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    Institutional Securities‚ Asset Management‚ Retail Brokerage‚ and Discover (which provides Discover Card services.) The firm acquired the Discover Card business as a result of its merger with retail brokerage Dean Witter Discover and Co. in 1997. The unification of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter created a digital‚ cultural‚ and philosophical divide‚ which was extremely difficult to overcome. One of the business sectors to suffer the most under this arrange¬ment has been Retail Brokerage‚ which manages

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    No movie gives an impact better than a story that happens in a setting closer to the real scenarios of life. The movie Pursuit of Happyness acted by Will Smith gives us lessons in life in its rawest form. The film happens with a great taste of honesty. It teaches lessons you can use in your daily lives. The movie starts with the Gardner couple having problems‚ which is a common scene for people nowadays. The protagonist earns money by selling bone density scanners which he sells to medical institutions

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    particular meaning of art. The article by Carolyn Dean “The trouble with (The Term) Art” portrays the debate regarding the term art from “primitive” societies of Americas‚ Oceania‚ and Africa (AOA). In the article‚ Dean reasons that the problem is allied with naming the artwork as usually art is not created with the intention of being art but rather just occurs. Based on Dean’s teachings and seeking other authors article such as Shelly Errington‚ Dean provides reasoning for the claims she made that

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    times not.” Walter Dean Myers said this to The New York Times about why he writes the way that he does. Walter Dean Myers grew up in a time of racial prejudice in a poor area of Harlem. Growing up African American in Harlem during a period of repeated racial prejudice and being in the Army influenced his writing. You can see some of his life from Harlem in most of his books including The Beast. His writing affected his life and his life affected his writing. Walter Dean Myers was born on August

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    Sylvia Plath (written in 1962‚ published in 1965). These gender roles are then reversed in “Editha‚” (written in 1898‚ published in 1905) which has been said to be William Dean Howells’s response to the Spanish-American War. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath and “Editha” by William Dean Howells all illustrate the conflict in gender roles during the Women’s Movement in 19th and 20th Centuries. From the beginning‚ the narrator in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

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    had a huge dream to be a stockbroker. Chris showed he wanted the job so bad that he even kept going to the office and talking to Jay Twistle‚ Human Resources Head at Dean Witter. He made this decision to give Christopher and himself a better life and not have to worry about money or a home. Just when Chris gets an internship at Dean Witter‚ he finds out he won’t be getting paid for it. After Chris finds out he is not getting paid for the internship‚ he has second thoughts on if he still

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    better than others. John Oakhurst in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte is a old school western man who is an avid gambler. Morgan in “The Pupil” by Henry James is a young boy who has a very kind but weak heart. Editha in “Editha” by William Dean Howells is a woman who only sees the romantic sides of life and not the whole picture. All three characters have very different obstacles to conquer

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    Gryndal ------- Professor ---------- English 2328 14 November 2006 Romantic Illusion and Vulgar Realism In the short-story “Editha‚” by William Dean Howells‚ Howells presents the movement in literature from the idealistic romantic period into modern realism showing the conflict that exists between these ideologies through the expression of sexual dominance. Howells uses the expression of sexual dominance from the highly romanticized views of war to show the catalyst for the conflict

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    English Written Assignment Analyze of the text “The baddest dog in Harlem” by Walter Dean Myers The story tells of a group people‚ including the narrator (the author Walter Dean Myers?)‚ and what the group experiences one tragic day in Harlem. We meet the group as they discuss which boxer is the best in the world‚ when suddenly many policemen begin to appear‚ and begin to ask questions about a suspect they are searching for. Unfortunately‚ one policeman slips in some dog shit and his gun accidentally

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    completely different‚ they have many similarities. Editha and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge both present elements of anti-romanticism. These short stories give examples of idealism vs. realism and fantasy vs. reality. Both of these authors (William Dean Howells and Ambrose Bierce) show what the personalities are like of people who are realists and people who are nonetheless‚ preposterous. In Editha‚ the man she is in love with is being deployed into war. George is a realist and understands that

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