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    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

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    Biography of Martha Graham Martha Graham was known as the mother of American dance. She was born on May 11, 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. At fourteen she moved with her family to California and began dancing. The first dance recital she saw was in Los Angeles, California by choreographer and dance pioneer, Ruth St. Denis. When Graham was twenty-two years old she joined the Denishawn school and dance troupe. The school of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn had a great impact on Graham’s

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    Martha Stewart Case

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    study analysis of Martha Stewart Tianyi Shi 701673531 1. Describe and analyze the ups and downs of your leader’s career. Martha Stewart, was born on August 3, 1941, in New Jersey. She grew up in Nutley, a working-class community near New York City. Martha went to Barnard College meanwhile she was a fashion model as a way to pay her college tuition. Just after her sophomore year, Martha met her husband, a Yale Law School student, Andy Stewart. For the modest beginning, Martha start her career

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    particular stand out to me, as people who inspired others from a place of pure passion. Martha Graham, Beethoven, and Jackie Robinson are all figures in history that have followed their passions and made a lasting impression on everyone who has come after them. I would love to dance with all of these amazing figures because I believe that passion is the key to telling a story, and telling a story

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    pristine and luxurious. However, Martha Washington, the first Mrs. President, never seemed to resemble this depiction. A wife should have a “good sense, a good disposition, a good reputation, and financial means,” George Washington once stated. It is apparent that he must have seen all of these things in his wife, Martha, or he would not have married her. Apparently, others agreed with him, and before she even became first lady, she was known to many as Lady Washington. Martha Custis Washington received

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    for their music; and for modern dance, there was Martha Graham. Martha Graham can easily be named the pioneer of modern dance, as her impact on the art form is often compared to that of Picasso’s on painting, Stravinsky’s on music, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s on architecture (Graham). Her greatest contribution to dance was her exploration of how to express abstract emotions through movement and giving a definition to an “American” form of dance. Martha saw dance as a platform to communicate raw emotion

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    Diversion of Angels was first performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1948 and was choreographed by Martha Graham. She is well known for her contribution and conception of modern dance. The choreography was first performed august 13th, 1948 in New London at the Palmer Auditorium. This dance contains movement and techniques commonly found in Graham's work while presenting a compelling performance. The dance’s core theme is love and its interactions within life and within others love. Diversion

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    Martha Graham wasn’t just an ordinary dancer, but an extraordinary choreographer and artist. You would expect an artist to just draw with pen and paper, but Martha wasn’t a regular artist she was different. She didn’t go by the rules of classical ballet, but created her own movements that showed internal feeling through movement. In addition to Martha’s creativity, she was also a critical modern dance figure in history and created a modern dance movement. Martha, full name of Martha Graham was born

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    One of our most world-renowned business women and television personalities Martha Stewart decided to dip her feet into illegal insider trading. Martha served five months in a federal prison at Alderson in West Virginia and two additional years of supervised release after a portion in home confinement. Back in 2001, Martha Stewart sold all her shares from a biotech company she invested in called ImClone. Ironically, a few days after she sold her shares the company’s stock fell sixteen percent after

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    Martha graham is a professional choreographer. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martha had 2 other siblings. Martha also had lots of creative thoughts and she wanted them to be known but she also wanted them to be known by movement, physical movement, so she said dancing. She then tried by starting to teach a group of dancers and choreographing their dances. Martha’s artistic ability drew attention to lots of artistic genres that drew lots of attention towards her and her ability’s

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