...Unit 2: Assignment 1 After reviewing the Lyndon B. Johnson “Daisy Ad” and the “I’m Mad” advertisement by Ronald Regan for support of Barry Goldwater, there are similarities between the two videos as well as vast differences. The Johnson campaign committee made a very dramatic dramatization of what would happen if the people of the United States elected Goldwater for president in 1964, portraying that if Goldwater were elected the entire nation would be thrown into war. During this terrible time frame which was referred to as the Cold War, people were constantly on edge of fear of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and its allies, many U.S. citizens were accused of treason and blackballed. Johnson wanted to use the fear and gullibility of the nation at that time to gain an advantage in the presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Regan spent the entirety of the Goldwater ad attempting to clear the dirt away from the Goldwater family. But, in this advertisement for Goldwater, Regan does little to retract the statements made by the Johnson ad, instead he tries to justify that the country needs someone impulsive to keep the nation on edge and to keep the nations defenses at a maximum. Both videos portray attempts by both candidates to manipulate the voters through fear of an imminent attack on the U.S. by Soviet forces. The only differences in the videos is how they catered the message to the viewers, with the Johnson ad being a direct attempt to slander the opponent, whilst the...
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...time to change. They need to act quickly though if they want to solve the problem. Every major sport seems to have a problem. Baseball had their huge problem with steroids, basketball has a reputation of its players being thugs, but football seems to have no major problem. Many of these problems have not only affected the leagues, they have affected the youth all across America. Like the problems the solutions are very diverse. I love all sports, and I would hate to see them become disgraced. Baseball which is my favorite sport has had the most trouble in the past couple of years. Their decline started with the steroid scandal involving Barry Bonds. When a player that big in the game is going after a cherished home run record and there are scandals surrounding it, there is going to be some turmoil. It wasn’t just Barry Bonds fault and the people involved in the scandal, it was also baseball officials fault for not doing anything when they knew about the things going on in baseball. They turned their back to the problem because at the time baseball was doing well and they didn’t want to disrupt that. Baseball was forced to act because of the scandal. They put in a steroid policy that was laughable compared to the steroid policy of the Olympics. Baseball would like to think that they have cleaned up the game, which they have a little bit, but it is still far from being where it needs to be if it wants a chance to be at the top again. Not only is baseballs problem...
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...ZZZZ Best company Inc. Summary “ZZZZ Best company” was founded by 16-year old Barry Minkow. The core activity of company was carpet cleaning. As he began doing business, Minkow soon realized that carpet cleaning was a difficult way to earn money because customers always complained and vendors demanded payments. Soon Minkow started seeking for financing but realized that bank were not willing to lend him money due to his age and low profitability of his business. That’s why he came up with the idea of forgeries and thefts from his insurance company. Later on, making friends he asked the insurance claim adjuster - Tom Padgett to confirm from time to time that Minkow’s company received occasional insurance restoration contracts on remodeling works on properties damaged by fire, storms and other catastrophes. Soon he realized that there was no need in development of carpet business because the main “income” was obtained by restoration operations. Then, Minkow decided to go public and for that purpose he hired independent auditor – George Greenspan. By that time Minkow had established fake insurance company and Padgett had got the top position in it to confirm fraudulent restoration contracts, so Greenspan didn’t notice any problems with those sites. By the end of the year he was dismissed and Minkow retained “Ernst & Whinney” to enhance creditability of his operations on restoration contracts. “Ernst & Whinney” agreed to provide 4 types of services to “ZZZZ best company”:...
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...Is Baseball Still the American National Pastime? Although baseball has been and may still be considered America’s national pastime, it has not happened without incident. The game of baseball was initially racially segregated, only completing the final desegregation in 1959, twelve years after the signing of Jackie Robinson. It withstood the devastating gambling scandals of the 1920’s Chicago White Sox and the 1980’s Pete Rose scandal. The institution has survived and may have even been made stronger with the steroid and drug scandal of the 1990’s and recent years. Baseball has had difficulties in maintaining a loyal following since the 1994 strike, having to rebuild the fans confidence and or switching the fan base from Anglo to a more diverse ethnicity. Writer George Plimpton, summarized baseball with this passage in Ken Burns Ninth Inning, “It’s always been our great game. Pastime is a funny word for it is not a pastime it has to do with the spirit of the people.” From inception, the great American game of baseball was deemed America’s national pastime. It basically is the same game as earlier versions in the eighteen century and Americans can still claim it as their own, although it is going global with major league teams doing business and recruiting in the Dominican Republic, Japan, Venezuela, South Africa and other locations. Baseball also has to compete with fans of golf, football, basketball, soccer and NASCAR for the attention of fans. Baseball may not be...
