professional body‚ and society as a whole. For example‚ in the case of Kelley Lynch‚ she was trusted by her client‚ Leonard Cohen‚ to work responsibly as his business manager (Malemed). Unfortunately‚ her activities can be analyzed to demonstrate how she failed to act responsibly and directly violated three ethical principles. Lynch violated the ethical principle of Trust and Duties. As a professional accountant‚ Lynch failed to honour the trust that her client bestowed upon her and used her privileged
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As the chief executive of Barnes & Noble (BKS) from 2010 to 2013‚ William Lynch might have had one of the most difficult jobs in the retail business. He made it harder still by running a large chain of bookstores as though it were a tech startup. Burning through about a billion dollars‚ the company built its own e-reading devices‚ which were well-received‚ and then its own tablet computers‚ which weren’t. Barnes & Noble sold so few tablets over the holidays last year that it actually lost money during
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young to go on camping holiday with two friends‚ Joe and Willie. Matty has got a dog‚ Nelson. On a day Nelson barked at everything. Matty’s mother hates that and sent him out. But Nelson is run over. He dies. Matty is very very sad. His parents want to do something back. Matty can go on camping holiday with his friends. He’s very happy then but he’ll never forget Nelson. The children are going to a farm. After two days Joe and Willie become bored. But Matty enjoys it very much. He likes to
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During her military deployment in Iraq in 2003‚ PFC Jessica Lynch was injured when a rocket-propelled grenade hit her unit’s vehicle. She then had to be rescued because of her serious injuries and was taken to an Iraqi hospital. There are two sides to what happened next: the U.S government’s story versus the doctor’s story. The U.S government reported that Lynch had been stabbed‚ shot‚ strapped down to the hospital bed and interrogated. However‚ the doctors that treated her said they gave her the
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In the novel Yonnondio: From the Thirties‚ Tillie Olsen tells a moving story about a struggling‚ poor family who are easy to love. The Holbrook family lack many necessities in life including money‚ nutrition‚ safety and happiness. They begin their lives at a mining town in Wyoming where the sky is filled with black clouds that fogs up the lungs of the residents. The family came to realization that they deserve to live in a stress-free area rather than a high-risk detrimental place. It
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I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother‚ who was understandably jealous of my beauty‚ had turned me into a too-big Negro girl‚ with nappy black hair‚ broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil. (Prologue.9) Even as a little girl‚ Maya already has it in her head that white girls are sugar‚ spice‚ and everything nice. Little black girls? Not so much. Racism has already made its way into Maya’s world—and it’s not leaving any time soon. Quote #2
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countryside to escape an imminent Nazi bombardment. William "Willie" Beech‚ a boy from London who is physically and emotionally abused by his mother‚ arrives at the home of Mr. Thomas Oakley‚ a widower in his sixties who lives in the village of Little Weirwold. The boy is thinly clad‚ underfed and covered with painful bruises‚ and believing he is full of sin‚ a result of his upbringing by his domineering‚ God-fearing mother. "Mister Tom"‚ as Willie christens his new guardian‚ is reclusive and bad-tempered
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race. Throughout the play‚ the conflict revolves around the piano‚ and Berniece and Boy Willie’s contrasting views about its significance and about what should be done with it. Berniece is ashamed and cannot let go of the past‚ or the piano‚ and Boy Willie wants to move his life forward‚ and use the piano to do so. Wilson portrays the ’lesson’ of the piano as accepting and respecting one’s past and moving on with one’s life gracefully‚ through Berniece and Boy Willies contrasting actions and the play’s
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Lynch. She was a tough devoted teacher with a heart of gold. She was a petite older lady with short grey hair. What I remember most about her was her colorful holiday sweaters. They would always distract me from my work because they were so colorful and outrageous. Mrs. Lynch pushed me to succeed everyday. I remember constantly getting frustrated when I couldn’t pronounce or spell a word correctly. Mrs. Lynch would make me repeat or rewrite the word until
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record plays along in with the Mississippi Delta blues style with an added juxtaposition of the iconic “piano-like” approach to guitar Johnson had. His somber tone and guitar plays along as he describes his love for Willie Mae Powell turning to love in vain. Johnson’s true love for Willie Mae used to be something beautiful but now he realizes that his love is superficial and void of faith and truthfulness. And indeed all true love is this way. The idea of love is in vain (“Well‚ it’s hard to tell‚ it’s
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