Deviation |Std. Error Mean | |Pair 1 | | |N |Correlation |Sig. | |Pair 1 |Before & After |20 |.193 |.415 | |Paired Samples Test | | |Paired Differences…
of financial instruments. Specifically, copula function specify the joint distribution of the survival times after using the market information to derive the marginal distribution of the survival time. This approach solves the default correlation and the joint distribution of the pool asset to some extent, and it…
For instance, Yglesias claims that even though the global economic is improving, the distribution of the wealth is greatly unequal which means only a little, very rich people capture most of it (2012). The extreme income inequality further causes unfair access to social goods, education and other opportunities, and it finally leads to seriously…
Is there ever a time to give up? At what circumstance is giving up a justifiable act? How do you find the strength to persevere? The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir focusing on her childhood and how grew up with dysfunctional parents. Her mother, Rose Mary, was almost always focused solely on her art career- art was such a huge part of her mother’s life that, at times, the maternal duties were of no concern. Rose Mary justified her withdrawal from her children’s life by…
If someone came up to you and said that they’d pay you $100 to give up your current lifestyle and return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, would you do it? What about for $1,000? Would you still do it for no money at all, but with the knowledge that it would give you a better life? I would. My family would think me to be crazy. In fact, most Americans and Europeans would think that I was crazy, too. As stated in the passage Agriculture, for Better and Worse by Jared Diamond, they would think that…
Makaya is a 14 year 0 months old young lady; today is her birthday. She is currently enrolled in the 8th grade in Wise County Public Schools. Previous history obtained from her father and self-reporting indicated a past struggle with academics per evidenced on her report cards, D’s and F’s. Her father reported she is currently making A’s and B’s. I asked him what changed? He replied, “She lived with her grandmother until I remarried. When I remarried my wife started working with her and making…
Is the popular saying “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” really true? In the America, also known as the land of opportunity, there are infinite ways for a person to become successful. Here, you can come into this world into poverty and leave with riches and vise versa. In America, people of any status have the same opportunities to make it big and live a life that has been always been dreamt of. This is what we are forced to believe and convince ourselves in order to keep society in…
Eliminating Capital from the Path to Happiness The pursuit of happiness usually serves as a major goal in a free democratic society. However, for a society as a whole, and for the individual citizens in it, the definition of happiness remains unclear, which makes attaining this goal difficult. While happiness can take on a variety of different meanings, it can be separated into two main categories, absolute happiness and relative happiness. Absolute happiness can be described as the happiness…
NuCountry has a bright future ahead of it after the great compromises achieved at the constitutional convention. However, that doesn 't mean there aren 't obstacles ahead for the newly independent country. In the aftermath of the convention, there are clear winners and losers. The most powerful group would most likely be the working professionals. They 're the middle-class of NuCountry and a socialist economy would only increase their size. The working poor group making up 30% would most…
A good example of the unequal distribution of power displays in the mise-en-scene. The bright warm colours of Zone 1 compared to the cooler pastels of “ground zero” exhibits the opposing forces and segregation of the two parts of Metropolis. This different palette of colours discerns the…