...Enron and WorldCom scandals in Ch. 2 of the text: o Enron’s Questionable Transactions on pp. 96-107 o WorldCom: The Final Catalyst on pp. 114-118 • Answer the following questions using complete sentences: o Enron: 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9 on pp. 106-107 o WorldCom: 1, 3, 4, and 5 on p. 118 • Post your answers as an attachment. Clearly label the case and question number for each of your responses. Enron questions 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9 1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? The first thing that got them into trouble was the fact that Kopper was appointed to Fastow and he was an employee of Enron. I do not believe that he had the best interest involved. Another thing was that over 11 million was suppose to be invested and it never was. I believe that this was the start of the problems! Another thing was the fact that Enron was incorrectly booking revenue for services that was not yet done. Enron stocks were paid by promissory notes and not cash. 3. Did Enron’s directors understand how profits were being made in this segment? Why or why not? No I do not believe that Enron directors understood how the profits were being made. I think that if they understood something would have been done about it. 5. Ken Lay was the chair of the board and the CEO for much...
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...Ward Churchill presents a narrow view of his thoughts concerning the 9/11 attacks in his article, “Some People Push Back”: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. Not only does he present a narrow view of ideas, but also he explains and argues the unusual interpretations of the attacks that day with supporting evidence. According to Churchill’s article, The United States of America is responsible for the incident of 9/11 due to their foreign policy in the Middle East. Churchill’s tone provokes the audience to continue to read on, while emotionally and logically providing credible examples to support his reasoning. He challenges us to think in-depth while reading the article. For instance, are we mad at him personally, or mad that he pointed out the truth under the story. Churchill argues his interpretation of the events through three key strategies: credibility, emotion, and logic. Logically, his interpretations can’t be viewed in a substantial manner due to his credibility as an author. But, in fact, logically he supports his ideas about the attacks that day with evidence. Ethically, he recognizes the concepts of right and wrong; he tries to point out to the people of the United States that is in fact may be provoked by ourselves, and to halt the blaming of other third-world countries. Emotionally his tone connects with his argument, giving the article a sense of purpose. He provokes the reader by prodding them with examples in past history that are sour to the minds of the people...
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...Wrong Number On 26 April 2013, I completed the test phase of my human observation project. I got the idea for my project after I received a phone call from a lady who misdialed and accidently called me rather than her son. When I answered the phone she seemed surprised to hear a woman’s voice and she was extremely polite. What should have been a thirty second phone call that ended with “wrong number” was in reality almost a three minute conversation. I realized that her calm, apologetic, happy tone in her voice, encouraged me to be remain calm and tell her that it was not an inconvenience at all when in reality I was in the middle of a math test. After we finished our conversation I realized I could use this honest mistake to influence my human observation project. Due to my current state it is hard for me to get out of the house without assistance, which makes it a little difficult to observe people. I decided to call random people from the phone book and observe their response to a misdialed phone call. Have you ever watched someone who was getting a phone call from an unknown phone number? Did they answer the phone? Were they frustrated or pleasant during the unexpected call. Research has demonstrated that people are more willing to return a phone call if the unknown caller is calm and polite, also if the call was received at a reasonable hour of the day. Furthermore, the receiver of the call will reflect the attitude of the caller. A receint poll showed that 70% of...
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...Gentlemen. (Use Madam or Mr depending upon the gender of the Chairman.) 2. The topic for our debate is “That... DEFINITION 2A. We define the topic as (Explain what the topic means. Define the key or important words in the topic. Use a dictionary to help you. You should make sure that the topic is clearly explained in a sentence or two.) 3. We the affirmative team believe that this statement is true. TEAM SPLIT 3A. Today as first speaker I will be talking to you about (Write down the general heading/s of the points you will be talking about.) 3B. Our second speaker will be talking about (Write down the headings of the points your second speaker will be talking about.) Our third speaker will rebut and sum up our team case. REBUTTAL 4-7 There is no rebuttal for the first affirmative speaker. 1 8. I am going to discuss .... points ARGUMENTS 9. My first point is (Write down your first point/argument.) 10. This is because/the reason for this is (Explain the reason that supports your point.) 11. Now to my second point (Write down your second point.) 12. This is because (Write down a reason that supports and explains your second point/argument.) If you have some more points, continue to list them. ENDING 13. So Mr/Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, in conclusion (Finish you debate with a sentence that sums up what your team believes. You can use humour or a quote or you may say ‘thank you’ to finish.) Created by Debating SA 2007. Visit us at www.debatingsa.com.au. First...
