... found that Enron had around 3,000 different SPE's that they used and were never included in their financial statements. The company would also sell their bad (not profiting or old) assets to the SPE's to get them off their balance sheet and record a gain and then would turn around and hide all their losses under the SPE's name instead of their own (Buckstein). Little tricks like these ... , along with falsifying the "fair value" of their assets, allowed ... , Enron had a code of ethics that was sixty-five pages long and stated that all employees and executive actions will be in accordan...

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... of this renewable energy. Executive Summary With the increasing energy demand, shortening fossil fuel sources in the US and globally, and the rising environmental concerns and greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability becomes the critical principle and challenge in the society. Vigorous research are conducted in order to discover and develop alternative and renewable methods and sources to generate energy and meet the power demand for daily and large-scale industrial usage. Biomass provide sustainable feedstocks to ... the peak phase. Microalgae has high oil content between 20-50 % (dry ...

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... . When presented with a situation where he stands to benefit from traditional procedures, he is willing to support them, even though he maintains a stance in support of social mobility as a new man' of the Renaissance when talking about man's right to self-determinism - "Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners-. This fluidity in his stance on practicality as a trait shows ... of Iago's Renaissance views on social mobility and the entitlement of the proficient to make use of their talents, which further support the view of self-determinism while also showing the incon...

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... system, as early as 1630. Aboard the Arbella, en route to the New World, John Winthropp described the inequality of wealth and social/political status (into which people were born at the time) as "for the glory of (the individual's) Creator and the common good of the creature, man."" Later however the religious emphasis put on American lifestyle by the first Puritan settlers was lost, to an ... in leafy quiet suburbs of Connecticut. D. H. Lawrence described him as Old Daddy Franklin' in mocking of the legendary status Franklin acquired for setting up the first dummy American' and his prim...

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... real life". Moreover, the Romantics valued the emotional, the intuitive, and the feelings of the innocent child and the genius, the Realists however explore the ethical choices made by common middle class individuals and the effects and consequences these ethical choices have on the lives of their middle class heroes. Furthermore, the Romantics value nature as a way of seeing God and man while the Realists question the existence or at least the importance of, God and discount the beliefs of organized Christian ... be based in our own world, with recognizably familiar types of characters...

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... change everything we know about physics and also change the world since would eliminate the need for cars, meaning, no more pollution; imagine a time in the future when people will talk about cars as an old outdated invention. We could have a hub in every town you just pick the destination and instantaneously you are teleported there. A college and I were talking about this the other day where we would not ... need to leave for college and spend more money. I mean we could just simply wake up every morning and go to the town hub and teleport to Chico State and teleport back at the end o...

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... how immigrations is abused to establish a class systems that only favors the rich and thus forcing the immigrants into starvations. Sinclair writes "Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave-drivers; under such circumstances immorality was exactly as inevitable ... , and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery" (Sinclair 113). Sinclair portrays immigration ... ...

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... policies included harsh long term sentencing requirements for a variety of offenses. Both adult and juvenile offenders were faced with the consequences of the major punitive shift of the U.S. criminal justice system during the eighties and into the nineties. Legal rhetoric and media outlets painted an image of the murderous, impulse driven juvenile, permeating fear throughout American society; juvenile arrests skyrocketed, more ... The majority of cases involving zero tolerance punishments involved disruptive behavior or students talking back to their teachers (Insley, 2001). In a review...

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... into Africa, the continent holds onto the majority of their distinctive various cultural heritages. In line with post-development theory, Africa's future development, Matthews says, should involve Africans, who with their great diversity could posit new solutions to old problems. Furthermore, with the plethora of different cultures, dialects, and religions, Africa provides the perfect setting ... for post-development theorist to implement their solutions, focusing on the different socio-political values of each individual community. Andrew McGregor explores the debate between both sides ...

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... of the scenario the parent and teacher are involved. Christina is not a girl that everyone would characterize to be cool. She lives with a mother who is single is very poor and can't afford to by cool clothes, a mobile phone or an iPod like most of her classmates, she is also in receipt of free school meals. Her look is unimposing and she is wearing the old clothes ... which are often unclean and starting to tear, from her two older sisters. Stephanie is one of ... her class mates who is completely different to Christina and thinks that she is a joke. Stephanie's peer group behaves lik...

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... doctor's or researcher's only tool was a saw, he now has an option, a chance to look where no one has ever seen before (Alfano and Brunetti) For the specialty of radiology the development of the x-ray was just the beginning, for years later another inventor makes a new breakthrough in modern medicine. This development is made by British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield in 1967 (DeJauregui ... Cat scanners work by taking rotating slices of x-rays and transmitting them to computers creating the enhanced 3D image, the thinner the slice it is possible to produce a higher quality image a...

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... exterior to his internal interior. Even while reading the first line of the story written by Suskind, "there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages" (Suskind 3)., we are given a logical understanding that this particular character the narrator was speaking of was not intended to be a decent man. And although we feel some very small amount of sympathy ... for his horrible birth and young childhood, the reader is already given a strange feeling ... about Grenouille throughout some of the earlier characters within the novel, including the wet nurse Jeanne Buss...

