Who wants to be a Filipino? If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice‚ would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in 1998‚ at a Forum of students of top schools at the University of Asia and the Pacific‚ that I raised this question. As expected‚ everybody‚ except me‚ gave a resounding yes for an answer. Hypocrites! I could see from the way they talked‚ from the clothes they wore‚ from their ideas of what was good and beautiful‚ that even in this lifetime they were dying to camouflage
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The occurrence of stock market bubbles and crashes is often cited as evidence against the efficient market hypothesis. It is argued that new information is rarely‚ if ever‚ capable of explaining the sudden and dramatic share price movements observed during bubbles and crashes. Samuelson (1998) distinguished between micro efficiency and macro efficiency. Samuelson took the view that major stock markets are micro efficient in the sense that stocks are (nearly) correctly priced relative to each other
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we dependent or independent of our past? Is human nature unique or universal? Are our life goals motivated by the simple satisfaction of physical needs‚ or are we driven by a deeper need for growth and progress? Is man kind’s outlook one of optimism or pessimism? Do humans develop relationally or individually? Questions about human nature focus on these central issues and theorists attempt to answer this question‚ while defining their image of human nature. Free Will versus Determinism The ability
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of shock or disbelief that the world they knew so well should have vanished before their eyes: there is no communication from the radios‚ which are “dumb” and stand “perhaps turned on in a million rooms all over the world”. Such pessimism‚ however‚ turns quickly to optimism when Muir‚ speaking for the survivors‚ insists that they would not wish a return to their previous world which had progressed so far that it had developed the technology to self-destruct. He describes how the people determined to
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Thinking and Decision Making In the following essay three different types of thinking styles will be analyzed. The three thinking types will be compared and contrasted‚ as well as applied to affects they have in the critical thinking process. Finally‚ critical thinking will be applied to the decision making process by using workplace examples. The first thinking style is emotional thinking. The emotional thinking style is probably one of the most familiar of the thinking styles. It would be hard
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Three of the works that we have read have been Gulliver’s Travels‚ Candide‚ and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The three have been widely different in their approach‚ but they all come back to the theme of a corrupt‚ evil‚ narrow-minded society that the main character believes should be fixed. Through all their journeys‚ the characters show us that through perspective we can see the necessary changes that need to be made to society. Of the three‚ I believe that Gulliver’s
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After a nine-week period of $100‚000 investment divided equally among four stocks (3D Systems‚ Microsoft‚ Nordstrom and Sony)‚ our portfolio has been liquidated‚ analyzed‚ and compared to the surrounding markets by investing the same $100‚000 in each of 3 different indexes: the VFINX‚ the VHGEX and the NASDAQ 100. These portfolios represent the overall U.S.‚ global equity and technology market‚ respectively. Shown below are the results from the portfolio and its comparisons. Performance/Risk Assessment
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Might Shift ? * Changes in C * Stock market boom/crash * Preferences re: consumption/saving tradeoff * Tax hikes/cuts * Changes in I * Firms buy new computers‚ equipment‚ factories * Expectations‚ optimism/pessimism * Interest rates * Investment Tax Credit or other tax incentives * Changes in G * Government spending‚ e.g.‚ defense * Regional & local spending‚ e.g.‚ roads‚ schools * Changes in NX * Booms/recessions
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A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Background This extract comes from a book which was written as a spin-off from Emma Levine’s television series about strange and unusual sports. It is a travelogue (a book which describes travel in a foreign country) in which she describes these sports‚ the people involved and her experiences of filming them. In doing so‚ she gives an insight not just into the sports themselves‚ but into the lives and culture of the people who take part in (and watch)
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Andrew Wilson Dr. Williams English 121 10 March 2015 The Lame Leading the Blind Leaders are the most important people in our society. They are the ones who are supposed to lead us to betterment by their example. In his novella‚ Candide‚ Voltaire uses the direct characterization of some powerful religious leaders of the 18th Century to target a serious flaw in the religious status quo. He highlights the blatant hypocrisy of powerful and oppressive religious leaders‚ in an effort to enlighten members
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