Gonzalo Morales Marked Problem Set 2 - Solution Notes 1. First‚ compute the correlation coefficient between assets A and B ρ(RA ‚ RB ) = Cov (RA ‚ RB ) −0.0322 = = −1. σ (RA )σ (RB ) 0.14 × 0.23 The assets are perfectly negatively correlated. Consider portfolio P formed from assets A and B such that you invest α fraction of your wealth into A and (1 − α) fraction into B. The variance of such portfolio is σ (RP )2 = = = = α2 σ (RA )2 + (1 − α)2 σ (RB )2 + 2α(1 − α)Cov (RA
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Inherit the wind is the movie about the Scopes trial which took place in 1925 in Dayton‚ Tennessee. The Scopes trial was between the Christian belief of creation and Darwin’s theory of evolution. A school teacher named Bertram Cates was arrested from the high school where he was teaching the Darwin’s theory of evolution. This was because at that time of period it was against the law to teach about human creation unless it was from the Bible. The movie shows how the
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group called Girls’ Generation was officially debut on the 5th of August 2007 by SM entertainment. For your information‚ Girls’ Generation also known as SNSD or SoShi both abbreviated forms of the group’s Korean name. I have learned a lots of life lessons and values from this magnificent group. For instance‚ they had taught me that ’’when life throws you lemons‚ make lemonade’’ . Perhaps you are wondering what SNSD had did or faced in the past? Well‚ let me tell you the secret. First of all‚ there is
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Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s is a disease that causes memory loss and cognitive decline. It is a neurological disorder and a neurodegenerative type of dementia due to the disease getting progressively worse. From a study done in the Unites States in 2010‚ researchers came to an estimated 4.7 million people‚ who were 65 years or older‚ had Alzheimer’s disease. The a 2013 statistical report‚ by the Alzheimer’s Association‚ just over 1/10th of people 65 years or older have Alzheimer’s. When you are
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Huntington- The Clash of Civilizations? * Neg: predict conflict Predicts major clashes (wars) of civilizations * What is to come might be worse then what is already. Major clash of civilizations. The Clash of Civilizations? I. Huntington’s View of our Post-Cold War World * Predicts that the post-war era will be fundamentally different and threatening. (In-between realism and identity) * Upcoming clash of civilizations * Civilization as defined by Huntington:
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When Alexander II became the Tsar‚ Russia was in total disarray. Her once widely respected and feared army was humiliated on the battlefields in the Crimean Peninsula‚ 80% of the people were in poverty and illiterate. Russia was still stuck in the middle ages while the rest of Europe was steaming in through the Industrial Era. Alexander II saw this as a need for change‚ primarily in response to the Crimean War‚ however to be able to do this‚ he also had to change the Russian society‚ therefore in
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Did Emily Davison deliberately kill herself? On the 8th of June 1913‚ Emily Davison died in the hospital after an accident on a horse racecourse or after trying to kill herself as some believe. Was it deliberate or a tragic accident? A plan that went terribly wrong or a death in the name of ‘votes for women’? Nobody knows for sure if she meant to take her life or if it was an accident. A modern historian wrote some about the people’s beliefs and how some people thought or think she was trying to
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[pic] SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUSIC • The traditional music of the Philippines‚ like the folk music of our countries‚ reflects the life of common‚ mostly rural Filipinos. Like its counterparts in Asia‚ a lot of traditional songs from the Philippines have a strong connection with nature. However‚ much of it employs the diatonic scale rather than the more "Asian" pentatonic scale. • Traditional Philippine music is reflective of the country’s history as a melting pot of different cultures
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Inherit the Wind‚ based on the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" in the small town Dayton‚ Tennessee‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was not intended to depict the actual history or the proceedings in the Scopes’ trial but it was used as a vehicle for exploring social anxiety and ant-intellectualism that existed in the Americas during the1950s. Lawrence and Lee wrote the play as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the
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MARKED WOMAN BY: DEBORAH TANNIN Deborah Tannin‚ the author of this essay is a professor of linguistics at georgetown university and has written many books for scholarly and popular audiences. She explains the meaning of the word "marked"‚ and how it distinguishes the male from the female She wrote this essay in 1993 and is different from her usual work. This essay focusses on the differences between how the men and the women present themselves in front of the world and what distinguishes them
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