Essays on Bernie

Sea Oak is a short story that depicts several characters living in poverty-stricken areas across the United States. Some of the characters explicitly express their desire to have a better life. One of the important aspects of the story is the fact that a character dies and resurrects temporarily. The author George Sauder’s has combined fiction with reality so as to demonstrate the extent to which individuals will go in a bid to escape poverty and suffering. By contrasting fiction and reality, the author has demonstrated that suffering is part of life and, therefore, inevitable. Even with assistance ...

Based upon what I have seen and heard during the last Presidential election, Bernie Sanders has emerged as my favorite political leader, whereas the newly-elected President Donald Trump fills me with shame and abhorrence to be a young college student. My opinion about these two men surrounds one issue: tuition-free four-year colleges and their unique stances on this significant issue. During the campaign trail, at rallies and lectures across the US, a big part of Senator Sanders’s appeal to younger voters was his promise to make four-year colleges tuition-free. According to Schramm & Stoetzer (2015), Sanders introduced a Congressional ...

Abstract

The Madoff Securities scandal was one of the biggest Ponzi schemes to hit America. This essay would examine the Madoff scandal from an audit perspective since it was the complacency (or collusion) of the auditors that encouraged the perpetrator of this scam. While the scam that was pulled by Bernie Madoff, was both large and difficult to spot, its detection also helped expose a crucial flaw that existed in corporate America at the time. This was the lack of regulatory oversight in the Securities business. While one could lay the blame for this scandal on the Regulator, another important ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Introduction

The case of Bernie Madoff is a good example of unethical practices can lead to corruption. Madoff, which is the former investment and a stock broker, is introduced around the globe as the only operator in the largest Ponzi scheme ever on record. This is because he turned its financial management firm into a huge Ponzi scheme that defrauded a lot of money from thousands of his investors. The paper will determine the regulatory oversight that was existing while the Ponzi scheme was operating. It also speculates on the main reasons why such plans were not discovered while investing ...

The Madoff Securities case was a phenomenal one, in terms of the sheer size of the funds involved, the duration over which the scam took place as well as the stature of the victims affected. In most comparable schemes, the victims are usually those who have a very limited understanding of financial products and such schemes mostly do not last very long. This paper will review the case by determining the regulatory oversight in place at the time of the scandal and reasons why this scheme was not discovered as well as delve into other aspects of the case.

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Bernie Sanders on Economic Inequality

The main ideas of the author are to articulate how the Democratic presidential aspirant hopeful, Bernie Sanders, views economic inequality in the United States. According to Bernie Sanders, the middle-income earners in the United States have been on the decrease in the past forty years (Louwes, 2016). Additionally, as the number of the middle-income earners reduce, the gap between the poor and the rich is widening. To address this problem, Bernie Sanders suggests a five strategic plan. Acknowledging the economic disparities is the first step to solving the economic inequality the US is facing at the moment. After putting ...

In the court systems, various felonies are penalized following the court's guidelines. There are a variety of particulars that go into a sentencing pronouncement. An individual who commits a financial fraud may go to jail for a longer period, compared to someone who commits murder, as is the case of Bernard Madoff, who went to jail for 150 years for committing financial crime and Karla Homolka was sentenced to 12 years in prison for murder. It is, however, clear that an extensive range of verdicts are not necessarily rational to the victims or the scam culprits. This paper looks ...

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders’ name has become controversial, as he sought to divide the votes in the presidential bid for the Democratic Party, during the early days of the campaign. Sanders is a junior U.S senator from Vermont, and have long been serving independently in the U.S congress (berniesanders.com np). Although he is out in the running for the U.S presidential bid, having been beaten by Hilary Clinton, Sanders remains influential in the current presidential election, particularly in the Democratic Party’s platforms. Sanders early activism can be traced back during his college years. He is a member of the ...

US Elections 2016

Abstract The U.S. presidential campaign of 2016 is raging on and on. With the November approaching, and the campaign being on the rise, political issues of the U.S. are becoming more interesting to the world society. Till the beginning of May the number of candidates was still pretty sufficient to make any projections. Under Clinton’s presidency the relations between the U.S. and China may turn into a complete mess. According to her position, the U.S. should observe its national interests, and if China is an obstacle to their achievement, the relations between them should be at a minimum ...

The advertisement that will be discussed is taken from Bernie Sander’s campaign. This particular advertisement is interesting in that it does not name Hillary or Trump specifically, (“Bernie Sanders Advertisement,” 2016). Bernie Sanders is talking about how he wants to break up big banks and allow the wealthy to pay more money in taxes to support healthcare and free education, (“Bernie Sanders Advertisement,” 2016). If one looks closely, Bernie Sanders seems to be talking to Donald Trump because he is so wealthy. This advertisement, if a person looks between the words, could have an impact on voter behavior ...

Bernard (Bernie) Sanders was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. His religious affiliation is Jewish. He is married to Jane (O’Meara) Sanders, and they have raised four children. Sanders attended high school in Brooklyn. He studied for one year at Brooklyn College before transferring to the University of Chicago. It may be said that his political career started when in college. He became involved in the civil rights movements of the early 1960’s, joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Sanders was an originator of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and joined in the March on ...

