...The CIA How to spend life is crucial to prosperity and the others around, so why invest time sitting at a desk and doing the same thing everyday when traveling the world to fight criminals could be a possibility. I have always been searching for a adventure, however dangerous it may be. When I was, younger I loved action and adventure movies, where the guy would spy on the criminal, interrogated them and then “kick their butts”, it inspired me to research how to be capable of their abilities. I landed on the CIA. It would be the perfect fit for my lifestyle and the activities I enjoy doing. How many people have you meet that said they worked in the CIA, breaking conspiracies and potentially saving many lives. Joining the CIA would be a quite beneficial job for myself because it’s a one in a lifetime experience. The CIA would give the opportunity to see and live a life only a small amount of people able to. It would show you valuable skills and attributes that are unique that only the CIA can offer. The CIA would give my life a sense of purpose and meaning. It’s a way of being productive for a good cause. Fighting crime has always been a fascination of mine and being able to accomplish...
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...Module #1 Synthesis essay #1 – Loyalty in the Workplace There was a time in America where you could reasonably assume that if you were a show up every day and not rock the boat kind of employee, you could have a long, healthy career working for only one company. At the beginning part or the 20th century, with the obvious exceptions of the great wars and the great depression, it was unusual for a working adult in this country to have more than a few entries on their resume. Part of this is due to according to The Center for Disease Control in the “CIA World Fact Book, 2008” in 1900 the average lifespan was 47 years vs. 77 years today. People were very proud of their jobs and extremely loyal to there employers. The trades even more so that other types of employment stemming from traditions of indentured apprenticeships that had their roots in Europe. Today according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics “ Employee Tenure Summary” the average time an employee stays with a company is 4.6 years. In her article “Job Hopping is the “New Normal” for Millennials” Jeanine Meister estimates workers born between 1977 and 1997 will have between 15 and 20 jobs over the course of their career. Employers have become a disposable commodity to the Workforce. As evidenced by the WorkspanTV Organizational Culture Video, organizations are increasingly aware of this dilemma and trying to combat the current trend through indoctrination into a prefabricated value system. Total immersion in a micro...
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...Tavonna Triplett Career Paper Accounting The different types of accounting careers are Public, Government, National, Management, Financial, Tax, and. Fiduciary Accounting. Public accounting is the most varied type and includes bookkeeping, account management and financial analysis for individuals, private businesses, public firms, government or NGOs, which are either based nationally are internationally. A public accounting business can have one or more accountants and both certified and non-certified accountants can provide public accounting services to their clients. Government Accounting specific to government agencies and ensures all revenues and expenditure are in accordance to law. The conventional accounting methods of double entry system in ledgers and journals are used here. Government accounting is differentiated from other types of accounting in respect of providing service that is not profit based but service based. Government accountants are employed by the federal government, either as a part of the IRS or any other budget or asset management division. National Income Accounting is mainly for the government and is responsible for providing the general public the data with reference to the gross national product about all market-related information, such as the value of the country's goods and services provided and its purchasing power. National income accounting gives an idea about the state of economy of a country and how and where money is being generated...
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...Ethics & Obligations | George Tenet: Ethical Dilemmas | | Vivian L Burke | | February 5, 2012 In his essay Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface, Dwight Waldo identifies and differentiates between private and public morality and notes that the two can often be at odds with each other. In Waldo’s opinion, the fundamental premise of public morality is that the actions and behavior of those in office or tasked with the representation of the public, should be done for the good of all. Hence it is about more than simply being honest, trustworthy and law abiding. Often personal, professional, legal and organizational goals are in conflict. The competent public administrator is one who in spite outside pressures, is able to juggle and overcome these conflicting ethical codes (White 2008). George Tenet was well liked, direct and loyal. Though he was not an experienced politician and lacking any experience in foreign policy and lacked military background, he was chosen to become the Director of Central Intelligence at the CIA. He inherited a CIA at a point of dismal morale. The agency suffered due to years of inconsistent leadership and direction. Tenet’s priorities were rebuilding the CIA, improving morale, advancing technological capabilities to acquire intelligence and to clarify and enforce the mission of the agency. The CIA continued to suffer intelligence blunders that were the basis of misinformation or lack of knowledge about serious threats...
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...political fundamentalism” (1) is taking its place. The author gives many possible directions for hope but still his writings lack possible more in depth directions to stop this growing trend. The author defends this with discussing how this type of logic is exactly what he is fighting against. Pre-written instructions that society has become so used to that it doesn’t know what direction to go when faced with difficulty and if it wasn’t taught that way then don’t do it that way. Democracy is something we hear more and more since the beginning of the Iraq war up to the next presidential election. But one question this book asks and as scholars we must ask ourselves, “Is our society, in all aspects, really democratic?” In the first essay of the book Giroux discusses how universities have become bedfellows with the American war machine. Giving the reader a raw look at how far universities have become militarized. The beginnings can be traced back to the post-WWII years. Giroux argues that even though it has been at least 50 years since this invasion of militarism into universities, since 911 this militarism has spread beyond the walls of the university into mainstream society. The concept of militarism is the dominance of the military over the state or the broader culture, militarization is more fundamental and pervasive part of a basic military philosophy and its underlying assumptions. The author contends that the two meanings are becoming one and is now used as solutions...
