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The Drama of the Clinton Sex Scandal Rare is a person that crosses the path of the White House without some emotion of envy or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedy's brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clinton's "zippergate" scandal. When the President of the United States takes oath

Clinton and The Lewinsky Scandal On January 17th, 1998, President Clinton videotaped a deposition for the Paula Jones lawsuit against him. December 19th, eleven months later, Bill Clinton became only the second president in our nation’s history to face impeachment from congress. The 1998-1999 was a tumultuous year for the President, the media, and the American people as a whole. Yet, the most intriguing and surprising aspect of the scandal was not that Bill Clinton would ever cheat on

The Rhetoric of an Apology: The Clinton Sex Scandal "I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation." On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the

biggest corporate scandal in American history, the author here rejects Jeff Skilling’s (former president of Enron) argument1 of what brought about Enron’s downfall. She instead uses another metaphor, arguing that Enron’s downfall was more like Titanic’s-

section of the paper two examples of the YouTube scandals will be presented and discussed. The first case study will demonstrate the good example of the YouTube scandal related to the ghostwriting and its following spreading over the traditional and social media. The second example will demonstrate the implication of the atonement model and the sense of the public apology after the scandal. 3.1. YouTube Scandal 1 3.1.1. Outline of the scandal In November 2014, Zoe Sugg, user name Zoella,

Lawless Imagine a world in which laws were non-existent. Stop signs wouldn’t exist, you would never have to wear a seatbelt and you would never get pulled over for speeding. You wouldn't even have to worry about paying your taxes. Do you think a life without laws or rules would be easier? Laws are set in place for everyone in society to maintain balance and order. While it is infeasible to live in the world without rules or laws, it is very possible to be above the law. This essay aims to

CENDANT On December 17th 1997 CUC International a membership-based consumer service company focused on giving people access to discounts on travel, shopping, etc. and HFC Incorporated a large hotel franchiser merged together and became Cendant. CUC International lead by Walter Forbes deliberately and fictitiously made the company more than $500 million fictional revenue, which in effect led to one of the biggest fraud cases of the 1990’s. This is a very interesting fraud case and one that forced

morals and lacking strong work ethics. If even a major corporation can fall into this “trap”, then avoiding doesn’t sound easy, although accountants can easily avoid scandals by following a precise set of given rules and ethics. OneTel and Enron are prime examples which demonstrate the danger when a business is faced with an accounting scandal - which in turn could have been avoided. The fall of major telecommunications company OneTel came as a huge shock, many fell victim to this. The fall of OneTel

Business Communication & Tools of Connection To: From: Date: Subject: Good leader Vs Bad Leader Mother Teresa was chosen as the good leader for this assignment. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910. There was some confusion on when she was really born. She was baptized on the 27th of August as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the day that is sometimes is considered her actual birthdate. Her father passed away when she was only 8 years old, the cause of his death still to this

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 21 (2002) 105–127 www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol Enron: what happened and what we can learn from it George J. Benston *, Al L. Hartgraves Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322-2710, USA Abstract Enron’s accounting for its non-consolidated special-purpose entities (SPEs), sales of its own stock and other assets to the SPEs, and mark-ups of investments to fair value substantially inflated its reported revenue