Review Essay No one would listen By Joseph Kiobbo‚ Newman University No one would Listen: A True Financial Thriller. Harry Markopolos‚ ed. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons‚ Inc. 2010. Pp. 345. $17.35 (hard cover) This book brought out the failures of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in America’s history‚ as orchestrated by Bernie Madoff. Harry Markopolos caught up with Madoff’s Ponzi scheme earlier on in his career and saw all the red
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This essay is about the life and accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton. His achievements started from the early age of fifteen and would be life long into him becoming a founding father. Alexander Hamilton would play a big part in the Revolutionary War including becoming an important political fiqure in the US government. From a young age Alexander Hamilton showed that he was a successful individual.Alexander was born in Nevis‚ a modern day Caribbean island‚ on January 11‚ 1755. At age 12 Alexander
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supplies‚ hunting supplies‚ and disaster supplies. In this paragraph you will learn about the survival supplies I brought and why I brought them. Firstly you need a solar still to purify and distill water because water is the most important thing for all life on earth even more important than food because you can survive for a month without food while you can only survive 3 or so days without water. With the solar still providing water‚ you will also need a hatchet because hatchets can be used to chop down
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WHAT IS THE AIM OF EDUCATION IN OUR LIFE Life is very complex and complicated. But an aim in life can make the complex life simple and purposeful. Aims give us direction to work and without aim‚ destination‚ or objective life becomes incomplete and haphazard. Individual has different interests‚ attitudes and needs. Every individual wants to achieve certain goals in life. But a clear-cut aim makes the road of life easy. Educational aims are varied. They have their different role in different fields
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What would I do if I won a million dollars? For example‚ from the lottery maybe? Yes‚ the chances of winning are just as likely as being abducted by aliens but if I did‚ I this were to happen‚ what would I do with the cash? Winning the lottery is a favorite daydream for a lot of us. If I had a million dollars‚ I’m guessing I would definitely want more. I would probably try to discover a way to double the million‚ probably put it up in a bank somewhere for a few years and let it collect some interest
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rich...some even want to change the world ^-^.For me. It’s simple. It’s not a physical change because everybody can grow up by this way. But here‚ I am expressing about the change in thinking>it’s the change from a want-of- thought person to be a mature one‚ it’s really important not only for me but also for all of you even though somebody thinks that it’s such a small thing. To prove my opinion‚ I will tell you a story; an unforgettable experience in my whole life. Sixteen years passed by from a day
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In the novel “Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger‚ we are given this protagonist by the name of Holden Caulfield who feels like he’s trapped on “the other side” of life. Throughout the novel‚ we read into why Holden is the way he is. There are two traumatic events that take place in Holden’s life. The first of the two is when his brother Allie had died of leukemia. The second experience is when a boy by the name James Castle commits suicide after being a victim of severe bullying. The suicide of
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many people in the world. As a section of the Press‚ newspapers have the main aims of informing‚ educating and entertaining the public. We the students of West Africa Senior High School at Adenta‚ a suburb of Accra‚ the capital city of Ghana‚ working on Learning Circle Project have found out from our research that newspapers are very important in not only educating the youth but also help in informing and entertaining them in our country‚ Ghana as well as in other parts of the world. Newspapers in
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Topic: One language spoken worldwide would lead to a better world. Discuss. How many languages do you think exist in the world? In today’s world‚ there are approximately 6‚800 known languages spoken in about 200 countries. But can you imagine all people speaking only one language? It is still questionable if one language spoken worldwide would lead to a better world. Firstly‚ by using one language‚ people can be better for business communication. It cannot be denied that language is an insuperable
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The Art of Attaining the Good Life Sarah J. Thieme PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Professor Galen Johnson January 28‚ 2013 The Art of Attaining the Good Life What is the good life and how does one achieve it? This is a question that has been brought to the attention of many philosophers over human history. It can be reasonably argued that the modern person‚ especially westerners‚ consider income to be an important part to living the good life. There is little question anymore that income
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