Portfolio Performance: Naïve vs. Optimized Using historical return data from January 1994 to August 2009‚ we calculated the performance of a portfolio of securities employing two models: naïve diversification‚ and optimized diversification. The portfolio consisted of 11 carefully selected and diverse domestic and international securities (see exhibit 1)‚ and we assumed no change in the allocations throughout the entire period measured for both the naïve and optimized models. Each model generated
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international relations we are mainly dealing with someone who advocates for the theory of realism. More over it important to note there are different kinds of realists‚ but they all generally constitute the main idea of realism which is 4 different kinds of realists which are the following: classical realists‚ liberal realists‚ neo-realists and neo-classical realists. All these 4 all constitute for realism but to different extents with some newer realists such as the neo-realists. However they all
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differences between realists and idealists and their approaches to international relations. PARADIGMS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paradigms and International Relations In our textbook‚ World Politics In The 21st Century‚ it defines Political Realism as a “philosophical position that assumes that human beings are imperfect and possess an innate desire for power”. (Duncan‚Webster‚Switky‚ p. 33) I do believe that it does not matter what it is you are asking to be defined‚ the definition is always
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Advocates of Realism theory contend race and ethnicity are truths that contribute to an over arching make-up that equals an innate social identity. The rudimentary proponents of an individual’s identity must then suffice as pragmatic and permanent from birth. Subsequently‚ when humans build relations perceivable features allow us to understand similarities and disparities. According to Realists‚ no two individuals are the same and therefore the ensuing natural propensity creates categories for placing
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Femi Olukanni Ms. Casey English 125 28 October 2014 Chris McCandless: The Naïve Adventurer Chris McCandless was a very educated man. He was a law school graduate and was also very adventurous. He thought he was invincible and that nothing could touch him and that was one of the main reasons why he had went off into the wilderness. He had a rebellious spirit because of the events that had occurred in his child hood and that had an influence of
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Wag the Dog Wag the Dog is a movie that demonstrates the power that media has in our society and the ways it affects it. Through the movie we see how media manipulates people’s thoughts‚ believes and the ways they interact. Barry Levinson‚ the director of the movie‚ emphasizes the importance of active media consumption as he shows us that everything we see in news these days could be just an illusion easily created in Hollywood production. Also‚ it presents Machiavelli’s idea of power and keeping
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THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources
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PRACTISES. Before realism‚ theatre was bound up in melodramas‚ spectacle plays (disasters‚ etc.)‚ comic operas‚ and vaudevilles (acrobats‚ musicians‚ ect.).Realism began in the late 1800s as a trial‚ in hope of making theatre more relevant to life and society. Today‚ many aspects of realism are still present in contemporary theatre practices. For majority of the 20th-century theatre‚ realism has been main stream. Due to a reaction against melodramas (romanticized plays) realism began as an experiment
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Belicia and Abelard and this family fought against the curse of fuku which was caused by Trujillo. By unconventionally using a writing method of magic realism‚ the author Junot Diaz wrote about a real history of Dominican Republic during Trujillo’s dictatorship period and the lives of Dominican people who live in America nowadays. Magical realism allows Diaz to bring supernatural elements to the story. Even though this novel has many magic elements‚ the core of it is trying to express the Dominican
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Realism and neo-realism in international relations Ion Deaconescu The realist theory‚ founded by Hans Morgenthau‚ Arnold Wolfers‚ Kenneth Thomson‚ E.H. Carr and Georg Schwarzenberger‚ is based on the will to consider man and social relations‚ and most particularly political relations‚ a state of affairs rather than ideal. Not wanting to diminish the importance and necessity of the building of a pacifist and harmonious international system of relations‚ these thinkers reject the utopian conclusion
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