...Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner focuses on our economy and the study of incentives. The two authors discuss comparisons that seem so foreign such as “What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” and “How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?” Questions like these stir up the novel and essentially unravel the untold stories of life and consumption. Core economic principals are discovered within each story of the book. The title Freakonomics in itself has a humorous connotation with the combination of two words: freak and economics. Freak, by definition, means abnormality or oddity and most people might familiarize economics solely with finance or commerce. However, Levitt and Dubner break this common misconception and reveal how...
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...knows me as Justine Nelson. I have been through so much that no one knows about and no one ever will. My full government name is Justine Marie Nelson; originally Justin Anthony Nelson because my parents thought that I was going to be a boy. When I came out as a girl, they asses an –e and my middle name comes from my Aunt who I do not like. I do not go by my government because I feel like it is tied to entirely too much sh….just no. So let’s try this again. My name is Jay Stixx. You can call me Jay, Jay Stixx, or just Stixx. I’m blunt, rude, excuse my language, but most call me an asshole. I’m a Gemini and a full lesbian. I rep them both to the fullest. I have a girlfriend name Reia…she’s an aspiring singer and a model. My birthday is June 5, 1992. I have a two year old daughter that I had with my ex fiancé. Mind you, I’m only 21. Meaning I was engaged at 18 and 19 years old. But…having a kid really does change EVERYTHING!!!! People can’t handle my life, especially my family. My mother is a Sergeant in the National Guard. My father is somewhere out in Mississippi doing whatever it is that he is doing. And my step father works at a chemical plant…he’s my homie. When I was pregnant, he was freaking out because he’s never had his own biological children. Plus my older sister, 14 months older, was pregnant right along with me. My daughter is 5 days older than her son. When I turned 21, my dad took me to a hookah bar and we got soooooo drunk. It was awesome. Now that I think back on our...
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...Cornelius Jacobi Adams is my name, but what is the real meaning behind such a unique and interesting name. When Mrs Beddingfield assigned this essay, I didn’t know anything but a few pieces of information about my name. Cornelius was just a name my mother gave me because she knew I would be smart so she wanted a name to fit in with that, and Cornelius sounded quite interesting and intelligent. I really don’t know anything about my middle name, Jacobi,except for the fact that it just sounded good. My last name, Adams, comes from my grandmother’s name. Adams was her name when she got married and she had it ever since. I would like to discover more about my name and the real meaning behind it. I would also like to know where my name came from and where did it originate from. By using the Internet, a personal interview, and a book, I discovered interesting fact about my first,middle,and last names. What I Learned My first name, Cornelius is not as popular today as it was in the 16th through the 18th centuries. It is found in the bible. In the new Testament, Cornelius is found in Acts as a wise...
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...whom would not look at it right? In 3 months Google plus has managed to gross over 25 million users which makes it the fastest growing social media platform so far that we have seen. They each have their own pros and cons but it basically comes down to what you prefer the most. One aspect of Google plus that I found very cool was that you can have circles of friends and you can place people in the circles that you wish. I have labeled one circle strictly for “family” another strictly for “friends” and lastly one strictly for “basketball and golf”. You can also choose whose statuses you choose to read, if you are tired about hearing about the annual family cookout on Google plus you can switch from your “family” circle to your “friends” circle and see what they are doing at the moment. I thought that the circles aspect of Google plus was something awesome and something I think will eventually draw tons of users in. Another pro about Google plus is you can limit the people who see your statuses. For example if you don’t want your parents to see the stunts you tried to pull last night, you can restrict your statuses to people who are strictly in friends circles that your parents are not. This would have been incredibly useful in my younger teenage years, but o well I got by. The last thing that I found awesome about Google plus is the video chat feature that they have. The video chats are run through Skype and can potentially link you with 10 different users during a call. This could...
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...Jamie; I am looking forward to this. Jaime: I ridiculously appreciate this because we have tried to book you for 8 months now. I then had a whole bunch of Skype issues and you were like; I'm cool. So, apparently Skype is not a big deal in your world of craziness already. So, tell us what you do, how you got into serial entrepreneurship and if you could go through and name names on some of the companies that you actually started...