One of the candidates from the Democratic Party running for president is Bernie Sanders. When opening his website berniesanders.com, it takes to the landing page, at which Bernie asks his supporters to donate to his campaign. Other option is to continue to his official website, and at the top of the main page we can see the photos of his supporters. The link to main pages are placed on the upper footer of the main page, and they include events, volunteer, news, and other pages. The website is rather thorough, as the user can click “more”, and it will ...

Introduction

The 2016 Presidential race for the White House is occurring during a time of increased polarization between the two dominant American political parties. Republican and Democrat political candidates, as well as registered voters, are sharply divided on issues such as tax reform, public services and programs, income inequality, military spending, women’s reproductive rights, and the civil rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. While the common perception is that Republican candidates and voters tend to be more religious than their Democrat counterparts, the majority of polled Americans indicate that an Atheist candidate is a problem. Although ...

One of the major talking points of Presidential current candidate Bernie Sanders is the need to allow college to be free for all. Many "Millennials," the current generation of entitled teens and early 20-somethings that believe that rules, laws and opportunities should be theirs with no real effort on their part; free college is just an extension of that entitlement. After reviewing the available information it becomes clear that while there is definitely room for reform in the high cost of education and the extreme levels of student debt that many accrue, it becomes clear that free college is ...

The most appealing of the four major and three minor ideologies discussed in the text, is social democracy. To be sure the principles of social democracy present a political framework that seems the most flexible as well as the ablest to resolve common and traditional problems that affect most modern democracies such as economic and social inequality, the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few (Newton and Deth). In other words, social democracy presents a framework to achieve the best of all ideological choices. Social democracy for instance, does not demand either a fully privatized economy as ...

American presidents are limited to run for two terms in office. A large number of presidential candidates compete for nominations in republican and democratic nominations. The United States of America and five other nation agreed to an outline for Iranian nuclear deal in April 2015 where President Obama concentrated on convincing the Congress and the American citizens that this deal was to make the world especially America, and its allies a safer place. The nuclear deal was implemented in January 2016 after it was confirmed that Iran was in compliance with the provision of joint comprehensive plan action by ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Abstract

The 2003 Iraq War received a wide variety of different opinions throughout the international media. While American networks and press organizations entitled the conflict as Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Canadian media and the channels in some Arab nations referred to the conflict as "attack and occupation." One character in this conflict was Chris Kyle, a deadly sniper in the American military whose life served as the inspiration for the film American Sniper. He wrote a book by the same name that teems with his utter disdain for the Iraqi fighters as well as with his excitement at the chance ...

Company and situation

According to Biegelman and Bartow (2012), WorldCom Group began in 1983 following the breakup of AT&T. It began as Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) offering telecommunication services to local retail and commercial customers in the Southern States where the two major telecommunication companies – Sprint and MCI had little presence. The company grew by acquiring other companies and in 1993 it was declared the fourth largest long distance carrier in the US (Biegelman & Bartow, 2012). It was officially renamed WorldCom in 1995 and continued a period of great acquisitions of more than 60 companies. However, between 1999 and 2002, the ...

In April Senator Bernie Sanders visited Wyoming where he tried to persuade the local people to vote for him at the upcoming presidential primaries. In his speech at University of Wyoming he talked about a wide range of the political issues that concern the various groups of the American society. He started his speech by saying that he was an underdog at the beginning of the presidential campaign, but now the gap between him and Hilary Clinton is very small even though he does not have many funds and relies mainly on the individual campaign donations (Sanders). Senator Bernie ...

Introduction

Senator Bernie Sanders recently gave his victory speech at Wyoming Wisconsin rally in Laramie last April 5th 2016. The speech given by Senator Sanders in the rally talks about his victory in the Wyoming campaign for his bid presidency. The discussion will highlight the important points in his speech where relevant socio-political issues were mentioned. The important areas of discussion would the pro choices stated by the Senator, his position on gay marriage, min wage hike, free college, and free healthcare. These areas of concern will be examined and personal perception about the issues mentioned will be discussed as ...

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Introduction

Generating profits from products made through the use of asbestos is unethical. Organizations have a responsibility to guarantee the safety of employees. Secondly, it is unethical to knowingly expose an employee to a harmful chemical. Employees have a right to a workplace environment that does not lead to safety issues. Recklessness and disregard for the safety of employees mean that corporations are only interested in profits but not the life and safety of employees. Furthermore, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) engage in unethical practice by trying to stop victims from being compensated. My argument is ...

Ethics is the accepted code of conduct (principles of wrong or right) that control the behavior of an individual, an organization or group of a profession. It is always considered to be a factor of variation in politics, economic growth, culture and legal systems. Particular practices might be unethical when viewed by other countries' standards. Most common ethical issues are related to human rights, labor standards, and financial standards, accounting standards, environmental regulations, moral obligations, and corruption. The international business setting, through its economic and cultural diversity, time and again exposes foreign executives to significant challenges. On a short ...

Introduction

Life is a pause and no one knows of the time or place of the next action. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, the past however is full of memories that shape the person that we are today. People look at their state I life and react as one of two ways, as in the book they are not pleased with their state in life or the other alternative is to be completely happy with your life as it is now. Pause is powerful beyond imagination as if a shuffle playlist keeps haunting you. Because of the uncertainties, ...