...volatility and low volatility. Analysts and experts have different opinions about what you should do in volatile markets, and how to scope with stock market volatility or the tendency for share prices rising and falling. Analysts. Justin Stewart, co-founder of Seven Investment Management says: “ Crashes happen. If you are a longer-term investor, you should look straight through them and remember the power of compounding dividends, or in cone arising on income.” Andrew Humphries, a director of St James Place Wealth Management, thinks that Diversification is very important and having a portfolio that is solely exposed to one asset class- be it equities, bond or property- is dangerous and all investors should ensure they hold an appropriate range of assets” Andrew Bell, the chief executive of Witan Investment trust advised: “ It is better to buy into fear and cheapness and sell into euphoria and high valuation, as long as you can endure the period before trends reverse. Investors should have this tattooed somewhere to prevent natural human psychology from making them do the opposite. Bill Mott, the manager of PSigma income, said “ in an uncertain world, investors should wait for the buying opportunities that volatile markets are certain to provide-but’ when the opportunities arise they should be prepared to brave. Alan Miller, co-founder of SCM private, advised his clients “When market offers you the chance to buy $1 notes for 70p, you should take it. And crashes don’t change fundamental...
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...Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is about an advanced society that relies on conditioning its citizens in order to achieve stability and constant universal happiness. When an outsider visits the “World State”, he reveals that true happiness is impossible without passion and individualism. The residents are conditioned from conception through manipulation of the eggs, hypnopaedic suggestion, and laboratory experiences which prepare them to grow up to be constantly happy and eager to fuel the economy. Conditioning plays a large role in depriving people of their free will. Individualism is removed entirely because the World Controllers have eliminated access to new scientific studies, art, and religious practices. Ultimately, conditioning along with the removal of these things lead to a sense of false happiness for citizens. Before people are released to be a part of society, they are conditioned in their sleep through hypnopaedia. This sleep teaching technique takes away people’s free will because the repetitions force the listener to adhere to the World State’s morals and values without their consent. For example when Bernard mentioned “arresting [his] impulses” (Huxley 81), Lenina instinctively spits out a hypnopaedic...
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...America is now the most prosperous nation in the world, largely due to that very fact. We as Americans are blessed to live in a nation that is thriving both politically and socially, both as innovator and steady power, both as a community and as a collection of individuals. The marks of American society have spread far beyond the nation’s borders, with everything from the Big Mac to Steven Spielberg movies to democracy itself making it’s impact felt on this modern world. The name America has become synonymous with freedom, and through this freedom, great wealth, power, and success. And yet history has shown, through the example of democracies like Athens and Rome, that even the greatest of civilizations eventually swerve off course. After reading Patrick Garry’s “An American Paradox: Censorship in a Nation of Free Speech”, Marjorie Heins’ “Not In Front Of The Children”, and various statements from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), I have come to believe that the unstoppable juggernaut that is America may too be in danger of losing its way. The principles of freedom and human rights that this country was founded and subsequently prospered on are often quickly abandoned in the effort to protect the general public from anything deemed even slightly dangerous. This never-ending barrage on freedom that is censorship makes its presence felt constantly, through daily protests of the latest four-letter-word-spewing rap CD, through news reports of the next teen-to-adult oriented video...
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...volatility and low volatility. Analysts and experts have different opinions about what you should do in volatile markets, and how to scope with stock market volatility or the tendency for share prices rising and falling. Analysts. Justin Stewart, co-founder of Seven Investment Management says: “ Crashes happen. If you are a longer-term investor, you should look straight through them and remember the power of compounding dividends, or in cone arising on income.” Andrew Humphries, a director of St James Place Wealth Management, thinks that Diversification is very important and having a portfolio that is solely exposed to one asset class- be it equities, bond or property- is dangerous and all investors should ensure they hold an appropriate range of assets” Andrew Bell, the chief executive of Witan Investment trust advised: “ It is better to buy into fear and cheapness and sell into euphoria and high valuation, as long as you can endure the period before trends reverse. Investors should have this tattooed somewhere to prevent natural human psychology from making them do the opposite. Bill Mott, the manager of PSigma income, said “ in an uncertain world, investors should wait for the buying opportunities that volatile markets are certain to provide-but’ when the opportunities arise they should be prepared to brave. Alan Miller, co-founder of SCM private, advised his clients “When market offers you the chance to buy $1 notes for 70p, you should take it. And crashes don’t change fundamental...
