arMary Petritz Real Estate Seminar November 10‚ 2011 Liar’s Poker Liar’s Poker‚ by Michael Lewis‚ is a book that thoroughly looks into the author’s life as a broker on Wall Street working for Salomon Brothers‚ the most profitable firm in the 1980’s. Michael Lewis graduated from The London School of Economics and decided to take his career into trading when offered a job by the top- trading firm. At this time‚ the mortgage market started booming‚ and money was flowing all over Wall Street
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Liar’s Poker‚ written by Michael Lewis‚ is a book describing the day to day challenges and life of traders at Salomon Brothers and other such investment banks. The book starts with the description of Liar’s Poker game which is played on the trading floors of Salomon Brothers Inc. The boss‚ John Gutfreund‚ himself challenges the best player in the firm John Merriweather who also happened to be the best trader of the firm. Gutfreund proposed an offer of a single hand of Liar’s Poker worth a million
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In order to collect the necessary information for this post‚ I held a small poker night at my place a couple of nights ago. I invited some of my good friends over because we hadn’t caught up in a couple of weeks‚ and poker was the perfect game to bond and relax over. We munched on some good grub and a couple of drinks‚ so it was surely a great night. In determining the skill level of all of the players‚ I would say that we were all at the same level. Though‚ my friend Max is a card-playing fiend
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Rodrigo Mesta 9/29/13 4th Title: Tortilla Flat Author: John Steinbeck I. An Examination of Characters: Jesus Maria Corcoran: Jesus Maria Corcoran is one of Danny’s friends. He very nice and “kindness is always in him”. It is Jesus Maria who makes the rash promise that the friends will ensure that there is always food in the house for Danny. He readily comes to the aid of the corporal with the sick baby. He also befriends and helps Teresina Cortez when he discovers that she and her
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There are many different topics explored in the podcast that relate to many variables in Chapters 13-19 describing the differences between sex and gender. Cristen and Caroline discuss that the labels used in determining the differences between sex and gender are commonly defined as “female” and “male”. This brings attention to the separation of “female/male” vs. “woman/man”. As u would imaging‚ in our century‚ this is a very touchy topic. Just as out book explains the definition of sex as the biological
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An anonymous post found on shareinspirequotes.com states‚ “The loneliest people are the kindest; the saddest people smile the brightest; the most dangerous people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do”. Although these people may have suspicious appearances‚ they are not always as evil as the others thought. They may get hurt or heart-broken once before. So‚ they realized that having close relationships is not a perfect choice. They would like to just
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A book report of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman "The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman discusses a brief history of the twenty-first century and its most recent impact on the US economic today and the world we live in. Friedman unfolds and identifies three major world wide events that explain he’s philosophical explanation of why he thinks the "The World Is Flat" with the incorporation of his belief of the "Triple Convergence in 2000". Ten convoluted events of complementary
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Play Poker Online - Poker Games for Real Money Gambling activities have always excited people’s appeal throughout the world. Being extremely involving as well as uncomplicated to play they seem to attract wide audience. The facility not only to benefit but also to thwart fate inspires huge number of gamblers to take risks and to get the chance of making a bank. One of the most celebrated and widespread games of chance is surely poker. Nowadays players are offered various options to participate. The
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The Outcast In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ society acted differently as a whole than how they do now. Thankfully‚ racial discrimination has dwindled and everyone now has equal rights‚ but they are still a problem just as they were in the past. Harper Lee expresses the idea of moral courage and the developing of no racism through a character‚ Mr. Dolphus Raymond‚ showing respect to his community‚ being brave enough to withstand his towns judgment‚ and having the ability to be just for this if the community
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READING BODY LANGUAGE IN POKER Fie‚ fie upon her! There ’s language in her eye‚ her cheek‚ her lip‚ Nay‚ her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. - William Shakespeare Body language is a part of nonverbal language. It includes things like stance‚ gestures‚ facial expressions‚ and even small things that are barely perceptible like a brief shrug of the shoulder or nod of the head. We frequently communicate both bodily and verbally and an estimated
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