topic of discussion involves the Rigas family and their Adelphia Communications Corporation scam. In 2000 they tried hustling investors into believing that their company was doing fine, when in fact they were embezzling over a billion dollars. In their year end 10-K report they noted, under related party, that they paid out over 30 million to its shareholders, which are primarily family members. The question that this paper will answer is whether or not their disclosure was justified. Conducting Financial
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Professional sports organizations have been a mainstay in American culture since the birth of our country. Recently, a new emergence in the popularity of amateur sports has bred curiosity that like professional athletes, collegiate athletes should receive compensation for their efforts. Many believe that paying college athletes will lead to the decline of amateurism in sports. That is not the case. The NCAA should pay collegiate athletes because full-ride scholarships rarely pay for the full cost
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welcome and greet you all the New Hires of American Samoa’s McDonald’s. We always would like to congratulate you guys for taking the effort to step out and apply for whatever positions that you are about to start on. Our staff is not really hard to get to know as we only have two branches on Island and one big warehouse which is located separately. Later on, you will be all appointed to specific shifts of the day and different managers and supervisors. However on the interim, since you all came here
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special person be a CAN in the healthcare field. There are many skills that you need to learn to keep a smile on your resident’s face. As a CNA, you end up doing what is called the dirty work, but it’s not as bad as it sounds. By no means is being a CNA an easy job, but the job itself is very rewarding. Trying to become a CNA takes a lot of work and studying. When taking the class for your certification, they really try to teach you the little things that help patients in their day to day life. Some of
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Industry/Policy Paper Work and Family Sociologists have been concerned with institutional friction between work and family systems in the industrialized West as far back as the 1960's, when Lewis and Rose Laub Coser first labeled both the family and workplace as “greedy institutions” that monopolized individuals’ time and energy. Although the problem has been framed in different ways at different times and places, the essential sociological insight that ties them all together has been that the personal
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an education. The big controversial issue is should college athletes be paid. This quote from Elissa Cordrey is very meaningful to college athletics because it isn’t all about the money: If the child is playing for the sake of a scholarship, and not for love of the game, be careful, she warned. Keep your eyes wide open. It's not high school athletics. In some ways, it's really exciting. But if your child's not passionate, you are going to have a lot of teary phone calls’” (Holland, Kelley Holland
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that have socialized medical care sits directly above the United States. It is Canada. The horror stories I heard about the HMO has made me think twice about our health care system. Can we honestly say that we are doing everything we can to ensure all Americans (from the bottom of the totem pole to the very top) get the quality medical treatment they deserve? This movie has inspired me to compare the two and venture into the world of politics; a topic many individuals would astray from. All my information
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Should College Athletes be paid to play? Danielle Maldonado Baker College of Allen Park Should College Athletes be paid to play? In today’s society there is a controversial debate regarding college athletes and if they should be paid to play; whether it is an extracurricular activity or a job? However, how exactly does one determine the difference? Well by definition a job is work that a person does to earn money, a duty, task or function that someone or something has, and or something that requires
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even a reassurance that I would be employed when I returned. It most definitely did not have paternity leave. I was forced to apply with the state for a monthly payment of $621 that lasted for 3 months. After the three months were up, regardless of your situation, the payments stopped and as far as the state was concerned, you were on your own. After my unemployed child's father decided to leave us, I was exactly that. On my own. I tried really hard to find babysitters that were reliable, and
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Workplace Amber Leick DeVry University Online Equality in the Workplace When looking at a company’s promotion policy, Maria who is Latina filed a complaint for being unfairly eliminated for consideration for a promotion position distinctly because she has an accent. She has a graduate degree and has more work experience being at her company for ten years, more time than most of the other workers. She is the only worker of color in her department
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