...When first embarking on the Stocktrak site I must admit I had very little experience with investing of any real kind. I was an amateur and I thought it would be a fun way to learn a little bit about the market and myself in how I might approach looking at investing and the kind of approach I would take. From the start I took a rather conservative approach to the entire thing. I roughly made about one trade a week and even didn’t make a trade in a week at all. Granted in a market that’s down a bit to maximize my earnings that might not have been the best approaches as the market didn’t not vary a whole lot, at least for what I had invested in, but I will get to that later. As far as what I hoped to get as a rough expected return was about 5-10%. I was hoping to make some money within the game but also not expecting huge profits based on the current financial climate and the amount of trading and effort put in for my more conservative portfolio. That return I was hoping to realize in the 10-week holding period but looking at it now with a change in the climate in future months it might be more realizable in an annualized holding period. Some constraints that I took into consideration while doing this project are not very severe and don’t entail a whole lot. When I took this project on I didn’t particularly see the 10 weeks as the final see all. I did not go and put all 500,000 directly into the market even though I used most of it. It was more long term probably closer to a...
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...divorced African-American female with 2 children. Client has a 13 year old son and a daughter who is an adult. Client is dressed appropriate and is well groomed. 8/8/13 (S) Client reports have a lot of difficulty understanding her 13-year-old son. She stated her son “holds on to anger and can lash out at the drop of the hand”. She reports the last episode occurred when her son was outside, playing with some friends and one of the boys said something to him. She does not know what was said but her son just exploded. Client stated she is “concerns because she does not want anyone to hurt him and he gets angry over the least a little bit of thing that someone says to him”. As a result client reports arguing with her son and they both end up anger at one another. She is an older parent, and she reports have a little patience with her son. (O) Client is a little frustration in reference to her son angry issues. In the beginning of the counseling session the client appears frustrated when she discusses some examples of her disagreement with her son about his anger and temper issues. Towards the end of the session the client was smiling and able to identify a better way to talk to her son by using different approach without being so angry. (A) Client feels hurt and anger because she is unable to communicate with her son when he gets anger. Client reports she unable find the right words to communicate with her son. Counselor and client were able to do a small role play during the session...
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...Round 1. Situation: 2 females, 1 target sitting at table eating food, mild discussion Flash mob hits possible taint on experiment Behavior contemplative slightly closed off protective stances have been taken Preening behaviors More preening behaviors Slightly warming up to him still guarded but relatively open Compliance More preening Nervous behavior twirling hair Open body posture Relaxing a little bit and laughing More nervous twitches Seem open to idea, and discussion has occurred post interaction Mission: Successful Time: 3:19 Round 2. Situation: 2 females Standing outside Einstein’s. Team Closed off a little Conference Nervous hand twitches Bringing up other guy Point to self Pointing to friend Friend opens herself up Preening behaviors Another joins Stated single, opening up in sharing personal life indicates relaxation Mission: Success Time: 1:12 Round 3 Situation: 2 females sitting and eating outside. Solo Making long eye contact Looking around for friend briefly Looking at his body language Self touch, bra straps Legs remained cross Genuinely humoring the situation Laughing when friends come back, covering her mouth and smiling Strong eye contact Closed off, hands remained in lap Genuinely wants to humor him Gets number, but associates with friend, looking her opinion Hands over phone without looking at him She stated she has a boyfriend Mission: Success (possible fake) 3:12 Round 4 Situation: Team. 2 females sitting...
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...and delivered speech, in his ways, move the listener. Audience pay all their attention to Obama. I learnt a lot as I was lack of symphony preformence. | Do either Part B OR Part C to complete your reflection record for this module. Submit only one part. Part B My Activity Language ActivityUnderline as appropriate | CILL activity Others pls specify | Title | Movie watching – The Ring | Part 1(~ 50 words) | It is a horror film that produce from America , adapt from a famous horror film from Japan-----Ringu. Its about a girl who become a ghost and the story behind it. All that history is discover by the Main character. | Part 2 & 3 (~ 100 words) | At first, I felt a little bit afraid of the film. Because I’ve been told that it is a really terrifying and that make me a little nervous. But when I finished watching the film, I found that there are some meaningful stories and things in that film. That told me to think how other people feel sometimes. To conclude, I really enjoy watching moving in Cill. Because it feels so warm and joyful together....
