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    The movie “ Charly ” was directed in 1968 . Which is base on the novel “ Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes . The movie was directed by Ralph Nelson. The main characters are Charly Gordon ‚ Miss Kinian ‚ Dr . Nemur ‚ Dr . Strass ‚hank ‚ Gimpy ‚ and Joey . In this movie there are some plot twist and there are things I like and don’t . The main character Charly has this disability where he spells things wrong and he still thinks he is a child . He has a job at a donut factory where he

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    English: General Instructions 1. Attempt all four question. 2. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets. 3. You are advised to spend not more than 35 minutes in answering Question 1and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. Question 1(Do not spend more than 35 minutes on this question.) Write a composition (350 400 words) on any one of the following:a. Imagine a situation in which a character from your favourite book comes alive. Write an imaginary account of a

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    efficient market hypothesis. Behavioral Finance makes certain assumptions‚ few of them are - 1. Aversion to Loss Investors are strongly averse to risk and will only take them if expected returns are high and compensate them for the risk. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky came up with a study on how people react to risk called the Prospect Theory. The theory outlines how individuals react differently in undertaking risk for gains and when they concern losses. Kahneman explains this with

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    Taking this in consideration‚ this paper focuses on the features of this effect in the extend of the angles these economists have presented their empirical evidence. LITERATURE REVIEW Following the Prospect Theory raised by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1986)‚ Shefrin and Statman (1985) take a further step and try to examine the decisions that might have a crucial impact on the decision making on realizing gains and losses in a market setting. Through their empirical evidence they include

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    Arnaut Daniel‚ writer of The Art of Love‚ along with countless other poems‚ was a prolific troubadour well-known throughout the 12th century (ABC-CLIO). Arnaut was a romantic who was often highly infatuated by a beautiful woman and wrote commonly about his longing for her. In the medieval twelfth century‚ a rise in courtly love was seen. This love is classified by a relationship in which a pursuer seeks after their beloved‚ but will never fully possess them. Courtly love had two main effects on Medieval

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    Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. Riverhead Books‚ 2009   In Drive‚ Pink compellingly challenges the old assumptions about how to “motivate” people and repair the mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Humans have evolved and so has their motivational factors. Societies‚ like computers have operating systems and needs constant upgrades. In primitive stages‚ survival and biological needs motivated us (Motivation version 1.0). As society became

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    Of American novels that engage with the topic of mental disability‚ few are more popular than Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon. Such popularity seems based on a simplistic reading of the novel where the mentally disabled are objects of good-natured compassion. A more thorough reading of how Charlie Gordon is presented‚ however‚ leads to the conclusion that mental disability is the embodiment of death in the novel. Readers are first taught to pity the pre-operative Charlie‚ but once they come to

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    ideal date of death‚ which would naturally cause controversy between many people. Through his experiences‚ outlook of the world‚ and statistics‚ Emanuel came up with the number 75‚ which he defends resolutely. In “Pursuing a Peaceful Death”‚ author Daniel Callahan takes death very seriously and how people should die. He talks about different ways death can lose its meaning and what it means to have a peaceful death. Edward Tenner‚ author of

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    "Moll Flanders… [is] a novel in which character is everything and is given the freest play" (E. M. Forster). Bearing this quote in mind‚ discuss Defoe’s representation of Moll Flanders. In Daniel Defoe’s novel‚ Moll Flanders‚ "… character is everything and is given the freest play." This quote by E. M. Forster aptly sums up the essence of Moll Flanders. This story is highly character driven; the character‚ Moll Flanders is the story. Thus‚ in the novel we are exposed to information and incidents

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    given norms‚ thus establishing itself as an anti-novel. Ian Watt‚ in his book The Rise of The Novel (1957) suggests that the novel came into being in the eighteenth century. Watt’s book focuses on three novelists of the eighteenth century‚ includes Daniel Defoe‚ Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson and through their works he tries to establish how the novel as a form developed. Watt’s thesis is that rise of middle class‚ rise of literacy‚ rise of the novel were all are bound up together strongly‚ as

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