Docs Google+ Gmail Calendar more All DocsEdit araby gg notes Caroline Angelini‚ Christine Nolan‚ Cassie Gallo‚ and Gretchen Hintze Araby and The Great Gatsby Essay AP English P.9 In “Araby‚” an allegorical short story from his compilation‚ Dubliners‚ author James Joyce depicts his homeland of Ireland as a paralyzing and morally filthy environment. The young protagonist is an unknowing victim of society’s preoccupation with materialism‚ and in his rush to grow up accepts its distorted views
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The Maturity of a Boy Passion‚ adolescence‚ foolishness‚ and maturity are the first words that come to one’s mind to describe James Joyce’s short story‚ "Araby." In it‚ he writes about a boy who falls deeply in love with his best friend’s sister‚ who through the story‚ doesn’t seem to notice him or care about him. The boy‚ who has yet to be named‚ lives in a poor and run-down town. During the story‚ certain characters contribute to the boy’s developing sense of maturity‚ and eventually‚ lead
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The short story called Araby by James Joyce is mostly about childhood and first crush. In the short story‚ the reader is given that the young boy barely spoken to Mangan’s sister as it shown that he likes her on page 30. The young boy barely spoke to Mangan’s sister as he is nervous to speak to her. He could only look at her from afar as he followed her behind to see her brown figure in his eye and walked passed her. The young boy could not go up to Mangan’s sister to tell her that he likes her
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1. In Joyce’s short story‚ the young narrator views Araby as a symbol of the mysteriousness and seduction of the Middle East. When he crosses the river to attend the bazaar and purchase a gift for the girl‚ it is as if he is crossing into a foreign land. But his trip to the bazaar disappoints and disillusions him‚ awakening him to the rigid reality of life around him. The boy’s dream to buy some little thing on bazaar is roughly divided on the callousness of adults who have forgotten about his request
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Table of Contents Global Assignments:1 Pre-departure Training Program1 Introduction3 The Training Program4 Session A: selection and expectations5 Part A: Country Briefing5 Part B Candidate Assessment Program6 Session B: Preparing expatriates and their families10 Part A (1 hour): Surviving culture shock10 Part B (1 hour): Practical problems12 Conclusions and Wrap-up13 Session C: Relocation and repatriation13 Part A (30 mins) Prepare the employee and family for relocation13 Part B (1
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Returns 1 RETURNS Prices and returns Let Pt be the price of an asset at time t. Assuming no dividends the net return is Pt Pt − Pt−1 −1= Rt = Pt−1 Pt−1 The simple gross return is Pt = 1 + Rt Pt−1 Returns 2 Example: If Pt−1 = 2 and Pt = 2.1 then 2.1 Pt 1 + Rt = = = 1.05 and Rt = 0.05 Pt−1 2 Returns 3 The gross return over k periods (t − k to t) is 1 + Rt (k) := Pt−1 Pt−k+1 Pt Pt ··· = Pt−k Pt−1 Pt−2 Pt−k = (1 + Rt ) · · · (1 + Rt−k+1 ) Returns are • scale-free‚ meaning that they do not depend
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an investor. b. the expected return on a risky asset. c. the expected return on a collection of risky assets. d. the variance of returns for a risky asset. e. the standard deviation of returns for a collection of risky assets. PORTFOLIO WEIGHTS 2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s: a. portfolio return. b. portfolio weight. c. portfolio risk. d. rate of return. e. investment value.
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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MODELLING ABNORMAL RETURN: A REVIEW ARTICLE Oleh Norman Strong Overview Paper ini memberikan panduan untuk metodologi event study dan menguraikan prosedur pemodelan return abnormal dan masalah yang terkait. Event Study Event study adalah nama yang diberikan pada penelitian empiris atas hubungan antara harga sekuritas dengan kejadian ekonomi (economic events). Kebanyakan event study memfokuskan pada perilaku harga saham dalam rangka untuk menguji apakah perilaku stokastik mereka dipengaruhi oleh pengungkapan
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Returns to Scale Returns to scale is a concept that tries to explain the behaviour of the output in relation to the change in the total scale of operations of the firm. A change of scale of operations means a change in the total size of the firm‚ i.e. a change in both labour and capital of the firm. For determining the returns to scale‚ we need to calculate the Output Elasticity where: Output Elasticity = % change in Output/% change in all inputs The different types of returns to scales
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