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...The War on Terror One of the main reasons for the United States to get involved on combating the War on Terror was the attacks of September 11, 2001. These attacks will forever be etched in all American’s minds and hearts. The events that took place were that of the Middle East taking responsibility for bombing New York’s WTC. These attacks forced many nations including the United Nations to set up a counter attack on those responsible for the attacks. Once those who were responsible for the attacks came forward, George W. Bush the president at the time would state that “Those responsible for the attacks will have to pay the consequences.” This paper will discuss and provide brief details of how the War on Terror was faced and how many nations...
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...On September 11, 2001, fear struck the minds of American citizens, for this day would mark the beginning of a new america. 9/11 was a terrorist attack performed by an Islamic terrorist group identified as Al- Qaeda. In which two American Airline and two United Airline passenger planes were hijacked and flown into three of America's most important buildings killing over 2,900 people. One plane was flown into America's Pentagon, two were flown into the World Trade Center, and the final plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. At the time of this tragic incident people may not have realized it, but this tragedy would give new hope and strength to our beloved country of America. 9/11 did in fact give hope to America. 9/11 brought our country...
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...sinful to be angry? What does the Bible say about anger, wrath, blowing up, and clamming up? Should we vent our feelings to "get it out of our system"? Can we control our tempers? What guidance does God's word give in overcoming the temptations of anger? All of us have problems controlling our temper at times. Some of us have habitual problems. Let us consider what the Bible says. Is all anger necessarily sinful? Can we control our tempers? What does Jesus offer to help up overcome the habit of losing our temper? [I have been benefited in this study by counseling materials written by Jay Adams.] [pic] I. The Relationship between Anger and Sin [pic] What is the problem with anger? What is the danger? A. Bible Examples of Acceptable Anger Some people assume that Christians should never show signs of a temper. If a Christian raises his voice or becomes visibly upset, some people think or act as though he violated his duty as a Christian. Consider: God is angry with sin. Psalm 7:11 - Because He is a just God, God is angry with sinners every day. Surely God's anger is not wrong. It is proper, for it is even based on His justice. Many other passages show that God is angry when people commit sin. He will punish sinners in wrath. If God is infinitely righteous yet is often angry, why should we conclude that people are always wrong when they are angry? [Romans 1:18; 2:5-9; 5:6-11; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6; John 3:36; etc.] Moses was angry with sin. ...
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...time, and have had an influence on the lives of skeptics. But why do people believe in them? What makes them so interesting? People that study human patterns have discovered that humans believe in conspiracy theories because of human gullibility. Human gullibility is seen mostly through conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories happen because skeptics believe there is more to know about a specific event that has happened. Also, humans lack trust in their governments which has affected the way people act and think. Scientists have researched the human brain and have discovered patterns in the human brain. One of the patterns is human gullibility/curiosity. Humans are a curious species. They...
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...is depictions of 9/11, whether intentional by the game manufacturer or not. This article also makes the statement that action figures can somehow have the same effect. But what’s the problem? It’s certainly not exposing the children to violence at so young an age as both a twelve and thrteen year old can tell you that 9/11 should be taken out of video games. Even mother’s agree that 9/11 has no place in video games. Remember, don’t forget to watch for the signs of pent-up gaming emotions. Though most everyone would agree, 9/11 reenactments have no place in today’s video games, most people would agree, it’s not the sole cause of video game violence; beyond that, what’s an article with so broad a title as this doing focusing on such specific arguments as 9/11 in games? Seriously, reading this article leaves a sour and decidedly acrid taste in the mouth. From the very beginning, it seems to take the assumption that actions figures of past ages have the same effect as violent video games of this age as it compares the Cold War era family with children and actin figures as being the same as the modern family with same-aged children and violent video games. Past this, the article doesn’t even have the semblance of an assertion beyond talking about 9/11 virtually constantly. Instead, it simply flits back and forth between criticizing video games with no coherent evidence and seeming to believe the only violent thing wrong with video games is any depiction of 9/11 in any form. That’s...