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...E Poole Beecham English 101 10059 19 April 2010 Genetic Testing Imagine choosing your daughter to have high intelligence. No one would fault the parents for giving their daughter this advantage for life. Parents can make the decision to use any safe drug or therapy to enhance their future children to make them smarter, better, stronger, to increase their intelligence, height, or other traits (Zane). Testing for medical tendencies to screen and reduce the possibility of future illness or diseases is now feasible. Genetic testing can enhance and improve lives with immeasurable benefits. The rewards of this testing outweigh any reservations. Genetic testing are examinations of blood and other tissues of the body that doctors in the medical field prepare to test for possible defects of the body. These DNA based tests generally involves direct examination of the DNA molecule itself and are very sophisticated techniques of testing genetic disorders in the bodies of human beings. Prenatal genetic testing with the procedure of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD is a technique whereby testing is performed of an approximate three-day-old embryo to confirm that it does not carry a particular disease or diseases (Naik). The test predicts, with variable confidence, what the possible medical problems will be in the future. Then the doctor implants this embryo, which is free of that syndrome, in the mother's womb. It appears to be relatively easy to check the DNA and eliminate...
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...He withdrew it from rehearsal in December under official pressure from the regime, and under fear for his life, and it was not given its first performance until 1961. Shostakovich: Fearing for his Life During 1936 and 1937, in order to maintain as low a profile as possible, Shostakovich mainly composed film music, a genre favoured by Stalin and one in which the composer could avoid expressing any potentially dangerous tendencies. Nevertheless, tired of the repression, he then decided to compose a piece a new piece: his Fifth Symphony, finished july 1937. Only a few days before its premiere, due 21 November 1937, an article by the composer it self was published in the Moscow newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, where he stated that the work: “is a Soviet artist’s creative response to justified criticism.” The Symphony became a huge success because many people in the Leningrad’s audience had lost his family or friends during the “Great Terror”. During the performance of the symphony, people were reported to have wept during the Largo movement. Later Shostakovich wrote in his memoirs: “I'll never believe that a man who understood nothing could feel the Fifth Symphony.”. But of course all those people in...
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...However, his respectable standing is contrasted to his “hands so long and white and dainty” that glide unconsciously and it is implied that he is seen as a homosexual tendencies for his slightly effeminate behavior (15). Harding’s story, much like that of Alan Turing, who was persecuted for his homsexuality, demonstrates that 1960’s society often placed less appreciation on skills than on socially normative behavior. Along with Harding and Bromden is Billy Bibbit, the timid young man who fears leaving the hospital on account of his stuttering, despite his “m-m-mother [being] a good friend of M-Miss Ratched” (110). Billy is most closely reminiscent of slightly autistic people during the era who felt that they could only belong in an institution as pariahs, rather than as ordinary members of society. His mother’s connections don’t matter because he has gradually been made to feel as if he couldn’t survive in the outside world. However, Billy improves over time and pushes away his ingrained shyness as he grows closer to Candy and eventually “Billy and the girl … were...
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...you must still do that yourself.. CHARACTERISATION Never forget that we are talking about a group of boys whose maximum age is twelve. RALPH Does he represent all that is good in people? Tall, fair-skinned, blond hair, very athletic, natural leader although not that good a leader as many of his decisions are questionable, which ones?. He is middle-class, father a naval officer. Elected leader but not forceful enough to maintain position. Eventually he loses support and is reduced to the status of an outcast who must flee for his life. Ralph is an idealist and a dreamer. He needs Piggy to think for him. He finds the Conch but Piggy tells him how to use it. At the end of the book, he is a disillusioned realist who now sees his world and its inhabitants for what they are. JACK MERRIDEW Does he represent the worst in people? He is thin, tall, with red hair, light blue eyes and freckles. Leader of the choir, he becomes the leader of the hunters. Increasingly in conflict with Ralph and more particularly, Piggy, he breaks away, forms his own tribe and splits the group. He manages to get the support to do this by offering the boys the attraction of the hunting life and then by terrorising them. In the end he is the tyrannical leader of the community. Jack is a spontaneous, unthinking person who wants instant gratification of his desires. He doesn’t hypothesise (think through the possible results of his actions) and doesn't care 'what if?'. He is a ‘me first'...
