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enron quotes - 2009
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"A very attrative blonde woman of forty in a short skirt"- > seemingly the only way a woman can get into a man's man's world - > to use their sexuality as their weapon
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Skilling - "We're trying to chnage the world" - > Skilling's hubris and overambition, thinks he is so big and powerfuk, expecessive pride, arguably his downful, too confident. 'emphasise' though ironic becasue we know further on in the play that he wants to 'change the world'. 'wer're - unifying, hyperbole ponteially of 'world'
"Three mice men... feeling their way with sticks" - > blind mice - employees innocence, blind followers. they are weak and reliant on support. ever unaware of their situation.
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"Everyone gets mark-to market here right?" - > his hurbis is highltihgted here due to the fact that people did not know understand his mark to market , showing that he wants to be known for his knwoldge.
"For those who don't know, I'm the reason you're here" - > skilling says, first eprson promoun 'i', emshaise on 'don't know' and unfiying, encapsualtitng
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"I was drunk when I told you that stuff" - > an unwilligness to open up and show emotion in the business world. - > skilling, hubris, thinks too much of himself, and his reputation , wants to look powerful and strong.
roe - "Do I need to feel guilty" - > she asks this rather than simply feeling it. emotion is only shown if necessary, it all avoided at all costs, espeically for women who have to try harder to be repsected and seen as strong.
"that no one's even thought of yet" - > skilling's elevated ego, separating himself from the majority.
"Skilling looks down at the Enron he envisioned beneath him" - > staging, looking down. godlike. mirrors angels in doctor faustus. elevated ego
enron about the scandal
1997 they started losing money and debt, enron started to hide the loss through acconting tricks because they didn't want thew stock price to go down- mistakes kept hapening
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enron was one of the world's leaders in business. enron was not even close to like google being a world leader !!
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what happened between 2000 and 2001, all the numbers were an allusion and fake, enron's mark-to market accounting, being able tor recogise revenue when don't have revenue, this was illegal. it was doomed at the start arguably.
their laibilties were completely faulse, hwo they pulled this off was a litle complicated, they set up side companies and poushed the debt over to them, the debt was no longer on financial reports, and therefore non existnet to investors.
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it is argauble that ken lay could not take his realsiation that he was sentenced to jail because of the selfisheness and greed and the decsions he made for the company, he died, before his sentenced date.
however, skilling still does nto admit he did anything wrong when he is getting sentnece, he never has his anrgsnorisis