Before a person can understand the true affect and changes brought about by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, they must first understand the details of the Enron scandal and how Enron's executives falsified their financials in order to compare the pre-Enron vs. post-Enron eras of corporate America. ... People started questioning how to trust the valuation of companies, and started believing that all corporate executives and accountants were crooked and greedy (Cernusca). ... Enron created Special Purpose Entities (SPE's), otherwise known as off-book partnerships, and the executives used these...

• Word Count: 3410
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and considerate glances on controversies affecting the LGBTQ spectrum. ... The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... Bender-Baird takes her pace from that standpoint to spread open the eyes of her audience on how sullied and gender-biased the political arena is to the public. ... As studies frequently stated in the book, consequent loss of jobs led to homelessness of a huge population of transgender population. ... A section of the book entitled the "I'm Lucky" Phenomenon reported p...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

The "resource curse" vanishes for countries with stable administration and better institutions, like Norway, due to how the resource rents, which is to say the returns from the investment of the extractions are being distributed, while countries rich in resources, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, are still developing and are accompanied by a rising level of poverty. ... For instance, Norway was one of Europe's poorest country in 1900, but similarly to what the United States did following the 1850s, they started exploiting natural resources heavily, such as timber and fish and more ...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Throughout my years of education, I've come to know how I learn and what teaching styles are most effective in my learning process. ... With the start of my practicum near, I wanted to research and become more knowledgeable about different learning styles and intelligences and how this knowledge could enhance my teaching practice and create authentic and meaningful learning experiences for my future students. Specifically, I wanted to find how the different multiple intelligences would inform teaching and learning in the Language Arts. ... From this starting point, I found many thoug...

• Word Count: 1304
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate