Portfolio = $180‚000 • We get $16‚200 a year or $1‚350 a month in nominal terms. • Our portfolio grows at a nominal rate of 9% or a real annual rate of 4.8% = (1.09/1.04) - 1 Savings = $12‚000 • Our savings is growing at a nominal rate of 5% or a real annual rate of .96% = (1.05/1.04) – 1 Social Security • We will get $750 a month from social security; this amount will always stay true since it is indexed for inflation. In other words its real interest rate is 0%. Expenses • We have $1‚500
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PC vs. MAC: The Great Debate Want to start a fight between computer users? Bring up one simple question: PC or Mac? Windows advocates will start accusing Mac users of being members of a fan boy cult. Mac fans will maintain that Windows users are the undiscerning owners of hunks of generic junk. It’s a pretty undignified squabble; not unlike talking about religion or politics. Myself‚ I prefer to be diplomatic: I recommend both Windows PCs and Macs all the time‚ and use them both‚ too. The PC-or-Mac
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Chen Liu HNRS2013 Dr. Marin Alfred Sloan: An American Icon From his book My Year with General Motors‚ Sloan can hardly be considered as a typically American Icon at first. Sloan was different from the typical characteristically American figures: He believed in “decentralization”; he was more rational than emotionally orientated; he contributed the General Motors’s success to adaptation of American Market. However Sloan was quite confident with the
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parents tend to disagree with their own children‚ about values or fundamental choices in life; hence‚ controversies start to occur between them. Controversies can then lead to isolation or even to alienation. The article "Bricklayer ’s Boy" by Alfred Lubrano is an autobiography about his life. When he was younger‚ his father wanted him to go to college‚ learn and become educated. His father would constantly warn his son to keep his head in the books‚ in order to become successful and to support
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Gangster Auteurs In order to be a great author‚ you have to be able to show your originality from the other creators. Here‚ in the cinema field‚ more specifically in the Gangster genre you have to be able to impress the viewers‚ you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear‚ excitation‚ violence and inhumanity
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The Great Depression and the Current Recession David Gillies‚ Melissa Phillips‚ Chad Ruter‚ and Pat Warren University of Sioux Falls Consumer Price Index The consumer pricing index (CPI) is a measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating and issuing the monthly calculation in 1919. The CPI is calculated by observing price changes among a wide range of products and weighing these price changes by the share of income consumers
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“Muriel’s Wedding vs. Great Gatsby Essay” ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ is an Australian film set in 1994‚ written by P.J Hogan. Muriel Heslop‚ the central figure in the movie‚ is a 23 year-old‚ unemployed young woman who still remains living in her parent’s home. The movie explores how she transforms out of being a socially awkward ‘ugly duckling’ with no ambitions‚ into a girl with a strong motive to achieve her one life goal‚ to be a bride. Along the way‚ Muriel rekindles some old school friendships
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Love Vs. Materialism The Great Gatsby does not offer a definition of love‚ or a contrast between love and romance. Rather it suggests that what people believe to be love is normally only a dream. America in the 1920s was a country where moral values were slowly crumbling and Americans soon only had one dream and objective to achieve‚ success. Distorted love is one theme in the novel The Great Gatsby‚ present among all of the characters relationships; Daisy and Tom‚ Tom and Myrtle‚ Daisy and Gatsby
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Dr. Alfred Herrhausen‚ arguably one of the most powerful men in West Germany‚ left his house in the upscale suburb of Bad Homburg‚ around 8:30 in the morning on Thursday‚ 30 November‚ 1989. His usual security detail consisting of three armored Mercedes-Benz with two guards in the lead and chase vehicle‚ who were unaware of the deadly danger that lay 550 meters in front of them. A small group of construction workers had been repairing a section of road that Herrhausen’s motorcade passed every day
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meaning. A 400 level course requires close scrutiny of what one submits. 1. Summarize Adler’s biography which is found in the text pages 70-73. Respond in a well thought out response that contains meaning and theoretical for the present theorist. Alfred Adler was born on
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