Review Session 4 Problems: 1) Stock M and Stock N have had returns for the past three years of –12%. 10%, 32% and 6%, 15%, 24% respectively. Calculate the covariance between the two securities. 2) Stock P and stock Q have had annual returns of -10%, 12%, 28% and 8%, 13%, 24% respectively. Calculate the covariance of return between the securities. 3) Stock X has a standard deviation of return of 10%. Stock Y has a standard deviation of return of 20%. The correlation coefficient
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CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHING METHODS IN LANGUAGE (final) A teacher‘s responsibility is not only to say all things in books, he has to convey knowledge in them to students. To do that, the teacher of language has to choose effective and suitable teaching methods. We can classify them into two groups, the former is a deductive approach and the latter is an inductive one. For the deductive approach, we can mention the grammar translation method which appeared from 1800. Through translation exercise
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43 took further steps than Black by asserting a radical view on metaphor: “Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”48 In this discussion of interaction views, there are some insightful notions with respect to metaphor. First, metaphor highlights certain features while hiding others.49 Second, metaphorical coherence between ostensibly inconsistent metaphors serves to share common entailments.50 In other words, each different
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Analysis of the Task-Based Syllabus: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Case for its Implementation Leon Townsend-Cartwright - September 2014 MA TEFL/TESL Module 3: Syllabus and materials; Lexis SM/14/01: Select one type of syllabus from the list below, and comment on its strengths and weaknesses. Task-based syllabus Show how the syllabus has been influenced by particular theories (and models) of both language and learning. Describe the teaching situation (or situations) which you believe
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1. In the case of Retrotonics, Masters’ management style has several features ,such as disrespecting and improper decision-making. Firstly, Masters ignored his subordinates’ feeling which make them embarrassed. For example, the production manager, Lee, who suffered Masters’ criticism in front of other employees(Drew 1998, para 4). Although employees need the evaluation from the manager, they tend to accept the criticism privately. Another factor of Masters’ management style is making decisions in
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CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2012 series 0653 COMBINED SCIENCE 0653/21 Paper 2 (Core Theory), maximum raw mark 80 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’
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“Discuss the circumstances that led to Arnold Schoenberg’s revolutionary break with tonality. Address the musical context in which Schoenberg was working. Give an account of the break itself through relevant examples, and discuss some of the compositional problems Schoenberg encountered and his solutions to them.” Jordan Roche Perhaps the single most influential composer of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg was born into a modest, lower middle-class Jewish family in Vienna on September
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MIT Sloan Class of 2013 Facebook group * XXXXXHannah Clark Steiman Cambridge, Massachusetts Joined about 8 months ago * * XXXXXXSohana Punithakumar MIT Sloan School of Management Joined over a year ago * * XXXXXXXX Ahmed Wali Aqeel Works at Game Ventures Joined about 8 months ago * * XXXXX Xi Wang Harvard Joined about 2 months ago A 2014 candidate * * XXXXXXX Vanessa William UPenn Joined about 12 months
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Volume 6 Number 2 (2012): 73-84 http://www.infactispax.org/journal/ Editorial Essay The Importance of Philosophy for Education in a Democratic Society Dale T. Snauwaert The University of Toledo Dale.snauwaert@utoledo.edu This essay explores the importance of philosophy for the study and practice of education in a democratic society. It will be argued that at its core education is a normative enterprise, in that it is driven by fundamental social values as well as the imperatives of social
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than ever. Invaluable references, including Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Evelyn Brooks Higgingbotham, ed., Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001); Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds., The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001); and Randall M. Miller and John David Smith,
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