Essays on Frenzy

Adopted Derivative and Function in the Financial Markets

Derivatives are important tools in the financial markets because they help reduce investment losses resulting from the fluctuating interest rates. For example, Societe Generale lost about $7 billion following the 2008 property market crisis, which could have been much higher if the company did not hedge its funds. Credited default swaps (CDS) or credit derivative contracts on mortgage-backed securities played a major role in the development of the housing bubble in the American property markets. The swipes were widely used to insure debts using subprime housing securities in the property markets. Swap derivatives can be defined as a series ...

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed is a poem written by an outstanding American poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay. She, with the help of the narrator, introduces the theme that concerns the hardships of being a woman in the society that is ruled and dominated by men. The feminist tone reveals the woman’s inner feelings towards the societal double standards and her craving for equality. In the first line of the poem Edna St. Vincent Millay introduces the narrator: “I, being born a woman and distressed”. (Millay) It is a woman and she delivers it to the ...

Remember the coal miners ordered to war in Manchuria,

the land of the Rising Sun’s “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”; remember the factory workers who joined the resistance in Vladivostok, relocated at gunpoint by Stalin in ’37 to Kazakhstan.

Remember the “Comfort Corps” raped forty times a day,

the woman screaming who could not scream because she was on fire.

In Cholla-namdo we used to break the bones of corpses’ feet

so their souls would’t walk back from the other world, but would you walk back?

Once the guards forced us to watch a comrade being sinned alive.

Later they bludgeoned prisoners to death to save bullets. What won’t we do to each other? After liberation I saw a frenzy of reprisals against former collaborators. An old man—guilty or innocent?—lashed to a grille of barbed wire. ...

Introduction

The development of Disaster Psychology into various spheres of knowledge aims at the analysis of the psychological reactions emanating from either anthropogenic or environmental disasters consequences. This concept provides new approaches to efficiently constructing short-term and possible long-term relief programs. Emerging through stressful instances such as disasters, individuals usually undergo and express certain psychological reactions like denial, anger, irritability, isolation, blame games (blaming others or self-blames), mood swings, feeling stunned and helpless, depression, fear of nightmares, and grief (Frey et al. 2010). The duration and magnitude of these psychological reactions differ and can at times be mild or acute, ...

Today, many people live very busy lives. Most of the population do not stop and take the time to observe their surroundings. I decided to take the time and see the interaction within a shopping mall. As I paid attention to the various people going about their lives shopping, I come to realize how humanity is very similar to other creatures in the natural world. To understand how I have come to such a conclusion, allow me to describe my surroundings. The parking lot of the mall is a vast sea of cars. Everywhere one looks, there are big ...

Introduction

The Modern Green Movement is distinguished by its actions for combating the cataclysmic consequence of climate changes, by conducting global environmental events, conservation of natural resources, preservation of the environment, and overcoming the green gas issues. The consciousness of the people has become more intense now, yet, most of the environmental issues remain unresolved. And the chemically contaminated water and foods, genetically altered seeds, and other problems are putting the daily lives in dangerous conditions. To make matters worse, most of the natural resources dwindle, while the climate change plays havoc. The Modern Green Movement is convincing people, to ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Phillip K. Dick) – Air Raid (John Varley). ‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is a futuristic short story written by Phillip K. Dick, centered on the concept of memory manipulation. It takes on the undiscovered fields of new age science. The concepts involved in the short story are so complex and underdeveloped even in this age and time. But still the author immaculately and ostentatiously nails his narrative. In the same sense, ‘Air Raid’ written by John Varley, seems to be the perfect match for the pairing. Both these short stories ...

Temple Grandin is a movie that was released in 2010.the movie is based on an autistic woman who brought a revolution in the cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. The movie was directed by Mick Jackson and the role of Grandin temple was played by Claire Danes. Temple Grandin, a young lady conceived in 1947, scarcely articulated an expression until she was four. She is conceived Autistic. She utilized her mental imbalance, the capacity to think in pictures, further bolstering her good fortune and elucidated issues that are imperceptible to a neurotypical individual. She is currently a widely acclaimed specialist of a creature science, a lobbyist for mentally ...

Book Review – Uranium Frenzy (Report 1)

The uranium boom in Utah during the 1950s was a whirlwind mineral rush, fuelled by the atomic age. In the wake of the atomic bomb, uranium became an incredibly important mineral and resource that everyone was quick to cash in on, with the US government creating a tremendous amount of interest and zeal towards finding a domestic source (Ringholz ix). All number of people found themselves joining the search for uranium, from trained professionals to enthusiastic amateurs, hoping to join in on this tremendous mineral rush that beset the United States during this time. As the ups and downs of the uranium ...

Introduction

Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions to achieve individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a certified practitioner. Music therapy may sound not like a very much practiced medical procedure but that is not true. In fact, music therapy dates back as early as ancient civilizations like Egyptian, Indus valley and old Chinese civilization. Music combined with various dance forms was used at that time to treat various illnesses. Even today music therapy is used to address physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of an individual. After assessing the problems of a patient, a certified music therapist provides treatment which ...