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...1 APPLYING FOR: ( ) BAKESHOP ( ) FULL STORE ( ) OTHERS GOLDILOCKS BAKESHOP, INC. FRANCHISE APPLICATION FORM MOST RECENT 1 ½” X 1 ½” COLOR PHOTO PERSONAL INFORMATION In order for Goldilocks to commence processing your franchise application, you must complete the following questionnaire in its entirety and have each investor/partner fill out separate application Name (in full) (Surname) Residential Address (in full) (First Name) (Middle Name) Years of stay__________ Age Do you ( ) own home or ( ) rent or ( ) live with family / relatives Home tel. no. Office Address in full Fax No. E-mail Mobile Phone Office tel. no. Civil Status Date of Birth Fax No. Citizenship Place of Birth E-mail Tax Identification No Religion Age Middle Name) SSS No. CTC NO. Passport No. Date and Place of Issue Name of Father & Mother (Family Name First Name Father Mother Name of Spouse First Name Occupation / Business Age Middle Name) Occupation / Business (Family Name Business/Office Address Tel. No. E-mail Name(s) and age(s) of children __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ _______________ _______________ _______________ Describe any physical disability or health limitation ______________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________...
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...vital. That is the concept of real life experiences. The debate of what to be educated really means has been going on for centuries, yet the answer isn’t esoteric at all! The scintillating Henry David Thoreau amazed scholars of his philosophy that one simply doesn’t just go to school to be educated, but one has to experience the world in order to be prepared for it. He lived in a small house on Walden Pond and lived off of the land. He quoted “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had...
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...In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is accused of witchcraft which later in the book caused his death. The book is about how in Salem the false accusations witchcraft is frowned upon which resulted in the deaths of the many innocent people. John Proctor’s life throughout the book relates to Arthur Miller real life in many ways. Arthor Miller explains how Marilyn Monroe had made a big impact on his life and how he’s in love. His situation in all this is that he was basically having an affair with Marilyn even though he had a wife. His actions were that he left his wife for Marilyn and his beliefs are that he realized he was doing wrong. In The Crucible, John Proctor is similar to him in a way by how he had an affair with...
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... JR: I have read the new harry potter book personally I think you could of done better than it was all a dream at the end JK: Laughs JR: it’s the the the j stands for Joanna I believe but jo everyone calls you jo JK: Jo JR: The k isn’t actually your name is it JK: No its my grandmothers name they wanted a second initial so I took Cathleen JR: Interrupts and to to make it sound more hybrid JK: overlap blokey JR: Blokey JK: they thought the first book would appeal to boys JR: if you had that that ( unclear) JK: Er they thought maybe they would be turned off by a woman Transcript JK Rowling & Jonathan Ross JR: Struggling children’s novelist rate some of her stuff and I think she might do quite well its JK Rowling everyone! [Points hand over to TV screen which has photo of JK on] JR: Hello JK: Hello JR: and we have JK Rowling on this special occasion thanks for coming on the show JK: Thank you JR: I have read the new harry potter book personally I think you could of done better than it was all a dream at the end JK: Laughs JR: it’s the the the j stands for Joanna I believe but jo everyone calls you jo JK: Jo JR: The k isn’t actually your name is it JK: No its my grandmothers name they wanted a second initial so I took Cathleen JR: Interrupts and to to make it sound more hybrid JK: overlap blokey JR: Blokey JK: they thought the first book would appeal to boys JR: if you had that that ( unclear) JK: Er they thought maybe they...
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...Thematic Questions 1. What is a crucible and how is it used? Justify Miller’s choice of title for his play. A crucible is a ceramic container that can withstand very high temperature and is used for metal, glass and pigment production as well as a number of modern laboratory processes. Miller’s choice of the title “The Crucible” is due to the same reason as the courtroom being referred to as a crucible: using the heat of questioning and scrutiny, they burned away all the impurities, i.e. lies and half-truths, to get the purified product the “truth”. 2. How do Hale’s preconceptions influence his interpretation of events? How does his interpretation change? What are the implications of his conversion? Hale’s preconceptions has influenced his interpretation of events in that he initially thought that he had the authority over the town due to his extensive knowledge of witchcraft. He expected to find witches, however his interpretation changes throughout the play as he realises that innocent townspeople are being falsely accused, such as John Proctor. The implications of his conversion are when he encourages the accused to confess, i.e. the good people to lie, even though he believes that he is doing the “Devil’s work”. 3. Proctor calls Hale “Pontius Pilate.” Explain the allusion. Do you agree or disagree? The allusion is that Pontius Pilate was the ruler in Bethlehem who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at the order of the Jewish leadership, despite the...
