Joan Holtz CASE 5-3 JOAN HOLTZ (A)* (1) Electric utility bills. An electric utility company can estimate with reasonable certainty the expected revenue in a given period by taking into consideration some of the following: customer habits‚ average historical trends‚ demand and supply forecasts‚ and environmental changes. The electric utility industry effectively uses an insurance industry concept—the law of large numbers‚ to determine with certainty‚ expected revenue. The law of large numbers
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550 years has past since the death of Jeanne d’Arc or as we know her Joan of Arc. I have dedicated my life to Joan; her actions inspire me to accomplish my dreams as a solicitor with my ultimate faith in God. It still awes me that a simple peasant girl born in 1412 born in a small village of Domremy‚ Bar‚ France who could not read or write‚ rose to become a heroine and leader of a French army to defeat the British. Yet it was her faith‚ which was inspired by her mother- Isabelle Romee who made sure
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“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems‚ like notes that shape music” ( source 7)‚ this was Miro’s painting theory. Joan Miro was one of many famous artists. He and his paintings both changed from time to time. Joan Miro was a great artist who went from rags to riches just like his artwork. Born on April 20‚ 1893‚ Joan Miro was the first son of Michel Miro Adziras and Dolores Ferra. Miro loved his homeland of Catalonia in Northern Spain and his hometown‚ Barcelona. Miro came from a
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Moral; of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior. Often people attempt to press their morals onto others in the belief that their morals are superior or use their morals to justify their wrongdoing. In Joan Didion’s piece On Morality‚ she claims that there is no such thing as a moral code that everyone should abide by; we each have our own individual set of morals that we believe is right. The problem with this idea that Didion expresses is that the word moral is often used in an
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Joan Aikens fantasy short story‚ “Third Wish” takes place by his house near the forest. A man named Mr. Peters one day saved a swan from garbage that could have killed him ‚ the swan in return granted him 3 wishes that will change his life. Mr. Peters used his first wish for a wife as beautiful as the forest. As a result he gets a swan that was turned into a human as his “Beautiful Wife.” Soon he has to make a decision that will show how much he loves her and that he will do whats right for her
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Joan of Arc was a French lady who asserted to have gotten dreams of Archangel Michael. This drove her to secure the triumph of France against the English’s endeavor to overcome France amid the Hundred Years War. Be that as it may‚ after she was caught by the English‚ she was put on trial for an assortment of charges including blasphemy. Thus she was scorched in question. Two or three years after the execution‚ the trial was reconsidered and individuals understood that she was pure. She was announced
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Portrait of a Priestess By: Joan Breton Connelly The historical figure referred to as the “Oracle of Delphi‚” in ancient writings by Aeschylus‚ Aristotle‚ Diogenes‚ Euripides‚ Herodotus‚ Plato‚ Plutarch‚ and Sophocles‚ was the “Pythia‚” or “Priestess” of the temple of Apollo at Delphi; located in a cave on mount Parnassus‚ beneath the caspian Spring. The Pythia was a respectable position for a women among the ancient greeks. Several women were selected to succeed the position of Pythia over the
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The sixth passage in “On Going Home” by Joan Didion‚ gave me feeling of nostalgia. I could feel the longing and sincerity of the author’s love and want for her child. I could feel how the mother wants nothing but the best for her child but is unsure if she can offer the best due to how it is “different now”. In the passage Joan writes‚ “...would like to pledge her a picnic on a river with fried chicken and her hair uncombed…” (4) The fact that Didion is imagining things that she later understands
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As the Jewish woman who experienced the World War II and confronted the Fascism ideology in Italy‚ Ginzburg utilizes the understandings of her identity and experiences in her story by introducing Judaism and Fascism‚ and elaborately illustrating the conflicts between them. Therefore‚ the characters in The Mother are either typical Jews or Fascists‚ and their behaviors are judged by either the Judaism or Fascism moral standards. The character of the mother of the two boys in the story coincides with
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The daunting task of a baby bird to fly for the first time is sometimes like trying to put pen to a paper‚ how do we know if what’s written down is right compared to what the world is saying? Author‚ Joan Didion‚ in her essay‚ “On Keeping a Notebook‚” demonstrates that an individual’s perception of the world determines their notebook’s contents‚ of which‚ only has significance to the individual. Didion’s purpose is to promote the idea that keeping a notebook helps individuals to remember the details
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