...English 101 20 September 2011 The Biggest Loser Stop procrastinating you will never lose weight by planning to do it. Take action, become the biggest loser. There is a TV show series called The Biggest Loser that consists of two groups of contestants competing to see who can lose the most weight in twelve weeks. The best thing about being the biggest loser is that you do not have to be on the show to achieve weight loss. I am a big fan of the TV show, and I noticed that the diet consists of our everyday food groups and that the exercise program can be simple. If the program is consistently followed, anyone is capable of becoming a “big loser.” The first rule that is needed to in becoming the biggest loser from home is the diet plan. Research shows that in this diet eating three meals a day and having a snack in between two of the meals can enhance weight loss. A sample of a daily meal plan: Breakfast: ½ serving protein, 1 serving whole grain, 1 serving of fruit Snack: ½ protein, 1 fruit Lunch: 1 protein, ½ whole grain, 2 vegetables Snack: ½ protein, 1 fruit Diggs 2 Dinner: ½ protein, ½ whole grain, 2 vegetables Notice there is no specific food required which means there is no extra fee for a meal plan. This sample can be found on the Web MD website. A dieter can basically eat anything as long as it is not alive. Another incentive for using the biggest loser program is that it is very inexpensive. ...
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...The basic argument of Marx’s Estranged Labor is the statement, “what is animal becomes human and what is human becomes animal.” What he means by this is that we live to work and we work to live. less able to separate ourselves from realm of work. alienated from our labor and feel that animalistic functions validate the fact that we’re living. In Estranged Labor, Marx explains how economic vocabulary contains certain concepts, such as private property, but does not explain exactly how economics works. It does not disclose how and what exactly divides labor and capital, capital and land, or the relationship between wages to profit. He argues that as a worker sinks down to the level of a commodity he becomes the worst of commodities. This, Marx explains, is the inverse proportion of power and magnitude of his production. The whole of a capitalist society becomes divided into two classes: property-owners and propertyless. The only way that the political economy works is through greed for wealth or material gain (avarice) and the war amongst the avarice - competition. He explains this through the fact that the more wealth a worker produces and the more his production increases, the poorer he becomes. The worker becomes a cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. As the world of commodities increase, the worker becomes devalued. Labor not only produces commodities, it produces a worker as a commodity as well. This fact explains why an object created by a worker becomes...
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...Who is the biggest loser? Today, about 240 families lost a loved one to a tobacco-related illness. That’s an estimated 87,600 deaths in a year. In 2011, the country earned around Php26 billion worth of taxes from the tobacco industry, while revenue from cigarette manufacturers amounted to approximately Php31 billion. How much does life cost? For each life lost to tobacco use, the tobacco industry earned Php353,881.28. Is it worth it? This does not even account for the annual health costs and productivity losses from tobacco-related deaths and diseases that range from Php148 billion to Php314 billion. No monetary equivalent can also be juxtaposed to the hours of painful treatment just to manage the diseases, nor the time and energy a family member spends to care for the loved one. More so, these numbers do not even reflect the pain of losing someone you love. But for decision-makers, these exact figures and immeasurable realities are not compelling enough to pass the necessary measures to reduce tobacco use. Instead, the most marginalized and the poorest sectors are pitted against each other to rationalize inaction - tobacco victims versus farmers, workers against children and youth. Life versus livelihood. The battle of the sectors has been the easiest tactic to muddle the discourse on amendments to excise taxation. What we fail to remember is that all of these sectors - farmers, urban poor, youth, children, and workers are the tobacco victims. They are the...
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...Chapter 1: Loser Me! In this book I am expressly only dwelling upon only those emotions that are needed to inspire you, my reader. Let me state here I was never the brightest, the most intelligent or the most beautiful in any phase of my life. I have always been cherubic plump since childhood giving other kids a lot of opportunity for creative name calling. I have never topped or scored above average. My upbringing was conservative middleclass with all its cultural limitations of a girl child growing up in India in the 90s. My curfew was 6 pm. I was always home by 4pm. I had many friends in school but after school had no social life. In those days girls rarely ventured out anyway. And I was a home body. Happily involved in one or other of my creative pursuits. My father had bought me a small desk and chair. He always said if you want to do something important you need a place to think. It really made me feel important and grounded to have my own desk. As I spent my entire day after school at my desk drawing, writing gibberish poems and letters. At the age of five my father taught me how to write letters. It literally changed my life. Writing letters to my uncle in navy, attempting newspaper quizzes, letters to the editors about...
