...“If you’ve ever owned a dog, don’t miss this film about loyalty, devotion and undying love “ - It’s about “Hachiko: A dog’s tale”, an American movie based on the true story about a dog in Japan, who had been waiting for his owner to return from work at the station every day until the owner passed away at the beginning of the 20th century. Scripted by Stephen P. Lindsey and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, this drama film released in August 2009 with a mainstream budget. Parker Wilson found a lost puppy at the station and took the dog to his home because the station controller refused to take care of the puppy. He named the dog “Hachi” after he learnt about Japanese symbol’s meaning on the dog’s collar. There seemed to be a bond between the professor and Hachi. Every morning, when Parker left for work, Hachi followed him to the train station and every later afternoon, the dog walked to the station, waited patiently for the owner to return from work and then they went home together. One day, Parker suddenly had a heart attack and died at work meanwhile Hachi was still waiting patiently for him at train station. He was lying in the snow and waited for many hours until Parker’s son in-law came and brought him to home. The dog didn’t realize that his owner wouldn’t come back ever again so next morning, Hachi returned to the trained station and waited from dawn till dusk , and the next day, he tried to escape from his new owner’s house to come to the train station again as usual. So...
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...The movie ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ directed by Lasse Hallstrom is a fictional film, displaying the troubled life of a young man in the late 20th century. Gilbert Grape lives with his dysfunctional family in Endora, Iowa, who have created a series of challenges for Gilbert. Throughout the film, Gilbert finds it difficult to manage the problems he’s facing. He is expected to tend to his mentally challenged brother, carry out the mother’s duties, and support the family both financially and physically. These matters affect Gilbert’s decision making, self confidence and encourages a pessimistic view in life. Arnie is the main cause to the family’s burdens, and Gilbert is typically the one to solve them. Gilbert spends majority of his spare...
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...What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Introduction Growing up is the process of maturing physically and emotionally. It helps develop a sense of individuality and identity. Lasse Hallstroms 1993 film ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ shows the stages of growing up such as childhood, life experience, maturity and family and friends. Growing up is a significant part of our lives. Childhood Childhood is an important factor of growing up as children begin to develop their sense of identity. This occurs during the period of birth and puberty in a person’s life. Arnie Grape, from the film ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ (1993), is the definition of childhood. He is turning 18 years old but has developmental disability where he is stuck in a childhood state forever. A high angle shot of Arnie when he climbs the water tower is used to show how he was unsafe and helpless. The reverse shot shown while he was climbing the tower highlights his innocence and child-like manner. The montage of Arnie at the beginning of the film shows snippets of Arnies behaviour and attitudes. This give the audience an insight and brief understanding of his everyday life. Repetition/motif of Arnie playing hide-n-seek in the tree shows that he still has the playfulness in him as he did at the beginning of the film. The personality of an individual emerges through the stages of childhood and continues to develop as they grow. Maturity Maturity is influenced by the different factors of growing up such as childhood...
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...Risk Professor Lasse H. Pedersen Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 1 Outline Interest rate sensitivity Duration Cash-flow matching Duration matching: immunization Convexity Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 2 Interest-Rate Sensitivity First order effect: Bond prices and yields are negatively related Maturity matters: Prices of long-term bonds are more sensitive to interest-rate changes than short-term bonds Convexity: An increase in a bond’s YTM results in a smaller price decline than the price gain associated with a decrease of equal magnitude in the YTM. Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 3 Duration The duration (D) of a bond with cashflows c(t) is defined as minus the elasticity of its price (P) with respect to 1 plus its yield (y): dP 1 + y T c(t ) D=− = ∑ f (t ) t , where f (t ) = dy P (1 + y ) t P 1 We see that the duration is equal to the average of the cash-flow times t weighted by f(t), the fraction of the present value of the bond that comes from c(t) ! The relative price-response to a yield change is therefore: ∆P ∆y D modified P ≅ −D 1+ y =− 1+ y { ∆y = − D ∆y modified duration Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen 4 Example: Duration of a Coupon Bond What is the duration of a 3-year coupon bond with a coupon rate of 8% and a YTM of 10% ? If the YTM changes to 10.1%, what would be the (relative) change in price ? If the YTM changes to 11%, what would be the (relative) change in price ? Prof. Lasse H. Pedersen ...
