8/5/13 APUSH Settling the Northern Colonies Vocabulary 1. John Calvin 1. Protestant leader 2. Created dominant religion of American settlers 3. Wrote theories in Institutes of the Christian Religion 2. Anne Hutchinson: 1. Lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony 2. Promoted antinomianism 3. Banished and forced to walk and settle on Rhode Island 3. Roger Williams: 1. Wanted to break from the Church of England 2. Though Massachusetts Bay Colony was unfair to the Indians; banished 3
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Capstone CheckPoint PSY/265 Friday‚ August 24‚ 2012 Axia College I will be discussing the media’s portrayal of sexuality in various ways which are as follows; I the positive and negative effects that the media involvement has played in adolescent’s lives as well as how all this has affected my own personal life also. The effects of media portrayal of sexuality on adolescent’s sexual lives are enormous because‚ media in our society today portrays acts of sexuality as routine
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Lisa Brown Hsm/ 260 Week 5 – Forecasting Checkpoint 3/8/13 Exercise 9.1 20X1 $5‚250‚000 20X2 $5‚500‚000 20X3 $6‚000‚000 20X4 $6‚750‚000 Moving Averages 20X2-X4 $18‚250‚000 / 3 = $6‚083‚333 Weighted Moving Averages Fiscal Year Expenses Weight Weighted Score 20X2 $5‚500‚000 1 $5‚500‚000 20X3 $6‚000‚000 2 $12‚000‚000 20X4 $6‚750‚000 3 $20‚250‚000 __ ___________ 6 $37‚750‚000 20X5 $37‚750‚000 /6 = $6‚291‚667 Exponential Smoothing NF = $6‚300‚000
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Checkpoint: Money Unit of account: This function of money means that money is used as the common foundation to determinate the prices of goods traded throughout the economy. Unit of account‚ or measure of value‚ means money is functioning as the measuring units for prices. In other words‚ prices of goods are claimed in terms of a common monetary unit. Unit of account lends meaning to losses and profitability. Currencies are usually used as a unit of account but objects can also be used‚ such
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Learning Goal: Understand the opening of the west. Montrell Simmons TB1 4/18/12 Westward Movement‚ the populating (by Europeans) of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States‚ a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. Despite those decades of continuous westward pushing of the frontier line‚ it was not until the conclusion of the War of 1812 that the westward movement became a significant outpouring
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a. Name of dataset Data Set 14: Coin Weights (grams) b. What does each observation (row) in the dataset represent? Each observation (row) represents what type of coin was used and pre/post years. Here we have the Indian pennies‚wheat pennies‚ pre 1983‚post 1983‚ Canadian pennies‚pre 1964 quarters‚ post 1964 quarters‚ and dollar coins. c. Give the name of one qualitative variable and one quantitative variable from the data set. Note: Your dataset may not have both types (if it does not‚ please
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CheckPoint: Don’t Count on it IT 205 Joel Balkum The FDCA project is an evolution into the technology age for the U.S. Census Bureau. Implementing handheld electronic devices improves the effectiveness of the collection process because it cuts down the use of paper for recording data‚ it replaces hardcopy maps that collectors would carry to find their way around‚ saves time and money‚ and makes staying organized easier to do which improves data quality and credibility. The problems that the
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Settling the Rio Grande Valley The Rio Grande Valley consists of the southern most part of Texas‚ along the Texas/Mexico border. The population growth in this area was very slow until the 1900’s‚ when it began to skyrocket. From 1920 to 1930‚ the population in the Valley more than doubled. One of the main factors for this population increase was the railroad construction. The St. Louis‚ Brownsville‚ and Mexico railroads all were completed in 1904. This furthered the expansion of the already
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The Railroads Role in the Settlement of the West One of the largest contributing factors in the settling of the American West was the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Development was a slow process in much of the west‚ due in large part to how long the journey took. The completion of the railroad made it both a faster and much safer way to travel across the country. In 1862‚ the Pacific Railroad Act was signed. It promised federal support to build the first transcontinental railroad
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Problem Set 2 - Solution Notes 1. First‚ compute the correlation coefficient between assets A and B ρ(RA ‚ RB ) = Cov (RA ‚ RB ) −0.0322 = = −1. σ (RA )σ (RB ) 0.14 × 0.23 The assets are perfectly negatively correlated. Consider portfolio P formed from assets A and B such that you invest α fraction of your wealth into A and (1 − α) fraction into B. The variance of such portfolio is σ (RP )2 = = = = α2 σ (RA )2 + (1 − α)2 σ (RB )2 + 2α(1 − α)Cov (RA ‚ RB ) α2 σ (RA )2 + (1 −
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