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The fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, which was discovered in december 2008, is based upon a ponzi scheme. Madoff took money from new investors to pay earnings for existing customers. The greater the payout to reting and withdrawing customers, the more revenue or clients he would need to start an “investment relationship” with. The ponzi…

In ancient Egypt, cats held a position of high respect due to their elegance and grace. They were even associated with the goddess Bast (Bastet). The loss of a cat was mourned as if it were the passing of a loved one, and causing unintentional harm to a cat was considered a serious offense. Cats…

A worldview is how someone views the world. Everyone has a different view towards the world because a worldview is shaped through personal experience, attitudes, beliefs and values. Nelson Mandela, the first ever black president of South Africa, is an example of an individual who clearly expressed his worldview during his life. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela…

            The Knights Templar is considered as one of the famous type of medieval army that existed in the western part of the world. Being zealous to the Roman Catholicism and to the Papacy, the Knights Templar was seen to be much disciplined in the field of combat and warfare. Many Catholic devout also joined…

After defeat from World War One, Hitler’s last assignment for the army was to spy on a political part called the “German Workers Party”. The reason being as they were an uprising Marxist party. So Hitler’s job was to, exterminate this as communism was the problem, which lead to the starting of world war one….

The analysis of Operation Blue Star and its impact on the Gandhi dynasty is seen as a dark period in India’s history. It is considered a stain that is hard to forget. Even now, there are discussions about whether Indihar Gandhi was right in executing Operation Blue Star, which caused significant harm to the Golden…

Gladiatorial games were one the most popular events displayed in the great amphitheatres of Roman history. Senators held the games as a bribe of trying to get more votes in election times and popularity.Amphitheatres were oval domes (sort of a similarity to football stadiums today). It was divided into three parts like the theatre, and…

It is made clear in the first clause “That all servants imported andbrought into this country, by sea or land, who were not christians in theirnative country…shall be accounted and be slaves.” The comparison withthis statement can be seen as though a servant would be looked upon as aslave making the comparison between a slave…

The Roman History is a huge and famed work concerning the development of the Roman empire from the early republic to his own day in the post Antoine world. It is history’s main source of information on many central issues in Roman politics and intellectual history. It is divided, according to Dio, into the familiar…

In the third passage, from Oedipus the King, Sophocles reveals the importance of self-knowledge to rid of the illusions that fate can be escaped. Tiresias provides insight and truth to an ignorant and proud Oedipus. Oedipus holds the misconception that his worldly knowledge and power over Thebes provides him with enough insight to realize that…