trading group. 3. What did Jeff Skilling say is the only thing that motivates people? Do you agree or disagree? 4. What did ENRON executives mean by “pump and dump”? Do you think this is ethical behavior? Why? 5. What was Arthur Andersen’s role with regards to Enron? Was this a conflict of interest? What could have been done to prevent this? 6. How did Skilling treat Fortune author Bethany McLean when she started asking questions about Enron’s financials? Do you think this was
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surprise to us and we all know how expensive insurance and medication can be. “A bottle of asthma medication can run up to $800 and going into the E.R. can cause thousands of dollars.” A problem that these cities face is the ability to pass a law to prevent smokers from smoking in public places. Being in an areas filled with smokers along with pollution, high levels of pollens and being uninsured can cause a high rate of death in children and adults. There are the good and the bad in every situation
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Elchin. Today I will talk about Greet Hofstede`s cultural dimensions. Every manager should have deep knowledge about culture because we live in globalization time. What is culture? Culture is a system of values, beliefs, and norms shared among a group of people. People`s culture affect the values in the workplace. That’s why management processes should be different according to cultures and according to the people from different cultures in the workplace. The most famous study about how culture
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What is Prejudice? Researchers struggle to define prejudice. Some say it is “a negative attitude or feeling toward an individual, group, place or thing” ( (Bokanic, 2009). Others say that this attitude is based on assumptions, which leads to the prejudgments of others. Whatever the case, prejudices can be formed against another person because of race, weight, gender, language, religion, or virtually any difference. Prejudices lead to discrimination and stereotypes. For example, Wrenee, a French-American
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government that prosecutes murderers condone it at the same time? In “Abortion Debates”, an article discussing whether states should enact new restrictions, tells us that many people are coming to realize that abortion is unethical. “Anti-abortion groups say the legislated restrictions reflect a gradual shift in public opinion in favor of what has come to be called “pro-life” views. “Recent polling shows that more Americans characterize themselves as pro-life than pro-choice,” says Mary Harned, staff
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Childbirth is something that happens across the world, we repopulate the earth so when we pass away, the next generation can keep humanity alive and prevent the world from becoming vacant. In the western world the media portrays women who are going through childbirth as this treacherous and “most painful” thing that’s ever happened to them, but is that really how it is? Two scientists wanted to put the question “how painful is childbirth really” to the test. They looked cross culturally, different
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classroom. I believe it is important to be close to the students and to be up and about at all times, not only to discourage unwanted behavior, but also to show the students that class time is for class business. * The students are arranged in groups of three. This stimulates students to cooperate, but keeps it possible for all tables to face the board in the front of the classroom. It also creates wide aisles between the tables, which makes it easier to circulate about the room. * In the
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The Ku Klux Klan was an immensely hateful terrorist group who wanted white supremacy. There are three time periods in American history in which the Ku Klux Klan had a strong presents, however I will only be informing you about the first two times the Klan emerged. In the late 1860s and early 70s during the reconstruction era, the 1920s to the mid 1940s after WWI and into the beginning of WWII, and in the 1950s and 60s during the civil rights movement. The first Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski
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The Threat of Foodborne Infections The Threat of Foodborne Infections Foodborne infections pose a threat to everyone. Although the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, foodborne infections are relatively prominent in this nation. For example, there has recently been some contaminated produce, such as spinach and lettuce, which was distributed to numerous states that has caused a variety of unwanted symptoms and even resulted in death. This was widely reported
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advertising, group behavior, competition, barriers to entry of firms, lack of uniformity, existence of price of rigidity, no unique pattern of pricing behavior, interdeterminateness of demand curve. In all honesty before this assignment I had only ever heard of the term monopoly, so this was definitely a learning experience for me. After reading up on oligopolies a few examples came to mind. For example, the music industry is currently being dominated by Universal Music Group, Sony, BMG, Warner
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