A Collateralized Debt Obligation or CDO is (according to The Big Short) a lumping together of many different loans into one big loan. And the market crashed in 2008 primarily because many of these CDOs were full of loans that should have been rated poorly‚ but due to a combination of greed‚ stupidity‚ and fear‚ the CDOs were rated at the highest possible rating‚ a AAA. Think of The Big Short as a CDO. It is a mixture of ideas from lots of better movies‚ all lumped together‚ and it desperately wants
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"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs‚ but not every man’s greed."-Mahatma Gandhi. Everything man needs is right in front of them‚ but human nature drives them to be evil. Savagery and civilization is what the humans conscience battles. William Golding addresses this argument in the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ through an island of lost boys. They are strive to live civilized however‚ the evil inside begins to seep out‚ transforming them into savage hunters. When the boys crash
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of care We have no time to stand and stare. My hobby is playing practical jokes upon others. My heart tingles with a sense of delight when 1 make a fool of some body‚ full of a false sense of pride in his wisdom and intellect. I enjoy playing truant. Using ‘proxies’ in the class is a part of my nature. I love pulling off a gentleman’s turban with the help of a crooked needle and a long thread. Tying down the long hair of the ladies with bedsteads while they are asleep‚ writing nasty words on
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Cited: Mckay‚ Hill‚Buckler. A History of World Societies. Volume 2.Boston: Houghton Miffline Company‚ 1992. Dorocicz‚ Irene. “The History of Science”. Faculty of Arts Readings. Kamloops: Thompson Rivers University‚ 2005. Impact of Scientific Revolution. 10 January
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explain why crime and criminals work the way they work. Five theories are fit into a majority of today’s crime cases are Anomie theory by Emile Durkheim‚ General strain theory by Robert Agnew‚ Social Disorganization theory by Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay‚ Social Bonding theory by Travis Hirschi‚ and the Containment theory by Walter Reckless. Anomie is when there is a clear lack of social norms and values. This is common among teens who grew up in a dysfunctional‚ abusive family. General strain theory
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Introduction Crime in a neighborhood can be explained using the social disorganization theory. Using this theory can help police understand why neighborhoods with high levels of concentrated disadvantage‚ and residential instability have higher levels of crime. This paper will examine why some communities have higher crime rates than others‚ what can be done to reduce recidivism in poor communities‚ and the routine activity theory. To better understand crime‚ we must learn why crime is more prevalent
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Yet Hinckley‚ McKay and Brown say exactly the opposite about the importance of the first vision. Which line of belief are we to follow? Was the first vision foundational or not? Why would John Whitmer‚ the official church historian‚ not be aware of this claim of Joseph
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Symbolism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Toni Morrison’s Beloved is one of the most powerful works of literature that chronicles the episodes of slavery that happened in American history from the point of view of a black narrator. It tells the story of a slave named Sethe who escaped from her master’s plantation and found refuge in Cincinnati. She reunites with her daughter Denver and finds new love in the person of Paul D. Just as when she thought that she would finally live a brighter future‚ Beloved
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Tardiness in Schools [Name of the writer] [Name of the institution] Table of Contents Chapter 1 3 Introduction 3 Problem of the Study 3 Research Hypothesis and Questions 4 Significance of the Study 4 Scope and Delimitation 5 Chapter 2 6 Related Literature 6 Research paradigm 7 Definition of Terms 8 Chapter 3 9 Research Design 9 Procedure 9 Population 9 Description of Subjects 9 Instrumentation 10 Statistical Treatment 10 References 11 Chapter 1 Introduction The
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her hair: “Della’s beautiful hair fell like a cascade of brown water”. Her hair is a wavy as it is like a cascade‚ its colour is like brown water. Comparison is noticed: “That made her looks like a truant schoolboy.” After having had her hair cut Della can be compared in her appearance to a truant schoolboy: wandering and straying. Short hair gave her the look of a boy‚ not of a woman‚ her look was deprived of femininity. Della is full of emotions which are described with the help of metaphor: “There
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