for why Enron collapsed—that key individuals were flawed‚ that the organization was flawed‚ and that some factors larger than the organization (e.g.‚ a trend toward deregulation) led to Enron’s collapse. In viewing “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” it was clear that all three of these flaws contributed to the demise of Enron‚ but it was the synergy of their combination that truly let Enron to its ultimate path of destruction. As in any organization‚ the executives ultimately drive company policy
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OPERATING ROOM OBSERVATION. Patient: J.D. Age: 39 year-old. Gender: Female. Marital status: Married. Chief complaint: Left tendoachilles pain for 5 years. Patient rates pain to 10/10. Patient said she had a Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injection 2 years ago as a treatment intervention for this condition and had some relief but over time‚ the pain came back and got worse. Name of surgical procedure: Endoscopic Gastrocnemius Recession. Surgery: Left leg Gastrocnemius Recession. This procedure
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Enron‚ the Smartest Guys in the Room. Enron was involved in American’s largest corporate bankruptcy. It is a story about people‚ and in reality it is a tragedy. Enron made their stock sky rocket through unethical means‚ and in reality this company kept losing money. The primary value operating among the traders was greed‚ money‚ and how to make profits under any circumstance. The traders thought that a good trader is a creative trader and the creative trader can find any arbitrage opportunity
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in a sticky situation in which we have seconds to decide. In all circumstances I have been involved in‚ the physician orders to resuscitate the patient as if their code status stated full code. The physician will usually bring the family into the room where we are attempting to resuscitate the patient. This way‚ the family can see all of our efforts to save the patient. When the time comes and
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With every waking second that she sat at that bar‚ her sanity was chipped away on piece at a time. It seemed to take hours for a minute to go by and with every minute she grew angrier and angrier. The sun slowly began to set‚ and the sky became so vibrant with orange and pinks that it was almost dream like. The sun descending behind the trees‚ and the birds flying back to their nests. She waited over 4 hours at the cafe for him to show up but he still hadn’t strolled in to greet her. The waiter came
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boredom‚ drug and alcohol abuse‚ disciplinary problems‚ personal problems and racial/political conflicts. Police‚ fire and emergency services are affected by increased workloads and false alarms. Also‚ facilities‚ such as parks and public rest rooms which everyone in the community uses‚ become vandalized. Vandalism affects your pocketbook too. People pay their taxes for a reason‚ to build a better community for the future generation. When the community is vandalized‚ the people are the ones
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finishing his peppery speech‚ the Medical Director brusquely turned his attention to a stack of papers and began discussing them with Jane Woodford‚ effectively shutting out Surina. As a result of Jane’s sickly sweet perfume permeating through the austere room and intermingling with the Medical Director’s pungent aftershave to create a nauseating odor‚ Surina’s head began spinning. To put it another way‚ it resembled the residual smell left when incense cannot entirely mask the stench of death. Rex‚ of
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Sex in your living room The usual complaint about television content is about violence. There are many familiar arguments that have been made common by pundits on television‚ newspapers‚ and magazines. Violent images on television are said to promote violence among our youth‚ desensitize all age groups to death and human suffering‚ and the list goes on and on. What do the prevalent and explicit sexual images that parade across our television screens do to our society? Due to the fact that sex
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In the second half of A Room With A View by E.M. Forster‚ the characters readily flout the rules of convention and disregard authority figures like Cecil as they enjoy themselves through games and other activities. Those characters‚ mainly the young people in the novel like Lucy‚ George‚ and Freddy‚ find themselves through pastime pursuits like bathing‚ bumble-puppy‚ an older form of tetherball‚ and tennis sans Cecil‚ whom they consider a killjoy‚ and the stuffy‚ proper social etiquette that he represents
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The computer responds to specific types of commands in its language. If you input data in an accurate system‚ it will output as desired. Searle’s Chinese Room Experiment is a representation of this input-output system. In this experiment‚ the subject is given various texts in unknown language to output certain translations. There is no understanding of the text‚ but just pure functioning. Understanding of
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