Imagine taking over your friend’s life‚ taking their money‚ living under their name while still trying to maintain yourself. This is the life of the main character Tom Ripley from the book The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ written by Patricia Highsmith. This highly suspenseful book takes you through the colorful mind of Ripley. Anxiety‚ lying and impersonation are three topics that come up a lot in Ripley’s journey. Each aspect reflecting why Tom does what he does in the story‚ realizing why he feels the
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Fueled by Envy: Analysis between Othello and The Talented Mr. Ripley The Film The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ directed by Anthony Minghella‚ and the Play Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ are similar in the theme that envy leads to a demise of characters. In both works‚ the antagonist motives are pursued by the acquisition of wealth‚ and in the end are deemed by the desire for power. In The Talented Mr. Ripley‚ Tom Ripley is a poor shipbuilder from New York who must persuade wealthy
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WorldCom Case Study Update 20061 by Edward J. Romar‚ University of Massachusetts-Boston‚ and Martin Calkins‚ University of Massachusetts-Boston Read the original case. In December 2005‚ two years after this case was written‚ the telecommunications industry consolidated further. Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation‚ which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior
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hear the Lawsuits Now 1. Why do suppose Bernie Ebbers was treated more like the leader of a cult than a CEO? Explain. Bernie Ebbers was considered a cult leader for various reasons the total number of people affected by his behavior and direction of individual who just simply did as he requested which is what cult leaders do. He was known as a leader with charismatic is why a lot of his unethical actions were not challenged. Bernie Ebbers was ordered to pay back $6.13 billion to 830‚000 idiviauals
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WorldCom’s stock was declining. CEO Bernard Ebbers came under increasing pressure from banks to cover margin calls on his WorldCom stock that was used to finance his other businesses endeavors. The company’s profitability took another hit when it was forced to abandon its proposed merger with Sprint in late 2000. During 2001‚ Ebbers persuaded WorldCom’s board of directors to provide him corporate loans and guarantees totaling more than $400 million. Ebbers wanted to cover the margin calls‚ but this
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felt very fortunate to have such a position at WorldCom. Aside from Betty Vinson‚ the two other main players in the case are Bernard Ebbers‚ CEO‚ and Scott Sullivan‚ CFO. Ebbers lacked technological expertise or experience and‚ admittedly‚ stated his only real qualification was “being the meanest SOB they could find” (Kaplan and Kiron‚ 2007). However‚ Ebbers was the right man for the job during the companies’ infancy‚ since his aggressive M&A strategy took less than a year to make WorldCom
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The theme of appearance in the relationship between Miss Kilman and Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a middle-class well-educated woman who became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group‚ a gathering of Modern artists linked by friendship or love who lived near Bloomsbury in London.1 In 1925‚ she published Mrs Dalloway‚ a novel in stream of consciousness‚ which means that we follow the characters’ thoughts as they enter
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performance indicator by analysts and industry observers‚ pressure was put on the senior managers and lead executives to find a way to become more profitable again. Each major player in player in WorldCom had their own pressures too. CEO Bernie Ebbers had taken loans against his WorldCom stock to support several personal business ventures. The success of WorldCom‚ as measured by its stock price‚ was vital to supporting his outside business. Thus‚ keeping the value of the company inflated would
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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Chandra * Niteesh Chinta * Shraddha Rane * Swathi Punreddy The Rise and fall of WorldCom This case study WorldCom is a telecommunications company which was led by CEO‚ Bernard Ebbers‚ and CFO‚ Scott Sullivan. In 1999‚ WorldCom was not meeting Wall Street’s revenue and earnings expectations‚ and it appeared that the coming year would produce more bad news. The CFO argued for setting realistic targets. However‚ the CEO insisted
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