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...The Trash He looked out of the dirty window, which was covered with fingerprints and dead insects all over. He was sweating in the torn shirt he had put on this morning, before his long journey back to Denmark. He was already excited about his next lunch, rye bread with liver pâté and beetroot, just the way he liked it, just the way he knew it. It reminded him, that he had to go to the grocery before they closed. He had sold his house to fulfill the dream of his life; to become a tour-guide in Africa together with his best friend. His friend, Lasse Henriksen, left back home the week before, when he received a call from his mother, telling him that his dad was found shot on Nørrebrø. Lasse’s dad was a cop, recently celebrating his 30-year anniversary on the force. Lasse had to make it to the funeral, and support his family during the hard time. He hadn’t heard from Lasse since. He had tried reaching him on his cell, but with no luck. Wednesday d. 16th of April 15.09 o’clock Smallville Sigurd was pulled out of his thoughts, when the bus driver announced the final stop threw the speakers of the bus. Sigurd dragged his luggage out of the backdoor of the bus, and the bus went on along the empty and quiet road. He inhaled the fresh air, and felt his stomach sizzling of joy. He finally had reached his destination after a long journey. He had rented a weekend cottage in the edge of the small town of Smallville in the Northern part of Sjælland. He found the description of...
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...| Jing Li | Memo To: | Dr., Michael Wasylenko | From: | Jing Li | cc: | | Date: | April 15th 2013 | Re: | Annual Physical exams | | | Medical cost is one of the major soaring expenditure in the United States. Besides, the price of medical cost for annual physical is relatively expensive. Reducing medical cost by eliminating the annual physical cost in the United States has become a critical issue. Background of Medical costs Medical costs rate in the United States has grown rapidly in decades and is still arising in the following years. “In total, health spending accounted for 17.9% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010” (KaiserEDU.org). Moreover, the statistic from Health Affairs 2012 shows that around 51 percent of national health expenditures is in hospital care and physicians (KaiserEDU.org). Figure [ 1 ] (KaiserEDU.org) Figure [ 1 ] (KaiserEDU.org) Background of Annual Physical “Since the British physician Horace Dobell first advocated annual examination of apparently healthy people, patients have come to believe in the value of annual contact with a clinician” (Christine). After doing annual physical, most people feel better about their health since there is an evidence proving that you are in a good health. According to the 2002 survey conducted by the University of Colorado Health Science Center, there are 65 percent of doctors and patients think that the annual physicals are indispensable (Katherine). This result suggests...
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...Betting Against Beta Andrea Frazzini and Lasse H. Pedersen* This draft: October 9, 2011 Abstract. We present a model with leverage and margin constraints that vary across investors and time. We find evidence consistent with each of the model’s five central predictions: (1) Since constrained investors bid up high-beta assets, high beta is associated with low alpha, as we find empirically for U.S. equities, 20 international equity markets, Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and futures; (2) A betting-against-beta (BAB) factor, which is long leveraged lowbeta assets and short high-beta assets, produces significant positive risk-adjusted returns; (3) When funding constraints tighten, the return of the BAB factor is low; (4) Increased funding liquidity risk compresses betas toward one; (5) More constrained investors hold riskier assets. * Andrea Frazzini is at AQR Capital Management, Two Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830, e-mail: andrea.frazzini@aqr.com; web: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~af227/ . Lasse H. Pedersen is at New York University, AQR, NBER, and CEPR, 44 West Fourth Street, NY 10012-1126; e-mail: lpederse@stern.nyu.edu; web: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~lpederse/. We thank Cliff Asness, Aaron Brown, John Campbell, Kent Daniel, Gene Fama, Nicolae Garleanu, John Heaton (discussant), Michael Katz, Owen Lamont, Michael Mendelson, Mark Mitchell, Matt Richardson, Tuomo Vuolteenaho and Robert Whitelaw for helpful comments and discussions as well as seminar participants...
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...Fra folket, til folket ”Det folkelige gennembrud” var en historisk tid for arbejderklassen, der blomstrende op i starten af 1900-tallet. Litteraturen og forfatterskabet blev for første gang udbredt til alle samfundets sociale klasser. De forfattere der dominerede den historiske periode, var selv vokset op blandt de fattigste på landet og i byerne. De blev hurtigt forkæmpere for en hel generation af arbejderfamilier, der ville ligestilles med overklassen og stjæle magten fra dem så et demokrati kunne indføres. Disse forfattere var hjemstavnsforfattere, som var meget jordnære, realistiske og konkrete i deres beskrivelser. Det mest kendte eksempel er Martin Andersen Nexøs ”Pelle Eroberen” (1906-1910), der udkom i 4 dele som til sammen skabte én roman. Proletariatet genkendte sig selv i Pelle, og fik derved en stemme som kunne høres, i form af en roman. ”Pelle Erobreren” blev ”Det folkelige gennembruds” store dannelsesroman. Uddraget her handler om hvordan Pelle kommer i klammeri med en mandsperson af højere samfundsrang, og hvordan de fattige står sammen for at komme problemerne til livs. Uddraget af Martin Andersen Nexøs roman ”Pelle Erobreren” er skrevet i personbunden 3. personfortæller fra drengen Pelles synsvinkel, hvilket betyder at vi har indre og ydre syn gennem Pelle. Dette personbunde indre og ydre syn giver romanen et lettere barnligt præg, hvilket stemmer overens med, at uddraget er fra Nexøs første bog ”Barndom”. Eftersom at synsvinklen er placeret hos drengen, giver...