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...John Barry Humphries is one of the most remarkable and outstanding Australian who is well-known in many western countries. He was born in Melbourne in 1934. When Barry was still in adolescence, he had already paid much attention to his appearance and spend lots of time to dress up himself. Although his academic performance was not satisactory, he has quickly found an alternative and develop an interest in acting and performing arts. His innate sense of humour has made chemical reaction with his interest and, eventually paved a road for himself. His first semiformal perofrmance was at the Union Theatre of the Melbourne University in December 1955. That was the first time his creation - Dame Edna Everage appeard in public. He dressed up as a housewife, with a purple hair, fancy glasses with diamond rings, chains and necklace. Because of the comical appearance, he has soon captured the eyes of many audiences. In addition to his humourous discourse, a unique Humphries’ style of performance has created. He loves to make fun with politicians and news in his solo shows. As he had said in an interview with BBC, “Making people laugh was a very good way of befriending them. People couldn't hit you, could they, if you were laughing”. He brings lots of joy and happiness to Australian, especially Melbourne. When he was approximately 25, he furthers his career to Europe and since then, he became famous not only in Australia, but also in Britain, the USA, to name just a few. Gradually, his...
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...Innocence Project Research Paper Since 1992 The Innocence Project has exonerated 289 people in the United States. To be exonerated of a crime means that a person is acquitted for their crime and released back into society. These wrongful convictions are due to unvalidated or improper forensic science, eyewitness misidentification, and false confessions. In this paper I am going to tell the story of Clarence Elkins and why wrongfully convicting a person is a problem in the United States. It all started on June 6th, 1998 in Summit County, Ohio. Clarence Elkins’ niece was sleeping over at her grandmother’s house, only to be woken in the middle of the night to hearing her grandmother screaming. So his niece ran into the kitchen to see her grandmother being beaten by a man. She ran back into her bedroom to be followed by this man. The niece was sexually assaulted by him. Her next memory was waking up to see her grandmother dead in the kitchen. She then proceeded to run to her neighbor’s house to call the cops. While the cops were on the way the niece proceeded to tell her neighbors that the man she saw last night looked like her uncle Clarence Elkins. Elkins was immediately brought in for questioning and he was the police’s number one suspect. Biological evidence, including hairs, was found at the crime scene and from the victim’s body. Mitochondrial DNA testing was done on pubic hairs from the victim’s bodies. This testing excluded Elkins as a possible contributor...
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...“ZZZZ Best company” was founded by 16-year old Barry Minkow. The core activity of company was carpet cleaning. As he began doing business, Minkow soon realized that carpet cleaning was a difficult way to earn money because customers always complained and vendors demanded payments. Soon Minkow started seeking for financing but realized that bank were not willing to lend him money due to his age and low profitability of his business. That’s why he came up with the idea of forgeries and thefts from his insurance company. Later on, making friends he asked the insurance claim adjuster - Tom Padgett to confirm from time to time that Minkow’s company received occasional insurance restoration contracts on remodeling works on properties damaged by fire, storms and other catastrophes. Soon he realized that there was no need in development of carpet business because the main “income” was obtained by restoration operations. Then, Minkow decided to go public and for that purpose he hired independent auditor – George Greenspan. By that time Minkow had established fake insurance company and Padgett had got the top position in it to confirm fraudulent restoration contracts, so Greenspan didn’t notice any problems with those sites. By the end of the year he was dismissed and Minkow retained “Ernst & Whinney” to enhance creditability of his operations on restoration contracts. “Ernst & Whinney” agreed to provide 4 types of services to “ZZZZ best company”: review the financial statement...
