The book Flash Boys tells in detail how the stock exchanges‚ the large banks‚ and especially high frequency trading have turned the financial markets into a casino where the house always wins‚ all in all a huge scam for small and medium investors. High frequency trading is sort of based on the fact that one receives an order one millisecond or two microseconds before or after hitting "enter‚" and this fact is important. For most institutional or retail traders‚ this may not be important‚ but high
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Reading two different accounts of the story of a drug addict allows much room for comparison between the two. In the case of David and Nic Sheff’s books‚ I was surprised at how much similarity there was between the two; they agreed on most points and there was no striking discontinuity in their stories. There is‚ however‚ a significant difference in the perspectives from which the two are told. Naturally‚ Nic‚ as the addict son‚ takes on a more self-centered view. In David’s book it is clear that
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In the film ‘The Boy in Striped Pyjamas’ directed by Mark Herman‚ an important character who undergoes change throughout the movie is Elsa. Elsa is the mother of Bruno‚ the 9 year old main character‚ and the wife of Ralf‚ a commandant in the Nazi Secret Service during the time of the Holocaust. He is one of Hitler’s top officers‚ and gets given the position of commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the start of the film‚ Elsa’s presentation is immaculate. She is well presented‚ tidy
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Dear Boy Letter At the surface‚ the letter Lord Chesterfield writes to his son appears to simply offer his son simple sound advice with the intention to help his son. It seems that he is trying to give his son this advice in a friendly manner as opposed to a father giving his son advice. However‚ upon closer analysis of what Chesterfield writes‚ one can see how he is actually subtly reminding his son of his obligations and duties. Using strategies such as understatements‚ diction‚ and rhetorical
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Boys Of Blood And Bone Essay The novel boys of blood and bone written by David Metzenthen linking the stories of Henry Lyon‚ in the summer before he starts his first year of Law at university‚ and Andy Lansell‚ Australian digger killed in the Somme in 1918. Andy and Henry’s stories meet when Henry’s car breaks down in the small country town of Strattford on his way to a sailboarding weekend with his mates and his stuck up girlfriend Marcelle. While stuck in Strattford‚ Henry gets to know Trot
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Boy‚ Was I Wrong! Where I can find soaring footballs‚ bro-fist-bumps‚ bimbos with the nice bodies‚ boisterous all night ragers with toxic amounts of drugs and alcohol till five in the morning‚ and ignorance beyond belief‚ I can find a frat house filled with the jerk-ish charm of Greek life’s loveliest brothers of a fraternity that has some unpronounceable Greek name. These pictures are similar to the ones depiction in most movies about the college life and are usually aimed towards high schoolers
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the novel opens‚ “the fair boy” makes his way out of a jungle and toward a lagoon‚ he encounters another boy‚ who is chubby‚ intellectual‚ and wears thick glasses. They then start talking and introduce themselves‚ “the fair boy”‚ Ralph and “the fat boy”‚ piggy. During their conversation we learn that there is a war going on and that the reason why the plane crashed is because it got shot down over the ocean. It crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island. The surviving boys are scattered on the island
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Baby boy A.‚ preterm‚ 36 weeks by Ballards score was delivered by Ceasarian section at a private hospital to a 32 year old multigravid with Apgar score 8 and 9 at one and five minutes‚ respectively. Birth weight was 2.3kg. Birth length 45 cm. Mother‚ on the 3rd trimester‚ had urinary tract infection treated with Amoxycillin 500mg/cap‚ 1 capsule TID for 1 week. Thereafter she was admitted in a private hospital due to preterm labor where tocolysis was done. Two days prior to delivery‚ the mother
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The theme of Richard Wright’s "Black Boy" is racism because he became a black boy for the sole purpose of survival‚ to make enough money‚ stop the hunger pains‚ and to eventually move to the North where he could be himself. Wright grew up in the deep dirty South; the Jim Crow South of the early twentieth century. From an early age Richard Wright was aware of two races‚ the black and the white. Yet he never understood the relations between the two races. The fact that he didn’t understand but was
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Kaffir Boy‚ education is information being passed onto another in attempt to further their knowledge and understanding. As there are many ways education is performed in the world‚ the way in which one defines education can change drastically depending upon the context. For example‚ the education of a preschool child could be stated as an attempt to introduce societal norms onto the child. However‚ to define education in this manner can misrepresent the greater scope of the term. In Kaffir Boy‚ we
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