The Big Short by Michael Lewis is about the lives of a few investors that foresaw the biggest credit bubble Wall Street has ever seen. Reading the Big Short has taught me a lot about subprime mortgages and credit default swaps. Before I read this book I had no idea what subprime mortgages even were‚ much less that there was such thing as betting against them. Lewis addresses the fact that most people on Wall Street have no clue what they are actually doing. This is evident with how the market
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Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll This book was published in 1865‚ and the numbers of page are 124‚ including extras. Genre: Story‚ Fiction. Alice in wonderland is a story that Carroll created from a little girl that he met‚ called Alice Liddell. In this book it tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures‚ there she begins her adventures. The tale plays with logic‚ giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children
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briefly explore C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life with these questions in mind. According to many Lewis’ biographers and scholars‚ he was a master of the “smoke screen” (Ward). Several examples can be presented: his relationship with Mrs. Moore. Was she a surrogate mother or a lover‚ or perhaps some mixture? Lewis completely omits her from Surprised by Joy and deletes references to her from his correspondence. Like his fellow Inkling‚ Charles Williams‚ Lewis had an obsession with
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“Black Men and Public Spaces” by Brent Staples In the informative essay “Black Men and Public Spaces”‚ Brent Staples describes his own experience growing up black in a racist society and discusses the interaction that take place with people. “The ability to alter public space in an ugly way”(302)‚ through racial stereotypes affected him and many others. Stereotypes affect individuals regardless of race‚ sex‚ or religion. Author Brent Staples states he has been racially profiled on
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Morality is the human attempt to define what is right and wrong pertaining to our actions and thoughts. Conferring to C.S. Lewis‚ he describes the behavior on three levels: First is to certify fair play and agreement between persons; second is to help make us better people in order to have a decent civilization; and the third is to keep us in a good connection with the control that created us. We can become moral by ourselves by expanding those things that can help us pursue our dreams and by believing
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Even today‚ there is still a great deal of controversy considering the circumstances and the outcome of the Vietnam War. Professor Lewis Sorley sought to put an end to this altercation with the release of his book‚ A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam. In his writing‚ he discusses factors of the war from General William C Westmoreland’s command in 1964‚ to the major withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam in the early 70’s‚ to the bitter end in
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MARKETING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF JOHN LEWIS PLC Table of Contents I. Executive Summary……………………………………………………...….......pg. 3 II. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..…pg. 4 III. Performance from the Marketing Perspective..……………………………………pg. 5-7 IV. Performance from the Financial Perspective...……………………………………..pg. 7-9 V. Performance in the Future……………………………………………………………….pg. 10-11 V. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….…..pg. 12 VI
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Puzzle of Emergence The puzzle of emergence is a very controversial and complex‚ scientific puzzle. This concept of emergence has been a baffling topic that has stumped many scientists and philosophers throughout the past centuries. George Henry Lewis was the first theorist to give wisdom to this puzzle in the late 1800s and so have many other theorists after this puzzle was first proposed. The term emergence can be defined differently in both a scientific or philosophical situation. It comes
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"Walking Away"‚ describes the loss C. D. Lewis feels when taking his son to "[his] first game of football". He feels he is watching his son "go drifting away". He has "had worse partings" yet no parting annoys him as much as this one: "but none that so gnaws at my mind still". Choristers walk a lot. If you’ve ever wondered how they produce the exquisite sound that is our privilege to enjoy day after day let me tell you they do it by walking. It begins when they walk from the Cathedral School to
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bear as a Christian‚ because it is the result of evil in the world‚ and since God’s allowance of evil is hard to explain‚ it is an atheist’ best argument against Christian faith. My views on why God allows suffering are based on C.S. Lewis’ book “The Problem of Pain”. Lewis’ thoughts basically show that there is sufficient evidence that God is real and that pain exists because the all-powerful God created creatures that aren’t happy. Since the fall of man‚ we are never content with what we have and are
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