Merchant

Deemed “provocative” by the Denver Post (Ostrow) and a “Confident, Controlled Artistic Achievement” by New York Magazine (Seitz), the second season of American Crime is an intricate and thought-inducing TV series. The 10-episode anthology created by John Ridley tells the tale of a high school rape in Steubenville, Indiana. The psychological action begins from the very first episode and if the viewer was hoping for a cut and dry mystery, she will not see one. Ridley takes a left turn; the…

of their senses and branding his forehead with the dog’s-paw iron, she uses the crafty notion of the fox. She manages to use the art of deception and disguise by coming up with an aggressive and vindictive plan to unmask the wicked deeds of the merchants’…

Baghdad. He is jostled by someone in the crowd and recognizing the person to be death. Riding home in a panic, he asks his master if he can flee to a location called Samarra. The master then goes back to the market place and sees death. When the merchant questions Death about his servant she replies “I was startled. I had an appointment with him in Samarra and did not expect to see him here.” The story ends there, and it is implied that the servant ran to his fate and died in the process of…

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1945. His real name is Eric Arthur Blair who was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, in 1903. George Orwell is an English novelist, essayist and critic. He is best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four which were published in 1945 and 1949 respectively. Orwell formed many strong opinions about major political movements during his time including imperialism and communism. Most of his strong political opinions were influenced when he…

In “The Alchemist” (Coelho) the main character, Santiago, travels countries from his home to fulfill his personal legend and find his treasure. Along his journey, he learns several lessons through many unique teachers. Struggling in his journey, his teachers push him in the right direction as he learns several lessons about the world, the universe, and himself. Santiago chooses to be a Shepard because he wants to travel. While having to spend a lot of time with his sheep, he learns from them.…

difficulties and pain which he will have to suffer in his journey of being an shepherd. He was happily living in the hills of Andalusian with his family if he chooses to become a priest than he might be happy and without any fear living in the hills of Andalusian with his family, but he listened to his heart and his hearts wants to travel the world and discover the treasure he dreamed for. Everybody doesn’t have the courage to leave home and chose a path in which he has to face danger,…

They have noticed it, and they suggest that Antonio is probably worried about the safety of his merchant ships, which are exposed to storms at sea and attacks by pirates. Antonio denies this and also denies that he is in love, a possibility that both of his friends think might explain Antonio's pensiveness. Salarino concludes that Antonio's moodiness…

the process flow after swiping the small credit card through that little black box? These questions bothered me for some time and finding the answers lead to a diligent job search. Consequently, the search ended when I found employment at Vantiv, a Merchant Credit Card processing company in Houston, Texas. The year was 1998; the company offered me a customer service position in their call center. Eagerly I accepted the job; thereby igniting the journey to learn everything about the credit card…

particular professional field with the employment of “jargons” as a way to narrow down senses and make more efficient their internal communication process. A great classic example of this comes alive in one of my favorite’s Shakespeare comedies “The Merchant of Venice”, where several characters use different legal terms, such as: “forfeiture,” and “bond.” All of these terms are specific to the act of lending/borrowing carrying a specific legal meaning. On the other hand, taking into…

then to the merchant. The merchant pays a merchant discount to the acquiring bank and the acquiring bank pays an interchange fee to the issuing bank. The card association (Visa and MasterCard) serve as a clearinghouse for each of these transactions and extract a small transaction fee from both sides. The card associations set the interchange fee, the others card business enterprises rarely deviate from set interchange fee. Member banks set the terms they charge to consumers and the merchants…