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    - Hitler was fully responsible for the order for the mass executions in Poland in 1939 and 1940. He was also actively engaged in setting up plans for a Jewish reservation in Poland and he backed the Madagascar plan. He was continually preoccupied with further deportations and deportation plans. - In 1941 Hitler ordered the extermination of every potential enemy in the occupied Eastern territories. He was fully aware of mass executions of Jewish civilians in the occupied Eastern territories.

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    The Progressives were a diverse group of people that wanted to offer practical solutions to the social problems that were associated with industrialization and urbanization. Progressives opposed laissez-faire economics‚ which led to a new movement to allow government and private groups to intervene and regulate business firms and private individuals for the good of society. In addressing these problems‚ Progressives organized their ideas and actions around three main goals. They sought to end

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    The Rise and Fall of Salomon Brothers Treasury Bond Scandal- 1991 Executive Summary Salomon Brothers was at one time‚ the largest bulge bracket firm on Wall Street. Although it offered a number of financial services‚ it had established its name through the legacy of bond trading. Its bond trading department boasted of iconic traders of 1980’s era- John Meriwether and Myron Sholes. Salomon Brothers can be considered as the founder father of mortgaged back securities trading on the Wall Street

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    Rise and Fall of the Mongols

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    Honors World History 21. Mai 2008 The Life of Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was born in 1167 under the name Temüjin in the steppes of a Mongolian family. His father Yesugei‚ the chieftain of the sub Mongolian Kiyat clan‚ dead from being poisoned by the Tartar tribe. He swore to take revenge on the tribes who killed his father. When he claimed to succeed his father as chieftain the elders abandoned him and his family. Temüjin had a hard time‚ because he was from a royal line‚ finding confidence in

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    Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Story: The Tide Rises‚ the Tide Falls/The Cross of Snow Members: Ryan Shaffer‚ Derek Erhahon‚ Xavier Brown 1. Writer’s Background: 2. The Writer’s other works: It seems that Longfellow had a way of seeing life as a beautiful work of art and it that sometimes it could be mysterious. As Longfellow says in the Psalm of life “Tell me not‚ in mournful numbers‚ Life is but an empty dream”. As he also so in A Shadow “ To read the rest of their

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    Amazing

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    "Amazing" What is this life I stumbled in to? Where’s it gonna take me? Where’s it gonna take you? If life is a journey‚ then I know where I’ll be By the ocean‚ oh that valley in the sea... But I don’t think anyone’s looking for me‚ especially you And if someone is looking‚ than who? And it’s amazing‚ how lost inside in you feel‚ When you look fine on the outside‚ you’re screaming someone take the wheel And it’s amazing‚ they think you’ve got it all‚ But it might just be a pebble‚ that’s

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    Enron

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    collapse of Enron had substantial and far-reaching ramifications throughout the financial investment field‚ tax compliance professions and the accounting profession. Intense Congressional scrutiny resulted in a new era of transparency in financial reporting‚ stricter reporting standards as provided in Sarbanes-Oxley and substantial penalties for failure to comply with new financial reporting and tax compliance standards in the Internal Revenue Code (Bottiglieri et. al.‚ 2009) Enron Assignment

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    Enron: Leadership without Ethics and Practical Execution Enron‚ once one of the largest energy public companies globally‚ achieved a $65 billion asset volume but only took 24 days to go bankrupt. Initially‚ its main service is extracting natural gas and manufacturing energy-using products‚ but the excessively aggressive and benefit-oriented type of operation makes the company create lots of so-called "innovative" investment department and financial products. All these activities played as the

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    of it being above water” and that the most dangerous and important 7/8‚ the part that sinks ships‚ lies below the surface. (“Art of Fiction”) (Onderdonk 75). In using Hemingway’s iceberg theory to examine his work The Sun Also Rises as well as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room‚ the meaning of the texts changes dramatically. Both pieces deal with controversial themes of sexuality‚ gender relationships‚ and race relations that are hidden in order to challenge the

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    Enron Case Study XXXXX XXXXXXXXX State College Enron Case Study Enron was a corporation founded in 1985‚ when a merger combined Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth (Thomas‚ 2002). Throughout the first five years of Enron’s existence‚ they had many struggles. According to Salter (2005)‚ the first years had many “near death” experiences. Eventually Enron was able to prevail over their many “near death” experiences. In 1989‚ “Enron locked in its first fixed price contract to supply natural

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