Don LaFontaine

Tracing back the history of accounting scandals, major corporate scandals not only hurt the economy but also crush investors’ confidence on investing in companies. For example, the Enron scandal, the WorldCom scandal, and so on. The majority of corporate scandals are created by greedy corporate senior officers. One way to create a scandal is “cooking the books”. Cooking the book is an accounting term which means making false financial statements in order to meet the number that investors or banks

outstanding technology has brought human to a bright new age that people are more likely to value the materiality. Then more problems are raised from the technological development and further implicated with human emotions and basic desires. For example, in Don Delillo's novel "White noise", the fear of death is emphasized and given a new definition that fits into this lopsided modern society, which is overwhelmed by all kinds of information from mass media. People unconsciously dedicate more onto the stories

as wishful thinking, as imagining something perfect and they may or may not have their roots based on reality. Therefore, reality is what we can deduce from the fives senses and experience. In Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, many different kinds of women are encountered throughout the adventures of Don Quixote. There are poor peasants, rich vassals, prostitutes, and even shepherdess. Women in this novel seem to fall under either women of fantasy or as a women of reality. There is a stark difference

romances of chivalry was to show to what extraordinary consequences they would lead a man insanely infatuated in them..”. Due to this type of thinking, Cervantes in his novel, Don Quixote, portrays love in a nontraditional way, as a mysterious force that draws lovers together. Many of the tales of courtship told in Don Quixote are driven by the force of love. The tale of Quiteria and Basilio is a great example of this. In this tale, Basilio and Quiteria are next door neighbors in the same village

The Sancho Panza syndrome (then) and the American dream (then and now) In the 15th century, the combination of the Sancho Panza Syndrome and the American dream fueled exploration at that time and created an incredibly enticing allure of the New World. Exploration and colonization were performed to attain a higher social status, more wealth, and fame. The result of this exploration led to the discovery of new lands and laid the foundation for new countries, but it came with a cost. The perils of the

Don Giovanni is the protagonist of one of the most famous Mozart's operas. Mozart’s protagonist is based of the Spanish tale’s character named Don Juan, a famous womanizer. According to Cambridge Dictionary, a hero is defined as “a person admire for bravery, great achievements, or good qualities,”[1] it can be said that Don Giovanni is brave, at his standards has some great achievements, and has some good qualities such as fearlessness, courage, and firm to his beliefs. One of the main reasons

Lazarillo de Tormes is a famous work of Spanish literature published anonymously. The novel is written in the first person. Lazarillo de Tormes is known as a picaresque novel in that the novel is written about a character of the lower-class instead of a hero or upper-class character. The novel has several themes, but the theme that is constant throughout the novel is appearance versus reality. The author utilizes several rhetorical devices in the novel which add emphasis to the story. The novel,

In Grimmelshausen’s novel, Simplicissimus, the protagonist of the same name takes on a much different position than seen in other picaresque novels. Simplicissimus becomes a master, employing his own servants and gains a legitimate position in society. In the novel Lazarillo de Tormes the protagonist is always serving someone else’s interests. Lazarillo never has complete autonomy and must rely on others for employment and to further his social status. Simplicissimus does not fit this picaresque

love is an example of how love transforms a person. In the traditional definition of courtly love, the love-struck hero is on a constant struggle to reach the object of his affection. While Cervantes provides an accurate portrayal of courtly love in Don Quixote, Dante’s version in Inferno and Purgatory is a more convincing use of courtly love because his character, Dante, emerges as a transformed character through the process of trying to get to his beloved Beatrice. The principles of courtly love:

The novel is a modern, ever changing, and important tool that is utilized by different societies. Storytelling did/does the same thing, however, and by finding the similarities between the two, it appears to me that the novel is storytelling reborn. Theorist Walter Benjamin argues that novels have done the opposite and have eradicated storytelling. He states that, “…the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. He has already become something remote from us and something