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Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization

approaching, being one that that is more dynamic and flexible, suitable as a tool for analyzing decision problems under uncertaint...

US Welfare State, its Origins and Complexities

convinced that "the need for immediate relief outweighed the need for long-range social insurance programs" (Kingson and Berkowitz...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

An Exploration of Anthropology by Andrea Lee

to parade as white folds illustrates how she wanted her kindred to be just as proud of their true racial roots as they were with t...

Is The Use Of Racial Categories In Educational Achievement Antiquated?

In todays western world there is equal access to education for all races, and may be argued as outdated and implying that there co...

"Caucasia"

maiden name with a venomous clarity-need to go back to Cambridge" (Senna, 1998, p. 21). Then he continues that he needs to go to R...

The Influence of Culture of Origin on Pay Preferences

to first examine the use of different payment methods and what it means. For example, one study shows a significant increase in th...

Paher's Las Vegas (Book Report)

the beginnings of this citys origin. Of course, the book only provides general information and there is only a set amount that can...

The Bible And The Koran

texts because it is accepted by a religion as the Word of God or the Word of Allah, in Islam. All religions have a sacred text upo...

Locke And Rousseau: Differences And Similarities Of Origin And Political Significance Of Private Property

He questioned the assumption that the will of the majority is always the correct one, and he argued that the goal of government sh...

An Exploration of Horoscopes

or the time and place of any other significant event that is being explored. While their validity is still doubted by many, other...

Analysis of the U.S. Bill of Rights

of the Bill of Rights, 2002). This was in Philadelphia and representatives from all 13 states convened here for this purpose (A B...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

The Origins and Relevance of Sociology

for two centuries. Sociology actually arose during the early part of the nineteenth century and is thought to be something respond...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

Rousseau: "Second Discourse"

tribes" (Delaney, 2006). And so we cannot know precisely what Rousseau meant by these definitions. The first part of the Discours...

Evolution of Christianity from Judaic Roots

scholarly and historical thought on this subject offers guidance on these issues. Christianity "was born of Judaism: it was the ...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Earth and Mars

formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty million years ago. This explanation is commonly referred to as the...

The Origins of Political Parties

various coalitions broke and reformed, and "first began to polarize into political factions during the debate over Jays Treaty in ...

Engineering or Evolution in Aldous Huxley and Charles Darwin

nothing)" (The origin of species, 2005). But this was countered by "James Huttons uniformitarian theory of 1785 [which] envisione...

Islam, A History

and elsewhere. It was there that these people became known as Babylonians, Syrians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians (Mathewson, 1994). ...

Overview of Opals

µm diameter) and coarse tubular filament moulds >5 µm in diameter, whereas mid-temperature bubble mat microfacies characteristical...

Tibetan Lamas and Divinity

Noumenon, which Stein refers to as "the Absolute," which must be attained to ensure salvation (Stein 166). Reason alone is not cap...

Critical Review of Postmodernism

century, have altered the game rules for science, literature, and the arts" (Geyh 1). Postmodernism could be defined in a single ...

Early Church Eucharist

carry its full symbolic meaning, which was formulated over time.5 At the time of the historical Last Supper, the Holy Spirit had n...

Gaming on the Internet

mainstream (Oser, 2005). The evolution of online gaming has followed the same lines as the evolution of the Internet (Oser, 2005)...

Process of Evolution Script for an Animated Movie

Due to multiple collisions of the Earths crust, another super-continent appeared during the Cambrian Period (540-490 million years...