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...description, styles, and places separated into four chapters and conclusion. The first chapter, “Alexander the Great and Heroic Leadership”, describe the life, personality and its achievements. Alexander, son of Philip II of Macedon would become known worldwide as founder of Hellenistic world and the most famous general of antiquity what no other could be before or since. The second chapter, “Wellington: the Anti-Hero” examine Wellington’s military career in Britain during the period of his exile in India to its peak of career the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Moreover, John Keegan talk over Wellington’s numerous rewards and later achievements as Prime Minister of Britain. The third chapter, “Grant and Unheroic Leadership” is focused on military growth of Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant starting with the period of being solder to obtaining the position of commander of the Armies of the United States. Grant take place to become a fundamental supporter to the government’s military cabinet and was entitled as the eighteenth president of the United States. The fourth chapter, “False Heroic: Hitler as Supreme Commander”, is focused on Adolph Hitler, the Third Reich, and its tendency to world domination during World War II. The author covers...
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...Abortion Is Ethical Problems with Death, 2006 "A woman deciding whether to continue a pregnancy stands on moral ground. She is entitled to make her decision....No one else...should decide whether she will use her body to bring new life into the world." In the following viewpoint Caitlin Borgmann argues that abortion is ethical for many reasons. First, women have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies, she contends. Second, abortion allows women to participate equally in society by enabling them to postpone childbearing until they finish school or establish their careers. Borgmann also maintains that abortion allows women to have children only when they are ready to take care of them, and protects their health by allowing women to terminate pregnancies at legal clinics. At the time this article was written, Caitlin Borgmann was state strategies coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project in New York. As you read, consider the following questions: What two groups of women does the author suggest suffer the most due to restrictions on abortion rights? In the author's view, in addition to a woman's right to choose, what else does the pro-choice movement stand for? What examples does the author use to support her argument that institutional opposition to abortion rights is part of a campaign to undermine women's autonomy and equality? The movement to preserve and advance reproductive freedom is suffering the consequences of...
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...magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. For information write: Sheriar Foundation, 3005 Highway 17 North ByPass, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577, U.S.A. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Meher Baba, 1894-1969. Discourses / Meher Baba. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-880619-08-3 : $25.00. - ISBN 1-880619-09-1 (pbk.): $15.00. 1. Spiritual life. I. Title. BP610.M43127 1995 299'.93-dc20 94-36972 CIP ISBN 1^880619-08-3 (previously ISBN 0-913078-573) ISBN 1-880619-09-1 (pbk.) (previously ISBN 0913078-584) ________________________________________________ v Contents FOREWORD ……………………………………………………. INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVENTH EDITION ………………......... THE SEVEN REALITIES …………………………………………. THE NEW HUMANITY ………………………………………….. SELFISHNESS ………………………………………………….. GOD AND THE INDIVIDUAL ……………………………………. THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF CREATION ………………….. THE FORMATION AND FUNCTION OF SANSKARAS ……………… THE REMOVAL OF SANSKARAS viii xiii 1 3 10 16 23 32 Part I The Cessation, the Wearing Out, and the Unwinding of Sanskaras ……………………………………………….. Part II...
