Essays on Red Line

Modern international relations have significantly increased the influence of American presidents. Three in particular served with similar events playing out: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. The terms of these presidents were denoted by tumult in Iran and a resurgent Russia, and as far as foreign policy is concerned, their legacies may not be pristine. Jimmy Carter faced significant challenges in regards to Iran, whose revolution in 1979 instilled a theocratic regime devoted to Islamic law. The Ayatollah blamed the West for many of the region’s issues and when Carter allowed the deposed Shah to receive medical ...

Introduction

OPNET Modeler can be used in order to create and analyze network models; therefore, it can do organizational scaling to deal with a specific ‘what if’ problem. In addition, use of Project Editor is necessary in order to create a small network, gather and collect statistics about network effectiveness and performance, run a network simulation, and analyze the received results and statistics. Moreover, designing a new network can be made easier if a group of several scenarios is combined in order to explore different network aspects. In this lab report not only Loads and Delays on the first floor ...

Undoubtedly, Terrence Malick is one of the most enigmatic artists of the modern cinematography. The majority of his films affect the most profound and controversial issues of human existence. The director is well known for his visual and poetic approach to cinematography, for which he is occasionally praised and scolded by critics. Recently, he turns to the Christian themes and speaks directly about God and with God in his films. In the film "The Tree of Life," Malick raises the question of the knowledge of God and the meaning of suffering, while his picture "To the Wonder" interprets love ...

VaR calculations are becoming increasing important for all the investors, bankers, and regulators. There are several ways to calculate VaR; the historical method, the Variance – Covariance Method, and Monte Carlo method. In this analysis, we will use the returns of stocks from Dow Jones Industrial Average for the last 40 years in order to make a comparison between different VaR calculation methods. We will try to determine how that observation time, normality of the data, time frame, and variation of the data influence different ways of calculating VaR.

Implementation of Historical Methods

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Historical simulation is one of the popular methods used in ...

ABSTRACT

The research argues that although a gas flaring stoppage is not successfully in-place in Nigeria, fitting the appropriate technology with complementary economic and institutional factors can lead to near-zero or zero gas flaring. Nigeria is a developing country with a unique culture of many tribes and one of the largest growing urban populations in the world. Infrastructural, political and economical challenges to meeting the goal are introduced. Reinjection of gas back into wells is not available as an option to gas flaring because a large region for gas production is wetlands (Buzcu-Guven et al. 2012). Wetlands ...

Critical Thinking Paper: ENVI-423-003 Geography of Middle East

Three issues that have served as effective learning supplements in Geography of Middle East class include the following: the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel, continuing troubles in Iraq in the post-War on Terror era and the effects of high concentration of funds to Jewish organizations in the United States (US). The foregoing issues provide significant impacts on understanding the nature of Middle Eastern politics better, given the complicated interests of nations therein and their volatile status towards one another, the US and its allies. Key to understanding the complicated nature of Middle Eastern politics is the divisiveness brought ...

Movies on War can be associated to the origin of the cinemas, and both are comparatively as old as each other. War has been a fundamental product in Hollywood, and such movies on war can be seen since decades, and they continue to be huge block-busters even in the contemporary world. The movies on war provide outline and structure to war, define war cultures, identify enemies, form objectives, and allow the audience to remotely get familiar with the danger and enthusiasm of the front line. In America, the movies on war were central to the global publicity campaigns waged during ...

The Promotion of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in Hollywood, California

Chapter I: Introduction The facts are impossible to ignore: focusing on places, health and walkability requires increased public transit infrastructure, which creates new jobs, enlivens neighborhoods, creates local business opportunities and connects communities, both vulnerable and thriving, to vital amenities and resources. (Raphael &Espiau, 2010, par. 9) Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a neighborhood development plan focusing on easy access to major transit stops. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) defined TOD during the 1990s when undertaking a project consisting of initiatives to promote livable communities: “Transit-oriented communities are characterized by design and development patterns that are conducive to the ...

