Did NUS student get what he deserved for online rant? Debate rages over whether punishment for Sun Xu was adequate Published on Mar 30‚ 2012 FIRST‚ they wanted him punished. But now that the National University of Singapore (NUS) has meted out the punishment to the foreign student who made derogatory comments about Singaporeans‚ the debate has turned to whether justice has been done. Earlier this week‚ Mr Sun Xu was given an official reprimand‚ a $3‚000 fine‚ and an order to do three months
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Andersen was one of the ’Big 5 ’ accounting firms‚ the others being PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)‚ Deloitte Touche‚ Ernst and Young‚ and KPMG. Throughout the 1980 ’s and 1990 ’s‚ these five companies provided auditing and tax services to most of the west ’s major companies. However‚ in 2002 Arthur Andersen ’s licences to practice as Certified Public Accountants (CPA ’s) in the US were voluntarily surrendered by the company in the wake of criminal charges relating to the Enron scandal. Although Arthur Andersen
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What is newsworthy? Timing‚ significance‚ proximity‚ prominence‚ human interest are the five factors that all reporters use to decide if it is newsworthy or not. (Media College.com) I also believe that I would want to hear the news that is most important and that is exciting to watch and listen to. With an article or story that is national news it will become the story that you‚ the reporter‚ would love to get in order to get good ratings. I find this article I read to be newsworthy for the fact
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The rise and fall of Enron is a company that was lead to its own demise by it’s own leadership and ill business decisions. The motivational theories explained from the readings of Organization Behavior can correlate with the failure of Enron’s internal organization. Even though a company may appear to display successful business practices‚ the influence of leadership through management can ultimately lead the company to fail. Enron’s code of ethics prided itself on four key values; respect‚ integrity
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done after the second Punic war‚ when Rome placed an unbearable conditions on the Carthaginians and destroyed their fleet‚ why did Rome go into a third war we ask? Rome knew that Carthage will always be a thorn in their side if they dont wipe it from the face of the earth‚ and that’s what they did. Clearly Rome’s reason for war was not related to "casus belli"‚ they did not fight a just war. The Punic war was inevitable‚ it had to happen because Carthage and Rome were like two giants‚ they both
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What is Buddhism? Buddhism is a path of teaching and practice. Buddhist practices such as meditation are means of changing oneself in order to develop the qualities of awareness‚ kindness‚ and wisdom. The experience developed within the Buddhist tradition over thousands of years has created an incomparable resource for all those who wish to follow the path of spiritual development. Ultimately‚ the Buddhist path culminates in Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Who was the Buddha? The word Buddha
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Democracy is a state of which helps our civilization function properly. What was the Athenian democracy like? Was it just like the democracy of the United States we live in today? First we must take note of the political ideas of the Greeks. What did the Greeks mean by democracy? Their constitution is called a democracy because power was in the hands of not a minority but of a whole people. Everyone was believed to be equal in the eyes of the law. Political life is open and free‚ and so were the
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the sculpture’s face and body began to elicit an emotional response. These new factors of allegory and emotion‚ allow sculptors to no longer focus on the ideal‚ but on the composition and states of mind of the sculpture itself. This is exactly what Lysippus did with the ‘weary Herakles’. The allegorical
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What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like? In a luminous top-floor workshop closed to the public at the American Museum of Natural History in New York‚ artists work with scientists to re-create scenes from lost or vanishing worlds. This is the birthing room for the museum’s elaborate dioramas‚ such as the brace of Northwest Indians who air-paddle their canoe through a fluorescent entrance hallway‚ or the 94-foot blue whale that swoops down from the duplex ceiling of the Ocean Life Hall‚ or the herd
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Cultural Anthropology What did the people of the Upper Paleolithic period eat and how did they obtain this food? The Upper Paleolithic Period includes the period of time during which anatomically modern human became behaviorally modern humans‚ dating between 40‚000 and 10‚000 years ago. The term Paleolithic refers to “Old Sone Age” while “Upper” references to the later part of this period. Most people from the Upper Paleolithic period lived in abundant and rich
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