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    Bernstein and Bob Woodward. While their investigative journalism revealed the truth, their questionable methods and ethics have led to these questions; Do the ends justify the means? Was their behavior ethical and legal? The Watergate Scandal was a major political scandal during the Presidency of Nixon. Nixon, paranoid and afraid of losing his reelection, employed men to do an assortment of illegal activities intended to place the republicans ahead of the democrats in the election. The activities were

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    Essay On Enron Scandal

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    to understand the real meaning of Shareholder Wealth Maximization. Enron Corporation scandal also help to conceal the true of financial statement and ensure that investor fund. When the time of Enron's collapse, it was the biggest corporate bankruptcy ever to hit the financial world. But then WorldCom, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual have surpassed Enron as the largest corporate bankruptcies. The Enron scandal drew attention to accounting and corporate fraud, as its shareholders lost $74 billion

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    Watergate Scandal The Watergate Scandal happened almost 43 years ago; the event will never be forgotten. The Watergate scandal defined, perhaps for the first time, that a president of the United States could be portrayed as untrustworthy. Richard Nixon ran for a second term in 1972, in which he won by a huge margin. The Democratic Party had their headquarters at the high-end Watergate hotel. The break-in happened on June 17th, 1972, in which a security guard noticed the tape on the door lock

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    firing the staff which was uncooperative. The importance of the Watergate scandal lies in the fact, that it changed the American politics forever. People started questioning their leadership and thought critically about who they choose as one. The scandal was investigated by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, and along the way, they found many interesting things, which gave people more information and perspective about the scandal. The journalists found out many things; some of the burglars were related

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    On June 18, 1972, the Washington Post published an article under the title “5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats’ Office Here”. The author, Alfred E. Lewis, claimed that five men, one being an ex-CIA agent, three being native-born Cubans, and the last being said to have trained Cuban exiles for guerilla warfare, were caught planting bugs in the offices of the National Democratic Committee. This article sparked an important breakthrough in American journalism. Catching the attention of Post writers Carl

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    Tammy Coleman Dr. Wilson The Bohemian Scandal In Conan Doyle’s short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1888), Sherlock Holmes can tell that the stranger possess great wealth before he speaks a single word. Sherlock Holmes analyzes everything when it comes to people. He uses their appearance, how they carry themselves, and what kind of objects they have on them. The author uses descriptive words to describe the way the stranger looked. This essay will prove that Sherlock Holmes is so observant

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    The Watergate Scandal Watergate is the popular name for the political scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office in Washington D.C. on the night of June 17, 1972. It ended with the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon. The burglars and two co-potters-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were indicated on charges of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. Four monthes

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    Watergate Scandal Essay

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    On the morning of June 17th, 1972 the Watergate scandal started with the arrest of several burglars inside of a government office (Democratic National Committee) , which was located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. The thing that made this robbery different from others is this robbery is connected directly to the president of the United States Richard Nixon. The burglars were caught attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. To this day historians still aren’t sure if Nixon

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    Enron Accounting Scandal

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    could come from the company.) 90-15 was a license to create imaginary profits and hide genuine losses. FAS 57 require disclosure of these types of relationships (FAS 57 was proposed and implemented after the Enron scandal). Enron had a $597 million dollar cash flow in the first half of year 2000 by taking loans out from banks such as Citigroup and Morgan- Chase totaling nearly 3.4 billion. Just in interests alone, Enron was collected 2 million dollars each day

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    Woodward and Bernstein faced several obstacles while exposing the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s involvement. At first their editor blocks them because their story lacks. They had few leads, and the leads they had led to nothing. When they called people who they thought were involved in to get information they would not talk and would hang up. Also when Bernstein called the White House Library to see if Howard Hunt checked out any material on Senator Kennedy. At first the librarian knew exactly what

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