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...Solution to Chapter 2 Internet Project Data on the Internet Note: In exercises 1 and 2 the data for the year 2000 is used. Exercise 1 Using the daily mean temperatures, compute the range and standard deviation in temperature for San Francisco in January 2000. Answer The mean daily temperatures for each of the days in January 2000 as compiled by the Weather Underground are 50.8 48.5 47.8 55.9 52.1 47.8 47.7 50.5 51.3 52.4 54.1 49.6 50.5 52.6 53.9 56.4 50.5 52.8 55.5 55.3 52.4 53.6 54.6 56.2 54.4 51.5 50.5 50.3 51.1 54.9 52.6 . For this data n = 31 ∑ x = 1618.1 ∑ x 2 = 84653.61 so the mean and standard deviation are x= 1618.1 = 52.20 31 and s= 31(84653.61) − (1618.1) 2 = 2.54 . 31(30) Exercise 2 The National Football League uses a long list of criteria to determine if a city is a candidate to host the Super Bowl. One such requirement is that the city either must have a domed (i.e. heated) football stadium or that the average temperature in January for the city must be 50o F or higher. San Francisco does not have a domed stadium. Based on the January 2000 data, would San Francisco satisfy this Super Bowl eligibility criterion? Answer Yes, since the average from Exercise 1 is 52.20. Exercise 3 Which graph below best represents the performance of Microsoft stock during the first four months of 2000? Answer Graph B shows the history of Microsoft stock prices over the indicated period. Note the data is graphed in the form it is provided on the Yahoo! finance site so that January...
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...Fraud of ZZZ Best Company The ZZZ Best was the carpet cleaning company that was started by 15 year old Barry Minkow in 1982. He was inspired to enter into this industry by his mother when he was 12 years old. His mother was working as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning firm. Though most of the companies in carpet cleaning industry were legitimate, the nature of this business attracts many seedy characters of the malpractice. There are no barriers for any entry even no license was required. It was too easy that a 16 year old boy can start this business with his new driver’s license. The boy started his business as “rug sucker”. Minkow started his business named ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning Company in Reseda, San Fernando Valley, California. In the beginning stage Minkow ran his home based business out of his parent’s garage. Minkow soon realized that a small carpet cleaning business grew rapidly in next five years, but Minkow realized that it was difficult to earn from this business. To make earning better he had to face the cutthroat competition. The young boy had to face customer complaints, bad checks, and nagging vendors also demanding payment. And within very short time phrase he faced the fact of shortage of working capital. And moreover because of Minkow’s young age and the fact that ZZZZ Best was only marginally profitable business. All the local banks refused to give him loan. So, this teenager was looking for some easy ways of earning. Like check kiting...
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...A California appellate court recognized Ernst & Whinney not liable to Union Bank of California which allegedly relied on Ernst’s review report in extending $ 7 million to ZZZZ Best Co. I agree with court’s decision because Ernst & Whinney never issued an audit opinion on financial statements it was just a review report which was disclosed. However, I do not justify Ernst & Whinney because the auditors besides from failure to notice ‘red flags’ had done few mistakes which lead to the law suit. The first mistake that the auditors made involved Mr. George Greenspan during the 1986 audit. This was the first audit since ZZZZ Best became a public company and the mistake involved the inspection of the insurance restoration sites. Mr. Greenspan had talked with Tom Padgett, and Mr. Padgett confirmed the insurance contracts were real and showed proper documents to back them up, Mr. Greenspan never actually inspected any of the actual insurance restoration sites. Doing so could have stopped the scam from hurting the public stockholders, especially because they take in such a huge percentage of income for ZZZZ Best. The second mistake involved Ernst & Whinney, was that Greenspan reported during the interview to the congressional subcommittee, that Ernst & Whinney never got in touch with him to talk about ZZZZ. If this conversation occurred, Greenspan might have been able to discuss his neglection to inspect the insurance restoration sites, which therefore could have given Ernst & Whinney...