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...surface at the end of World War II (Osterhammel & Petersson, 2005). The end of the war permitted a free flow of goods, services and capital between nations. At that time it seemed virtually impossible for countries to operate independently. The second factor that has shown an increase in globalization is technological change. There has been so much improvement in communication, transportation, and information processing that what once was difficult has become simple. As will be explained later, the globalization of markets impacts each country differently. Based on the country’s economic development and political influence, globalization can have both positive and negative consequences. This divides the global market into winners and losers. First let us discuss the advantages of globalization and the “winners” that get to partake of these benefits. The benefits of globalization are endless for certain countries. First and foremost, due to globalization there has been an increase in the freedom of trade between countries (Hill, 2011). This is positive for both consumers and companies with an...
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...Are Third WorldCountries the Losers of Globalisation Page 1 Dennis DamerAre Third World Countries The Losers1/10of Globalisation? Are Third WorldCountries the Losers of Globalisation? Economics Term PaperBy Dennis DamerSS 2002 Content: Page 1. Introduction 22. What is Globalisation? 33. The Origins of Globalisation 34. The Third World 4a. African 4b. Asia 5c. Latin America6d. Russia 75. Globalisation - the Culprit? 76. Bibliography 97. Notes 9 Page 2 Dennis DamerAre Third World Countries The Losers2/10of Globalisation? Introduction Today more than a billion people areliving in extreme poverty having lessthan one dollar a day at their disposalto live or merely to survive. Moreover,until 2015 the world’s population willlikely have grown to 7 billion1. Add tothat 58 million HIV/Aids infectionslargely in the third world countries andmore specifically, Africa.Despite constant lamentation aboutextortionate taxes and poverty inwestern countries Europe, NorthAmerica and part of Asia is wealthierthan ever in the history of mankind.Investors from Europe put their moneyto work in countries around the world.Wal Mart recently announced $220billion in sales for 2001 making itbigger than the economies ofIndonesia, South Africa or Turkey².In the last two decades internationalflows of capital, goods, services,information and labour increased involume and accelerated substantially.In some industries national boundariesbecame obsolete, like remnants of a NGOs and pressure groups...
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...Although Jason feels that he had a good upbringing and is the black sheep of his family is formulation of self-concept and concept of others is all negative. He feels that he is a loser, that he is hopeless, has no support, and that no one cares if he lives or dies. Jason’s integration of life events and cognitive vulnerabilities include being the only child, not having a close relationship with his father, and his mother passing in the year 2012. He believes that he is a loser because he chose to abuse opioids instead of providing for his family. He feels that he has no support and that no one cares if he lives or dies because of the lack of support he received from his father while growing up. Once his mother passed, he lost contact with...
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...by its returns over the last ‘J’ months. Based on these rankings, ten equally weighted decile portfolios are constructed, with the portfolio comprised of those companies with the strongest historical returns and the portfolio with the lowest historical returns. The timeframes for both ‘J’ and ‘K’ horizons were 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. They constructed portfolios based on companies’ 3 month historical returns, and looked at their performance over the subsequent 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. The paper focused largely on the ‘zero cost’ portfolios, representing the difference in performance between the ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. It is important to note that momentum strategy appears to be temporary in nature. Over short time-frames of 3 to 12 months, past winners continues to perform strongly, and vice-versa. This pushes the price of these past winners (losers) above (below) fair value, which leads to lower (higher) medium to long term. Performance of Relative Strength Portfolio Strategy ...