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...soldiers. In this case I have used my poster to go mainly against the Nazi’s, but I added a little bit against the Japanese as well. Within the poster itself you are able to see a nasty green hand with a swastika on top of it. I also included four hands breaking apart the swastika, and lastly I have portrayed the Japanese and their evils within a sort of scythe. This is what is mainly seen, apart from the slogan itself and the evil eyes in the background. As you can see, I used Demonization in this poster. This can be seen in the way Hitler’s hand was drawn. It is a nasty green color, with long yellow nails in which way giving it the looks of, perhaps, being a zombie or simply un-human. When it comes to the Japanese, I have represented them within the scythe. This was supposed to be a scythe just like the one of the grim reaper, but I decided in the end to make it look more like a skeleton hand as opposed to just having a long rod as is typically seen. The last factors used were the evil-looking eyes. I added Hitler’s mustache and comb-over so that he could be identified. In this way effectively showing how evil he is. The next tool I was able to use was name-calling. By saying, “Help get rid of those filthy Huns!” I am, in a sense, degrading the German army. I also used “Eliminate the yellows from the rainbow.” By doing so, I am not only making fun of them, but even adding a little humor to the situation. I think this is somewhat funny because I can imagine them super dirty...
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...There was a couple moments only a sentence or two where he made me think the story was going to become easier to read, but it did not. In a way I do pity him, because his sentences consisting of only a few words and the way he would say the same sentence over, just switching the words a little made it seem to me that the narrator did not know how to speak correctly. The narrator seemed almost resentful about Robert coming to visit. He came across very rude and non-supporting of his wife, who was excited being able to see an important friend she had not seen in years. The narrator acted like being blind was a contagious and deadly disease. He did everything not to like Robert or to give him a fighting chance. Robert surprised me in the end, because after the way the narrator reacted throughout the story, in the end it was Robert who won over the narrator and gave the narrator an important life experience. Robert may be blind and could not see the narrator’s actions and facial comments, but he had to be able to feel the negative attitude the narrator had towards him. Robert just continued on, acting like he had not noticed how unwanted he was there. Robert pushed the narrator a little bit at a time to get him to open up and get to know him. After dinner I really did not notice Robert trying more than usual to get the narrator to like him. He seemed to take it or leave it as they went along, not taking the narrators attitude to heart and getting upset over it. The narrator...
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...Ghosts by Naomi Wood The short story by Naomi Wood was written in 2012, and is about Pia, who is a middle-aged woman and the day where the short story takes place, is her 40th birthday. In this story we meet Pia, her partner Daniel and random people from the streets and of course Pia is our main character. The short story starts in the middle of Pia’s day, she just finished working and she is about to leave the car park at work. She is on her way home, where her partner Daniel waits to take her to a restaurant to celebrate her birthday, but on her way home she is reflecting over what it means to turn 40. The short story is told in a chronological order, but with flash back-like situations “Giving in, she ghosted back through memory. She drank the coffee, ate the omelette, took down the laundry...”. What’s most important is the middle and the ending of the short story, how Pia starts by thinking that turning forty will only be the first of many depressing situations, but actually comes to the conclusion that it is only as depressing as you make it. It is kind of an open ending where the author puts in a line saying “Time waits for no man” which sums up on every reflections Pia had during her drive home. The atmosphere of the story is to begin with really tense and dim because of how Pia feels about herself. Turning 40 should be something to celebrate but for Pia it is the same as starting digging your own grave. When she hears the news of the neutrinos she “…wondered...