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...Current Assets:- In accounting, a current asset is any asset sensibly anticipated that will be sold, devoured, or depleted through the ordinary operations of a business inside the current financial year or working cycle (whichever period is longer). Average current assets incorporate money, money equivalents, transient ventures, debt claims, stock and the parcel of prepaid liabilities which will be paid inside a year. On an accounting report, assets will commonly be characterized into current holdings and long haul possessions ( Sullivan, Arthur; Steven M. Sheffrin (2003)). The current ratio is ascertained by partitioning aggregate current stakes by aggregate current liabilities. It is habitually utilized as a marker of an organization's liquidity, its capacity to meet transient commitments. Current assets are essential on the grounds that they show the amount money an organization basically has entry to inside the following 12 months outside of outsider sources. It is characteristic of how the organization finances its continuous, everyday operations, and how liquid a firm is. The degree of current ratios for current liabilities is especially vital in judging liquidity. Non-Current Assets:- An organization's long haul ventures, in the case that the full esteem won't be acknowledged inside the bookkeeping year. Noncurrent assets are promoted as opposed to expensed, implying that the organization distributes the expense of the advantage over the quantity of years for...
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...PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH TERM PAPER A report on the impact of Economic Stimulus Programme in Western Region Assignment Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of a Master of Science Degree in Project Management (MSc. Project Management) Olympia Muhanga Musonye Admission Number HD317-C004-2419/2013 23rd June 2013. 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 backgrounds The history of government implementation of economic stimulus to receive the economy goes back to the mid – 1930s, following the Great Depression, when Franklin D. Roosevelt of the US attempted to alleviate unemployment and national financial and business failures. During this time, many banks collapsed and consumer confidence became low (Lasse B. 2009). The Kenya Economic Stimulus Program (ESP) was initiated by the Government of Kenya to boost economic growth and lead the Kenyan economy out of a recession situation brought about by economic meltdown. The Kenyan ESP was introduced in the 2009/2010 Budget speech in parliament by the finance minister. Its main aim was to jumpstart the Kenyan economy towards long term growth and development, after the 2007/2008 post election violence that affected the Kenyan economy, prolonged drought, a rally in oil and food prices and the effects of the 2008/09 global economic crisis (Gok, 2009). The Kenyan development can only be sustainable if it is pursued based on principles of equity, good governance, environmental sustainability, and the provision...
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...almost 20 years ago, when she immigrated to the United States. Having lived in the Middle East all her life, the USA introduced new customs to every aspect of her life, including the food she ate, her occupation, and even the way she dressed. A married woman in Jordan exclusively wore fancy dresses and classy attire when in public. My mother then saw how nearly every woman here wore more casual clothing, such as jeans and sweatpants, apparel my mother had never seen a married woman wear freely. My mother having to adjust to a completely different environment affected her in similar ways as other cultures affected civilization in certain pieces of fiction. In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and the film Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, the influences of new culture on an existing society shows that actions carry consequences. In both pieces, each society experiences a similar influence caused by new cultures. When these new cultures present themselves, both stories include a sort of abandonment to old traditions in replacement for these new ones. In Things Fall Apart, many people living in Umuofia, including Okonkwo’s son, convert to Christianity when the missionaries introduce the new religion. Okonkwo feels a deep shame towards these converts for betraying their gods and their customs, so deep that he ultimately disowns his own son, commanding him to never come back home. Similarly, in Chocolat, Vienne opens a Chocolaterie during the weeks of Lent, shocking...
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...INTERNATIONAL PR OGR AMS N LEARNING TOP UNIVERSITY TRANSFER • SUSTAINABILITY • ENGAGINGON LEARNING TOP UNIVERSITY TRANSFER • SUSTAINABILITY • ENGAGIN ACULTY • LEARN • IDEAL LOCATION • EXPERIENCE • ACADEMIC EXCELLENCEFACULTY • LEARN • IDEAL LOCATION • EXPERIENCE • ACADEMIC EXCELLEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM • DIVERSITY • INTEGRATED STUDIES •• ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM • DIVERSITY • INTEGRATED STUDIES EARNING OUTCOMES • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM • COMMUNITY • HIGHLEARNING OUTCOMES • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM • COMMUNITY • HIG CHOOL COMPLETION • OPPORTUNITY • ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP •SCHOOL COMPLETION • OPPORTUNITY • ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP EST OF AMERICA • AFFORDABLE • STUDENT CLUBS • TECHNOLOGY • GLOBALBEST OF AMERICA • AFFORDABLE • STUDENT CLUBS • TECHNOLOGY • GLOB WARENESS • RIGOROUS CUR RICULUM • PACIFIC NORTHWEST • STUDENT-AWARENESS • RIGOROUS CUR RICULUM • PACIFIC NORTHWEST • STUDEN ENTERED • SMALL CLASSES • HANDS-ON LEARNING TOP UNIVERSITYCENTERED • SMALL CLASSES • HANDS-ON LEARNING TOP UNIVERSI RANSFER • SUSTAINABILITY • ENGAGING FACULTY • LEARN • IDEAL LOCATIONTRANSFER • SUSTAINABILITY • ENGAGING FACULTY • LEARN • IDEAL LOCATIO “One EXPERIENCE • ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE • ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM •• EXPERIENCE of the reasons I picked Cascadia ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM • ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE • was because of its location. • LEARNING OUTCOMES • INTERNATION IVERSITY • INTEGRATED STUDIES • LEARNING OUTCOMES • INTERNATIONALDIVERSITY • INTEGRATED STUDIES There is lots of natural beauty...