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...Imagine someone receiving a trophy for showing up to their sports team. How would that make someone who should have gotten a trophy for winning feel? These are all questions that are brought up in today's society. With that being said, no, children should not receive participation trophies because they wouldn't know how to face real life challenges, kill the sense of competition, and will also lack understanding about success and failure. Receiving a participation trophy does not allow children to face real-life challenges. For instance, Diller argues that “Perhaps if we offered the gold, silver and bronze for actual achievements, kids would learn lessons that better served their needs as adults.” To put that into perspective, a child that receives a participation trophy can have a false sense of confidence about the sport, or about real life situations. Therefore, that false sense of confidence can strongly affect them in life. In the workforce, a job comes with failure at times, disappointment, and more. Participation trophies are not offering children the opportunity to learn about those aspects of life. Diller also adds that “sustaining a long-term marriage or securing employment” can serve as an example of two trophies used today. In conclusion, when it comes to challenges in life, participation trophies do not offer the ability to learn how to face them. Participation trophies destroy the ability to compete. For example, Diller says, “the problem isn't the profusion of positive...
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...Who have been the principal winners and losers from globalisation? Globalization affects everyone, whether intended, directly or otherwise; it has gradually increased its presence in our daily lives. In this essay, I will point out who are the ones benefited and the ones injured from it by breaking down the question in four broad aspects: economic, political, socio-cultural and environmental. Seemingly, I will analyse the causals for this particular outcomes and distributions that indicate that globalization is creating further divergence in our world increasingly fragmented and unequal. The globalization winners – predominantly developed countries, the top 1% wealthiest demographic segments, transnational companies (TNC’s), supranational organizations amongst others – deeply embedded in the neoliberal belief that markets are the answer to global growth through trade, fostered by incentives such as low tariffs and interest rates and minimal government intervention find themselves unattached to the markedly less benefited, the losers– developing countries, especially their poorest demographic segments, the low-skilled low-wage percentage of workforce, the unemployed, the minorities, women amongst others – who in turn find themselves trapped in this zero-sum cycle where one either leads globalization or follows it – at risk of falling behind – but not either. Globalization, as most concepts in IPE and other social sciences, is a highly contested concept and encompasses a wide...
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...1. Critically discuss the arguments for free trade, paying attention to winners and losers. Free trade as an argumentative policy which has being discussed up till these days since it was established. Debaters formed by two groups of people where one kept being supportive and one held back against this policy. Although the opposing side lists out three points which are unbalanced development, economic dependence and environmental problems to prove that free trade is harmful to less developed countries. On the other hand, supporters try to use increase production and efficiency, economic growth and employment opportunity and consumer satisfaction to prove that all parties benefit from free trade where less developed countries only be less benefits. In this essay, as one of the members supporting free trade agreement I will look deeper into all six points and prove how the advantages within far more excel the disadvantages. Firstly, increase production and efficiency is the most significant advantage of free trade among the above three points. As different countries specialized in different fields, by making use of this comparative advantage, they can allocate resources in the most efficient way where therefore export increases a country’s production demand and import increases competitions between companies where they have to decrease price as a result, the resources are bought cheaper due to competition. With the example shows in Diagram 1, it can convince the theory mentioned...
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...globalization. In the past, outsourcing was mainly used to save money and cut costs by moving low skilled, blue-collar manufacturing jobs into poorer, low wage countries, however, currently there has been an increase of higher wage and skilled white collar professions following suit (Hill, 2012). 6a. Who benefits from the outsourcing of skilled white-collar jobs to developing nations? Who are the losers? The people who benefit from outsourcing skilled white-collar jobs to developed nation are those whole live in the poor countries as well as the consumers of goods or services being produced in the poor countries. Outsourcing benefits the poor countries by creating and supporting jobs, which results in the country being able to attain sustainable economic growth. It also benefits consumers in developed nations, who can save money when purchasing these goods, which results in them having more money to spend on other goods and services. Having more money to spend on additional goods and services is needed when improving their living standards. The people who are the losers in this process of outsourcing of skilled white-collar jobs to developing nations are the producers in more developed nations, who have lost business to enterprises that outsource (Hill, 2012). 6b. Will developing nations like the United States suffer from the loss of high-skilled and high-paying jobs? Yes and no. Countries like Unite States and other developing nations, may not suffer from the loss...
