2 THE LOSS OF THE CREATURE EVERY EXPLORER NAMES his island Formosa, beautiful. To him it is beautiful because, being first, he has access to it and can see it for what it is. But to no one else is it ever as beautiful--except the rare man who manages to recover it, who knows that it has to be recovered. Garcia Lopez de Cardenas discovered the Grand Canyon and was amazed at the sight. It can be imagined: One crosses miles of desert, breaks through the mesquite, and there it is at one's feet
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THE LOSS OF THE CREATURE Walker Percy Every explorer names his island Formosa, beautiful. To him it is beautiful because, being first, he has access to it and can see it for what it is. But to no one else is it ever as beautiful--except the rare man who manages to recover it, who knows that it has to be recovered. Garcia Lopez de Cardenas discovered the Grand Canyon and was amazed at the sight. It can be imagined: One crosses miles of desert, breaks through the mesquite, and there it is at
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* PILLARS People are rational and seek to maximize their expected utility Markets are efficient, with no arbitrage opportunities ANOMALIES These are not confirmed in real life, so we study the reason behind the anomalies in the models using: Field data Lab experiments Computer simulations Brain scans * STUDY TOPICS Alternatives to Expected Utility Theory Time Preferences Predicting Human Behavior in Strategic Situations Self-Confidence Cognitive Biases & Consequences Using
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the recession, or to close materially the gap between real GDP and potential GDP, in marked contrast to the rapid recovery from the previous severe recession in the early 1980s or from earlier severe recessions in U.S. history. When you include both the periods of the recession and the slow recovery, economic instability has more than tripled according to a common measure of performance used by macroeconomists: The standard deviation of the percentage gap between real GDP and potential GDP rose from
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY______________________________________________________ MotorEssentials, Inc. is a small, independently owned company founded in 2008. The company currently houses fifteen full time employees, of these fifteen; five will be instrumental in the carrying out this marketing plan, all five members are also members of an elite Eco change administration, a club founded on the idea of promoting ecofriendly basic need elements, i.e food/shelter and now transportation. Our marketing plan
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GLOBAL AVIATION GROUP 2013 Airline Disclosures Handbook Financial reporting and management trends in the global aviation industry kpmg.com KPMG’s Global Aviation practice KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 156 countries and have 152,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the most common reasons people died were accidents or communicable diseases like pneumonia. Today, millions die each day from poverty. How can poverty be defined? And what is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? In the paper I will address these issues along with sociological views of poverty. Poverty is a social issue that affects the world. Poverty causes many to be malnourished and die at a young age, it is a cause of
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How Does Ryan air maintain Competitive Advantage over other airlines? [pic] Aim My aim is to investigate whether the low cost airline Ryan air (PLC) has and if so how does it maintain its competitive advantage. In my investigation I will be looking at other competing low cost airlines such as Easyjet as well as main stream international airlines such a British Airways. I will also be looking at how Ryanair has gone from nothing to being the No.1 low cost airline. Introduction Ryanair
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The Grand Design ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Brief History of Time A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell FOR CHILDREN George’s Secret Key to the Universe (with Lucy Hawking) George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt (with Lucy Hawking) ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW A Briefer History of Time The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
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For millennia the Maya lived in what is now the lowlands of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and Honduras.For reasons still not full understood, around 900 AD their society collapsed and cities abandoned.While their social structure disappeared, the Mayans did not. | | 11,000 B.C. The first hunter-gatherers settle in the Maya highlands and lowlands. 3114 or 3113 B.C. The creation of the world takes place, according to the Maya Long Count calendar. 2600 B.C. Maya civilization begins. Olmec figurine
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