Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of
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The Enron Kaiwing Ho Ethics‚ Governance & Accountability BU.135.301.U2.FA12 Professor Crain November 21‚ 2012 Enron Since Enron Corporation has been bankrupt there were 20‚000 employees lost their jobs‚ medical insurance and average severance pay was only $4500. However‚ the top executives were paid bonuses totaling $55 million. In 2001‚ employees lost $1.2 billion in retirement funds and retirees lost $2 billion in pension funds. Yet‚ Enron’s top executives cashed in $116 million
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understand their role. Another way to assist in this is by studying other versions of the performance‚ if there are any‚ to see the performance as a whole and how it all fits together. Stanislavsky’s next basic assumption is that actors must project themselves into the world of the play and may learn to do so through the magic if (through imagining how one would feel or act if one were in this specific character in this specific situation). Actors best do this by becoming one with a character‚ studying
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subsidiaries on April 1‚ 2011. According to Panasonic Global Website‚ since its establishment in 1918‚ Panasonic has been guided by its Basic Management Philosophy founded by Konosuke Matsushita‚ which states that the mission of an enterprise is to contribute to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people worldwide through its business activities. Absolutely‚ Panasonic is much more
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Renaissance is a word that means “rebirth.” This is a fitting title for the time period as it was a time of surges of advancements in all fields of study. The Renaissance in general lasted from 1330 CE to 1620 CE‚ while the periods in it (Italian‚ English‚ High Renaissances) lasted as following: English Renaissance lasted from 1550 CE to 1620‚ the Italian Renaissance lasted from 1330 CE to 1550 CE‚ and the High Renaissance‚ in the middle of the English Renaissance‚ lasted from 1480 CE to 1520 CE
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Bach came to the minds of his contempories‚ he was known as the “…genius of that wonderful family of Thuringian musicians.” Furthermore‚ Bach was acknowledged as a gifted organist and performer during his life. Consequently when he passed away‚ so did his compositions into ‘obscurity’. Today however‚ in gratitude to the Romantic revival of Bach’s brilliance‚ we view a prolific composer who “…in the multiplicity of his song… delighted‚ taught and moved young people‚ women‚ men‚ princes‚ kings and
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Galileo was contributed a lot to us today because he had major discoveries in math‚ astronomy‚ physics and engineering. Even though he had an unideal childhood‚ Galileo went to college at the University of Pisa. He also began teaching at the age of 17. In 1568 he invented the hydrostatic balance. this is used to measure the “specific gravity” of a gemstone. This is something that people use today in gemology. He also gave private math lessons to children in florence and his college. In 1593‚ Galileo
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At the age of six Michelangelo’s mother passed away and initially his father did not approve of his chose career path. At the young age of thirteen‚ Michelangelo became an apprentice of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio who was well known for his murals. After a year of apprenticing Mr. Ghirlandaio‚ Michelangelo begin to catch the
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Harriet set out for the free state of Philadelphia alone and by foot‚ later making use of the underground railroad‚ traveling almost 90 miles to reach freedom. “When I found I had crossed that line‚ I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees‚ and over the fields‚ and I felt like I was in Heaven” (Bradford). Rather than stay in the safety of the north‚ Harriet returned to the south‚ first for her niece and
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Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the ’Great Leap Forward’ and the ’Cultural Revolution’. Mao was born on 26 December 1893 into a peasant family in Shaoshan‚ in Hunan province‚ central China. After training as a teacher‚ he travelled to Beijing where he worked in the University Library. It was during this time that he began to read Marxist literature. In 1921‚ he became a founder member of the Chinese
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