Bernard Madoff Ethics Case Bernard Madoff is a former stock broker‚ investment advisor‚ etc. He pleaded guilty in March 2009 to 11 felonies and admits that he turned his wealthy management business into a massive ponzi scheme that defrauded thousand of wealthy investors out of billions of dollars. He began this scheme in the early 1990’s. The funds missing from the investors accounts include gains totaling almost $65 billion that was fabricated by Madoff. Madoff reached an agreement on February
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She’s All That is the latest example of a series of movies based on the Pygmalion myth‚ an occurrence that illustrates Hollywood’s long fascination with this myth. The original Pygmalion story is found in Ovid. Pygmalion is the story of a gifted young sculpter who is a woman hater. Ironically‚ the sculpture that most fascinates him and that he puts all of his genius into is a statue of a woman. The statue is exquisite‚ but Pygmalion wasn’t content. He kept tweaking the statue‚ working on it until it
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Bernard Madoff Cause of action: The cause of action was the Bernard Madoff created a ponzi scheme by taking money from investors and putting it in his pocket instead of investing it. He paid initial investors with money he collected from more recent victims of his scheme. His downfall came when many people attempted to close their accounts with him and he did not have enough cash coming in to pay them all at once. Key facts: Bernard Madoff continued to obtain money from investors over a number
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the way values have been maintained and changed. Discuss with reference to the text from the past and it’s appropriation. The intended audience of both Pygmalion‚ by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman‚ directed by Garry Marshall was the mass of society at the time of composition. This is seen through the choice of the form of each text‚ Pygmalion is a play because in the early twentieth centaury this was the popular way of spreading ideas and Pretty Woman is a Hollywood film‚ a current form of mass
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Bernard Madoff was born in Queens‚ New York on April 29th‚ 1938. Madoff graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Hofstra University. He then went on to attend Brooklyn Law School‚ but quickly dropped out after he founded his firm‚ Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities (BLMIS). Madoff started his firm with about $5‚000 he earned from working. He went on to seek investment and received it from his father-in-law‚ Saul Alpern. He used this investment received from Alpern
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George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion sends me a few messages that he was either meaning to get out to his readers‚ or not. After reading the play‚ I felt that he was trying to deliver the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance‚ the importance of proper phonetics in society‚ and in a way perhaps illustrates an insecurity that Shaw has within his own love life. Shaw delivers the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance while also conveying
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Module A – Experience Through Language “Distinctive Voices” Analysis Table – Pygmalion (NOTES TO USE IN ESSAYS / EXTENDED RESPONSES) |Technique |Evidence (include Act/page number) |EFFECT in relation to “Distinctive Voices” | | | |Consider how “voice” and Shaw’s use
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In the stories Pygmalion and The Makeover‚ a lower class individual who aspires to have a higher position in his or her career prompts two upper-class citizens for their assistance. Even though the Pygmalion and The Makeover display numerous similarities‚ the two have apparent disparities. In Pygmalion‚ the story began with a rainy day‚ and Eliza was trying to sell flowers on the street when Freddy bumped into her from behind. Eliza then began to shout at Freddy in her unorthodox dialect‚ and he
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Write 15 lines on the social fabric of the play and links to the Pygmalion Myth. The social fabric of something is the way everything connects and joins together. The social fabric of Pygmalion is one that is connected yet also partly disconnected. The society of the time was based on the class system. Everyone was easily distinguished from one another by their clothes‚ the way they act‚ their social groups and as pointed out in Pygmalion the accent that a person has is an almost instant tell tale of
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Pygmalion by George Shaw Shaw "the second greatest English playwright‚ behind only Shakespeare" Title- Shaw called Pygmalion a potboiler and subtitled it "A Romance." Thus the play’s main thematic concern is romantic in the literary use of the term. It is a play that has a highly improbable plot. Professor Henry Higgins transforms a common flower girl into a graceful lady‚ like the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved an exquisite female statue out of a shapeless piece of ivory. Preface-
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