In recent years‚ companies have managed to turn their backs on employees and investors‚ all because they wanted to save money and do what’s best for the company and them without caring how it would affect the employees and investors. They became greedy and did whatever it took to get themselves rich by lying to investors with balance sheets that didn’t include money-losing assets and laying off employees leaving them jobless and feeling betrayed. Even though both employees and investors were betrayed
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Bankrupt Rapper Not Really Broke After All Curtis James Jackson III‚ better known as 50 Cent‚ has been in the news a lot over the last year because of is bankruptcy. When 50 Cent filed his Chapter 11 last June he claimed that he owed nearly $50 million‚ just enough to offset his assets but not enough to pay the $7 million judgment against him in favor of rival Rick Ross’s ex‚ Lastonia Leviston. He said he certainly could not afford the $17 million award to his ex-business partners who sued him
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Enron History Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) were used and often abused by most large corporations in the late 1990’s. Enron was likely the corporation that abused the accounting treatment the most‚ but certainly not the only one. The Enron SPEs were not hidden from the auditors or the investing public‚ but were so extensive‚ invasive‚ and complex that no one‚ including primary architect‚ Andrew Fastow‚ was able to understand the total implications. The 2000 financial statements for Enron included
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There is a phrase that is used to describe a killer who is both medically and legally sane‚ who murders again and again and again‚ until they are either captured or dead. That phrase/classification is "Serial Killer.’ When most people‚ icluding myself‚ hear that phrase we tend to think of a social outcast‚ who is horribly ugly and mentally deranged. This is generally not true. In fact‚ most serial killers are very well liked by those who know them‚ they are also very attractive to members of the
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Public speaking can be easily improved with three simple tricks. These tricks include making eye contact with the audience and using hand gestures‚ starting the speech with a question or a fact‚ and finally if you make a mistake do not apologize to the audience. Eye contact with the audience and using hand gestures. Making eye contact with the audience and using hand gestures can help you engage with your audience and make a firm connection with them. Making a connection is important because it
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Enron is a company that specializes in energy and power industry. They provide gas‚ oil‚ and electrical services worldwide. These comprise wholesale services‚ retail energy services‚ broadband services‚ and transportation services. They have reported revenues of $100.789billion‚ $40.112billion‚ and $31.260 billion for the years 2000‚ 1999‚ and 1998 respectively. This is a growth of 151.3% from year 1999 to 2000 and 28.3% from 1998 to 1999. This is unparalleled in the relatively stable energy business
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Zuki Ekic Professor Barron English 102 21 June 2012 The Truth Behind Disney The documentary “Mickey Mouse Monopoly” written by Chyng Sun and directed by Miguel Picker‚ discusses the truth behind Disney and the message it gives to young children. Disney portrays a lot of racism in their movies by correlating black or dark animals as being evil and always up to no good. This teaches little kids that people of color are monstrous and bad people when really they ’re not. It ’s not common to see
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Have you ever had at time when you‚ so much to say but you just could not get it out? You plan what you are going to say but when you speak‚ your mind goes blind. This happens to me all of the time for some reason and it didn’t bother me until one day. All I could see was bright lights‚ a quiet room‚ a large stage and a microphone. In October 2012‚ I was in a beauty pageant‚ that I practiced weeks for. Like a normal pageant‚ it had swimwear‚ talent‚ interview‚ formal wear and finally the questionnaire
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One day in the past when Fazzbear’s Family Dinner was open‚ A kid (codename: Golden Freddy) saw his Father (Pink Guy) kill a kid‚ G.F. saw this through the car window. When he saw this he wanted to try it himself so‚ he invited his friends (Codenames: Freddy and Bonnie). This party was later in G.F.’s life after Fazzbear’s Family Dinner was closed and‚ Freddy Fazzbear’s Pizzeria was open. G.F. brought Freddy and Bonnie to the kition and killed them. The kids souls went into the Freddy’s and Bonnie’s
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For the pasts few decades‚ there has been a great development of the scientific area of DNA‚ deoxyribonucleic acid‚ helping on scientific research and most importantly as a tool for solving crimes. Before the usage of DNA‚ people only had shreds of evidence on the crime which could be detected by the naked eye. However‚ with the development of DNA detection technology‚ the police can identify or get some indication about the malefactor by collecting pieces of evidence that were impotent before; for
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