outside force generating an external impact on localities and regions. Tourism has become as much part of mountain regions as any of their other industries‚ very much bound up with local‚ regional‚ and national stratification and culture‚ with predictably "double-edged" outcomes. Ultimately‚ Southern identities‚ despite being based in a shallow interpretation of the past‚ are always shifting and
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his character by the hyperaware Camus. Meursault is a contrast to the irrational world‚ just as absurdism is the opponent of the irrational or indifferent world from Camus’ perspective. The title itself (The Stranger or The Outsider) puts Meursault outside of the normal world‚ isolating him from hope and understanding. And as an outsider‚ he displays behaviors that normal people do not understand and thus condemn in an irrational way. For example‚ it was more important for the prosecution to emphasize
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describing it can lead to an unreliable source of information. This idea of the narration being told by an unreliable source is found in both the short stories “A&P” by John Updike and “Araby” by James Joyce. In these stories age‚ hormones‚ and irrational decisions are three of the main factors in why the first person narrational standpoints are unreliable. First person is the key word to look into when thinking about the narrational standpoint of a story. In “A&P” the narration is in the first
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Numeric Investors Focus: Equity portfolio management‚ security selection‚ institutional fund management‚ bottom-up investment strategies‚ performance evaluation. Assignment Questions 1. What do you think of Numeric as a firm? How are long-short products of Numeric different from its long-only products? Ans: The long-short products involved holding a portfolio of long positions in combination with a portfolio of short positions. For the long positions‚ Numeric would buy “good” stocks
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What is more‚ individuals are highly dependent on group norms and values‚ which mean set of behavioural rules or standards established to regulate how group members will behave (Wallace‚ 1990). Usually people conform to group norms and behave more predictably which makes it easier for group members to trust and contact with one another (Robbins‚ 2005). Several experiments have been conducted to show how significantly human’s behaviour can change by the consensus of opinion around them. In the Asch experiment
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source development; people are encouraged to use free software‚ study how it works‚ improve upon it‚ and distribute it. History: Ubuntu is a fork of Debian’s codebase‚ created to be an easy-to-use Linux desktop. Ubuntu’s team commited to release predictably - every six months - and that each release would receive free support for nine months (eighteen months prior to 13.04) with security fixes‚ other high-impact bug fixes and very conservative‚ substantially beneficial low-risk bug fixes. The first
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Tariffs and Trade (GATT)‚ was formed in 1947. It was subsequently replaced with The World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 which 2002 had 144 countries who were members. These agreements were designed to help trade flow smoothly‚ freely‚ fairly‚ and predictably. However‚ there have been several advantages and disadvantages of these agreements for the United States. The advantages the United States has seen since these agreements have been set are enormous. Good paying American jobs‚ higher living standards
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Latin American woman have been treated as lower than men. Back in the 1960’s woman’s movements relating to social science and humanities started to rise. Furthermore‚ the book states that "At the height of the cold war‚ scholarly attention focused predictably on women’s (and feminists’) extraordinary presence in antiauthoritarian struggles and the promise of socialist revolutions for greater gender equality‚ generating considerable interest in questions of gender identity and state–society relations
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dedication to the pursued goal‚ and the level of commitment to achieve that academic goal. Probably the most important element of personal responsibility is integrity. By definition: Integrity is a personal choice‚ an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honor moral‚ ethical‚ spiritual and artistic values and principles. The hardest thing for a person is to accept the consequences of his or her actions. After a situation fails to turn into one’s favor it is for some incredibly
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The EMH‚ the Financial Crisis and the Behavioral Finance 1. Introduction The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) that was first proposed by Fama (1965‚ 1970) is the cornerstone of the modern financial economic theory. The EMH argues that the market is efficient and asset price reflects all the relevant information concerned about its return. The genius insight provided by the EMH has changed the way we look at the financial crisis thoroughly. However‚ the confidence in the EMH is eroded by the
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