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    RSM 222 Group Assignment (Winter 2014) Pilgrim Bank (A): Customer Profitability Pilgrim Bank (A) is a case that analyzes customer profitability in a retail banking setting. It explores a business phenomenon common to the retail banking industry and‚ within this context‚ acquaints you with the types of managerial questions that can be made by data analysis. As a recently hired analyst‚ Alan Green (your group’s role) has data on a sample of customers and must make recommendations about whether

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    various tragedies of war. In the case of Billy Pilgrim‚ he decides to make a fantasy world inhabited by the Tralfamadorians. This helps him create a more enjoyable experience while a prisoner of war. Fantasies of the Tralfamadorians help Billy work out and make sense of the traumatic war experiences he encountered. Billy has the ability to re-write the events of war in his fantasy that are more appealing to him. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutBilly copes with the guilt of war by adopting

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    Compare and Contrast Essay The pilgrims left their hometown‚ so that they could have their religious beliefs freely. The pilgrims and a woman named Sahara‚ who traveled from Somalia to Slovakia‚ have some similarities and differences in their refugee story. Today in the 21st century there are countless refugee’s‚people that were forced to leave their country in order to escape war‚persecution‚ or natural disasters. The pilgrims were a part of a faction called Separatists; they had left the Church

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    labels “Puritan” and “Pilgrim” are often used interchangeably in reference to the English colonists of the New World. This is an honest mistake; there is much ambiguity even in historical texts regarding the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims. The most erroneous assumption seems to be that the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony were Puritan. Again‚ an honest mistake‚ considering that both were born from the same distaste with the Church of England. Indeed‚ Puritans and Pilgrims came from the same cradle

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    The theme of the story is all people should be different‚ and shouldn’t be limited to be equal‚ and the author’s use of three elements help to develop this theme. Firstly‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses symbolism to help develop the theme. Mask and chains are an example of symbolism. Mask resembles how you have to be hidden away from society. That if you are seen the society will crumble‚ and it will be all your fault‚ so you just end up leaving it on because you don’t want that to happen.The word chains helps

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    In “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut a man named Edward K. Wehling Jr. and his wife are about to have triplets but he has to sacrifice his grandfather just for one of his children to be able to live because of population control laws in a perfect world. A painter who does not have avery good life in his opinion is painting a portrait of Leora Duncan when Dr. Hitz‚ who is a very important time came in. He heard about the triplets and eventually has a fight with Wehling because Wehling does not want anyone

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    Pilgrim Bank Case September 26‚ 2013 How much do profits vary across customers? Provide statistical support for your answer. Out of a sample of 31‚634 Pilgrim Bank customers‚ from a population of 5 million total‚ and zero missing values‚ profits vary widely. The average customer profitability is $111.50. The minimum value of this data set is -$221 and the maximum is $2071. This describes that there is a very wide range. The median customer profitability is $9 and the standard deviation is $272.84

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    The Puritans and the Pilgrims both migrated to North America to escape religious persecution due to their views about the Church of England. They created very little literature because writing was viewed as satanic in both cultures. All that was written in Puritan New England were works to glorify God and record journeys for historical purposes. The most famous poets of this period include Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. William Bradford‚ the governor of the Plymouth Colony‚ kept a journal of

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    Jeremiah Quevedo The Art of Cinema Adam Wadenius September 9‚ 2013 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The American society has many different ways of occupying a person’s life with so many different activities whether it would be sports‚ education or entertainment. Coming from the branch of entertainment‚ films are made to catch someone’s attention and bring him or her into another world. Films tend to make people feel as if they are actually inside the movie itself and over time they have

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    my senses were overwhelmed yet astounded at the same time highlighting the sheer power of nature and the effect it has on our lives. Much like this event‚ one of the biggest aspects that Dillard addresses and looks into‚ if not the main aspect‚ in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek specifically‚ the chapter The Present is whether or not the world and nature have a higher purpose and meaning in the everyday lives of people. This chapter specifically deals with the importance of the present and what it may add

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