The History of Derivatives: A Few Milestones EFTA Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives Markets‚ Zurich‚ 3 May 2012 Steve Kummer (research and redaction) and Christian Pauletto (concept and speech delivery) Policy and Trade in Services Division State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Introduction This presentation contains a selection of records and events that constitute a part of the history of derivatives. It relates how derivatives date
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converts showing how their previous religion remained the majority. Later‚ the Japanese Shogunate passed many laws restricting Christianity and threatened those by jail time and if they were informed against them they were even rewarded! Even more laws were passed by the Japanese Shogunate in 1639 that declared that if the Christians attempted anything evil they were to be punished. After the Japanese Shogunate made all the limits against Christianity King Louis XIV of France sent a letter to the
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was what the West came to call the “opening of Japan” to Western commerce by Admiral Perry’s “black ships” in 1853‚ followed by the imposition on Japan of trade treaties heavily favoring the Western nations. Perry arrived toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ a period of peace overseen by the Samurai‚ former warriors who had put away their weapons to become administrators. In 1868‚ lower level officials rebelled against what they saw as a tired and corrupt government and returned the emperor to
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In this essay I will be discussing the rise and fall of Namban Art during the Christian century in the history of Japanese Art. I will concentrate on three essential elements in order to discuss this topic. Firstly‚ what is Namban art exactly? Secondly‚ I will briefly look at the history of the Christian century. Finally‚ I will relate the rise and fall of Namban Art to the rise and fall of Christianity during this period. What is Namban Art. The word namban itself translates as "Southern Barbarians"
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forced recantations. 6. One of the three reasons to the instability of the Tokugawa Shotgunate was the growing power of the merchant class. Another one of the reasons for the instability of the Tokugawa Shotgunate was its decentralized government system which limited its ability to regulate merchant activities and actually stimulated the growth of commercial activities. The third reason for the instability of the Tokugawa Shotgunate was the belief of Confucian idea that agriculture should be the
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The 47 Ronin Breaching the perimeter of the Edo Castle with a full armament and a flawless plan‚ the 47 ronin sought vengeance and honor. Seeking remittance in bloodshed‚ the 47 ronin remained loyal to Asano Takuminokami and avenged his death by killing their enemy‚ Lord Kira Kozukenosuke. The actions leading to this vendetta initiated during the receiving of the imperial delegation within the Edo Castle. When Kira continually discredits Asano’s efforts to prepare the Castle for the delegation
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Charles Chao Essay Questions: i. “The body is a historical situation‚ as Beauvoir has claimed‚ and is a manner of doing‚ dramatizing‚ and reproducing a historical situation…. The act that one does‚ the act that one performs‚ is‚ in a sense‚ an act that has been going on before one arrived on the scene. Hence‚ gender is an act which has been rehearsed‚ much as a script survives the particular actors who make use of it‚ but which requires individual actors in order to be actualized and reproduced
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strict Heian/Kamakura epochs to the more socially open late Tokugawa period. Throughout the work‚ Katsu illustrates his various dealings and communications with peasants‚ merchants‚ artisans and fellow samurai. While in theory a social hierarchy still presided‚ Musui’s Story dismisses the notion that social groups remained isolated from each other‚ as in previous Japanese eras‚ and instead reveals that people of Japan in the late-Tokugawa-era mingled with one another during their lives‚ regardless
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The main features of the samurai in the period from 1600 to 1868 are samurai stop fighting and Confucianism become popular and really influential in Japan. 1600 to 1868 is the Tokugawa period. In this period‚ Tokugawa brought an end to the warfare. Therefore‚ one characteristic from 1600 to 1868 was about samurai stop fighting. Specifically‚ samurai no longer needed to fight wars or were worried about how to earn a life. They transferred from warriors into civil administrators‚ and samurai could
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World Final Review: China: Major dynasties after Qin Shang Capital Anyang Had dynasty ruling families Shang Kings had little land and the nobles governed most of the land and were loyal to the king Noblewomen had status Majoristy of people were peasants and lived in poor conditions Chief God- Shand Di Polytheistic Believed ancestor worships- helped with war and crops Zhou Longest ruling dynasty Introduce feudalism Confucianism Qin Shi Huangdi: Leader Xiangyang: Capital Policy
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