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...konstigt att vårt ordförråd ändras då det hela tiden även kommer nya uppfinningar, nya saker och ting att sätta namn på. Dator och mobiltelefon är två exempel på ting som inte fanns när de första orden skrev ner i den svenska ordboken. Ulf Teleman berättar i en artikel att 20 % av alla nya ord som tillkommit inom de senaste femton åren övertagits från engelskan. Dock menar Telemark att den stora boven till förändringen i vårt språk ligger hos tv-tittandet. Nu för tiden uttrycker man sig enkelt i tv-program så att folk ska förstå och denna enkelhet leder till att vårt skriftspråk allt mer börjar likna vårt talspråk. Vi byter ut standarspråket mot ett ”enklare” och det blir allt svårare att veta om man skriver rätt. Detta är något som även Lasse Mannheimer tar upp i en intervju med språkvetaren Susanna Karlsson. Hon berättar att vi får allt svårare att veta om vi kan skriva så som vi säger ord och meningar, just eftersom vi säger det så. Dock menar hon att detta inte kommer vara något problem i framtiden då rätt och fel inte kommer spela någon större roll. Även Karlsson förklarar, precis som Telemark, att vi fått in...
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...R har lige tilføjet et billede af dig Det er er faktisk ved at irritere mig lidt. Jeg har ikke rigtig tænkt over det, før jeg blev uvenner med min gode veninde R over et billede på Facebook. Min Facebook profil viser folk, som ikke kender mig, hvem jer er, hvad jeg laver, hvilke venner jeg har og meget mere. Det er mit eget spejlbillede, som jeg helt selv er skaber af. Eller hvad? Det er altså ikke altid let at leve op til de krav man stiller sig selv og rent faktisk leve op til sit selvskabte spejlbillede. Det ved jeg at andre også vil give mig ret i. Sidder i bussen på vej hjem fra skolen. Jeg må hellere slå tiden lidt ihjel og tjekke mine notifikationer på facebook. “R har lige tilføjet billede af dig”. Jeg hader når folk slår billeder op af mig på Facebook, uden at jeg ved det. Det er ikke meningen, der skal være forfærdelige billeder af mig på min profil, altså ikke medmindre det er meningen, at jeg skal se grim ud. Hvad gør jeg? Jeg må nok hellere skynde mig, at bede hende om at slette det omgående! Jeg kigger beskeden igennem igen, efter jeg har sendt den. Måske overdrev jeg en smule, med caps lock og raseri anfald. Det har i hvert fald lykkedes mig, at blive uvenner med R. R synes at jeg overdrev og flippede lidt for meget ud over situationen. Kan det være rigtigt? Går jeg lidt for meget op i, hvad jeg deler på min Facebook profil? Det er vel her kloge mennesker vil sige, at det er nynarcissismen som spiller mig et puds. Jeg vil bare ikke, have et grimt billede af...
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...Lasse Lindh – Run To You Lyrics Add Comment (5) Send "Run To You" Ringtone to your Cell English Translation/Romanized: With you Everything seems so easy With you My heartbeat has found its rhythm With you I’m so close to finding my home With you I dont care if I’m a little bit crazy Cause with you nothing’s wrong I was broken I was wasted Then you came like an angel in the rain Love used to slip trough me like waters slips trough hands But with you it changed I know I feel I’m closer to your heart I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Through the tears trough the love and all the nights we share I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Don’t you know my love don’t you know two hearts can beat as one Love used to slip trough me like water slips trough hands but no more No more lonely nights no more no more So c’mon c’mon hold on hold on hold on I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Through the tears trough the love and all the nights we share I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Don’t you know my love don’t you know two hearts can I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Through the tears trough the love and all the nights we share I am run run running to you And I’ll keep you safe forever Don’t you know two hearts can beat as...
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