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...On Zits’ second to last flight in the book, he was inside a pilot named Jimmy. Jimmy’s character struggles very much with the burden of being betrayed by his close companion, Abbad, whom he taught to fly planes only to find out later that he committed an act of terrorism with that ability. Jimmy recalls a memory he has when he said, “‘[Abbad], you are my best friend,’ … ‘[and] you are my brother,’ Abbad said. Oh, Abbad, you are a murderer. Oh, Abbad, you are a betrayer” (130). In this quote, Jimmy shows readers that he had a very close relationship with Abbad and now only feels that he is a murderer because of him and an immense betrayer. This is important because it is an example that proves everyone is capable of betraying, even the closest people in your life. It is relevant, especially to Zits since it shows him betrayal can come from any person. Every time people trust others they are at risk of being betrayed. All Zits knew of his father his whole life was...
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...black man-a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket- seemed menacingly close”(Staples 346). The young woman picked up her pace and was soon running. Staples had began to suspect people take him to be as dangerous as a hazard in itself. When he had worked as a journalist in Chicago he was mistaken for a burglar. Firoozeh Dumas who was born in Abadan, Iran and then moving into the United States, discusses the troubles her and her family had faced with their ‘ethnic names’; she had dealt with the prejudice remarks and discusses the difficulties of the transitioning from her home country to the great american homeland. In this text, her struggles of trying to adjust to the american way of life was a little different. She discusses that she never knew her name would cause such obstacles. She had came to the conclusion that she wanted to add an American name. She...
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...University of the Philippines Application for Financial Assistance under the Socialized Tuition and Financial Assistance Program (STFAP) Alphabetic Bracketing Scheme UP STFAP Form AB-1 Version 1.06 03/09 This form may be photocopied or downloaded from the U.P. STFAP website: http://stfap.up.edu.ph. Printed forms are available for a nominal amount. To qualify for financial assistance, the student must: 1. Be a Filipino citizen. 2. Be a bona fide undergraduate student. Except for Law or Medicine, the applicant must not have a bachelor’s degree. For an incoming freshman or new student, the applicant must have a U.P. Admission Slip. 3. Never have been adjudged guilty of any offense that carries a penalty of more than thirty- (30) days suspension. 4. Be in need of financial assistance as determined by the University. Important Notes 1. The grant shall be for one academic year, renewable annually. 2. The University reserves the right to determine whether the student deserves financial assistance, and the kind and amount of assistance. 3. STFAP privileges will be withdrawn from a student who withholds and/or falsifies information, without prejudice to other penalties that may be imposed by the University. Some students have already been expelled or suspended from the University for withholding and/or falsifying information in their STFAP application. 4. All information supplied by the student will be treated with strict confidentiality and will be for the internal use only by the...
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...understand the world through economics: first, knowing the incentives of all parties; second, realizing that conventional wisdom is usually wrong; third, understanding that most effects have subtle and distant causes and the most obvious is often the wrong one; fourth, specialists like salesman and lawyers use obscure knowledge to achieve their own ends and the internet helps to erode this advantage by making knowledge more freely available to people; lastly, data is invaluable to understanding the world. Chapter 1: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? People all learn to respond to incentives, whether positive or negative from the outset of life. An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social and moral. Economic incentive is something material or tangible; moral is based of self-judgments; social is terribly powerful as it depicts what other people think of you resulting from your own actions or choices. Any incentive is inherently a trade-off; whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Cheating is a natural act getting more for less. The government required the High-Stakes Testing as part of the No Child Left Behind policy. A teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion. To catch a cheater it helps to think like one....
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...Deceit: Lying out of Love Sometimes to be able to follow your own path you must hurt the ones closest to you. In, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie resents her grandmother for trapping her within the arms of safety. In, Names/Nombres, Julia lies about how her real name sounds in order to make new friends in a completely new home. Lastly, in Hamlet, Hamlet lies to the King about his true intentions and sanity in hopes to let his questionable actions slide. If one lies to a family member, if one lies to friends, if one lies to a higher authority, then one is being deceitful [8]. In order to gain acceptance from a family member, a group of friends, or a higher authority, one must be deceitful. In, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie, uses deceit to grant her grandmother with the hard-earned love she deserves while also living her own life. After Nanny passes, it is revealed, “[Janie] hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity. She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her,” (page 89). Janie, being the intelligent and compassionate woman that she is, chose to keep this...
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