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CAPM, APT, and Risk Assessment

growth and also dividend income. The same may be said of property, where there is capital growth and income from rent or leases. H...

Peace and Violence According to Johan Galtung

of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre ...

Comprehending Cultural Relativity

version: "Radical cultural relativism holds that the beliefs, values, and modes and organization of behavior of one culture can ne...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

Computers and Floating Point Arithmetic

yet "This computer also had nonzero numbers so tiny that dividing them by themselves would overflow" (Severance, 1998, PG). On ye...

Afro Cuban Religions and Deities

the Orishas and stands for "clarity, justice and wisdom" (Nando Times, 2002, PG). He is considered the owner of the world. Olodd...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Realist Theory and 911 Terrorist Attacks

the very opposite of democracy which strives for peaceful relations - evidenced by an absence of war and tyranny (Democratic Peace...

Marxist Perspectives on Culture and Mass Media

Trade-union * Communications (the mass media) * Cultural (literature, the arts, sports, entertainment etc.) (Underwood, 2000). ...

Personal Life Experiences in Civil Rights' Championn Anne Moody's Memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi

a good student. After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College, which she atte...

Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child, Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove, and Storytelling

will take place when the news is heard of Sanchers death: "While he strode in haste towards his parents house, the men, forgetting...

Innate Principles Concept and John Locke

philosophy and political theory for the past 400 years has been incalculable. Locke and Innate Principles In the "Essay Concerni...

Motivation Theory and its Importance to Managers

The well known studies where this was used were at the Midvale Steelworks and also as the Ford factory, however, the increased pro...

Madeleine Nash's Article 'Inside the Womb'

not only the mothers body but also her genetic makeup and that of the embryos father. She can hear her blood gushing through her ...

Therapeutic Approaches and Criminal Behavior Theory

to legitimate opportunities for attaining material goals" (Anonymous, 2002), as well as have no other availability to acquire thes...

Atomic Bomb and Decision Making

"To achieve the desired goals or maximize utility, an actor must choose among certain alternatives" (Model Theory, 2002). The alt...

Hypertext in Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Allison

authors quest for healing, in that it depicts a person who is desperate to purge these bad memories from her mind as she sits and ...

Cultural Producers and Fans

literary authors, but also came to include all aspects of media industry, including artists (i.e., painters, sculptors, architects...

SWOT Analysis of MobileMedia Corporation's Chapter Eleven Bankruptcy

1990s, paging the most from the realm of physicians and engineers into the businessmans pocket. Advanced technology in paging mea...

Research Article Analysis

review, the authors of the study indicate that they came to the conclusions that comprehensive psychophysiological theories need t...

Altruism Defined

Comte was instrumental in relating the correlation between altruism and morality, and therefore replaced the idea of God with Huma...

Fourth Book of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' Lines 32 to 113

better understanding of what is going on, and we gain a more in-depth understanding of who Satan is and what the entire struggle i...

'Weary Blues' by Langston Hughes

Hughes indicates the basic characteristics of the music that a black man plays at a piano. The alliteration between "droning" and...

Prospero Character Analysis in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

Global Media, Culture, and Language

million people in the world who live outside their countries of birth or citizenship (Kent, 2002; U.S. Newswire, 2002). In 1990, t...

Burka and Yuen Procrastination

(Burka and Yuen 3). The difference between the two scenarios is the cause of serious problems as addressed in their first chapter ...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...