1. Describe a cause or concern that spurred you to be civically engaged. How did you contribute? What did you learn or gain from the experience? In school‚ I saw my peers were having trouble academically without individual attention. They would seek help from teachers‚ but would still not understand the material. This lack of learning turned into a hatred for the subjects‚ which translated into a hatred for school. My friends studied for hours only to fail their tests and fall behind. I was shocked
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Activity 1.1.3 Gears - VEX Introduction You do not have to look far to see gears. You might not think of an object such as a computer as having a lot of moving parts‚ but the CD tray on your computer is likely controlled by gears. A traditional watch is full of gears. The watch has one source of power or input that must move multiple hands continuously and at different speeds. Some watches also keep track of the day of the month. This may be low-tech by today’s standards‚ but imagine the challenge
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one of the biggest companies in the world went bankrupt. Enron was a world leader in natural gas and oil‚ or so the investors thought. What seemed to be a booming company in a booming economy turned out to be one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of the world. Executives at Enron misled investors into thinking they were continuously growing‚ when the real numbers insured that they were losing money every quarter. Enron‚ founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985‚ became popular based on
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I remember it like it was yesterday. The squeaky white floors‚ and how I had to stand on my “tippy toes” to see through the glass. In that room on the other side of the glass was what felt like hundreds of babies‚ new babies that had only been in this world for a so short of a time. I knew I wanted to be one of the “angels” caring for them. My sister was a preemie‚ born 9 weeks early‚ so the family spent a lot of time in the hospital with her. In the following weeks and months‚ I witnessed nurses
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Why I want to be a nurse? I firmly believe that choosing the right profession‚ the one that I will be good at is essential to my personal happiness‚ and well being. Although‚ my path on choosing a nursing as a carrier wasn’t always clear to me‚ my school advisers have been pointing me to the nursing since High School. According to the adviser and carrier test my personality will suite me well in a nursing carrier. However‚ influenced by the family members growing up I was fixed on becoming
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WHAT DO PARAMEDICS DO? You’ve watched the hour-long television shows where paramedics work with other emergency services. The actors make it look easy‚ however‚ it’s only based on real life experiences. In your life as a paramedic‚ your job will take a toll on your physical‚ mental and emotional health. You’ll be responding to homicides‚ traffic fatalities‚ and domestic violence incidents. You wonder when something good will happen‚ and then it does. You’ve been called out to private residence
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What Role Does Personal Ethics Play in an Organization In late 2001‚ the United States economy experienced a shock as Enron‚ the country’s 7th largest corporation‚ declared bankruptcy. Many people lost their jobs‚ and even more investors lost billions of stock dollars as shares collapsed. As the rubble was removed‚ many signs of unethical acts surfaced‚ and were found to be carried out by some of the principal parties in the company. This debacle not only affected the employees and investors
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1. The Enron executive team including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow and other executives‚ were the key players in the crisis. The business practices they used when creating hundreds of SPE’s and diverting large amounts of liabilities to those off-balance sheet entities. Enron was aware of the minimal accounting guidelines for SPE’s and used them to their advantage. To create such a complex “paper” structure‚ the executives had to have coordinate their plans with the accountants
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Why I Like To Be a Teacher Teaching is a unique profession. It takes a lot of commitment‚ dedication‚ patience and above all‚ love for the act of helping others learn. Being a teacher is one of the noblest and most gratifying professions ‚ no matter how difficult the road is. Undoubtedly‚ it is hard to deal with students‚ their behaviors‚ personal problems‚ difficult ages and even with their parents that sometimes do not support the teachers‚ and last but not least‚ the educational system
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Can institutional investors restrain earnings management activities in weak investor protection countries? The role of foreign and domestic institutional investors UGUR LEL* This draft: February 2013 Abstract This paper investigates the role that institutional investors play in restraining earnings management activities of firms under varying investor protection environments. Distinguishing between foreign and domestic institutional ownership in a sample of about 190‚000 firm-year observations
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