Sensationalism

This media strategy is employed by mass media through editorial bias. The topics and events in the news stories are often overhyped with the intention of increasing readership and viewership numbers (Dye, 132). As a media strategy, sensationalism includes reporting on matters that are generally insignificant. Events that do not have any impact in the society are also discussed. In doing this, the journalists offer a biased perspective, presenting the news in a tabloid or trivial manner to get the attention of other people. In most cases, this is against the standards that guide professional journalism. In practice, this has happened in ...

Examine the way in which the narrator of Poe’s The Raven tells the story. What does the narrator’s style of manner of narrating tell or reveal about the narrator himself? The Raven is one of the first and most popular poems that famous American writer Edgar Allen Poe wrote. For a brief background about the poem, it is one that focuses on a conversation between a man and a raven. The poem starts by depicting a scenario wherein the man is sitting in chair in front of an open window, lamenting the loss of his love named Lenore, when suddenly a raven ...

There are a wide variety of different ways that consumers can participate in the spectrum of behaviors sometimes referred to as “consumer misbehavior.” Consumer misbehavior runs the gamut from criminal behavior like shoplifting to the compulsive behavior of a shopping addiction. Fullerton and Punj (1997) note that consumer misbehavior has long been accepted to be a problem in the retail world, but that little research has been done on the issue. The most common type of consumer misbehavior considered by researchers is usually shoplifting, but perhaps that is because this type of behavior is very easy to track; other types of consumer ...

Analysis of Poe’s Short Stories

Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short story - “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Tell- Tale Heart” and “The Oval Portrait” – is indeed very gripping and thrilling. With every sentence that one reads more interest and curiosity builds up to know what will happen next in the story. Each of these stories is about horror, death and killing, with a great element of suspense. The Gothic element therefore is very strong in all the three short stories. Joanne Harris (Edgar Allan Poe, p.42) stated in The Telegraph that Poe is a master of horror and one of his strongholds is the detailed ...

Adolf Hitler certainly had the power to mesmerize people when he took to the microphone and his writings have also influenced a great many people which facilitated his rise to power. A typical example would be a speech Hitler gave in September 1938 when addressing a party rally in Munich; ‘The cultural evolution of a Volk resembles that of the Milky Way. Amongst countless pale stars, a few suns radiate. However all suns and planets are made of the same material and all observe the same laws. The entire cultural work of a Volk must not only be geared for the fulfilment of one ...

Communication

Communication

Question 1

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky came up with the propaganda model. This is a conceptual framework which shows how propaganda is spread within the political economy (Herman and Chomsky, 1988). The model indicates how propaganda and systemic biases are involved in the mass media and the roles they play. Furthermore, the model indicates how manipulations of the social, economic, and political issues are shaped in the minds of the people as a result of the propaganda. There are different ways through which the information can be presented; the media, governmental institutions, advertising, among others. Herman and Chomsky (1988) indicated ...

The advent of the Internet age has changed the face of social activism forever. No longer is social activism marked by marches or rallies; today, information is shared in the form of images or video, spread virally from one form of social media to the next. Such was the case with “Kony 2012” the video created to shed light on the actions of Joseph Kony. “Kony 2012” became a viral video, spreading across the United States and around the world faster than Invisible Children, the charity that created the film, could ever have imagined. The “Kony 2012” film was ...

Introduction

‘The flip side of the internet fame’ an article by Jessica Bennett. The author seeks to elaborate the negative impacts of posting on the internet on the overview of a private video concerning the video of chubby Canadian teen of the name Ghyslain Raza. The author clearly illustrates the how the character made a film of himself while acting out a specific fight scene in the film produced in the year 2002 by the name “star wars”. On the same perception a year later the chubby Canadian teen was on the media recorded in a funny digitalized manner in the TV studio of the ...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines paparazzi as a freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures. Paparazzi make money by selling their photos and videos to reputed publications across the world. One single photo or a video clipping is simultaneously sold to several publications. The more famous the person is and the more embarrassing the photograph is to the celebrity, the bigger is the price. The most unique shots of famous personalities can even fetch millions of dollars. These includes situations where the celebrities are drunk, getting angry, tripping and falling or with undone hair. Given the money associated ...

1. Introduction The purpose of this report is to evaluate the 1958 marketing plan proposed by Fred McNicholas, owner of the McNicholas Automobile Sales Company, which he hoped would: a) Better utilize the time of his team of new car salesmen, and b) Focus more on selling to women, which he felt would pay dividends in increased new car sales. This report evaluates the McNicholas Marketing Plan as outlined and provides a view on its viability and practicality, including my recommendations on whether it should be put into practice and my conclusions as the final section of this ...

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Different theorists have come up with different ways of assessing and demystifying the issue of hate crimes. Many of them have proposed theories that have been used in detailing what happens when a certain choice is made in place of another. For example, in the case Sigmund Freud’s theory, it is noted that individuals are faced with a psychological choice on either to fulfill their inner desire of pleasure without regard on the consequences or to become socially conscious in every decision made including the actions taken. Skinner (1978) on the other have focuses on ...