Asian Social Science May, 2009 An Analysis of the Adolescent Problems in The Catcher in the Rye Lingdi Chen Dept. of Foreign Languages, Dezhou University Daxue xi Road, Dezhou 253023, China E-mail: chld1973@126.com Abstract The Catcher in the Rye was written by famous American writer J.D.Salinger. This paper mainly analyzes the adolescent problems Holden Caulfield confronts on the journey from childhood to adulthood. These adolescent problems include Holden’s protection of innocence
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Illegal insider trading is when nonpublic corporate information has influenced a trade when someone buys or sells. When someone uses this information it allows them to gain an unfair advantage over other investors causing the market to gain or lose money. If insider trading were allowed then people that invested would no longer feel confident to invest. The legal way to gain an advantage over other investors would be for them to obtain skills in analyzing and understanding accessible information
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In the adeptly produced film Waking Ned Devine, directed by Kirk Jones, a story centred on hypocrisy, deceit, and opportunism is depicted based on the attempt of the protagonist, Jackie O’shea, to defraud a lottery company by impersonating the winner, the late Ned Divine. The theme that is developed by symbolism in the film is that greed may lead to dubious moral decisions that result in physical and psychological peril. The telephone booth which symbolizes egocentrism and opportunism clearly demonstrates
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Summary of Tim Durham’s Ponzi scheme The alleged fraud is over $200 million. Durham’s main holdings were his leveraged buyout firm Obsidian Enterprises, Inc. and Fair Financial Services, both headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. When Durham acquired Fair in a 2002 leveraged buyout, it was a factoring company that purchased accounts receivable from businesses at a discount, profiting when the accounts were paid in full. It financed its operations by selling “investment certificates” to individual
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Xerox Corporation was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York. Xerox manufactures and sells a wide range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Barry D. Romeril, Xerox’s chief financial officer (CFO) and Paul Allaire, Xerox’s chairman and corporate executive officer (CEO) were leading Xerox through a difficult period in the late
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a true and fair presentation of financial statement since they evaluate the company’s performance based on the company’s earnings which used to be the point at which the investors can make decision whether to invest or not. However, the case of fraud and manipulation in a company are still critical and need to be monitored by certain functional department as such to be the whistle blower for any irregularities that may arise in the company. In fact, over the last decade, there were various regulatory
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to do more research to see how many scandals such as these have occurred over the years before the act was created. Phar-Mor Scandal was a popular chain of drugstores in the 90’s. They were accused of mail fraud, embezzlement, bank fraud and transportation of funds received from theft or fraud. Once these illegal activities were discovered, it eventually leads to bankruptcy and over 5,000 employees out of work. Another Scandal happened with the Lehman Brothers Holding Inc, a financial service
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considering that creams, toothpaste and razor blades are amongst them. Another worrying sector is the one of electrical equipment in which we find fuse boxes, switches and other safety equipment under the seized goods. The increasing use of the internet to sell fakes (mainly medicines) and the fact that the high quality of fakes often makes identification impossible without technical expertise, increases the challenge customs face. One of the reasons for this explosion in trade in fakes is that
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because the accounting fraud, manifestations and hazards start to analyze the accounting fraud of China's listed companies the motivation to find out the real causes of the accounting fraud, and through drawing and learn from foreign countries in the prevention and treatment of accounting fraud experience, to present my accounting fraud prevention and treatment response. [Keywords:] listed company; accounting fraud; Governance 1, the listed company's accounting fraud and harm the performance
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Ponzi Scheme Corporate Finance A Ponzi scheme is an illegal business practice in which new investor’s money is used to make payments to earlier investors. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses, instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity. The returns are repaid out of new investors’ principal, but not from profits. This can continue as long as new investors line
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