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...Miss Skeeter Inner Miss Skeeter is a kind of a wild girl, she drive fast in her mother´s Cadillac though her mother will be furious about it (site 1) She started smoking when she was fourteen years old. Her mother tell her that she was not allowed to smoke before she was seventeen, but Skeeter hang out of the window and smoked, and kept it secret from her mother (site 11) Miss Skeeter has disappointed her mother because she has not get married (site 2) but Skeeter cannot see the terrible thing if she not get married (site 3) Skeeter is a little bit afraid of her mother, example will Skeeter never be able to tell her mother that she want to be a writer because she think her mother will turn it into yet another thing that separates her from the married girls (site 3) Only because Skeeter never get married doesn't mean that she not have dreams, she dreamed about having football dates but her real dream is that someday she will write something people actually read (site 6) You can see Skeeter has low confidence, you can see it when her friend Holly has trying to set her up with a boy, and Skeeter think that the boy is looking too good for her and she is flattered that Hilly has so much faith that someone like him would be interested in someone like her (site 7) and she also think that she is ugly (Site 10) When Skeeter goes to college She felt free, she was off the farm, out from under the criticism (site 14) and when she come home again - She has a left-behind feeling since...
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...paranoid and struggles. It was a new world for her and her family so they were trying to adapt in this situation. For the author, living in America was confuse, she felt like living in America was a treat or her warning for people of her type. Specifically for Thai people. The author also described how she was forced to speak English. At first, she thought that they were trying to make her forget her first language so she could only speak English but she was wrong. She also realize that kids like her was living a mixture of language. They were speaking Thai at home and English at school. She felt like that way will affect a lot of things in her abilities to speak two language and it will be confuse for her. The author show us that she was a little bit curious about the living style of others kids. There is a day, she was on her way back to home, and she missed her stop bus so she had a long ride in downtown and discover the living style of other kids. The author says he was a good experience for her because she saw that some kids was living a good life and some was living a bad life. Those are the things who make her realize what is really living in America. The author also described her high school experience. She talks about the transformation from the struggle of her identity to her simply not caring of her identity. She also talks about how she discover to adapt and overcome some trouble, she achieve it by being a good immigrant students. Specially, being active in class...
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...Imagine a drug that can transform you into a zombie slave. A machine that loses all free will, is very compliant, but still appears to be alert and coherent. The drug is easily removed from a very common plant. It’s tasteless, odorless, and can be quickly mixed into drinks, food, and cigarettes. This demon drug is called borrachero. Ask any Colombian resident about borrachero, also known as burundanga. They’re sure to tell you some horror story about the drug. They’ll tell stories of victims who willingly handed over their wallets and PINs, or visit the bank with their captors and withdraw huge amounts of cash. They also take the thieves to their home and casually help them load all their possessions into a truck. Sound scary? That’s because it’s supposed to. The borrachero is real and dangerous. The active substance is scopolamine and is extracted from the Bugmansia plant, also known as Angel’s Trumpet, which grows wild throughout the Andes. The stories about criminals chemically making people compliant are an urban myth. There’s plenty of mystery surrounding scopolamine and it’s ability to create submission. Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death”, supposedly experimented with the drug as an questioning aid. The CIA had a similar idea and investigated it as a truth serum, but it was unsuccessful. It’s mentioned in a number of Hollywood movies, including “Where Eagles Dare”, “The Guns of Navarone” and “Robocop 2”. So it’s not surprising that scopolamine...
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...because everything Emmy goes threw is like a detour for her from start to ending. Emmy went threw a lot from being a regular teenager to being a mother at teenager years. Emmy had to change her goals and her dreams because of on little mistake that happened. But that didn’t stop Emmy from being the best she could be. She continued her life but down another path because she had another life to take care of besides her own. Being a single parent for Emmy was hard because she didn’t have Art there to help her or be there for Rosie. This was another big detour for Emmy because she thought that Art would’ve been a little bit more of a father and help to Rosie and her but he wasn’t. Everything to Emmy was a big disappointment to her in her life but she would just take another turn to make things better for her. Life for Emmy was full decisions to make either she took one path or she took another. Usually one was the difficult path because she either had to give something up she didn’t have the help. She would always have to take the path she knew would be easier for her and would help her with Rosie. “Detour for Emmy” was a very good title for this book as I explained the things Emmy had to go threw and the detours she had to make because of a little mistake that happened that turned her whole life...