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...A Roll No: 38 WINNERS VS LOSERS The Winner is always part of the answer; The loser is always part of the problem. The Winner is always has a solution; The loser is always has an excuse. The Winner says “Let me do it for you” The Loser says “That is not my job” The winner sees an answer for every problem; The Loser sees a problem for every answer. The Winner says, “It may be difficult but it is possible.” The loser says, “It may be possible but it is difficult.” When a Winner makes a mistake he says,”I was wrong” When a loser makes a mistake he says, “It wasn’t my fault” A Winner makes commitments, A loser makes promises. Winner has dreams. Loser has schemes. Winner is a part of the team. Losers are apart of team. Winners see the gain. Losers see the pain. Winners see possibilities. Losers see the obstacles. Winners believe in Win/Win. Losers believe, for them to win someone has to lose. Winners are like a thermostal. Losers are like thermometers. Winner chooses what they say. Losers say what they choose. Winners use hard arguments but soft words. Losers use soft arguments but hard words. Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things; Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values. Winners follow the philosophy of empathy. “Don’t do others what you would not want them to do to you.” Losers follow the philosophy, “Do it to others before they do it you” Winners make it happen; Losers let it...
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...the basis of their returns in the past M months. The top decile portfolio is called the “winners” portfolio and the bottom decile is called the “losers” portfolio. This strategy involves, simultaneously buying the winner portfolio and selling the loser portfolio and then holding this position for N months (total number of months). The strategies we have considered in our project involve selecting stocks based on their 3-month and 6month returns (for formation period). We then consider holding periods of 3, 6 and 12 months for stocks selected on the basis of returns in 3-month formation period--thus generating trading strategies: 3x3, 3x6 and 3x12. On the basis of returns in 6-month formation period, however, we consider a holding period of only 12 months, thus generating the 6x12 trading strategy. However in the project report analysis of only 6x12 strategy is laid down due to non-completion of other strategies. Methodology In this paper, we explain the methodology for 6 x 12 strategy for illustration purpose, although similar methodology has been used in other strategies as well. The analysis is performed using first six months data for portfolio formation and next twelve months for portfolio testing period i.e. 6x12 strategy. As the study uses 104 months data (from January 2003 to August 2011), there are 86 winner and loser portfolios each for the testing period. Measurements of returns Stock returns are measured monthly on adjusted monthly price of the companies...
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...dari winner dan loser. 3. Nilai rata-rata dari γ+ɳ/2 dari conditional market model winner adalah 0.2254 Nilai rata-rata dari γ+ɳ/2 dari conditional market model loser adalah 0.1262 4. Nilai rata-rata dari γ+ɳ/2 dari Fama n French model winner adalah 0.2867 Nilai rata-rata dari γ+ɳ/2 dari Fama n French model loser adalah 0.1551 5. Koefisien θ pada persamaan di atas menggambarkan efek dari lagged conditional variance, serta gambaran dari efek “old news” pada volatilitas. 6. Koefisien asimetri (ɳ) mengunakan uji signifikansi pada level 5% 7. Loser memiliki ɳ dan θ yang lebih besar, serta γ yang lebih rendah dari pada winner 8. Persistance volatility dari winner dan loser diukur dengan menggunakan γ+ɳ/2+θ. 9. Volatility loser lebih persisten dibandingkan dengan winner , hal tersebut di tunjukkan dengan loser(winner), MM 0.9172(0.8339), FF 0.9623(0.7885). 10. Peningkatan pada conditional volatility akan menyebakan penurunan retur winner dan loser, tapi meningkatkan return momentum. 11. Penambahan stuktur GJR-GARCH(1,1)-M ke dalam model tradisional untuk mengukur kinerja, sangat krusial untuk menjelaskan abnormal return dari strategi momentum. Tabel 4 1. Nilai rata-rata koefisien θ pada market model, untuk winner (0.5785) lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan loser (0.7911). 2. Nilai rata-rata koefisien θ pada Fama n French model, untuk winner (0.5017) lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan loser (0.8072). ...
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