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...When a giant explosion ripped through Alfred P. Murrah federal building April 19,1995, killing 168 and wounding hundreds, the United States of America jumped to a conclusion we would all learn to regret. The initial response to the devastation was all focused of middle-eastern terrorists. “The West is under attack,”(Posner 89), reported the USA Today. Every news and television station had the latest expert on the middle east telling the nation that we were victims of jihad, holy war. It only took a few quick days to realize that we were wrong and the problem, the terrorist, was strictly domestic. But it was too late. The damage had been done. Because America jumped to conclusions then, America was later blind to see the impending attack of 9/11. The responsibility, however, is not to be placed on the America people. The public couldn’t stand to hear any talk of terrorism, so in turn the White House irresponsibly took a similar attitude. They concentrated on high public opinion and issues that were relevant to Americans everyday. The government didn’t want to deal with another public blunder like the one in Oklahoma City. A former FBI analyst recalls, “when I went to headquarters (Washington, D.C.) later that year no one was interested in hearing anything about Arab money connections unless it had something to do with funding domestic groups. We stumbled so badly on pinpointing the Middle East right off the bat on the Murrah bombing. No one wanted to get caught like that again...
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...America Before And After 9/11 Last month NEWSWEEK put out a special issue about our “new” new world. The editorialist says: “TV is now reality-TV, eating rats and bungee jumping doesn’t seems so compelling anymore; with real news to cover, the media gives an added bonus: Enron. Yes but we will never forgot 09/11. As we count the time from Jesus birth, BC – before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini (lat), a new line is now written on the history scroll: 9/11. And the media confirm this new kind of accounting: before 9/11 and after 9/11. Two different edges. In the same issue, NEWSWEEK give us a 22 year-old Rachel Newman confession. She came to New York three years ago to be “a guitar musician in rebellion” against the establishment, like her mother, a ’69 Woodstock veteran. She had herself tattooed, crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain has become as common in the post 9/11 world as the Dow Jones level for a broker. For decades, Americans have been paralyzed by intellectual, moral, and religious relativism...
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...America Before And After 9/11 Last month NEWSWEEK put out a special issue about our “new” new world. The editorialist says: “TV is now reality-TV, eating rats and bungee jumping doesn’t seems so compelling anymore; with real news to cover, the media gives an added bonus: Enron. Yes but we will never forgot 09/11. As we count the time from Jesus birth, BC – before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini (lat), a new line is now written on the history scroll: 9/11. And the media confirm this new kind of accounting: before 9/11 and after 9/11. Two different edges. In the same issue, NEWSWEEK give us a 22 year-old Rachel Newman confession. She came to New York three years ago to be “a guitar musician in rebellion” against the establishment, like her mother, a ’69 Woodstock veteran. She had herself tattooed, crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed. Yes, everything has changed. This refrain has become as common in the post 9/11 world as the Dow Jones level for a broker. For decades, Americans have been paralyzed by intellectual, moral, and religious relativism...
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... One response enlighten of these events that was put in place was the USA PATRIOT ACT. The reason why the USA PARTIOT ACT was signed is mainly because of poor intelligence that the U.S. has had prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In addition to have a plan and reanalyze our intelligence we can make sure this attack would never happen again on American soil. The patriot act is a critical and historical event in itself. The act was put into place very quickly after 9/11. The government and President Bush had seen the U.S. as a whole was a strong country but still had weaknesses and were vulnerable to attacks without taking swift action. The act was signed on October 26, 2001, just one month after the 9/11 attacks. The patriot act was put in place for many reasons and has been a benefit and various ways. There has still been criticism and skepticism of the act in just the short term of the act being signed. The act of information sharing is one factor that the critics argue. The critics argument that this information would get into the wrong hands or be used by other agencies for unrelated or wrong reasons. The act would permit wiretaps on terrorist or even any potential terror threat over more than one jurisdiction. This would make sense considering it would provide information and even faster response to prevent future attacks. The critics claimed that this would eventually lead to abuse and over use of what the main goal was intended for. The act would permit quick searches...
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...03/19/13 Evil is a word that is in every person’s vocabulary. It does not matter what religion or if you have no religion at all. We might have a different perspective of the meaning but we all know that there is evil in this world. It does not matter if you believe the people are evil or if you believe that evil is a supernatural force in them. When Jesus cast the demon out of the man he was talking to evil. He was talking to someone other than the physical man that he was speaking to. Evil to me can be both the person and the supernatural force that can take that person over. Watching this video of 9/11 and the way it affected people was very touching and at the same time very irritating to me. I am a Christian and I do believe in evil but once something like this happens it shows that even the people that think that they have so much faith can lose all that faith that they think that they had in a split second. I know that this was hard and I know that I cannot relate with these people as far as losing a loved one in this catastrophe but out of this catastrophe you can relate it to everyday things that happen. It might not be as EXTREME but it does fit. To hear someone say “this is the best reason to not believe in God” saddened my heart but also made me think about how many people say that after every bad and evil thing that happens. God is not the reason that any evil thing happened. It was said perfectly by an agnostic man in the video. He said “God is not the one who...
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