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    Body The United States District Court authorized the ARRT to seize control of the review company in 2008, because of the 250,000 dollar judgment against the company (Renner, 2009). The company lost everything because of copy right infringement, because the exam and the questions in the exam are the property of ARRT. This is a very serious verdict and on the surface might seem too extreme, but what the review company did was incredibly damaging to the ARRT. The examination that is offered by the ARRT

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    have been many movie adaptations of Hamlet ever since adapting Shakespeare’s plays into movies became a profitable venture. Two of the more popular adaptations were Kenneth Branagh’s in 1996 and Gregory Doran’s in 2009. Even though they were both based on the same play, these two movies differ greatly due to director’s license. Kenneth Branagh’s and Gregory Doran’s adaptation of Hamlet differ greatly in terms of the setting and how each of the main characters are portrayed. One of the main differences

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    known for its risky business tactics that would help keep them afloat in stock sales. Enron was headed by two main people that would go on to underhanded business schemes and charismatic acts that would betray the people who worked for the company. Kenneth Lay, the first CEO and the last as it collapsed, and Jeffery Skilling, the second CEO who was only CEO for about six months. These two people are very notorious white collar criminals. White collar crime is crime that is committed without violence

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    Bryn Bradshaw-Mack “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”: A Legal Perspective Often times in business as the stakes get bigger and better, the methods in which they are obtained get worse. Throughout the film, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, this unfortunate truth is frequently apparent. There are numerous instances when Enron executives perform potentially unlawful practices in order to profit the company, and subsequently themselves. One example of this is when Jeffrey Skilling, chief

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    Hamlet Epic Hero Essay

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    Epic Hero. “A brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand events” (Dictionary). The traditional characteristics of an epic hero includes being born into nobility, being decisive, being an excellent warrior who is respected, and ultimately winning in the end. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet fits the mold of an epic hero as he is born into nobility, but he breaks the mold of an epic hero as he never takes action against Claudius while in Othello,

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    To be or not to be is the important question. As someone that read Shakespeare's Hamlet and watched both Zeffirelli’s 1990 version of Hamlet and Branagh’s 1996 version of Hamlet, only one movie can take the spot for the best movie that portrays Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Although Zeffirelli’s version of Hamlet may appeal to the audience due to shorter view time, Branagh’s version of Hamlet earns the spot for better portrayal due to its emphasis on a darker tone through the use of color, emphasizing the

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    Throughout the years, Shakespeare's play Hamlet has been recreated in many different lights. Hamlet has been remade for television approximately 25 different times. Also, it has been performed countless amounts of times since it was created. Through each retelling the plot line stays relatively the same. However, characters can often be seen being portrayed in different characteristics. Hamlet is a common character who is often displayed in a variety of contexts. Throughout the many renditions of

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    William Shakespeare’s play Othello is a short, drama filled with suspense, hate, manipulation, and jealousy. The main characters are Iago: the antagonist and Othello: the protagonist. The suspicion of Othello being with Iago’s wife causes him to hate Othello. No matter what version of Iago’s soliloquy is depicted as the hate for Othello is strongly stated. Iago’s character can be considered as a creepy, psychopath, individual obsessed with revenge against Othello. The three videos and the passage

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    William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Gregory Doran’s film version of the play, have the same characters and main story, the plot is the same and the same actions occur, however, like any other movie based on a play or book has its differences. The atmosphere that Doran uses in his movie its completely different to the one in the play, while Shakespeare’s Hamlet occurs during the late medieval period, Doran puts a modern spin in the film, by adding modern day situations and places, as well as the way

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    According to the movie "Gibney, A. (2005). Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" the practices that allowed Enron to achieve such success started with manipulation of earnings by Traders who were destroying daily trading records and gambling beyond their limits to a point where they lost in 5 days an amount of $90 million, losing with it all of the company’s reserves. To cover this up they mis-reported the company´s net worth. They needed a new idea and Jeff Skilling proposed to convert Enron into

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