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... a law by an ephor named Epitadeus, which permitted a "man to give his kleros (away) during his lifetime or to bequeath them by will, to anybody whom he chose" (David, 1986, 67). David (1986, 70) maintains that "The consequences of this radical change (were) the acquisition of more lands by the rich, the growing poverty of the masses, and loss of political rights resulting from impoverishment". He also ... system, and the conservative nature of her leaders, the economic structure and organization of Spartan society insufficiently succeeded in maintaining Sparta's power and internal stabi...

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... of that particular era. For example, props such as the bicycle, revolving door, manual typewriter and use of stairs are all used to represent a more physically demanding day for the 1950s working man. In comparison, props such the car, automated doors, the lift and the use of the office PC can all be seen within the Grandson's day and their use portrays a more convenient yet less physically active way of life ... . These differences reveal how technology has developed between the times of the two generations and this forms the idea that modern-day technology is actually ... ...

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... an act of performing, and the theatre is not the site of performance but rather the site of exposing society's 'performance'15. Therefore, the play is composed of three absurdly short 'Acts' wherein the same man and woman have three mundane conversations, and both suddenly die (presumably of boredom) at the end, the play taking no more than a few minutes to complete. For the Futurists, the dialectic between art and life was resolved through ... full integration to the point of inversion, whereby ordinary life became the subject matter of art on-stage, as seen in Passatism ... ...

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... of nationalism among Cambodians, since they were forced to pay heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything ... and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). However, in 1975 ... ...

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... mostly now part of metropolitan France. Conveniently, the President of the Union was elected by the French Parliament only and there was no representatives or associates from the states or protectorates. The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Perhaps the end of the War in 1945 and a new feeling of distaste for empires meant ... essentially "let go." Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire mea...

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... aimed at preventing the operation of the government or the administration of justice. This court was severely criticized on the grounds that it gave the executive power arbitrary powers so extensive that they ran counter to the natural rights of man. A famous decision of the Supreme Court in 1934 The State (Ryan and others) v. Lennon and others 6 challenged the legitimacy of this court. Although the Supreme Court accepted the its constitutionality, the decision is better ... known for the dissenting opinion expressed by Judge Kennedy C. who underlined the fact that natural law prohibite...

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... to be taken into consideration and communicated to the pupils beforehand so they can bring the sufficient and suitable kit for the session. All teachers should be familiar with the five steps of risk assessment devised by the Health and Safety executive to minimalize risk and harm. These five steps being; 1) identify the hazards, 2) decide who might be harmed and how, 3) evaluate the risks and decide precautions, 4) record findings and implement them, 5) review assessment ... and update as necessary. Risk management can be sustained ... ...

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... ". In addition, the Declaration also stipulates that attempts against the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country are incompatible with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The concept of collective security enshrined in the UN Charter is based on the principle that each of its Members, as sovereign State, has the control of a given territory and the monopoly of the use of force and that the legal responsibility for the use of force ... , internally (by the police), or externally ... ...

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... that have been used in Dr. Perez' class to represent foundationalism and cohenrentism. Foundationalism is represented by the image of a pyramid where the base of the pyramid represents the basic or foundational beliefs and the upper parts represent the direction towards hidden assumptions and other beliefs. On the other hand, coherentism is represented by the image of a raft or a mesh wherein beliefs are interlinked with each other to form an overall ... coherent system of beliefs. My conjecture is that the limitations and the infrastructural constraints of the elements of language and ...

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... focus on virgin train. (Avolio & Bass, 1995),describes transformational leadership as a leadership style in which leaders articulate a shared vision of the future, stimulate followers intellectually and show individual consideration to followers, this style of leadership best describes the characteristic and the leadership attributes of Richard Branson. The second part involves a discussion on how transformational leadership style can influences collaboration or team work within department. Consistent with ... working. For instance, employees challenged Virgin Trains to increase its com...

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... number of methods designed to record electrical activity during sleep, including the electromyogram, which measures eye movements during sleep and the electroencephalogram (EEG), used to measure neuronal activity in the brain. The most commonly used, the EEG, measures electrical activity being emitted from neurons within the brain and has proven to be an effective tool in enabling researchers to successfully ... even deeper relaxation than stages one and two and it is at this stage where our heart rate and respiration activity becomes slow and regular, and brain activity recorded on the ...

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... is teen pregnancy; the prevalence, the potential effects on both the mother and the child's life trajectories. The second issue is the sexual abuse portion and its' potential effects on the victim as well. This portion of proposal recapitulates the academic literature that researches and discusses the potential negative outcomes resulting from childhood sexual abuse and potential sexual behavior that may increase the risk of pregnancy during adolescence and including their limitations. The prevalence of teen ... surveying on a topic such as childhood sexual abuse, extra attention needs ...

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... suggested that the connections between race and sentencing outcomes are exceedingly complex, conditioned by a diverse set of variables, including characteristics of the defendant, the victim, the crime itself and the geographical area where it took place, as well as the bureaucratic organization of local courts, the culture of courtroom workgroups, and even broader features of the social and political environments ... in which case processing takes place. Numerous reforms to sentencing policy, such as the development of sentencing guidelines and "structured ... to differential "overchar...

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