“Unlike the fairy-tale youth who only runs away the better to be re-integrated into the family circle‚ even unlike Ulysses‚ that paragon of seafarers and no less master of home-comings‚ Robinson breaks once and for all with those he has rejected. Having wished to be nobody’s son he becomes in fact completely orphaned‚ completely alone‚ the innocent self-begetter in a kingdom of complete solitude.” Marthe Roberts’s quote rings through Don Quixote and Robinsons Crouse. All the characters and sometimes
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“Every important text challenges the reader with complex ideas and appropriate language to express them” Mark Haddon has successfully presented challenges to the reader with complex ideas by creating Christopher as the character and the narrator. Mark Haddon was born in Northampton‚ England in 1962. After graduating from Oxford University in 1981‚ he under took a variety of jobs‚ including work with children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. This is were he first acquired the information
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Modernistic literature is the expression of the modern era (1901-45). It tends to revolve around themes of individuality‚ the randomness of life‚ mistrust of government and religion and the disbelief in absolute truth. Literature scholars classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace
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After two or three false starts‚ Jean Dubuffet became a prolific and monumental artist and writer who made a substantial and lasting contribution to world culture. And although he professed a profound disdain for culture and tradition‚ he cultivated and maintained relationships with leading French intellectuals‚ philosophers‚ artists and playwrights until his death in 1985. As important as Dubuffet’s own work was‚ his collection of outsider art which he termed Art Brut is probably even more important
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Episode 515: The radioactive decay formula Here‚ the key idea is the random nature of the decay. Avoid simply pulling pull equations out of the air – at least make them plausible. Summary Discussion: The meaning of the decay constant λ. (15 minutes) Discussion: The link with half-life. (15 minutes) Student experiments: Analogue experiments linking probability with decay rates. (20 minutes) Discussion: The meaning of the decay constant λ. Start from the definition
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I enjoyed reading Jack D. Schwager ’s MARKET WIZARDS (interviews with top traders)‚ because interviews in this book are straight forward detailed and very informative. I selected this book‚ because it is very interesting to me that how did these top notch traders reached at this level of trading. So I can evaluate the efforts‚ struggles and learn to implement on myself‚ to improve my trading skills. In this book Mr.Schwager has interviewed those traders who have struggled during the last 3 decades
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The Significance of Llewelyn Moss McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a story about survival that focuses on themes of morals‚ morality‚ and luck. In many ways‚ this is a story about how people deal with death. Llewelyn Moss‚ one of the most significant characters in the novel‚ emphasizes the underlining theme which is that death comes for us all. Characters in No Country for Old Men are western in the sense they use words sparingly. They are all: tough‚ modest‚ and patient‚ living by the saying
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by using the computer to emulate a real world situation. It is time based‚ and takes into account all the resources and constraints involved‚ as well as the way these things interacts with each other as time passes. Simulation also builds in the randomness that would be seen in real life. For instance‚ it doesn’t always take exactly 5-minutes for a customer to be served and a customer don’t always arrive every 15-minutes. This means that the simulation really can match reality‚ so when one make changes
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population regression function (model)? (i is the stochastic term in the population regression function. The four reasons for its existence are: 1. Omitted variable 2. Measurement error 3. Different functional form 4. to account for purely randomness in the human behavior. C. Draw a graph where you can clearly show E(Yi(XI) = (( + ((XI and Yi = (0 + (1Xi. Show also in your graph (( and e6 for the X6. This graph graph will show true and estimated regression lines together
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CH11: LEADERSHIP Leaders: press for change‚ provide vision‚ strategy‚ develop followers Manager: promote stability‚ implement vision and strategy‚ coordinate &staff‚ handle day to day operations Theories: Trait theory : predict leadership big five: extraversion‚ conscientiousness‚ openness ‚ EI (EMPATHY) Contingent theory: leadership effectiveness depends on situation‚ adjustment of behavior is required Fiedler contingency model: effective group performance depends on proper match between
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