Alcibiades Alcibiades was born in 450 BC in ancient Athens. He was the child of Cleinias and Deinomache. Through his mother‚ Deinomache‚ Alcibiades belonged to a very wealthy and powerful family. Alcibiades himself first began to develop into a powerful figure through deception. He was offended when the Spartans overlooked him due to his youth and settled on a treaty agreement with Nicias and Laches instead. Alcibiades seized the chance to go behind the Athenian Assembly’s back by taking
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At the end of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE)‚ a funeral service was given to honor the Athens who fought and served for their country’s empire. After the honorable service and burial‚ a leading citizen was chosen to deliver a memorial speech‚ and Pericles was elected. Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek orator and general of Athens during the period of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. Pericles’ funeral oration is a well-known speech written by the historian‚ Thucydides. This speech
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“According to sources and documents‚ the pieces of evidence include: a pair of earplugs‚ recovered by authorities after McVeigh was arrested about 80 minutes after the bombing. The prosecution hopes to show at the trial that the plugs tested positive for NG‚ or nitroglycerine‚ which is used in high explosives and the production of dynamite‚ and EGDN‚ or ethylene glycol dinitrate‚ also used in dynamite. In addition‚ they plan to provide testimony that the residue traces found on the plugs are "consistent
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The Peloponnesian War lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. and would put the Spartan empire in control of the entire Greek peninsula. The struggle between the two Greek mega powers‚ Sparta and Athens‚ began less than fifty years after they defeated the Persians. Athenian control of the seas would have to be equal to the Persian money if Sparta was going to win the war‚ and finally at the Battle of Syracuse‚ the Spartans showed that they were the masters of land and sea within Greece. With Sparta now in control
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Corporate Accountibility is closely linked to corporate governance in the respect that corporate accountability largely determines corporate governance. On the other hand‚ compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley Act is expensive‚ and relatively more so for smaller public companies. While no doubt compliance with the SOX has improved transparency and corporate accountability‚ at what cost are these aims achieved? Already there are scathing critiques that compliance with the SOX has reduced America’s
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turned its military attentions to Athens it was already weary from the Peloponnesian War. When a substantial portion of a naval ships were captured by Sparta in 405 BC the restriction on supplies into Athens and their resulting surrender to Sparta in 404 BC was the first tolling of
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ACCT 421A: CORPORATE TAX : Chapter Sixteen DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 5. How are farmers treated differently from other producers in regard to tax accounting? Since farmers are usually allowed to use the cash method of accounting‚ the UNICAP rules do not apply to farmers‚ except in the case of plants with a reproduction period of more than two years. The farmer can elect to use the farm price method of the unit-livestock-price-method. A farmer may also elect to average the income from farming
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MCQ -1 – Financial Accounting Under the FIFO cost flow assumption during a period of inflation‚ which of the following is false? WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT TRUE. (Hint: One way to answer this is to look at examples of lifo and fifo). Choose one answer. a. Income tax expense will be higher than under LIFO. b. Gross margin will be higher than under LIFO. c. Ending inventory will be lower than under LIFO. d. Cost of goods sold will be lower than under LIFO.
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"Underlying Causes" Please respond to the following: Analyze at least three underlying causes for the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Next‚ rank the causes that you have analyzed from the most important to the least important to the creation of the Act. Explain your rationale. In the later part of 1990s‚ there was an epidemic of accounting scandals which arose with the disclosure of financials transgressions by trusted corporate executives. The misdeeds involved misusing or misdirecting
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credit in their introductory psychology classes in return for their participation. They completed a questionnaire as part of their participation. 52% of the participants were men‚ and 48% were women. 94% were between the ages of 18 and 25. Only the 404 students that had complete data were used to set up the model that the experimenters formed. The second
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