The Eyes Have It (also known as The Girl on the Train & The Eyes Are Not Here) is a short story by Ruskin Bond that was originally published in Contemporary Indian English Stories. The narrator of this story‚ a blind man whose eyes were sensitive only to light and darkness‚ was going to Dehradun by train when he met a girl and had a chit-chat with her. It was only after she left and another passenger came into the compartment that the narrator realizes the girl was blind. Up to Rohana‚ the narrator
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Hazing: Torture or Trustful Bond? What is hazing? Hazing is often referred to as the humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals‚ specifically introduced on college students seeking membership into a fraternity or sorority. Members of fraternities and sororities are not the only victims. Athletic players and students of organizations endure this humiliation as well. Hazing should be prohibited in fraternities‚ sororities‚ athletic sports‚ and any club or organizations due to the
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BONDS OF PEOPLE IS THE TRUE POWER Here I am‚ sitting on the floor and my body slumping on the mattress. The wind coming from the stand fan behind me silently whispers in my mind the words “Go to sleep.” The clock’s short hand points on that bulky number 3 while the other points between 1 and 2. Roughly two hours left before my usual waking time. But why am I still awake? The answer is right in front of me. A glowing light amidst the darkness surrounds me‚ making me defy the urge to grab my
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Chapter 8 Valuing Bonds 8-1. A 30-year bond with a face value of $1000 has a coupon rate of 5.5%‚ with semiannual payments. a. What is the coupon payment for this bond? b. Draw the cash flows for the bond on a timeline. a. The coupon payment is: [pic] b. The timeline for the cash flows for this bond is (the unit of time on this timeline is six-month periods): [pic] 8-2. Assume that a bond will make payments every six months as
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS BOND? In finance‚ a bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders. It is a debt security‚ under which the issuer owes the holders a debt and‚ depending on the terms of the bond‚ is obliged to pay them interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date‚ termed the maturity. Interest is usually payable at fixed intervals (semi-annual‚ annual‚ and sometimes monthly). Very often the bond is negotiable‚ i.e. the ownership of the
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of a zero coupon bond which pays $1 in half-year n. In the next two columns there are the cash flows of two bonds‚ A and B. Essentially‚ bond A pays a 20% semi-annual coupon and bond B pays a 10% semi-annual coupon. Both bonds mature in 2.5 years‚ when each also pays its principal of 100. Assume semi-annual compounding. Half Year 1 2 3 4 5 n Bond A Bond B .95 .91 .87 .80 .70 10 10 10 10 110 5 5 5 5 105 A. Calculate the price of each bond assuming there are
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Covalent Bonds Lab: Ionic and Covalent Bonds Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to explore the properties of chemical substances that can be used to identify the types of bonds in a chemical substance using a laboratory procedure. The two types of bonds being identified were ionic and covalent. Based on a substance’s properties‚ how can you determine whether its bonds are ionic or covalent? This is the question I posed before starting the experiment. An ionic bond is a bond
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In his groundbreaking work The Search for Order 1877-1920‚ Robert Wiebe seeks to prove that the drastic changes seen in America at the turn of the century were not disconnected singular events. Instead there was a singular “deep-flowing current‚ which gave unity and meaning to the period as a whole” (VII). This current was the shift from small town American and their values to the new bureaucratically-minded middle class and the development of values to help cope with this new focus of society
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RATES AND BOND VALUATION L E A R N I N G LG1 Describe interest rate fundamentals‚ the term structure of interest rates‚ and risk premiums. LG2 Review the legal aspects of bond financing and bond cost. LG3 LG4 Discuss the general features‚ quotations‚ ratings‚ popular types‚ and international issues of corporate bonds. LG5 LG6 G O A L S Apply the basic valuation model to bonds and describe the impact of required return and time to maturity on bond values. Explain
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Hirschi’s Social Bond Theory Describes D’Angelo Barksdale in The Wire Travis Hirschi’s dissertation‚ which eventually became a well-respected and commonly used book in criminology‚ had within it one of the most influential theories of crime that was tested with data and supported with results. The dissertation became known as Causes of Delinquency and was published in 1969 (Kozey‚ 2012). The general theory states that delinquency takes place when a person’s bonds to society are weakened or broken
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