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    the movie changes society by showing the movie in the point of view of a person that is classified as a realist. In the movie, the main character, Michael Douglas walks into a convenience store and intends to buy a Coke. But, the store owner says that the Coke is $1. Douglas tells the store owner he is wrong and that it should cost .50 cents. Douglas later on a rampage, asks how much other food items are worth and he then finds out that the food products are way too overpriced. In retaliation, he

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    the couples Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. Some paparazzi photographers had sold it to “OK” magazine. But “Hello” magazine did not like that so they had published an issue featuring pictures of the couple taken in secret in their weeding. Some people agree about what “Hello” magazine said and some of them disagree. The following report presents our recommendation and suggestions about the paparazzi. There are five claims made by Zeta-Jones, Douglas and “OK magazine: • Paparazzi and the

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    Reece Gilmore Dr. Kassia Waggoner Intro to Composition 21 November 2016 Oliver Stone and Gordon Gekko: Strange Bedfellows Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone in 1987, was the first of a genre of films that has since become ubiquitous in American popular culture. The movie depicts Charlie Sheen as a new Wall Street trader who, after 40 days of phone calls and a box of (illegal) Cuban cigars, buys himself an audience with charismatic trading wizard Gordon Gekko. Gekko is a master of arbitrage, a

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    Austriaco, Jezelle J BSBA 4-1 REACTION PAPER WALLSTREET: Money Never Sleeps "Time is the most valuable commodity."..... Right i should invest to it. When it comes to investing you need to be patient. It takes a long time to determine if a stock is good and if you are able to find the right type of stock to help you grow a solid retirement. Finding strong winners and keeping the money invested in them is the best way to make sure that there is little risk and still the potential

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    Celebrities, o celebrities. They seem to look gorgeous 24 hours out of the day, 7 days a week. Many of us believe that they wake up looking amazing day in and day out, but truth is they are just like the rest of us. Question is though, unlike us, how do they manage to look impeccable every day of their lives? We have the answer, celebrity beauty secrets here to the rescue. On any given day, celebrities have unlimited resources to stylists, make up artists, hair stylists and fashion consultants that

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    Wallstreet the Movie

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    morals and disappointing business ethics in the popular world of business. This movie shows the negative effects that bad business morals can have on society. The two main characters are Bud Fox played by Charlie Sheen and Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas. Bud Fox is a young stockbroker who comes from an honest working-class family but on the other hand, Gordon Gekko is a millionaire who Bud admires and wants to be associated with. Greed seems to be a huge theme of this movie. This movie portrays

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    Wall Steet Movie Review

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    The definition of business ethics is described as a company’s attitude and conduct towards its stakeholders – employees, customers, stockholders, and so forth; ethical behavior requires fair and honest treatment of all parties. The word ethics is defined as “standards of conduct or moral behavior.” The movie Wall Street, was the exact opposite of these definitions. The movie shows examples of hostile takeovers, insider trading, greed and unethical behaviors in the attempt to build fortune on the

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    c. Bretton James. He is a handsome, smart and considered to be a ruthless power broker of a rival company called, Churchill Schwartz. His character was portrayed as self-interest driven in a sense that he is so hypnotized by his pursuit of success and wealth that he can only answer "more" when asked by Jake Moore what his number which suggests what his monetary end-game is. In real life, Bretton represents the typical tycoon power generation of Wall Street. As far as his actions in the film are

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    Movies utilize many different elements to entertain an audience. These elements are mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. All these movie elements are combined to make movies we see today. The movie Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is a film which uses all of these elements to create its meaning and convey its overall style. The movie is about Jordan Belfort, and follows his rise and fall on wall street. It shows his beginnings with how he got involved on wall street starting at the bottom

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    An American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, “All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.” In this statement, Niebuhr exclaims that the consequences of a situation are undeniably much worse than the motivation of one’s instigation of their actions. This applies to the intentions and, more importantly, the consequences of the characters in both the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps directed by Oliver Stone. Even

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