The first document is about a painting of pioneers traveling westward using various means of transportation and an imaginary female figure guiding them. This document was created by John Gast in 1873. The purpose was to show the westward movement of pioneers. The audience is meant for anyone who are interested in how the west was settled. The summary is that pioneers had many problems during their westward migration‚ including fights with Native Americans and finding food. This painting shows pioneers
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Restaurant chains want to use technology – theirs and yours – to create an intimate customer experience. Your personal device and the restaurant’s own systems for sensing‚ analyzing and transacting will exchange data‚ for your convenience and their profit (Nash). In past years a fast-food restaurant’s menu differentiated if from competitors; for example‚ Hardee’s and the Monster Thick Burger or Wendy’s and the Baconator. Now Information Technology is the differentiator. Customers want faster‚ more accurate
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References: Michener‚ J.A. (1968). Iberia. NY: Random House. Nash‚ M. (1995). Defying male civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War. Denver‚ CO: Arden Press. Nash‚ E. (1996). Does machismo face death in the bullring?‚ Independent‚ May 28‚ 1996. Rolfe‚ P. (1997). Spain ’s birthrate switches from boom to steep decline‚ Rocky Mountain News‚ July 6‚ 1997. Sanchez
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2. http://econweb.umd.edu/~borowitz/dominant_strategy_equilibrium.pdf b. Discuss the concept of Nash equilibrium. 1.http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/nash.pdf 2. http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/NashEquilibrium.pdf c. Is every dominant strategy equilibrium a Nash equilibrium? 1. http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium.php d. What do you understand by subgame-perfect equilibrium? 1. http://faculty.apec.umn
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Consider the following payoff table. In this table‚ Player 1’s payoffs are written FIRST in each pair. Player 2 Strategy High Price Low Price Player 1 High Price (10‚ 10) (5‚-5) Low Price (-5‚ 5) (0‚ 0) 2. Which of the following is Nash equilibirum payoffs in a one-shot game? a. (0‚ 0) b. (5‚ -5) c. (-5‚ 5) d. (10‚ 10) QUESTION 21 1. You are the manager of a pizza parlor that produces at a marginal cost of $6 per pizza. The parlor is a local monopoly
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The “Prisoners Dilemma” is a concept in which two criminals are arrested for a crime they committed‚ however‚ the police cannot charge them with the main charge. So they decide to convict them on a lesser charge and only put them in jail for a year each. These two prisoners cannot talk to each other‚ so the police come up with a plan to try to get them to incriminate the other. The plan is to get one of them to testify against the other‚ if so‚ the one who testified against the other gets no time
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com/Business/funerals-beat-high-cost-dying/story?id=16823289>. Lynch‚ Thomas. Bodies in Motion and at Rest: Essays. New York: W.W. Norton‚ 2000. Print. Misarina‚ Galina. "The Magic of Laments in Funeral Customs and in Warding off Vermin/Weeds." Mãetagused 47 (2011): 65-82. Print. Nash‚ Alanna. "The High Cost of Funerals: Families Forced to Cut Back." The Fiscal Times. N. p.‚ 25 June 2010. Web. 2 May 2014. <http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2010/06/25/The-High-Cost-of-Funerals-Families-Forced-to-Cut-Back>.
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Christians who justify their discrimination‚ violence‚ and unfair "rules" towards blacks‚ immigrants‚ gays‚ and people of other religions. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by Nathan Bedford Forrest‚ who was a cavalry commander in the Civil War (Nash 1855). The KKK is the largest‚ oldest‚ and most professional white rights organization in the world (Homepage: KKK). This organization is promoting a message of white Christian revival (Homepage: KKK). The members of the KKK are people that are decent
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Jackson/Industrial Revolution Review The Adam-Onis Treaty gave Florida to the United States as long as they renounced their claim to Texas. It set the borders for the Louisiana Purchase. The Monroe Doctrine warned European countries that they should not attempt to colonize Latin America‚ or they would face military threats. In 1819‚ Missouri requested to become a slave state. This would upset the balance of pro-slavery/anti-slavery states. Henry Clay Missouri Compromise Admitted Missouri as a slave
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Social Psychology: The influence of media on body image‚ thematic analysis Word count: 2‚100 The influence of Media on body image A Thematical analysis Abstract: Media is a powerful communicative tool‚ which can be said‚ is very easy to influence in many different ways. Although some aspects of media are important to bring to our attention‚ some other aspects‚ however‚ create an incredible amount of negative impact one of these which is body image. In order to identify this issue a
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