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... interesting story. The characters are memorable and distinct. I only have a few recommendations for improving the script. !1. The relationship between Jake and Polly !I think it would be nice to have some more background on their relationship together. At some point the reason they are together should be made clear. It would raise the stakes once Antonio becomes involved and allow us to see a more complete character arc for both of them. Without it, some of the dialogue, tension, and conflicts sometimes feel a little bit forced or unrealistic, particularly on page 58, 68, and 77. Particularly on page 77, instead of saying “So I’m selfish now,” maybe Polly can say something acknowledging she made a mistake. That way, Jake will seem more in the wrong once he says something hurtful and it will make even more sense as to why Polly almost hooks up with Antonio. !2. Polly’s Transformation !Much of Polly’s transformation throughout the middle of the script seems a bit shallowly presented—merely through outfit changes and her growing acceptance of Antonio’s taboo behavior and ideas. She mentions that Jake wants to change her, but it seems more that he just wants to bring the old her back. It would be nice to have clarification on that change and why it is so hurtful to her that Jake doesn’t seem to like it. This relates to the tension I addressed in #1. I think there needs to be a moment where Polly fully recognizes that she has changed but that it is for the better. It would make...
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...Marketing Materials—Website Rubric Audience SnackApp’s target audience is young sports fan and sporting event attendees. Engaging and Appealing Design o Consistent theme and color scheme throughout website o Font and color of text is intelligible and easy to read o Graphics and images are placed appropriately and fits into design of website o Links are distinct and clearly convey where link will take the user Color and font are consistent through the website. But the white color may be a little bit too dazzling to read. May be light grey will be better. Graphics and images fit perfectly. Navigation o Easy to navigate through pages and links o seamless transitions between content o Links function correctly (take user where they want to go) o Content arranged in functional order Easy to locate information and navigate around. The “about” bottom is a little confuse to me until I click on it. Other links and bottom works well. Contents are nice organized. Informative o Content clearly explains how to use our app o content throughout site is concise but engaging o All information is relevant to subject area More description on “how to use” the app, the infographic on how it works is not very clear on this point. All other content is closely related to subject. Well-Edited (Visual & Verbal) o no grammatical or spelling errors o word choice is professional yet easy to follow for all customers o Material...
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...with his family. Eddie feels UFV is a little bit cheaper than other universities and also close to his house as he belongs to Langley and as such it is easier for him to drive to Abbotsford. Talking about the interests of Senkler, he is keenly interested in Economics and therefore he is thinking of doing his business degree with economics as his major. When asked about his liking of Economics, I found that graphs and relations interests him a lot. Moreover, I personally believe that economics is a great field if you are interested in pursuing it for future and as such I appreciate his choice in the career field. While discussing about Eddie’s first job, I came to know that he worked in COSTCO in the bakery and later on he also worked in Cannery for some time. Eddie is currently working in RIGS, a kind of firm that count inventory for stores or you could call it Audit kind of job. He likes his job as it provides him with an opportunity to meet variety of people as well as to go to different places. His job is going to have positive effect on his career as he is planning to start his own business in future. Business is all about experience with people and places and Eddie gained chunk of knowledge while working in RIGS. Besides going to School and working, Eddie also enjoys his life to fullest and believes, “Life is like an ice cream, so enjoy it before it melts”. He is a person with fun loving and cheerful nature and enjoys every bit of life with his family and friends. He...
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...Explore the presentation of Myrtle, Daisy and Cecilia Myrtle is presented as a woman that is made to look a little bit cheap, and a woman who is from a lower class to those of Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. We can see this clearly as she lives in the valley of ashes. This is almost an automatic contrast to Daisy who lives in West egg. As an egg has just been born, and is full of a future, whereas ashes are something that remains from a thing that used to live, but will never be anything again. Something that Daisy, Myrtle and Cecilia all have in common is that they’re all materialistic. Daisy is won over by a pearl necklace, Myrtle overcrowds her apartment with “tapestries furniture” and Cecilia “switches dresses three times before going down to dinner”. However this also presents them as materialistic in three different ways. Daisy is a woman in the 1920’s who has been given more rights; however she doesn't know what to do with them. She still feels as if she needs protection, and looking after, which is why she chose Tom over Jay Gatsby. Myrtle just wants affection. She looks for love in objects because she wants to feel that love. This is why she is seen to be so happy when Tom gets her a dog – which is nothing compared to daisy’s pearls, however is a symbol of a rich man’s love to her. Cecilia put her money into her clothes because her appearance is everything. She goes to college and comes back to amount to nothing, moping and smoking round the house. And so she chooses her dresses...
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