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...The author, Bradley Sinko, has presented factual evidence and various real-life examples to argue that steroid use is a topic that needs to be taken more seriously, through stricter regulations in sports, to prevent steroid use, maintain the integrity of sports and keep athletes healthy. The author states that sports leagues give inadequate punishments for steroid use, especially considering the drastic measures to keep the sports league fair in other aspects. For instance, the MLB has banned Pete Rose, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, from the hall of fame as a result of placing bets on games involving his team. However, in the case of Rafael Palmiero, when he was caught using steroids, he was given a light 10-game suspension and will still likely be inducted into the hall of fame. Additionally, most sports leagues do not use blood tests. It is argued that these light punishments as well as a lack of steroid use investigation provides athletes the opportunity to use steroids and ‘get away with it,’ thus motivating them to take these performance enhancing drugs. The author exemplifies Marion Jones, a female athlete who used steroids to win 5 medals in track and field, in order to argue that steroids ruin the equity of professional sports. The author also presents the numerous health risks associated with steroid use; namely heart disease, liver damage, cancer as well as reduced sperm count in males and menstrual problems in females, to argue that steroid use needs...
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...Not only is Derek Sanderson Jeter a first-round-draft professional baseball player for the Yankees, he is one of the few scandal-free and classy baseball players in the sport’s steroid-driven era. Derek Jeter is a professional baseball player who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He is a five-time world series champion, and he is regarded as a central figure for the Yankees success in the late 90s and early 2000s, where he helped lead his team to four World Series titles. He guided his team to success through his hitting, base running, fielding, and leadership. Jeter is the Yankees’ all time career leader in hits, doubles, games played, stolen bases, times on base, and at bats. He has received 14 All-Star selections, five Gold Glove Awards, five Silver Slugger Awards, two Hank Aaron Awards, and a Roberto Clemente Award. Derek Jeter became the 28th player to reach 3,000 hits and he finished his career sixth all-time in career hits and the all-time MLB leader in hits by a shortstop. Because Jeter never used performance-enhancing drugs, had exceedingly high stats, and played with class and grace, he is considered to be one of the best players of his generation. Derek Sanderson Jeter was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, on June 26, 1974. Derek is the son of Charles, a substance abuse counselor, and Dorothy, an accountant. Derek Jeter is the sum of several separate influences. From his grandfather Sonny, a church handyman who worked under...
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...INTRODUCTION The film Rain Man was released in 1988 and won the Best Picture academy award that same year. I chose the film because it represented a wonderful mix of story, filmmaking, acting and comedic timing. It is my assertion that acting was the most powerful element of this film and crucial for the emotional arc required from the lead actor Tom Cruise. STORYTELLING The story of Rain Man is presented in a way that keeps the viewer in the dark as the story develops; delivering surprises and plot twists along the way. Writers Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass provide an excellent framework for the actors to really shine in their portrayal of the two main characters: self centered, smooth street-smart Charlie Babbit and his institutionalized autistic savant older brother, Raymond Babbitt. We are introduced to Charlie at the start of the film and quickly understand that he is a successful import automobile broker and willing/able to do whatever is necessary to deliver his product- this even includes paying off EPA officials, if necessary. Charlie is unrelenting in his quest to accomplish his goal. When he finds out that his long estranged father has passed away, he is expecting to inherent a portion of his late father’s $3 million dollar estate; only to uncover that he has an autistic brother who has received all of the inheritance money from their late father, the irony is almost too much for Charlie. This is pure genius from a storytelling perspective as it helps to...
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...problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because at the end of the day were all human. Its when you’re the biggest icon and the face of sports you start to think your better than the rest so you can do what you want whenever you want and not be responsible...
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...Does Steroids Provide An Unfair Advantage In Baseball or Does It Even The Playing Field? Baseball has been an American pastime for centuries and will be for centuries to come. Adults have been taking their children to baseball games since the Major Leagues first came about in the late 1800s. From the Philadelphia Phillies' great Astrodome to their current Citizens Bank Park or the Atlanta Braves' Fulton County Stadium to their more modern Turner Field baseball has been loved in America. Although the game is as old as it is, baseball has not changed even though the players continue to get better and better. Many fans first take is the use of steroids in baseball. But did steroids really help Barry Bonds become home run king? Because Hank Aaron had the record generations before and he reportedly never injected steroids. Every year it seems like a new player gets brought into the league that is going to be faster, stronger, and an overall better player; except the ones that have the records broken that is. Although steroids are supposed to make athletes bigger, faster, and stronger,; are steroids really making athlete's statistics better or simply bridging the gap between decent athletes and great ones? There are many aspects in hitting a baseball that coaches teach athletes at a young age. Seeing the ball well, swinging with your hips and not just your arms, being disciplined and not swinging at a ball out of the strike zone, these are all examples of what it takes to be a good...
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