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...Persuasive Essay: Extraterrestrial Life Kylie Surles Ex·tra·ter·res·tri·al. adj. Originating, located, or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere. Example: Extraterrestrial life. Also known as aliens. It is currently unknown whether there are living, breathing beings outside of the planet Earth. SETI, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, along with other organizations has spent years researching and looking for signs of life on numerous planets, moons and stars. They are confident that the alien reports and alleged “alien abductions” are true. They are simply trying to find proof. On the other hand, some firmly believe that the existence of life outside of the earth is absolutely impossible. Those individuals feel that other life would have been discovered by now if it were real. Articles have been uncovered, revealing information about NASA forbidding its astronauts from expressing what it truly saw on its trip to the moon. There is no guarantee that these articles have any bit of truth to them. However, there is more reason to believe in the possibility of extraterrestrial beings rather than the nonexistence of them. Greek philosophers believed that there were vast amounts of different worlds, all with inhabitants and societies. Later, the view that the Earth is unique, and is the only planet able to sustain life, became supported. However, Copernican ideas in the 1600’s suggested there may be life on other planets or even the moon. But when it was discovered...
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...Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis BUS A375 18265 Internal Auditing: Process Controls BUPA A575 18579 Internal Auditing and Corporate Governance Fall 2011 Meetings: 6:00- 8:40 W, August 24 – December 14, 2011, Room BS2007 Required Textbook: Internal Auditing: Assurance and Consulting Services 2nd Edition, Reding et al., © 2009, The IIA Research Foundation, ISBN-13: 978-0-89413-643-6. Optional Materials: Gleim CIA Review Manual, 14th edition, Part I and Part II. The CIA materials are available in the third floor computing lab. Instructor: James Reinhard, MS, CPA, CIA, CISA Adjunct Faculty Office: BS4032R Voice: (317) 753-9663 E-mail: jareinha@iupui.edu Office Hours: 5-5:45 the day of class, and by appointment COURSE OUTCOMES Overall Learning Outcome The overall learning Outcome is to obtain a fundamental knowledge and a sense of skills related to internal auditing. Specific Learning Outcomes After completion of this course, the student should achieve the following outcomes: * Given a business process, students will be able to perform the 3 steps of an audit process (planning, fieldwork and reporting) by applying the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF), the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) and guidance to the practice of internal auditing, and COSO framework. (PUL 1, 2 ;PBL 1, 3; MSA Goal 3, 4) * Students will...
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...William Hudson's book American Democracy in Peril, has given several challenges facing democracy in American. Hudson's seventh challenge to America's democracy is the “national security state”. Hudson starts the chapter off talking about Ronald Reagan's administration and their involvement in Central America. He talks CIA director William Casey involvement in the conflicted and how he created the contra to prevent the Saninistas from supplying the rebels in El Salvador. Hudson also talks about Oliver North and John Poindexter and the Iran-contra and how they, with the support of Casey, created a hidden government inside the government that used government resources to achieve their own political agenda as Hudson puts it. In the end, North and Poindexter claimed they did what they did for national security. As indicated to Hudson "national security state" from the Iran-contra. Hudson believes "national security state" is harmful to democracy. This essay will investigate the four practices and dispositions associated with "national security...
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...GET THAT MONEY HONEY! TOP 101 SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHER MINORITY STUDENTS (More Than $50 Million Dollars in Financial Aid Available!) Published by Urban Ebooks/ Dante Lee Publishing www.urbanebooks.com This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) SCHOLARSHIPS WITH JANUARY DEADLINES #1 - Ron Brown Scholar Program for African Americans: The Ron Brown Scholar Program provides scholarship awards to African-American high school seniors who are excelling in their academics, exhibiting exceptional leadership potential, and actively serving in community service activities. For more details, visit www.ronbrown.org #2 - Gates Millennium Scholars Program For Minority Students: The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (also known as the Bill Gates Scholarship) awards scholarships each year to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American students who plan to enroll full-time in a two-year or four-year college or university program. For more details, visit www.gmsp.org Copyright © 2016 All Rights Reserved. This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) #3 - Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship: The Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship awards a full scholarship to one student to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors with high academic records...
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...Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Aldous Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of Visual communication and sight-related theories as well Biography Early years Family tree Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, UK in 1894. He was the third son of the writer and school-master Leonard Huxley and first wife, Julia Arnold who founded Prior's Field School. Julia was the niece of Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist ("Darwin's Bulldog"). His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists. Huxley had another brother Noel Trevenen (1891–1914) who committed suicide after a...
