individuals close to the upper level management of an organization. This type of unethical behavior undermines the stability of the organization. In the ImClone scandal where Martha Stewart was indicted for her involement, the stability of her company suffered and the companies and people associated with Ms. Stewart suffered as a result of her decision. In this essay I will examine the parties that were privileged to knowing ImClone’s stock was going to drop and those who did not know. I will look
Martha Stewart's Insider Trading Martha Stewart, the countries top icon for homemaking has been in the eye of the public since June 2002, but not for her craftiness or culinary abilities. Stewart instead has the spotlight on her for crimes of insider trading. A tip from her former broker Peter E. Bacanovic, persuaded her into selling her IMClone stock after sharing information about a close friend of Stewart’s getting rid of his shares. Stewart’s companion, Sam Waksal, was also the chief
Douglas McGregor was an American professor and psychologist who is most famous for his book, The Human Side of Enterprise, published in 1960. In this work, he conceives and examines two theories of behaviors in the workplace. They are known as Theory X and Theory Y. These distinct theories describe how individuals generally behave at work and how different types of managers might govern their employees. They have been used over the years to help managers to understand their employees’ needs, behavior
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, commonly known as P.B.S. Pinchback, was the first African American elected as a governor of a US state. Pinchback was born in Georgia in 1837 to a former slave. As an adult, Pinchback volunteered for the military during the Civil War. At first, he served in the First Louisiana Volunteers, which was an all white group then he left to create an all black volunteer unit called the Corps d 'Afrique. After the war, Pinchback began his career in politics in New Orleans
apparent as soon as the late 1930’s, exemplified in such films as Destry Rides Again (1939, George Marshall) and Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Frank Capra). The production of these two films and the paths down which they led their star (James Stewart), directors (at least Frank Capra), and studios (Universal and Columbia, respectively) are evidence of the decline of the studio system. The
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, L.B. Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart, becomes completely obsessed with spending all of his waking hours watching his neighbors from his wheelchair. He even uses a camera to better his view and thus enhances his role as both a spectator and a voyeur. This contributes to the creation of a movie being played right outside Jeffries’ window. In this “movie within the movie” his neighbors’ lives become the subject for the plot. Each
film. Throughout nearly all of the film, only one shot is used to tell the story, there are very few cuts. By doing it this way, Hitchcock is showing us exactly what the character is seeing. The cast of Rear Window includes Jimmy Stewart, the lovely Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, and
Daily Show pronounces itself as a fake news program, and it pulls its comedy and satire from current news reports, politicians, media companies, and often, features of the show itself. The show usually begins with an extended monologue from host, Jon Stewart, communicating new headlines and regularly includes discussions with several correspondents, who assume ridiculous or amusingly overstated takes on recent events against Stewart's straightforward character. The concluding segment contains a celebrity
Escarlin Perez Novel: New Moon June 8th, 2015 A Sacrifice for Passion. In accordance with a renowned statement that is reference by Stephenie Meyers from the novel, New Moon, happens to entitle an astonishing significance to the novel itself. Furthermore, the statement on page 71, from Meyers in New Moon (said by Edward Cullen), states as follows, “I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can
The dictionary defines a meme as, “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”(“Meme”). Memes have become the way of expressing thoughts and information, which is changed and modified through out time and peoples attitudes. Ronak Patel states in his work “First World Problems: A Fair Use Analysis of Internet Memes,” a very important about internet memes and that is, “. . . it is not the meme itself that is important, but the fact that memes provide more