the soundtrack of the film Menace II Society and correspond directly to the hardships that people are given when growing up in the ghetto and when surrounded
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Synopsis: Star Trek Episode “The Measure of a Man” [1] Most of us are aware that the television series Star Trek was about a starship‚ the Enterprise‚ whose mission was to explore the galaxy. This ship was part of a larger organization known as Starfleet. Serving as a Lt. Commander on board the ship was an android named Data. Data was an extremely advanced and unique android even by the standards of 24th century science. He had a special processor known as a “positronic brain” that allowed him
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Real Estate Marketing & Branding. Contents: 1. Real Estate Industry Branding. 2. Marketing Communication. 3. Customer Relationship Management. 4. Communication Points for Redevelopment. 5. Name Game in Real Estate Industries. 1. Real Estate Industry Branding Same Basics‚ Different Dynamics: The branding basics applicable to the real estate business are no different from branding in any other sector. The principles are the same‚ even if the applications are
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