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...Cameron Austin October 19, 2013 Essay Assignment # 1 Ever since the society started to believe that we needed a democracy type of government and a president to lead, we have had over forty men lead us. They have not always been the perfect person for the job but they have tried at least. Some of them have made mistakes and some have done a great job. This is all irrefutable and some can even be found in the twenty one laws of it. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership are a set of laws that are supposed to define the way that you lead and give you a conscious opinion of the type of leader you are. In the laws they go over such things as the law of the lid, navigation, influence, process, addition, and solid ground. Under these laws, they have different steps in which the leading is different. Over the course of the years, we have had a lot of Presidents and a lot of different leading styles among them, some of them being good and some of them being nowhere near good. But we had to live with them and they have to live with themselves. In the movie Fog of War, Robert McNamara tries to go over the eleven lessons that he learned from being under the President of John F. Kennedy. McNamara lends us his knowledge of what went wrong during those years. During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed...
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...In recent years, the United States political system has become more and more of a running joke on the world stage. When we compare our leaders and elections to what the founding fathers envisioned, we find that almost every safe guard they put into place has been overturned or a loophole has been found allowing corruption to bypass it. It’s hard to think that the founding father could have imagined the tools big money politicians use today: Media that reaches billions of people a day and can completely shape the opinion a viewer has on a candidate in seconds, lobbyists that use corporate funds to gain the support of a politician through forms of legal bribery, and giant temples of bureaucracy where nobody can do anything and nobody is responsible. To end this tirade of rulers that don’t represent the people, to end the fact that the candidate with the most money wins the most campaigns, we must seek a political system that does not allow for the corrupting force of greed. If we are to be governed by our fellow men, those few should be a noble few, uncorrupt and willing to put aside personal interests for the national good....
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...Question 1 Before the 20th century South America had a reputation of military dictatorship, democracy had yet to be discovered. The transition wasn’t smooth but yet most South American countries managed to enter the 20th century with somewhat democratic governments. This essay will consider how in a fresh out of the oven democratic era they were still some countries that were dealing with dictatorship; that oddly enough operated in very different ways but the result was the same: One man had full power and control over his state. More specifically this essay will study Venezuela and Chile, Hugo Chavez and Augusto Pinochet, populism and authoritarianism which in a remarkable yet fairly different way narrows it down to the same result: Presidents who made their way to the top and managed to become dictators of their states. Throughout time they way governments have chosen to govern their states has been based on different political ideologies that were shaped over history. This essay will focus particularly on Authoritarianism and Populism. Venezuela had an example of a dictator, which some Venezuelan considered a hero, who based is political career promoting populism as the best way to rule a country. On the other hand you have Chile a country that today remembers the darkest years of their history inflicted by Pinochet an authoritarian that took over power through no democratic mean at all, and forced his way to the top. Firstly becoming familiar with the political ideologies...
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...Cambridge Five Creation and Operations Introduction “Cambridge Five” or “Magnificent Five” is the name given to a group of five young men whom all graduated from Cambridge University. They betrayed their country by spying for the Soviet Union and passing them secret information. They were probably the most successful Soviet spies to penetrate the western intelligence. Their actions allow the Soviet Union to get access to vital intelligence and created rift between the British and the Americans. This essay will look at the background of each member and how they joined the Soviet intelligence services, their operations and its impact in the world of espionage. In addition, this essay will evaluate the significance of each individual’s actions and how it affected intelligence services. Origin of Cambridge Five Cambridge Five refers to a spy ring which the members were all part of Cambridge University. It is unclear there were more than five men, regardless the five individuals are Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. They all attended Cambridge University between 1926 and 1934 studying in different disciplines with a strong belief in Communism. They were all good friends with each other with the exception of Cairncross who was never really part of the circle. The first of the Cambridge Five group and probably the most famous was Harold Adrian Russell Philby, also known as Kim codenamed Sohnchen, then Tom and Stanley. He was born...
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...African American's Journey Essay Below is a free essay on "African American's Journey" from Anti Essays, your source for free research papers, essays, and term paper examples. “African American’s Journey to Freedom” Charity Johnson HIS204: American History since 1865 Instructor: Leslie Ruff February 11, 2013 “African American’s Journey to Freedom” To some African Americans it may seem ironic that The United States of America is known as “the land of the free” considering that majority of their ancestors entered the US as slaves. African Americans were brought to North America via the middle passage which originated during the fifteenth century. They were enslaved for approximately 400 hundred years until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Although African Americans were enslaved in America, they were determine to survive and one day be freed in this great country. During The African American’s journey to freedom several significant events took place which was inclusive of but not limited to: The Civil Rights Movement of 1865-1877, Separate but Equal Legislation (Plessy vs. Ferguson court case) in 1896, The Harlem Renaissance of 1920, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, The March on Washington Movement of 1963, and The Black Power Movement of the late 1960s and 1970. I will discuss the significance of these events in relation to the African American journey to freedom and how they have help shape American society today. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF 1865-1877 Frequently when...
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