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...one knows how effective it will prove to be, even in the few conditions on which it is being tried - whether it will only be of relatively limited application, or whether it will open up many wider possibilities. It suffers both over-optimistic claims from some quarters and exaggerated dangers from others, over which the church needs to be discerning. It is, of course, not possible to assert exactly where the possibilities opened up by today's technology will lead in terms of future developments, but various ethical and moral issues are implicit in the technology which it is important to draw to the Church's attention, so that it is forearmed in an area where developments have been taking place at a bewildering pace. An editorial in the "New Scientist" in April 1994 drew attention to the need to weigh up what may still be future issues today, before the technological "horse" bolts from the stable and it is too late to lock the door. Potential Ethical Issues Perhaps the most basic underlying questions centre on a Christian understanding of the human being. • What does this tell us vis a vis our genetic and physical makeup? • What are therefore proper interventions into that genetic makeup? • What would be improper in terms of our human dignity? More applied questions include : • The distinction between repairing genetic damage and any potential there might ever be to make genetic "improvements"...
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...Behavioral Cognitive Theories and Techniques Frederick Community College There were several predominant theorists in the cognitive behavioral meta-theory. Each theorist came to their conclusions, were received, and added to therapeutic skills in different ways. Their biographical history allows for a better understanding of how they came upon their conclusions. Their theories add to the understanding of human nature. Their critics expose flaws or oversights in the theories. The techniques used in the action stage of therapy today all have some historical roots in these theories and the theories of others. The overall goal being to focus on making changes in behaviors, thoughts, and feelings while continuing to explore feelings and examine values, priorities, barriers. Behaviorism began when Ivan Pavlov’s dogs began to salivate upon hearing the sounds of food being prepared. Unfortunately this phenomenon ruined his saliva measuring experiment but it contributed the theory of classical conditioning. The theory is that when an unconditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus many times a conditioned stimulus and conditioned response will result. The unconditioned stimulus (US) in Pavlov’s experiment was the food, which caused the dogs to salivate. The unconditioned stimulus normally elicits this reaction. The neutral stimulus, something that does not normally elicit the same reaction as the unconditioned stimulus, was a tone or bell. When the two were presented together the...
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...pinpoint in the literature sense, David Fincher’s adaptation helpfully put Palahniuk’s thoughts into the cinematic forefront. This increased the popularity of Palahniuk’s other works and placed him in the cannon of Post-modern American fiction. It is the issues of modern masculinity that grasps critics’ attention more so than any other Palahniuk themes. It is very apparent that masculinity has changed as a natural progression of modernisation. This dissertation will analyse masculinity as it is depicted in Palahniuk’s writings and explore Palahniuk’s intentions and beliefs. I will interpret the responses of select critics in order to gain some understanding of what Palahniuk deems to be the ideal model of masculinity in the modern world, beneath his post-modern twists, transgressive characterization and vecernal style. This discussion will attempt to uncover what Palahniuk portrays as the cause of emasculation, if anything at all. To begin I will discuss the excess of recent decades and how it has effected men’s lifestyle, in reference to money, media, consumerism and access to information. Following on from this I will discuss Palahniuk’s exploration of sex and sexuality in order to gain...
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...THE FATE OF EMPIRES and SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL Sir John Glubb John Bagot Glubb was born in 1897, his father being a regular officer in the Royal Engineers. At the age of four he left England for Mauritius, where his father was posted for a three-year tour of duty. At the age of ten he was sent to school for a year in Switzerland. These youthful travels may have opened his mind to the outside world at an early age. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in September 1914, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in April 1915. He served throughout the first World War in France and Belgium, being wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross. In 1920 he volunteered for service in Iraq, as a regular officer, but in 1926 resigned his commission and accepted an administrative post under the Iraq Government. In 1930, however, he signed a contract to serve the Transjordan Government (now Jordan). From 1939 to 1956 he commanded the famous Jordan Arab Legion, which was in reality the Jordan Army. Since his retirement he has published seventeen books, chiefly on the Middle East, and has lectured widely in Britain, the United States and Europe. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd 32 Thistle Street Edinburgh EH1 1HA Scotland © J. B. G. Ltd, 1976, 1977 ISBN 0 85158 127 7 Printed at the Press of the Publisher Introduction As we pass through life, we learn by experience. We look back on our behaviour when we were young and think how foolish we were. In the same way our family...
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