Chapter V

Discussion of Results and Conclusions This dissertation began with a quote from Raphael and Espiau (2010, par. 9) describing the positive outcomes that are the goals of TOD. Those goals include offering a high quality of life, healthy neighborhoods, and increased public transit infrastructure. The goals are expected to create equitable communities because jobs and equal access to facilities and services exist. Hollywood in Los Angeles County (LAC) has had especially challenging problems due to the sheer number of cars and people involved in the congestion of the highways. The LAC Metro has been a forerunner in the U.S. in organizing ...

the Promotion of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in Hollywood, California

Overview

In California, the Los Angeles Metro, government, public organization and communites have worked hard to develop TOD projects in several locations in California. Los Angeles County (LAC) in Southern California is bordered by the Pacific Ocean; and near enough to the southern border of the U.S. that many people have migrated north to LA. Hollywood acts like a magnet for people looking for work in the movie industry and for tourists. years. In fact, the congestion of people and their cars in LAC has made it one of the most crowded ...

Validity and Scope of Approximate Methods of Integration

Introduction Addition of discrete numbers is pretty straightforward; more than 80% of the human population can make mental calculations instantly. So when integration was introduced as a kind of addition in a continuous domain, I was not very worried. However, it didn’t take me long to realize that understanding integration is more than solving a bunch of problems using well defined techniques. So in my pursuit to understand the topic well, I decided to research upon how some of these techniques (Trapezium Rule and Simpson’s Rule) came about, how they work, and what they really mean. With this intent, ...

Introduction

Laus or Los Angeles Union Station is currently the major rail way station in Los Angeles, California and it’s the biggest passenger terminal railroad the Western part of the United States. Most recently, the railway station evolved into the largest main transport hub for those who live in South California. It currently, serves about sixty thousand passengers on a daily basis on their en route to Amtrak for the longer distance trains locomotives, Regional trains of Amtrak California, computer driven trains of Metro link as well as many more metro rails and light rails. In addition, the ...

Introduction

Recently Syria has been on global TVs for all wrong reasons. It is almost nicknamed land of fate following the extensive peace provocations in the country. It has been the point of comparison for nations renowned for insecurity through terrorism and tribal wars. Children with bear terrorism knowledge closely identifies with Syria as they consistently hear about the country in TVs and radios. It is a bad example of nation that children would wish to grow up in. In fact, not many people can tell about the origin of war in Syria. However, people have consistently thought of how the ...

Cocaine is an illicit drug that is made from the leaves of the coca plant. Cocaine can be manufactured in several. A common method involves copping the coca leaves and mixing this with ammonia and lime. Following this, the mixture is placed into barrels with diesel gasoline. The active component of cocaine dissolves into the gasoline and the gasoline is filtered out from the rest of the mixture that is discarded. Sulfuric acid is then mixed with the diesel mixture. This allows for the formation of cocaine sulfate. The cocaine sulfate is then mixed with more lime to neutralize ...

Facebook users have gone crazy over the foreign policy conflict between Iran and Israel over Iran’s continued desire to have nuclear weapons. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu argued for a “clear red line” to be drawn by the international community to defeat Iran’s attempt to have a nuclear weapon. In his United Nation General Assembly address, Netanyahu argued that if Iran posses the nuclear weapon, then no one in the world would be safe. Netanyahu went further to argue that Iran was on the verge of having a substantial amount of uranium to build a weapon by the end ...

Engineering

Boston, Massachusetts one of the oldest cities, is a busy community with high percentage of roads chocked with traffic. In order to relieve the traffic issues and to provide the residents with more parks and recreational facilities instead of roads, an ambitious project was undertaken known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T). The project basically encompassed on the vision of building an underground tunnel, miles below the surface, without disturbing the daily routine and holding up traffic for construction. In order to achieve this daunting task many changes had to be undertaken, which could ire the everyday commuter. The following ...