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    Complete Name: Unit 4 Student Name: Evans, Renee Antionette ********************************************************************************************************** 1. FUNDAMENTALS & STOCKS ********************************************************************************************************** 2. Investing Fundamentals  First Budget:  Investing in Stocks:  ********************************************************************************************************** 3. The Garners

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    that influences them to commit or recommit certain crime, it is important to understand that there are many factors that influences persistent offenders  such as financial motivation, social factors, emotional state.  Many offenders  get caught in the get rich quick scheme, It is also important to understand that most of habitual offenders have about 70% rate of reoffending. As stated by many researchers, crime is a product of social dysfunction; This best fits the Social disorganization theory. In which

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    During the 1680s the search for gold had ended and the hopes of the Spaniards striking rich had also ended. The goals of obtaining riches was something not easily forgotten by the Spaniards, so the Pueblo Indians were the answer to the Spaniards’ get rich quick scheme. The Indians were forced to work by the Spaniards so they could avoid doing work of their own, stripping away the Indians freedom that they had before. Religion came to be an issue during this process because the Indians were not given

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    What is it like to be the “go-getters” in a society based on the survival of the fittest one might ask? It is such a characteristic that is implemented in the archetype of a self-made man in much of literature. The self-made man is one who is born into poverty but is able to achieve financial success through means of persistence, thrift, and entrepreneurship, and, thus, their boldness is measured in their achievements, status, and wealth. Concerning the values of a self-made man, the self-made possesses

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    The Gilded Age, as described by author Mark Twain and co-author Charles Dudley Warner, was a time of not only economic growth but also political corruption. The era was also filled with influential people who contributed to social causes, that the American people adapted to, led to the shaping of what America is today; a very powerful and influential country. The late 19th century was the time between post-Civil War and World War I, following the progressive era, where the key term “Gilded Age”

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    Ponzi scheme that swindled money from thousands of investors. Unlike the promoters of many Ponzi schemes, Madoff did not promise spectacular short-term investment returns. Instead, his investors’ phony account statements showed moderate, but consistently positive returns — even during turbulent market conditions. In December 2008, the SEC charged Bernard Madoff and his investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, with securities fraud for the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme he perpetrated

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    that person and then anybody else who decides to join under you giving you eighty dollars for every new member. Before considering any of these home base business who promises riches over night, you have to understand that most of all these get rich quick schemes are fraudulent, they don't exist.

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    ball was a sport that is played with a ball same as baseball and football today. Games during the Elizabethan era was mostly games that give away fortune That was the most popular game during these times. Games were really to buy time or a get rich quick scheme. Many people loved cards games, but the games they

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    a dreary depression. The Stock Crash of 1929 was the biggest event to kick off the depression. The money not only disappeared overnight, but the people lost their money and became poor. Many Americans wanted to “get rich quick” and put their money into businesses or into money schemes. When the stock market crashed their money was gone. The people lost all their money over night and had no money to put into the banks. Because of this, both the banks and the people suffered greatly. Americans became

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    irrationality, and romanticism. The sneaky conmen who call themselves the King and the Duke play minor characters that con people in various river communities in hopes of striking it rich by preying on

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