Kenneth J. Gergen

we are traveling through the worlds of Marvel or just searching for evidence about who we truly are. Kenneth Gergen in his essay, “The Defense of Masks,” talks about the necessities that forces people to employ masks which will tend to hide their true identity. Things such as being with those you are comfortable with or being in front of the chairmen for an important business firm demonstrate that individuals will act differently depending on the certain situations they are in. Some might say that staying true to who you are is invariably the wiser choice, as seen in Shakespeare’s Hamlet where Polonius tells his son, “To thine own self be true.” However,…

In the murder case of an African- American lady named Martha investigators have narrowed their search do to three possible suspects. The three suspects are Royce Triplett, Kenneth Hubbard and Marcus Maher. Now none of the possible suspect is family members of Martha but has had some form of interaction with her in the past whether it is church related or neighborhood related she knew all three of them. Therefore, we will have to look at the evidence and determine which one of these three men…

Scene Analysis Assignment William Shakespeare’s play Othello is a tragedy about a man named Othello who gets tricked by his jealous friend Iago into believing that his wife has been unfaithful to him. In the play, Iago tricks and manipulates many characters into doing what he wants, especially the character Roderigo. Roderigo is a gullible Venetian gentleman that longs to be with Othello’s wife Desdemona. In Act 1 Scene 3, Shakespeare shows his reader how manipulative and deceitful Iago can be…

history of whistleblowers who blew the whistle on corporate companies. Sherron Watkins blew the whistle on Enron in 2001 by sending a memo to Kenneth Lay, the founder of Enron, giving caution she knew the company was at a great risk of finding themselves in a dilemma. The dilemma would be the product of many financial accounting scandals. Enron is a company that buys and sales energy from different companies and according to Patrick Rogers, was worth $74 billion in 2001, and was developed by…

1. Kenneth Lay’s values and vision were not met by the business practices of Enron. Enron claimed to be an ethical company, but that turned out not to be the case. They lied to their stakeholders by telling them that the company was in great financial shape when in reality they were not. The reason for the lie was to make sure that investors kept investing in the company. The lies hurt many of their stakeholders because it eventually led to their downfall which meant loss jobs within the…

Each were aware of the enron code of ethics however they did no longer follow it. Kenneth lay former ceo become indicted on 11 crook counts of fraud and making misleading statements. Jeff skilling became indicted on 35 counts of twine fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy, making false declaration on monetary reviews, and insider buying and selling. Subsequently both had been responsible for disintegrate of…

The documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” deals with “one of the most America's largest corporate bankruptcy”, as it reports the documentary itself. In fact, few years before the bankrupt, Enron was the 7th largest corporation in the USA that took 16 years to go from 10 billion assets to approximately 65 billion, but in only 24 days it went bankrupt. The movie describes and analyses how the company grew and then collapsed quickly and surrounded by a gigantic scandal that can be seen…

Sumitomo Copper Scandal (1995) Impacts on the Sumitomo Corporation The Sumitomo Copper estimated that the copper scandal, the financial scandal, gave rise to losses of $1.8 billion in June 1995. According to the company, the case would not affect their activeness and they would swallow the entire loss in the current fiscal year, which was about nine months after it took place. In order to cover the $1.8 billion losses, they would set aside a fund from the original executive bonuses and canceled…

What would a person do if his or her child asks, “Will you make it back home tonight?” The easy answer would be to leave his or her country, but that decision is not simple. Afghans center their life on their culture, family, and friends so it is not easy for them to leave their homeland. In the New York Times Op-Docs series “Afghanistan by Choice,” the film director, Alexandria Bombach, appeals to pathos through the juxtaposition of settings and individuals. Her emphasis on pathos conveys the…

“Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few” (Angus 5). Henry’s ‘band of brothers’ is being alluded to yet ironically the constraints were still the same. New Zealand’s Maori Battalion found just that when they returned only to be told to go “back to the pa now boys” (Grace) Lawrence Olivier made a recording of Henry’s St Crispin Day speech to boost the troops’ morale and two years later, Churchill engaged him to film the play as further support. “Olivier…