Problem 8-3. For each of the following situations‚ the present value concept should be applied: 1. Your wealthy aunt just established a trust fund for you that will accumulate to a total of $100‚000 in 12 years. Interest on the trust fund is compounded annually at an 8% rate. How much is in your trust fund today? 2. On January 1‚ you will purchase a new car. The automobile dealer will allow you to make increasing annual December 31 payments over the following four years. The amounts
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2 Challenges for the Planet The causes‚ effects and responses to climate change Learning objective – to study the causes and effects of climate change and how people have responded to the changes. Learning outcomes • To know how and why climate has changed since the last ice age. • To be able to discuss the causes of current climate change on a local and global scale. • To know the negative effects that climate change is having on the environment and people. • To be able to
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The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic
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Perhaps the greatest challenge faced by teenagers as they experience the social challenge of school is the pressure to conform or submit and the associated threat of separation and alienation from ‘the group.’ While some who suffer such alienation get lost in a dark world of low self-esteem‚ anti-social behaviour and intergroup conflict - others choose a path of reconciliation. They choose to see the positive possibilities of an us-oriented life and refuse to play the them-dominated role of the
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Pat Barker author of Border Crossings uses a variety of literary techniques to enhance the readers understanding of child criminals and how society deals with these children. Barker utilises the techniques of flashbacks and dialogue to illustrate that morals can change‚ while the use of minor characters explores the idea that children criminals are victims of circumstance‚ while dialogue and juxtaposition exposes the subjectivity of truth. Barker’s effective use of flashbacks and dialogue explores
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Practice Essay #2: “In A Christmas Carol‚ Dickens delivers strong criticisms of the society in which he lives. Discuss” A Christmas Carol written by one of the most influential social reform novelists of the nineteenth century‚ Charles Dickens‚ delivers very harsh criticisms of Victorian London. Dickens presents these criticisms through the behaviour of the novella’s protagonist‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. His character displays everything that Dickens perceives as being wrong in Victorian society. His
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Анализ текста "Can-can" by Arturo Vivante The story under the title "Can-can" was written by Arturo Vivante. Born in Rome in 1923‚ Arturo Vivante graduated in 1949 and practiced medicine in Rome until 1958 when he ended his medical career and moved to America to pursue a career as a professional writer. Vivante has since been on the faculty of several American universities and is now retired and living in Wellfleet‚ Massachusetts. Though Vivante writes in English and has lived in America for
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Kieran Perkins 1500 Gold medal win The Olympic Games presents the opportunity to showcase the extraordinary feats of world-class athletes. In his 1996 article‚ “Perkins finds his heart of gold”‚ Patrick Smith writes of Kieran Perkins’ 1500 metre swimming victory as a triumph of the heart over self-doubt. Smith’s contention is that even in elite spots‚ psychological courage can be more powerful than physical conditioning. The headline uses the world ‘gold’ in the context of the Olympics’ highest
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TEEL An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others. Essay draft: Belonging brings to our attention the potential that all individuals are affected by not only their choices but the attitudes of others. The Notion of time allows for an individual’s perception to change and in-turn‚ form different attitudes towards people as we see through the characters in Rainbows End by Jane Harrison and Othello by William Shakespeare. An individual’s
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10 October 2012 Analysis of “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen‚ a British rock band from the 1970’s‚ is a very complex and elaborately written and performed song. After a first listen‚ your senses and feelings are being stretched every which way. The song starts out slow with deeply emotional lyrics that signal deep emotion in the writer. Following the intro‚ the song seems to get even darker‚ and describes killing someone with a gun. As the song progresses‚ the tempo picks up with
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